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Originally Posted by Crawford
There is no "technically the world's busiest", obviously. It isn't like there's some intl. data organization rigorously counting pedestrians around the world.
I find it very hard to believe that Shibuya has comparable daily pedestrian counts as Times Square. Both have webcams, obviously, and if you adjust for time of day, I think Times Square is clearly busier.
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"Adjust for time of day"? Are you regularly monitoring those webcams at comparable times of day, or did you just google each one's webcam right now and post one from Tokyo that just happens to have been at a rainy 3am and one from New York that happens to be a sunny 2pm?
I mean, yeah, given that snapshot of 3am Shibuya crossing as my frame of reference I'd also have a hard time believing it's busier.
This isn't necessarily a great measure of comparable pedestrian traffic, but 2.4 million people pass through Shibuya station every day, versus 180,000 at Times Square-42nd Street station. Now, Shibuya station is a more important multi-modal transit terminal than Times Square station and most of those people probably aren't even exiting the station; but it nonetheless has a much larger pool of people to draw from - which tells me it's more likelier to be the busier of the two (since in either case, most people travelling there will be doing so by transit).