自転車で表参道と原宿を楽しむTokyo is a beast.
There are no two ways around it. You will need a decent pair of cojones to ride the city.
Within a neighborhood, riding to the supermarket or shotengai (high street) or to a friend's on a mama chari (lady's bike) - Tokyo is like all other Japanese cities.
The bike never became a toy as it did for a while in the US, so cycling is a normal, practical, acceptable form of public behavior for all ages.
Thus, there is not nearly as much hostility from cars and trucks as is common in the United States. Moreover, awareness is high: Japanese drivers expect bicycles to be on the road.
However, once outside the confines of the neighborhood or a park, Tokyo has lots of traffic.
For those wanting to commute via bicycle it will take a while to learn the steps to the dance that are required to navigate Tokyo cycling.
Writing from compact Kyoto, the concept of riding in Tokyo would take getting used to.
Detractors notwithstanding, however, bike lanes are beginning to sprout up in the capital.
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