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Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
More people spend the night in Otsuki than want to spend the night there.
As further proof of how quiet Otsuki is at night, the Lawson’s parking lot was full of cars driven by people who needed to take a break from driving but had no other place to do it. Some of its more rural branches, instead of being tucked away inside a mixed-use commercial building, are instead little private karaoke shacks on the side of the road, and the ones in Otsuki are open all night, so you can rent one and just crash on its sofa without singing anything. We don’t have access to Toyoko Inn’s booking records, but if that rumor is true, it would imply that there’s high demand for its rooms during celebratory seasons like winter holidays, though, so it might be hard to find a vacancy at this time of year, and the prices might be inflated too.
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