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Painted marks where each door will stop.
Also known as: Boarding position Japan, Door marks Japan
Marks the position on a Japanese platform at which a train door will stop, with queueing lines drawn back from it.
Marks where a train door will stop and where passengers queue for it.
Contexts: Public information
Presupposes that trains stop to within a fraction of a metre of the same point every time, which is what makes the mark useful and is not true on every network; where several formations use one platform the marks are distinguished by shape or colour rather than duplicated.
Contexts: Public information
A painted mark on the platform surface with two lines running back from it at an angle, sometimes carrying a numeral or a shape identifying the train formation.