Even your parking garages blow my mind! When I went to the live music performance last week, I didn't expect the simple act of parking to be part of the entertainment! I can best describe this particular parking garage as a Car Vending Machine Building. You drive your car into this small garage, parking it square in the middle of this circular Metal Grate Thing. You get your ticket from the attendant and your car is literally lifted up into the building above, on this Metal Grate Thing. Then when you come back, you show your ticket, pay the fee, stand back behind the metal bars, and watch as your car is retrieved from one of the ten stories above, placed on on the circular platform, and rotated to face the exit.
I should have expected no less from the Land of Vending Machines. And maybe such garages exist back home, too, but this was the first I'd seen. Tomoko said these garages are common in Japan. I was gawking enough to thoroughly amuse my two Japanese companions. Oh, Japan!
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