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===Tracking===
It's the absolute norm. The kids playing in summer ? Tracker ? The girl in her twenties who looks like she's on her way to a fashion magazine photoshoot ? Tracker. The hardcore guys grinding in nests for hours ? Tracker. The 2 old ladies walking their dogs ? Tracker. The car players looping around the town in the night ? Tracker. The japanese youtubers or level 40 guys tweeting about PoGo ? Tracker.
There has been an single online tracker since forever in Japan, and it's not frowned upon. The Silph Road equivalent japanese websites consider it standard. It's actually the normal way to play for most players, and I think many never even considered it could be a TOS violation (or don't care anyway). TV shows showing PoGo stuff also openly featured trackers, it's just a normal thing. That tracker has been down for a few week in october, and a lot of players simply didn't want to play anymore without it. From what I've discussed, japanese players don't really know hom to hunt and track down a pokemon ""manually"", or at least don't want to go through that hassle. We still don't have the new pokestop-base sightings & nearby deployed in Japan. We still use the old sightings tab. Not sure why Niantic holds back on that, might be related to the tracker existence. Or maybe it's because there's too many pokestops.
Tokyo's area Pokemon mecca. Most of the island get the rare [[mountain]]/[[desert biome]] but also the [[ocean biome]], the [[electric biome]]. So a lot of [[Fighting]] types, [[Fire]] types, [[Seel]], [[Shellder]], [[Magnemite]], [[Voltorb]]... Pokemon that are rarely seen in other parts of the Tokyo region, except in nests. And also a fair number of [[Dratini]] (not very rare in Tokyo though) and [[Pikachu]]/[[Porygon]]. Of course [[Larvitar]], [[Tyranitar]], [[Chansey]], [[Miltank]], [[Mareep]], [[Lapras]] also spawn there. [[Unown]] has spawned multiple times too. Somehow, [[Swinub]] and [[Drowzee]] spawn quite a lot there too, although there mostly no shows in other parts of Tokyo.
Lapras is a no-show in the Tokyo region outside of the Tokyo Bay, so Odaiba was THE place to go to get one. Took part in a ""Lapras dash"" in summer. Some guys ran across the beach screaming ""DETAAAAA"" (""appeared""), and all the players waiting Lapras on the beachside immediately knew what they were talking about and started to run. Hundred of people running 1.5km to catch Lapras. Office ladies, salarymen, young girls, typical hardcore players. He was at a busy crossing and it ended with around a thousand people massed here to catch him. Some guy was on his knees screaming he was happy to be alive. An another guy was going berserk at his phone saying ""why error ? WHY ERROR ???"". Nowadays there isn't much people waiting for Lapras. Most players probably got one now (and there was the Lapras event), and he isn't much relevant anymore in the gym meta.
Note that most of the Tokyo bay gets the mountain biome for some reason, in spite of an almost sea level elevation. Odaiba is only 3.5m above the sea if I trust what was written on some toilets. Tokyo DisneySea is also the same biome mix as Odaiba, but buying tickets just to farm pokemon there would be quite expensive.
[[Pidgeotto]], [[Raticate]], [[Kakuna]], [[Golduck]], [[Metapod]], [[Pidgeot]] and [[Slowbro]] make 72% of that.
====[[Breeder]]====
I usually only use the infinite incubator, and use gym coin bought incubators when I fill my inventory with 10km eggs. Which happened very rarely until [[Gen 2]]. So, my count is very low. I often see people on this sub who are at a lower level and yet have hatched 1500 or even 3000 eggs, I guess they always run 9 incubators ?
====[[Backpacker]]====
[[PokeStops]] are everywhere in Tokyo.
