The scary thing to happen in Japan, is to have your car break down while you are parked at a toll meter.

This happened to me the other day. I was surfing and car broke down. FML. I was wet, it was freezing and 9 A.M.

I put my board in my car.

Locked everything up.

And hiked my ass to the nearest train station that was a 40 minute walk away.

Mind you I was in my wet suit

Dripping down the road.

I got on the train, tired and wet.

Japanese people stared at me

After about 15 minutes I had a puddle around my feet, trailing down the ground on the train.

When I got to my stop, I had to walk another 30 minutes to my apartment to call a tow.

I didn't know the name of the beach. (Yay for my Japanese) And had to give the directions to the tow trunk

When I made it back to the car, the toll was 6300 yin. The tow was another 5000.

Getting my car unstuck= roughly $123.00
Soaking up a train and ruining some salaryman's suit = $20
Getting called scuba steve by the tow man= priceless

For somethings there's mastercard