{"id":13395,"date":"2014-09-24T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2014-09-24T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T02:05:48","slug":"hinomaru-driving-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/hinomaru-driving-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinomaru Driving School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13396\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/06145513-hinomaru-driving-school-from-Ebisu-Garden-Place-Tower.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13396\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/06145513-hinomaru-driving-school-from-Ebisu-Garden-Place-Tower-800x409.jpg\" alt=\"hinomaru driving school from Ebisu Garden Place Tower\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/06145513-hinomaru-driving-school-from-Ebisu-Garden-Place-Tower-800x409.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/06145513-hinomaru-driving-school-from-Ebisu-Garden-Place-Tower-250x128.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hinomaru Driving School (\u65e5\u306e\u4e38\u81ea\u52d5\u8eca\u5b66\u6821) from Ebisu Garden Place Tower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Driving schools in Japan are big business. Unlike the USA, where most drivers pay little or nothing to learn how to drive and get a drivers license, Japanese drivers typically pay $3,000 &#8211; $5,000 to go to driving school and obtain a license. That&#8217;s assuming they pass on their first attempt. It costs even more if they don&#8217;t pass and then go back to driving school, etc. So it should come as no surprise that the schools can be fairly elaborate affairs in fancy buildings with color-coded cars, driving courses, etc. <\/p>\n<p>The driving school in today&#8217;s photo is walking distance from the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/ebisu\/>Ebisu<\/a> and Meguro Stations in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving schools in Japan are big business. Unlike the USA, where most drivers pay little or nothing to learn how to drive and get a drivers license, Japanese drivers typically pay $3,000 &#8211; $5,000 to go to driving school and obtain a license. That&#8217;s assuming they pass on their first attempt. It costs even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[244,313,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}