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driving in Tokyo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

I've driven in Japan before but never Tokyo. Until today, that is. Mari's added me to her account on a fantastic car share program that lets us toodle about for as little as ¥1,000 for an evening. She's been doing all the driving for Ken's basketball, but now I'm finally contributing. Quite a white-knuckle affair for me, as in addition to the narrow streets and unfamiliar left-side driving I have to worry about entanglements with the police - a mis-step could result in quite a few unique problems there. Anyway, it all went almost without a hitch.

I'll add that Kokubunji isn't really "Tokyo", at least not when it comes to things like driving. It's more like a .. well, featureless plain. You can drive in virtually any direction and not see a lot of traffic at 22:00 on a slightly rainy Sunday night in December.