> In my personal opinion, better that than trawling slowly through traffic jams.
I think the best way to describe it is that it sucks either way to commute in Tokyo no matter what means of transports you end up using, except if you can live very close to your office, which is not the experience of 99% of people.
As mentioned in my previous comment, it really does sound like you don't know what you're talking about.
Commuting in Tokyo is not without problem, but consistently better than commuting anywhere else I've been.
Also, you seem to completely ignore the point that the alternative "everyone commutes by car" (or you have other alternatives?) would result in a constant gridlock given Tokyo's scale - so it would be orders of magnitude worse.
I think the best way to describe it is that it sucks either way to commute in Tokyo no matter what means of transports you end up using, except if you can live very close to your office, which is not the experience of 99% of people.