JR渋谷駅前でサイクリングThis is not for the faint of heart.
Shibuya, Tokyo's teeming downtown fashion center, is famed for among other things its Scramble.
The Shibuya Scramble is the intersection in front of JR Shibuya Station.
It is, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, a "...10-lane traffic interchange...flooded at rush hour by 2,500 pedestrians, and then completely emptied, with each change of a traffic signal."
With each change of traffic lights, in turn cars or humans flood the intersection, for roughly a minute. Then, the light changes again, and it is the other's opportunity.
And it works. There is little jostling, little aggravation, little aggression. People just move through the intersection.
What is relatively new to the mix is bicycles. Bikes have been around Tokyo - and Shibuya - for a hundred years or more. However, the volume of cyclists has increased dramatically in recent years.
We were on hand on a Sunday morning, and traffic was still light.
It would be hard to imagine getting through the intersection in one piece during rush hour.
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