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In suburbs across Japan, homes filled to the rafters with hoarded junk are common enough to have an ironic idiom: #gomi-#yashiki (trash-mansions).

And in areas where space is limited, cluttered residences and shops will often erupt, disgorging things onto the street in a semi-controlled jumble so ubiquitous that urban planners have a name for it:
#afuré-#dashi (spilling-outs).

This is an ecstatic, emergent complexity, born less from planning than from organic growth, from the inevitable chaos of lives being lived.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-changing-magic-of-japanese-clutter