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Home › Entertainment

Entertainment | 05/29/2008 12:00 am

HerTube: Japanese Train Loaders

Once you’ve watched this video you’ll be very, very grateful that you don’t draw your salary in Japan. Click the play button and see for yourself.

Read more about: HerTube, Japan

19 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Frannie Em
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! My gosh!!!!!
By Frannie Em on 05/29/2008 12:16 am
Brooklyn Gal
They actually hire men to stuff people in trains? I counted 6 guys on one platform. If that’s how they got on the train, how the hell do they get off at their station?
By Brooklyn Gal on 05/29/2008 1:17 am
Frank Peterson
Carol—I imagine they all sort of ooze out en masse. lol
By Frank Peterson on 05/29/2008 6:01 am
J Boylynn
Carol, I’m sorry, but your question made me laugh. I have lived in Japan for three years and I know that what happens at the next station the people on the outside of the car literally fall out of the train at the next stop. They, hopefully, wanted to get out there. If not, they try again to get back in. The people on the inner portions of the train are, by design, intending to go further along on the line. Mind you, too, this is not every train, every day. Did you notice the color of the train? This is the Chuo line, in Tokyo, if I remember correctly, and it is well known for its crowded lines, especially at rush hours. Most people try to scatter arrival times at work, so as to avoid the shoved crowds. But if you DO have to make that trip on a particular day, you just know that everyone is uncomfortable, and you bear it. (And it DOES hurt. One time I made the mistake of trying to support or defned myself against the leering men coming what I thought was a little too close. I tried to get next to the door, and ended up with a very sore wrist, because it was shoved up against the opposite door very forcefully. I kept hoping it wouldn’t break, and luckily got off at a near station. I did love living in Japan, though. I generally would make my way around Tokyo quite easily, and enjoyed the challenges of life there. I found the people wonderful and generous. I would go back to live in a heartbeat if 1) I could find an apartment, 2) could be sure of a job, and 3) my husband could acclimate to life there. We were back last summer, and to my delight, the language came back after thirty years being gone, but my husband would not even try speak the easiest Japanese. I would not want to be married to a hena Gaigin (Wierd foreignor). Thanks for the stirring of wonderful memories.
By J Boylynn on 05/29/2008 11:18 am
Anne B.
It would appear that the only way out would be falling or spontaneously being ejected once the doors re-open! Rather hard to comprehend…. for their sake, I hope this video is an aberration.
By Anne B. on 05/29/2008 1:35 am
Frank Peterson
Anne—it’s no aberration at all. That’s the way it is. Frightening eh?
By Frank Peterson on 05/29/2008 6:07 am
Lady Gator
Frank — And we thought Sardines had it bad!
By Lady Gator on 05/29/2008 12:55 pm
Bonnie Oliver
Frightful!
By Bonnie Oliver on 05/29/2008 3:01 am
Dona Howlett
As I’m watching I’m uttering…….Oh my God, over and over….. It would seem they must fall on top of each other to exit. Poor person who was last to enter…….. I’m claustrophobic…….I would have a heart attack and be dead at the end of the journey.
By Dona Howlett on 05/29/2008 5:41 am
JJ GB
I just could not do that. It would make me hysterical to be crammed in like sardines in a can. I’m claustrophobic too and would be fighting to back out rather than be shoved in like that.
By JJ GB on 05/29/2008 5:50 am
Frank Peterson
I have a French Canadian friend who works in Japan and he says it’s not only a sight to behold, but it’s totally incredible when you experience it. He told me that sardines in a can have it a lot better than he he does when he gets on a bullet train. lol
By Frank Peterson on 05/29/2008 6:05 am
Diana T
My sister and her husband have experienced this in China also. I sent the youtube to her; I was flabbergasted, and she wrote back to say they had been on those things. I would die first! I wouldn’t make it out of the damned things.
By Diana T on 05/29/2008 9:17 am
Vivvy Stewart
Add me to the claustrophobic list. There is a jukebox in my head that seems to find songs to fit most everything I see & do. Right now it’s playing a slightly different version of the Peter, Paul and Mary hit: “I’m leavin on a packed train I don’t know when Ill be back again Oh, babe, I hate to go”
By Vivvy Stewart on 05/29/2008 8:21 am
K O
My sweetie and I were in Japan on a train, standing and holding on to the leather handles. When the train stopped, and a zillion people were smooshed on board, I ended up standing at a backward slant with a Japanese man who was about 8” shorter than I with his face planted squarely in my chest. Unable to move, I started to laugh, which, of course, moved my chest up and down. The man never looked at me - even when the car became roomy enough for him to back away. I alway thought, under the circumstances, I should have at least introduced myself…
By K O on 05/29/2008 9:50 am
Frannie Em
Kitty, LOL lOL LOL The visuals are too much. That is funny
By Frannie Em on 05/29/2008 3:58 pm
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