[bluepizza]

> But during too many hours of the day in popular areas it's normal to see literal piles of trash on the street covered in rats, and in the morning with crows.

Apart from the worst parts of Roppongi on a Monday morning, I have never ever seen this.

[franciscop]

Trash days 5~8am, normal days in any place with many restaurants 11pm~8am basically (Shibuya, Ebisu, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, etc).

[marak830]

That would be more attributed to the multiple day trash picking depending on which type, though right?

I mean Tuesday: burnable waste, wed cardboard, Thurs clothes and Fri other, will tend to have trash in the designated areas, on each of those days.

Edit:spelling (Note:days and trash types differ a lot per area, but it's a good generalisation based off of my location).

[franciscop]

That's one thing for sure, but I attribute it most to the lack of dumpsters. I am not sure why they were banned, the trash cans supposedly because of terrorism, but the larger containers/dumpsters would make the city so much cleaner and better.

Tip: when there's a typhoon, restaurants close and there's no trash on the street, the rats invade nearby shops looking desperately for food:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkpV_fCeuIE

[bombcar]

To be fair to Tokyo I doubt there's a major city in the world that doesn't have rats unless rats can't live in a super hot desert or frozen tundra.

It's a matter of how contained/controlled/visible they are.

[selimthegrim]

Calgary and Edmonton.

[bombcar]

Nice, ratatouille BTFO: https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program.aspx