There aren't a lot of maps which cover all of Japan's railways, fewer still which are up to date...this is a fairly recent one, but doesn't have the Hokuriku or Hokkaido Shinkansen, or any non-JR lines:pic.twitter.com/wGKx5jIHP3
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There aren't a lot of maps which cover all of Japan's railways, fewer still which are up to date...this is a fairly recent one, but doesn't have the Hokuriku or Hokkaido Shinkansen, or any non-JR lines:pic.twitter.com/wGKx5jIHP3
You can start to see the problem when you look closely at this map (which is also outdated, but includes *all* railways at time of publication)--see how there are intense clusters in a few cities? Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka all stand out far above the rest...pic.twitter.com/lYx629MDbO
...but even Japan's other cities frequently stand out from their surroundings: Hiroshima, Matsuyama, Sapporo, Fukuoka shown here (black checkered lines = JR, orange lines = other railways, other colored lines = subways)pic.twitter.com/188yCQytfn
The effect is more striking the more you zoom in--remember in the first tweet in this thread, how most of Japan appeared crisscrossed with railways? Well, that's certainly true, but what a different kind of coverage it is in the countryside! Tokyo vs part of Hokkaido, same scale:pic.twitter.com/fgpxuVwcmk
This is why, while I still support the idea of a *national* rail network for USA, I have to emphasize that it is secondary to the importance of strong *metropolitan* rail networks within USA (this is also why arguments about "USA too big!" are irrelevant) Osaka vs. Ibusuki areapic.twitter.com/kCvJyP5y20
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