Prior to living in Japan i would have said this seat was divided in two so that seperate parties can share the same seat without feeling like they’re imposing on the other. Now i live here i can safely say it’s to stop homeless people sleeping on it at night, or anytime for that matter.

Being homeless in Tokyo is quite different than many other places in the world.

Nojuko - people sleeping in the open air - is one of the most conspicuous hangovers of Japan’s burst bubble economy. The fabled salarymen of post war Japan have, in contemporary parlance, been “cut loose”, and along with their jobs has gone their livelihood.

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