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About This Site

Learn about Japan Garbage Disposal Encyclopedia's mission, information sources, and coverage areas.

  • Updated 2026-10-07
🇯🇵 日本語

Our Mission

“Japan Garbage Disposal Encyclopedia” is an information site that compiles official garbage disposal guidelines from local municipalities in an easy-to-understand format.

We aim to help those who are confused about garbage sorting and disposal rules, including people who have recently moved, elderly residents, and foreign nationals living in Japan.

Coverage Areas

Currently providing information for 1418 cities across 47 prefectures.

Hokkaido & Tohoku
Hokkaido
Abashiri City Akabira City Akaigawa Village Asahikawa City Ashibetsu City Assabu Town Atsuma Town Betsukai Town Bibai City Bifuka Town Bihoro Town Chitose City Date City Ebetsu City Eniwa City Engaru Town Erimo Town Fukagawa City Furano City Furubira Town Haboro Town Hakodate City Hamanaka Town Hamatonbetsu Town Hidaka Town Shinhidaka Town Higashikagura Town Higashikawa Town Biratori Town Hiroo Town Hokuryu Town Hokuto City Honbetsu Town Horonobe Town Toyotomi Town Ikeda Town Imakane Town Ishikari City Iwamizawa City Iwanai Town Kamifurano Town Kaminokuni Town Kamishihoro Town Kamoenai Village Kikonai Town Kimobetsu Town Kitahiroshima City Kitami City Kiyosato Town Obira Town Kuromatsunai Town 釧路 City Kushiro Town Kutchan Town Kyogoku Town Makkari Village Makubetsu Town Mashike Town Matsumae Town Mikasa City Minamifurano Town Mombetsu City Mori Town Moseushi Town Mukawa Town Naganuma Town Naie Town Nakafurano Town Nanae Town Nanporo Town Nayoro City Nemuro City Niikappu Town Niseko Town Nishiokoppe Village Noboribetsu City Numata Town Obihiro City Okoppe Town Okushiri Town Ozora Town Oshamambe Town Otaru City Otobe Town Otofuke Town Otoineppu Village Oumu Town Rankoshi Town Rausu Town Rikubetsu Town Rishiri Town Rishirifuji Town Rumoi City Rusutsu Village Samani Town Sapporo City Sarabetsu Village Saroma Town Setana Town Shakotan Town Shari Town Shibecha Town Shibetsu City Shikabe Town Shikaoi Town Shimamaki Village Shimokawa Town Shimukappu Village Shinshinotsu Village Shintoku Town Shintotsukawa Town Shiranuka Town Shiraoi Town Shiriuchi Town Shosanbetsu Village Sobetsu Town Sunagawa City Suttsu Town Taiki Town Takasu Town Takikawa City Takinoue Town Teshikaga Town Teshio Town Tohma Town Tomakomai City Tomamae Town Tomari Village Toyako Town Toyokoro Town Toyoura Town Tsubetsu Town Tsukigata Town Tsurui Village Urahoro Town Urakawa Town Uryu Town Utashinai City Wakkanai City Wassamu Town Yakumo Town Yoichi Town Yuni Town Yubetsu Town
Kanto
Chubu
Aichi
Agui Town Aisai City Ama City Anjo City Atsuta Ward Chikusa Ward Chiryu City Chita City Oharu Town Fuso Town Gamagori City Handa City Hekinan City Higashi Ward Higashiura Town Ichinomiya City Inazawa City Inuyama City Iwakura City Kanie Town Kariya City Kasugai City Kita Ward Kitanagoya City Kiyosu City Komaki City Konan City Kota Town Meito Ward Midori Ward Mihama Town Minami Ward Minamichita Town Minato Ward Miyoshi City Mizuho Ward Moriyama Ward Nagakute City Nagoya City Naka Ward Nakagawa Ward Nakamura Ward Nishi Ward Nishio City Nisshin City Obu City Okazaki City Oguchi Town Owariasahi City Seto City Shinshiro City Showa Ward Tahara City Takahama City Taketoyo Town Tempaku Ward Tobishima Village Togo Town Tokoname City Tokai City Toyoake City Toyohashi City Toyokawa City Toyota City Toyoyama Town Tsushima City Yatomi City
Kinki
Chugoku
Shikoku
Kyushu & Okinawa

We plan to expand our coverage to additional areas in the future.

Information Sources

The information on this site is compiled from the official sources below. Some items have not yet been checked against official municipal documents (see our Editorial Policy & Data Methodology).

  • Official municipal government websites
  • Garbage sorting guides and pamphlets published by municipalities
  • Official municipal garbage sorting apps
  • Municipal open data

Important: The information on this site is an edited and summarized version of official information. Due to fee revisions and system changes, actual rules may differ. Please always verify the latest information on the official municipal website.

Traffic Sources

We publish where our visitors come from. All figures are measured values taken directly from Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console — no estimates or targets are included.

Traffic (June 29 – July 26, 2026 / 28 days)

Metric Measured
Sessions 46,866
Users 44,148
Pageviews 56,280
Avg. session duration 85.7 sec
Engagement rate 52.5%

Breakdown by channel (sessions)

Channel Sessions Share
Organic search (Google / Yahoo! / Bing / DuckDuckGo / Ecosia) 32,813 68.7%
Direct / no referrer (bookmarks, in-app transitions) 11,760 24.6%
AI search & assistants (ChatGPT / Copilot, etc.) 2,584 5.4%
Referrals 375 0.8%
Unattributed 236 0.5%

Shares are calculated against the sum of per-channel sessions (47,768). Due to how GA4 works, dimension-level totals differ from the overall total by roughly 2%.

As the table shows, about 70% of sessions in this period came from organic search.

Search performance (June 27 – July 24, 2026 / 28 days)

  • Clicks 13,923 / Impressions 610,270 / CTR 2.28% / Avg. position 8.85
  • Clicks by device: mobile 11,722 (84.2%), desktop 1,953, tablet 248

Top queries are practical searches combining municipality × item or item × disposal method. Our visitors are people with an item in hand right now, so we optimize for getting them to the answer they need on the spot.

Site scale

  • Coverage: 1,300+ municipalities across all 47 prefectures (as of October 2026; wards of designated cities are counted as part of their city)

Update Policy

  • When we find an official announcement of a rule change, we check it against the official documents before updating our pages (how long this takes varies from change to change)
  • We do not currently re-check every city and item against official municipal documents on a fixed schedule. What runs on a fixed schedule, and how we check data against official documents, is described in our Editorial Policy & Data Methodology
  • Municipality item pages display an “Updated” date (pages with /local/ in the URL show a “Data updated” date)

About the Operator

This site is privately operated with the goal of eliminating information gaps regarding garbage disposal.

  • Operator: Gomi-dashi Guide Team
  • Established: January 2026

Disclaimer

While we take great care in creating the information on this site, we do not guarantee its accuracy or completeness. The operator assumes no responsibility for any damages resulting from the use of information on this site.

For details, please see our Terms of Use.

Contact Us

For feedback, requests, or to report errors, please visit our Contact Page.