The ultimate urban biking - 最終的な都市に自転車に乗ること


Staying in a traditional inn is a perfect way to step inside old Japan while being steeped in this most contemporary of cities. Harris Salat’s article “No Squishing: Biking a Tokyo Rail Line” (Sept. 20, 2009) mentions the Sadachiyo (2-20-1 Asakusa, Taiko-ku; 81-3-3842-6431), a traditional inn, or ryokan, as they are known in Japan, where he stayed his first night in Tokyo. This 65-year-old inn is in the old Asakusa neighborhood, which is home to a temple and geisha houses, making it feel centuries removed from modern Tokyo.
Also in Asakusa is the simple and elegant Ryokan Shigetsu (1-31-11 Asakusa, Tokyo; 81-3-3843-2345), which Frommer’s, The Times’s online content partner, recommends for its location and affordable prices; doubles from 15,750 yen or $173, at 91 yen to the dollar. But for a more authentic ryokan, the Frommer’s top choice is Homeikan (5-10-5 Hongo, Tokyo; 81-3-3811-1181), with doubles from 11,000, or $121, in the Bunkyo-ku neighborhood, though, according to Frommer’s, not as conveniently located. The inn has three separate houses, one is almost a century old; some rooms feature detailed Japanese craftsmanship.
For excursions outside Tokyo, there are two articles by Ken Belson on the Tokyo travel guide. In “A Mountain of Tranquillity Near Tokyo’s Frenzy” (March 4, 2007), Mr. Belson suggested going to the Tama region in the west, just an hour away by train, to breathe fresh air and behold vistas of mountains and rivers. For a day’s outing he suggests hiking the 2,000-foot-high Mount Takao, which has views of the city and Mount Fuji (but warns that Takao is mobbed on weekends and holidays).
2006年12月では私は東京Ginza地区からの列車でKawagoeのチャーミングないなか町にとどまる日本を45分以下訪問した。 それはとても古い倉庫、かkuraで群がった、今店および家を満ち、絵のような鐘桜のまわりで収容する。 little Edo呼ばれることKawagoeに非常に確実な感じ、古代東京の名前がある。
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