Two days for a new washer, half a day to do laundry

One trip to put the wash on. Another to pull out the clothes that couldn’t go in the dryer and start drying the rest. A third to pick up the dry load. During a rainy stretch, that was what one parent was trying to fit around work. Their family had a new washer on hold, but with two weeks of those trips still ahead, they wanted to ask about a model already in stock. Even a two-day delivery can mean a lot of running around. A household that did laundry daily had just turned down a ¥40,000 repair that might not last. A new washer was around ¥80,000, but the same maker’s store said it would take a month. They switched brands and got a comparable washer in two days. In that gap they checked four nearby coin laundries (コインランドリー), used two and spent half a day getting the laundry done. At the store, put the date next to the price: 「最短でいつ設置できますか？」 How soon can it actually be installed?