Train manners

If you didn't know, I am quite fond of everything to do with the railway networks in Japan, and one thing which I miss are these ad campaigns that the Tokyo subway companies have been running since (it seems) forever, on train manners - that is, expected behaviour of the passengers.

This year's posters themes revolve around super-kawaii animals to illustrate things one should and shouldn't do on the trains.

More posters from this year and last year can be found on the Tokyo Metro website

But interestingly, I discovered this blog post which has a bunch of posters which were used in the late 70s and early 80s, and they are incredibly fascinating. The influence of Western culture is definitely there, andvit's interesting to see how the Japanese spin it to make it "Japanese"

Check it out here on Pink Tentacle