世論 What Japan Thinks

Two silly surveys today, and this one too leaves me scratching my head and wondering if it really is interesting or not… From goo Ranking, it’s what people find peculiar about Tokyo.

Demographics

Between the 22nd and 26th of January 2009 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private online questionnaire. 51.8% of the sample were male, 6.9% in their teens, 14.3% in their twenties, 28.9% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.3% in their fifties, and 10.8% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

One surprise here is that “lots of foreigners” does not appear in the answer!

Ranking result

Q: What do you find peculiar about Tokyo? (Sample size=1,071)

Rank		Score
1	Lots of people	100
2	Lots of trains	78.5
3	Packed trains	75.9
4	Lots of skyscrapers	72.9
5	Lots of station exits	61.6
6	Expensive rent	57.9
7	Stations are close together	49.5
8	Too many station platforms	46.2
9	Filthy air	44.9
10	Unpaletable water	37.7
11	High car parking prices	37.1
12	Amazingly-dressed people walking around	34.9
13	Lots of diagonal crosswalks	34.1
14	Expensive food and drink	33.6
15	Fast walkers	31.9
16	Rush hour extends to the last train	31.5
17=	Dark broth with soba noodles	31.2
17=	City stretches for miles and miles	31.2
19	Bright even at nighttime	28.0
20	Late last train time	21.0