Information on Everyday Living for Foreign Residents of Shinjuku City 6 Living For a Comfortable Life Garbage and Energy Conservation Recycling and Ecology Use of Bicycles p2 p7 p8 Rules for Using the Renting Accommodation p14 Sewage System in a Comfortable Way Procedures When Moving Out p15 Daily Life p16 p17 How to Pay Utility Consumer Life Banks Charges Consultation p18 p18 p18 1. Preparing for Emergencies and 2. Procedures for Changes of 3. Insurance, Health Maintenance 4. Employment and Status This booklet is Disasters Address and Taxes and Welfare of Residence 5. Childbirth, Child-Raising, and 6. Living 7. Leisure 8. Useful Information divided into 8 parts Education For inquiries regarding matters written in this book, please refer to the Shinjuku Foreign Resident Advisory Corner This booklet is noted on the last page of this booklet where counseling in foreign languages is available. When you contact depart- also posted on ments or telephone numbers listed in this booklet, unless otherwise specified, be sure to speak in Japanese or the Shinjuku City have someone who speaks Japanese talk for you. The information in this publication is subject to change. website. Living ● Reduce Waste with 3Rs Garbage and Recycling Recycling items instead of throwing them away as garbage helps the global environment in that it conserves natural resources. Let’s work together to ■ How to Dispose of Recyclable reduce garbage and reuse recyclable resources. Observe the following 3Rs to reduce garbage: Resources and Garbage ○ Reduce Reduce items that will become garbage. Shinjuku Waste Collection Office For example, do not buy unnecessary items. 2-1-1 Shimo-Ochiai, Shinjuku-ku ○ Reuse 03-3950-2923 Make the most of items without throwing them Shinjuku-Higashi Waste Collection Center away. 10-16 Yotsuya-Sanei-cho, Shinjuku-ku For example, use the same bottle over and over 03-3353-9471 again. ○ Kabukicho Waste Collection Center Recycle 2-42-7 Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku Process items into recyclable resources. 03-3200-5339 For example, separate old paper, bottles, and cans and dispose of them as recyclable resources. As a rule, the collection of recyclable resources and garbage from regular households is free of charge. There is a fee, however, for the collection of large amounts of garbage and oversized garbage. A fee is charged for all recyclable resources and garbage from shops and businesses. As a rule, the city would like shops and businesses to handle their own garbage (through use of a waste collection com- pany or recyclable resource collection company). The Shinjuku City Office only deals with small-scale shops and businesses that have difficulty finalizing contracts with waste-collection companies or other similar organizations, and they must attach official Shinjuku City Garbage Handling Fee Tickets to their garbage. Please purchase these stickers at any shop showing the agency sign, and place the stickers on garbage bags, newspapers, and magazines in a spot where they can easily be seen. It is important that everybody observes the rules when disposing of recyclable resources and garbage, to eliminate any possible problems with neighbors. Shinjuku City Office has information in foreign languages on how to dispose of recyclable resources and garbage, so please use this information. Also, a PDF version is available on Shinjuku City’s Information on Everyday Living for Foreign Resi- dents website. www.foreign.city.shinjuku.lg.jp/en/ 2 Inquiries Section in charge Address Tel. Website Fax Living ● How to Dispose of Recyclable Resources Collection Category Collection Site Please Be Aware of the Following Points! Frequency ○ Bind items with string according to type. Collection is made on rainy days as well. Newspapers ○ Fold newspapers into four (A4-size). Magazines (includes note- ○ The following items are not collected as recyclable resources, so please Recyclable resources and gar- books, confection boxes, dispose of them as combustible garbage: Once a bage collection site wrapping paper, and enve- Photographs, heat-sensitive paper, paper cups, window envelopes, paper week Please put out by 8 a.m. on the lopes) scraps, plastic-coated paper, waxed cardboard, oily stained paper such as collection day. Cardboard pizza home-delivery boxes, etc. Paper Cartons ○ There is a charge for the collection of business-related recyclable re- sources. Please attach a Shinjuku City Garbage Handling Fee Ticket to the garbage. Plastic Containers and Wrapping with the Iden- ○ Dispose of items together in a transparent/semitransparent garbage bag. tifying Mark (such as ○ Items that are dirty are not considered recyclable resources. Recyclable resources and gar- plastic bottles, cups, trays, ○ Items that are not completely emptied or that are difficult to clean should Once a bage collection site packages, and tubes; plastic be disposed of as combustible garbage. week Please put out by 8 a.m. on the bags for confections and ○ There is a fee for the collection of business-related recyclable resources. collection day. frozen food; retort pouches; Please attach a Shinjuku City Garbage Handling Fee Ticket that matches plastic lids; plastic clasps; the size of the bag. plastic shopping bags; etc.) ○ After rinsing the insides out with water, please place these items in a transparent/semitransparent plastic bag. As a rule, broken bottles, bottles Bottles (for food, bever- you cannot clean properly, medicine bottles (except for bottles that con- ages, cosmetics, and medi- tained medicinal drinks), light bulbs, and fluorescent lamps are not col- cines) lected as recyclable resources. Please dispose of these items together with metal, ceramic, and glass items. Recyclable resources and gar- ○ After rinsing the insides out with water, please place these items in a transparent/semitransparent plastic bag. Cans you cannot clean properly, Cans (for food and bever- Once a bage collection site cans that held contents other than food and beverage, and itto-kan (18-liter ages) week Please put out by 8 a.m. on the collection day. cans) are not collected as recyclable resources. Please dispose of them together with metal, ceramic, and glass items. Spray Cans, Gas Cylinders, ○ Please place these items in a transparent/semitransparent plastic bag after Disposable Dry-Cell Batteries using up their contents as much as possible. ○ After rinsing the insides out with water, please crush plastic bottles and Plastic PET Bottles (with place them in a transparent/semitransparent plastic bag. Dispose of caps the identifying mark ) and labels together with plastic containers and wrapping. Notes: 1. At some garbage collection sites, such as those for apartments and condominiums, the collection containers/nets are distrib- uted. Please place bottles in the yellow containers; cans in the blue containers; spray cans, gas cassettes, and dry-cell batteries in the green containers; and plastic PET bottles in the blue nets. 2. A fee is charged for the collection of business-related recyclable resources. Please place such items in a bag and attach the Shinjuku City Garbage Handling Fee Ticket according to the size of the bag. Shinjuku Waste Collection Of- Collection of used small fice, Shinjuku-Higashi Waste electronic devices (mobile Collection Center, Kabukicho phones, mobile music play- Waste Collection Center, Shinju- ○ Nine types of used small electronic devices are collected at service coun- ers, portable game devices, ku Waste Station/Resource Cen- ters of the collection sites at left. digital cameras, portable ── ter, Shinjuku Recycling Center, ○ Please note that the collection schedules of these service counters vary. video cameras, portable car Nishi-Waseda Recycling Center, ○ Put these items in the collection boxes at the City Office Main Building navigators, electronic dic- Waste Reduction and Recycling 1F, Branch Offices and the Environmental Studies and Information Cen- tionaries, calculators, and Division of Shinjuku City Of- ter (Eco Gallery Shinjuku). accessories such as remote fice (Shinjuku City Office Main controllers, AC adaptors Bldg. 7F) and collection boxes at and cables) the Branch Offices, etc. Collection boxes located at Ink Cartridges Shinjuku City Office Main Bldg. Ink cartridges for home- 1F, Shinjuku Waste Collection use printers; must be com- ○ Put these items in the collection boxes. Office, Shinjuku-Higashi Waste pletely empty. Restricted ○ Please note that the collection schedules of these service counters vary. ── Collection Center, Shinjuku to branded cartridges from ○ Inquiries: Waste Reduction and Recycling Division Recycling Center, Nishi-Waseda Brother Industries, Canon, 03-5273-3318 03-5273-4070 Recycling Center, Environmental Seiko Epson, and Japan Studies and Information Center, Hewlett-Packard. Branch Offices, etc. 3 Living ● How to Dispose of Garbage Collection Category Collection Site Please Be Aware of the Following Points! Frequency Combustible Garbage ○ Please separate garbage properly and place the garbage in con- (Kitchen scraps, paper scraps, tainers or transparent/semitransparent plastic bags. Please pick wood chips, plastic items other up your empty containers as soon as possible. than containers and wrapping ○ Wrap sharp objects, such as glass and skewers, using thick pa- with the identifying mark, Twice a week per, and label it “kiken (dangerous)” before disposal. rubber items, leather items, dis- Recyclable resources ○ Be sure to use up the contents of lighters as much as possible posable diapers, sanitary napkins, and garbage collection before