Thanks JR West Okayama Station! I left my phone on the train to Tokyo on Monday evening. Back in my hands at 3 PM on Wednesday. The delivery guy proudly said “Only in Japan.”
I wasn’t persuaded that getting back a lost phone was a uniquely Japanese experience until I found the note with mascots.

A downside to the “furusato nozei” residence tax program is that it takes some paper-folding skills. The upside is that I’ll get some Hokkaido cheese. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hometow...