Fukuyama Station in Hiroshima Prefecture is located right by the 399-year-old Fukuyama Castle. Bullet trains whiz in and out of the station on a daily basis, and over 20,000 people pass though it every day. Back in 1975, parking at Fukuyama station consisted of nothing more than a ticket booth and stanchions in a ring. The outer ring formed the limits of the lot, and additional cars were parked inside the ring.
It looks a bit haphazard in the first photo, but here’s the same lot from the other side. Here, with the station (and main tower of Fukuyama Castle) in the background, things look a bit more orderly. There are lots of interesting cars in the scenes, including a Honda Life StepVan, Mitsubishi Minica, numerous Corollas, Carinas, and kujira Crowns, and because this is Hiroshima, Mazda Familias. What catches your eye?
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Hino busses. Painted battleship grey, they were my school bus as a kid on base.
Remember my Grandparents had a cute Toshiba TV from the 70’s (seeing the sign in the first picture). It was white on a stand, with a black frame or ring on the front, the screen framed by a silver ring, with the “rabbit ears” and circle antenna on the back. was in the kitchen in the corner by the dinner table.
70’s levels of traffic. Looks like there where times when you could drive in third gear !!
Hino maru?
Hino, the heavy truck division of Toyota. Hinomaru, the national symbol of Japan on aircraft. Hino Maru, a merchant ship. But you knew that.
I’m still chewing on a pic from the same era found on another car site, from somewhere in the US (with palm trees, so California? Florida?) with a fair number of Toyotas sprinkled in among the Detroit iron, but not a single Datsun, and Euros being down to a captive-import Ford Capri and a smattering of VW Beetles.
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I’d say 1972, based on the red Pontiac GTO/LeMans, the Chevrolet Vega 2-door sedan, and the Dodge Charger. Hard to see, but is that a white Mazda RX-3 sedan? (from the tail lights)
The newest car I could find was the white-and-red 1974 Chevelle coupe.
I think both white JNC sedans in that same row are ’69-72 Toyota Mark IIs from the shape of the door and air extractor behind them. I had to save to get a larger view.