Manners When Using Trains

Please follow manners so that everyone can take trains comfortably.

Manners in the train

Use of a cell phone

Use of a cell phone

Please set your phone in silent mode and do not talk on the phone in the train. Also, turn off your phone when you are around priority seats when the train is crowded.

Priority seats

Priority seats

The seats with this sticker are priority seats for elderly and physically disabled people, those who are pregnant, or with infants or small children. Please offer these seats to them.

Act of making noise in the train

Act of making noise in the train

Please refrain from acts such as making noise in a loud voice in the train.

Luggage in the train

Luggage in the train

If you have big luggage such as a backpack or a suitcase when the train is crowded, please put them on a rack or hold in front of you to avoid blocking the isle or touching other passengers around you.

Enter into a crew's room

Never enter into a crew's room as there are important apparatus which may cause danger if touched.

No smoking

Smoking is prohibited in the train. Please refrain from smoking, as it may annoy other passengers around you and cause a fire.

Offer your seat to someone

Please narrow sitting spaces so that more passengers may have a seat. As a reference for a sitting space, please use the color or the hollow of the seat.

Manners when seated

Please do not cross or stretch out your legs when seated.

Manners for reading newspapers / magazines while standing

When the train is crowded, please do not open newspapers or magazines wide to avoid touching other passengers around you.

Sound leaking from headphones

Please adjust the volume of the music and so on properly to avoid sounds from leaking from your headphones.

Cleaning of the train

Please do not leave your newspaper or magazine which you have finished reading, or empty can, bottle, and plastic bottle which you have finished drinking in the train.

Throw things

Please do not throw or drop things from windows.

Act of violence

Never conduct an act of violence against other passengers, station staff, crews, or the like for any reason.

Acts of molestation / peeping photos and films

Acts such as Molestation and peeping photos / films are strictly prohibited.

Use of a stroller

Please make sure that your stroller does not fall down, block the isle or touch other passengers.

Get sucked in a shutter case

Please do not touch train doors, or you may be injured by getting sucked in a shutter case when they open. Especially take care of your children.

Sit in the isle or a gangway of the train

Please do not sit around the doors or in a gangway of the train.

Manners at the station and a platform

Operation of a smartphone

Operation of a smartphone

Please do not operate your smartphone while walking.

Line up for the train

Line up for the train

Please wait in line on the platform and get on the train in order.

Rush to get on a train

Rush to get on a train

Never rush to get on a train, as it is very dangerous.

Running ride

Environment beautification

If you have a newspaper or a magazine which you have finished reading, or an empty can, bottle, and plastic bottle which you have finished drinking, please throw them away in a trash box in the station, or take them home.

Sit at a platform

Please do not sit at a platform.

Order of getting on / off a train

Please let people get off first before you get on a train, make a wide space in front of the doors to let them get off, then get on in order, and do not stop around the doors and keep going to the middle of the compartment.

No smoking

Smoking is prohibited in the station.

Luggage in the train

If you have big luggage such as a backpack or a suitcase, please make sure that they do not block the isle or touch other passengers around you, and that they are not pinched by the doors when you get on a train.

Act of violence

Never conduct an act of violence against other passengers, station staff, crews, or the like for any reason.

Acts of molestation / peeping photos and films

Acts such as Molestation and peeping photos / films are strictly prohibited.

Use of a stroller

Please make sure that your stroller does not fall down, block the isle or touch other passengers.

Stay off the tracks

Please stay off the tracks.