If you walk or bike around in Tokyo now, you can easily smell very sweet floral fragrance anywhere. Actually this is the fragrance of orange osmanthus (or sweet olive) . Each flower is not so big, but its fragrance is strong. We Japanese (Tokyo people) always feel autumn when we smell it. Ummmm… nice smell. Let’s breathe …
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Today’s tour
When I started this Blog, I took a photo of baby Gingko leaf. And it became a young leaf and now matured. Soon, maybe 1 month later, we will see those leaves to turn their colour to yellow. Some of those Ginko trees on Gyoko street near Tokyo station bear their fruits (or nuts). They …
Today’s tour
Hot, hot, hot… 6 hours cycling in such a hot weather is something. But today’s members are all very tough and cheerful persons. We had nice cross-cultural cycling experience today. Mr. W who came to Tokyo for his business trip, does not have any sport shirts and joined with his shirts and pants of the business suits, we …
Tokyo Bay Breeze
Masa and I did trial run for Summer Night Ride which we are planning to operate this August. We left Shinbashi at 18:00 for Tokyo bay area. It was very hot during daytime today, but in the evening it is very comfortable and cool on the bike. We could find very nice route for cycling …
Today’s tour
Rainy season finally ended. Japan Meteorological Agency anounced it today. At the same time, today most of the schools in Japan started summer holidays until the end of August. So at many sightseeing spots in our tour route, we saw many family enjoying the vacation. Not only school kids, but many of business person will …
Beautiful sunset beyond Imperial Palace
According to Japan Meteorological Agency, the rainy season in Tokyo is still not at the end. (In Kyushu, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kansai area the end of the season was anounced already) However for these 4,5 days we didn’t have rain, it seems very soon here in Tokyo we’ll face the start of hot summer ! …
Today’s tour
He is the 100th guest of our tour. I handed him a small commemorative gift. Thank you for your joining !! It was very hot day today. The temperature was 35 C … Japanese hot & humid summer has just begun. One of the delight of Summer is MATSURI or festival, which are held in …
Summer uniform
Just arrived ! Our summer uniforms. We bought in Hong Kong and printed our URL & logo in Gifu prefecture, Japan. Yukiko @ Shimbashi 27C Cloudy…
Maintenance of the bikes
Long time no entry, sorry… (although we have still very few readers) Our tour participants give us very nice commnets like ‘ it was wonderful to see many unknow spots’ ‘guides are informative and cheerful person’ ‘ it is good to go with small group’ (other comments are in our ‘voices’ page). And most of them …
Today’s tour
Finally we had nice weather on Saturday ! Even during rainy season there is an irregular intervals. We were 10 people including 3 staffs. Today a few people also joined, who will write about us on their website. For such a small tour group like us, those interview from websites, newspapers, magazine etc… give us great …
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