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Invisible Shinjuku Grand Terminal: Lost in the World’s Busiest Station
By (author) Marco Amati, By (author) Brendan Barrett, By (author) Izumi Kuroishi
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This book explores the world's busiest, most complex train station: Shinjuku Grand Terminal. Through a close reading of the station as a lived experience, the authors combine interviews, observations, and historical and media research to reveal Shinjuku as a dense web of relationships, practices, and meanings. The chapters move from the experiential to the analytical, covering “getting lost†as a methodology, reflections on urban fluidity, and examination of the station’s relationship with metropolitan Tokyo. The station’s presence in film and popular culture is elaborated alongside critical discussions of signage, governance, and homelessness. Interspersed throughout are spatially linked short observational microchapters, offering readers an immersive sense of the station’s rhythms. Infrastructure on this scale is designed to function seamlessly, often eluding critical scrutiny. Yet within Shinjuku’s extensive underground, platforms and malls, the authors uncover a complex array of cultures and interactions that have shaped, and continue to influence, the station’s trajectory. The authors argue that indepth examination of Shinjuku Station not only deepens our understanding of Japanese urbanism, but also offers valuable insights into the operation of major transit hubs around the world. As both a guide and a provocation, the book concludes by reflecting on the future of such nodal interchanges in rapidly evolving cities.
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Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published date | 13 Mar 2027
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 213
Dimensions | 210 x 148 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-3-0324-2031-2
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BISAC | social science / sociology / urban
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