Some friends and I caught a cab in Western Kyoto last week. When I got in the cab, I noticed that the driver's cab license, which is always posted on the dashboard in Japanese cabs, said something about 700,000 kilometers (about 435,000 miles).
I asked him about it and it turns out he had, in fact, driven over 700,000 kilometers--All of them in and around Kyoto. Incredibly, though, those 700,000 kilometers had been driven in just over 7 years. That's over 150 miles per day, assuming you worked 365 days a year, for 7 years.
Incredible.
