And now, an advertisement for a Japanese car brand in Mainland China - "Wherever there is a road, there is a Toyota car" has become well known and familiar to everyone.

But Japan is definitely not a big country that uses cars as a means of personal transportation. This is determined by Japan’s narrow land area.

Japan has a large-scale modern highway network covering the whole country, which is not inferior to any developed country.

However, Japan's population density is six times that of the United States and forty times that of Canada.

Moreover, Japan is very mountainous and lacks large plains suitable for living like the United States and Canada.

Therefore, geographically speaking, Japan can be called a "narrow" country.

Even if we only count the area, the same highway system can support six times or forty times the traffic flow, which is difficult for gods to resist.

Therefore, it is not possible to use your own car for commuting, congestion occurs around holiday sightseeing spots, and many traveling families are often stuck on the expressway.

The Japanese therefore understand that it is impossible for them to build a "country on wheels" like the United States.

So in terms of transportation construction, Japan is an enlarged version of Singapore.

Use the method of vigorously expanding public transportation to deal with the horrific traffic flow.

Therefore, the vast majority of Japanese people use public transportation, such as subways, trams, and buses to commute to and from get off work.

During rush hours, there are dedicated people on the subway to push people up, and the windows are covered with "three-dimensional photos".

Even Japanese people who are able to drive to and from get off work are often willing to take the subway.

There are two reasons.

First, the work intensity in Japan is high, and people are often very tired after get off work, so the accident rate when driving is relatively high.

Although the subway is crowded, life is still at stake.

Another problem is that I can't afford the parking fee and can't find a parking lot.

Because land prices are high, parking fees in Japan are high. Public parking lots in more prosperous places do not charge by the hour, but by ten minutes as a unit and settled once.

If you are not in a large commercial center or shopping mall that provides free parking, the cost of parking is a huge expense.

For example, in a high-end business district like Ginza, the parking fee for ten minutes can be as high as 500 yen.

Not only is it not cheaper to stop for an hour, it is also more expensive, at 3,300 yen, which is already much higher than the salary of an average white-collar worker.

If you really work for a whole day and end up spending most of your salary on parking fees and the rest on maintaining your car, wouldn’t that be the behavior of a fool?

What's more, even if there is a free parking lot, the free parking period is only one hour.

In addition, due to the high car ownership rate in Japan, even paid parking lots are often overcrowded with cars and it is impossible to park in them.

In places like Ginza, it takes an average of forty minutes to get a parking space.

This matter became even more difficult for Ning Weimin, because his Cadillac had to occupy the parking spaces of two cars.

Not to mention the doubled cost, the key is that the waiting time must also be doubled.

When he was in Ginza, he had the terrifying experience of waiting for two and a half hours to park his car.

Finally, there is another thing: Japan's traffic rules are very strict, and the penalty for parking anywhere is a minimum of 20,000 yen.

Just don't think about finding a place where you can't get in the way and just fight it out like in China.

The Japanese police do not recognize relatives at all. Even if a congressman's car dares to park indiscriminately, he will still punish him.

So you can imagine how Ning Weimin feels about the two cars he owns?

That's a big trouble, two big pits!

Fortunately, he has money and a large warehouse to store the Mercedes-Benz convertible that is temporarily unused, otherwise it will not be able to play at all.

He now understands why Japanese taxis are so expensive and people still accept them readily.

And why are second-hand cars in Japan so cheap? Some cars can even be sold for free, which can be cheaper than better bicycles.

To put it bluntly, owning a car for personal use in Japan is a thankless and costly undertaking, so you must proceed with caution.

Anyway, after doing this twice, he has a long memory.

I can accept any kind of gift from now on, but I definitely don’t want a car.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s money or not, what matters is how troublesome it is!

He really can't afford to worry about this, and he can't afford to make such a mess!

The car is unsatisfactory, and so is the house, no different.

Yes, under the general trend of the economic bubble and with the help of several bank interest rate cuts, real estate prices in Tokyo entered a period of skyrocketing from the beginning of 1986.

Although there are only more than two months left before the April review, the three core areas are the fastest growing areas in Tokyo and are the leaders.

Ning Weimin's net worth also gained weight.

At present, the value of his real estate alone is as high as 4 billion yen, which has tripled compared with the capital he initially invested.

But the problem is, houses have gone up, taxes have become heavier, and there are more things to worry about.

Yes, Ning Weimin fully considered the issue of tax avoidance before buying a house.

Although he has fully thought about it and adopted the optimal strategy, no matter what, as long as he buys a house in Japan, he cannot escape the two taxes and must pay them every year.

That is fixed assets tax and urban planning tax.

These two taxes can be simply understood as real estate taxes, which means that taxes must be paid every year for the real estate purchased. Although the tax rate is fixed, the assessment method is indeed based on the market price of the real estate.

In other words, the more the price of real estate rises, the greater the annual 3% tax will be.

Like this year, Ning Weimin contributed 75 million yen to the Japanese government based on the evaluation standard of 2.5 billion yen.

It's like giving a house to the Japanese government for free.
Chapter completed!