Comment by figmert
1 day ago
Now we just need an app that links your location in 3d space so you can finally easily navigate Shinjuku.
1 day ago
Now we just need an app that links your location in 3d space so you can finally easily navigate Shinjuku.
Please don't do this. The station is very busy and the commuters do not have time to navigate around people focused on their smartphones.
Instead, familiarize yourself with the general layout. There's no need to memorize the entire map, only the portion you will be using. Inside the station there are plenty of signs overhead and even on the floor to help navigate.
How do you expect tourists, including people coming from other regions of Japan, to familiarize themselves with the layout?
I've been in Shinjuku few times, I've always got lost.
Found a "hack" where I would go upstairs to the mall and then go down closer to the spot I need.
Shinjuku is way too massive (and now has plenty of diversions due to work om the station itself) to be understood easily by a tourist.
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For what it's worth I was joking. I've only been Shinjuku as a tourist, so I unfortunately won't be able to familiarise myself with the layout, but I do feel your pain. I've seen the same thing in smaller stations in the London and absolutely hate it.
I appreciate your comment.
The signs are incredibly confusing and often will all point to each other from every direction.
Do you have an example? Your comment seems like an exaggeration, I have never seen any signs pointing to each other from every direction.
Also, I am curious of the justification. Why would anyone place signs that "... are incredibly confusing and often will all point to each other from every direction."
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No they aren't. People who say this have never spent a significant amount of time there.
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Not only that but Shinjuku is under massive renovation work which makes the signs genuinely outdated at times.