[rtpg]

I _really_ appreciate Tokyo's system of basically forcing you to affirmatively declare your parking spot when you buy a car, on top of the usual "pay extra rent to have a parking space" thing that happens in many spots.

While it doesn't stop cars from being abandoned "randomly", just the entire principle of having a paper trail for these things and creating a bunch of incentives to make sure that parking spots don't turn into trash heaps[0].

Especially now that I live in a place where street parking is a prime resource and yet people _who have garages_ still choose to street park out of convenience...

[0]: not always of course, I know about the trash houses