Tokyo Metro's public-relations manager, Noboru Ishikawa, told Metro magazine in 2019 that avoiding delays is the subway system's no. 1 priority. All of the signs are in English and Japanese.

Every informational sign posted both in and outside of metro ... Two companies operate Tokyo's subway system. Tokyo Metro is private, while the Toei subways are run by the government.

Four other subway lines are run separately by the ... total state ownership to around 50 percent. People walk past signs for ...

A new subway line connecting central Tokyo with the capital's waterfront by the 2040s is being planned to meet the needs of commuters in these growing areas, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.

The Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday to preserve public memory of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

Plans are in the works to extend two Tokyo Metro subway lines, out of its network of 13, to relieve congestion in key areas and make it easier for tourists to travel around the capital. The last ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This video shows passengers boarding a subway train in Tokyo during rush hour. Despite the train looking overloaded, people keep squeezing in until there is almost ...

Victims and emergency personnel are seen in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo's Chuo Ward after the subway sarin nerve gas attack on March 20, 1995, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter.

Victims and emergency personnel are seen in the Tsukiji district of Tokyo's Chuo Ward after the subway sarin nerve gas attack on March 20, 1995, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter.