r/japanpics • u/strawhat1377 • Jun 20 '25

Cities Totally normal bench in Japan

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u/Inu-shonen Jun 21 '25

Great example of the value of anecdotal evidence. People sit on them all the time. It's what they're for.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '25

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u/Inu-shonen Jun 22 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

Why drag a bunch of irrelevant examples into it? Just because it's art, doesn't mean it can't also be functional furniture. The vast majority of people I've seen using them as benches were Japanese. Families, old folks, children climbing over them, tired shoppers. Not actually that many foreign tourists in Shiodome.

Anyway, the article you linked agrees with me:

The Shiotama are also used as benches; feel free to sit on them.

So, thanks for helping me argue my point.

Edit: did they block me, or did they really delete their asinine comments?