A 500-yen prepaid coin parking lot in Koshienguchi is apparently becoming a studio apartment building

It looks like the 500-yen prepaid coin parking lot in Koshienguchi will become a one-room apartment building.

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Here it is on the map↓

The address is 3-14 Koshienguchi, Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture.

Before it became a coin parking lot, there was an apartment building called Green Heim here.

Information Around the New One-Room Apartment Building in Koshienguchi 3-chome

If you go this way, the residential area continues, and you’ll come out onto the street where the hair salon Cut Color 彩 is located.

If you go in the opposite direction, you’ll find the New Metro pachinko parlor, the kaiseki restaurant Hyotan, and other places, before reaching the street of Honwaka Shopping Street.

It’s Unclear How Long the Coin Parking Lot Will Remain Open

The building will reportedly have 7 floors and stand 19.97 meters tall.

Construction will begin in February 2020, and completion is scheduled for one year later, in February 2021.

So the coin parking lot will likely be gone by around January next year at the latest.

Enlarged site plan↓

500 yen for 24 hours is very cheap.

Finally

We previously reported that a 500-yen prepaid coin parking lot in Ashiharacho would also be rebuilt as an apartment building.

The Coin Park website for this parking lot says they can operate hourly parking lots for temporary use from as little as three months. This is just a guess, but even when an apartment building or similar project is planned, it can take time to get the building permits approved, so they may be turning the site into a parking lot in the meantime to generate at least some revenue. Prepaid parking lots also seem like they would cost less to install than lock-plate or gate-style parking systems.

This parking lot usually had a fair number of cars parked in it, so I imagine quite a few people found it useful. It would be nice if more parking lots where you can park all day for 500 yen opened elsewhere too.