Tokyo is crazy. I can leave my bike ($2000 Cyclocross bike) outside unlocked in central Tokyo and no-one will touch it. Back home that would be taken immediately, even if you put D-Locks on it.
People leave their phones on coffee shop tables as they make an order... those would be taken too.
I dropped my wallet, went to the police station and got a call the next morning. My wallet was handed in -- with all the cash still in it.
Yeah the bikes are nuts! I saw so many unlocked, the societal trust is crazy high!
I even remember seeing a homeless dudes little bed fort under an overpass in Osaka (literally the only homeless camp i saw in my entire time in Japan, and it was one guys stuff lol) and he had a little collection bowl with a note asking people to leave money. He wasnt there, and money was still in it lol
Tokyo is crazy. I can leave my bike ($2000 Cyclocross bike) outside unlocked in central Tokyo and no-one will touch it. Back home that would be taken immediately, even if you put D-Locks on it.
People leave their phones on coffee shop tables as they make an order... those would be taken too.
I dropped my wallet, went to the police station and got a call the next morning. My wallet was handed in -- with all the cash still in it.
Yeah the bikes are nuts! I saw so many unlocked, the societal trust is crazy high!
I even remember seeing a homeless dudes little bed fort under an overpass in Osaka (literally the only homeless camp i saw in my entire time in Japan, and it was one guys stuff lol) and he had a little collection bowl with a note asking people to leave money. He wasnt there, and money was still in it lol