One thing that puzzled me quite a lot when I started driving in Japan two years ago (apart from driving on the left side) was that the traffic lights are usually placed behind the intersections. Sometimes I just noticed them only in the very last moment.
posted by Julia @ 9:16 AM
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I didn't know you drove on the left side of the road? I know that the UK does.
Interesting.
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When I was in Sendai, and Sapporo in 1953, most towns like Sendai (now over a million people) had no traffic lights. Major intersections had one policeman standing on a box in the middle directing traffic.
@ Pat: Yes, Japan does, too, I have no idea why.
@ Abraham Lincon: Sendai is not far away from Kitakami, we have been there yesterday; it has lots of traffic lights now! But still it is somehow difficult to orientate, since only some of the biggest streets have names, like in all japanese cities.
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