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We Tokyo Backstreets Bike Tour had a walking tour at Asakusa, Tokyo, with 5 participants from the Temple university Japan campus.

They are from various countries and study in Japan, and we organized a private tour for them as one of the activities of students.

We started walking through the central Asakusa, then eventually went into inside of the town.

It was so chilly day, but it gradually became to be warmer.

Some of them bought amulets and drew a fortune telling.

When we visited the Usijima shrine (牛嶋神社), we saw a group of police station nearby. They prayed the safety of their mission through 2021 not only for policemen but also police vehicles.

We hope they enjoyed our walking tour, and have a happy new year 2021.

We visited the Ashikaga flower park which have now fantastic illuminations.

In Ashikaga city, we Tokyo Backstreets Bike Tour has a bike tour. The park is located only few minutes by train from the town.

It is worth visiting there when you visit Ashikaga.

We Tokyo Backstreets Bike Tour have a tour in Ashikaga, about 2 hours by train from the central Tokyo. We use rent-a-bike there.

Now, you can enjoy a lot of autumn leaves with wonderful red and yellow colours at a few places inside the town.

It must be ideal place to see the leaves by day trip from Tokyo.

You can also taste some local foods of Ashikaga.

Autumn has come in Japan. We often cycle under trees with beautiful yellow and red leaves.

One day we visited the Saiboku Hum restaurant in Saitama.

You can enjoy grilled pork and sausages there both inside and outside.

http://www.saiboku.co.jp/

We also tasted a fine coffee at the fine cafe near by.

https://cafesorte.exblog.jp/

It is an ideal place to visit from Tokyo as day trip.

You may know “Okonomiyaki” , a kind of pancakes, contains various ingredients such as meat, fish, vegetables. You can eat it at almost all areas in Japan, but this is something special. Enjoy the video!

We found a good guided bike tour in Ehime, Shikoku island.

Located near the Shimanamikaido, one of the most popular cycle ways in Japan, they organize some unique tours with Bromptons.

Miwa, a local guide, will show you hidden gems which you never find on websites or guidebook.

When you visit there, we highly recommend their tours, Go! Go! Brompton.

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If you are a ramen lover, joining a guided tour might be a good option. Brian, an American guy living in Tokyo, has organized ramen tours for a long time and has a good reputation.
After I met him in Shinjuku, I visited a ramen restaurant which he recommended. “Nagi” serves fine ramen with niboshi, a kind of dried sardine. It was fantastic!

Please visit his site and Youtube.

We Tokyo Backstreets Bike Tour have bike tours in the north part of Tokyo, including Asakusa, Yanaka, but if you wish to see rather the west, you can join the DIG TOKYO TOURS. This tour is operated by Andy, Australian guy. He has been in Japan so long time so that he knows the backstreets of this area as well as streetfoods.
His base is located near the Koenji railway station, where young people love to live because there are a lot of lovely second-hand clothes shops, Izakaya bars, restaurants and so on.

This area is sometimes called “City of rock music”, because there are a few live houses. If you dream to be a Japanese rock star, it might be ideal place to live!