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While the drivers’ have their eyes on the road, some ladies in the back seat have their eyes on his capable hands.
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New pricing system makes some taxi rides over 40 percent less expensive than they used to be.
While you’re progressing towards your destination, your smartphone could be progressing towards a full charge.
Peak-hour delays caused such overcrowding that some commuters were unable to enter stations in the nation’s capital.
It turns out a lot of different people are involved in the response team when a train hits a person in Japan.
The capital’s gigantic public transportation system can be a shock to the system for new arrivals.
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Check out these drowsy drivers catching 40 winks during a typical day in Japan’s busiest city.
A Japanese train conductor’s final announcement aboard a train about to be transferred to Jakarta, Indonesia hit some passengers right in the feels.
Japanese people take their public transportation very seriously. Millions commute to work either by train, subway or bus on a daily basis. When spending so much time on buses and trains, one tries to find joy in the small things in life, like the sound and satisfaction from pressing the alight button on a bus to indicate you want to get off at the next bus stop.
That thrill can soon be yours to hold and enjoy to your heart’s content. Tokyu Bus Corporation, which operates multiple lines in and around Tokyo, will be releasing a Tokyu Bus alight button kit, which allows transportation nerds to press away all day long.
If you’ve ever toured a factory or seen a video of one operating, you know there’s something entrancingly soothing about seeing sophisticated machinery in action. Taking a human-designed process and repeating it with such unswerving coordination can make it feel as natural and calming as sitting beside a lake while watching the waves lap the same spot on the shore over and over.
But it’s not just machines that can perform a routine with such precision as to impart a sense of reassuring inevitability, as shown by this video of taxi cab line protocol in Japan.
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