Shinjuku Station - Tokyo Intro: Experience #34 of 55

This is one of the largest and is the busiest train station in the world.  There is even a navigation app for the station.  The main station has 36 platforms, with extensive underground and above ground concourses and malls.

Connected to this by above and below ground passages are another 17 platforms.  You sometimes cannot tell when the station ends as it is labyrinthine and just so big.  An average of 3.5 million people a day use the 12 train lines that pass through the whole station.

If you look at the train station maps you can see that passages snake out all around the station below ground and above ground, something that happens at all the big train stations.  To pass through the station north to south or east to west you need to exit the station and walk around it, or pick the right exit gate when you get off a train.

From Shinjuku Station, you can actually do an underground loop all the way to the Tokyo Metropolitan Offices – it is kind of a cool thing to do on a rainy day.  You can connect to all sorts of buildings and pass through underground malls on the way.  The Shinjuku Eye-Con art piece is in the northern underground passage heading east.


Shinjuku's Underground Labyrinth (or The Tunnels of Shinjuku)
Shinjuku and Shibuya at Night

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