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145 points by Gecko4072 12 hours ago | 28 comments

nayuki 2 hours ago

This is an excellent visualization! I would love to see someone adapt this data into a first-person navigation game. The game should put you at some location in the station complex and ask you to navigate to some location. This would be excellent training for people visiting the real-life Shinjuku station for the first time.

socalgal2 7 hours ago

They're connecting Tokyo and Nihonbashi stations underground which will effective connect 10 stations in total with underground passages so that would be another interesting 3d map

Also, that map seems incomplete by at least a 3rd. The connection between it and Shinjuku-3-chome station is missing (the hallways just arbitrarily stop on that map) and the tunnels from there to the south entrance of Shinjuku station are missing as well as 3 more train platforms. I suppose you could argue that's a different station which is fine, but the fact that tunnels don't end where they appear to on this map is misleading.

mzs 10 hours ago

https://github.com/satoshi7190/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo

JKCalhoun 49 minutes ago

Funny to see this as well as the Gaussian splat cathedral on the HN front page at the same time.

While the Gaussian splat is impressive, I kinda still dig the wireframe…

tech_ken 9 hours ago

Finally I'll be able to properly follow JJK season 2

rambojohnson 15 minutes ago

get stuck at the center where I can't zoom or move around anywhere.

ggm 3 hours ago

I've never really had crowd fear, but after a crush event at an agricultural fair underpass, I acquired it. Shinjuku just before rush-hour brought it back on, and I basically ran away and sat under a tree for an hour or so.

I've been in Tokyo and Ikebukuro at busy times, but nothing has been like Shinjuku to me. Maybe it's the escalators and a certain ordered-but-relentless ant-army mentality getting to the platforms.

cisophrene 4 hours ago

Really cool, it's giving me Ghost in the Shell computer UI vibes.

throwthrowuknow 10 hours ago

Can’t help but think of the 3D map of Midgar from FF7 when I look at this

azalemeth 9 hours ago

For me it's more metroid prime than FF. Just needs the coloured doors!

doctoboggan 9 hours ago

What are the steep angle arrows indicating? Too steep for an escalator/stairs, but not 90 degrees like an elevator would need to be. Anyone know?

cevn 9 hours ago

It turns off if you uncheck "hokousha/pedestrian network". Based on their placement I'm pretty sure they are elevators, I wonder if they actually do have that angle.

ant6n 5 hours ago

Escalators. The distances between the levels are exaggerated, to make it easier to see what's going on.

Karliss 8 hours ago

Some of the not quite 90 slopes seem to be due to arrows representing more of topological structure not necessarily accurate geometric representation. Could be elevators with doors on both sides, connect doors on opposite sides and you will get a bit of slope. Some of them might spiral stairways. The vertical spacing between floors is likely also exaggerated for clarity. Underground there might be larger gaps since the train tunnels need to go over each other under the rivers and what not, but there is no way 3 above ground floors (4f-2f) have empty gap 5x the ceiling height of individual floor.

mawadev 10 hours ago

Very cool and very performant

natas 8 hours ago

looks like a doom level

LeoPanthera 7 hours ago

Doom cannot have hallways above or below other hallways without teleport hacks.

But you could do it in Quake.

wingmanjd 4 hours ago

Or Descent. Pity the fool who hits the map key mid-multiplayer fight.

mempko 10 hours ago

This is beautiful. I went there 20 years ago and my mind was blown then how big it was but I really had no idea!

ranger_danger 10 hours ago

It is still the busiest train station in the world by far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...

badc0ffee 5 hours ago

This is off-topic, but I find it surprising that relatively small Stockholm is so high on the list.

bogdan 8 hours ago

Probably. They count journeys involving Shinjuku as an interchange as two separate, independent journeys.

figmert 9 hours ago

Now we just need an app that links your location in 3d space so you can finally easily navigate Shinjuku.

SapporoChris 6 hours ago

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.

figmert 3 hours ago

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.

SapporoChris 3 hours ago

I appreciate your comment.

ranger_danger 5 hours ago

The signs are incredibly confusing and often will all point to each other from every direction.

SapporoChris 4 hours ago

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."

eadesola 8 hours ago

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