Aum

  This is the Naka Meguro station where one of the Aums attackers boarded the train with the sarin gas. I read in Haruki Murakami’s book “the Underground” an account of the events. The station looks normal as nothing ever happened can’t see any warning or evidence of such a famous event that happened here in Tokyo. I was told the reason no garbage cans are place any ware near any of the Tokyo train stations is to prevent a similar attack on the subway. I travel frequently thru this station in now I wonder what went thru the minds of the attackers to get on the train at Naka Meguro station. Naka Meguro is kind of a fun hip neighborhood, a mix of the old and new artistic and commercial. Maybe it was a place that someone in Aums would not stand out as peculiar or suspicious because you can see many strange and funny dressed people here.