Thursday, March 27, 2008

Noise pollution in Tokyo

On thing I've noticed in the Tokyo area, there seems to be a LOT of unnecessary noise. There are pre-recorded warnings, beeping trucks, and even silly recorded bird song at rail stations. Every escalator has a "please watch your step" warning and many trucks have "Be careful, this truck is turning right(or left)" messages that play when they turn on their turn signal. I don't remember as much of it when I was in Japan in the '90s. It must have come later.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nah, it was always there, but when you were there last you just didn't live so close to all of it. :)