The number of “timetables” on station platforms has decreased. Timetables are said to have changed the Japanese sense of time since the opening of railways approximately 150 years ago.
The impetus was the deterioration of business conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic. The reason behind this change is that with the spread of smartphones, there has been an increase in the number of people who check train timetables on their own or look up train times on transfer search sites. On the Seibu Railway, which runs through Tokyo, 90% of stations have already removed timetables.