A gentle rain falls on the winding roads of the hilly region about three hours north of Tokyo. It’s shortly before tedium. Forty kilometers an hour. Exactly. But then the tires start to sing. The melody road near the town of Nakanojō in Gunma prefecture rewards drivers with a song for adhering to the speed limit. “Itsumo Nando Demo” means something like “again and again, no matter how often.” Japan is building more and more of these musical roads—it currently has thirty-three of…
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