Mike Cash
骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう
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Rather than disengaging from this tread I am a bit surprised that "old hands" have not told you what , no if/but, but WILL happen. They might not own a car in Japan (same as me 2003-2008) and don't know what happens.
This is for you as well for others you may be entertaining the same ideas.
Parking:
For car ownership (and motorbike) you MUST have a parking spot to keep the vehicle on it. In the sticks, they may let you have a K-car (under 680cc) if you have a house but normally without a dedicated car spot, registration of a vehicle is impossible without car space.
Kei cars are under 660cc....not 680cc
There is no 車庫証明 requirement for bikes.
Parking has to be paid, in Tokyo Shinjuku it's 800-1,000$ a month. For your car + motorbike probably 1,500$ a month (multiply by 12 and you get a yearly cost of just keeping the vehicles off the street, not even moving them jor insuring them).
Correcting your misinformation is turning into a full-time job.
The average cost of a parking spot in Shinjuku is under 36,000 yen.
Say, you won't live there. If you are in a village or some distant suburb, it may go for your both vehicles not less than 100$ a month. If you live in a place of similar convenience as, say, Hornsby in Sydney (Tokyo equivalent would be, say, Saitama or Chiba) then you are at ~500$ a month just for parking.
In "villages" properties typically include one or two parking spots. Monthly rentals can be had for under 5,000 yen in many places.
Insurance:
Then add, insurance (as a new arrival, you will be paying the highest price). For my 1st car (Toyota Vitz (known to you as Yaris) it was 1,400$ a year
You got robbed.
For a new policy, mid-sized car, commuting, first year, liability only:
Second year:
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The bike would be 600$ at least.
Nowhere near it.
First year:
Second year:
Insurance then is 2,000$ a year for both.
More like 84,000 total for one mid-sized car and one 250cc bike for the first year.
Registration (car tax)
Registration, would be another at least 1,500$ a year for both.
The actual figures for car tax
Tax on a 250cc bike is 3,600 yen.
No-******-where near $1500/year.
Technical inspection of vehicles older than 3 years
Yearly inspection of the cars would be another 1,200$, at least, for both.
The 250cc bike has no shaken. He can do "user shaken" even on big bikes for 25,000 yen.
Cars vary, but a mid-sized car can be done for about 60-70,000.
Depending on the age of the car, the inspection is every TWO years....not annually. Did you even know that? You didn't, did you? Somebody else handles that for you?
Where does it leave you at?
So, with the best of luck, just to own the vehicles you are at nearly at 6,000 a year, with no petrol,service, tyres, tollways.
If the vehicles were teleported to Japan at no cost, that is where you are. 6,000$ a year.
It can go up, depending on city council and cc the vehicles have. The previous calculation can easily go to 10,000$ a year altogether for a car with say 2,000cc and a bike with over 1,000cc.
I've already shown your facts and figures to be so bogus that I'm not even going to bother dissecting this tripe.
Edit: your Oz driving license will be recognized in Japan after you have been in the country for more than 6 months.
Now you're saying he can't change to a Japanese license until he has been here six months? Want to show us where it says that? Or address your oversimplified instructions that he just show up with his Australian license?
You really really really really need to refrain from sharing "facts" with people here. Or at least try just ONCE to share one that isn't completely wrong.
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