Tokyo is insane on that front. I was in the subway with a friend, shortly after lunch. As we exit the station, she realizes she doesn’t have her phone anymore,

Tokyo is insane on that front. I was in the subway with a friend, shortly after lunch. As we exit the station, she realizes she doesn’t have her phone anymore, when she definitely had it 20 minutes earlier. We go find an attendant, and she tells him the story. Some Japanese back and forth ensues, which seemed to be more than just “i lost my phone in that wagon at that time, here’s what it looks like and here’s my contact info”. I might be able to partially understand it now, but this was during my first week ever in Japan so I did not understand a lick of it at the time. As we exit the subway, she tells me that she’s not so sure she’ll get it back, and she was pretty bummed out because she didn’t have enough money to buy a new phone. She got her phone back before dinner. The craziest part? The reason why she got agitated during her exchange with the agent is because, she told me, he was being lazy. If he can recover an iPhone lost on the Tokyo subway in 4 hours, let him be lazy!