Japanese Trains
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Sat 2007/11/03 17:32
The first train is at 5.03 going towards Meguro and the last train is at 00.33 (also towards Meguro). Most trains stop running at 00.30.
But what happens when you are out n about late at night and need to go home after the last train has gone?
Well you can take a Taxi and pay up to 3 times the normal fare - most Taxis double or triple the fare at night time to take advantage of lost souls stranded in the middle of Tokyo.
I know that many people sleep over at work too - we had quite a few when I was back at Amazon.
When I was in the UK, we had night buses which would run all night. If you were lucky and the driver wasn't in a rush to go home, he would stop to let you on. I have experienced countless number of times where the driver zooms right by even when people have hailed the bus to stop.
What is it like in your region? How do people get home after the public transport ends their service? Are there services that run all night?
BTW, Spent the whole evening with Good Smile (which is why I'm late with posts) and took the last train home which I haven't done for a while. The last train is usually can-O-sardines and stinks of alcohol.
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Service desk support
london, bah! We have night buses which are incredibly unreliable. Taxis are rather suspect late at night and not recommended unless you are going in a group, so yeah, stay out too late and you're pretty much screwed. Still better than the trains. At any time! particularly the ones running from london to south wales.
(ID #61982) Posted on 2007/11/03 17:24
Policy & Research Officer
We got night rider buses that operate for the late night party people. But these buses only stop at certain places so sometimes people end up having to walk rather far back to their homes. But since its pretty safe in Singapore, its okay to just walk back home. Otherwise, we just have to pay double fare to take a cab home,
(ID #61984) Posted on 2007/11/03 17:27
i generally tend not to use public transport unless i really need to, but i htink the night services here in Glasgow are average.
(ID #61987) Posted on 2007/11/03 17:34
no busses at night, its risky because lot of burglar usually lurk there taxi are pretty much 24 hour, although u still have to call them
(ID #61988) Posted on 2007/11/03 17:45
Metro lines stop at around 1am and some bus lines are nocturnal. Otherwise you go for taxi. Quite a classical idea.
(ID #61992) Posted on 2007/11/03 18:17
Last bus is around 0.30 here. You can get a taxi if you make a call, but sometimes they are too busy that you have to wait for more than an hour.
(ID #61993) Posted on 2007/11/03 18:26
Electro/Dance Musician, DJ
Public Transportation sucks in my city, It's always late or doesn't even show up, I used to ride my bike everywhere, but in the summer here it gets to the 110 F range, not fun on a bike... Sadly I must drive.
(ID #61994) Posted on 2007/11/03 18:31
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
Here in Brazil you just don't stay out late unless you have your own car. Buses and trains (on the few cities they exists) run up to midnight... though some lines will go 'till 1am. Riding buses at night is dangerous. Even trains... like when it's too empty. Taxis will cost a lot... but I think it's like 2 times more expensive than normal at night. Though taxis here are already too expensive at normal fare. Oh, walking is not an option.
(ID #61998) Posted on 2007/11/03 18:49
Public Transportation?! HA! This is Arizona, we dont have that here. EVERYONE drives their cars. They are installing a "light rail" downtown, which is basically a 3 mile long rail car ABOVE GROUND that put a lot of little shops out of business because of construction, oh.. and it only goes to one place other thank Phoenix. Public transportation around here is a joke. We cant even built a subway because 2 feet into the ground its solid caliche. Not too condusive to digging (and I build custom pools).
(ID #62000) Posted on 2007/11/03 19:02
koy in Luxembourg
there are nightbuses here, on the usual nights (thursday,friday,saturday). otherwise there's a special service you reserve before going out which will take you (and your mates) from wherever you are partying back home :)
(ID #62002) Posted on 2007/11/03 19:36
Web Design & Development
The last bus is at 9PM on weekdays and Saturdays and 5:30PM on Sundays. They start at 9AM on weekdays and Saturdays and 10AM on Sundays. Out bus system sucks horrendously. >.>
(ID #62004) Posted on 2007/11/03 19:49
Senior Software & Systems Developer
Public transport? What's that? You won't get anywhere if you don't have a car over here.
(ID #62005) Posted on 2007/11/03 20:16
CyruzDraxs (This time I got the nick right!), talk about early job finishers. You basically mean owls (people working at night, nocturne people, etc.) don't have trains as travel accommodation? That's really sad and it is not really community inclusive politics from the transportation company if you ask me, but hey.
(ID #62007) Posted on 2007/11/03 20:27
一応深夜発の終バス？で良いのか、は、一応有るよーまぁ大きな駅だけだけど。自分の記憶が確かなら、新宿駅のバスターミナルに有った気がする。 日本じゃ漫画喫茶で泊り込みーのコストが低いんであまり需要が無いのかもねぇ。ただまぁ、電車で確実に帰れる方がありがたいけど。
(ID #62010) Posted on 2007/11/03 20:53
At workdays, the public transport here in Zurich runs until around midnight. But on friday and saturday evening, there are night busses/trains (one every hour on most lines after 1am). Comes in quite handy when you want to have some drinks :)
(ID #62019) Posted on 2007/11/03 23:32
Student
up till 11pm here T_T
(ID #62022) Posted on 2007/11/03 23:59
Raz23 in UK
I live on an island in the UK and we have buses that run til about 11pm every night, but my biggest problem is getting to work on them in the mornings. It's difficult enough to drag my life less corpse out of bed in the morning but then I have to deal with with the bus arriving 10 minutes early/late or just not showing up at all, the amount of times I've had to run on my tip toes to catch it, I swear the drivers are trying to get me fired.
(ID #62023) Posted on 2007/11/04 00:22
In New York all 28 train lines run 24 hours a day everyday, however its not very reliable.
(ID #62028) Posted on 2007/11/04 01:45
Ah... cab in singapore have this midnight fare. after midnight you will get charged more too
(ID #62029) Posted on 2007/11/04 01:14
Student
My small town doesn't require many public transports, only the bus to go the surrounding cities and taxis of course. The city that you're really dependent on public transport is the capital Lisbon where you really need the subway, bus and taxis. The subway closes after midnight if I remember but taxis are always running at the same price I think.
(ID #62032) Posted on 2007/11/04 02:04
lol, here in São Paulo you got underground trains that run from 4:40AM to about 0:10 (1:00AM on saturdays) but I don't see them as dangerous as XSportSeeker does... late night busses and surface trains are more on the dangerous side though, and most of them stop running at midnight (maybe they turn into pumpkins or something :P). Some of the main bus lines keep running 24/7, despite the long intervals between each arrival during the small hours ^^"... When I'm out at night (wich happens fairly often...) I usually wait till 5, 5:30AM when most bus lines start running again.
(ID #62034) Posted on 2007/11/04 02:32
We have night trains which travel between the big cities, but because those trains are intercity trains they only stop on big stations. Besides that we have night busses in the big cities as well, but the interval between each bus is very long.
(ID #62040) Posted on 2007/11/04 03:11
Web Design & Development
@ D_Blade I live in a backwards retirement community. Everyone is too rich to not have at least one car or too old fashioned to have their business open outside of 9AM-5PM. >.> Half of the businesses in the city aren't even OPEN on weekends. *_* You'd think that a city in the top 5 most expensive places in Canada to rent, the businesses would be more eager to take any money-making opportunity that presents itself to them. But no, instead they only keep their business open during the least busy hours of the day and then wonder what went wrong when their business goes bankrupt a year later. >.>
(ID #62045) Posted on 2007/11/04 04:42
milkham (Registered on 2007/03/06 16:44)
When I was in Tokyo and we were out pass the last train, we went to a Karaoke place until morning had breakfast and then got on a train. My friend told me that sometimes people go to karaoke and just sleep there until the first train.
(ID #62046) Posted on 2007/11/04 05:09
milkham (Registered on 2007/03/06 16:44)
Oh and in New York City subways and buses run all night.
(ID #62047) Posted on 2007/11/04 05:10
TK-8316 / 宅男 Otaku / 工程师 Engineer
over here, the last bus and train departs at midnight. if u missed it, u will have to take a cab which charge 50% more of total fee plus a midnight charge. that's why most people here tries to get home by midnight.
(ID #62095) Posted on 2007/11/04 15:25
In Jakarta, some of city bus provide service until about 23:30 and after 21:00, smaller micro bus will get you around, it's quite cheap, the farthest will only cost you about Rp 4,000 (about 44 US cent). And also there is also chartered motorcycle service (called ojek here), you usually you bargain first for the fee to take you to the destination. For taxi, some using meter and some using bargain And for long range bus, there is always a bus which will take you to any city from large bus terminal.
(ID #62218) Posted on 2007/11/05 15:21
.NET/Web Developer
There are certain routes around the city where public transports will run 24/7. Although you do have to wait a while though since there's not a lot of them like during the day. But all in all it's not so bad. WOuld like for the city here to get a train though. :D
(ID #62223) Posted on 2007/11/05 15:49
Klazu
Here in Berlin we have many subway and tram lines that run 24h. I think most of the lines run up to 1am regularly. After that they run every 30mins.
(ID #62255) Posted on 2007/11/05 19:47
our trains here mostly starts around 5.30 and end at around 1 in the morning...after that u just have to get a cab that will charge u double or triple the normal rate...i think this is common in other countries too as the cab drivers would say that it's an extra service after midnite..
(ID #62270) Posted on 2007/11/05 23:34
Network security professional
Bus/train usually stop around 2AM and start back up around 6-7AM.
(ID #62310) Posted on 2007/11/06 03:32
well there are buses that service 24-7 but not around my place, they only service in L.A. (fortunately i've never missed the last bus or train in my area ^.^) people who did, i guess they get a taxi or call someone
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