Hate Yamanote? Love Beer ★ ? Next week's saturday will reconcile you again with crowded Japanese trains - at the world-famous Yamanote halloween party! The party is organised by no one - people just gather on the same platform in Shinjuku and then just everybody hops on the same train and parties. Sounds crazy? This party has been a major hit for years - last year alone, there were 500 people, half of them Japanese, half Gaijin, going round and round for hours on a butt-normal Yamanote train, see pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hekireki69/sets/1263795/ Although police might come in later to clear the wagons and make space for those well-behaving, sober students and businessman normally filling late night trains, don't worry: Nobody will arrest you for drinking and singing on a train - just keep your ticket! This year's train leaves from Shinjuku station at 9.07 pm on Saturday, October 28th. Gather from 8.30 pm on platform #13 in JR's Shinjuku station (the "outbound" trains in direction to Ikebukuro) and just get on the train when it arrives. Come in costumes, bring your friends and your own drinks - don't count on those kiosks. And tell everybody else > the more, the partier!