Is there a comprehensive map of the Shinjuku station in Tokyo?
According to wikipedia's article on Shinjuku station, including an underground arcade, there are well over 200 exits.
http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/stations/img/map_e/e866.pdf mentions a few exits but the fact that the "East Exit" exits into the Metro Promenade, which in turn, takes you to an underground shopping mall, with its own exits, as well (http://www.subnade.co.jp/english/e-floormap.pdf), is not accounted for. I'm sure there are other examples, as well, but I'm not aware of them.
In light of this it'd be useful to have a fully comprehensive map of the Shinjuku station and associated facilities and all the exists there-in. I don't suppose such a map exists?
It'd also be cool if such a map could show you where each of these exists exited, at street level, on Google Maps, but that might be too much to hope for lol.
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The linked JR map in the question is one of the easier sections of the station to navigate, in my opinion. I've gotten "re-oriented" in the underground areas more times than I care to admit, and it is sometimes easiest to just go outside, find a landmark, and walk in that direction.
There is a map of all the platforms (JR, Keio, Odakyu, Toei, and Metro) here
but, I don't know of any comprehensive map of the non-platform areas.
I just found a nice set of underground maps at Yahoo Japan. They are all in Japanese, though. The "Subnade" is the third map on that page, while other areas under Shinjuku are in maps #4-7.
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The trouble with Shinjuku Station is that it's split between four different companies (JR, Metro, Odakyu, Keio), so there's no one official map that covers the lot, and the very three-dimensional layout of the station means that flat/2D maps don't come close to conveying the full complexity of this beast. This rather amazing hand-drawn 3D sketch is the best I've seen, although it's all Japanese:
(courtesy Tomoyuki Tanaka, high-res B&W version here)
Official maps for each train company, covering only their respective parts in both 3D/structural (???) and flat format (???) below:
- JR East, red in the diagram above
- Keio (PDF), green
- Odakyu, blue
- Tokyo Metro, pink
Note that the colors apply only to paid/ticketed spaces in the stations, all the purple parts are free to cross without a ticket.
Bonus: a wooden model of Shinjuku station's pathways, built by a very determined group at Showa Women's University.
Answer 3
Building off of Kent's answer I was able to download the Yahoo maps and make a single image from them using https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoom.sh .
In particular, I used this command:
./dezoom.sh -x 931147 -y 111430 -X 931216 -Y 111397 "https://map.c.yimg.jp/m?mode=map-b1&r=1&x=%X&y=%Y&z=21&size=362"
The result is a 25,340 x 12,308 image. It's a 20.2MB JPEG. Not really sure the best way to share it.
Here's a screenshot of the JPEG when reduced down to a size small enough to fit on my screen:
Here's that same image with some annotations:
It'd be neat to have an above ground map for the same area to see what streets the exits correspond to.
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