Late night commercial activities in Japan
The only convenience store close by my house closes about 10 pm, and anyway I’m too broke and too married these days to get up to much at the midnight hour. However, this recent survey from MyVoice into late night and 24 hour businesses shows that there’s a lot of people active in the small hours.
Demographics
Over the first five days of May 2008 14,350 members of the MyVoice Internet Community successfully completed a private online survey. 54% of the sample was female, 2% in their teens, 15% in their twenties, 38% in their thirties, 29% in their forties, and 16% in their fifties.
Conspicuous by their absence in the list of late night operators are trains and buses. Most lines have their last train depart by midnight, with one reason being safety, to allow the operators four hours per night for essential maintenance. The other more cynical reason is that it keeps taxi drivers in business. It’s quite an amazing sight the first time you see taxis twenty deep outside the railway station after the last train departs!
Image from wukong on Flickr.
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