Originally Posted by
ksandness
Eventually, the then-JNR caught wind of this scheme and without any public announcement started putting time stamps on platform tickets and instructing the ticket takers (this was before mechanization) to look at the time stamps on all platform tickets that came through.
Then now most of the JR stations set 2 hours as the maximum time for a single platform ticket.
Originally Posted by
Pickles
Right, this is the kiseru move.
May I talk about why that is called
kiseru ?
Kiseru is a Japanese old style smoking pipe.
http://www.jti.co.jp/sstyle/trivia/k...es/02_img2.jpg
At both ends
kiseru has metal（金 かね） on it. But in the middle there is no metal.
When someone does
kiseru, he pays money （金 かね） only for both ends of his travel. He doesn't pay for the middle section.
These two have something in common. So this is why.