No rubbish, plastic bottles, cigarette buds or debris. Flood in Japan is like a swimming pool...

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iAmNotorious on October 29th, 2019 at 05:13 UTC »

I'll never forget first landing in Tokyo. Not only was the airport (Narita) so quiet you could hear a pin drop, as we were exiting the airport there was someone at the bottom of the escalator holding a wet cloth on the handrail to clean it. I realized that I had never in my 30 years of existence seen anyone cleaning the handrails of an escalator.

WellEndowedWizard on October 29th, 2019 at 07:12 UTC »

My parents live in Osaka and I visit every few months. Let me tell you, they are incredibly clean.

Trash cans are not common on the street. You hold onto your trash until you're at your destination, and you don't eat/drink while walking.

EVERYTHING is recycled, and meticulously. Every piece of plastic has a symbol of what type of plastic it is and how it should be recycled. And you have bins for each one.

The strange exception is that they don't like to buy used furniture. Most of it is burned, oddly enough.

bgharambee on October 29th, 2019 at 07:21 UTC »

Tokyo has very few public trash bins. You are expected to take your trash home and recycle it. When you buy gum, there are little slips of paper that you put your used gum in. Cigarette butts go in a pouch.