The busiest station in the world according to Guinness, which records 2,704,703 passengers a day for 2022; adding up all the companies and interchanges, Japanese estimates come to around three and a half million. Five operators converge here (JR East, Keiō, Odakyū, Tokyo Metro and Toei) for a dozen lines, thirty-six platforms and more than two hundred exits.
ℹ️ The episode's platform 12 no longer exists under that number: on 18 March 2007, to widen the platforms of the Chūō Rapid Line, all platforms from 11 to 14 were renumbered by adding two. The inner-loop Yamanote Line towards Harajuku and Shibuya, which was 12, is now 14.
🚉 Shinjuku · in front of the station
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In the fifth episode the FBI agent Raye Penber follows Light into the station and boards the Yamanote with him. The platform is the inner-loop Yamanote one, towards Shibuya: at the time it was numbered 12.
Sources: youinjapan.net · mipon.org
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