Coin parking

There are indoor and outdoor types, each utilizing a combination of locking devices, entrance gates, and payment machines to manage vehicles and fees.

When the user pays the parking fee at the payment machine, the obstruction is lowered, allowing the vehicle to exit.

In recent years, some parking facilities have eliminated the need for a ticket by reading the user's license plate or linking a parking ticket to the license plate information and automatically opening and closing the gate at the exit when the fee is pre-paid.

While companies, organizations, and individuals have increasingly installed these facilities as a measure to make effective use of idle land, the number of those operating on sites leased by management companies and private operators is also increasing.

[4] The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan also cautions that “ambiguous signage that is not easily understood at first glance is one of the contributing factors.”[5]