Japan Public Sleeping


-Dead -Depressed that could not get hold of his limited edition Bukkake Lyric
-Just used his Bukkake Lyric and is feeling sleepy after (liquid on the floor next to him is not water)
One thing that I never saw when living in London or Seattle - people sleeping in public. My guess is either because of the fear of waking up to find all their belongings going missing - or because people just aren't that tired enough to sleep in public. Its very likely that when you visit Japan that you will see these tired beings lying around here n there.
Update: Apologies to JJ San for using his photos - I will remove them as soon as I fix the rest of the server.
These are mixed with photos taken by Hector, JJ San and by this search query at Flickr.
Oh, and if you are eating breakfast/dinner - and especially if its curry/porridge/stew/mash potatoes - then don't look at the last photo.




















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This was the post that got dugg and killed my server!
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This was the post that got dugg and killed my server!
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This was the post that got dugg and killed my server!
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This was the post that got dugg and killed my server!
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And forgot to mention that all previous comments were lost with the crash ToT
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And forgot to mention that all previous comments were lost with the crash ToT
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And forgot to mention that all previous comments were lost with the crash ToT
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And forgot to mention that all previous comments were lost with the crash ToT
Design Consultant
Its was a pretty funny post. Especially the guy that looks like he fell down the stairs to his death. Funny uh-oh.
no job right now
hahaha i was laughing so hard on that one i had an epic laugh for about 15 mins
Design Consultant
Its was a pretty funny post. Especially the guy that looks like he fell down the stairs to his death. Funny uh-oh.
Design Consultant
Its was a pretty funny post. Especially the guy that looks like he fell down the stairs to his death. Funny uh-oh.
Design Consultant
Its was a pretty funny post. Especially the guy that looks like he fell down the stairs to his death. Funny uh-oh.
Student and Computer tech
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Well it seems that Digg is the web's mass destruction weapon!
I Hope that your website will stay up now Danny. ;)
By the way these pictures are really funny. That's a good collection you sharing with us!
Student and Computer tech
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Well it seems that Digg is the web's mass destruction weapon!
I Hope that your website will stay up now Danny. ;)
By the way these pictures are really funny. That's a good collection you sharing with us!
Student and Computer tech
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Well it seems that Digg is the web's mass destruction weapon!
I Hope that your website will stay up now Danny. ;)
By the way these pictures are really funny. That's a good collection you sharing with us!
Student and Computer tech
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Well it seems that Digg is the web's mass destruction weapon!
I Hope that your website will stay up now Danny. ;)
By the way these pictures are really funny. That's a good collection you sharing with us!
student
Wow! It looks like the whole country was put to sleep by a spell or something.
Funny pictures too! XD
student
Wow! It looks like the whole country was put to sleep by a spell or something.
Funny pictures too! XD
student
Wow! It looks like the whole country was put to sleep by a spell or something.
Funny pictures too! XD
student
Wow! It looks like the whole country was put to sleep by a spell or something.
Funny pictures too! XD
Games addicted
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Congratulations Danny for run up the site again!
OO What a post! The last pic is quite...yaaaack! Is it so easy to find subject like this around Tokyo by night?
.:G:.
Games addicted
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Congratulations Danny for run up the site again!
OO What a post! The last pic is quite...yaaaack! Is it so easy to find subject like this around Tokyo by night?
.:G:.
Games addicted
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Congratulations Danny for run up the site again!
OO What a post! The last pic is quite...yaaaack! Is it so easy to find subject like this around Tokyo by night?
.:G:.
Games addicted
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Congratulations Danny for run up the site again!
OO What a post! The last pic is quite...yaaaack! Is it so easy to find subject like this around Tokyo by night?
.:G:.
Bounty Hunter
Looks like people there party way too hard. Party party party!
So many hentai mangas to read! So little time! :D
Bounty Hunter
Looks like people there party way too hard. Party party party!
So many hentai mangas to read! So little time! :D
Bounty Hunter
Looks like people there party way too hard. Party party party!
So many hentai mangas to read! So little time! :D
Bounty Hunter
Looks like people there party way too hard. Party party party!
So many hentai mangas to read! So little time! :D
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they r too tired.. lol
http://hotxchick.blogspot.com/
they r too tired.. lol
http://hotxchick.blogspot.com/
they r too tired.. lol
http://hotxchick.blogspot.com/
they r too tired.. lol
=.=!
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they really seems dead.. with their beautiful posture..
=.=!
http://hihi123.wordpress.com
they really seems dead.. with their beautiful posture..
=.=!
http://hihi123.wordpress.com
they really seems dead.. with their beautiful posture..
=.=!
http://hihi123.wordpress.com
they really seems dead.. with their beautiful posture..
Researching drug to conceal weaknesses
it'd be so nice if we should sleep freely in america like that and not be weird
though i do things like that on buses and stairs already..
Researching drug to conceal weaknesses
it'd be so nice if we should sleep freely in america like that and not be weird
though i do things like that on buses and stairs already..
Researching drug to conceal weaknesses
it'd be so nice if we should sleep freely in america like that and not be weird
though i do things like that on buses and stairs already..
Researching drug to conceal weaknesses
it'd be so nice if we should sleep freely in america like that and not be weird
though i do things like that on buses and stairs already..
Otaku/Illustrator/Mangaka
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Im also going to be doing this when I go to Japan. Its going to be so awesome, I know I will feel ssafe because I wont be carrying around anything important a lot of times, except when I need it, and when Im tired, I can just fall on the ground and take a snooze
Otaku/Illustrator/Mangaka
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Im also going to be doing this when I go to Japan. Its going to be so awesome, I know I will feel ssafe because I wont be carrying around anything important a lot of times, except when I need it, and when Im tired, I can just fall on the ground and take a snooze
Otaku/Illustrator/Mangaka
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Im also going to be doing this when I go to Japan. Its going to be so awesome, I know I will feel ssafe because I wont be carrying around anything important a lot of times, except when I need it, and when Im tired, I can just fall on the ground and take a snooze
Otaku/Illustrator/Mangaka
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Im also going to be doing this when I go to Japan. Its going to be so awesome, I know I will feel ssafe because I wont be carrying around anything important a lot of times, except when I need it, and when Im tired, I can just fall on the ground and take a snooze
Student
Back after a long absence! What's with the last pic?? Did some guy vomit on him or he slept with his vomit?? Funny post! I love the photo where the guy slept near the stairs.. Like a murder scene XD
Otaku Security Guard
It looks like clips from a B movie, some nefarious neuro-toxin has been released into the air
Student
Wow can't wait to do that when I visit Japan, I first would be in the middle of a doorway, then jam a revolving door, then an automatic door, then against a window wear people on the other side eat.
U.S. Army Officer
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I wish I could have sleepy time when and where ever without the police bothering me, breathalysing me and people trying to write stuff on my face while the other stuff is happening.
Student, Producing videos and draw sometimes
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Whou, that must be some sort of Paranoia Agent effect! Almost everyone sleeps in every ending credit. O.O
student, nerd, gamer
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if onli we cud sleep in skool lik that :]
Lifeguard
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these people should take my approach to life at least once a week. Sleep while at work, for small bursts of about 20 minutes. That way you get payed to sleep :)
you wonder why there's no food
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thats soo funny xD i luv the 5th last one~ hes like sinking into the plants =]
some of the places these people sleep i dun fink i wouldd even think of~
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
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Oh wow.... we have homeless sleeping in public. But not regular people lol.
Navy Recruit
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wow they shouldn't work so hard.
why is it they push salary men or (workers in general) out there to work so hard?
the guy in the plants is being one with nature.
part-time professional part-timer
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That last pic... yeah.... that guy has too much alcohol in his blood. :))
大学生
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Wow its that really old post that I read last year~ No wonder it seemed so familiar. The pictures never fail to make me laugh XD
Student, Guitarist, Programmer
I liked the girls with identical hairstyles, sleeping in an identical way.
Twins?
C. Engineering Student
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You know whats creepy. I was eating breakfast when I came across this...
"Oh, and if you are eating breakfast/dinner - and especially if its curry/porridge/stew/mash potatoes - then don't look at the last photo."
the thing is, why did I scroll down to the last image then?
MS pilot
i knew danny would pull that last pic back out again! i just knew it! so disgusting...argh
University Student
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Lol at the one sleeping near the staircase.. Looks like he just fall down :p
Radical Dreamer
Hey, eave the sleeping people alone! I'm one of them. lol
When you have the time and money to go to Japan, you'd be sleepy all day from partying all night! I made it the time of my life, that's for damn sure.
Student & Authorized Chicken Slapper
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Sleeping like this is a certified way of getting mugged...at least here anyway. Some of these are understandable like on the train but others were a little bold. Crime must be very low in Japan is what I am thinking according to some of the locations these people pass out at. The last one looks disgusting, did he go to sleep and end up having someone throw up on him??
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The last picture....Ewwww!!... That guy's sure had a big hangover...
Ok, I can understand young people being tired in the bus.. (probably they did a long journey and are very exhausted), but, its this for real with the people in the park??
Otaku
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Interesting post Danny! Hey, I have actually done this when I was in Orchard Rd. Singapore a few years back, slept for like 2 hours!
Engineer-wannabe
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hmm,maybe some of them miss the last train,n just sleep in the park.
one bad thing in tokyo is,no more train after 12or so,
places u can spend the nite: park,manga kissa,or karaoke box XD
Programmer, Student
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yeah, the early ending trains kind of suck, especially when you lose track of time with friends and end up walking for an hour to get home; mind you I'm kind of lazy, so maybe it's just me ^^;
Design Student
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Something tells me that last bloke isn't sleeping, someone should roll him on his side before he chokes...
Wasn't there a similar article awhile back?
Software Developer / Space Marine
damn right
2nd year Civil Engineering Student
http://soonkiong.blogspot.com
yeah very familiar post... did danny dug this post up?
people do sleep in public here, but only in public transports since commuting here can take quite a bit of time. those who sleep outdoors here are usually beggars and the homeless. ^^;;
Student
It is not safe to do this in my my region...
Student, Uncle & hopfully a good husband..
Too back...Didn't see any when i was there a couple months back....Wanted to take of picture of them...That guy fell down and slept right?
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
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Ressurected?
Yeah, I remember making a comment to this post....
Anywyas, still hilarious... that guy by the stairs looks like he fell down or something.
I also remember commenting that here in Brazil only bums do stuff like that. People with wallets, bags and other stuff to care of would have all their stuff stolen in a few minutes.
Art Student/Freelancer
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people sleep here not really in the streets (the homeless do of course) but on transit I do, and other people do
Programmer, Student
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what's with the guy passed out at the bottom of the stairs, looks like he's dead O.O
NEET
The last pic looks like someone puked all over the guy:p
College student, Software Engineer, Otaku
some of these are a bit funny, some looks like they tripped and went unconscious
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the guy in the 4th picture down in front of the stairs
that is just too hilarious!
???Confused???
I can understand some of the places but the stairs sleeper just...wow...don't bother me, I'm napping...
Anime Blogger
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So this is what happens when you try to watch Kaze no Stigma while walking around...
Did I log in several months ago? I don't think this is what Danny posted today.
Student, I hate school. FML
lol those are somthing laugh about.
Veteran gamer.
Pretty funny to see people sleeping in the middle of nowhere in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if a person suddenly slept in the street....
But hey, may not be great for most, but it's good for thieves I guess.
System Design Engineering (UWaterloo)
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I sleep thruogh class, does that count? I tried once on a sofa couch, woke up with like a line along my face cuz my head was sleeping on the arm rest.
Uhh....is it me or is the guy in the last picture look like he puked all over himself? >.>....
lover of games, artist
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thats what i thought too
Art/Media
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HAHA, this was a funny post. The staircase photo reminds me of Death Note for some reason.
I think Kira fell alseep X3
Hikikomori in the making
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I agree, that guy looks like Raito Yagami for some reason...
Polytechnic Junior, Bronze Lifesaving Trainee, Mech Designer In-training.
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I got that same weird feeling...
November Echo Echo Tango
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Some people need to get some sleep, they'd try get get sleep whenever they can.
Some shots look like Crime scene btw~
Polytechnic Junior, Bronze Lifesaving Trainee, Mech Designer In-training.
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I once saw a lady sleeping on the floor in the void deck of a block of flats. The only thing that kept me from going closer was that she had her back propped against the wall, unlike some of those in the pics who looked as though they were pistol-whipped from the back by the Master Chief. XD
probably I'll also do that if I'm in Tokyo to save money from lodging XDD heheh
Student
Actually, this DOES happen in America, though I guess only in a few places. My university is unique in the sense that the student unions and many of the academic buildings have couches and armchairs, sometimes whole areas of them. Roughly half of the second floor of the main union is couches. Just walking through these areas every day, you see loads of people sleeping sprawled across these couches, sometimes having pulled multiple chairs together.
It took me a while to realize that this wasn't something that happened everywhere.
Permanent Japanophile
The one with the guy at the foot of the stairs looked like he fell...
and whats the last guy with... is that PUKE??
Photographer Wanna-be
Ok, those are f'n funny as hell images. In America, you'd see the same, but they'd be dirty more or less and probably soaked in pee. I recall that while social decorum is paramount in Japan, all bets are off if you get totally rip roaring drunk and take a nap outside. This is usually preceded by a fist fight with a similarly drunken co-worker you may have disagreed with. Japan is cool that way, men can still be men and no one minds.
student- university servant
i start to fall asleep in biochem and my head starts to wobble down and i try to force myself to stay awake and it looks like im really paying attention LMAO
*head wobbles down to look* at notes (half asleep)
*back up again to stare at powerpoint LMAO
a large majority claims to not understand him- i make due, but i might understand more if he lectured in japanese
-sigh
Student
I have never seen somebody sleeping in public, at least not here in Zurich. I think the police (or older ladies) would wake you up and ask you what you were doing.
student
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Hop j’ai trouvé ça:
http://www.barretoi.com/blog/coma
Student
http://payuki.deviantart.com/
its hard to believe, but also fascinationg in a way :D
Student
As for the US, I tend to notice that public sleeping is more common in larger cities-- Orlando, Los Angeles, Atlanta, etc. I'm originally from a smaller town that isn't anywhere near as developed as those places. If I were to sleep in public at my hometown, I'd have a cop taking me in for either loitering, trespassing, or suspected public intoxication.
However, as a student at a major university, I see it on a daily basis... Heck, in fact, there's someone right now sleeping on the floor 3m from me with his shoes off.
wants to be unemployed
either that or someone vomited on him
Programmer, Student
http://digitallyobsessed.wordpress.com
lol, never thought 'bout that, but it would suck to wake up to find someone vomited on you >.<