I came home last night and saw this sign on the notice board advertising a Parking Space that has recently become available in my apartment building. It details all the usual junk like Height, Width, Length and when it will be available so you can rush out and buy yourself a nice M5 BMW or something similar. The most important part of the notice is the part circled in Red. This is the cost of parking your own car at your Apartment that you paid somewhere between $500,000 to $700,000 USD for…. yes, that reads 33,000円 yen per month, or $326.57 USD, $458.21 AUD, £221.55 Pounds or €243.52 Euros per month at today’s exchange rate….. No thanks, I will keep catching the train….
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Is that per month?
Do you think that if they started charging that here in Sydney we’d get a better train system? I miss Japan’s trains.
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-Paul Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Yes, that’s per month… and I don’t think Australia has the motivation to make a better public transport system… or can afford it with the current population level…
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To be fair, it’s not that ridiculous outside of big cities. I pay 5000yen/month for my parking space, but I live out in Toyama, the inaka’s inaka.
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-Paul Reply:
April 7th, 2009 at 9:44 am
When you add it to the 270,000 per month it would cost if you could rent in my building, that’s a lot of money for basic parking at a place you are already paying more than the average coin for. If my parking was only 5000yen I would probably have a car by now, purely as a snowboarding support vehicle.
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I entertained the thought of bringing my car down with me from Sendai when I moved here to Tokyo, but after checking out the parking rates, yeah, I let that idea go quickly.
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-Paul Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Plus it’s not really needed with the other options available.
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It’s not that unusual to pay like that for parking. My dad works in San Francisco and I’ve heard him say that older people that don’t drive or those who leave the city for will rent out their driveways monthly to day use. It’s just a little more income. An yes, they charge hundreds of dollars and they don’t even get the right to leave it in a spot overnight!
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-Paul Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Coming from Australia I guess this is not something I am used to… I guess I’m luckey in the fact that Tokyo is so well serviced by public transport that I don’t need a car, and if I do it’s like $40 to rent one for the day…
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