People on train

'I'm afraid I don't ask permission because if I did the moment would be lost.'

Strangely, this has gone (and left and gone back!) to 15 on Explore! Thank you. Rush hour on the Yamanote line in Shinjuku Station, Tokyo. By all accounts it is the world's busiest train station. The irony of Shinjuku station is that by being the ultimate place for people to pass through, to leave, to get away from; it becomes a place to visit in its own right. For people-watching it is unsurpassable - there is such a broad section of Japanese society on display. It is also, usually, where…

At this relatively early stage of the outbreak in New York City, few people we wearing masks still—probably fewer than 1 in 100 people—but the subway often seemed a little emptier already.

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The challenge of staying awake has only risen with the growth of cities, but few places in the world have found a way to incorporate napping into the culture. Could ‘sleeperies’ and ‘EnergyPods’ make nap breaks the new coffee breaks?

Artist Devon Rodriguez is in the business of making people smile with his surprising sketches of people on the subway.

Go ride a subway

Some even hang on to the pole, bless them.

Artist Ewing Paddock's three-year project of painting people on the London Underground.

Ask any group of children in Japan what they want to be when they grow up and one answer in particular is sure to feature.