Here’s how you know Haruhi doesn’t take place in Tokyo
August 12th, 2009 at 11:11:50 by wah
Public trash cans.
They don’t have them in Tokyo. Well, maybe outside of Seven Eleven or something, but generally there’s no public trashcans. Certainly not in parks.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:43:53
so… what are you supposed to do if you have some kind of trash you have to trow and you are in a park?
August 12th, 2009 at 14:38:40
Hasn’t it been an established fact that Haruhi takes place in the original author’s hometown of Nishinomiya, judging by the details from the anime and the books?
August 12th, 2009 at 18:28:33
Do any Japanese cities really have public trash cans? I’ve never seen anywhere with more than Tokyo, with the exception of amusement parks.
August 12th, 2009 at 19:48:40
Chrisl, you put it in your bag or pocket until you find a trashcan. Common courtesy
August 12th, 2009 at 23:41:03
The same situation happens in central London with no bins around… Didn’t know it happened in Tokyo as well.
August 13th, 2009 at 03:31:39
Parks have no trash cans because the homeless earn their right to keep living there by picking up all the litter.
August 13th, 2009 at 04:23:47
Osaka has trash cans.
August 13th, 2009 at 17:59:05
I found plenty of trash/recycling bins in Tokyo when I was there. Usually, in between the vending machines, there are circular slots to dump bottles and papers.
August 13th, 2009 at 22:56:44
Those don’t count.
August 14th, 2009 at 12:42:23
Ohh so thre are no trash cans in Tokyo because the trashcans there don’t count?
August 14th, 2009 at 13:12:42
—-’Ohh so thre are no trash cans in Tokyo because the trashcans there don’t count?’
XD lol
well, red octuber, its kind of obvious if you are on a place with not trashcans you would do that, the question is why they dont have trashcans? trash cans help people to keep a park clean
im pretty sure japanese people have the tendency to be cleaner than us, however, i don’t see the point in making more tempting to litter, because thats what having no trashcans does.
there must be a few (im jsure there are just a few) not-so-clean japanese dudes and idk, on a afternoon walking on a park, nobody is watching….. ‘oh carrying this juice bottle to the reclying bin is anonying’…. and then, the litter is done.
that can be prevented with a trashcan
August 14th, 2009 at 19:24:24
There’s no trashcans because people put bombs in them in the mid-nineties.
The ones by vending machines “don’t count” because they just accept bottles and cans.
August 16th, 2009 at 10:20:58
They removed most public trash bins after the Aum Shin Sarin attacks back in ’95.
August 18th, 2009 at 00:03:21
oooohh I see
August 19th, 2009 at 17:47:22
Same here, my bad :B
August 23rd, 2009 at 14:57:33
> They removed most public trash bins after the Aum Shin Sarin attacks back in ‘95.
Central London used to be the same due to the IRA bombings in the 1980s, although it is much better nowadays…