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Re:The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations by lhorie on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:52PM (#17150279)
When people in japan says "the train will be there 1:11PM", they mean, "it'll be there 1:11:00PM sharp, not 1:10PM, not 1:12PM".
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Re:The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations by bemmu on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:21PM (#17150379)
If you ride in the first car and look at the timetable the driver uses, you can see the timetable is accurate to the second.

Here's a photo showing a driver's timetable. In the second row is a 20 second stop at Hazama, the train arrival time is 13:25:05 and departure 13:25:25.

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/asianrailroad/imgs/f/a/fa9e3956.j...

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Re:The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations by pm215 on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:48AM (#17151473)
That timetable looks like it's on 5-second granularity, not 1-second. Which is still pretty tight -- the UK's working timetables are half-minute granularity. (The UK also demonstrates that it's not merely a matter of having an exact timetable, you also need to be able to keep to it in practice :-))
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