if you have paper delivered home, you get all kinds of inserts everyday. I read paper, but hear some people have paper home delivery, just to get inserted ads and to check the tv page, not reading the paper itself… you cannot sneeze at local info(especially discounts and so on)
a shot from kyoto city bus window. took the bus for the first time since god knows, each time the bus leaves a bus stop, they play recorded guidance in japanese, english, chinese, korean.