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At Shinagawa station, heading to Osaka. and left my backpack on the rack in a train car, on the Yamanote Line! Freak. Went to lost and found and the man suggested to go back in one hour in the track and look in the train at the stop. I was highly skeptical.

After thinking, and after using find my android, I had more confidence in the plan and decided to go for it.

After some tests runs, of hitting most of the train while saying sumimasen like crazy, I figured out I misread the location and had to wait another hour. Find my android was also being a bit inconsistent the as well.

Made another run at it and boom found it. Wow. Yes, extremely lucky. But being that it happened in Japan, I felt comfortable and confident that I would find it. Probably at night during the nighttime cleaning.

Wow.
 
Good job getting it back... At least it happened in Japan...

My worst loss was my entire wallet on a subway, just dropped it and didn't realize it until I was at the gate.
Luckily, I got it back in about 45 min once I realized it was gone. Someone found it on the floor and turned it in at a station further down the line.
Everything was there, nothing taken.
 
Wow, glad you were able to get it back without incident. Pretty crazy how that works but it is Japan so thank goodness for that.

I too am an idiot and i can't be trusted to remember things like that so if i ever put a bag up on the rack, I have to constantly be looking at it or have a hand on it or something so I don't forget about it, lol.
 
Travelling today and already panicked three times that I lost my carry on luggage.

Didn't even bring it with me.

So yeah, I never put anything to the upper rack on the train.
 
lost both, bag and a wallet, didnt get anything back^^
on the other hand i forgot a phone in a cab once (mist likely slipped out of my bag), that one i could pick up at the police station...
 
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lost both, bag and a wallet, didnt get anything back^^
on the other hand i forgot a phone in a cab once (mist likely slipped out of my bag), that one i could pick up at the police station...

VDayQueen had forgotten her cellphone in a cab in Tokyo which was not fun as she’s from Oz and had to take a plane back to Sydney 3 days later.
For some reasons it was found the next day ... in a Soka Gakkai temple far away (like Funabashi). First time I was actually thankful to the Soka Gakkai.
Afterwards I was asking her « do you have your phone with you? » every 10mn or so
 
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well one bag i had even got stolen... and i dont think it was some dirty foreigner^^
but i also never thought japan is safe... safer maybe, but after a stolen bag, not returned items (which i cant blame anyone for) and a few fights i always got to smile when i hear about safe japan... might be safe for most foreign men, thats it...
 
i always got to smile when i hear about safe japan...

Well, everything is relative, isn't it? Japan is the safest country I have ever visited or lived. That of course doesn't say bad shit cannot happen to you, even randomly without you trying to get into trouble.

It just says it happens less frequently than in other countries.

For example when I or someone I known have lost stuff more than 90% of it has come back intact. And still when a friend dropped an iPod from her pocket when we were jogging it was gone in less than 10 minutes when we went back to look for it.
 
Well, everything is relative, isn't it? Japan is the safest country I have ever visited or lived. That of course doesn't say bad shit cannot happen to you, even randomly without you trying to get into trouble.

It just says it happens less frequently than in other countries.

For example when I or someone I known have lost stuff more than 90% of it has come back intact. And still when a friend dropped an iPod from her pocket when we were jogging it was gone in less than 10 minutes when we went back to look for it.

Agreed. But you visited and lived mostly in Moldova, Somalia, Afghanistan,Nicaragua and Baltimore so your perspective is a bit warped :D
 
That is just crazy talk and you know it too. I would never live in Baltimore.

Well never been there but according to Trump its about as good as the shithole countries he famously decried (I guess all of Africa and Latin America and Middle-East, in his world view)
Had a look at U.S crime stats and he may have a point
 
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I once forgot my rented pocket wifi and the shipping sleeve to send it back to the rental company in the seat back of the train on the way to the airport. I have no idea who to thank for this but some nice cleaning person or later passenger must have found it, finished packing it up, and dropped it in the post for me as it showed up returned to the company. Only in Japan.
 
One time when I was drunk stumbling around, I thought my car was stolen so I went to a policeman and ask, "Ossifer....somebody shtole my car.."
He asked me where was the last time I saw it and I told him right on the end of this key...
He then chastized me for being drunk, disorderly and more embarassing... exposing myself.
I then realized, damn! Somebody stole my girl too!
 
I once forgot a girl I put on the rack but I was never able to find her afterwards.

talking to one of the younger (than me) escorts i've met several years back ... she mentioned to me she used to sleep on the racks of trains ... pulling my leg but might be real since her looks alone shout "i'm a rebel"
 
Well, everything is relative, isn't it? Japan is the safest country I have ever visited or lived. That of course doesn't say bad shit cannot happen to you, even randomly without you trying to get into trouble.

It just says it happens less frequently than in other countries.

For example when I or someone I known have lost stuff more than 90% of it has come back intact. And still when a friend dropped an iPod from her pocket when we were jogging it was gone in less than 10 minutes when we went back to look for it.


of course, its just that a lot of people think nothing bad ever happens in japan...
its just a little bit like petty theft, but umbrellas and bicycles are treated like public property^^
 
Well never been there but according to Trump its about as good as the shithole countries he famously decried (I guess all of Africa and Latin America and Middle-East, in his world view)
Had a look at U.S crime stats and he may have a point

I spent a lot of time in Washington, DC., and a lot of Capitol staffers who can't afford to rent a place in the district usually venture out into Maryland. Once, and just once, I made the mistake of hopping on the metro that goes to Baltimore. Mind you, I've lived in and spent time in some of the biggest cities in America, I've been through the "rough" neighborhoods in L.A. and So-Cal, up and down the West Coast and into the midwest, but the DC/Baltimore ghettos are in an entirely different category. And the "urban youth" (which is the politically correct liberal term for black kids) are seriously, 110% fucking HARD.

I made the drunken mistake of walking into a dive bar on the outskirts of DC and sitting at the counter. Not ten minutes later, this straight up gangbanger, black guy probably in his 30s, sits down next to me. He didn't act up, didn't raise his voice, didn't do anything remotely disorderly, but when he turned to me and asked what I was doing there, I looked into that fucker's eyes and could feel that chill. Cold eyes. Killer's eyes. Worst part, I guess the novelty of an Asian guy wandering into a bar in that neighborhood amused him so he started buying me rounds (cheap beer and shot of cheap whiskey). I got so fucking scared not wanting to owe this guy I started buying him two rounds for every one he bought me. As soon as he started getting sloppy I just left a tip and ran the fuck out.

The really sad part is catching the train and listening to the conversations the kids are having. Little black girls, maybe 12 or 13 years old, and they're talking about what they'll do after they drop out of school or get pregnant and who's on drugs and who got locked up. Basically kid with no hope for any sort of future.

There are two types of people in life: People who experience that and want to help those kids, and people who experience that and never want to see those kids near them again. I take the decidedly Republican approach and make sure I have enough money that I can afford to live somewhere those kids can't even spell, much less get to so they can rob houses. Trump ain't got shit on me.
 
Was on a 2 week long trip, carrying a huge hiking bag and suit case. Went to transfer trains, left the suitcase on the rack..didn't realize it until I had already gone up and down two sets of escalators.

As soon as I realized what i did, i dropped the hiking bag, sprinted like mad back to the original platform, leaped onto the train, snagged the bag off the rack and tumbled out of the train car just as the doors were closing.

Probably the most intense athletic feat of my entire life..Olympic level amount of exertion. I hope everyone on the platform enjoyed watching the tiny gaijin flailing around.
 
Yeah, Japan is pretty awesome like that. To be honest though I've had the same thing happen in Canada a couple of times and got my phone/wallet/bag back very easily.