From the end of May, temperature in Japan are globally raising up. As consequence of it, the proliferation of insects attracted by your garbage containing rooted food and varied wastes. To avoid to be infested by insects such as cockroach or flies. It is really important to cleaning carefully and regularly your trashes and throw it often.
Moreover, it is important to keep your apartment or room clean. During summer in Japan clean every corner of your accomodation is really important to avoid any inconvenience related to insect.
To help you to clean correctly your accomodation here is some advices we provide to you:
- Put your wasted food in a small bag and put it out on the designated day (burnable waste)
- Never use shoes in the house. If shoes are used outside, they have to stay in the Genkan (玄関)

(Example of Genkan which is common in every houses or apartment in Japan)
- Cleaning regularly the trash box. Indeed because summer is really hot in Japan, leaving food in the garbage can make it stinky really fast. That is why, it is really important to keep trash boxes clean to avoid bad smells.
Here is also some product which are efficient to prevent bad smells and infestation of insect:
- To-Plan Mite Catcher Sheet DX (ダニ捕りシートDX): a product desgined to trap and kill mites

- Trash can deodorant (ゴミ箱の消臭力): Keep your garbage with a good smell

- Closet repellent (ブラックキャップ): Can keep your clothes and closet safe from Cockroach

- Repellent Spray (ダニアーススプレー ハーブの香り): Spray for Mattress or Sofa, keep away insect from them

- Window trap (コバエがホイホイ): A trap which prevent flies to come into your house and keep insect away from it

We highly recommend theses products because they are highly efficient. By using this, you house will keep a good aspect, good smell and no insect will infest your house.