Commuting in Tokyo 

You are the only one wearing sandals.

"Tickets are for tourists and suckers." hahaha, love it! Wow your 'not busy' day would be considered quite busy in the UK or even Bangkok :O The city view from the train is amazing tho :') Tokyo is so pretty~

Woah! I can't believe you wore sandals! I was worried for your toes getting stepped on in the squishy train carriage! Yay for sitting down! 👍🏻👍🏻

This was actually pretty cool, as I am a rather big fan of Japanese Transport (as a foreigner who has never been in Japan), to see and hear how it actually is commuting with trains! Thanks a bunch for this!

bro he is savage. i could never walk aroumd in my chanclas/huraches

This was a fun trip! I really enjoyed the sceneries 😄

The Tokyo morning commute was one of the coolest thing I experienced n Japan. First, like the rest of Japan everthing is much cleaner than I've ever seen public streets/undergrounds before. Second, it's all very well planned and intuitive. The markings on the floor showing where you should stand, where the doors stop, etc. are very intuitive and helpful. The maps and signs are very easy to read too. Finally, seeing ten sarariman push into a train that appeared overpacked to begin with was amazing. The commuters' teamwork, for a lack of a better word, is something you'd never see in Europe.

This was brilliant and informative!

cool video! great way to see the transit system and how it works! thank you for sharing :)

thats amazing video. nice to leanr the tricks of your own area.

I loved this video. Thank you :3

would like to see more these kinds of videos!! the journey is so interesting

This was so interesting to see, like wow that gets so much more packed than I realised and LOL when you used the right terminal like 'everyone goes left, so the right ones free' its so random but funny xD

Thank you for this. My friends and I are backpacking in Tokyo, and this will help us with getting place to place quickly and without offending other people. Definitely a cultural primer. I also enjoy your children's channel too! Greetings from Canada!

This was a nice voice over and walk. Good job bro.

That's exactly how I do it. Nicely done!

as a tourist, I enjoyed commuting a lot in Tokyo because it was like an adventure haha. this reminded me how cool is transportation in Japan. Thank you Greg!!

Omg I Love this!!! So cool!!!! If I can't move to Japan. At least I can see it thru your videos!! I'll visit someday for sure!!

hi :) I love your videos and have watched them from the beginning of your channel. these videos are so reassuring to me because I plan to visit Japan and it makes the whole experience less daunting :) thanks from Australia x

I love your strategics!

I am amazed that as far as I can, even with the camera mostly points at the ground, I didn't see a single scrap of trash.

keeep it up. thanks for upload

Great video. I am fascinated with super efficient metro systems like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, etc. I love hearing the Japanese announcements in the subway. I remember there was a Yamanote line as well as the different subway lines.

This is an awesome voice-over video! So information, yet entertaining! So excited to see what you have in store. I will be heading over to Japan soon, so maybe a video on simple things foreigners should know in Japan??? Thanks! :)

Nice. I just came back from Sapporo with the morning JR rush hour under my belt. Definitely not as bad as Tokyo as I've experienced before. Good vid!

This makes me appreciate the tranquil walk to school through my quiet suburb. On a busy day, I'll see maybe 10 other people.

"I don't know why so many people go on the left when the right one is way more free" This is your best line ever.

I used to commute in Tokyo. Last train before holidays were the worst times.

I am totally jealous of the train system in Japan! Who cares that it's crowded when the trains are always on time! And no long waits between connections?! Amazing!

you could really crowd surf in those

Great video. I've just finished my visit to Tokyo and watched a lot of your videos from my hotel room in Minato. We caught a lot of trains and the one thing I noticed were the amount of people running. This seems very common. Where we are from we would just leave home earlier.

my " commute" to work takes me a total of 6 minutes if I get stopped at a red light, if the light is green it takes me 4, minutes.. Love living close to work :)

The thing that really amazed me was how quiet it was!

I enjoy commuting in Tokyo more than driving my own car in Manila.

Looks pretty much the same as the London Underground (except there aren't helpers to push people on lol, although I haven't been on the Tube during rush hour so I dunno exactly how busy it gets). Tickets are for tourists and suckers there, too xD There's no point in having tickets even if you're just visiting anyway, get an Oyster card and it tracks your journeys and automatically places a cap when you've hit a certain amount so you don't pay more than a daily/weekly pass would be anyway, and when you leave you can get the leftover balance and the cost of the card refunded, so you don't spend more than you have to. Or you can just use your bank card if it has contactless payment and save having to worry about anything.

This brought back memories of the Chiyoda line, hehe. Glad I don't have to deal with that anymore, just some other packed trains on Seibu and Tozai. Thanks for the awesome narration, getting on the right carriage at the right time on the right train is great. Sure, most lines in Tokyo run more or less every 5 minutes weekday mornings, but 2 or 3 minutes can be a HUGE difference, especially for those metro lines that connect to the other railways. Sorry for rambling, this was a cool video. Thank you for posting!

I miss Japan so much.....love riding the train since we have no train here :D

If riding the train was like this in NYC for me, I'd go crazy.

Trains (Metro) in New Delhi have a kind of similar level of crowd as well. I could totally relate when you mentioned the safe spot between the seats. That's how every morning is in the trains in New Delhi as well.

I think this is similar in all big cities. Although the city where I live has only about 1.2 milion inhabitants, in subway it´s just the same. Smaller city smaller trains and stations. I go by subway every day to school and back. I experience crowds like this every time I go. I also run down the escalators because it would take ages to get where I need otherwise. I know Tokyo is much much bigger than Prague but I take the most frequent subway full of people going to work, students and turists. :)

I love riding the trains when I go to Japan. I go everywhere on them. Ikebukuro was quite crowded at times. Can't wait to return next year. :)

Wow, it's so clean. The stations are pretty grungy here in Chicago.

Wow it really is the little things that count when learning to live abroad

Worth the view

I love those kind of video !!! make more please ! , can you make one about canadian product that are sold in japan ?

its like in singapore too... super packed!

This is the type of strategy I use when I ride the train in my country too.

"Tickets are for tourists and suckers", I actually saw looks of awe and respect when I used my IC card in Japan. As an obvious gaijin I think that everybody was sure I was going to get stuck or at least slow everyone down while looking for my ticket.

I used to have a kochosensei who said she took a train once back home in Japan, and it was so busy and squishy, her feet didn't touch the floor during her whole ride! I could simply not handle that. Early happy Canada Day from one crazy Canuck to another! 😘🇨🇦🇯🇵

I have to transit between Nishi-Shinjuku and Shinjuku-sanchrome at 8:30am which is only 2 stops over. I can just walk and it would only take 20 minutes but it's rainy season so I take the subway when it's raining. It's basically full contact and everyone is shoved / squashed in. Luckily I'm not claustrophobic, not sure how people who are do it. Or how people handle it when it's an hour long commute, I assume it's not as busy for the entire stretch as going to somewhere like Shinjuku.

I'm staying near asakusa, i walk from skytree to ueno to akihabara last 3 days until i go though.

first thing when visiting japan I always buy the Suica or Pasmo charge card,, makes going on trains so much easier,plus most conbini stores and vending machines accept those

It looks and sounds like catching RER trains in Paris. I guess it's everywhere the same, then.

Was that the Yurikamome train first? That train has the best views! This would have been handy to watch a month ago before I went to Tokyo! Some great tips! Everything is so ordered though so it's fairly easy to just copy everyone else. Now, navigating some of the big Tokyo stations is another thing entirely! Thanks for another interesting video!

Boy, this man is speaking the truth. When I was staying in Japan for three months it only took me about a few days to realize that I needed to find the sweet car that would right in front of a stair case or escalator. I have also been squished to a point where was a ballerina on my tiptoes in a crowded train and then knowing the relief when I can actually see a bit more of the floor and that means that there is less people. When he said that tickets were for tourists and suckers he is totally right, when I first got there I stayed in an Air BnB and the first I was renting it from helped get us a Suica card immediately, so I don't know that struggle. Man this video spoke to my soul though.

Wow, that's so packed! I think I would get claustrophobic having to do that. I live in a more rural area so driving is my way to work.

i ever feel crowded like that and you can't move your body because the train is full, but in Mrt green line, Singapore.

OMG AKASAKA ...... I stayed there for 2 weeks ;((( I MISS JAPAN SOO much. Just remembering the station makes me nostalgic.

Great news that these trains have air condition. When I went 2 Paris they didn't have any ac at all in the trains. I am quite nervous about the crowded trains in Tokyo,I'll b taking the Yamanote line often.

This gave me anxiety lol thank goodness I can almost always find seats on trains/subways in the US

if you want to see what is crowd really like, come to India. specifically Mumbai trains

I commute to school in Tokyo everyday, luckily I take the train going away from Shinjuku so my train is never packed like that.

And I thought the Skytrain in Vancouver could get packed during rush hour, specially if you get one of the small trains for expo '86.

what an awesome style of video! can you do more like this?

Ah yes, this reminds me so much of my daily commute during my study abroad in Tokyo. Missing all of my squish buddies (not really)

Wow....that is squishy! I worried about your toes in the sandals! lol But a fun video! Thank you!

so it's a bit like riding metro buses and light rail during rush hour, complete with the whole "how many people can we fit in a finite space" routine. Only clean, quiet, and on time. So, better.

even tho it doesnt get as packed like this in hamburg, germany on a regular basis, as in tokyo, i have to say that commuting here is almost the same! it actually does get really packed here too especially during 4-5pm when kids get off school and adults get off work, and when there are festivals/football games too it gets really packed, like REALLY that people HAVE to miss trains lol and i thought i was the only one who gets on in a specific cart to get off right at the exit, since i know the routes i take i always know where to get in lol its really convenient for when i have to hurry

Actually interesting!

Simple yet very insightful. How often is it that squishers don't get on? How long until the next train arrives typically? Is it worth it to wait for the next train to have more space? During the morning commute on BART in San Francisco bay area I think the trains are spaced 12 up to 20 minutes apart, if I remember correctly. I don't work in the city any more.

I loved using the trains in Japan, as well as the busses. I felt like a true commuter when I just walk up to the gate and swipe my ic card...until at times when I swipe and it turns red...even though I had adequate funds....what was that about?

And this was a normal day... !!!

Holy crap I can't even imagine this. I took the train to LA every day last summer, and I thought that was a struggle, but I only had 1 transfer, and it wasn't half as crowded as this.

Bro, I'm from Zephyrhills, Fl (USA) The countryside so my perspective is skewed for sure. but man... when you say... there's room today.... or it's not too bad... :P makes me wonder... What's bad look like lol. Thanks for posting all this stuff :)

I thought the signage in the Tokyo subways was awesome!

man this was intense

Luckily I didn't have to commute while living in Japan. But one time we took the train home from a summer matsuri and... oh boy, I felt like I should've lost 10 pounds from being squished together so much :D

That's crazy!!! I've never seen a subway so packed before. In Atlanta GA (in the southern United States), on MARTA*, a busy morning/afternoon commute means that maybe 10 or 15 people are standing per car. Not sure if I'd like the whole "squish buddy" thing over what I have now. (*MARTA stands for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority)

I don't think I could handle that commute everyday, but then I am not young anymore. I agree, was thinking ouch with the sandals and waiting for someone too step on your feet, but I think people are more polite in Japan.

wow I don't like crowded places so when I eventually get to Japan for my holiday I wouldn't be using the train at rush hour😓. You have to do the train journey every day? Great video very interesting and good to know. Thanks for the info and heads up. Hopefully Visiting Japan very soon saving very hard.

How do you know which train to take and which one is the correct one? LOL i've never been in one before actually..so i feel like i would be pretty lost!

me being a student and my sch being walking distance meaning that i dont hv to take a bus or train but especially during sch holidays i try to experience the morning rush hour and i can say its not as bad japan the waiting strategy where you deliberately miss a train to board the next one always works especially during the evening peak and trains are only packed at the front and middle as most of the escalators are at the either the front or middle and hello this what rush hour is like in singapore not sure whether is there suh a rule in japan but recording videos or taking pictures is not allowed(this law is not strictly enforced as the major law)

Nice shoes!!!

dude idk if I could handle that early in the morning but it sure would wake me up 😂

Do you have any tips for holding your camera steady while walking? I want to do a video blog when I go to Japan for the first time for a year and if you have any tips that would be awesome!! You could also do a video!! My camera is a Canon VIXIA HF10, it's old but still takes great videos! Also this was an awesome video! My University is in Tokyo, it is Waseda University, and I know I will have to learn the trains!

Do you ride buses after taking the train? or do train stations there exist every few blocks?

this is a lot like the train rides in singapore!

kinda remibds me if home, or NYC.... luckily I'm small and can fit if it's packed

Goodness! I'm so glad I don't have to do that!

How long did it take to figure out which train cars were closer to the exits u needed?

What a science!

Great video.... I was in pin needles as the whole video I worry you were going to get step on with open toe shoes..... 😱😱😅😅

oh man this makes manhattan look tame haha I won't complain next time I'm on a crowded subway...they rarely get this bad!

Got motion sickness due to the camera shaking. But wow, how much practice did it take you to know where to stands, which door to take, etc?

When I went to Japan, my friend bought me an Icoca card!! It really was more convenient.

Commuting to my college our trains are almost like that, more like your not so busy clips. The stations(and sometimes the trains) are nowhere near as clean as Japan though.

So how long is the commute from start to finish? ( Apologies if you already answered this. )

NYC subway trains can get just as squishy, if not squishier. Pretty cool seeing how Tokyo's trains run.

From where to where do you commute ? Plz answer.

I'm actually planning a trip to Japan with my friends. I want to vlog about the whole thing, so it's nice to see that you can film easily within reason. Are there any non obvious places where I can't take a camera? i don't mind look like a tourist, but I at least want to be respectful while doing it.