Shocking items that you can find on the road are... PANTSU!
There's actually a banana peel on
the road that one's rather dry already but why???
Credit cards... the Iphone... money envelopes... humans!!!
Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's CathyCat greetings from Tokyo
right now I'm here on the streets on the road of Tokyo and when you walk around
Tokyo and Japan especially the big cities you will find random items on the street
like this key that we just found now this time we're going to talk about the most
10 most shocking items you can find on the road here in Japan and it seems to be normal
The other day I found a steaming hot bowl of cup noodles on the sidewalk just sitting there it was
still steaming it was still warm and what is that cup noodle thing doing there? And then
a moment later a construction worker came out and that was his lunch but there are other weird items
that you can find apart from keys on the streets here in Japan so let's feature some of them
For example right now we found a little clementine orange over here it's just sitting
there it definitely does not belong to the tree huh... why are you here little orange little mikan?
Number one of random surprising shocking items that you can find on the road are... PANTSU
We picked the flashiest one and put it right at the start
because it's true we've seen that many times when we were walking around Tokyo and other prefectures
there's just a pair of things on the street so for example last month we went to Shimonoseki
there was something silky on the street on the floor and I walked past it... but the director
stopped and he was like "You know what that is?" I'm like "Oh it's panties on the road but why?"
I know what you guys are thinking now you might be thinking they are lying around because someone
had a hot night and somehow they ended up on the streets... that's apparently actually
not the case in Japan! I asked one of my Japanese friends why that is so and the actual answer is
you remember how we mentioned the Japanese people generally all dry their washing on their balconies
that is the answer to the question because the underwear is the smallest
and lightest and the easiest to get blown off during winds and similar apparently
apparently ......
Out of respect of the people who live there I cannot show you this but right now behind
you behind the director is washing all over the place I can see so much washing and I can
also see some female and male boxers and underwear that are hanging up right now
Japan is very very much hanging up the laundry outside and that's why
we sometimes have it lying on the street similar things like that
Number two it's yellow it's on the road and it's not these colorful ginkgo leaves it's banana peel
banana peel on the road here i've seen a lot of times and usually you see it like in comedies
that kind of stuff but in Japan you actually find banana peel on the road
but the question is... why do I never see Japanese people eat bananas
while we were filming this video we found another one there's actually
a banana peel on the road that one's rather dry already but why just why
If you are a Japanese person and are watching this....
Why are there so many banana peels on the street? Please tell me!!!
Please leave a comment.
Number three Gunte gloves. N ow in the 1900s a Swiss company made cotton gloves with machines and
it didn't get as popular in the world but it got very popular here in Japan because they
got given to the Japanese army. "Gun" comes from army and "te" hand so hands for the army
A lot of physical workers in Japan are using the gunte you can pretty much see
it from the mail delivery man to the street worker to anyone who
handles items or carries items frequently, these gloves are generally supplied so they're supposed
to protect the hands and give them better grip on items... they're also advised to be in
some emergency packs and I was wearing them when I was climbing up Mount Fuji... so it's no surprise
that some of those handy gloves end up on the road but the fun thing is they seem to be run
over by cars and then after a while they do like hand signs and patterns so sometimes you even see
a peace sign it looks like they're playing rock scissors papers or even other symbols like these
Konichiwa... my name is CathyCat!
Business cards is number four on our list and in Japan generally they're a very important part
of the business life... usually when you introduce yourself to someone you always have to have your
business card especially in the business districts Shinjuku and Roppongi and similar these cards are
super important but you can sometimes find them on the floor ... a business card is also a
very personal thing it might contain very vital information and similar so for example if you go
to a big event like a congress or a type of messe exhibition you're generally required to give one
of the CREDIT cards to the person who does the event and one keep for yourself they're actually
much more important than you think they might be so if one of them is on the floor be careful
"You said CREDIT CARDS"
I did?
credit cards credit cards credit cards credit cards credit cards
business cards are a vital part of Japanese life
and you're actually supposed to treat the other person and the business card the
same way... so the way you receive a business card similar is actually very important. So for example
if you go to an exhibition a messe or a business event you sometimes are required by the people who
do the event to give them a copy of your business card and keep one on you in a little lanyard
So if you lose your own business cards that's certainly embarrassing because you're supposed
to take proper care of them... I've had this people have actually gave my cards back to me going
like "I think you dropped that girl" that's very embarrassing but what's even worse is dropping
a business card of a business partner.... oh my god never ever do that! You get in so much trouble
Next number is eyeliner: Japanese ladies are so skilled they can do their makeup anywhere
on the train just in the restaurant freshen it up on the go on the walk and actually eyeliner
is one of those items that you find a lot in the streets... I wouldn't dare put on my eyeliner while
I'm like out and about I always very scared of poking myself in the eye with it but they're
so skilled they somehow can do it I mean there are other makeup products but eyeliner is one of
those that the director for example finds the most on the road and I want to know why
Next number is shoes: you never find a pair of shoes you generally just find one random shoe on the
road... majority seems to be kids shoes but sometimes you find high heels and other shoes on the road
sneakers and similar and always wondering where did the other part go to and why are there so
many kids shoes and why does no one know that the kid is walking around with just one shoe?
So why do the parents not realize that one shoe or sock is missing well that's because Japanese
bicycles generally look like this... we call them mamachari and at the front or the back is usually
when there's a space for kids in the front or in the back and sometimes the parents can't see or
usually the moms who are driving these ones.... when one of the kids loses the shoe because they're
busy focusing on the road making sure they get from a to b i've seen a mamachari bus once where
literally a kid at the front a kid at the back and a kid strapped to her body it was like a mama bus
What kind of phone are you using right now well did you know that in 2020 50% of Japanese people
are actually owning the Iphone. Iphone is super super popular even I have to shamely admit
that I own one and which means that one in two people has an Iphone here in Japan Iphone... kind of crazy
which is no surprise then that you can get the Iphone cases anywhere at airports at the yen store
at the supermarket with cute characters on it you can find all types of Iphone cases all around some
glittery ones some crazy ones some light up some have a mirror and the space for the suica card
inside, which is what my case does and so you find them on the street... but I'm just wondering like
if you lost your case what happened to your phone? And why is that case just randomly lying there?
Next number is tissues. In Japan you get surprisingly many things for free sometimes it's
magazines, cosmetic products, little trial things on the streets but one of the most common ones
are tissues... now why are tissues free in Japan? Generally it's for commercial purposes so if
you look closely at the tissue either on the package or in the package it's some kind of
commercial: it can be for karaoke bars it can be for real estate agents it can be for the gentleman
kind of "ladies bars" at night or for the ladies it can be how about... would
you like to work at a "ladies bar" at night you find all kinds of tissues and if you
actually go to the big stations like Shibuya Ikebukuro and similar on you might end up with
five packs of tissues for free and obviously some of them just land straight on the floor
Some of the people who live in Tokyo and I know you know you might have been doing that too
actually start counting or calculating those tissues in and go like: "Damn, I left the house
without tissues... oh it's fine I'm probably gonna get one pack at the next station"
Next number are money envelopes... now how do you usually pay in your country it might be
by credit card in Japan there's also lots of digital ways these days whyyyy.... what is that?
Director: "I think it's a leg warmer"
there's just one pair of
we keep finding things today there's a pair of leg warmers right here
Yes... I was talking about money envelopes so money envelopes are a thing that you might also find
it's it looks like a normal envelope but it generally has a name of a banker similar on it
reason for that being is: in Japan when you pay people sometimes people
hand it over in cash but you should never just give hard cash to people in a naked way the clothes....
it has to be clothed... in an envelope. So generally when you hand someone over money it has to be
in an envelope and those envelopes somehow end up on the streets but yeah if you should find
them containing money though you're supposed to go and hand them in at the next police station
We found another random item here it looks like a Pikachu hat ...or is it pants? What is it?...
Turn out, that was a Pikachu hat or tissue case? Who knows anyways next number is: humans!
Japanese people are hard workers and some of them are very stressed and many blow off steam in the evening by going to
pubs clubs bars and similar they go drinking or used to in the "old days" and that's the point when
you go for example to Shinjuku Shibuya Akihabara Roppongi those kind of areas and then you'll see
some very very drunken people: some are just lying, sitting or sleeping on the road ... When you
see a person passed out on the street and now are bound to help I want to do things straight
away generally there's a KOUBAN around in the area: a police box that's where you can go and
meet a police officer and hopefully that person can take care of them or if it's near a station
tell the station staff that's all we can do for these people but yeah drink responsibly guys
Japan is generally a very cleanly country there's generally not that much garbage on the ground
compared to other places i've been to, but if you should find an item that is especially of
value then you actually supposed to give it to the police next police box and the police box
is never quite that far away.... one of the weirdest things i've ever found is.... I was in Nakano broadway
somewhere I was just walking through that long mall and someone had cut out the pages of an
erotic manga and spread them through the whole shopping mall so the more we were walking the
more we could see the storyline progress well there wasn't much of a storyline but the action
progressed while we were walking and I was just like "why is that?" I almost felt a little bit like
it was on purpose to be honest... but um I think that soon got taken care of afterwards staff from the
mall came and they quickly tried to collect all the very very raunchy pages that were on the floor
but was one of those most random things that I found on the streets here in Japan I must say
I still think it was probably on purpose... anyways guys what is the most random weirdest or funniest
thing that you found on the floor in your country don't be shy let us know in the comments down
below I'm looking forward to reading it thanks for hanging out watching this movie don't forget
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