Here’s a photo taken when I had a day off work last year. Power cable maintenance in the old neighborhood in Omori. You would expect residential areas to be pretty quiet during weekdays but actually there’s tons of activity and noise. Staying home from work to get rest and relaxation never works because there’s always the sound of jack-hammers or construction just outside your window. If not it will be swarms of screaming kindergarten kids kicking a ball against a wall or the numerous people ringing your doorbell trying to sell you something.
My new neighborhood in Setagaya is much better. All the people living around me are senior citizens that don’t have kids or wind chimes or loud stereos or home theatres. And they don’t seem to open their windows. Yey! So far the only minor annoyances have been a bunch of young kids regularly practicing their breakdance moves in a nearby coin parking, a young girl practicing the piano in the apartment across the from my house and a guy who walks by early in the morning burping really loudly.
Glad to hear your new neighborhood is better. In my neighborhood there aren’t many annoyances, only a construction company where they sometimes work on sunday, in the morning that is.
Are powercables always above ground in Japan? Here they are almost all in the ground. Having them above ground is easier to maintain I guess, but perhaps more dangerous to have them exposed like that.
He he, that’s funny!
I had the same thing at my old place in Nishi-Nippori. I used to live right next to Kaisei Chu Gakko and I’d either get (in no particular order: baseballs being whacked, announcements over the loud speaker, screaming and singing kids on sports day, various chimes throughout the day, crows, kids on way back from school, the refuse lorry backing up, work on the train tracks, cats making out, Shinkansen passing, and an assortment of construction work. But I had a view of Fuji san, so I shouldn’t complain.
But burping kids!? That’s just not on.
LOL at burping guy!