

Lost and Found in Nagoya: Left Behind on a Holy Night
At Christmastime in Sakae, a busy district of Nagoya, people are rushing to an unexpected place: the lost and found office, where items left on buses and subways are collected. Each year more than 100,000 articles are turned in, ranging from the usual umbrellas and gloves to the amazing, like dentures and wooden grave tablets. The office's storage is awash with items forgotten by Christmas shoppers and year-end partygoers. Who will retrieve them? Hear some of the stories behind the lost articles.
Aired: Jan 23, 2015 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Birth Rush! Japan's Best Obstetrics and Gynecology02: Farewell! Bowling Alley in the Center of Tokyo03: Lost and Found in Nagoya: Left Behind on a Holy Night04: Student Dormitories in the Northern Land05: A Discounted Ticket to Happiness06: Handyman, Running in the City07: A Standing Oden Bar in Tokyo08: Kobe, January, See you at Pai-Yama09: A Taste of Home: A Soba & Udon Vending Machine10: A Driving School: The Start of Many Journeys11: Tanning Salon: The Reason for the Wheat Color12: Tokyo Capsule Hotel: Encapsulating Life13: Taxi Honest Conversation - Fukushima Iwaki Version14: A Building Exclusively for Cosplay: Their Dream Castle15: A Used Car, A New Life16: Following the Cherry Blossoms Upstream: A Three-Day Trip Along the Tama River17: Yakushima: Island of the Mystical Tree18: Candy Store: Children's Small Universe19: A Kebab Restaurant in Roppongi20: Mt. Takao, Why wander into the mountains of the city?21: Container Karaoke in a Seaside Town22: Dreams to be drawn at a video rental store on a major holiday weekend23: A Drive-In Restaurant in Okinawa: Hometown Flavor, American Style24: The Lucky Cat at the Shopping Street25: “Hanacaba” Life Theater26: Tonkotsu Ramen Restaurant: Bowls for the Soul27: Dance Hall for Men and Women in Downtown Tokyo28: Rocking on the Streetcar29: Oasis Hotel in the Rice Paddies30: New York: Laundromat Theater31: Dalian, China - At a Japanese Foods Supermarket32: In a Cemetery Looking Up at the Great Buddha33: Summer Comic! Japan's “Best” Convenience Store.34: Voices in Front of the Diet35: An Iconic Hotel: Until We Meet Again36: Life on the Squid Hunt37: Deep Tokyo: In a Corner of Little Manila38: A Video Transfer Shop: Replaying the Past39: Up and Away with Low-Cost Carriers40: Kabukicho Midnight Dispensing Pharmacy41: Welcome to the World's Largest Labyrinth of Old Books42: Fortune Teller's House: Crossroads of Fate43: A Secret Workshop in Akihabara





















