[Sangetsu]

If you think that's a lot of bikes, you should go to the government storage lots where they collect abandoned bicycles. In some of these lots there can be as many as 10,000 bicycles.

Japan is a strange place, particularly in the metro areas. If your bike breaks a chain or a pedal, don't fix it, just push it to the nearest train station and park it with the others. Then go and buy a new bike.

In Japan, you have to pay to dispose of large items like bicycles. Many people either don't know that broken bicycles can be fixed, or they just don't want to go to the trouble of doing it. So they just abandon them.