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Where do the children play?

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409 points casca | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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Aeolun ◴[17 Nov 25 07:16 UTC] No.45951478[source]▶
I think this heavily depends on location. At 7 my child can check nearly all the boxes for independent activities. My wife may not like it, but the surroundings are probably safer than anywhere else in the world. The only thing we don’t have is forests.

This is central Tokyo.

Kids still spend a lot of time on Roblox because everyone tends to be deathly afraid of letting them ring each other’s doorbells.

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1. rvrs ◴[17 Nov 25 08:00 UTC] No.45951680[source]▶
I also live in Suginami! There's always a lot of kids running around together, especially after school, but that feels quite normal for anywhere in Japan, no?
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2. Aeolun ◴[17 Nov 25 12:05 UTC] No.45952884[source]▶
I can’t speak to the rest of Japan, but in Tokyo, yes.

Suginami in particular seems to be very kid focused in terms of infrastructure development efforts. 6 years ago the was a wild sprouting of daycare facilities everywhere around, and these days new parks pop up everywhere. They were going to close the nearby jidoukan, and the new major seems to have reversed all of that. Japan is absolutely making an effort to reverse population decline xD