Das Geheimnis der „Massenabladung von Koffern“ in Ikebukuro: Wer ist der Täter? Anwohner sagen: „Es sind nicht nur ein oder zwei. Sie tauchen einfach immer wieder aus dem Nichts auf.“

People who do this are pathetic as they should mail it back to their own country. But it’s also true that when you’re travelling in Japan, there’s basically no method of throwing away medium-sized garbages.

Hotels should provide a paid service for large trash disposal imo. It would not only make money, but remove traveler stress and keep streets clean.

What mystery?
1- Tourist buys a new suitcase.
2- Tourist finds out that it’s virtually impossible to dispose properly of the old one (before someone mentions sodai gomi, the tourist can’t use it, and yes, many times in this type of post, someone mentions sodai gomi).
3- Suitcase shops don’t provide/don’t care about providing solutions, not informing if there is any action the person can do.
4- The majority of hotels don’t provide that service (some do free, some for a fee, but the majority can’t be bothered).
5- Ikebukuro as a city doesn’t provide any solution.
Now, how do people expect a tourist to dispose of the old suitcase? Also, why can’t the government be bothered with collecting these abandoned ones? I know sodai gomi requires a fee, but at some point, someone will collect it.
This whole situation is a mix of governments not caring about providing solutions to existing problems, poor information when purchasing a new suitcase about what to do with the old one, zero responsibility of suitcase shops, zero (of almost zero) services from hotels, that leads to a situation of either bringing back with me the old suitcase (which in some cases would be more expensive than buying a new one of the country’s origin) or abandoning it.