https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw Chapter 31: Population Density in Japan: Life in a Crowded Country en-us 2016-04-19 18:58:03 UTC 2016-04-19 18:55:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/monkey.jpg 20priesn https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw/wish/106630788 Overcrowding has a big effect on the transportation in Tokyo.The average commute time in Tokyo is an hour and a half a day.The japanese have adapted to a busy commute by things like underground subways that link each part of the cittie.These subways and underground cars run every minute.Rush hour is an amazing sight.Workers that wear white gloves shove as many passengers in the subway as it can hold before the doors close.Japanese have developed some of the worlds fastest trains called "bullet trains". These trains travel up to 180 mph.Despite the excellent public transportation system, many japanese have the their own cars and love to drive.As car ownership has increased the last 5 years traffic has been getting worse and worse.Parking is so scarce that the cittie has strict parking limmits.You cant own a car unless you can prove thayt you have a place to park it.Tokyo has built highrise parking garages that look like gian cubbies and have elevators that bring your car up and put it in a spot











]]> 2016-04-19 18:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw/wish/106630788 20priesn https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw/wish/106630789 Housing in a dense population can be difficult.In japan flat land for building can be scarce due to that Japans land is 3/4 mountains.Houses are flatter and smaller and they have to be earthquake safe becuase Tokyo is on a marjor fualt line.Most families live in appartments no bigger than a family room in an american house.Japinese didnt always crowd into small apartments about 50 years ago Japan was largley rural.Most people lived in their own homes that were on a farm. All extended family used to live under one roof to.This pattern began to change in the 1950's. Many people left the farms to go to school in the cittie.Today many Japinese families live with just parents and children.Japinse have found clever ways to make space for living space such as using one room for more than one purpose.At bedtime,mattreses called futons are taken from closets and spread on the floor or living rooms to sleep on.They aslo make space by hving smaller aplliences like smaller stoves and ovens.Lifes crowded after death to because there is no room for semetaries so the bodies are creaminated.]]> 2016-04-19 18:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw/wish/106630789 20priesn https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw/wish/106630790 Tokyo is one of the world's most crowded cities.Tokyo is the capital of Japan. Japan's population density is 10X the United States population.]]> 2016-04-19 17:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20priesn/z029e3rwmbcw/wish/106630790