Elevators are micro-cosmo of Japanese society
There's uniqueness, innovation and creativity
On the other hand
You see
Politeness manners and order
We stand on the left side of the escalator and people walk on the right
Japan escalators at the most orderly in the world
It's a unwritten rule to stand on the left
and allow people to climb on the right
The system works like clockwork
In Osaka 500 kilometers away
Things are unusually different
Osakans stand on the right and walk up the left
Cities have different etickets and styles
The Umeda sky building
It has the highest escalator in the world
It's suspended in the air on the 39th floor
Not far away from Osaka is Kyoto station
where tradition meets modern right at the arrival point
Kyoto stations escalator goes straight from the ground to the 11th floor
Like scaling a mountain
The summit is even outside
Coming down
You can scope the massiveness of Japan's second biggest building
Let's head to Yokohama near Tokyo
to check out this spiral escalator inside Japan's tallest building
The Landmark Tower
Spiral escalators were created right here in japan
and are now popping up in more cities around the world
This escalators is in central Tokyo
and it turns into a walk-a-later midway through
If it went faster
you could probably charge admission for a ride
Service comes in all sizes
Welcome to Kawasaki, just outside of Tokyo
It just took me 4.4 seconds to ride
Puchi-calator
Puchi meaning petit
Calator = Escalator
It's the world's smallest escalator
It's 83.4 centimeters high,
2 and a half feet, and only five stairs
When they constructed the tunnel from Kawasaki station to More's department store
They wanted to build an escalator all the way down to the ground floor
But realized that due to the layout the architect, they couldn't do it
So as a service to customers they decided to build just half of it
In japan service is of the highest quality
and even the smallest details are very important
It's little details like this that customers really notice
When you come to Japan respect the escalator
and remember which side to stand on
Enjoy the ride