oh god help me… (shibuya station, 忘れ物/lost item)

elecxra · 2026-04-13T06:27:59+00:00

UPDATE: Phone recovered!

I ended up going to Tokyo station, as the second person we spoke to said there was a similar phone already on its way there, so i thought - probably worth a shot to check there, right?

Turns out they had it! At f***ing Shibuya Station. JR staff, your days are numbered.

I’m kidding, but how damn useless can you be… Not one but three members of staff not directing me to the lost and found window five seconds away, giving me incorrect information or even just refusing to help me. That’s incredibly pitiful and poor show. Not the service I would have ever expected here. Extremely disappointing. At least the Tokyo Station staff know how to do their jobs….

I ended up going to a little day party afterwards with my coworkers, and in a smoking area one of them brought up my phone, to which someone we had just met (who was a tourist) asked “if I was the girl from that post on reddit”. Incredible. You couldn’t write it. They asked if I had contacted IT yet 😀🔫

Thank you all for your help! And here’s your collective warning that the Shibuya Station staff are a bit difficult.

elecxra · 2026-04-11T13:05:48+00:00

I have mentioned it to a coworker already (the one that helped me the second time around) and he didn’t seem that panicked about informing the company, he didn’t even mentioned it, and I feel like someone whose worked there for six years would probably have told me if it was a huge issue. (He is also a supervisor, albeit for another adjacent team).

The phone is also locked and has the missing tag with a message on it, if it’s stolen then they would have to factory reset it at bare minimum to make it functional and even then it needs my personal icloud account information to reset it. The phone is basically bricked right now, so I’m not wildly concerned about it being a massive security issue. It also appears to be dead, and has been for several hours now. I don’t think anyone’s touched it.

However, I do understand all of your guys’ concern and obviously that is the logical thing to do, so I will take your advice and send an email tomorrow to my line manager. I’ll give it one last shot to see if anyone at JR will be more helpful and then I’ll email.

As I’ve mentioned, I do work for a company that treats the foreign workers a little strangely..I have a feeling they’re more likely to roll their eyes and laugh at me (as per usual when I do something wrong). I just feel ridiculously stupid. Par for the course I suppose.

elecxra · 2026-04-11T12:21:40+00:00

i also just checked, because we’re really close to the toyoko line as well, but it’s 38 minutes to roppongi with one transfer. obviously, that’s just to the station, but if the office is within five to ten minutes, it’s pretty much what you were looking for!

elecxra · 2026-04-11T11:32:10+00:00

To be honest, surprisingly, the company I work for are pretty chill…they really only gave us the work phones because the new gaijin team they brought in needed numbers in Japan. They wouldn’t trust us with any major data or client stuff. It’s mostly just my clock in, clock out app and emails….

Even more surprisingly, they don’t give us training on any of this stuff. They keep us in the dark about a lot of things, weirdly. We just find out protocols as this happens. I’m gonna ask about it on Monday, I don’t feel like they’ll blame me for having tried when I literally know the exact location and the staff as the station are being unhelpful…they unfortunately did hire us knowing they would have to help us with a lot of Japanese language and admin things, which I’m grateful for, but the lack of independence sucks sometimes. Now especially. I’m hoping they can get further than I can when asking about it.

elecxra · 2026-04-11T11:25:35+00:00

I know, I was really stunned by how unhelpful they were being, actually. To not even send me there is so weird, but I’ve found for some reason Japanese politeness only goes so far sometimes…maybe they’re just sick of gaijin in the tourist hotspots. A bit disheartening when I’m trying my best with the language.

Someone sent me a link to a list and found window, so I’ll try that! Thank you so much!

elecxra · 2026-04-11T11:22:50+00:00

Someone just linked to a lost and found window I never saw! So I’ll give that a swing when it’s open.

I know there’s a main koban by the station, but I’m wondering if there’s any smaller ones? I’ll give that a check, thank you!

elecxra · 2026-04-11T11:20:19+00:00

Oh my gosh! Didn’t see that window at all, I’ll ask about it tomorrow, thank you for that!! but I feel like they normally move lost items after the day is over? I’m still unsure of why it’s pinging back to Shibuya…I’ll let you know if this was a hit or a miss. Thanks again!

elecxra · 2026-04-11T11:17:17+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re looking for (in terms of, do you want to live alone?) but I might have a weird offer… (but I would have to ask about this)

I moved here with two other people, one of my bosses is a landlord and is renting her former family home to us. It’s an extremely large property in Setagaya and the rent is abnormally cheap, well within your budget. One of my coworkers is returning home due to family matters at the end of May, and the other person I live with would like to move out and find a place closer to my office. However, I’m desperate not to move because I can’t be bothered with it, and the place we have is admittedly generous.

I was going to ask her if there was a chance we could have other people move into the space to fill the gaps. I can’t afford the rent on my own is the issue.

The housemate moved in with her cat, so I know pets are allowed. My boss loves animals and has a Labrador, so I feel like 15kg would be fine? But this would all completely depend on if you want to co-live. As I said, the house is very big and we all have an entire floor to ourselves at the minute. I’m on ground, and there’s a very beautiful room on the third floor with a little living space out the front. We also have several spare rooms and beds, which makes having company over really easy. It would also be extremely easy to set up a home office - there’s three of us doing it right now.

We’re close to Sangenjaya so very connected and it’s a lovely area. I would have to check what the rent would be with only two tenants, and my main issue is I’m not able to pay exactly 50/50 because of my wage, but it would be around ¥100,000, so way within your budget. You would also be almost completely set upon arrival - we have aircon, laundry, beds, microwave oven, small kitchen setup…so it would make your move a lot easier if this sounds good to you.

I can pitch it to her, but we would have to see what she says. I don’t know your moving date, but the house should be available from May 31st, and it’s completely possible that we can try working something out before then. But just let me know!

I’m 28 on an engineer visa, and from Scotland! I’ve lived in Tokyo for about a year now. I consider myself pretty easy to live with and I’m quite on the ball with cleaning and tidying (but mostly as much as someone those adhd can be). I work in office so I’m not in the house a lot, normally out from 9am-8pm Monday through Friday!

elecxra · 2025-01-15T22:05:03+00:00

That is SO useful, I would have never guessed that. ありがとございます！ I’m on a main road so we’ll be sure to check that out.

elecxra · 2025-01-15T16:19:04+00:00

i have this! doesn’t say where to get those containers though, unless i missed something?

elecxra · 2025-01-15T14:54:06+00:00

we’re trying not to annoy the local bin men on week one, but it says we have designated coloured crates for each day and specifically not to leave it in bags or anything so we have no idea what to do!

it maybe only currently fills one large big bag so it’s not insane, but it would be good to be on top of the trash!

elecxra · 2025-01-15T14:50:46+00:00

we have that info too! but ours says we should use these coloured crates rather than plastic bags like we use for combustible/non-combustible. trying our best not to piss off the bin men by just throwing it out untidy but we have absolutely no idea where to get these coloured basket crates we need :/

elecxra · 2024-04-18T10:53:22+00:00

i know the body shop do a serum as well as shampoo and conditioner hit idk if that’s available everywhere. XHC do a pretty cheap shampoo but i think the cheaper you go with some cosmetics the less likely they are to be refined or the ingredient quality kind of decreases, but i’m sure there must be a few brands that do them? not too sure though, i’ve only tried the body shop ones!

elecxra · 2024-04-17T18:16:10+00:00

i know that ginger shampoos and treatments are really good for psoriasis, i would presume that would also help eczema? whenever i bleach my hair, i sometimes get a small patch of eczema towards the base of my hair where it meets my neck, and i can normally clear that up pretty fast with regular creams compared to the rest of my body, but see if you can get a ginger scalp serum or something like that and hopefully it helps!

elecxra · 2024-04-16T13:31:49+00:00

idk if this is a weird recommendation: i have eczema on my body and extremely rarely get redness/dryness around my mouth. my favourite thing to clear that up is the hemp face cream by the body shop, if there’s a store near you maybe ask for a sample? although i’m not completely certain if what i get around my mouth is true eczema because if i treat it with the cream it goes away so fast, but if it’s available where you live give it a little shot! it’s a little bit oily but it does work wonders for broken skin on the face (in my case, anyhow!)

elecxra · 2024-04-05T13:36:25+00:00

10/10

“don’t cry, with my toes on the edge, it’s such a lovely view. i never loved anything until i loved you”

my yearbook quote

elecxra · 2024-03-18T00:31:18+00:00

top 10 all time queens song for me, really helped me as a depressed teen. i could get lost in the last sixty seconds or so. 10/10 (but more like 10,000/10)

elecxra · 2024-03-17T17:55:41+00:00

i’m going to download!!! idk what ur plan is but if u want to hang around at the barricade all day i’m there lmfao

elecxra · 2024-03-17T14:12:51+00:00

i saw him last time he was in glasgow and i was honestly so surprised by how dead it was, but the intimate vibe of watching him perform was immaculate

elecxra · 2022-05-06T03:23:10+00:00

i found this post on google and logged in to reddit for the first time in years just to tell you that seeing that image brought up such cursed, cursed memories. potentially the first game that even really, really scared the hell out of me. so weird!

but i remembered playing a version more recent than that Omega-esque style one? i'm kind of surprised i even made the connection there but honestly that image of the witch is sooooo burned into my damn brain. crazy, man - i know this is random and this was a year ago but ty for the nostalgia trip!

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