Day 22 - Mar 13 2010 - Hiking across Tokyo on a Sat

Day 22 - Mar 13 2010 - Hiking across Tokyo on a Sat

I woke up relatively early on a Saturday, 9am, and headed over to Pronto (3 blocks) for a cafe au lait and some pancakes... I then took two subway lines over to Minato cho ward in SW Tokyo to check out a motorcycle rental place that actually has BMWs. The shop is run by some west coast Americans that are incredibly knowledgeable and friendly. Looks like they will be getting a F800R, brand new this week that should be available for Golden Week in very early May. This shop specializes in loading up a custom GPS route into their rental bikes specially tailored to your trip specifics routing you to the best roads in the country. They even will book your hotels along the way and build the GPS to end each day perfectly at your nightly stay, talk about service! Jen, please box up my black helmet with the gloves inside, the boots next to the helmet and the jacket/pants on the furthest most left of the hanging motorcycle clothes... I'm gonna need em'... :)

After chatting with those guys for about 20 min, I headed back across Tokyo on foot... I walked and explored for about 3 hours and then hopped on the Yamanote back to Kanda to meet back up with Yann and Benjamin as we were headed to meet some coworkers/friends at their flat by the harbor for dinner...

Relaxing day of exploring and scouting about Tokyo, superb dinner with friends... can't ask for more while abroad on work assignment...



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