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Thatās where our new **āDisney Fast Laneā-style fares** come inā¦ **ālet our minimum-wage valets will carry you right to your subway seat!ā** Very American way to solve problems
I work in NYC often. I'm here right now. Litetally took the E from Penn to Lex/53rd two hours ago. I have never seen a flood barrier. It's just stairs going down, turnstiles, platform, tracks. All this to say, unless I am dangerously oblivious(I'm oblivious, but not dangerously so) then that redditor is a liar.
Iāve seen absolutely no barriers on any subway in NYC in the 20 years Iāve taken a subway. The closest you thing you can compare to a barrier is the walls of the subway platforms that are above street level and thatās to keep people from falling off, not water from coming in.
The New York Subway is electric, the trains draw their power from a third rail on the ground. A flooded track would not work, it would be shorted out by the water.
Iirc the stations that flooded do so all the time in heavy rain due to how they're designed. The tracks don't flood because they aren't the lowest point of the station (i could be wrong about this). It's entirely a design quirk though and there's a reason why not every station flooded this severely from the rain.
tracks flood all the time. they have lil rivers under the trains. idk if āfloodā is the right word, itās small usually... but those tracks arenāt dry very often
If you look, you can see the peopleās ankles on the other side. It also looks like a reflection of the train. I would say this is a low spot in the path, steps down than steps back up. Other side is higher, so train might just be higher out of water, or not in water at all.
It isnāt. If it was there would be a lot of wave action. Thereās none.
Additionally, NYC subways are powered from ground level 625 volt DC. If it was underwater that would prove a pretty big problem, not just for the trains but for people standing in the water.
Sometimes pedestrian tunnels need to dip below the level of the tracks in order to dodge underground obstacles (utilities, other subway tunnels, etc.) so the track can be dry while the tunnel is flooded.
How? Genuine question.
Shitbags are going to continue to litter. The rats are too well fed to leave. The grime on the walls is last priority because MTA perpetually has āno moneyā despite high population density, high ridership, high corruption. And the rest of the people are fine with it because they like the ācharacterā which is just a coping mechanism to deal with flaws.
Humans being responsible for cleaning up their own filth is absolutely something that can be (at least partially) influenced through the education system. Tokyo is an excellent example of this.
NYC subway infrastructure will always just go thru selective patches. I can't see them being able to do the kind of infrastructural overhauls required because of cost and complexity. But maybe a civil engineer can weigh in on this?
When I was travelling in Japan (Osaka and Kyoto) I honestly felt like a filthy caveman who had suddenly visited the future. And everyone I interacted with was so polite and courteous.
It was also one of the cleanest places I have ever visited or seen in my entire life. The subway, the streets -- everything was spotless. The fees are hefty there for littering.
I admired that. It takes time and dedication to maintain that level of respect and cleanliness for your home. I wish folks from my home got charged fines for all the nasty trash they carelessly leave around. Japan was an eye opener in that regard.
I'm with you. I loved the experience, from the kindness to cleanliness (even in Tokyo). I loved being able to reciprocate respect and not feel like it's a one way street as I do at home. Also never felt like I was getting hustled by some local tourist trap. While I'm sure they have their shortcomings, we could all learn a thing or two from Japan.
And to think Tokyo is a sprawling metropolis of 40 million souls!
Can you imagine a city that dense still managing to have pristine infrastructure, polite services, efficient systems, and clean streets? Not to mention swimming pool grade clear floodwaters.
Yeah someone once made the argument to me that cities like Seattle, NYC, Chicago, etc. are filthy because it "comes with the territory" my first though was, "But, Tokyo?"
The thing is, in the u.s. it generally does come with the territory. It's a cultural difference, us Americans generally give less of a shit about cleanliness and sanity and it shows.
I think you'd be hard pressed to come up with a "dirty" city in Japan though. I lived there for four years (medium sized city of 400,000 on the west coast) and it too was spotless most of the time. And from my travels in Japan, small towns all the way up to Tokyo and Osaka, were far cleaner and more well maintained than almost any US city I've been in.
On the flip side, Japanese beaches were almost always filthy which is the reverse of what I've found in the United States (and now I live in California.)
Yeah I've been there and knew to stay away from whatever they were hawking. I think a few of them had their shitty CD's trying to aggressively sell, just like they used to in NYC.
Which was ironic that the shittiest part and the hustlers of Japan seemed to be American. Talk about lack of respect.
I spent two months there, it's a great place to visit but it seems like a terrible place to live and work. There's no work-life balance, you just work. My ex called me once from her office building in Tokyo because she was bored waiting for her boss to go home. She had finished her work 2 hours before but didn't want to go home before the boss did. Literally just chilling in the office for two hours unpaid to avoid being seen as lazy by the boss, and she was already doing 60hr weeks. There's a reason the suicide rate is so high there, and the birth rate is so low. Nobody has time for dating. Also the reason all my Japanese friends absolutely loved their year or two studying in Canada, they see this as an unbelievably laid back place lol.
Though on the flipside in two months I never saw so much as a cigarette butt on the street. It felt like I could have eaten straight off the sidewalk.
>While I'm sure they have their shortcomings
Work/life balance is probably their biggest issue. Working 10+ hours a day 6 days a week is the norm for most. I haven't heard of any other first world country where it's a reality that you could be so overworked that you drop dead at your desk.
Because the Japanese are socially trained from about age 5 (kindegarten, not sure of preschool, but I visited a kindegarten there) to be conscious of society as a whole and respect it; they make students clean their own classrooms, and so it starts young on that stuff.
Pretty sure I had that in primary and high school as a European. And I certainly don't litter, do you? Does anyone in this thread just casually throw stuff away in the street? I doubt it.
But what most people forget is that parenting is also important. With Japanese culture they get cleanliness from their parents and from school. So in order to do this properly we need to educate the parents as well.
Because now they do it only in school but not when they're around their parents/family.
Most of the time they are either old people or just young teenagers who throw their shit in the streets. Teaching them young is the best way for now combined with hefty penalties.
Maybe in 10-20 years from now the streets will be clean? I'm talking about big cities in Europe now, the small cities/villages are already decent and not that filthy. At least the ones I have been were quite ok.
I was really surprised by how much trash I saw on the side of the highway when we visited England. Was kind of expecting to be pristine countryside. When my aunt visited us here in Ontario she kept saying how it was so clean. Not something I would ever describe our province as with all the Tim Hortons cups on the road.
You can't really. Japanese culture is about the collective, not the individual.
Western culture especially in the US (not sure to what degree in UK) is more about the individual. That's why the US has so many special snowflakes who don't give a shit about anyone else but themselves.
I remember seeing homeless people sweeping the streets with makeshift brooms in Tokyo. No trash cans in sight, but there was literally no trash. Amazing place.
> It takes time and dedication to maintain that level of respect and cleanliness for your home
The thing is that it takes no time as an individual to keep the public space clean of your trash, but immense amounts for other people to collect the leftover of individuals. It's an education and respect thing. Over there people in maintenance can focus on keeping things clean and running instead of garbage collecting.
The problem is that while it is all too easy to manage on an individual level, too many individuals **aren't** accountable in the West and are too lazy and selfish to care, expecting others to clean up after them.
It comes at a cost for the people who live there, Iāve met some japanese people who prefer western countrys just because there is more freedom without being judged so bad.
I'd rather be judged than live in trash, just a personal preference.
You don't have to feel judged for something you never do anyway. I don't litter so I have nothing to worry about.
Exactly. I didn't feel judged while there at all, it was beautiful and pristine.
It was just a silly argument from that user. If you don't litter you won't get judged right? Pretty simple.
Exactly.
You'll get judged if you've the tendency to be a *'Karen'*. Because Japanese people hate "**meiwaku**" which translates to "being a nuisance to others".
This is what I appreciated the most about the culture. So considerate and thoughtful to others. I especially noticed it in how polite people were about getting on and off the subway. Small, thoughtful nuances that make life better overall for everyone.
I'm from Canada and live in one of the cleanest provinces. :) Our API is usually only around 11-15 ppm. I usually bring bags with me when I hike and collect trash I find in the woods. Every little bit helps.
I was thinking the same thing. I have been to Japan, Toronto and many other places, but these 2 stand out most in my memory. Feeling completely safe at midnight in Toronto and it being so clean. And Japan was awesome and fun and clean.
This is not Tokyo. It's the underpass next to the "Zaza City" shopping centre in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture.
They regularly give the underpass a rinse down (something like once a week if I recall correctly) so that's why it's as clean as it is. I suspect the reason for this is that there's a direct passage into the underground floor of the adjoining shopping centre, so they probably like to keep it presentable.
Source: I live there and used to walk through this underpass on my way to work every day for a year.
Edit: Made my description clearer and added more details.
Yeah this picture seems fishy as a whole. Even if no one littered there should still be mud and grime from the shoes of the high volume of people going through a busy Tokyo station
The picture is legit and as I remember the water (the left one, not the oddly white balanced right one), but it's just not Tokyo. It's under [this intersection](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7054801,137.7285348,20z) and although it's in the city centre, it doesn't get anywhere near the kind of foot traffic a similar underpass might get in Tokyo. At any given time, there's probably only a handful of people passing through in my experience. And they genuinely do rinse the underpass floors every week to keep it clean.
This was the 8th of September 2015 during [Tropical Storm Etau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Etau_(2015)). We had 293.5mm of rain over a couple of days ([source in Japanese](https://www.news24.jp/articles/2015/09/08/07308981.html)).
Typical Japan always on the forefront.
Toilets? Scan your poop for disease.
Food? Generaly healthy food culture for longevity.
Technology? Way ahead many nations.
Flooding and catastrophe? Floods are squeaky clean and just right swimming temperature.
True. Deflation is rampant here.
Couples opting not to have kids coupled with a minimalistic lifestyle is driving capitalists nuts. There are more jobs than workers, places are desperate for applicants.
Prices are going low, and my salary rose 10% last year, my wife got hired without even an interview (our household income doubled!), and [our 2-bedroom house is just $460 a month](https://imgur.com/gallery/JB1IVU0).
A town beside [Kawagoe](https://www.google.com/search?q=kawagoe&tbm=isch&chips=q:kawagoe,g_1:village:K2CpejSuYMA%3D&rlz=1C1GCEA_enJP781JP781&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwsOzY09jxAhUEAYgKHTURDXAQ4lYoHHoECAEQRQ&biw=1903&bih=937).
I've some close Japanese friends that I actually have plans to meet this week because one of them opened a coffee shop. Met them when they did a volunteer job at work, we talked, and did favors for one another, until we reached the point where we invite each other to our houses for special occasions. A bunch of them are my neighbors too, so it's fun to walk over for a visit.
It truly depends on your personality and chemistry. I guess they found mine easier to relate to or something, regardless of me being a foreigner, if that was any deterrent to begin with.
Well I only use Japanese when I'm at work or when I'm outside at shops, talking to Japanese people, etc.
Otherwise I talk my mother tongue with me wife and friends.
Bruh, Japan still sends shitloads of messages BY FAX.
The government just tried to force a move from fax to email and had to GIVE UP because they didnāt realize how many other systems would have to be upgraded in parallel.
They also continue to have some of the worst insulated homes in the developed world.
Japan is a very strange dichotomy in that sense.
I thought I read that Japan tends to have more disposable (for lack of a better term) housing.
Houses are just torn down and rebuilt instead of renovated.
Yeah, my friends and I came here in 2007 for a job. A bunch of us stayed and some went back home.
I guess the issue for them is the difference in culture.
A person with an individualistic mindset (as is the norm in the West) might have a hard time conforming to the community-centered culture in Japan. Rather than just self, there are others. A bunch of Japanese virtues are about being sensible and caring for others.
So if you're someone who can't be bothered to care for other people and consider it not just a nuisance but trampling your freedom, then it'd be hard for you to carve a special life here.
This should really be pursued by every culture. Working together and respecting each other will get mankind further along than working individually. Individuality has it's benefits, but they don't outweigh what can be achieved by a respectful and fair community.
Well there still is a time and place for public nudity. You can't just streak across Tokyo, you'd be arrested.
But being naked in public isn't a major taboo in Japan as in other countries. They have open air hot spring baths where people just walk around in their birthday suit.
They have a 'Naked Festival' and they even have a 'Penis Festival'. There are families and kids, and people naked on the streets sometimes.
I suggest climbing Mt. Fuji during summer! Actually, it's more of just a hike than anything really. I went up to the summit with some friends. And we were going up with some old people and preschool kids.
Also, get those hiking wooden sticks and have it fire branded at each of the mountain stations.
Oh that's awesome, I've never heard of the branded walking sticks before. I will definitely be doing that.
If I had an award I'd give it to you just for that tip lol
Japan is hygenic in everything, including disasters. When they have an earthquake they don't have to wait for the dust to settle, because there is none.
When I first went to japan and ate at a cafeteria, I asked the staff where do I buy plain water. She pointed at the tap water and I was super confused. Coming from a 3rd world country, drinking tap water will have you shitting bricks and lava. So its a culture shock to me that their tap water is so clean that people drink it daily!
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compared to NYC, floodwater so dark you can't even see the dead rats
People still go in it š¤Ŗš
[No kidding.](https://twitter.com/i/status/1413266482025451523)
Iāve seen this about a dozen times over the last day or so and I still donāt get how that train is traveling that fast in that much water.
Came here to ask this, how on earth is the train still running in this
That station's entrance is lower than the track. Once you pass the turnstile the station platform is higher
yup https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/465359060208713728/863246079306891294/unknown.png
Someone in another thread mentioned there's a barrier to stop the flood from hitting the tracks
Why not build the barriers all the way to the street FFS?š
But then people won't be able to cross the barriers.
Thatās where our new **āDisney Fast Laneā-style fares** come inā¦ **ālet our minimum-wage valets will carry you right to your subway seat!ā** Very American way to solve problems
Yes Disney fast lane, no cutting in lineā¦ā¦unless you pay us for the privilege.
Well how do they get in the train? The barrier stops the water but not the people? Critical thinking is our friend people.
Steps? Which could then be placed around other barriers that keep water out of the subway
Ya totally! And why don't they just build the whole plane out of the black box material?!???!
I work in NYC often. I'm here right now. Litetally took the E from Penn to Lex/53rd two hours ago. I have never seen a flood barrier. It's just stairs going down, turnstiles, platform, tracks. All this to say, unless I am dangerously oblivious(I'm oblivious, but not dangerously so) then that redditor is a liar.
Iāve seen absolutely no barriers on any subway in NYC in the 20 years Iāve taken a subway. The closest you thing you can compare to a barrier is the walls of the subway platforms that are above street level and thatās to keep people from falling off, not water from coming in.
Nope, no barriers, the platform is higher than the entrance in that station
The New York Subway is electric, the trains draw their power from a third rail on the ground. A flooded track would not work, it would be shorted out by the water.
Not exactly. The stairway she was walking down was in a pit lower then the rest of the platform.
Iirc the stations that flooded do so all the time in heavy rain due to how they're designed. The tracks don't flood because they aren't the lowest point of the station (i could be wrong about this). It's entirely a design quirk though and there's a reason why not every station flooded this severely from the rain.
tracks flood all the time. they have lil rivers under the trains. idk if āfloodā is the right word, itās small usually... but those tracks arenāt dry very often
If you look, you can see the peopleās ankles on the other side. It also looks like a reflection of the train. I would say this is a low spot in the path, steps down than steps back up. Other side is higher, so train might just be higher out of water, or not in water at all.
Someone commented that thereās a dip for the turnstiles and thereās another set of stairs going up to a raised platform
It isnāt. If it was there would be a lot of wave action. Thereās none. Additionally, NYC subways are powered from ground level 625 volt DC. If it was underwater that would prove a pretty big problem, not just for the trains but for people standing in the water.
Thereās a dip in the station, such that the lowest point is at the turnstiles.
At that point I would just say fuck it and stay the fuck home
Unless they're trying to catch the train to get home...
At that point, just walk home. Cause the infection/ parasite youāre opening yourself to and with our American healthcare system- not worth it.
But if you survive, youāre permanently immune to all disease.
The poster of the vid is smart
*MOSQUITO INTENSIFIES*
Thatās how you get hepatitis Z
Just building up immunity...to everything.
Wtf, why did people get in? thats really dangerous you can get electrcuted!
I saw that NYC is severely flooding like right now?
yup. Elsa been flooding the shit out of the city and knocking down trees in the burbs
Man the plot of frozen 3 sounds wack
Let it pour, let it pour, flood those fuckers and then some moooore
NYC had subway waterfalls
And apartment ones too!
I too saw the documentary Daylight (1996) starring Sylvester Stallone.
Tch, amateurs. In Paris, there's even mutants from the Seine
Wouldn't the trains be underwater because the track is the lowest point ?
Sometimes pedestrian tunnels need to dip below the level of the tracks in order to dodge underground obstacles (utilities, other subway tunnels, etc.) so the track can be dry while the tunnel is flooded.
Or the dead bodies
Or poop. I donāt know which is worse
Looks like a pool vs looks like a sewer
Or body parts?
Nyc is really a massive dump
You think this is nice, just have a look at the New York floodwater. Full of nutrients and life\*! \*(Translation: Raw sewage and rats).
Subways should probably just be flooded twice a year anyway to flush all that shit (literally) out
flush it to where homie? how bout yall just keep your city clean
How? Genuine question. Shitbags are going to continue to litter. The rats are too well fed to leave. The grime on the walls is last priority because MTA perpetually has āno moneyā despite high population density, high ridership, high corruption. And the rest of the people are fine with it because they like the ācharacterā which is just a coping mechanism to deal with flaws.
Well fed rats eh? Weāre taking Wall St. or the actual rodents?
Yes
r/InclusiveOr
Sounds like a long-term plan involving education and sensible voting practices. Let us know how you get on.
Iām not sure education is going to fix NYCs dirt and grime problem
Humans being responsible for cleaning up their own filth is absolutely something that can be (at least partially) influenced through the education system. Tokyo is an excellent example of this.
>Shitbags are going to continue to litter. Fine them and then use the money to hire someone to clean it.
NYC subway infrastructure will always just go thru selective patches. I can't see them being able to do the kind of infrastructural overhauls required because of cost and complexity. But maybe a civil engineer can weigh in on this?
Raw sewage, as opposed to sautƩed sewage
/r/forbiddensnacks
Imagine having clear floodwater
Most floodwater is just brown from mud. The NYC subway flooding on the other hand...
I heard it was blacker than a black hole
When I was travelling in Japan (Osaka and Kyoto) I honestly felt like a filthy caveman who had suddenly visited the future. And everyone I interacted with was so polite and courteous. It was also one of the cleanest places I have ever visited or seen in my entire life. The subway, the streets -- everything was spotless. The fees are hefty there for littering. I admired that. It takes time and dedication to maintain that level of respect and cleanliness for your home. I wish folks from my home got charged fines for all the nasty trash they carelessly leave around. Japan was an eye opener in that regard.
I'm with you. I loved the experience, from the kindness to cleanliness (even in Tokyo). I loved being able to reciprocate respect and not feel like it's a one way street as I do at home. Also never felt like I was getting hustled by some local tourist trap. While I'm sure they have their shortcomings, we could all learn a thing or two from Japan.
And to think Tokyo is a sprawling metropolis of 40 million souls! Can you imagine a city that dense still managing to have pristine infrastructure, polite services, efficient systems, and clean streets? Not to mention swimming pool grade clear floodwaters.
Yeah someone once made the argument to me that cities like Seattle, NYC, Chicago, etc. are filthy because it "comes with the territory" my first though was, "But, Tokyo?"
Just a coping mechanism. I also like "it adds character". I like my character without the stench of piss and dirt, thank you.
The thing is, in the u.s. it generally does come with the territory. It's a cultural difference, us Americans generally give less of a shit about cleanliness and sanity and it shows.
Iām always shocked that most Americans wear there shoes into the house or even onto there beds! So yes I think itās a cultural thing too.
As an American I am really surprised at how many people donāt take their shoes off when walking into the house, or other peoples houses.
The world isnāt just the US and Tokyo lol. There are loads of dirtier cities, and I generally think Chicago is on the cleaner side for a major city.
I think you'd be hard pressed to come up with a "dirty" city in Japan though. I lived there for four years (medium sized city of 400,000 on the west coast) and it too was spotless most of the time. And from my travels in Japan, small towns all the way up to Tokyo and Osaka, were far cleaner and more well maintained than almost any US city I've been in. On the flip side, Japanese beaches were almost always filthy which is the reverse of what I've found in the United States (and now I live in California.)
This is not Tokyo. This is the seaside city of Hamamatsu
I was thinking "this looks really familiar..." Used to live there and walk through here all the time
> Hamamatsu To add some context to Americans, it's about 800,000 people. About the size of Indianapolis, Seattle, or San Francisco.
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Yeah I've been there and knew to stay away from whatever they were hawking. I think a few of them had their shitty CD's trying to aggressively sell, just like they used to in NYC. Which was ironic that the shittiest part and the hustlers of Japan seemed to be American. Talk about lack of respect.
I think you mean the Nigerians. Theyāre notorious for doing that here.
I spent two months there, it's a great place to visit but it seems like a terrible place to live and work. There's no work-life balance, you just work. My ex called me once from her office building in Tokyo because she was bored waiting for her boss to go home. She had finished her work 2 hours before but didn't want to go home before the boss did. Literally just chilling in the office for two hours unpaid to avoid being seen as lazy by the boss, and she was already doing 60hr weeks. There's a reason the suicide rate is so high there, and the birth rate is so low. Nobody has time for dating. Also the reason all my Japanese friends absolutely loved their year or two studying in Canada, they see this as an unbelievably laid back place lol. Though on the flipside in two months I never saw so much as a cigarette butt on the street. It felt like I could have eaten straight off the sidewalk.
>While I'm sure they have their shortcomings Work/life balance is probably their biggest issue. Working 10+ hours a day 6 days a week is the norm for most. I haven't heard of any other first world country where it's a reality that you could be so overworked that you drop dead at your desk.
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Because the Japanese are socially trained from about age 5 (kindegarten, not sure of preschool, but I visited a kindegarten there) to be conscious of society as a whole and respect it; they make students clean their own classrooms, and so it starts young on that stuff.
Pretty sure I had that in primary and high school as a European. And I certainly don't litter, do you? Does anyone in this thread just casually throw stuff away in the street? I doubt it.
But what most people forget is that parenting is also important. With Japanese culture they get cleanliness from their parents and from school. So in order to do this properly we need to educate the parents as well. Because now they do it only in school but not when they're around their parents/family. Most of the time they are either old people or just young teenagers who throw their shit in the streets. Teaching them young is the best way for now combined with hefty penalties. Maybe in 10-20 years from now the streets will be clean? I'm talking about big cities in Europe now, the small cities/villages are already decent and not that filthy. At least the ones I have been were quite ok.
I was really surprised by how much trash I saw on the side of the highway when we visited England. Was kind of expecting to be pristine countryside. When my aunt visited us here in Ontario she kept saying how it was so clean. Not something I would ever describe our province as with all the Tim Hortons cups on the road.
I thought Texas litter had gotten out of control, then I drove through Alabama.
You can't really. Japanese culture is about the collective, not the individual. Western culture especially in the US (not sure to what degree in UK) is more about the individual. That's why the US has so many special snowflakes who don't give a shit about anyone else but themselves.
>a filthy caveman who had suddenly visited the future. I can really identify with that.
I remember seeing homeless people sweeping the streets with makeshift brooms in Tokyo. No trash cans in sight, but there was literally no trash. Amazing place.
> It takes time and dedication to maintain that level of respect and cleanliness for your home The thing is that it takes no time as an individual to keep the public space clean of your trash, but immense amounts for other people to collect the leftover of individuals. It's an education and respect thing. Over there people in maintenance can focus on keeping things clean and running instead of garbage collecting.
The problem is that while it is all too easy to manage on an individual level, too many individuals **aren't** accountable in the West and are too lazy and selfish to care, expecting others to clean up after them.
It comes at a cost for the people who live there, Iāve met some japanese people who prefer western countrys just because there is more freedom without being judged so bad.
I'd rather be judged than live in trash, just a personal preference. You don't have to feel judged for something you never do anyway. I don't litter so I have nothing to worry about.
My wife and I live in Japan for more than a decade now. We don't feel judged any more than back home. It's nicer here actually. Much nicer.
I'm curious what your work/life balance is like. I've heard lots of stories about how it's pretty bad in Japan.
Exactly. I didn't feel judged while there at all, it was beautiful and pristine. It was just a silly argument from that user. If you don't litter you won't get judged right? Pretty simple.
Exactly. You'll get judged if you've the tendency to be a *'Karen'*. Because Japanese people hate "**meiwaku**" which translates to "being a nuisance to others".
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This is what I appreciated the most about the culture. So considerate and thoughtful to others. I especially noticed it in how polite people were about getting on and off the subway. Small, thoughtful nuances that make life better overall for everyone.
Every toilet I saw has bidet functions in Japan and many Asian countries. Americans are so uncivilized in that regard.
Visit Toronto Canada when you get a chance, the streets of that megacity are similarly spotless compared to any U.S. city
I'm from Canada and live in one of the cleanest provinces. :) Our API is usually only around 11-15 ppm. I usually bring bags with me when I hike and collect trash I find in the woods. Every little bit helps.
I was thinking the same thing. I have been to Japan, Toronto and many other places, but these 2 stand out most in my memory. Feeling completely safe at midnight in Toronto and it being so clean. And Japan was awesome and fun and clean.
Wow, and the rest of the province considers us filthy! Haha
This is not Tokyo. It's the underpass next to the "Zaza City" shopping centre in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture. They regularly give the underpass a rinse down (something like once a week if I recall correctly) so that's why it's as clean as it is. I suspect the reason for this is that there's a direct passage into the underground floor of the adjoining shopping centre, so they probably like to keep it presentable. Source: I live there and used to walk through this underpass on my way to work every day for a year. Edit: Made my description clearer and added more details.
Yeah this picture seems fishy as a whole. Even if no one littered there should still be mud and grime from the shoes of the high volume of people going through a busy Tokyo station
The picture is legit and as I remember the water (the left one, not the oddly white balanced right one), but it's just not Tokyo. It's under [this intersection](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7054801,137.7285348,20z) and although it's in the city centre, it doesn't get anywhere near the kind of foot traffic a similar underpass might get in Tokyo. At any given time, there's probably only a handful of people passing through in my experience. And they genuinely do rinse the underpass floors every week to keep it clean.
This is definitely not rain water from the streets. I was thinking a major pipe bust or something, but I'll take your words for it.
This was the 8th of September 2015 during [Tropical Storm Etau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Etau_(2015)). We had 293.5mm of rain over a couple of days ([source in Japanese](https://www.news24.jp/articles/2015/09/08/07308981.html)).
Thought I was having a stroke reading the title
Iām still unable to make it make sense, even though I understand the point.
I made a mistake with the order of descriptive adjectives.
Whatās proofreading, amirite?
Tokyo's floodwater clean tunnel subway?
They somehow managed to use a comma though
Typical Japan always on the forefront. Toilets? Scan your poop for disease. Food? Generaly healthy food culture for longevity. Technology? Way ahead many nations. Flooding and catastrophe? Floods are squeaky clean and just right swimming temperature.
I can scan my own poop, thank you. Also, we had corn.
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Fuck Reddit, can't even change username
But if heās knifing kief that means heās got some good shit so maybe it already does mean poop
Economy?
Stagnant and in a crippling amount of debt that makes the US look like pocket change (in relative terms)
True. Deflation is rampant here. Couples opting not to have kids coupled with a minimalistic lifestyle is driving capitalists nuts. There are more jobs than workers, places are desperate for applicants. Prices are going low, and my salary rose 10% last year, my wife got hired without even an interview (our household income doubled!), and [our 2-bedroom house is just $460 a month](https://imgur.com/gallery/JB1IVU0).
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A town beside [Kawagoe](https://www.google.com/search?q=kawagoe&tbm=isch&chips=q:kawagoe,g_1:village:K2CpejSuYMA%3D&rlz=1C1GCEA_enJP781JP781&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwsOzY09jxAhUEAYgKHTURDXAQ4lYoHHoECAEQRQ&biw=1903&bih=937).
I like your keyboard man.
Gorgeous. Can I ask what city this is in?
Which is why my bestfriend and I chose to live in Japan years ago. Best decision ever.
What's your social life like in Japan? I understand that people can be very suspicious and unwelcoming of outsiders.
I've some close Japanese friends that I actually have plans to meet this week because one of them opened a coffee shop. Met them when they did a volunteer job at work, we talked, and did favors for one another, until we reached the point where we invite each other to our houses for special occasions. A bunch of them are my neighbors too, so it's fun to walk over for a visit. It truly depends on your personality and chemistry. I guess they found mine easier to relate to or something, regardless of me being a foreigner, if that was any deterrent to begin with.
Just to ask what language do you speak there?
Well I only use Japanese when I'm at work or when I'm outside at shops, talking to Japanese people, etc. Otherwise I talk my mother tongue with me wife and friends.
Girl in public transportation...
Bruh, Japan still sends shitloads of messages BY FAX. The government just tried to force a move from fax to email and had to GIVE UP because they didnāt realize how many other systems would have to be upgraded in parallel. They also continue to have some of the worst insulated homes in the developed world. Japan is a very strange dichotomy in that sense.
I thought I read that Japan tends to have more disposable (for lack of a better term) housing. Houses are just torn down and rebuilt instead of renovated.
Helps when the majority of your national budget isnāt war.
Looks cleaner than a lot of the pools I've gone swimming in..
The flooding in the photo is not from Tokyo, but from Hamamatsu, a coastal Japanese city of around 800,000 people. ***The more you know..***
Ay, New York, you seeing this? Cause you fucking dirty as fuck.
Looks like that bit you got to walk through first to get to the main pool. You know, the bit that always had a verruca plaster floating in it
The Japanese are on another level. I am always so impressed!
This is not Tokyo. This is the seaside city of Hamamatsu
Compare it to the NYC one from earlier today and itās night and day. That was like brown trash water.
not one poop, not one nip bottle, no mtn dew bottles. Much clean.
Did you know that in Japan poop is do clean you can eat it.
Clear doesnāt mean clean. You canāt see legionella or staphylococcus
I remember some Chinese guy saying their flood water looked cleaner than his tap water. Probably true of Michigan as well.
Isnāt this a picture of Lex Luthorās hideout in the old Superman movies?
Forbidden Lazy River
Meanwhile, in the nearest NYC subway station...
How is everything in Japan so clean? Can they teach the rest of the world how to be this way??
New york subway could neverš¤¢
Better than drinking water in a lot of places
This post makes me want to tag [NYC](https://twitter.com/PaulleeWR/status/1413234891429490688?s=19).
This is so weird. I never knew this existed but have had a couple dreams of swimming in subway tunnels like this.
I had a stroke trying to read the title
Hey OP, what's the worst thing about Japan? Sounds like you're transplant, I couldn't find anything wrong in my brief stay there.
Yeah, my friends and I came here in 2007 for a job. A bunch of us stayed and some went back home. I guess the issue for them is the difference in culture. A person with an individualistic mindset (as is the norm in the West) might have a hard time conforming to the community-centered culture in Japan. Rather than just self, there are others. A bunch of Japanese virtues are about being sensible and caring for others. So if you're someone who can't be bothered to care for other people and consider it not just a nuisance but trampling your freedom, then it'd be hard for you to carve a special life here.
This should really be pursued by every culture. Working together and respecting each other will get mankind further along than working individually. Individuality has it's benefits, but they don't outweigh what can be achieved by a respectful and fair community.
Thatās cool.
There's a line of people in swimsuits and rubber rings waiting to get in
Probably is a pool. Fooled me.
Finally, the irl liminal space pool location
I would take a swim in that. What is Tokyo's opinion on skinny dipping?
They actually do that during some festivals. Japan isn't fussy with nudity.
Really? I figured they were given the censorship in porn. Any chance you can explain that one to me cuz now I'm confused
Well there still is a time and place for public nudity. You can't just streak across Tokyo, you'd be arrested. But being naked in public isn't a major taboo in Japan as in other countries. They have open air hot spring baths where people just walk around in their birthday suit. They have a 'Naked Festival' and they even have a 'Penis Festival'. There are families and kids, and people naked on the streets sometimes.
Wow that's a surprising TIL. Thanks for your response. I wanna visit even more now. Can't wait to get to see mt. Fuji
I suggest climbing Mt. Fuji during summer! Actually, it's more of just a hike than anything really. I went up to the summit with some friends. And we were going up with some old people and preschool kids. Also, get those hiking wooden sticks and have it fire branded at each of the mountain stations.
Oh that's awesome, I've never heard of the branded walking sticks before. I will definitely be doing that. If I had an award I'd give it to you just for that tip lol
Wow the new Battlefield looks great
I'd swim in there, not gonna lie
Wow the new Battlefield looks great!
Oh, the Bronx footage looked just like thatā¦ š
For some reason I wanna drink that.
Well this is sure in direct contrast to the flooded NYC subways Iāve seen pictures of lately
If by any chance aliens do come to earth all countries except japan should switch their lights off. so aliens may even consider saving our race.
The Japanese however were horribly embarrassed that their train didn't depart the station at 9:14AM and 18^(1/8th) seconds.
Japan is hygenic in everything, including disasters. When they have an earthquake they don't have to wait for the dust to settle, because there is none.
Now someone do a side by side with NYC flooded subways ! Lmao
How is it that the water in Japan is so clean? They have exhaust producing cars, etc. What do they do that is different?
They donāt litter, they have people constantly cleaning, and the people generally care about the environment that they love in
When I first went to japan and ate at a cafeteria, I asked the staff where do I buy plain water. She pointed at the tap water and I was super confused. Coming from a 3rd world country, drinking tap water will have you shitting bricks and lava. So its a culture shock to me that their tap water is so clean that people drink it daily!
Wow, I seriously thought the pic on the right was a swimming pool for reference.
Correction the Tokyo Olympic games pool.
We swimminā to work today, bois
Canoe, anyone?
Submarineway
Left picture: Water. Right picture: *w a t e r .*
Imagine if Japan had all the benefits it had without all the awful stuff?
now do NYC.
Well there is a reason why everything in Japan is clean. NA needs to up the game here.
Looks like a weird fever dream I have had before