Japan Car Parking

This was one of the reasons why we decided to go for the Nissan March (our green car). Driving space and parking is generally tiny and we were afraid of scratching up the car - but ended up getting scratched up anyway by wifey ^^;

Some living-in-Japan knowledge for you. Car navigation systems by default choose routes where roads are wider than a few meters (cant remember exact number). This means that the navigation system may plot a route which actually takes longer. To get around this, choose "route by shortest distance" which is Kyori Yuusen [距離優先] on the navigation.

Have a look at our Car Navigation to see what sort of devices you will be using in Japan. Do you use car navigational systems in your neck of the woods?

Check out the video to see one of the smallest parking spaces ever. Love the background music when he parks ^^;

Original text from Hikaru Kazushime below.

Found this on JapanProbe:
Video of a man in Kobe who converted a storage area under some stairs into a parking space:

According to the narrator, the man first measured the parking space, and then bought a car that fit into it. -From JapanProbe

Seriously, who does this? You can just make a parking space? But hey, as long as nobody minds I guess...and I'm sure the fellow wont have to worry about bird droppings...