A lot of people want to live conveniently close to the train stations, but as you can see from the clip above, there's such a thing as too close for comfort. Case in point, this train track in Hanoi, Vietnam:
Every day, at 4pm and 7pm, a train makes its way down a street so narrow that it is just inches from the houses on either side.
It passes so close to their front doors that any objects which are kept on the street, such as bicycles, have to be moved to make sure that they do not get hit.
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It's not surprising either. The mountains of Japan are full of old roads and trails like this. When a landslide destroys a large piece of a road, they just build a new one elsewhere.
(Don't bother looking this up on English Wikipedia, the articles about the Japanese road system are poorly written and lacking in references. BTW, did you know that all the major divided highways in Japan are toll roads? They're expensive, too.)