Using a Bike In Tokyo - The BEST way to travel.
One of the smartest things I did when I first came to Tokyo was buy myself a
"mothers chariot or mama cherry" for short. Basically that's what everyone calls a cheap -
10000 yen or so bike. Nothing fancy or special it served its purpose - of getting groceries,
hauling my lazy but too and from the train station as well as the coffee shop on a daily basis - very very well.
As you probably noticed Tokyo is constructed in a sort of mish-mash web tangled sort of way. This is because the city itself grew very quickly after world war 2 - the streets, alleys and avenues for all intents and purposes were not "laid out" or planned as they are in Sapporo or Kyoto. Owning a bike in Tokyo for this very reason makes ALOT of sense.
Believe it or not the streets are laid out in a very similar fashion to Amsterdam, Holland - the bicycling capital of Europe!!
I say this to anyone "get yourself a bike in Tokyo and your life will change".
You will see Tokyo differently - at a different pace...you will have time to explore your local station, visit corners of the city, shops, alley ways, parks - that you never would on foot or simply pass by on the train.
Keep Exploring guys!
Yours,
Matt
