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In a survey of Kanto residents in their 50s and 60s, a ranking was released of Yamanote Line stations “with no plans to get off,” and the #2 spot went to Tabata with 12.1% of the vote. Tabata is served by both the JR Yamanote Line and the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line, giving it direct access to major hub stations like Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Tokyo — but the reason it ranks so high is that there’s simply little demand for transferring there. On the 5ch thread, many posters noted that stations like Tabata and Uguisudani, which — unlike neighboring Komagome, Sugamo, Otsuka, and Nippori — see little transfer traffic, naturally get passed over. Others countered that Nippori has shed its “minor station” image thanks to a wave of tower-condo redevelopment, making for a mixed picture station by station.
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●No. 2: Tabata
Coming in at #2 with 12.1% of the vote was “Tabata.” Located in Tokyo’s Kita Ward, Tabata Station is served by both the JR Yamanote Line and the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line. It offers excellent access to Tokyo’s major business and commercial districts — taking the Yamanote Line gets you to terminal stations like Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Tokyo Station without a single transfer. Another plus is that the Keihin-Tohoku Line runs parallel to the Yamanote Line, so you can pick whichever suits your commute time or destination.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Mejiro's got Gakushuin and Japan Women's University,
so it's packed with young women
Yeah, that's the station where the makeup smell really hits you
Just the 23 wards would've been enough
Within the 23 wards you can get by on just buses and the subway
Big stations are a pain — all that transferring and walking from the gates to the platform
Also weird how close Nippori and Nishi-Nippori are to each other
Tabata does have some, actually
depends on switching between the Keihin-Tohoku Line and Yamanote Line for your destination
Uguisudani has zero, though
Nishi-Nippori = the station that exists for transferring to the Chiyoda Line
Nah, wouldn't it be Komagome or Nippori?
Nippori gets plenty of boarding/alighting demand from people heading to Narita
The Joban Line stops there too, and it became the terminal for the Nippori-Toneri Liner, so it developed fast
Tower condos are going up all around now — it's shed its minor-station image
Nippori's great
Good access, and I like the vibe around there
I'm also into Yanaka on the other side
Maybe use this as a chance to finally get off there
Went to a driving school in Osaki once — haven't gotten off there since
For me Yoyogi means the drop-in mahjong parlor that got me through my ronin year (a year spent studying for university re-entrance exams)
Yoyogi's close to Odakyu's Minami-Shinjuku Station, so I sometimes get off there to transfer
Ikebukuro – Shinjuku – Shibuya – Shinagawa – Tokyo – Ueno – Ikebukuro
something like that, maybe
Just make good use of the Shonan-Shinjuku Line and the Ueno-Tokyo Line
If you're in a hurry just take the Metro
it's not like downtown Tokyo forces you to go around the loop to get anywhere
The Yamanote Line's a loop line, after all
for stations that overlap with the Keihin-Tohoku Line, that line's basically already the express
Kokubunji, Tsukishima, Nishi-Nippori
It was famous for getting kids into Kaisei, so wasn't it Nishi-Nippori?
run it slow like a conveyor-belt sushi and there'd be no wait time
And if you run inside the car too, you'd get there even faster
That kind of makes sense… or does it?
Tsu Station: "Ignored again…" (its name is just one character — also technically a palindrome)
Tabata, town of men who know the difference (riffing on an old coffee-ad slogan)
https://www.nippon.com/ja/ncommon/contents/japan-topics/2686193/2686193.jpg
I never ride that stretch to begin with
Uguisudani rings a bell way more
Wasn't there a railroad crossing around there? Feel like I heard the one in Ikebukuro got removed
That's Light Shokai.
An old established maker of small golf accessories.
Background and Discussion Points
Rankings like this one are reader-poll features asking people to pick “stations that are X,” so as the vote percentages suggest, the results reflect not absolute popularity or unpopularity but largely passive choices — “I don’t get off there because I have no reason to.” That came through in the thread’s reactions too: several posters pointed out that the structural reason Tabata and Uguisudani made the list is a lack of transfer demand, unlike Tabata’s parallel Keihin-Tohoku Line or neighboring Nippori, which connects to the Joban Line and the Nippori-Toneri Liner. Nippori itself, meanwhile, has seen a wave of tower-condo development in recent redevelopment, with some commenters saying it has “shed its minor-station status” — so even within the same northeastern area, stations get very different reputations. Note that the source article doesn’t reveal which station took the #1 spot, and it wasn’t named in the thread either, so this article doesn’t address it. It’s worth remembering the ranking measures “stations with no reason to get off,” not “bad stations.”
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[Surveyed: Kanto Residents in Their 50s and 60s] Ranking of “Yamanote Line Stations You Never Plan to Get Off At”! #2 Is “Tabata” — What’s #1?“
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