One last exit to Brooklyn but over 200 exits at Shinjuku Station

I had this crazy idea yesterday. To take the train. Yes, I’m like that these days, living on the edge fearlessly staring into the abyss...

Me: Going to Shinjuku.  On a train.

Anonymous: That is a problem.

Me: Why?

Anonymous: First you wont  know where to get off and second you will never get out.

Ok, so the consensus in Tokyo is that I am a special needs child who grew very tall but sadly had not developed a brain.

Laughable, I mastered the skill of riding that train. And it only took me a day.

"Junctions lead to new passages, and when creating junctions you should try to achieve a balance between creating passages that lead to dead ends, and creating passages that lead back into earlier passages of your maze”

This is what the architects of Shinjuku station had in mind.

North, South, East and West are too limited directions for navigating the maze of Shinjuku station so they have ingeniously come up with the New North, New South, New West, new everything that had previously existed.

It is always a happy surprise when you get from a platform to an exit. Or traverse from West to New South. Or New West to East. Or, let's face it, from just about anywhere to anywhere else. 

4 subway lines and 9 commuter lines operated by 6 companies, and used by over 3 million people a day.Hundreds of buildings are directly connected to the station via underground arcades and the station itself includes 4 major department stores. Most times can't quite tell whether you are in or out of the station, or weather you are above or below the ground level.

There is an absurdity called Shinjuku-Station-West-Exit Station. Not an exit - but a station. Cheers!