Hankyu style seats in KCJ stations

[gibranalnn]

© Harry Ai Sunarto/KRL-Mania

 

The Communications Manager of KAI Commuter Jabodetabek said that these were 'adoptions' of those used by Japanese stations (perhaps only Hankyu used these), but people complained these "towel laundry sticks" ("jemuran handuk" in Indonesian) that they were unconfortable even for leaning!

 

Also KCJ eventually put these seats on busy stations on their network.

Edited June 9, 2016 by gibranalnn

[katoftw]

Lean on bars like this are used all over the world.  Commuters bottoms and thighs will get used to them in time.

[bikkuri bahn]

Hankyu uses these only at stations with very narrow platforms, such as Nakatsu or Kasuganomichi, where a conventional bench would be impractical. Otherwise, the standard station bench is this:

https://www.hankyu-hanshin.co.jp/csr/eco/activity/recycle/101.html#d005

 

Here is an installation of a lean bar, at Kasuganomichi Sta, on the Kobe line, note the narrow width of the platform:

http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/022/097/48/N000/000/015/137180621680613220268_20130614-87.jpg

Edited June 9, 2016 by bikkuri bahn

[velotrain]

Lean on bars like this are used all over the world.  Commuters bottoms and thighs will get used to them in time.

 

Not in this part of the world.

[cteno4]

I do remeber seeing them somewhere in the NYC metro area like a decade or more ago. It was the taller lean on type not sit and it was in a rather narrow area in some sort of transport wait area. I remeber being curious and going over and trying it out and it seemed useful, but not quite to my height requirement!

 

Jeff

[katoftw]

Not in this part of the world.

America is not the only place in the world. 

[railsquid]

I suspect that's why he said "in this part of the world".

 

There's a similar seating arrangement but made from wood on the Keio platform of Shimokitazawa station.

 

Meanwhile, in Berlin:

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UBahnsteig_Dahlemdorf.JPG

Edited June 9, 2016 by railsquid

[railsquid]

There's a similar seating arrangement but made from wood on the Keio platform of Shimokitazawa station.

 

Even visible on Street View:

https://goo.gl/maps/xbRo8F9wkVw

 

Only ones I recall seeing in the Kanto area, not that I've been paying special attention.

[Mudkip Orange]

Meanwhile, in Berlin:

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UBahnsteig_Dahlemdorf.JPG

 

Degenerate.

[velotrain]

Degenerate.

 

Prude

[bikkuri bahn]

Do sit down, the pain is exquisite.

[velotrain]

Do sit down, the pain is exquisite.

 

You must have a very low threshold ;-)

[railsquid]

It's why they call it... a Bikkuri Bahnhof.

 

FWIW I used that station as a student for many years...