Photo TR of Asia (1/22 - a favor to ask!)

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That's odd that after all of your traveling you found the Tokyo Subway/Train system complicated. It's giant that's for sure, but it is very well signposted and if you have one of the cards you can seamlessly go from line to line. You have to remember that HK's MTR is so much smaller and newer, they learned a lot from Tokyo I'm sure!

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That's odd that after all of your traveling you found the Tokyo Subway/Train system complicated. It's giant that's for sure, but it is very well signposted and if you have one of the cards you can seamlessly go from line to line. You have to remember that HK's MTR is so much smaller and newer, they learned a lot from Tokyo I'm sure!

I think it might be my perspective that's off. It's true that the MTR is much smaller, but I think there are some aspects that just make it downright easier to use. The transfer stations are made so that each platform level is a direct transfer, rather than having line 1 on one level and line 2 on another. The main lines have interactive, virtually complete maps of the entire system so that you never have to stop and find out which way to go next.

The main thing about Tokyo's metro was that sometimes it was hard to figure out which station you were at. If you were going 1-3 stops it wasn't a problem. But many of the trains just had the list of stations and only announced which station you were at every 2-3 stations. Most stations were at least clearly labeled but some, the station signs were spaced reallllllly far apart so that unless they announced the station, we didn't know where we were. Granted, tokyo's metro is much older as you say. All of this is just my take as a foreigner.

Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei were really easy to use right off the bat. Shanghai wasn't bad except we couldn't help but feel a little bit unsafe. Back in September when we were there, the line that we had to take everyday to leave our apartment literally crashed 2 days before we got to shanghai because of some signal issues i know it's one of those things that doesn't happen often but it's still scary to think about

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Nice picture from all over. I reallly miss Japan.

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