More Japanese Cycle Culture
This sign above the sidewalk in Tokyo explains that it’s a multiuse path. |
Tokyo, May 21st. |
A delivery trailer outside a courier company – the same one that delivered our rented cell phone to our hotel. |
At the Asakusa Kannon Temple in Tokyo. |
Notice all the bicycles parked to one side of the intersection! A lot of the famous neon signs in Shinjuku were still turned off to save electricity at this point. |
Parked inside a shop in Hida-Takayama (Gifu prefecture) in the early morning after a rainy day. |
By the time we returned, the pretty loop-frame had been moved outside the shop doors. |
A narrow alley between houses in a residential district of Hida-Takayama. |
I was taking a photo of the shrine, I swear. |
Bridgestone-stamped plastic (celluloid?) handles with brass caps. As you can see the bars themselves are pretty rusty. |
I had to reach over the bike to get this shot of the chainguard. It was definitely not set up as a display. |
Even the leather saddle is Bridgestone (Tokyo) branded. I wonder what the top tube is wrapped with? |
Headbadge shot. The poor thing could use a good cleaning but I bet it’s still in working condition. Bridgestone Cycle Co Ltd was started in 1949, so it’s no older than that. This headbadge is one of the ones in this photo. Given the crazy humidity and the fires kept inside each building, it could be that rusty and dusty without being particularly old. |
Cars, electric trolleys, pedestrians, and bicycles share a busy intersection on a rainy day in Hiroshima. Notice the two ladies riding while holding umbrellas. May 27th. |