Thursday, June 12, 2008

Shinjuku Train Station



While in Shinjuku again recently, I decided to shoot a video inside the train station.  This is the largely considered the busiest train station in the world, where roughly 3 million people pass through this station in a single day!  
What I shot was a tiny portion of the station and it is very much a cavernous, sprawling underground complex.  It is like this all the time and sometimes it gets even busier than this, which is hard to believe.  I think it's interesting to look at all the different people in this video- old and young, tall and short.  Plus, they all seem to be acting like this is a completely normal occurrence.

2 comments:

Scott said...

Hmmm, looking over someone's shoulder and studying their eye movements? You must be freaking out the other passengers, not to mention the one trying to have a little time to himself for reading!

Quite the mob in the train station. The very predominant colors of clothes seem to be black and white, only the very occasional color (I saw a bright red purse go by).

Scott said...

By the way, did you notice when you were in Florence that painted on the streets approaching intersections and on the signs was the word "STOP" in English?