Comments on: Tokyo Teleport Station: The Shinjuku Subway Boiler Room

By: Fall Season Reviews: Part 2, SaiMoé, and random rambling. « z0mgwtflol

Fall Season Reviews: Part 2, SaiMoé, and random rambling. « z0mgwtflol — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:53:39 +0000

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By: SDS

SDS — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:30:34 +0000

I know full well the pain of the Shinjuku subway station, as it was a necessary transfer for me to go to Akihabara.

By: Richard "Pocky" Kim

Richard "Pocky" Kim — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:15:45 +0000

When I lived in Japan, my friends and I had settled on the ‘New South Exit’ as our meeting place, because it was/is sort of out of the way of the main South Exit (which is Hell).

I wonder if they’re still using it these days.

By: Nyarlo.net » Blog Archive » j-rail

Nyarlo.net » Blog Archive » j-rail — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:28:49 +0000

[...] what horror lurks in shinjuku station? [...]

By: Sydney2K

Sydney2K — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:46:23 +0000

This needs to be doujinshi’d, or mini-comic’d, or web-strip’d, OR SOMETHING in pictorial form!

By: TP

TP — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:34:00 +0000

Labyrinthine Shinjuku + gaijin + some odd sense of adventure = WIN!

Seriously, I could report you guys to the Tokyo Police were it not the fact that 1.) Anthony is future Sam Fisher/Solid Snake, and 2.) nothing valuable is stolen.

By: Insectice

Insectice — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:12:23 +0000

Antony is my hero. :) God, he sounds like one of my aussie friends.

And if they didn’t want people snoopin’ around, they wouldn’t have put two pillars of mystery there in the first place.

By: InsaneLampshade

InsaneLampshade — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:13:19 +0000

Funnies thing i’ve read in ages!! ^_^

By: tj han

tj han — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:51:26 +0000

Now that is a funny story. Daft as it may sound. How many of us actually have that gungho sense of adventure?

By: dogtato

dogtato — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:04:15 +0000

I wish I knew someone like that. Odds are, though, I’d have to be that guy, and I don’t think I have it in me.

By: fet

fet — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:56:26 +0000

despicable

By: Jeff Lawson

Jeff Lawson — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:22:01 +0000

I always wondered what was up with those pillars.

That station drove me batty. Once, I arrived at a platform on the JR side, and made a beeline for the nearest exit which, unfortunately, turned out to be an entrance for the Keio Line. The gates were busted or something, and a railway employee was checking tickets by hand, yet I somehow managed to slip past unnoticed. I had already walked awhile on the Keio side before I noticed my mistake, so I made my way to the exits on the south side… except, not having a Keio ticket in hand, I was trapped. So, I just whipped out my Suica card, pretended to pass it over the sensor, squeezed my skinny ass through the gate, and vanished into the crowd as the alarm went off.

I felt pretty cool for having done it so smoothly… until it was time to return home, that is. Since I hadn’t actually closed out my previous trip on my Suica card (after all, I didn’t exit the station through a JR gate), I couldn’t get back in and had to sheepishly explain myself to the stationmaster.

The funny thing is, when he closed out the previous trip on my card, I expected him to charge me the maximum fare. Instead, he charged me the minimum 130 yen fare. Since I had started that trip way out in freakin’ Makuhari, I ended up saving 490 yen.

Still, from then on, I always made a point of SLOWING DOWN when walking through Shinjuku Station.