Comments on: 24-Hour Tokyo: Tokyo Government To Run Subway Line All Night?!! Scoop!

By: Jake Adelstein

Jake Adelstein — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:22:35 +0000

PudgyM29 I don’t know. I’ll look for news.

By: PudgyM29

PudgyM29 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:28:09 +0000

Topping on purpose: It’s now October. The new flights will be landing at Haneda next month. Is there any more recent news about this? Or has the taxicab lobby succeeded at burying the plan?

By: ElevenColors

ElevenColors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:16:46 +0000

One more factor is that out in the burbs, lines like Odakyu and Inokashira run right up against houses where people are trying to sleep.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:02:50 +0000

I come to this late.

As great as this sounds, all I can foresee are extended working hours and consequentially, more passed-out, exhausted salarymen. Though I do agree it would be good for Japan’s tourism — for the foreigners, namely — I also feel that Japan’s nightlife would actually take a hit. Many clubs here open near last train and close shortly after the first train starts running and, as was mentioned above, drunken couples would go home instead of wandering the streets aimlessly…

By: Voidwalker

Voidwalker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:52:11 +0000

I wonder how this will affect love hotels and capsule hotels which, I understand, generate more business due to commuters.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:02:36 +0000

I guarantee you, if this goes ahead, those trains will get used.

By: Sarah Noorbakhsh

Sarah Noorbakhsh — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:08:01 +0000

I agree with a lot of the above. They’d have to run either busses or the monorail from Haneda to make this practical, though they do need to find some way to move bodies from the airport and into the city. Even if the number of passengers on in-bound flights in the middle of the night are few, Tokyo will fast become an unpopular destination if hotels do not offer shuttles and the only thing that remains are taxis.

I mostly agree with Matthew D, though. My collection of passed out salaryman photos would certianly suffer.

By: John R.

John R. — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:02:37 +0000

As someone who’s been stuck all night at a tiny station between Yokohama and Meguro-Ku, I approve this message.

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