The Napoli Metro wins awards, The Paris Metro is more historic and New York’s Subway more famous, but my vote for the world’s best Metro system (so far) goes to Osaka.
Sure, it’s clean, on time, and buying tickets is a snap. But that’s not why Osaka stands above the rest. If you take a peek at the map you can see the handy-dandy letter and number coding system attached to every station. That system is also present at every station and on every train’s monitor so you always know you’re on the right line towards the right station. Genius.
Sequential lettering and numbering should be a total no-brainer, right? Well, I haven’t seen it anywhere else! Have you? What’s your favorite Metro? Please share in the comments.
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It is good but so far I found best is moscow metro way faster than london tube and NYC metro, and very easy to follow.
Seul, South Korea is a great system as well. They have a letter system that helps you to know exactly in which train your friends are traveling or getting off from. You have the screens as well showing you where you are, the direction, Etc. You have another screen in the terminal so you know the time you have to wait and the location of the train. You don´t have to take your wallet from your pocket to pay, you can just scan your bag where your metro card is. I am sure I missing more, but this is what I remember from my trip.
Like the scan your bag part especially! Thanks for sharing.
Another vote for the subway system in Seoul, my former First2Board colleague.
I have yet to post an article about that subway system; so thank you for the reminder.
I hope that you are doing well, Dia.
Thanks, Brian! Look forward to seeing it.
Seoul, by far has the best metro/subway system in the world. Everything you described plus English everywhere. Plus platform doors so people cant jump to their death. And a lost and found that works. Clean cars. Cheap $1 tickets with free transfers to other lines and 30 cent transfers to citi busses. No other place beats this. Singapore’s metro/subway is stellar, too. So is Taipei’s. All of the above better than Osaka’s.
Worst? Paris. NYC. Moscow (50 year old trains).