Tokyo utilizes incredibly sophisticated, automated underground bicycle parking vaults called Eco Cycles to combat the severe lack of available surface space in the crowded metropolis.

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Tokyo utilizes incredibly sophisticated, automated underground bicycle parking vaults called Eco Cycles to combat the severe lack of available surface space in the crowded metropolis. You simply roll your bike onto a mechanical platform, scan a microchip, and watch as a robotic elevator violently sucks your cycle down into a massive, eighty-foot subterranean cylinder holding hundreds of other bikes. When you return, the robotic claw retrieves your exact bicycle in mere seconds, looking exactly like a futuristic vending machine designed for urban hipsters. While the rest of the world is desperately chaining their rusty mountain bikes to broken streetlamps hoping the tires will not get stolen, Japan is casually storing them in underground missile silos with frightening robotic precision