The Odakyu Odawara Line carries one-and-a-half million people across Tokyo every single day. It starts in the suburbs southwest of the city and stretches 82.5 kilometres to Shinjuku, the planet’s busiest train station, which holds a Guinness World Record for the average number of daily passengers: 3.64 million. Photographer Michael Wolf first discovered the sheer scale of that phenomenon in 1995,
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