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Getting on a train in China: Worse than sardines in a can
I've been on crowded trains and buses--the type of experience where people have to adjust a shoulder, move a hip, perhaps reach up to hold onto a hand hold because there is actually no more room for another arm between all the bodies, but nothing like this. This footage was taken somewhere in China. I traveled on a train in China, but thankfully, it wasn't like this.
Can you imagine? I wonder when the door opens at the first stop if everyone will explode back out again? How can the people in the middle of the crowd shoved inside the train cars ever hope to breathe fresh air? See the sun?
**Correction. Okay, okay, okay. As pointed out, this is not China, but Japan. See comment threads. The YouTube video was labeled China.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Philz Sep 13th 2008 1:28PM
Thats cool, but don't label Japan, China :P .
There speaking Japanese (the station men) and thats a JR train (probably chouzsen). So wrong country!
Though I've never ever seen a train that packed before. Even the few times I go in rush hour. I just use the yamanote line, so it's more of a connecting train, that one goes to the outskirts of Tokyo, to places like Chiba, so thats deadly... Everyone wants to get to work on time!
riffcold Sep 13th 2008 6:55PM
Tsk tsk, Gadling: http://www.gadling.com/2008/04/09/anyone-been-on-such-a-crowded-train/
daneil Sep 13th 2008 6:51PM
Jamie Rhein
give me break, if you don't know the ethnic difference between east asia people, don;t be pretend to do, please.
laughing stock
Steve Sep 13th 2008 3:01PM
Interesting, but this is a Japanese train. People were speaking Japanese there. How can you mislead your audience by labeling this as a footage taken somewhere in China?
Simon Sep 13th 2008 5:48PM
Reasons this is not in China:
1. You would have seen a way more chaotic scene if it was.
2. The people pushers are a Japanese trademark.
3. Those guys were speaking freaking Japanese!
RG Sep 13th 2008 7:07PM
Reason #4: they're wearing white gloves.
Jamie Rhein Sep 13th 2008 7:07PM
The person who loaded the video onto YouTube labeled it China and so did a couple other websites when I looked. I wasn't listening to the language, but was watching the pushing.
Thanks for pointing out the error. I was in Japan years ago, and never saw anything like this. Maybe I missed rush hour.
Jamie Rhein Sep 13th 2008 7:07PM
I searched the Gadling video archives using crowded, train, and China and this one didn't come up. It depends on the tags used.
Again, the person who labeled the video said China. Again. Sorry.
Thanks for paying attention, though!