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The tap water in Japan is safe to drink. So refill your water bottle in the hotel room and carry it with you. Although there are vending machines everywhere (and I mean everywhere: one machine per 23 people in Japan!) you don’t want to get through hundreds of plastic bottles during your holiday.
If you have got through a few plastic bottles by the end of your trip, there are plenty of rubbish recycling bins everywhere you go in Japan, splitting compartments for plastic bottles (PET bottles), aluminum cans and paper. Although the Japanese use a lot of packaging they do recycle most things.