Do it at home

Tokyo Metro Subway has been doing a manner campaign monthly with a poster around its station.

I was on my way to work in Shinbashi and used the subway yesterday. Guess what i found this month. The new manner poster for January.

#1 Do it at home

Actually this scene on the poster can be often seen in Shibuya. If you take the Yamanote line or the subway, you will be seeing most youth sitting on the floor of the densha. Weird, yeh?

In Japan, you can see all kinds of bad manners in the densha. Unlike Malaysia, you can`t talk loudly, switch your handphone to the silent mode, turn down your audio player`s volume so that it can`t be heard by others. About the handphone issue, most of my Malaysian friends often asked me about what kind of ringtones does the Japanese use?

Most will thought that they will be using cool ringtones. But, normally their ringtones are the most popular J-pop song that time. Most of my friends have it set it that way or did not even set their ringtones instead setting it only on vibration.

Oh yes, some even used their own voice.

All for the sake of preventing troubling the people around you. In short we call it 迷惑をかけないで, Meiwaku wo kakenaide, which means Dun trouble the others. Well, not all Japanese have good manners after all, there is always a small part of them anyway.

If you re interested for the past monthly posters, please visit this link i have set up for you. Dun worry about the japanese words around, Just click on the images inside and it will be maximized.

Guess that you can see the Japanese in the densha from the posters?