WhiteGiant
Maximum Pace
- Nov 4, 2006
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On Saturday, 11th of August, Tokyo will hold its largest fireworks display on Tokyo bay.
I've been there every year for about 6 years in a row, and watched it from many different places; But I think I've found the best location - Harumi-futo-koen, in Harumi 5-cho-me. 晴海ふ頭公園。
The fireworks start at 7:00 - 8:20, but to get a good position, we should all be there by about 5pm.
Anyway, I was thinking we could all make a fairly descent ride out of the whole day.
This is just a preliminary post to see how much interest there is, and I haven't even decided on the full route yet, but how about this:
A full lap right around Tokyo.
The start: Tokyo palace seems like a good place.
From there, we head down Rte.15 towards Haneda Airport until we get to Tamagawa.
Ride up Tamagawa cycling road to "Futago-tamagawa" on Rte.246.
We cross the river there, turn back in towards Shibuya only for about 1km, and turn left on "Kanpachi-dori".
Kanpachi-dori is a long straight road that goes for over 20km from Tamagawa almost directly up to Arakawa (cycling road). There is a lot of traffic, but it's reasonably wide and much easier to ride on than many other roads in Tokyo.
Once we're all on the Arakawa cycling road, we'll head south to have a long-ish late-lunch break at Kasai-rinkai-koen - 葛西臨海公園。
From there, it's less than 10km to the park in Harumi - mostly along "Wangan-Doro", which is one of my favorite fast-ride roads.
The beauty of this loop is that no matter where where you live in Tokyo, you can join us as we ride past the nearest place to your home.
As best I can make out on the map, from Tokyo Palace to Kasai-rinkai-koen it's 85km - 95km to the Harumi fireworks park.
I'm hoping we can all be at Kasai-rinkai-koen by 3pm, which will give us an hour or so for the late lunch-break, so preliminary times are...
Tokyo palace - 10:30
Haneda (Rte.15) - 11:30
Futago-Tamagawa - 12:00
Arakawa cycling road - 13:30
Kasai-rinkai-koen - 15:00 (85km)
1 hour break - 15:00 - 16:00
Harumi-futo-koen - 16:30 (95km).
The pace WON'T be fast! This is a social ride, like the "Tour de Westside" & "Tour de la Pink"; perfectly suited to new riders, females (Go-Go-Gals), and families etc.
Also, many people will be riding home from there, so you can team-up with other people who are heading in your general direction for the return journey.
Please send your replies if you are interested.
Rubber Down!
Travis
I've been there every year for about 6 years in a row, and watched it from many different places; But I think I've found the best location - Harumi-futo-koen, in Harumi 5-cho-me. 晴海ふ頭公園。
The fireworks start at 7:00 - 8:20, but to get a good position, we should all be there by about 5pm.
Anyway, I was thinking we could all make a fairly descent ride out of the whole day.
This is just a preliminary post to see how much interest there is, and I haven't even decided on the full route yet, but how about this:
A full lap right around Tokyo.
The start: Tokyo palace seems like a good place.
From there, we head down Rte.15 towards Haneda Airport until we get to Tamagawa.
Ride up Tamagawa cycling road to "Futago-tamagawa" on Rte.246.
We cross the river there, turn back in towards Shibuya only for about 1km, and turn left on "Kanpachi-dori".
Kanpachi-dori is a long straight road that goes for over 20km from Tamagawa almost directly up to Arakawa (cycling road). There is a lot of traffic, but it's reasonably wide and much easier to ride on than many other roads in Tokyo.
Once we're all on the Arakawa cycling road, we'll head south to have a long-ish late-lunch break at Kasai-rinkai-koen - 葛西臨海公園。
From there, it's less than 10km to the park in Harumi - mostly along "Wangan-Doro", which is one of my favorite fast-ride roads.
The beauty of this loop is that no matter where where you live in Tokyo, you can join us as we ride past the nearest place to your home.
As best I can make out on the map, from Tokyo Palace to Kasai-rinkai-koen it's 85km - 95km to the Harumi fireworks park.
I'm hoping we can all be at Kasai-rinkai-koen by 3pm, which will give us an hour or so for the late lunch-break, so preliminary times are...
Tokyo palace - 10:30
Haneda (Rte.15) - 11:30
Futago-Tamagawa - 12:00
Arakawa cycling road - 13:30
Kasai-rinkai-koen - 15:00 (85km)
1 hour break - 15:00 - 16:00
Harumi-futo-koen - 16:30 (95km).
The pace WON'T be fast! This is a social ride, like the "Tour de Westside" & "Tour de la Pink"; perfectly suited to new riders, females (Go-Go-Gals), and families etc.
Also, many people will be riding home from there, so you can team-up with other people who are heading in your general direction for the return journey.
Please send your replies if you are interested.
Rubber Down!
Travis