My life in Sapporo, Japan. Eating weird food, seeing weird clothes, meeting weird people, doing weird things.
Showing posts with label Japanese cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese cars. Show all posts
Monday, January 26, 2015
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Not so great for cars
In Sapporo we get a lot of snow. The bigger streets are cleaned quite efficiently, but many smaller streets just have the snow compressed by cars running over it over and over again. The cars lose traction and the wheels spin, making ridges and ice. Man holes are slightly warmer, and melt the ice on top creating deep holes, etc. This makes these roads bad for cars. You can hear the cars lose half the underside or so when scraping against ice ridges...
This hole is near my house, though there are ones that are much deeper than this one. This photo was taken after a few warm days when much of the ice melted, making the hole more shallow too.
This hole is near my house, though there are ones that are much deeper than this one. This photo was taken after a few warm days when much of the ice melted, making the hole more shallow too.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Cold car?
My neighbor has a car that looks like this. Considering that it is about 5℃ and rainy here now, and will be ten degrees colder and full of snow soon, this car may be a little cold. I guess Japanese people are just tougher than I am.
Labels:
cars,
Japan,
Japanese cars
Location:
Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
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