Cars and parking in Tokyo

Here's a close-up photo I took from across a very big street. It shows the advertisement for a parking garage in Tokyo.



The garages themselves are amazing. They're generally robotic, and shuffle the cars around on elevators or carousels to fit the maximum number of cars into the minimum amount of space.

Anyway, the sign says 100yen/10 minutes. So, to park your car here is about $6/hour or about $100/night, or about $3000/month if you're commuting. That said, keeping a car in Tokyo is very expensive. Another time I'll post pictures of all the ferraris and other imported sports cars that I can't even name parked along the streets.