My fellow fast-walkers, how do you survive here?
I live in Shimokitazawa and always change trains at Shinjuku to go onto the Saikyo Line for the past year now. And for anyone who takes the Odakyu Line, and has to do the same, would know that the Saikyo Line sits at the very opposite of the station, meaning you have to pass all 10 ish JR Lines to reach it.
And oh my god it's been an absolute nightmare.
I'm always bound to run into one of these situations:
- You're walking in a straight line and someone cuts in front of you AND THEN slows down causing you to almost bump into them.
- You encounter an absolute horde of people exiting a train line effectively creating a wall due to a train that so happened to be unloading people.
- A group of 2-3 group of people walking in a 2-3 person wide corridor (and always slowly and leisurely without a care in the world)
- Some random guy standing in the middle of nowhere either using their phone or staring at the board above. Extra points if they were walking and suddenly decided to just stop.
It kinda feels like some people just don't really see what's going on around them and during rush hours don't feel a sense of urgency.
I'm a relatively tall guy (6ft) so if I slow down it's pretty awkward for me as I have to take pretty small steps, and even so, I end up tailgating whoever is in front of me.
This could primarily just be a Shinjuku/Shibuya/major train station thing but I feel like I'm reaching my breaking point. And honestly I might just wake up extra early just to catch the first train to avoid the crowds.
How have you all been coping if at all?