Bike Storage Tower in Tokyo, Japan

Posted by Alex in Architecture, Car & Vehicle, Video Clips on April 21, 2008 at 7:27 pm


Parking your bike in Tokyo, Japan is so high tech! Check out this automated bicycle parking tower (capacity 9,400 bicycles) : Hit play or go to Link [YouTube, in Japanese but you'll get the idea] – via treehugger, thanks yoshi hashimoto!

Previously on Neatorama: Volkswagen’s New Car Storage Facility


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6 comments to "Bike Storage Tower in Tokyo, Japan"

  1. Thespian24601
    April 21st, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    They have a similar machine where they park cars. I don't remember the name, but it's also on youtube.

  2. Geekazoid
    April 21st, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    yup they have the same thing for cars, cool.

  3. blm
    April 22nd, 2008 at 1:53 am

    It's cool, but you know at some time it's either going to break down or screw up and return the wrong bike. Then way do you do?

  4. ted
    April 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 am

    HA! He rides a girl's bike.

    I was waiting for them to put a camera on the bike, and they finally did.

    I thought the same thing about it screwing up somehow, and somebody getting stuck with the wrong bike. How do you argue with the machine?

  5. ptitz
    April 24th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    they ve got a similar thing here in holland.

    http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/15/the-automatic-bike-dispenser-like-p ez-but-good-for-you/

  6. kendrick
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    The main problem with this is that if it takes 23 seconds per bike and there are 9400 bikes it takes 2.5 days to fill up or empty out.


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