Abstract
People significantly gather around railway station that has functions of transport node. In the space that person’s movement is especially fast, that makes a person who is in there feel that time is fast and gives tiredness the person. Such space needs comfortable places, those spaces, so development of “the third place” is one of problems that railway station has in the future.
In this study, it is assumed that the third place will be focused in shopping area within a train station in the future, and the purpose of this study is to grasp current situation of the third place in railway station that has functions of transport node that some persons and facilities are gathered.
From a survey, we grasped number of stores of the third place and confirmed that it was correlation with number of passengers. Besides, we confirmed that there were differences of each category of stores between applications of utilization and crowded time.
