Apparently the total area to store a car is/was part of their registration fee calculation, which is why 90s Japanese cars have electronically fold in mirrors.
Definitely convenient and worth the JPY2,600 per month cost. With the often challenging task daily of finding a parking space for your bike next to the station and with the regular sweeps Shinagawa and other ward councils do to clear parked bicycles off footpaths next to stations and major shopping locales (to get your bike back after these sweeps can cost up to JPY5,000 a time), as a user, I can tell you these RFID chip card-enabled bike parks are great – really great.
Very convenient indeed. Bike parking by stations is so routine and normal in Japan that it’s amazing that Auckland is only taking baby steps towards it. Really surprised a private operator hasn’t got involved yet, given AT’s sloth at doing almost anything for PT.
BTW the bike parks in Japanese outer suburban stations tend to be a little less high-tech – often just a tin shed manned by an old bloke collecting coins from users. Call it the human touch 🙂
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Yep, they do it with cars exactly the same way, but space must be at a real premium for them to do that for bikes.
Apparently the total area to store a car is/was part of their registration fee calculation, which is why 90s Japanese cars have electronically fold in mirrors.
THAT is fucking genius.
Anyone know how much it costs to park? If it costs..
The big boy can swear. How cool you are, or common!
Just says “no video with supporting format and MIME type found”?
Fantastic.Worked when I went to full screen on my phone.
More details:
Underground Bicycle Parking Systems in Japan: http://youtu.be/pcZSU40RBrg
Cost is about $26/month, $13 for students.
90 percent of the city’s 13.1 million residents commute to work by rail each day, and a third of them ride their bike to and from the train station.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/03/check-out-tokyos-amazing-underground-robotic-bike-parking-system/
Definitely convenient and worth the JPY2,600 per month cost. With the often challenging task daily of finding a parking space for your bike next to the station and with the regular sweeps Shinagawa and other ward councils do to clear parked bicycles off footpaths next to stations and major shopping locales (to get your bike back after these sweeps can cost up to JPY5,000 a time), as a user, I can tell you these RFID chip card-enabled bike parks are great – really great.
Very convenient indeed. Bike parking by stations is so routine and normal in Japan that it’s amazing that Auckland is only taking baby steps towards it. Really surprised a private operator hasn’t got involved yet, given AT’s sloth at doing almost anything for PT.
BTW the bike parks in Japanese outer suburban stations tend to be a little less high-tech – often just a tin shed manned by an old bloke collecting coins from users. Call it the human touch 🙂
it certainly gets around the Amsterdam issues of finding your black sit upright bike with a basket amongst all the other black uprights with baskets!
It would be nice if we could bike across the bridge