Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line

More people spend the night in Otsuki than want to spend the night there. In Japan, a handful of train stations are known as zetsubo no eki, or “stations of despair.” There’s nothing wrong with these stations themselves, though, and the towns they’re in aren’t dirty, dangerous, or otherwise anything to fear. So why the abandon-all-hope designation? Because they’re places where some people get stuck having to spend the night after the last train…