Japan - Creative new way to board an airplane -Tokyo Subway Style - by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet has posted a hilarious article titled
"Creative new ways to board an airplane" (http://bit.ly/KI2hL1)

In it I found an arguable paragraph.

"Tokyo subway-style - Get on the plane quickly or get shoved on by an oshiya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_%28railway_station_attendant%29) - it’s your call."

I think Tokyo's subway is much less crowded than it I hear used be in 60s or 70s. I haven't seen oshiya for years. The word oshiya is almost obsolete.

It might be another myth about Japan.

Lonely Planet has posted a hilarious article titled
"Creative new ways to board an airplane" (http://bit.ly/KI2hL1)

In it I found an arguable paragraph.

"Tokyo subway-style - Get on the plane quickly or get shoved on by an oshiya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusher_%28railway_station_attendant%29) - it’s your call."

I think Tokyo's subway is much less crowded than it I hear used be in 60s or 70s. I haven't seen oshiya for years. The word oshiya is almost obsolete.

It might be another myth about Japan.

I'm quite certain that they still exist on the Saikyo Line.

I'm quite certain that they still exist on the Saikyo Line.

I don't think they push anymore. I've been in Shinjuku station during morning rush hour. What I saw is that they stand in the area between two sets of doors and yell at people trying to squeeze into a full train that they should take the next train.

My first ever rush hour train ride in Tokyo was west-bound Chuo line from Shinjuku in the evening. And I was right off a long haul flight from the US with luggage (fortunately I travel very light). I don't know if the attendants actually pushed us in, but given the density with which we were eventually packed I'm assuming that they did. I'm a bit claustrophobic, so not my ideal, but my fellow passengers were almost all shorter than me and I was only going as far as Nakano, so not intolerable.

This trip was about three years ago, so not too remote in time.

I don't know if the attendants actually pushed us in, but given the density with which we were eventually packed I'm assuming that they did.

We do shove ourselves into trains voluntarily.;) You cannot judge just by the density.