[HN Gopher] 3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
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3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
Author : brw
Score : 167 points
Date : 2023-12-27 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (satoshi7190.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (satoshi7190.github.io)
| brw wrote:
| Technical write-up (in Japanese) here:
| https://qiita.com/satoshi7190/items/23d192372877af75b283
| jareklupinski wrote:
| early 2010's, i land for the first time in Japan, with vague
| instructions to meet my AirBnB host "by the entrance to Shinjuku
| Station"
|
| story ended happily after finding a hotspot and sending an email,
| but this visualization makes that instruction seem even more
| hilarious in hindsight
|
| a pin pointing out a location using this map would be a perfect
| waypoint!
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| > early 2010's, i land for the first time in Japan, with vague
| instructions to meet my AirBnB host "by the entrance to
| Shinjuku Station"
|
| A famous and much easier one in Tokyo is to meet at the dog
| [1]. Now, granted, it's in Shibuya and not in Shinjuku.
|
| Darn do I miss Tokyo...
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
| Larrikin wrote:
| Shibuya station atleast vaguely makes sense, even after all
| the construction.
|
| I firmly believe that the only people who can truly navigate
| Shinjuku station, are people who work there and people who
| live there. Seems like no matter what, Google maps/Yahoo will
| tell you exit via b14 and every exit sign will helpfully
| guide you to North East, East, and all the exits a1 through
| a10.
|
| It's always easier to exit the station and then figure out
| your final destination, which can still be annoyingly hard.
| Klonoar wrote:
| A fun skill to have is knowing how to reliably navigate
| Shinjuku in the rain without ever seeing rain - purely by
| moving via the underground, since it connects pretty far
| (e.g Sanchome).
| nox100 wrote:
| the smart way to do it is to name an exit like Exit B5 or A12.
| The signs in the station, and Google Maps, will generally tell
| how to get to a specific exit. Or probably better would be a
| famous landmarks tho there aren't many to pick from in
| Shinjuku. A common one used to be "in front of the Alta
| building on the east exit" another still is "in front of the
| police station just outside the east exit
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Zoom in on shunjuku station with google maps. All those yellow
| boxes with letters and numbers are various exits/entrances. I
| wonder which one which entrance was meant as "the" entrance.
| I'm sure it was the one they use every day, but that wouldn't
| help a visitor. It's kinda surprising someone like an AirBnB
| host, who presumably has to communicate this with many
| travelers from many places, is so vague about it.
|
| If you're getting directions via google maps and you have to
| exit a subway station in Tokyo (and maybe some other cities),
| it will give you directions underground to the proper exit. It
| will even tell you which _subway car_ you should be on so you
| will be closest to the proper exit.
|
| https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shinjuku+Station/@35.69166...
| jonhohle wrote:
| In 2010 AirBnB would have been more novel, so maybe there
| wasn't the same expectation. I stayed on Seoul a few months
| ago and in addition to a specific entrance number, my host
| had made a YouTube video showing a first person walk from the
| subway exit to his place.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| yup my host profusely apologized and emailed me back with
| the specific exit and a line i could use to ask locals for
| directions, but when we met I felt he was almost
| disappointed that I didn't get that we were obviously to
| meet by the entrance closest to the road which led to the
| property (it was his apartment that he was renting out for
| the summer because his family goes somewhere north for the
| summer)
|
| obvious to someone who goes there every day yes, but not to
| a jet-lagged traveler visiting for the first time :)
|
| i enjoyed being in the first cohort of airbnb guests,
| quirks and all; felt more 'personable'
|
| but yea I also remember that being probably the last year I
| felt comfortable traveling somewhere without a mobile
| device constantly connected
| tkgally wrote:
| I moved to Japan in 1983, and for the first few years I lived
| and worked near Shinjuku Station and passed through it every
| day. I also spent most of my free time in the Shinjuku area and
| wandered around exploring a lot. It took a full year before I
| really knew the area and could find any entrance or tunnel
| without getting lost. The station has changed and grown a lot
| since, and acquiring that sense would take even longer today.
|
| As it happens, I will be going to Shinjuku later today for the
| first time in four years to meet an old friend for lunch. I
| spent some time online yesterday looking at photos and
| streetview of the area. My friend has been living in the Tokyo
| area as long as I have and used to go to Shinjuku a lot, too.
| But he doesn't use a smartphone and we're meeting on the south
| side of the station, which has changed a lot. So I prepared a
| four-page PDF with maps and pictures showing where we will
| meet, and I told my friend to print it out and bring it along.
| I hope we're able to find each other.
| makeitdouble wrote:
| I learned to never let people dictate rendez-vous points at
| landmarks or stations if I can.
|
| It never makes sense. If it's a landmark or sizeable train/bus
| station there must be a cafe or a park with notable features
| nearby. If it's in the middle of nowhere there will be a bench
| at an easy to describe place.
|
| Telling people to stand in wide and potentially crowded areas
| for a significant amount of time if they dare coming early is
| just cruel.
|
| PS: for people using Hachiko as a meeting place, there's a
| Starbucks right the other side of the crosswalk dammit.
| T-R wrote:
| Shinjuku station has also changed dramatically from all the
| construction over the last 10 or so years. I lived in Shinjuku
| (the ward; I was actually a few stations north on the Oedo
| line) in 2009/2010; was back there a few weeks ago and it was
| unrecognizeable. Right now, the whole area over by the
| Yodobashi Camera, and where they used to have the night bus
| pickup is all walled off under active construction (if they
| haven't finished already).
| tamimio wrote:
| Looks amazing!
|
| Off topic: I like how I understood the technical article below
| despite not knowing a single Japanese word, only by reading the
| code, would be interesting sometime in the future that people are
| using programming languages as a mean of universal communication!
| rtsil wrote:
| Assuming the code is written using English words. Here in
| France it's not rare to come across a codebase that uses French
| naming for variables and functions, or even a mix of English
| and French: void deleteCartes(Map[] cartes)
| clement_b wrote:
| are you vraiment sure?
| esrh wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| I also like these hand drawn 3d illustrations of stations:
| https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/x-ray-visio...
| tecleandor wrote:
| After visiting your link I've been looking for a while to see
| newer drawings from Tanaka, but they've lost the domain for
| their architecture studio site, and he has the same name than
| Godzilla's creator, so it took me a while but here's his
| updated studio site, where you can find more drawings on the
| "works" section.
|
| http://tassaa.html.xdomain.jp/index.html
| robin_reala wrote:
| You might also like a similar thing for London Underground
| stations from 2012: https://stations.aeracode.org/
| MyFirstSass wrote:
| Okay this is awesome!
|
| I feel like 3d visualisations are under utilised in general, for
| wayfinding, for organising stuff or files, revealing flows like
| here.
|
| It's like we're stuck in a 2d paradigm somehow, but everytime i
| see even rather simple visualizations like this, i'm reminded of
| 90's cybernetic future that never happened.
| immy wrote:
| Would love a library of these maps for places all over
| steveBK123 wrote:
| greatest train station in the world
| donkers wrote:
| I'm not able to rotate or manipulate the view except to zoom in
| and out on Chrome on a Mac, but I can rotate and do all kinds of
| fun stuff with this page with Safari on my iPhone. Am I just
| missing the keyboard commands to get this to work properly on a
| desktop?
| psygn89 wrote:
| I have a normal mice on my Mac and scroll wheel = zoom, right-
| click drag = rotate, left-click drag = pan
| zeusk wrote:
| they use mouse2 (right click) for rotation
| donkers wrote:
| Ahh, thanks! Somehow didn't think to try that instead of just
| clicking and dragging.
| aragonite wrote:
| Does shift+drag not work for rotating in your browser?
| pkdpic wrote:
| Reminds me of the beginning of ghost in the shell in all the
| right ways.
| GolDDranks wrote:
| Too bad it doesn't seem to include the railroad tracks and the
| staircases/escalators to the platforms, which are the most
| prominent features to people who use the station as passengers.
|
| I was able to make sense of the parts by looking at the
| surrounding road network, but without these, it's hard to make
| sense of.
| modeless wrote:
| Relatedly, I just started playing this game where the concept is
| you're lost in the corridors of a Japanese subway station looking
| for Exit 8. Very authentic feel.
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653790/The_Exit_8/
| chupapimunyenyo wrote:
| I love the concept of this game, very well thought and engaging
| jakeinspace wrote:
| I stayed at a capsule hotel just a block away from the station
| this summer, that was quite the experience. I was there for not
| even 3 full weeks but I think I'll feel nostalgic for Japan for
| the rest of my life, a strange and stunning country.
| jonplackett wrote:
| Went in 2014 for just a week. Still feel nostalgic.
|
| And still miss burnt miso ramen. Nowhere else in the world
| seems to do it.
| elymar wrote:
| Beautiful map!
| josteink wrote:
| I can believe this is an accurate 3D map, because I'm looking
| around, and just as I was in the real thing, I'm totally lost and
| confused again.
|
| This place has to be my nemesis when it comes to public transport
| :D
| _the_inflator wrote:
| Some sort of a Digital Twin, fascinating. Nice model to play
| around with.
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