May
22
Attention, Rude People With White Canes!
Stop hitting people’s luggage when you’re trying to make your way down the subway platform!
OK, not really. But if I didn’t read Japanese, I might think this new campaign on the part of the Manners Police was aimed at sight-challenged individuals. In fact, it’s admonishing clueless commuters not to block the strip of yellow bumps that guide blind people from one place to the other.
Posters nagging subway riders about etiquette are a fixture of Tokyo subways, frowning on everything from using an eyelash crimper on a moving train to passing out dead drunk on the floor. Until I saw this series though, they all depicted young people making old people put on their mad faces. Just once I’d like to see posters showing a clueless grandma in too-loud earphones blasting the teenager sitting next to her with vintage enka tunes…
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Ha ha, saw that one as well when I was in Tokyo.
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I was catching up on your blog over the weekend and I saw you’d been in town! I loved seeing the places you went while you were here!
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Happy to hear that. I am a big fan of your “Only in Japan” posts:)
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Nice! When was this photo taken? I didn’t see these in my time…
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I took this one about two weeks ago in Roppongi station. It’s the only station with the cool subway posters. The other ones all still feature teenagers assaulting grandmas with their eyelash crimpers and shopping bags!
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