S6·E3 – Nagoya, Underground Streets, Lost and Found on a Holy Night

2015-01-23 • 30 min

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The setting for this episode is Sakae, Nagoya, at Christmas time. With the bustling downtown area booming with economic activity, there is a place where people rush into in a panic. This is the “Lost and Found” counter, which handles lost and found items left behind on Nagoya's buses and subways. It handles more than 100,000 items a year. The most common items are umbrellas and gloves, but there are also unexpected items such as dentures and sotoba. At the end of the year, the lost-and-found warehouse is overflowing with lost-and-found items during the year-end party and Christmas season. Who in the world comes to pick up forgotten items and for what reason?