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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Dec 7 04:16:30 2018, in response to Re: The Complete Guide to Tokyo’s Trains & Subways, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Dec 6 23:34:58 2018. In my case, I ended up running onto Keikyu train that skipped my stop on the Asakusa Line. I made the incorrect assumption that every train made all of the stops in the central portion.Ah you ended up on the Airport Limited Exp. That's pretty impressive bad luck, it runs only once (or twice?) an hour since I think it has to use 3 track stations to skip locals in the subway portion, of which there are few. Funny thing is we were hoping to get one of these for our Skytree trip, but our stop on Keikyu was skipped by the Sky Access express for that particular hour. there isn't a system of free transfers between the networks The downside of competition. The result for local residents is to map out the cheapest route rather than the most efficient. There is a funny side effect though: in many cases, paying 2 separate fares to a non-JR railroad in the suburbs and transferring JR in the city is cheaper than taking JR the entire way. Narita [the town] to Tokyo is like this - saves ~300 yen to take Keisei to Ueno then JR, instead of JR the entire way. I wish Japan would join the first world and let people pay for transit with credit cards... They can't allow it for smart cards because you can get your money back off the card - it would be a loophole for getting a no-fee cash advance. You can buy the old-school tickets with a credit card though at the (few-and-far-between) ticket offices, as well as a limited number of ticket machines if you have a Japanese credit card. it's a far better idea than building a giant cave under Tokyo to turn back trains One of the few benefits to Christie cancelling ARC was that we will now only have one new giant cave to turn back trains in Manhattan instead of two disconnected giant caves. Sadly, no one has vision for anything other than giant caves around these parts, so it will be replaced by another giant cave. I suspect that their labour relation arrangements are far more flexible when compared to us. Their conductors don't balk at operating the doors of a 15 (x 65') car train from the last car, and the only on-board fare collection is the green cars (which have a separate higher fare to pay for the corresponding 3rd crewmember to man... er, woman them [never male]). I'm told New York area commuters do not have sufficient brain cells to understand the concept of turnstiling in and out, and as a result need a $30/hour fare collector for every 2 cars instead. Plus, quite frankly JR East (and the rest of the private railways) functions well because it has to for Tokyo to be a functional city. Necessity is the mother of invention. |
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