Mistakes can’t really happen. The crossing is interlocked with protecting signals. (All Barriers need to be down and locked in order for the signal to clear to a proceed for the driver of any approaching train)
@@iknowyoureright8564 Well, I certainly found out something I didn't know before I wasn't aware Japanese crossings are interlocked with the signals I knew that some UK crossings are (which often causes people to complain about the wait times), but not Japanese ones
@@pineappleroad to correct myself....I’m not 100% sure they are interlocked BUT, I would be very surprised if they are not...because there is a crossing keeper there and If the barriers were not interlocked then he could potentially raise them and with so many trains on different lines/directions and speeds, it would extremely hard to know when there is a suitable window to raise the barriers, so at a guess, I’d say they are part of the interlocking so when all trains are clear and there are none on approach then they will freely be able to be raised...while trains are approaching he cannot raise the barriers, unless he puts the signal back to red in front of the driver and causes a spad or overrun......but who really knows because that’s some busy ass section of railway......8 lines, some bi-directional carrying different speeds of trains.
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist An overpass, and especially an underpass would cost a shit ton of money, and you already know the Japanese goverment wouldn't foot the bill...unless all Japanese railways are state-owned. Even then, the cost, the disruption the massive construction would cause, and the many delays of the railway just wouldn't justify the havoc caused because of it.
solution : use a public transportation ... appreciate what government have done ... they working very hard to make the citizens comfort and enjoying while using their services
Niteachilles It’s an offence in most countries i guess. But Singapore etc just punish it very brutal which has it’s effects. Here in Holland you just have to remove some weeds from the public green areas for a few hours and off you go again.
Mostly just freight cars... never passenger trains ( obviously it does happen) most stay away from locomotives and stuff like that but depends on the area you’re in.
Imagine your inside of the level crossing and the gates are closing but you can't make it to the other side on time. It will be like that computer game where you must guide a frog across a busy intersection.
Great video, 8 tracks. That one is very busy for sure. Interesting that some drivers still try to wait for 10 minutes during peak time while there is a tunnel not far away from here.
OMG Rodalco, didn't expect to see you here! I agree, it's one crazy crossing! They probably wait because, as from my experience, the moment you leave to do a detour is the moment when the traffic gets better (or in this case, the gates go up). XD
Since there is a tunnel nearby; U.S. standard would require this crossing to be permanently close as standards requires barrier opening after 15 minutes to ensure emergency vehicles able to cross.
8 tracks and about 1 to 2 km away from shin-Osaka station, which is also the cities local shinkansen station, not a surprise, though it should be converted into an overpass if possible
There is something wrong with the railway system then. Nobody would wait 2 hours, for example. Strain could be doing 90-100 mph, so that means, the barriers are lowered to clear the crossing while the “approaching” train is between 180 and 200 miles away?? Really?
Oh dear, 3 years ago I wrote this comment. I think I have to say sorry to all of you who answered. I watched the video with this railway crossing again ( ua-cam.com/video/srlu5FHhsuk/v-deo.html ) and it's only 22 minutes to wait there for the train. I am sorry, but I don't know how I thought it was 2 hours. Or maybe it was another crossing...
@@lukas-f5647 no need to apologise friend.....it always seems a lot longer when you’re waiting at the barriers, 3-4 mins seems like 20. Lol. I used to work as a crossing keeper controlling barriers, and if they were down any longer than 7-8 minutes, people used to get really pissed at me, glad I don’t do it anymore.
6:12 that train has a different style cab on each end! I looked at this crossing at Google Earth, and it can be difficult to get to the nearest overpass, which a busy highway goes underneath! There is a close one, but it is very low clearance! an overpass here would be very difficult to construct to gain a correct height!
I guess he is, as you can see for pedestrians and bikers it's not a problem. And I believe, they also don't want to make the situation better for cars, in Japan cars are not wanted in the cities.
The barriers can be down for 40 minutes? Man, imagine going to school and you came across this level crossing. You would be so late to school., and I bet it’s a nightmare every time!
40 min is pretty bad but the worst are found on the US and Canadian Prairie towns. A lot of the crossings are at very long angles too. A pair of 4 km long heavy freight trains can block a crossing for over an hour and they happen mostly over night.
There's a town in Kentucky where the track goes through the main street of the town, so whenever a train passes through it cuts the town in half. Because of the low speed limit it can take upwards of 10-15 minutes for a long freight train to pass. It gets even worse when they break down in the town. La Grange is the name of the town, and they even have live railcam allowing you to watch the action from anywhere in the world.
And I thought Lincoln was bad! I worked in Takatsuki for a while, I remember seeing this, but I thought it was just a maintenance road for JR staff, not an actual crossing.
Brett Walters LOL “Yeah the level crossing was closed”. But i hardly doubt that a local company will fall for that excuse. Being late is never good anyway, no matter what the cause is. One time.. ok.. two times.. you’ll have a bad position in the company.. three times.. you’re out, doesn’t matter why.
Richard van Pukkem What if you're late three times in... three years? What if you have a sick child? What if you're a medical consultant and have to travel far? A three strikes rule would be ridiculous. I had a job where I had a very long commute and it was hard to make it on time without getting up ridiculously early... but I was in an office and almost never had calls to take, so it was fine and I stated late. You wouldn't last as a boss, I think.
As I read other comments, it seems this crossing needs to be closed, since it is a safety matter if it is used, plus long wait times to cross. Also, if this is a popular crossing, maybe a bridge over the tracks could be built. But, I see that a tunnel is close to this road, so why don't they direct people to that way, and close this location.
Damn, I've seen a pretty bad railway crossing just east of Sapporo Station that was more closed than open, but at least that was open for 5-10 seconds every few minutes. This is kind of ridiculous, you wonder why they even bother keeping it open. I mean, when you need an agent to keep an eye on it all the time, something is really, really wrong.
I think I know this railway crossing, I filmed here in 2014 winter. Near Naebo station ...www.google.fr/maps/place/Sapporo+Station/@43.0673213,141.369828,127a,35y,356.26h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x5f0b2974d2c3f903:0xa5e2b18cdd4a47a5!8m2!3d43.0686606!4d141.3507552
I read where this crossing is slated for closing in 2018, but in the meantime, they should give the crossing agent the ability to hold local (stopping) traffic at the station toward the right, for a minute or two , to allow the crossing to open. Wouldn't work for faster non-stop trains, though.
Paul Cashman Would imagine there are too many special expresses and rapids running through the crossing to even try some time-based right-of-way solutions
I’m assuming that given the orderly, adherence to rules and social norms, the penalty for crossing the railroad tracks after alarms have gone off is significant. I don’t see much in the way of tagging or graffiti. Japanese people take actions that bring shame to the family as grave matters. I respect these things, America have you no shame, promoting freedom of the individual to do anything they wish?
I agree with others who say it seems pointless to have a crossing here. It pretty much seems a waste of resources, a constant irritant, a source of negative influence and a general antagonistic experience all the way around. I am frustrated just watching the video!
Ah, this remains me of an old level crossing in Gąsin, in Pruszków, main railway to Warsaw from west. Someone has thought that it would be a great idea to have a crossing in the train yard, where you can have trains going in one direction stopping just right in front of you then going backwards as they shuffle train cars around... Plus there are regular trains going all the time on 4 tracks, two for local, two for long distance trains
It is strange, I worked on the railway over here in Britain for nearly 50 years . If we said the worst rail crossing . We would immediately be thinking of the one , that the public risked their lives daily by abusing it !
Look at how heavily used it is. In Charlotte, NC in the USA, there are a couple railroad crossings that are closed for upwards of 2 hours whilst waiting on the switcher.
When i traveled to japan i went there and decided to use a stopwatch to calculate the time from when the barriers started closing to when it starts opening. It was 48 minutes 56 seconds.
I think the right way to change this would be to make multiple crossings but with 2 tracks per section, so people can stand in the middle of two pairs of tracks.
I assume most people would drive past on their way to a longer (but quicker) route, and if it happens to be open then they use it and reduce their commute by 5 or 10 minutes. Surely no one would plan this as their primary route.
I'm stubborn and inquisitive. I found this drive on Google maps, which was not so hard. It turns out that in a straight line 300 meters further is an underground tunnel, to which the access is 570 meters by public roads. That explains why there is no viaduct or... traffic. It should be noted, there is a flyover literally next to crossing for walkers and cyclists. This is not the result of the bad organization of street traffic, rather lack of needs. It does not change the fact that the video is excellent, with a little hint of a mockery in English style. Congratulations!
Unfortunately but good news for people who live in Japan this level crossing does not exist anymore the last time it was on Google maps was October 2018
Would be fun if they placed a countdown to barrier opening for the vehicles (since they have the timetable to predict that anyway). But they are getting rid of it next year anyway.
I believe that if you use the sky walk to the left, you probably get to your destination much faster (provided you aren’t driving, else you’re screwed).
They do the first prototype was in 1904. Some series of Shinkansen have them too, sub article here at Wiki. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilevel_rail_car#Japan
There is a tunnel 200 meters down the road. In the Netherlands we would close the crossroad, open the bridge next to it officially for cyclists and the officer (agent) would permanently lose his job.
I love the sound of trains and the bell of Japanese overpasses. There is another busy overpass near the Kita Shinagawa station in Tokyo, on the street leading to the old Tokaido way (and near the hostel). Some pedestrians who go to work rush through eventhough the barriers come down. Better to go around to reach Shinagawa station from the other side.
It's better to put up signs that there's a tunnel and pedestrian bridge nearby. You could even let the guy 'monitoring' tell that to the waiting people. It'll give him something more exciting to do.
Interesting level railway crossing. Is this particular crossing one of the only worldwide examples of a huge railway crossing or are there any other examples like this around the world.
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I wonder how many people used this crossing as an excuse for being late.
Narca E. J. in japan you never go late or do harakiri
juan marino fioretti yep, there was even a train that crashed into some buildings around this area, and it was all due to being late.
@@TheCreepersGood it was on seconds from disaster and if i recall a few people died not sure how many though
@@danielanderson5227 you talking about the Agamasaki rail accident of April 2005?
@@brayand8022 i think so
The worst for people, the best for train spotting
Yes my paradise !
Dotaku cvj
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Haha lol
TheGigisim lol true
On the very rare occasion it opens I'd be afraid to cross, in case it's a mistake.
Ellesmere Wildwood Can you imagine taking a pregnant wife from one of those apartments across tracks to hospital on the other side. ..
mrlevite1237 and a bridge
Mistakes can’t really happen. The crossing is interlocked with protecting signals. (All Barriers need to be down and locked in order for the signal to clear to a proceed for the driver of any approaching train)
@@iknowyoureright8564
Well, I certainly found out something I didn't know before
I wasn't aware Japanese crossings are interlocked with the signals
I knew that some UK crossings are (which often causes people to complain about the wait times), but not Japanese ones
@@pineappleroad to correct myself....I’m not 100% sure they are interlocked BUT, I would be very surprised if they are not...because there is a crossing keeper there and If the barriers were not interlocked then he could potentially raise them and with so many trains on different lines/directions and speeds, it would extremely hard to know when there is a suitable window to raise the barriers, so at a guess, I’d say they are part of the interlocking so when all trains are clear and there are none on approach then they will freely be able to be raised...while trains are approaching he cannot raise the barriers, unless he puts the signal back to red in front of the driver and causes a spad or overrun......but who really knows because that’s some busy ass section of railway......8 lines, some bi-directional carrying different speeds of trains.
There has to be some sort of urban legend that if you patiently wait for these crossings to rise, you gain a 6th sense or something
Sukhee Hong
Sounds legit.
the crossing gods will bless you
you will definitely go mad waiting for it
The Google Earth camera car manages to get across...
I noticed that too. But if you click look at street view just on either side of the crossing, the barriers are down.
Lol
It’s now called Waymo’s self driving car.
*it's Google they ain't take shit from no trains*
Seems kinda pointless having the crossing there. It may as well be a fence.
wouldn't it be easier just to make an overpass or underpass??
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist An overpass, and especially an underpass would cost a shit ton of money, and you already know the Japanese goverment wouldn't foot the bill...unless all Japanese railways are state-owned. Even then, the cost, the disruption the massive construction would cause, and the many delays of the railway just wouldn't justify the havoc caused because of it.
@@hakeemsd70m
There's an underpass two streets down already. This crossing is pointless.
Even a car lift would get a car across faster than waiting
@@hakeemsd70m thats why the world needs to learn from china xD
4:26 Ha ha, the text on the barriers says: "please wait a moment"...
*"moment"*
Good thing the big sign says "DON'T STOP! JUST GO THROUGH!" 😂
Of course, that's if you get past those barriers 😫
goishikaigan mademou it said just useing bridge to crossing it
Please wait a month.....
Maybe it meant "please wait a long while".
I'd park there just to watch the trains. I wouldn't bother about the crossing cause well, that's just a bonus.
Ah ah ! ok I understood, I agree !
Me too!
There's also a crossing in Cologne-Gremberg in Germany which spans over thirteen tracks. It often remains closed for over an hour.
Kanal von Hupensohn really ?!
Raimann T.T. ua-cam.com/video/AZTik0EhTIw/v-deo.html
Huh ive been there and it took so long to open
Well yeah. theres 13 track 13 track means 13 train
Solution: Buy two cars to each side and use pedastrian bridge. :D
Best answer yet :)
+Thomas Munn
At Japan there should be no trouble to realize. ;-)
solution : use a public transportation ... appreciate what government have done ... they working very hard to make the citizens comfort and enjoying while using their services
pega17pl there is a tunnel tho
Yeah but two streets away there is a tunnel. Duh.
And not a sign of graffiti on any train
Niteachilles It’s an offence in most countries i guess. But Singapore etc just punish it very brutal which has it’s effects. Here in Holland you just have to remove some weeds from the public green areas for a few hours and off you go again.
The same replies for Norway
Unlike in US
Trains full of grafiti
Lol
Mostly just freight cars... never passenger trains
( obviously it does happen) most stay away from locomotives and stuff like that but depends on the area you’re in.
And South Asians be like 'Hold My Beer' !!!😂😂😂😂😂 Worst trains out there
This is literally a tourist trap
@Izumi Culture i only come for the signs lel
I agree
I learned about it on TV
Imagine your inside of the level crossing and the gates are closing but you can't make it to the other side on time. It will be like that computer game where you must guide a frog across a busy intersection.
@@andreashoppe1969 frogger but with trains
"You! Shall! Not! Pass!"
Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to install a display that gives an estimated time of the next opening. A Mayan calendar perhaps?
Hawkfum O'Dee very funny :-)
It was a joke CS, not meant as a suggestion.
Great video, 8 tracks. That one is very busy for sure. Interesting that some drivers still try to wait for 10 minutes during peak time while there is a tunnel not far away from here.
OMG Rodalco, didn't expect to see you here!
I agree, it's one crazy crossing!
They probably wait because, as from my experience, the moment you leave to do a detour is the moment when the traffic gets better (or in this case, the gates go up). XD
I love trains
Since there is a tunnel nearby; U.S. standard would require this crossing to be permanently close as standards requires barrier opening after 15 minutes to ensure emergency vehicles able to cross.
and then the train stops on the crossing. no 15 minutes ;)
8 tracks and about 1 to 2 km away from shin-Osaka station, which is also the cities local shinkansen station, not a surprise, though it should be converted into an overpass if possible
Boss:why were you late?
Me: I was waiting at a railway crossing for 40min
Boss:your fired!!!!!!!
Yeah in Japan I heard it's very bad.
Justine Perry you're*
When the barrier opens.....run like hell!
Just prepare Eurobeat playlist.
Justine Perry the man who can't win against crossings what good would he bring to the company in times of shortcut
In Germany there are (is one) Railway-Crossings where you have to wait 22 minutes and only 1 Train Comes.
EDIT: Sorry, it's 22 minutes, not 2 hours
lukas-f in Long Island NY it's just 1 2 3 BAM gone
There is something wrong with the railway system then. Nobody would wait 2 hours, for example. Strain could be doing 90-100 mph, so that means, the barriers are lowered to clear the crossing while the “approaching” train is between 180 and 200 miles away?? Really?
I know crossings in the UK often have long wait times, but 2 hours would be ridiculous
Oh dear, 3 years ago I wrote this comment. I think I have to say sorry to all of you who answered. I watched the video with this railway crossing again ( ua-cam.com/video/srlu5FHhsuk/v-deo.html ) and it's only 22 minutes to wait there for the train. I am sorry, but I don't know how I thought it was 2 hours. Or maybe it was another crossing...
@@lukas-f5647 no need to apologise friend.....it always seems a lot longer when you’re waiting at the barriers, 3-4 mins seems like 20. Lol. I used to work as a crossing keeper controlling barriers, and if they were down any longer than 7-8 minutes, people used to get really pissed at me, glad I don’t do it anymore.
14:40 ,notice how the agent stops the barrier to wait for the woman to cross
6:12 that train has a different style cab on each end!
I looked at this crossing at Google Earth, and it can be difficult to get to the nearest overpass, which a busy highway goes underneath! There is a close one, but it is very low clearance! an overpass here would be very difficult to construct to gain a correct height!
That's 681 series~
Edited: I meant the one in 5:24
289 series is derived from 683 series and they all share identical design
Are you specifically talking about cars? If not, there's a pedestrian overpass right by the crossing.
thats in order to connect to trains together. the back is a huge door that will open and connect the 2 cars together
I guess he is, as you can see for pedestrians and bikers it's not a problem. And I believe, they also don't want to make the situation better for cars, in Japan cars are not wanted in the cities.
Hello
JAPANexciting👎
Nice levelcrossing, Love it. But 40 minutes :S Where is the coffee and the newspaper. :)
In one of the countless vending machines nearby. Japan has nearly five million of them.
and the restroom!
trains animation eat me if you want cookies! :D
Large tv's for those waiting.
Coffee? Nah I'd need a sleeping pill for a 40 min wait
The barriers can be down for 40 minutes? Man, imagine going to school and you came across this level crossing. You would be so late to school., and I bet it’s a nightmare every time!
40 min is pretty bad but the worst are found on the US and Canadian Prairie towns. A lot of the crossings are at very long angles too. A pair of 4 km long heavy freight trains can block a crossing for over an hour and they happen mostly over night.
There's a town in Kentucky where the track goes through the main street of the town, so whenever a train passes through it cuts the town in half. Because of the low speed limit it can take upwards of 10-15 minutes for a long freight train to pass. It gets even worse when they break down in the town. La Grange is the name of the town, and they even have live railcam allowing you to watch the action from anywhere in the world.
Don't you mean 5-15 miuntes?
You guys have trains?
This railroad crossing was decided to be abolished around the end of 2018
sazabi102 The actual crossing like the trains can’t pass or that pedestrians won’t be allowed to go through it anymore?
Azelf Lover The cars won't be able to pass. It's harder to redirect railroads. Pedestrians have the bridge to walk over the rails.
Klorrin Oh ok thanks for clarification.
too bad... 😁
空軍パイロット you could invent some kind of elevator on both ends, and then when platform with cars rises up a crane pick it up and move to the other side.
When you got an 8 track railway corridor running through a town in OpenTTD but local authority built a level crossing on it.
And I thought Lincoln was bad! I worked in Takatsuki for a while, I remember seeing this, but I thought it was just a maintenance road for JR staff, not an actual crossing.
they should just close it
Nah we need a good scapegoat for when we're late for work!
Brett Walters LOL “Yeah the level crossing was closed”. But i hardly doubt that a local company will fall for that excuse. Being late is never good anyway, no matter what the cause is. One time.. ok.. two times.. you’ll have a bad position in the company.. three times.. you’re out, doesn’t matter why.
Yup, seems useless already. Close it, but find other way around, obviously
Richard van Pukkem What if you're late three times in... three years? What if you have a sick child? What if you're a medical consultant and have to travel far?
A three strikes rule would be ridiculous. I had a job where I had a very long commute and it was hard to make it on time without getting up ridiculously early... but I was in an office and almost never had calls to take, so it was fine and I stated late.
You wouldn't last as a boss, I think.
GOOD NEWS
they have now
As I read other comments, it seems this crossing needs to be closed, since it is a safety matter if it is used, plus long wait times to cross. Also, if this is a popular crossing, maybe a bridge over the tracks could be built. But, I see that a tunnel is close to this road, so why don't they direct people to that way, and close this location.
From what other people have been saying in the comments, it seems this crossing was closed in 2018
Damn, I've seen a pretty bad railway crossing just east of Sapporo Station that was more closed than open, but at least that was open for 5-10 seconds every few minutes. This is kind of ridiculous, you wonder why they even bother keeping it open. I mean, when you need an agent to keep an eye on it all the time, something is really, really wrong.
I think I know this railway crossing, I filmed here in 2014 winter. Near Naebo station ...www.google.fr/maps/place/Sapporo+Station/@43.0673213,141.369828,127a,35y,356.26h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x5f0b2974d2c3f903:0xa5e2b18cdd4a47a5!8m2!3d43.0686606!4d141.3507552
5-10 sec every few minutes is not that bad, seen worse pedestrian traffic lights in my country
Looks busier than the Northeast Corridor Line here in the U.S.A. That's really neat!!
And it's mostly narrow gauge ( 3 foot 6 inch) track
Well.. I curse if I'm held up 2-3 minutes @ my local 2 track Xing! Not anymore after seeing this😂
nice video
Great for train spotters
Spongebob narrator: "One eternity later..."
I read where this crossing is slated for closing in 2018, but in the meantime, they should give the crossing agent the ability to hold local (stopping) traffic at the station toward the right, for a minute or two , to allow the crossing to open.
Wouldn't work for faster non-stop trains, though.
Paul Cashman Would imagine there are too many special expresses and rapids running through the crossing to even try some time-based right-of-way solutions
I am surprised the crossing hasn't been closed.
Isochest december of 2018 the goverment say
"How often does the train come by?"
"So often you won't notice it"
"So how do you get across?"
"You don't."
Wait what?! There is a pedestrian bridge and they prefer to wait? Lazy!!!!!
Anyone notice the 7-11 sign?
Etamni Etamni Why shouldn't it? It's a japanese company after all.
7-11 is the amount of minutes and seconds a day the crossing is actually open for!
I did
Thank you very much! My kid loves the trains and railroad and really enjoyed this vid.
And finally i understand, because I've been passing here for many days some weeks ago, thank you for publish this video 😁
I’m assuming that given the orderly, adherence to rules and social norms, the penalty for crossing the railroad tracks after alarms have gone off is significant. I don’t see much in the way of tagging or graffiti. Japanese people take actions that bring shame to the family as grave matters. I respect these things, America have you no shame, promoting freedom of the individual to do anything they wish?
Father: Why were you late for school again son?
Son: Well dad, i couldn't get over the railway as the barriers were down.
Wow ! This is really incredible ! Excelent images . Thank you .
This crossing does not have any motion detectors
That footbridge is a great place for railfanning. It's only a few minutes' walk from Shin-Osaka.
Hello from USA I see this railway crossing is quite busy and yet it's cool to lots of these trains pass by on rush hour
I agree with others who say it seems pointless to have a crossing here. It pretty much
seems a waste of resources, a constant irritant, a source of negative influence and a
general antagonistic experience all the way around. I am frustrated just watching the video!
Good to see they at least made a bridge for bicycles and pedestrians.
I love the english annotations. Cool use of language.
Great video! Liked and subscribed to your channel 👍🏽
Greetings from Finland,
Juha 😊
Boss: why are you late?
I was stuck at a crossing for 40 minutes
Boss: your fired
Ah, this remains me of an old level crossing in Gąsin, in Pruszków, main railway to Warsaw from west. Someone has thought that it would be a great idea to have a crossing in the train yard, where you can have trains going in one direction stopping just right in front of you then going backwards as they shuffle train cars around... Plus there are regular trains going all the time on 4 tracks, two for local, two for long distance trains
I can sit down there and watch for a whole day.
23:13 Future ICMm?
Narrow gauge ICMm
I thought 20-25 minutes in my city already long enough, but 40 minutes?? heaven for railfan, though.
It is strange, I worked on the railway over here in Britain for nearly 50 years . If we said the worst rail crossing . We would immediately be thinking of the one , that the public risked their lives daily by abusing it !
Look at how heavily used it is. In Charlotte, NC in the USA, there are a couple railroad crossings that are closed for upwards of 2 hours whilst waiting on the switcher.
Oh nice video and 40 minutes blimey
Why don't JR close the crossing between 7am till 9am & 4pm till 6pm Monday too Friday easy fix.
When i traveled to japan i went there and decided to use a stopwatch to calculate the time from when the barriers started closing to when it starts opening. It was 48 minutes 56 seconds.
I guess this is the crossing where you always see the trains crashing into Godzilla's foot.
That person with the umbrella is crazy, why didn't they just use the bridge?
Welcome to the crossing of "patience" ha ha ha
Good video, I watched it until the end :)
8 tracks? In america, we have a 12 track wide crossing and yet it dosen't take anywhere as long as dis.
WOW!!!! Amazing!!!
Perhaps this crossing is mainly for emergency vehicles to pass through if there is a serious accident.
There's a lot of occasions where they could've opened it, I guess it was just easier to keep it closed in those cases
Nice Video, But wow that van is tiny. 10:16
George Henshaw It's actually a kei car :)
Wappaukka A cool.
I think the right way to change this would be to make multiple crossings but with 2 tracks per section, so people can stand in the middle of two pairs of tracks.
I assume most people would drive past on their way to a longer (but quicker) route, and if it happens to be open then they use it and reduce their commute by 5 or 10 minutes. Surely no one would plan this as their primary route.
I'm stubborn and inquisitive. I found this drive on Google maps, which was not so hard. It turns out that in a straight line 300 meters further is an underground tunnel, to which the access is 570 meters by public roads. That explains why there is no viaduct or... traffic. It should be noted, there is a flyover literally next to crossing for walkers and cyclists. This is not the result of the bad organization of street traffic, rather lack of needs.
It does not change the fact that the video is excellent, with a little hint of a mockery in English style.
Congratulations!
Nice video!
Unfortunately but good news for people who live in Japan this level crossing does not exist anymore the last time it was on Google maps was October 2018
Would be fun if they placed a countdown to barrier opening for the vehicles (since they have the timetable to predict that anyway). But they are getting rid of it next year anyway.
Hmm...LED display with information about estimated time of waiting can be quite useful here.
Crossing goes down, crossing goes up. -Europe and America
Crossing goes down, crossing doesn't go up. -Japan
...Maybe they should consider making a tunnel or a bridge for that junction...
This is why in some places where a railroad and regular road intersects, they would go on a bridge over the other.
I believe that if you use the sky walk to the left, you probably get to your destination much faster (provided you aren’t driving, else you’re screwed).
Sometimes I wonder, why doesn't Japan have trains like Sydney (double deckers)..?
They do the first prototype was in 1904. Some series of Shinkansen have them too, sub article here at Wiki.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilevel_rail_car#Japan
Why am I finding all this AFTER I leave Japan...
I bet there were a few times where after the train passed, there is a good minute or two to have the gate open up.
"Impossible Mission"
Wild! Are the gates automatic or controlled by a gate-person?
Why don't they make a Tunnel under for Car's and truck's so they can drive under..
There is a tunnel 200 meters down the road. In the Netherlands we would close the crossroad, open the bridge next to it officially for cyclists and the officer (agent) would permanently lose his job.
Josbert Lonnee Same thing would happen in the USA.
And because the officer cannot find any other job he voted for Trump, right?
This is where you can count how long is your lunch break.
I love the sound of trains and the bell of Japanese overpasses. There is another busy overpass near the Kita Shinagawa station in Tokyo, on the street leading to the old Tokaido way (and near the hostel). Some pedestrians who go to work rush through eventhough the barriers come down. Better to go around to reach Shinagawa station from the other side.
It's better to put up signs that there's a tunnel and pedestrian bridge nearby. You could even let the guy 'monitoring' tell that to the waiting people. It'll give him something more exciting to do.
I have been in this problem when I 5 or 6 in the outskirts of Chicago
They should have a snack shop close by while they wait 40 min for it to open
they may aswell closed the crossing and just fence it off entirely.
22:07 when the bars finally open but not for long
ItsFinRocket 20 seconds. No problem for Usain Bolt LOL😀
This is really worst barriers didn't rise up when train are already gone and waiting for another train although...
Driver: A train, ugh.
[Gates go down]
[Train passes through]
Driver: Good, it's gone.
Crossing: BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
[Another train comes through]
Ect.
Just when I think "why is the gate still down" another train appears.
Tokorozawa station on Seibu Ikebukuro line can be pretty ridiculous.
well at least you are not in germany. one time the regional express was 45 minutes too late.
You say WORST, but I love this.
Interesting level railway crossing. Is this particular crossing one of the only worldwide examples of a huge railway crossing or are there any other examples like this around the world.