here is one of the tokyo vol stations

https://youtu.be/30iEFsIRMjc?t=722

I see the small 4 door truck with pump and squirrel tail

I also see a hand drawn cart

interesting

you might think they should have a larger station with larger vehicles
- but if you look at many of their neighborhoods - any larger vehicles
could barely get down some of the side streets

let me explain a little more - tokyo fd paid guys mostly use full size
pumpers - the full size pumpers probably can access all of the streets
and alleys in tokyo - but there is barely any room to pass pedestrians
- certainly they cannot pass any other vehicles on the sidestreets -
there is barely room for 2 small cars to pass on many of the side
streets

if I had to guess I would guess that the tokyo ladder trucks cannot
access 25% of the streets in the city

so you can see that the volunteers do not lose very much by using mini pumpers

still not sure how much of the city has hydrants - there are cisterns
all over the place

note - all of the full size pumpers have a built in hand drawn hose
cart - that should tell you something about how narrow the side
streets are