Welcome to The Upgrade, By The Way’s series on travel hacks and hot takes. See how to submit here. The revelation began, like so many do, in the bathroom — the women’s room at the Tokyo ...

The maps run on 47-inch LCD panels that have been installed at Ginza station in the heart of the city. Three subway lines intersect at the station, which serves around 275,000 people each day heading ...

Complex map . Tokyo Metro's nine lines -- named Ginza, Marunouchi, Hibiya, Tozai, Chiyoda, Yurakucho, Hanzomon, Namboku and Fukutoshin -- stretch for a total of 195 kilometres.