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3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
- brw 3y agoTechnical write-up (in Japanese) here: https://qiita.com/satoshi7190/items/23d192372877af75b283 https://qiita.com/satoshi7190/items/23d192372877af75b283
- jareklupinski 3y agoearly 2010's, i land for the first time in Japan, with vague instructions to meet my AirBnB host "by the entrance to Shinjuku Station" story ended happily after finding a hotspot and sending an email, but this visualization makes that instruction seem even more hilarious in hindsight a pin pointing out a location using this map would be a perfect waypoint!
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> early 2010's, i land for the first time in Japan, with vague instructions to meet my AirBnB host "by the entrance to Shinjuku Station" A famous and much easier one in Tokyo is to meet at the dog [1]. Now, granted, it's in Shibuya and not in Shinjuku. Darn do I miss Tokyo... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
- Larrikin 3y agoShibuya station atleast vaguely makes sense, even after all the construction. I firmly believe that the only people who can truly navigate Shinjuku station, are people who work there and people who live there. Seems like no matter what, Google maps/Yahoo will tell you exit via b14 and every exit sign will helpfully guide you to North East, East, and all the exits a1 through a10. It's always easier to exit the station and then figure out your final destination, which can still be annoyingly hard.
- Klonoar 3y agoA fun skill to have is knowing how to reliably navigate Shinjuku in the rain without ever seeing rain - purely by moving via the underground, since it connects pretty far (e.g Sanchome).
- pests 3y agoI did a similar thing on my college campus during the winter snow months. Most buildings were connected in one way or another and then there was a seldom used tunnel no one knew about connecting two science building basements. I could comfortably cross the majority of campus only stepping outside for a few brief steps.
- weberer 3y agoIn Shinjuku you meet at the Giant 3D Cat.
- nox100 3y agothe smart way to do it is to name an exit like Exit B5 or A12. The signs in the station, and Google Maps, will generally tell how to get to a specific exit. Or probably better would be a famous landmarks tho there aren't many to pick from in Shinjuku. A common one used to be "in front of the Alta building on the east exit" another still is "in front of the police station just outside the east exit
- dfxm12 3y agoZoom in on shunjuku station with google maps. All those yellow boxes with letters and numbers are various exits/entrances. I wonder which one which entrance was meant as "the" entrance. I'm sure it was the one they use every day, but that wouldn't help a visitor. It's kinda surprising someone like an AirBnB host, who presumably has to communicate this with many travelers from many places, is so vague about it. If you're getting directions via google maps and you have to exit a subway station in Tokyo (and maybe some other cities), it will give you directions underground to the proper exit. It will even tell you which subway car you should be on so you will be closest to the proper exit. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shinjuku+Station/@35.6916622,139.6994283,18.55z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x60188cd0d6b1ba1f:0x1c32a1f1ecacfdd5!8m2!3d35.6896067!4d139.7005713!16zL20vMDIxdnow?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shinjuku+Station/@35.69166...
- jonhohle 3y agoIn 2010 AirBnB would have been more novel, so maybe there wasn’t the same expectation. I stayed on Seoul a few months ago and in addition to a specific entrance number, my host had made a YouTube video showing a first person walk from the subway exit to his place.
- jareklupinski 3y agoyup my host profusely apologized and emailed me back with the specific exit and a line i could use to ask locals for directions, but when we met I felt he was almost disappointed that I didn't get that we were obviously to meet by the entrance closest to the road which led to the property (it was his apartment that he was renting out for the summer because his family goes somewhere north for the summer) obvious to someone who goes there every day yes, but not to a jet-lagged traveler visiting for the first time :) i enjoyed being in the first cohort of airbnb guests, quirks and all; felt more 'personable' but yea I also remember that being probably the last year I felt comfortable traveling somewhere without a mobile device constantly connected
- ranger_danger 3y agoI can only assume that by "the" entrance they meant West.
- tkgally 3y agoI moved to Japan in 1983, and for the first few years I lived and worked near Shinjuku Station and passed through it every day. I also spent most of my free time in the Shinjuku area and wandered around exploring a lot. It took a full year before I really knew the area and could find any entrance or tunnel without getting lost. The station has changed and grown a lot since, and acquiring that sense would take even longer today. As it happens, I will be going to Shinjuku later today for the first time in four years to meet an old friend for lunch. I spent some time online yesterday looking at photos and streetview of the area. My friend has been living in the Tokyo area as long as I have and used to go to Shinjuku a lot, too. But he doesn't use a smartphone and we're meeting on the south side of the station, which has changed a lot. So I prepared a four-page PDF with maps and pictures showing where we will meet, and I told my friend to print it out and bring it along. I hope we're able to find each other.
- notRobot 3y agoLet us know how it goes!
- tkgally 3y agoThanks! We found each other without any problem. My friend was a bit miffed that I seemed to think that he would get lost. Otherwise we had a pleasant lunch. Later, I walked through Shinjuku and Kabukicho up to Shin Okubo to see how the city had changed. It was good to see that the Shin Okubo area is still as multiethnic and ungentrified as it was twenty years ago. A couple of backstreet one-person coffee shops I used to frequent were still there, though closed for the New Year's holiday.
- lovemenot 3y agoI might have suggested meeting at the "farm" above the South side of the station. I think it's on the fourth or fifth floor. Of course, theres only one farm in the vicinity and it's small enough that you won't miss each other.
- solardev 3y agoThis sounds like the beginning of an awesome indie movie :)
- makeitdouble 3y agoI learned to never let people dictate rendez-vous points at landmarks or stations if I can. It never makes sense. If it's a landmark or sizeable train/bus station there must be a cafe or a park with notable features nearby. If it's in the middle of nowhere there will be a bench at an easy to describe place. Telling people to stand in wide and potentially crowded areas for a significant amount of time if they dare coming early is just cruel. PS: for people using Hachiko as a meeting place, there's a Starbucks right the other side of the crosswalk dammit.
- Klonoar 3y agoThe Tsutaya building that closed for renovations…? I don’t believe that Starbucks is currently an option due to that. Hachiko is a small enough area that’s pretty much proven to work and is a location that any confused tourist can get pointed to easily enough - and signs inside Shibuya station will literally label it.
- glandium 3y agoExcept when the spot around Hachiko is crammed with tourists, local or foreign because of its 100th anniversary.
- numpad0 3y agoWhy don't people choose somewhere random and empty, so that your counter-party is the only humanoid within 100 feet radius? I'm aware it's because that feels weird, but it should make more technical sense than knowingly going into mosh pits when you're just meeting someone.
- T-R 3y agoShinjuku station has also changed dramatically from all the construction over the last 10 or so years. I lived in Shinjuku (the ward; I was actually a few stations north on the Oedo line) in 2009/2010; was back there a few weeks ago and it was unrecognizeable. Right now, the whole area over by the Yodobashi Camera, and where they used to have the night bus pickup is all walled off under active construction (if they haven't finished already).
- kurthr 3y agoSimilar experience before the era of ubiquitous smart phones ~2006. The hotel was nice enough to say how to get there from Shinjuku exit E8 (at least it wasn't the A series which I think goes to 15) and it took we half an hour to even exit the subway with my rolling bag. But I was completely disoriented and actual street numbering and signage unhelpful. Then the fun started since I couldn't spot the hotel a kind Japanese couple decided to help. Their "crippling helpfulness" became clear only after 5 minutes that they were tourists and had no idea where the hotel was, but it took even longer for me to extract myself politely by pointing towards a taxi stand saying I knew where it was. I got in a taxi and gave him the address... he looked at me like I was crazy, drove forward 1.5 blocks and pointed to the hotel sign. Best Y300 ever spent.
- tamimio 3y agoLooks amazing! Off topic: I like how I understood the technical article below despite not knowing a single Japanese word, only by reading the code, would be interesting sometime in the future that people are using programming languages as a mean of universal communication!
- rtsil 3y agoAssuming the code is written using English words. Here in France it's not rare to come across a codebase that uses French naming for variables and functions, or even a mix of English and French: void deleteCartes(Map[] cartes)
- clement_b 3y agoare you vraiment sure?
- Seb-C 3y agoAs a French living in Japan, I can tell that it's the same thing for cheap companies that don't care about the code quality, but with an even worse mix of characters. To reuse your example, I've seen things like that: void deleteお問い合わせ(Map[] otoiawase) I haven't seen old enough codebases to have encoding issues, but I bet that it would make me shrug the next time I see an é.
- esrh 3y agoVery cool! I also like these hand drawn 3d illustrations of stations: https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/x-ray-vision-tomoyuki-tanaka/ https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/x-ray-visio...
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- tecleandor 3y agoAfter visiting your link I've been looking for a while to see newer drawings from Tanaka, but they've lost the domain for their architecture studio site, and he has the same name than Godzilla's creator, so it took me a while but here's his updated studio site, where you can find more drawings on the "works" section. http://tassaa.html.xdomain.jp/index.html http://tassaa.html.xdomain.jp/index.html
- robin_reala 3y agoYou might also like a similar thing for London Underground stations from 2012: https://stations.aeracode.org/ https://stations.aeracode.org/
- MyFirstSass 3y agoOkay this is awesome! I feel like 3d visualisations are under utilised in general, for wayfinding, for organising stuff or files, revealing flows like here. It's like we're stuck in a 2d paradigm somehow, but everytime i see even rather simple visualizations like this, i'm reminded of 90's cybernetic future that never happened.
- immy 3y agoWould love a library of these maps for places all over
- steveBK123 3y agogreatest train station in the world
- donkers 3y agoI'm not able to rotate or manipulate the view except to zoom in and out on Chrome on a Mac, but I can rotate and do all kinds of fun stuff with this page with Safari on my iPhone. Am I just missing the keyboard commands to get this to work properly on a desktop?
- psygn89 3y agoI have a normal mice on my Mac and scroll wheel = zoom, right-click drag = rotate, left-click drag = pan
- zeusk 3y agothey use mouse2 (right click) for rotation
- donkers 3y agoAhh, thanks! Somehow didn't think to try that instead of just clicking and dragging.
- solardev 3y agoIt's such an interesting UI thing... every time a 3D model shows up here, someone makes a similar comment. (Another common one is model-relative vs viewer-relative rotation... like if you go to https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kiyosumi-shirakawa-station-tokyojapan-9f320866ebf94372aa6c01d4d190eeff https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kiyosumi-shirakawa-station-t... and you move the mouse left, should the view pan left or pan right? It's an option you can set in the gear icon). That's not on you at all, I just wonder if there's active UX research in this specific area (3D viewing on the web, as opposed to in games or VR).
- aragonite 3y agoDoes shift+drag not work for rotating in your browser?
- pkdpic 3y agoReminds me of the beginning of ghost in the shell in all the right ways.
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- GolDDranks 3y agoToo bad it doesn't seem to include the railroad tracks and the staircases/escalators to the platforms, which are the most prominent features to people who use the station as passengers. I was able to make sense of the parts by looking at the surrounding road network, but without these, it's hard to make sense of.
- solardev 3y agoI'm not sure (haven't been there in a long time), but isn't that what the flickering dashed blue lines are? In the legend, they're "歩行者ネットワーク", which Google says is the "pedestrian network".
- mastazi 3y agoThe dashed lines are too steep to be escalators and they are not vertical so they can't be elevators either. Elsewhere in this thread, it has been suggested that perhaps the height between levels has been exaggerated for clarity, and that's why the escalators ended up looking impossibly steep.
- wkat4242 3y agoIt looks like they are exaggerated because there's huge distances between each level, even the above ground building. It's quite easy to see why it's done, so you can easily look into each level without clutter
- GolDDranks 3y agoThere are some pedestrian routes here and there. (Yup, "歩行者ネットワーク" means "pedestrian network") But the 改札内 / the area inside the ticket gates seem to be missing the pedestrian network. Also, the platforms themselves are missing, as there are the upper (2F) and lower (B1F) connecting passages, but nothing in between.
- modeless 3y agoRelatedly, I just started playing this game where the concept is you're lost in the corridors of a Japanese subway station looking for Exit 8. Very authentic feel. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653790/The_Exit_8/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653790/The_Exit_8/
- chupapimunyenyo 3y agoI love the concept of this game, very well thought and engaging
- dividuum 3y agoWhy limit yourself to walking when you can build them :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1122120/STATIONflow/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1122120/STATIONflow/
- samstave 3y agoOr drive them :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2546690/Tram_Simulator_Urban_Transit/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2546690/Tram_Simulator_Ur...
- solardev 3y agoLol! This is all too close to reality. Gives me goosebumps. There's also a few metro station sims (more sim than horror): STATIONflow: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1122120/STATIONflow/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1122120/STATIONflow/ Overcrowd: https://store.steampowered.com/app/726110/Overcrowd_A_Commute_Em_Up/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/726110/Overcrowd_A_Commut... And of course Mini Metro: https://store.steampowered.com/app/287980/Mini_Metro/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/287980/Mini_Metro/
- mock-possum 3y agomini metro my beloved and of course, mini motorways such fun little puzzle games, I spent a good month absolutely absorbed in the latter, thought I was getting pretty skilled - only to look online and realize that there levels of strats I hadn't even considered.
- jakeinspace 3y agoI stayed at a capsule hotel just a block away from the station this summer, that was quite the experience. I was there for not even 3 full weeks but I think I'll feel nostalgic for Japan for the rest of my life, a strange and stunning country.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoI have long wanted to go to Japan, but I am afraid it is not in my cards. What are you most nostalgic about?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoJapan has a weird mix of nice people, affordable/good food, historical structures that are well preserved, and modern/futuristic buildings/transportation. It is an "easy" place to visit, not expensive, good public transportation, and lots of well known things to go see (that are more than just tourist traps). For a first timer, I suggest spending more time in Kyoto and Osaka and less time in Tokyo (but generally, you do Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka on your first trip there and then diverge from that if you go back).
- Auracle 3y agoFor me, it was simply how it was incredibly alien and incredibly familiar at the same time. Everything was different, but if you’re at all a nerd (and you’re on HN so…) you’ve been exposed to Japanese culture. That and it was all so friendly, easy to get around, beautiful, etc. It’s a wonderful vacation for people that just like to walk around and explore.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoSounds like I would really enjoy it. Thank you. I would love to see the place that inspired both "My neighbor Totoro" and "Ghost in the Shell."
- jonplackett 3y agoWent in 2014 for just a week. Still feel nostalgic. And still miss burnt miso ramen. Nowhere else in the world seems to do it.
- elymar 3y agoBeautiful map!
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- josteink 3y agoI can believe this is an accurate 3D map, because I’m looking around, and just as I was in the real thing, I’m totally lost and confused again. This place has to be my nemesis when it comes to public transport :D
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- _the_inflator 3y agoSome sort of a Digital Twin, fascinating. Nice model to play around with.
- chenxi9649 3y agoIt's crazy to me how well this works, especially on mobile. If league or even TFT was as accessible as a tab like this it'd be the end of me.
- solardev 3y agoMaybe I shouldn't tell you about GeForce Now, which can run League in a browser tab...? It works so well it's ruined my life, lol. But yeah, it's an awesome JS demo!!
- chenxi9649 3y agoReallllllyyyyyyy..... checking it out now
- tempodox 3y agoImpressive, and interaction on an iPad touchscreen is fun.
- sand500 3y agoVery cool, I visited Shinjuku station earlier this year and got lost in it more than once. Google maps does a decent job of giving walking directions through the station but finding my current location was difficult. I think something like this would have helped me build a mental model of the station.
- ayakang31415 3y agoI just came back from Tokyo and while I was there I stayed at a hotel in Shinjuku. I used the train station so frequently that I can now navigate easily within the station, but if you are not used to Japanese train system, it is not so friendly to foreigners. For example, in Korea, Seoul metro subway system is so well organized that you do not have multiple platforms in each subway station. In Tokyo, there are multiple platforms in each station and each of the platforms can have different subway lines. Sometimes, a particular subway line can change to a totally different line at some station, and sometimes if you are not paying attention you are now all of a sudden going in a totally different direction. Also, there are multiple railway companies operating in Tokyo, which means if you buy a paper ticket, you need to exit the subway and buy another (or rather different ticket) to transfer if you need to transfer to a different line managed by different railway company (fortunately I have an iPhone, so I added Suica card to my apple wallet and used it to pay for subway as well as transfers). I started to wonder the reason why Japan has such complicated subway system. Then again, I am not an expert in this area so there might be reasons for it which I am not aware of
- jncfhnb 3y agoIt’s very easy these days. Apple Maps can tell you exactly where to go including platform and boarding time. Paper tickets are confusing but basically nobody uses them. I don’t think it’s true that you need to get separate tickets for separate train lines. You do need to adjust your ticket if you prepaid the wrong distance. Unless you mean two entirely separate lines separated by different gates.
- ayakang31415 3y agoThere was a station (which I don't remember) I had to leave the subway and buy a different ticket to transfer. Some stations have multiple platforms stacked next to each other that it is easy to transfer even if the lines are managed by different railway companies, but that is not the case all the time. That's how I learned that there are multiple railway companies in Tokyo that are not cooperating with each other enough to make the transfer seamless. Once you make a few mistakes, it gets easier, but it is not so friendly to foreigners. Also stations like Shinjuku is so huge that it is very complicated figure out where your exit is. Then again, once you get used to it, it becomes easy.
- lmm 3y agoPretty confusing to have a map that doesn't show the train lines - of course a station doesn't make much sense once you leave out what a station is for. Also the area around the Miraina Tower exit looks smaller than it should be? It seems weirdly inconsistent about what's included or not too - the Odakyu station isn't there, but the Toei and Tokyo Metro ones (and even the bus station) are?
- Havoc 3y agoI find these 3D maps exaggerated reality a bit. e.g. London Bank - nowhere near as insane, but even after going through it for years daily I still couldn't make heads or tails out of the 3D internet map. Reality <> Internet
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoPresumably, as a regular commuter, you’d never use the entire station (instead sticking to one or two entrances, lines and platforms).
- diath 3y agoThis definitely needs inverse mouse control for moving the map around.
- lelandfe 3y agoThis is really lovely, it looks like something I'd see in a Deus Ex game on a giant screen. On a different tip, this Catalan chap has done nearly 900 3D models of stations, ranging from huge and complex, to tiny and simple. They've been quite a hit in r/nycrail. http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/ http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/
- chris_wot 3y agoWhat is the license for these?
- lelandfe 3y agoThe images have a © watermark, so all rights reserved? I wish they had a contact button - I'd love to get some prints of the stations I've lived near. I may try messaging them on Twitter.
- cschep 3y agohttps://www.etsy.com/shop/projectsubwaynyc https://www.etsy.com/shop/projectsubwaynyc perhaps?
- franciscop 3y ago> "I'd love to get some prints of the stations I've lived near" Why don't you just print them then? The copyright police is not going to barge into your home, and even if so this might fall into fair use (depending on your circumstance/situation/etc).
- api_or_ipa 3y agoI’d interpret it as offer to support the project and receive high quality prints. The author is clearly gifting the world an incredible portfolio; one ought, if able, to financially support such unique, open datasets.
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- Daz1 3y agoI never go to Shinjuku station, just isn't worth it.
- pcurve 3y agoI'm guessing the reasons why the escalator angles are so steep is because the height between the floors haven't been increased for greater clarity and are not to scale.
- mastazi 3y agoI was thinking the same thing, at first I assumed they were all elevators, then I realised they are not quite vertical, just at a very steep angle (speaking of which: what's the steepest angle that is practical for an escalator?). And of course, a station that is served only by elevators is not realistic, it would be a nightmare during peak hours :-D
- vikingerik 3y agoThere is one NYC subway station that is served only by elevators (and it is indeed a nightmare during peak hours): https://classicnewyorkhistory.com/new-yorks-168th-street-subway-station-is-elevator-only-to-the-street/ https://classicnewyorkhistory.com/new-yorks-168th-street-sub...
- burcs 3y agoI don't know the overlap of anime & HN, but it would be really cool to see the events of Jujutsu Kaisen mapped out on here too. They do a really good job of using real landmarks and scenery in the show. https://www.reddit.com/r/JuJutsuKaisen/comments/17w7v9x/jujutsu_kaisen_shibuya_incident_shots_compared_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/JuJutsuKaisen/comments/17w7v9x/juju...
- pasmat 3y agoFun story: Visited Shinjuku station in 2014 and left luggage on those machines that store luggage for coins to go on a quick stroll in town Came back later, and had to spend almost an hour to find the place where we left them That place is big
- pimlottc 3y agoI really wish Google Maps et al did a better job for subway/metro/transit stations with multiple entrance and exits. Oftentimes a station is shown as a single point on the map, while in reality the point(s) of entry can be a block or more away from what's shown. Likewise, choosing the right exit when you leave the station can save you multiple blocks of walking, depending on your final destination. Even just showing the general shape of the station in 2D on the map would be helpful, though obviously this can be tricky when there's other points of interest above/below the train line.
- wkat4242 3y agoYep here in Barcelona it's like that too. Single point on the map even when there's multiple exits (there usually are) and not showing which entrance is closer to which line. Real pita. Open Street map is so much better for this but that totally lacks live public transport info with delays etc. So I end up switching between both which doesn't help.
- glandium 3y agoGoogle Maps has subway exits in Tokyo, for that matter.
- rondrabkin 3y agoYes they do but how many are wrong /out of date?
- throwaway2037 3y ago> out of date How often to metro exits change???
- pimlottc 3y agoStations undergoing maintenance or upgrading may have certain exits closed or even temporary platforms that change as the project goes on. Here in Chicago, the Red Line is undergoing a major rebuild that started over 2 years ago and will not be completed until 2025. Temporary stations have been set up at multiple stops, with different entrances that have changed as the project has gone on [1]. It may have only changed a few times over the last 2 years, but it's certainly a rude awakening when you're running to catch the train and you find out your stop is now a block away from where you thought it was. 0: https://www.transitchicago.com/redahead/ https://www.transitchicago.com/redahead/ 1: https://www.transitchicago.com/ctas-red-and-purple-modernization-rpm-phase-one-project-final-major-stage-stage-b-to-begin-july-28-2023/ https://www.transitchicago.com/ctas-red-and-purple-moderniza...
- xyst 3y agoReminds me of how hacker scenes are portrayed in Hollywood films
- brightball 3y agoI’d never heard of Three.js until I saw a talk on it at a conference this summer. Really mind blowing what you can do with it.
- chris-orgmenta 3y agosimondev on youtube is porting his expertise across to js & three. Very entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQt0exToUEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQt0exToUEY
- brightball 3y agoHere's the lightning talk I saw from Nate Argaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXPYYfxnTPU&list=PLxeenGqMmmw--nkX2MSI6S7gUpKEURn8_&index=4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXPYYfxnTPU&list=PLxeenGqMmm...
- holografix 3y agoI remember my wife and I being lost at Shinjuku station several times trying to find a particular exit and random Japanese people seeing lost tourists would stop and do their absolute best to speak to us and help us out. One gentleman insisted on guiding us to the exit and walked with us for about 10 minutes
- ngcc_hk 3y agoAmazing. And even as a game …
- llamaInSouth 3y agozooming in or out with the touch-pad is a nightmare (way to slow)
- Findecanor 3y agoI'm using a mouse without a scroll wheel, and can't zoom at all. + and - on the keyboard would have been useful.
- workfromspace 3y agoWhen visiting Japan, I heard from the locals that Tokyo has three dungeons: Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Tokyo Central (Kayabacho, Nihombashi, Otemachi): these 3 station complexes are confusing and easy to get lost, even for locals. OTOH, with some travel experience, Google Maps and my very basic Japanese, it was quite easy to navigate these. I only got lost once in Tokyo central area for 5-10 minutes (out of <= 100 metro usage). Shibuya and Shinjuku was much easier. I guess this is what happens when a city has 37 million people and some metro stations having dozens of exits. Google Maps navigation was incredibly useful, too: showed me which vagon car to take so I'll be closest to the stairs I should take when I get off the train. And this 3D scanning makes things much easier. I'm looking forward to see Shibuya and Tokyo central versions.
- rpearl 3y agoThis does not include the 1km+ underground passageway you can take (exit E1) that takes you all the way through Shinjuku Sanchome station and then out near Golden Gai. I know it's technically a different station but you can get there without ever going above ground.
- nielsbot 3y agoIf you like this, you must check out Tomoyuki Tanaka’s hand-drawn 3-D illustrations of several Tokyo subway stations: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/lose-tomoyuki-tanakas-x-ray-illustrations-tokyo-train-stations/ https://www.wired.com/2016/07/lose-tomoyuki-tanakas-x-ray-il... (Tokyo Station, Shibuya Station, Shinjuku Station) Fun side note: I liked these so much I contacted Tanaka-san directly and he agreed to sell me prints :)
- wiseowise 3y ago> Web doesn’t scale > You can only do X in native I wonder where are the Web haters now?
- sonar_un 3y agoPlease do Les Halles next. I need that!
- ngmc 3y agoThis is the first time I've "seen" Shinjuku Station. What a beautiful introduction. I first read about the station in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and always wondered what it looked like. Neat.
- harha_ 3y agoVery cool, I've been to shinjuku station last summer.
- CommanderData 3y agoReminds me of the Resident Evil's scene of the Hive schematics used through out the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktn8w3-RyNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktn8w3-RyNs
- krick 3y agoCool, but I am completely unable to read it. I'm not very apt in graphical design, so I wonder how it could be improved to be actually usable.
- integricho 3y agonow do one of Kisaragi station
- padjo 3y agoStayed near Shinjuku for a few days, never managed to come out the same exit twice!
- alexalx666 3y agoI thought it's from Alien