Manner posters in Tokyo Metro

Since April 2008, the Tokyo Metro has been putting “manner posters” every month inside trains encouraging patrons to mind their manners. I like the simplicity of the illustrations and theme, which goes like “Please do it at (name of place)”. This campaign is on its sixth month and will run for a year which will give us 12 posters, the latest of which is this: “Please do it on the mountain.”: “Please be considerate of other when holding bulky belongings.”

August’s poster is probably the best of the series so far: “Please do it at the beach.”

The Japanese are generally well-mannered people. They have to be, especially those in large urban areas where many facilities have to be shared with many others. (The so-called Tokyo Major Metropolitan Area within a 70-kilometer radius from central Tokyo has over 34 million people.)

Interestingly, most of the bad-mannered people depicted in the posters are young or middle-aged and those looking disapprovingly are old people. Might not be a big deal, as older people usually complain about the deteriorating manners of the younger generation.

See the rest of the posters here: Tokyo Metro Manner Posters.