2026/01/16 12:00With the timetable revision in March this year, JR companies will increase the number of Shinkansen trains on the Tohoku, Tokaido, and other lines. JR Central will increase the number of special Nozomi trains during peak travel times, bringing the number of trains between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka to a maximum of 13 per hour. While this will likely increase convenience for business trips and vacations, there are often discussions surrounding the Shinkansen about passenger manners and issues, such as not reclining seats properly or carrying large carry-on bags.On the Yomiuri Shimbun's user posting site, Hatsugen Komachi, a user named "Sobagon," who claims to have used a non-reserved seat on the Shinkansen, posted a topic with the ominous title, "I was forced to give up my non-reserved seat on the Shinkansen."The poster boarded the Shinkansen from the first station and secured a window seat in the unreserved section. The aisle seat next to her was empty. She then left her seat to go to the restroom, leaving her drink and jacket behind. When she returned, two elementary school-aged brothers who had boarded at the next station were sitting in the window and aisle seats. The poster insisted that they had secured their seats first, but the brothers wouldn't give up, so she ended up standing for over an hour.https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/otekomachi/20260115-GYT8T00073/
>>2856575If they don't want you to recline, they shouldn't give you the option.I'm so fucking sick of this shit. Remove the recline function on all transportation so people stop bitching on every flight/train.9 times out of 10 it's a child or tiny woman doing it anyway.
>>2856577The article is not able recline (which is the exclusive right of the passenger in front of you as it's their chair), it's about stealing non-reserved seats when you get up to pee
>>2856579>(which is the exclusive right of the passenger in front of you as it's their chair)If the site advertised you can work on the train and have a fold out tray for that purpose, and the reclining chair in front of you blocks your from that, then the person reclining is infringing on your exclusive right of being a passenger, who has bought a product with the reasonable expectation of using the product as advertised.
>>2856583NTA but what's the solution, am I supposed to first ask the person behind me if they're daijobu with me reclining my seat?
>>2856586Design flaw. Chairs should recline into your own space, not the person behind you, by moving the base of your chair forward. There should alwaysa protected area behind for the tray.
>>2856586Remove the recline feature.>just try to communicate awkwardly with the stranger/foreigner sitting behind you out of politeness (who will most likely nod their head yes but secretly hate you), bro!Just listen to yourself. This is fucking retarded and we've had to play along with this game for decades. There shouldn't be any ambiguity when people are forced to sit in the same seat for sometimes 12+ hours at a time.
>>2856583On shinkansen, there is a class of service where that is advertised, S Work seats have a divider in the middle seat, and video calls are explicitly allowed. Nothing else suggests you have the right to use the table
>>2856575Thank you for your service PFC Martinez, you can go back to toilet scrubbing now.
>>2856746Do Japs really?
>>2856575>>2855970Sick of this board being full of weebshit
