Survey reveals rudest behavior seen on trains and at stations this year

Personally, I'd put booger mining ahead of applying makeup for rude behavior. So disgusting.

Why does no one mention the pushing and shoving as people fight to get a seat, the elbow checks from people being passive agressive, the people who block the doors or who refuse to move into the carriage when others get on, and the people rushing on the platform who don't say "excuse me" and bump past you? Above all, why does groping not make the top ten, when it happens all the time?

Who cares if someone puts on eye makeup, or talks on the phone? How does that effect anyone else? I don't get it. It's like they took the ten most innocuous behaviors as if to say "See, even when Japanese people are rude, they're not so very rude." Come on, now. This is not an honest list if groping is not mentioned at all.

Girl in Tokyo, I totally agree. Perhaps the pushing and other physically disruptive behavior is covered by the “getting on and off the train” category but it is far more annoying than someone putting on makeup on a train which you can simply ignore if you don’t like. You can’t ignore someone smashing into you without apology or grabbing a handful of your flesh or jamming a mobile phone into your back because they can’t bare to be off the grid for 7 minutes. The unnecessary pushing in an obviously already orderly and moving embarkment or disembarkment line would top my list because it is simply so pointlessly aggravating.

People who don't remove their backpacks.

Farters, coughers, and sneezers.

girl_in_tokyo I think #2 mentions what you talk about. and about grouping being rude.....well that is not a rude behavior...its an illegal one. Thats why stabbing someone on the train is also not on the list.

and yes people are talking about the pushing...but what other country handles just and many people and do it better?? and there is a positive to such a benign action such as applying makeup as considered rude....maybe there is much less chance of society seeing truly rude behavior become common place.

As with any mass transit system from buses to aircraft, there is never enough realistic room built in.

As for manners in general, they are almost non-existent in America. I prefer Japanese manners to American manners any day of the week.

A new favorite one that needs to stop is wearing a fat backpack backwards for the sole purpose of carving out your own space in order to hold your smartphone on top of the backpack so you can play games or whatever on the phone.  Removal of backpacks and holding them while on the train used to be taught as the good manner practice.

Picking the nose and eating it. Every single morning on the subway.

not waiting for people on the train to get off before boarding.

The ones who try that when I get off always learn a lesson. They can't board before I get off unless they go all the way around me which requires that no one else is getting off on the other side of the door, as two people cannot pass through each other.

This is why cars are so much better than trains

Unless your commute is the very common hour and a half or more by train, in which case your commute by car would probably be over 2 hours, and a lot more expensive.

Well, if any country I lived in Europe and US would have the level of crowding in the morning trains, I think there would be daily casualties. After moving to Japan, I commuted by train for about one month, then I bought a moped, and never stepped again into that crazy mess. The moped was upgraded to a motorcycle, then to a bigger and faster motorcycle, and recently car

Yeah, well, some of us can't afford a car, or don't want to pay for fuel and taxes, or don't have anywhere to park a car, or want to minimize our carbon footprint, etc.

I am guessing that the reason that Girl_in_Tokyo's justified gripes do not come up in the survey is that it was a check/tick-the-box exercise. That would guarantee the near-uniformity of replies from Kansai and Kanto. Perhaps the train companies wished to limit the complaints to things they can appeal to the good nature of the public to improve.

Maybe there was an opinion box at the bottom which did not get reflected in this article(?)

Public transport is great in general, but there is much you have to learn to put up with.

It would be nice if people stop watching porn on their phones in the morning.

Its rather distracting.

Only increase in reports. not in actual incidents.

Removing shoes and socks and picking at dead skin on feet to the extent a little hill of dead skin is left on the floor of the carriage.

Could not believe my eyes.

girl_in_tokyo I think #2 mentions what you talk about. and about grouping being rude.....well that is not a rude behavior...its an illegal one. Thats why stabbing someone on the train is also not on the list.

No sir, stabbing is not on the list because it is not a daily occurrence. Unlike sexual assault.

My vote would be for train companies not running enough trains at rush hour, resulting in everyone being crushed in overcrowded train cars.

Oh wait, this list is only meant to focus our annoyance on our fellow passengers and not on the people actually running things. Sorry, my mistake for bringing that up.

People getting on/off the train whilst glued to their phones. Can they not put their phones down for 10 seconds?

Not brushing one's teeth and yawning without covering one's mouth should be on the list. I'm now actually fearful of a packed train because of the chance of being breathed on.

The desperation to do anything to get a seat, along with picking one's nose/ear, observing it, before eating/dropping it, should also be on the list.

Horrific.

In the front seat, being able to smell the bad breath of the (usually) guy behind is gross...