Crowd Control Japan Style

They may look like a colony of ants scurrying around, but this time-lapse video shows hundreds of thousands of people queuing for a comic book convention in Tokyo, Japan. Attendance totals more than half million people, so an organized system like this is essential to keep people in order and prevent crowd crushes

To help cope with the massive influx of people in a single space mobile phone companies set up temporary antennas, Nearby mass transit change their operating schedule and increase service to accommodate the crowds. as this video shows the queue builds up from early morning and steadily swells, before dramatically decreasing towards the later hours of the convention.