Down the Tama River: A Flat Day on Western Tokyo’s Water
alk about cycling in Tokyo and the conversation goes to backstreets and temples. But the best cycling in Tokyo is probably not in the centre at all. It is out…
Okutama: Riding to the Highest Pass in Tokyo
There is a mountain pass at 1,146 metres inside the Tokyo Metropolis. About 50 km west of the Metropolitan Government building, still within the same administrative boundary, sits the highest…
Retro Tokyo by Bike: Where to Find the Golden Gai Feeling — and Actually Photograph It
You know the photograph. A lane barely wide enough for two people. Hand-painted signs stacked up a two-storey wooden wall. Paper lanterns, tangled wiring, warm light spilling out of a…
Tokyo Art by Bike: A Flat One-Day Loop Through Museums, Galleries and Free Art
Tokyo has one of the densest concentrations of art in the world, and almost no good way to see it. The museums are scattered across five or six districts that…