Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <knicolson@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<321jgv4gs3rh3vcemr6dodh2bcsc8684o9@4ax.com>...
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:25:11 +0900, "Dave Fossett"
> <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote:
> 
> > Louise Bremner wrote:
> >
> >> Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have seen them in a variety of cities, so I assume they are now the
>  norm.
> >>
> >> Can you name those cities?
> >
> >Outside Tokyo, operators in Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, and Fukuoka all provide
> >women-only cars. I would hardly call them "the norm", though, as in Tokyo,
> >they only operate late at night, and still only on a few lines.
> 
> In Osaka, most of the JR main lines have a woman-only carriage from
> first train to 9am, then 5pm to 9pm, or so. Hankyu also has a
> morning-only ladies only for the lines to and from Osaka, and Keihan
> has certain morning expresses into Osaka also ladies only. The
> Midosuji tube also has a ladies only, morning only, I think.
> 
Not having been there in a couple of years, are these marked on the
platform with a special sign? I assume something like this exists;
otherwise how do the passengers know?

John W.