Comments on: Vast majority know how to walk home from work http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/04/09/vast-majority-know-how-to-walk-home-from-work/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: After the earthquake 1 in 4 Tokyoites didn’t make it home | 世論 What Japan Thinks http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/04/09/vast-majority-know-how-to-walk-home-from-work/comment-page-1/#comment-244434 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:17:20 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3903#comment-244434 [...] an earlier survey from iShare, I did express surprise that about 85% claimed they could walk home, but this survey does seem to back up that [...]

]]> By: DerekNobuyuki Wallace http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/04/09/vast-majority-know-how-to-walk-home-from-work/comment-page-1/#comment-244422 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:29:17 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3903#comment-244422 On March 11th, hundreds of thousands of people walked home (if not more) from Tokyo.
I’ve met a lot of people who had to walk more than 20km to Chiba.
I luckily only had to walk 8km home.

I was glad to have a smartphone so it was easy to navigate using smartphone maps or smartphone navigation (for example Google Navigation for Android)
BUT, I don’t think people always need to know the exact route home since the road signage in major cities is pretty adequate.

I’m sure it would be easier to get around Osaka than Tokyo for me personally
but as long as you know place names and their relative geography, that is likely sufficient to get you to your home station (and people should be able to get home from there)

]]> By: PeterD http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/04/09/vast-majority-know-how-to-walk-home-from-work/comment-page-1/#comment-244417 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:30:18 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3903#comment-244417 I suspect the number may be a bit higher now for those in Northern Japan than it would have been a few months ago…

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