Tokyo Has Built The World's Best Subway

The B1M
3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021–2023
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The B1M explains how Tokyo built its subway network, covering the engineering of the system and its stations. It looks at why the city's underground transit is held up as a model.

HN people share it as a great explainer when Japan's train and subway systems come up, and as a good rabbit hole after visiting Tokyo.

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3 comments from Hacker News

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@picohen2023 · in “Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada”
The Shinkansen is FASCINATING. I recently went and was amazed by Tokyo's infrastructure and how they have a city under a city. The fact that there is a bullet train at tokyo station every 10 mins or so is mind blowing I went into a Youtube rabbit hole the other night... link ▶ this video
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@haliskerbas2021 · in “Tokyo Has Built the Best Subway”
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@yboris2021 · in “UK Rail services to come under unified state control”
I'd like to second that - Japan has an amazing train (and subway) system. Here's a great explainer: ▶ this video
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