Map of the doomsday train

[petrea_mitchell]

Since I have nothing better to do this morning, an attempt to make sense of the map in episode 2 of Train to the End of the World.



From episode 1, it was possible to deduce that the rail line is the Seibu Railway's Ikebukuro line.

Numbers in reverse order because the stations are canonically listed starting from Ikebukuro.

31. Agano (吾野) - square - bear
30. Higashi-Agano (東吾野) - square - mushroom
29. Musashi-Yokote (武蔵横手) - circle - fox
28. Koma (高麗) - circle - octopus
27. Higashi-Hannō (東飯能) - circle - no idea. Sun? Orange? Rock?
26. Hannō (飯能) - circle - person with tail?
25. Motokaji (元加治) - circle - houses
24. Bushi (仏子) - square - teru teru bōzu
23. Irumashi (入間市) - circle - tuber of some kind (possibly the dancing carrots shown briefly in the OP)
22. Inariyama-kōen (稲荷山公園) - diamond - tiny stick figures
21. Musashi-Fujisawa (武蔵藤沢) - circle - blank
20. Sayamagaoka (狭山ヶ丘) - circle - smoking pipe
19. Kotesashi (小手指) - circle - blank
18. Nishi-Tokorozawa (西所沢) - square - figure flying into the air
17. Tokorozawa (所沢) - square - nigirizushi
16. Akitsu (秋津) - circle - blank
15. Kiyose (清瀬) - circle - zombie
14. Higashi-Kurume (東久留米) - circle - angry squid person?
13. Hibarigaoka (ひばりヶ丘) - circle - crawling person
12. Hōya (保谷) - square - people in distress, being burned? Or being swallowed up by rising water?
11. Ōizumi-gakuen (大泉学園) - diamond - dog with a very interesting expression
10. Shakujii-kōen (石神井公園) - circle - blank
9. Nerima-Takanodai (練馬高野台) - square - bear with a musical note
8. Fujimidai (富士見台) - diamond - kappa
7. Nakamurabashi (中村橋) - circle - blank
6. Nerima (練馬) - square - either a jellyfish or a person eating noodles
5. Sakuradai (桜台) - diamond - footprint
4. Ekoda (江古田) - circle - lizard?
3. Higashi-Nagasaki (東長崎) - circle - blank
2. Shinamachi (椎名町) - diamond - sweet of some kind, can't put a name to it
~~~ Break in the line ~~~
1. Ikebukuro (池袋) - square - no idea

Shapes maybe indicate danger levels? Since we've only seen two squares so far, it's hard to say.

Comments

[frith]

Since we're guessing here, some things look slightly different to me.

28: hand (four fingers and a thumb)
26: hand-puppet
24: person with a beard
23: stomach
22: sport. Not baseball. cricket?
14: person dancing in a short skirt. Hawaiian (lua)?
13: person on fire
12 persons bursting from the ground (zombies)
4: unhatched amphibian embryo (frogs, salamanders)
2: lid
1: bowl or pot of soup

[petrea_mitchell]

In episode four it appears your guess for #23 is correct. (Not much of a spoiler because... well... if you're watching the show, you'll see.)

And we get a better look at #1 and it does look more like a bowl of soup.

[frith]

It's a slow game of Pictionary. 8^D While 18 does look like a common anime body posture for someone jumping high into the air, from afar the figure is indistinct and so, overall it looks like water pouring out from a sewer pipe or something rude, smelly and juvenile. Hopefully it's just a jumping figure.