東京渋谷で自転車を乗る？From a Kyoto perspective what is striking about this photo of Shibuya - Tokyo's uber fashion mecca - is not the buildings. Plenty of those in Kyoto.
It is not the crowds. Kyoto's 1.5 million people can jostle with the best of them, and population density in the ancient capital is heavy because of narrow streets.
And it is not the tacky signs and general delicious messiness of the streetscape. Kyoto has both in spades.
It is, rather, the absence of bicycles.
The picture was, full disclosure, taken almost three years ago on a Sunday morning stroll not far from Shibuya Station.
Things may have changed.
However, there is not even a bike parked in front of one of the shops.
Is there any comparable area of Kyoto without one single bike?
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