I got off the train at Yokohama Station today and wanted to drop my bags and walk to a restaurant for lunch.
At first I only found a couple of small banks of lockers. At the first bank, they were all full. At the second bank, all red lights, all full . . . except one.
I thought "great" and walked up to the locker without a red light. I opened it and . . . there was a suitcase in it.
Is this something Japanese people regularly do? Just place their luggage in a locker and close the door, leaving it unlocked, thinking "It's Japan, no one's gonna steal it"? Or was this more likely the work of a foreigner who didn't know how to use the lockers?
Would it have been appropriate for me to just remove the suitcase, put it off to the side, and put my luggage in and lock it?
I didn't do that. I schlepped my bags up to the tourist office to ask where there are more coin lockers and she directed me down the first floor corridor of the NeWoman store, where there were lots of empty ones.
by DonnyDonnellan
