manners on the train

6 10 2008

I get a real kick out of catching the metro in Tokyo.  This last 6 months or so, the metro has been advertising to improve people’s manners on the trains.  Not that its working, but I love the ad campaign.  The first few were always headed ‘Do it at home’ and then shows a picture of people doing actions that aren’t appropriate on the train.  I think I really got a kick out of it when the makeup one was released – I have a friend who is always rushing and doing her makeup on the train.  But to date my favorite has to be the following –

new posters are released every month, and the rest can be found here – http://www.tokyometro.jp/anshin/kaiteki/poster/index.html