Coughing and sneezing without consideration for others topped the list of annoying behavior on trains in a survey by the Japan Private Railway Association in 2024. What tops your list?

Does that include "snorting"? When people - always Japanese men - constantly suck in vast rivers of phlem from their nose and seemingly deep into their throats while emitting a loud disgusting sound. They've never heard of tissue paper, decongestants or anti-histimines?

Coughing and sneezing without consideration for others topped the list of

Coughing and sneezing are normal but when someone do that without consideration can be annoying.

Some people just do that without trying to close their mouth with something such as hand or elbow, or without any effort to head to into different direction where no other passenger exist.

Well at least annoying behavior inside train is not because being foreigner.

Does that include "snorting"? When people - always Japanese men - constantly suck in vast rivers of phlem from their nose and seemingly deep into their throats while emitting a loud disgusting sound. They've never heard of tissue paper, decongestants or anti-histimines?

A lot of those people can't help it because of hay fever, but I agree it is disturbing to listen to while on a quite train. Sounds like a pig snorting aggressively.

The inconsiderate coughing is definitely the top of the list for me, but if I had to add something that isn't something that happens often but is quite annoying when it happens, it would have to be people (mainly obasans) who steal the seat that you were standing in front of as you were letting the person getting up pass through you. They know damn well what they're doing.

On my commuter train there is a private school and all the studnents have very impractical leather satchel bags without straps. They have to be carried like a briefcase. The kids have to bring all their books etc home every day, meaning their luggage is too heavy for them to carry. They stand in the vicinity of the doorways with their bags on the floor, meaning it can be very difficult to get onto the train, and very difficult to move down into the train where there is a little more space. I made a point of 'tripping' over their bags as often as possible, and hopefully leaving great big footprints.

Incidentally, I and others have spoken to the students in numerous occasions, and I have telephoned the school about this issue.

Those who make "old man" sounds excessively loud throat clearing every 3 minutes, sucking their teeth, doing that "tch" sound when they get irritated at something, among others.

Meaning people should stop coughing and sneezing? It's called biological functions.

It's not necessarily on trains, but the sound of people blowing their nose is the most disgusting sound to me. Someone once told me that it is considered rude to do so in public in Japan. If so, there are plenty of people around me who like to be rude.

I have always had a pet peeve for people reading newspapers on trains. The sound when they fold them and how they throw their arms around folding them seemingly a hundred times just to make them as small as possible. And because they fold them so much they need to refold them every time they finish an article.

Thankfully for you 99% of people these days stare at their phones reading manga, texting on Line or playing video games.

 I have always had a pet peeve for people reading newspapers on trains. The sound when they fold them and how they throw their arms around folding them seemingly a hundred times just to make them as small as possible

Keeping their backpacks on. Take them off and put them on the ground between your feet or in the baskets.

What tops my list is little turkey brained self entitled twats complaining about diddley squat while living in a first world modern country with access to food, water, electricity ,housing, education and opportunity while half the world has none of these.

I sneeze upon your self righteousness.

That, and wet umbrellas.

Like where can you go while on a train. If it a shop or something where you can walk outside and cough but a train. You can only hold it in for so long. Like buy a car and drive to work if it is that annoying.

I get on trains maybe four or five times a year so the whole process is a delight to me, once I have worked out how to buy a ticket and found a ticket gate that will accept a paper ticket.

My main moan is that as an occasional user, I do not find the new labelling of train lines (and expressways) with numbers and colours very intuitive. The last time I got on the train, when changing trains I left a JR station and headed for a nearby private railway station because Google did not tell me the next line I wanted was just another JR line. It just gave me a colour, a letter, and a number. The info I wanted was "JR nani-nani line" not the "Red M line". When driving on the Tokyo expressway, I want to know where the Kan'etsu or the Chuo is, not "E6" or some other cryptic codename.

Farting silently so there is no timely escape

Nose picking. I had the misfortune of inadvertently seeing a young girl the other day who was reaching up there like there was gold in them thar nostrils. I almost tossed up lunch.

@GuruMick & John-San

You are completely missing the point. It's Japanese people who are complaining about this, which means they're complaining about people who don't properly cover their mouths while sneezing. It happens. I've seen it, and dislike it too. Didn't the Covid pandemic teach you anything? That's a likely way to catch a cold or flu yourself... someone who has a cold sneezing in your vicinity.

It's not necessarily on trains, but the sound of people blowing their nose is the most disgusting sound to me. Someone once told me that it is considered rude to do so in public in Japan. If so, there are plenty of people around me who like to be rude.

I'd rather someone blow their nose and get it over with in a few seconds then spend my entire journey listening to them sniff and sniffle every 5 seconds. Drives me round the bend.

I've been coughing for two weeks by now and when I have to cough, I cough. If people don't like it, then can deal with it and if not, then they should just stay home.

I just don’t care what anyone thinks, when I cough, I cough, when I have a runny nose, I blow it. I have allergies during the spring, I sneeze, can’t stop or help it, not going to worry how the next person feels, I’m not doing it on purpose and if it annoys people, too bad, packed trains annoy me, no one’s banning those. I’m human, not a controllable robot, I do what I need to do to be comfortable, deal with it.