Getting Around Tokyo: Train, Subway or Bus? A First-Time Visitor’s Guide

For most first-time visitors, trains and subways should handle almost every major journey in Tokyo. Use buses for short local ...

Don’t hesitate in a train crisis, keep pushing emergency button

The traveling public is being urged to check where the emergency button on trains is located as soon as they board and to ...

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Overshoot Raises Questions About Control System Configuration Management and Dual Safety Assurance

Tokyo Metro announced on October 19, 2026, that a train overshot its designated stopping position by approximately 300 meters ...
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The iconic Godzilla theme is coming to Tokyo’s Hibiya Station trains this November

Tokyo commuters are about to hear a legendary roar on their daily trek. Studio giant Toho announced that Tokyo Metro’s Hibiya Station—which serves both the Hibiya and Chiyoda lines—will start playing ...
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Harger: The Tokyo subway costs 80 cents a ride. Sound Transit costs up to $47. And they still can’t get to Ballard

One of the things that stood out to me in Tokyo last week was the subway and train system. Clean. Quiet. Efficient. Safe. You tap your phone, pass through the gate, get on, and get where you’re going ...
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Credit cards in, Suica and Pasmo out at Tokyo Metro’s experimental gates

TOKYO — Members of the U.S. military community visiting Japan’s capital have another way to pay for subway rides at two popular destinations, where experimental gates now accept contactless bank cards ...