TOKYO GRID

5 trains at the same time.These trains are Yamanote JR ( Japan Railways ) trains and Bullet trains. The Yamanote JR trains are green they are local trains that only travels the city. Every line has a different color or shades for example, red, blue, green, blue/green, brown/orange, yellow, yellow/green, etc. Bullet trains also called in Japanese a Shinkansen is a express train. The Shinkansen is very fast to travel far away places some travel across Japan, others go to suburbs. Over 3,000 trains pas through Tokyo station every day.

THE TRAIN STATIONS

Yamanote JR (Japan Railways) Bullet train

Subway This is the Mita line you can tell because its dark blue. 40 million passengers use the rail system daily (14.6 billion annually) with the subway representing 22% of that figure with 8.66 million using it daily.

SIMILARITIES

This is the subway lines in Tokyo.

This is the subway lines in Beijing.

In Tokyo the green oval in the center of the subway lines is the Imperial Palace and near to the upper right corner is the airport. And in Beijing its very similar because in the center is the Forbidden City and near the upper right corner is also an airport.

Tokyo subnade In Tokyo there are lots of subnades, when people walk out of the trains some times they walk into a subnade which is a places to walk under ground. In Tokyo the subnades have lots of stores. The difference about a subnade is that there is no cars so you can walk freely with out any cars passing by. Another thing is that in the summer its cool and in the winter its warm. Subnades relate to the grid because it connects to the trains and the other subnades so it is a grid under ground that you cant see from a areal picture.

IN TOKYO PEOPLE USE THE SUBWAYS, TRAINS, BUSES, BICYCLES, AND THEIR LEGS MORE THEN CARS.

Japanese people walking across streets.

A typical freeway it has only 4 lanes.

In Tokyo people walk a lot to get where there going. The freeway is narrow and the intersection is wide. In suburbs there are more cars but the streets are still not very wide.

This is how Tokyo’s address system works. I picked a place which is called the Dai Ichi Hotel and its address was 東京都 港区 新橋 1-2-6 and the pink part is the underground passage ways.

東京都 港区 新橋 1-2-6Tokyo city The Minato ward Shinbashi section Tells you which square and building.

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