japan’s miracle workers 🇯🇵🧹
This job was once considered dirty and demeaning for washed up old people until a massive reform in 2005 that instilled pride and appreciation. This is the bullet train cleaning crew. You can watch the magic happen at Tokyo station. 22 cleaners bow at bullet trains entering the station then only have 7 minutes to clean a 1000 seat train. That’s equivalent to six Boeing 737 planes. When they’re done cleaning, passengers have 3 minutes to get onto the train. Custodians scurry around the station cleaning every surface but somehow never get in the way of travelers. Hidden in plain sight to the cleaners come and go through these tiny side doors to sort trash and refill supplies. Their quarters are right below our feet under the station platform and next to the train tracks. At the start of their shifts, the crew goes through warm-up exercises, encouraging chants, and confirms their assigned work roles. They redefined cleaning the train at Shinkansen theater and only reported positive feedback to boost morale. Their work is now known as the 7 minutes miracle. [Music]
so appreciative of cleaning jobs everywhere ❤️🙏 #japantravel #japaneseculture #japanlife
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Inessential bourgeois manager reacting to essential service workers: wow this is dirty and demeaning
And they don’t do half ass jobs either. In a short amount of time they will clean it thoroughly.
They sound amazing!
The crew boss can suggest they film the process in time lapse to show how clean the train gets.
The slaves that make our life possible are demeaned and discarded.
Kudos to all of them.
my hat off for these guys , that is professionalism on display alright , and the same kind of professionalism is daily occurrence for so many support / service personal in today's economy , they all deserve recognition and a wage hike
Not exactly a bullet train, but I saw these people clean a limited express train when I got off at Asakusa Station. They were bowing as the train came into dock and as I got off they got on and started cleaning
You gotta love how in the way this is treated as oppression, wage slavery, and demeaning work by Westerners, while those same people visit Japan and express delight at how wonderfully their society functions by people who act like house elves in Harry Potter
Snobby
They got oompa loompas in Japan
A pit crew for trains?! Japan really is living in the year 3000. 😂
I saw them like 2 weeks ago and they even turn the seats to the opposite direction when the train goes the same way it came from.
Japan has house elves
I love how certain take pride in cleaning their environment 😊
USA should’ve annexed Japan. They lost and they shouldn’t have a country. 😂😂😂
Wish America had this , most trian stations here smell like piss or worse
I love how they help the elderly find work
I took a whole masteclass on the Tokyo cleaning crew rebranding
So house elves…
Is it weird that my first thought is it's nice that if someone falls on the tracks, they call roll to a safe place?
What in the anime is this
Oh I watched them and I was like OMG THANK YOU in my head but all the Japanese ppl ignored them when they bowed I bowed back to them I don’t care if that’s against etiquette I was seriously grateful
Thank you! It's such a beautiful experience.
JR perform miracles
So, we are just going to ignore the fact that a significant portion of what they clean as human blood and viscera, right?
I swear Japan are the real minions of the world
Japanese will bow at a Train but also call you a racial slur in the same minute