In Japan, cleaning is more than a job, it's part of the culture, like an art. Anyone who has been to Tokyo knows it's one of the cleanest cities in the world and to keep it that way, it takes a team of dedicated professionals who are often un-noticed - meaning they're doing an excellent job!
We'll take a detailed look at how JR East Environment Access (JEA) keeps JR Ueno Station super clean and safe for the 180,000 daily passengers and it's a microcosm of how the entire city stays so clean.
Ueno Station is a stop for the Shinkansen and platform 13 1/2 is where the Train Suite Shiki-Shima departs. The jingles and melodies you'll hear throughout the station, the announcements and trains rolling through is super nostalgic. I filmed this starting in January 2021 and finished the final scene a year later.

00:00 Start
00:44 UENO Station Overview
01:26 Cleaning Team's Morning Meeting
02:58 Cleaning a Train
05:03 Japanese Vending Machine Recycling
05:52 Train Track work
07:21 Train Suite Shiki-Shima Platform
08:58 Job Interview
09:58 Toilet Paper Mission
12:27 Vomit Cleaning Vacuum
13:24 Late night deep-cleaning
13:38 Cleaning robot
14:44 Japan's Toilet-god
15:33 Public Toilet deep-cleaning
17:14 How the Office runs
17:57 Conclusion

Learn more about JR East Environment Access Company:
▶︎ https://www.jea.co.jp/pdf/corporate_en.pdf
Thank you to JEA, JR East, Jarman International and Hirasawa-san for his time over several months. We appreciate your hard work over the many years of service.

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