Japan etiquette tips: Pee in public and sleep on the street when drunk

[Mulboyne]

[hundefar]

Danish people also piss in the streets. It is horrible. Even during the day. Last week some guy whipped it out and had a piss against the building opposite of ours. His piss running down the walls and forming small lakes of warm urine on the pavement in the summer heat. This was around 2 in the afternoon, and my 2-year old daughter was watching. You also see women taking a piss behind a car some times. Only homeless people sleep in the streets though.

[Ketou]

Was waiting out in front of a bank in Korea when a lady lifted her little boy up onto the flower bed so he could take a dump.

[Mulboyne]

This list of travel tips from Jeffalopolis is not a bad effort.

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[BigInJapan]

Was waiting out in front of a bank in Korea when a lady lifted her little boy up onto the flower bed so he could take a dump.

I encountered a similar scenario here several years ago when I turned down a narrow road near my house out in inaka. Just around the corner Mom was holding junior up in the middle of the lane so he could relieve himself. If I hadn't slammed on the brakes, the population of Nagano would have decreased by two, and guess who would have been at fault...

[IkemenTommy]

[Behan]

I always do the tonan toroku (I think that's what it's called) when I buy a bike so I don't end up arrested for riding my own bike.

[FG Lurker]

I always do the tonan toroku (I think that's what it's called) when I buy a bike so I don't end up arrested for riding my own bike.

A good friend of mine here nearly did get arrested for riding his own bike. After arguing with the cops for 20 minutes or so he remembered that it was probably registered in his wife's name as she had actually bought the bike quite some years ago. (She didn't take his last name when they married.)

Anyway, if you're going to ride a mama-cherry around then proper registration is a wise idea. In 15 years though I have never been stopped riding around on a mountain bike. Probably because the bike is so huge that 99% of the Japanese population wouldn't be able to ride it and the cops just assume it's mine.

[BigInJapan]

In 15 years though I have never been stopped riding around on a mountain bike. Probably because the bike is so huge that 99% of the Japanese population wouldn't be able to ride it and the cops just assume it's mine.

Basically the same with me too. My Cannondale actually says "XL" on the frame so it's doubtful they'd think I swiped it. But with all this talk about getting stopped, maybe I should register it (I lived out in inaka for years and had never heard of registering your bicycle).

[FG Lurker]

Basically the same with me too. My Cannondale actually says "XL" on the frame so it's doubtful they'd think I swiped it. But with all this talk about getting stopped, maybe I should register it (I lived out in inaka for years and had never heard of registering your bicycle).

If you bought your bike in Japan it was probably registered by the shop when you purchased it. Most shops have you fill out your name and address when you buy a bike and just submit the paperwork automatically for their customers.

If you bought your bike outside Japan and imported it then getting it registered might not be a bad idea. Besides the periodic police checks, if the bike gets stolen and it turns up dumped somewhere you'll get it back.

[james]

Basically the same with me too. My Cannondale actually says "XL" on the frame so it's doubtful they'd think I swiped it. But with all this talk about getting stopped, maybe I should register it (I lived out in inaka for years and had never heard of registering your bicycle).

same here. i've got two bikes, one that father-in-law ordered through a catalogue years ago and another i bought via amazon.

i can't for the life of me imagine the cops out here pulling that stupid shit but i suppose it couldn't hurt to register them. you'd think they could find something better to do with their time.

[Amanojakuu]

You can call too.

Just in May, I left my son and my own passports, birth certs, my mariage cert and all others important documents (to me) beside a ATM machine at my station. I only realised this in Omotesando which was already after about 40 minutes including a change train, rush down to the Lost and Found Office asking them to find in the train for me, after about 20 mins trying not to faint, I realised I might had left it at the ATM machine, I asked the Metro staff for the station's koban phone number and beg them to go and check for me. And he put me on hold, went to find and found it! Thank God this is Japan.

I lost a train ticket on my way here to Shizuoka today. Less than an hour later, when I arrived at my destination, I asked at the ticket booth, half expecting to have to plead with them.

No need, the lost ticket had been found in busy Tokyo station and a fax sent through to Shizuoka station explaining the found ticket.