King-Victoria Transit Hub

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You would not like most Tokyo train stations.

Having been to Tokyo in April, I can say that they still certainly look like a station at ground level.  The rail station entrance is always the most prominent entrance on a station building, with associated malls and office buildings being secondary.

There are hundreds of stations, major railway hubs (Tokyu and Shinagawa, for example) do look like stations.  But smaller stations are incorporated into buildings and even some larger ones (Shibuya, for example) can be hard to spot.  Japanese railways definitely prioritize function over form.