Taking the train in Japan and want to avoid annoying fellow passengers? Keep conversation to a whisper, turn down your iPod and put your cellphone on vibration¹ mode, a recent survey by the railway association showed.

日本铁路协会日前开展的一项调查显示，在日本乘坐列车时如果不想惹恼同车的乘客，那么说话时尽量小声，把iPod音量调小，并把手机调成振动模式。

Taking the train in Japan and want to avoid annoying fellow passengers? Keep conversation to a whisper, turn down your iPod and put your cellphone on vibration mode, a recent survey by the railway association showed.

Many foreigners who ride on Japan's vast network of subways and commuter² trains市郊往返列车 complain about the pushing and shoving that accompanies getting into the train and the reluctance勉强，不情愿 to give up seats for senior citizens and pregnant women.

But for Japanese commuters, noise is the biggest issue, with loud conversation and music from headphones the top two offenders⁴ and cellphone ringtones in fourth place, the survey by the Association of Japanese Private Railways showed.

Applying化妆 make-up ranked as the sixth-biggest breach⁵ of rail etiquette礼节，礼仪, worse than being drunken, which at number 9 just edged out bringing strollers折叠式婴儿车，散步者 onto crowded trains.

Here are the top 10 examples of bad rail manners according to the association's online survey, with responses from about 4,200 people:

1. Noisy conversation, horsing around胡闹，哄闹

2. Music from headphones

3. The way passengers sit

4. Cellphone ringtones and talking on phones

5. Pushing, shoving when getting on and off trains

6. Applying make-up

7. Littering乱丢垃圾

8. Sitting on the floor of the train

9. Riding the train drunk

10. Riding a crowded train with a child in a stroller