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  • Elevators are micro-cosmo of Japanese society

  • There's uniqueness, innovation and creativity

  • On the other hand

  • You see

  • Politeness manners and order

  • We stand on the left side of the escalator and people walk on the right

  • Japan escalators at the most orderly in the world

  • It's a unwritten rule to stand on the left

  • and allow people to climb on the right

  • The system works like clockwork

  • In Osaka 500 kilometers away

  • Things are unusually different

  • Osakans stand on the right and walk up the left

  • Cities have different etickets and styles

  • The Umeda sky building

  • It has the highest escalator in the world

  • It's suspended in the air on the 39th floor

  • Not far away from Osaka is Kyoto station

  • where tradition meets modern right at the arrival point

  • Kyoto stations escalator goes straight from the ground to the 11th floor

  • Like scaling a mountain

  • The summit is even outside

  • Coming down

  • You can scope the massiveness of Japan's second biggest building

  • Let's head to Yokohama near Tokyo

  • to check out this spiral escalator inside Japan's tallest building

  • The Landmark Tower

  • Spiral escalators were created right here in japan

  • and are now popping up in more cities around the world

  • This escalators is in central Tokyo

  • and it turns into a walk-a-later midway through

  • If it went faster

  • you could probably charge admission for a ride

  • Service comes in all sizes

  • Welcome to Kawasaki, just outside of Tokyo

  • It just took me 4.4 seconds to ride

  • Puchi-calator

  • Puchi meaning petit

  • Calator = Escalator

  • It's the world's smallest escalator

  • It's 83.4 centimeters high,

  • 2 and a half feet, and only five stairs

  • When they constructed the tunnel from Kawasaki station to More's department store

  • They wanted to build an escalator all the way down to the ground floor

  • But realized that due to the layout the architect, they couldn't do it

  • So as a service to customers they decided to build just half of it

  • In japan service is of the highest quality

  • and even the smallest details are very important

  • It's little details like this that customers really notice

  • When you come to Japan respect the escalator

  • and remember which side to stand on

  • Enjoy the ride

Elevators are micro-cosmo of Japanese society

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