Crowded Tokyo train stations where rail staff push more and more commuters onto already packed trains have become a familiar, if somewhat cliched, image of life in Tokyo to many around the world.
Tsukin jigoku – commuter hell – is what the Japanese call the daily rush hour traffic on public transport in the world’s largest conurbation.
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