Manners on trains and platforms

Phones

• Set your phone to silent mode (マナーモード) and do not talk on the phone in the car. [1]
• Near the priority seats, switch your phone off when the car is crowded (when passengers are touching each other). [1]

Priority seats

• Every Tokyo Metro car has priority seats (優先席). Give them up for older people, people with disabilities or internal conditions, people with small children and pregnant women. [1]

On the platform and when boarding

• Line up in an orderly queue while you wait for the train. [2]
• Once on board, don't stop by the door: move further into the car. [2]
• On escalators, hold the handrail and stand still rather than walking. [1]

Bags

• Wear your backpack on your front inside the car. [2]
• Bags too big for the overhead rack go in a luggage area or somewhere they don't block other passengers. [3]

Talking, eating and rubbish

• Keep conversations quiet, and if you eat or drink, think of the people around you. [2]
• Take any rubbish from the train home with you. [1]

Women-only cars (女性専用車)

• Women-only cars are also open to children of primary-school age and younger, and to people with disabilities and their carers. Look for the sticker on the platform and the car windows. [4]
• Tokyo area, JR East: women-only cars run on weekday mornings on these lines (the Saikyo line also late at night). Example: Saikyo line toward Osaki, trains leaving Shinjuku 7:30–9:40, car 10. [5]
• Osaka Metro: on the Midosuji line, car 6 is women-only all day on weekdays. [6]
• On the Tanimachi line it is car 3, from the first train until 9:00 on weekdays. [6]
• JR West: on Osaka-area commuter lines (Osaka Loop, JR Kyoto, JR Kobe, JR Takarazuka, Gakkentoshi, Hanwa, Yamatoji and others) the women-only car runs every day, from the first train to the last. [7]

Applies to

Tokyo Metro, JR East (East Japan Railway Company), JR West (West Japan Railway Company), Osaka Metro