Take on the Tokyo subway

There are a couple of obvious differences when you get into a subway in Tokyo vs. a subway in NYC.  For one there is no stench of urine or decaying human hanging in the air, the platform is clean, there aren't any poodle size rats running around and the entire experience is actually pleasant.  

The second thing is that unlike NYC where every ahole rushes to the front and jams themselves into the car even before people have had a chance to get off, in Japan the entire experience is civilized.  There are lines of people getting on and those lines do not move until all the people have gotten off.   

The other thing is that people wear masks everywhere, I thought it might be because of fish-breath or trying to avoid sickness but it is actually much more altruistic. They do it when they are sick because they do not want to get you sick.  

The last thing is that people put their bags, hats, umbrellas and jackets on the top baggage holder thing.  In NYC we don't have those things probably because it would just become a  place for homeless people to hide their shit but also because you never leave anything out of sight in NY but in Japan people don't steal your shit

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