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Category: Japan • Pictures
Posted on: May 19, 2008 9:49 AM, by Chad Orzel

Mike Hoye rides the Tokyo subway and takes a picture of it:

subway_hoye.jpg

Here's my view of the same scene (from this Flickr set):

subway_me.jpg

I really hope he was sitting down when he took that.

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# 1 | Jonathan | May 20, 2008 6:24 PM

At 1.93, this was my view on the underground in Beijing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonstraveladventures/448204813/

Frankly on a hot summer day when the train was packed it was pretty nice to have my head above the sweaty throngs!

# 2 | Mike Hoye | May 21, 2008 7:46 AM

No, I was indeed standing up.

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