It’s getting hot in Tokyo !!
19th May 2005
It’s getting hot here in Tokyo and in recent years heat in Tokyo is abnormal. Perhaps, the sultriness equals tropical countries like Thailand and the Philippines. Today’s temperature was 28 degrees.
The most farthest used car auction house in the north of Japan is in Sapporo, Hokkaido and the farthest one in the south is in Fukuoka.
Though Japan is a small country, the labor costs here are the highest in the world. Therefore, costs of transporting a car by land within Japan is considerably high.
Thinking Yokohama to be a central city, transportation cost of standard car is about 4,000 yen from Yokohama, 15,000 yen from Nagoya, 20,000 Yen from Osaka, 25,000 yen from Sapporo, and 35,000 yen from Fukuoka. So the distance is a disadvantage even though sometimes cars could be bought at cheap prices at auctions in the far off cities like Sapporo and Fukuoka.
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