In Tokyo, when purchasing large appliances or furniture you have to take into consideration whether the delivery guys will be able to bring it through your front door or not. In many Japanese houses and condominiums entrances are usually very narrow which makes fitting long or tall things into a home impossible. I know this first hand when a few years ago I bought a cool refrigerator that wouldn’t even fit into the entrance of the old building I lived in. However, if you want something bad enough you can get the delivery guys to haul it through the window like at this home I saw while walking around the neighborhood. Of course you have to pay extra for that special service and sometimes it’ll cost more than the item itself. I doubt Ikea would perform this kind of service. I couldn’t make out exactly what this home purchased, maybe some sort of shelf. But more interesting, just a few metres away was this Roadster with Mazdaspeed aero parts. I also just found out that my Roadster has already been sold. It makes me a bit sad to hear that…
Just looking at the parking lot that the roadster is parked in, but whats with all the extras? Is that common in Japan? I’m guessing the yellow beam on the ground is to know when to stop backing up, then thers some barriers, but the blue thing looks like some kind of lock? Looks like it has a bar that can braised/lowered. NEver seen so many precautions or extra things in a parking lot efore ;p
It’s a coin parking, a few minutes after you park your car that blue thing automatically raises up. When you are leaving you pay your money in a machine and that blue lock folds down so you can leave.
So when do you get your new car?
July, maybe…
Hi Roy,
What do you reckon: Your old Roadster gonna stay in JP or gonna be exported?
Don’t know. But it still has the navi/gps which is all in Japanese so I doubt anybody would export that. Anyways, it wasn’t sold in an auction which is where most exporters go to look for bargains.
Didn’t I say get the MS aero parts ;)
OMG! There is a ghost woman in the far right window, first photo!
woo ~ for a moment there ..
I thought U moved to ANOTHER new place
and got another car ?!