Yabitsu Pass and Lake Miyagase: Kanagawa’s Climbing Country
Among road cyclists around Tokyo, Yabitsu Pass is the climb you are either asked about or expected to know. 761 metres, Terayama in Hadano City, on prefectural Route 70. Hadano…
West Along the Shonan Coast: Enoshima to Odawara by Bike
An hour by train from Tokyo. Walk out of the station, build the bike, ride south for ten minutes, and Sagami Bay opens in front of you — Enoshima on…
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…
Yanaka Ginza by Bike: A Slow Half-Day Ride Through Tokyo’s Old Town
Most of Tokyo was flattened twice in the twentieth century — once by the 1923 earthquake, once by the war. Yanaka was not. Ride ten minutes north of Ueno and…
Riding the Sea of Japan Coast: A Cyclist’s Guide to Hokuriku’s Best Routes
Riding the Sea of Japan Coast: A Cyclist’s Guide to Hokuriku’s Best Routes If you are looking for a cycling destination in Japan that still feels wonderfully undiscovered by international…
Hokkaido Northern Frontier Cycling
Hokkaido Has Roads Like This Hokkaido has long, nearly empty roads flanked by impossibly beautiful fields of lavender, sunflowers, and golden wheat — roads where you briefly forget you’re on…
Shikoku Pilgrimage Cycling Route
Cycling the Shikoku Pilgrimage: A Two-Week Journey Along a 1,200-Year-Old Path Ride through ancient cedar forests, past moss-covered mountain temples, and along coastlines where the Pacific meets rugged volcanic cliffs…