JR Subway Rail map in Tokyo can be quite a challenge to understand in the first try. This happens to me when I wanted to get to Akihabara from Shibuya. Took the wrong line and I have to spend more time to get to my destination.
You know what's the worst part? It happens all the time.
There's always a place like this in any Train-loving country.
Hell, any large city will have at least one transportation hub like this. Budapest, for example, has all three subway lines converge beneath one square. The result is a ring of subway stations at three different depths, each with two or three exits: to ground level, directly to one of the other stations, or to the underground ring (which, by the way, also has openings to all three stations). So take the wrong exit, and you'll find yourself walking around the square looking for a way back in in a maze of escalators.
Seeing Yamame-san clicking her tongue and lecturing Osatou-san, how I can say this...she seemed like his mother. :-)
Osatou-san apparently wandered around Tokyo Station, wondering where the Hibiya Line was. Ask a station attendant!
And even if he'd seen eye to eye on that, he'd break even on train fare to Tokyo Station! :-)
Reader-added quotes include "I've been there too, Osatou-san", "Please let me call you 'Mother', Yamame-san", "Speaking from experience", and "That's a gallant face and idea, Osatou-san".
The poll's been worried about going to the big city:
How did I imagine Tokyo before going there? • Everyone on the streets is scary • The stores all rip you off • The trains are full of pickpockets • The subway's a slum • Show weakness, and you're done for
In a fantasy setting Tokyo Station would be the perfect dungeon.
That's it—let's go to Tokyo Station!Tokyo Station is closer to Ginza than Akihabara is→ Train fare should be a bit cheaper.Wandered lost in Tokyo Station for 1 1/2 hours.AkihabaraSavvy?Listen up, now. You get into a fix, you ring me right away, an' don't move on yer own judgment.Here is what Osatou-san thought:Like hell that'd work!!GinzaYer in Akihabara? Just hop the Hibiya Line an' ride it to the meet-up at Ginza in one shot!Osatou-san moved to Tokyo several months ago.JR, the private railways, and the subway should all converge at Tokyo Station.Tokyo