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Originally Posted by dharper
I visited a Costco on the outskirts of Tokyo, and thought that it was weird that the store was on the bottom 2 floors, and the parking was on the upper floors. I thought that it would be the other way around.
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I'm going to imagine it's easier to deliver pallets to the ground floor, though... and come to think of it... I don't recall much in the way of underground parking anywhere in Japan. Restaurants on stilts, yes... with parking underneath.... or structures... but very little underground. Likely due to earthquakes... or perhaps because underground ROWs are reserved for trains?
EDIT: I've been to a couple of Costcos in Japan in the Osaka area. One in Izumi ( which is kind of an in-between area between Osaka and Wakayama that I would liken to Langley if Abbotsford was a larger city ) which has regular parking, and one Amagasaki which is in a more urban area and beside an Aeon mall:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7426326,135.446941,288a,35y,264.52h,44.9t/data=!3m1!1e3
But when you think about it, I don't think it's unusual to have rooftop parking at a Costco. We have rooftop parking at the West Vancouver Mall and even parts of Metrotown centre area rooftop are they not? Seems a good use of space, though you DO have to plan for it in the building structure.
I wonder if they're not in favour due to that high profile parking rooftop collapse in the USA years and years ago.
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