Trains and Termini

tokyo-trains It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a good railway network, must be in want of a virtual animated train map. Yet, having once beheld the grandeur of Mini Tokyo 3D and the intricate labyrinth of the Shinjuku Station Indoor, one might reasonably despair of any further elegance in the art.Mr. Gregg Tavares, however, was of a different mind entirely. Reader, he married them.Gregg's creation, tokyo-trains, is a stunning web-based 3D visualization that fuses the macro city scale of Mini Tokyo 3D with the micro depth of the underground station architecture shown in the Shinjuku Station Indoor Map. While Mini Tokyo 3D gives us sweeping real-time vehicular movement across the capital, and the Shinjuku Station Indoor Map reveals the multi-layered underground maze of Japan’s busiest hub, tokyo-trains brings both concepts into a single interactive city-wide interactive map.This map renders trains gliding along the tracks of 147 different train lines,…