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The world's easiest station to get lost in: Shinjuku Station with 178 exits

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The world's easiest station to get lost in: Shinjuku Station with 178 exits

At present, the train has become an important way for people to travel, each city will have one or more stations, do you know which is the easiest station in the world to get lost? The easiest station in the world to get lost is called Shinjuku Station: 178 exits, 4 million people enter and exit every day, let's learn about it. Jan 20, 2024

The world's easiest station to get lost in


Shinjuku Station is a famous transit station located in Japan. This station is responsible for transporting many tourists every day, so Shinjuku Station has 178 exits, but although the number of exits has increased, the confusion for every tourist has also increased, and many people get lost in Shinjuku Station and even lose their way.

 

 

Why does Shinjuku station have 178 exits?


As we all know, Japan is a very long and narrow country, Shinjuku station is located near the capital Tokyo, so Shinjuku station is a manufacturing transit station, Shinjuku station next to the ordinary bus station, railway station, and subway station, the station in order to ensure the passenger throughput, so that each passenger can be unimpeded access, so the design of the 178 exit, which also shows that the Japanese population of This also shows that Japan's population is so large that modern transportation is not able to meet the needs of such a large population.

 

 

What is the impact of Shinjuku Station on Japan?

Shinjuku Station is now a famous internet station, and people like to tweet about it on the internet. They think that Shinjuku Station is like a huge above-ground maze, and once people enter the station without navigation, there is only the risk of getting lost, because Shinjuku Station is crowded with people, and it is easy to lose your way if you are not careful. The traffic is very tight and complicated, and it is impossible to realize the purpose of changing trains and getting to the bus on time.

 

Is Shinjuku Station being renovated?

The Japanese government saw that the public was very dissatisfied with Shinjuku Station, and immediately afterwards it made changes to Shinjuku Station, inviting a large number of local surveyors and architects to make changes to Shinjuku Station, and now the number of entrances to Shinjuku Station has been greatly reduced to only eighty or so, but it is still far more than the average train entrance, which also causes many people to get lost.

 

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