Cycling Tokyo by night
The above photos were taken during a night ride on Tuesday with Kanga, a Brompton cyclist who has lived in Japan for decades.
When cycling on holiday quite often you are on a high paying attention to everything around you, frequently stopping to check your phone, are you in the right place… and at the same time paying attention to everyone around so you don’t run into people walking or cycling. It can be exhausting.. but exciting at the same time.
On Tuesday night we organised to meet up with Ryan (Kanga) an Australian Brompton rider who has lived in Japan for a number of decades. We previously met at a Brompton in Palace meet years back, and he agreed to take us go for a night ride – and as you can tell by the photos – it was a fabulous ride through Tokyo.
The start was at Tokyo station… as we dodged the pedestrians, cyclists as we made our way through the maze of streets, buildings, and over bridges. I could try and explain the directions we took, but let’s face it I got no hope in remembering the names of places, but I did recognise a number of the buildings.
Our destination was Odaiba… and the foreshore which features an amazing view of the rainbow bridge lit up along with all the surrounding buildings. On the water there were a number of boats with colourful with lights We headed towards Toyosu to look at the view of the bridges and buildings which at night – and what a view!
