I live in just southwest of Yoyogi Park in Shibuya-ku and work at an office in Hiroo. This past week, both locations have gone from the usual one or two sound trucks per week to multiple sound trucks per day. (Although thankfully the anti-Unification Church group that is often parked near both my home and work with a megaphone has been mercifully absent.) I also saw/heard multiple trucks over the course of an afternoon in Minato-ku this weekend. Will things go back to normal after the elections are over?
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Yes it will
The sound of democracy (sort of).
Yup
Election is next Sunday, so they’re entering the final stretch. And from the [size of the boards](https://img.sp.m.jiji.com/image/out/20230415ds61_p.jpg?updated=1681619086) I see in Tokyo where election posters are put up, I can imagine campaign car noise will get crazy on Saturday.
We just had our elections in Kanagawa/Yokohama a couple of weeks ago, and the number of slots on the board was less than half of that.
I made an [in-depth post here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tokyo/comments/12q6r3y/comment/jgpbuhe/) in case anyone’s wondering what’s going on with the Nationwide Local Elections this week. It’s a once-every-four-years thing.
Campaigning isn’t allowed on election day (Sunday), so you can expect Saturday (April 22) to be the last day you’ll have to listen to election trucks until the next election.
The trucks seem louder than usual in my neighborhood. Is there some kind of sound level law they aren’t following?
Harder to bomb a truck?
Thankfully the candidate from this district is running unopposed so we’ve been spared the loudspeaker trucks this election cycle. Your election trucks will be gone on election day.