{"id":4009,"date":"2018-05-30T00:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/the-amazing-psychology-of-japanese-train-stations-citylab\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T00:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T00:11:54","slug":"the-amazing-psychology-of-japanese-train-stations-citylab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/the-amazing-psychology-of-japanese-train-stations-citylab\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations &#8211; CityLab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" data-wpid=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image-1.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Palatino,\" palatinolinotypepalatinoltstdbookantiquageorgiaserif=\"palatinolinotypepalatinoltstdbookantiquageorgiaserif\" _=\"font-size:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" _=\"font-style:_\" normal=\"normal\" _=\"font-variant-ligatures:_\" _=\"font-variant-caps:_\" _=\"font-weight:_\" _400=\"_400\" _=\"letter-spacing:_\" _=\"orphans:_\" _=\"_2text-indent:_\" _0px=\"_0px\" _=\"text-transform:_\" none=\"none\" _=\"white-space:_\" _=\"widows:_\" _2=\"_2\" _=\"word-spacing:_\" _=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_\" _=\"text-decoration-style:_\" initial=\"initial\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" _=\"display:_\" inlineimportant=\"inlineimportant\" _=\"float:_\" _=\"text-align:_\" left=\"left\">Tokyo is<span> <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/japantoday.com\/category\/features\/travel\/the-51-busiest-train-stations-in-the-world-all-but-6-located-in-japan\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Palatino, \" palatino=\"palatino\" linotype=\"linotype\" lt=\"lt\" std=\"std\" book=\"book\" antiqua=\"antiqua\" georgia=\"georgia\" serif=\"serif\" _=\"font-size:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" _=\"font-style:_\" normal=\"normal\" _=\"font-variant-ligatures:_\" _=\"font-variant-caps:_\" _=\"font-weight:_\" _400=\"_400\" _=\"letter-spacing:_\" _=\"orphans:_\" _2=\"_2\" _=\"text-align:_\" start=\"start\" _=\"text-indent:_\" _0px=\"_0px\" _=\"text-transform:_\" none=\"none\" _=\"white-space:_\" _=\"widows:_\" _=\"word-spacing:_\" _=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_\">home to the world\u2019s busiest train stations<\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Palatino,\" palatinolinotypepalatinoltstdbookantiquageorgiaserif=\"palatinolinotypepalatinoltstdbookantiquageorgiaserif\" _=\"font-size:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" _=\"font-style:_\" normal=\"normal\" _=\"font-variant-ligatures:_\" _=\"font-variant-caps:_\" _=\"font-weight:_\" _400=\"_400\" _=\"letter-spacing:_\" _=\"orphans:_\" _=\"_2text-indent:_\" _0px=\"_0px\" _=\"text-transform:_\" none=\"none\" _=\"white-space:_\" _=\"widows:_\" _2=\"_2\" _=\"word-spacing:_\" _=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_\" _=\"text-decoration-style:_\" initial=\"initial\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" _=\"display:_\" inlineimportant=\"inlineimportant\" _=\"float:_\" _=\"text-align:_\" left=\"left\">, with the capital\u2019s rail operators handling a<span> <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo#cite_note-Ridership-15\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Palatino, \" palatino=\"palatino\" linotype=\"linotype\" lt=\"lt\" std=\"std\" book=\"book\" antiqua=\"antiqua\" georgia=\"georgia\" serif=\"serif\" _=\"font-size:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" _=\"font-style:_\" normal=\"normal\" _=\"font-variant-ligatures:_\" _=\"font-variant-caps:_\" _=\"font-weight:_\" _400=\"_400\" _=\"letter-spacing:_\" _=\"orphans:_\" _2=\"_2\" _=\"text-align:_\" start=\"start\" _=\"text-indent:_\" _0px=\"_0px\" _=\"text-transform:_\" none=\"none\" _=\"white-space:_\" _=\"widows:_\" _=\"word-spacing:_\" _=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_\">combined 13 billion passenger trips<\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: Palatino,\" palatinolinotypepalatinoltstdbookantiquageorgiaserif=\"palatinolinotypepalatinoltstdbookantiquageorgiaserif\" _=\"font-size:_\" _18px=\"_18px\" _=\"font-style:_\" normal=\"normal\" _=\"font-variant-ligatures:_\" _=\"font-variant-caps:_\" _=\"font-weight:_\" _400=\"_400\" _=\"letter-spacing:_\" _=\"orphans:_\" _=\"_2text-indent:_\" _0px=\"_0px\" _=\"text-transform:_\" none=\"none\" _=\"white-space:_\" _=\"widows:_\" _2=\"_2\" _=\"word-spacing:_\" _=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_\" _=\"text-decoration-style:_\" initial=\"initial\" _=\"text-decoration-color:_\" _=\"display:_\" inlineimportant=\"inlineimportant\" _=\"float:_\" _=\"text-align:_\" left=\"left\"><span> <\/span>annually. Ridership of that volume requires a deft blend of engineering, planning, and psychology. Beneath the bustle, unobtrusive features are designed to unconsciously manipulate passenger behavior, via light, sound, and other means. Japan\u2019s boundless creativity in this realm reflects the deep consideration given to public transportation in the country.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2018\/05\/the-amazing-psychology-of-japanese-train-stations\/560822\/\">https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2018\/05\/the-amazing-psychology-of-japanese-train-stations\/560822\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo is home to the world\u2019s busiest train stations, with the capital\u2019s rail operators handling a combined 13 billion passenger trips annually. Ridership of that volume requires a deft blend of engineering, planning, and psychology. Beneath the bustle, unobtrusive features are designed to unconsciously manipulate passenger behavior, via light, sound, and other means. Japan\u2019s boundless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-12F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}