At Shinjuku Station, even I, a Japanese person, get lost 🧭

I came to Shinjuku.

This is some trivia about Shinjuku Station.

Shinjuku Station is a station in Tokyo.

Maybe it is the station with the most users in Japan?

Sorry, I do not know at all.

(I had AI look this part up.)

• Shinjuku Station is not just the busiest in Japan, it is the busiest station in the world.
• If you add JR, private railways, and the subway together, about 3.5 million people get on and off every day.
• It is also in the Guinness World Records as "the busiest station in the world."

The fun trivia about Shinjuku Station is that it is too big and too complicated.

When you go to Shinjuku Station for the first time, everyone will surely get lost.

Even I, a Japanese person, get very lost.

If you ask which map app is the most reliable in Japan, it is probably Google Maps.

It is the map app Japanese people use the most, and it gives very correct information about Japan.

But even with Google Maps, Shinjuku Station is difficult.

It is long, the buildings are tall, and it is also underground.

So you really do not know where the pin is.

That is the hard part, but also the fun part.

What I remember from TikTok is that Shinjuku Station has so many exits and is so complicated that even the official staff cannot count how many exits there are.

It seems that Shinjuku Station has exits in so many places.

(I had AI look this part up too.)

Depending on how you count, the answers were really all different: "about 80," "more than 100," "about 200."

It seems it changes depending on whether you include the exits of the underground shopping areas.

"Nobody can count them" does not seem to be a lie.