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Danny Choo did a post on this: http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/26963/Japan+Underground+Bicycle+Parking+Systems.html http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/26963/Japa

• dogma1138 11y ago
  From what i can tell i think it's actually the only one, been to Japan several times since these were initially posted online and I've never seen them, or any other type of an automated bike storage service. Heck from what i can tell all the pictures and video seem to cover exactly the same bike storage, and for some odd reason it's always empty when they film it. While it's a nice idea i think it's way too impractical. This seems to be less dense than what turns out of most traditional bike parking systems, it's also much more expensive to build and maintain, and i don't even want to start thinking of how easy for it to just get stuck, miss read the tag on your bike, or heck for that RFID tag to simply just die / fall off during storage. If you use something like a Santa Cruz racing frame with every part made out of carbon to commute to work, yeah the extra security is probably worth the costs when you deal with 10K$+ bikes, but as far as most commuting bikes I've seen in Japan and Asia in general nope, they aren't worth it.
  • w00kie 11y ago
    I know a couple in Tokyo: one in Shinagawa (the Danny Choo one), one in Roppongi. The one is this video is a different one. This is a company that makes such systems: http://cycle-tree.jp/ http://cycle-tree.jp/ They have more examples of installations.
    • cskau 11y ago
      Where's the one in Roppongi?
  • ProZsolt 11y ago
    If you watch the camera's footage that mounted on the bike, you can see there are several bikes in the storage.