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  • This is beautiful. I went there 20 years ago and my mind was blown then how big it was but I really had no idea!
    by mempko
  • It is still the busiest train station in the world by far:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...

    by ranger_danger
  • I’m on a flight back to the states after a 10 day trip to Tokyo with the fam. We probably rode 100 trains through who knows how many stations, and I kept thinking how cool it would be to visualize the pathways that people take as they navigate through the corridors. Timely and cool find!
    by maderalabs
  • What are the steep angle arrows indicating? Too steep for an escalator/stairs, but not 90 degrees like an elevator would need to be. Anyone know?
    by doctoboggan
  • Some of the not quite 90 slopes seem to be due to arrows representing more of topological structure not necessarily accurate geometric representation. Could be elevators with doors on both sides, connect doors on opposite sides and you will get a bit of slope. Some of them might spiral stairways. The vertical spacing between floors is likely also exaggerated for clarity. Underground there might be larger gaps since the train tunnels need to go over each other under the rivers and what not, but there is no way 3 above ground floors (4f-2f) have empty gap 5x the ceiling height of individual floor.
    by Karliss
  • Escalators. The distances between the levels are exaggerated, to make it easier to see what's going on.
    by ant6n
  • It turns off if you uncheck "hokousha/pedestrian network". Based on their placement I'm pretty sure they are elevators, I wonder if they actually do have that angle.
    by cevn
  • Really cool, it's giving me Ghost in the Shell computer UI vibes.
    by cisophrene
  • Can’t help but think of the 3D map of Midgar from FF7 when I look at this
    by throwthrowuknow
  • For me it's more metroid prime than FF. Just needs the coloured doors!
    by azalemeth
  • Awesome project.

    I consider myself someone with a good sense of direction in big buildings, malls, hospitals, etc., maybe a side effect to playing video games and such, but it's rare for me to get lost in big, complex structures.

    But man, Shinjuku humbled me badly. That thing is a Metroidvania level IRL. If you ever go there, please don't buy a ticket with only 5 minutes to get to the right platform. Give yourself at least 15 minutes or more.

    It's an awesome place, but even with signs in English, it can be easy to get lost.

    by javchz
  • I've never really had crowd fear, but after a crush event at an agricultural fair underpass, I acquired it. Shinjuku just before rush-hour brought it back on, and I basically ran away and sat under a tree for an hour or so.

    I've been in Tokyo and Ikebukuro at busy times, but nothing has been like Shinjuku to me. Maybe it's the escalators and a certain ordered-but-relentless ant-army mentality getting to the platforms.

    by ggm
  • 21 people suffocated at the Love Parade event in Duisburg Germany and are no longer with us. 652 injuries in total.

    It’s a good thing to be cautious with crowds.

    by artisinal
  • I was lucky to never hit rush hour when visiting Japan. Shinjuku was however the first station I had to navigate after taking the train from the airport. After the long flight, knowing how big it was, and not knowing if I was going the right way, I was losing it. I was just trying to find a way up to the street level, so my GPS would work and I could get my bearings. I don’t know if I’ve ever had a panic attack, but that’s probably the closest I’ve been.

    I was very thankful to find my Airbnb, and once I had an anchor point it was better.

    by al_borland
  • To put it in perspective, if you wanted to say "hi" to every person entering Shinjuku in a single day, and it took you one second to do so, it would take you 35 days of uninterrupted greeting.
    by epolanski
  • https://github.com/satoshi7190/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo
    by mzs
  • Finally I'll be able to properly follow JJK season 2
    by tech_ken
  • That's shibuya
    by jhogendorn
  • I don't understand some of the pedestrian passages between the levels. They are way too steep to be escalators or stairs, yet Shinjuku does not have elevators with slanted shafts, does it?!

    I think this is more of a schematic in the sense that the vertical dimension is not to scale; the levels are farther apart than actually, which exaggerates the slopes. Also, some of the passages may be indicating elevators with opposite exits. I see one which has two rectangular prisms that are directly above each other, but connected by a slanted line which may be indicating that pedestrians enter/exit on one side of the elevator at the vestibule level, and the opposite level at the platform level.

    It would be cool for there to be a slider which controls the vertical scaling. Similar to how that guy did the mechanical watch animation where you can control how exploded the view is, from fully integrated to widely spread.

    by kazinator
  • Exactly these are escalators similar to the representation on existing 2d station maps!
    by thenthenthen
  • This is an excellent visualization! I would love to see someone adapt this data into a first-person navigation game. The game should put you at some location in the station complex and ask you to navigate to some location. This would be excellent training for people visiting the real-life Shinjuku station for the first time.
    by nayuki
  • As far as I remember Tokyo stations are all easy to navigate if you use Google maps. You get a letter for the exit, and you just follow the signs
    by Ferret7446
  • I thought the horror game "Exit 8" was going to be like that when I bought it: having to navigate through a labyrinthine nightmare version of Shinjuku or Shibuya station, trying to remember the passageways and —hey wait... was that escalator there before?

    Turns out is was the opposite since the whole game takes place in a single hallway. It was still a lot of fun though!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exit_8

    by Rendello
  • They're connecting Tokyo and Nihonbashi stations underground which will effective connect 10 stations in total with underground passages so that would be another interesting 3d map

    Also, that map seems incomplete by at least a 3rd. The connection between it and Shinjuku-3-chome station is missing (the hallways just arbitrarily stop on that map) and the tunnels from there to the south entrance of Shinjuku station are missing as well as 3 more train platforms. I suppose you could argue that's a different station which is fine, but the fact that tunnels don't end where they appear to on this map is misleading.

    by socalgal2
  • Looks like the cutoff is from the source governmental data. It's also missing Tochoumae and Nishishinjuku, even though it has Shinjuku-nishiguchi and Seibu Shinjuku.
    by cyberrock