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I'm one hour early for my three course coffee tasting at koffee mameya so I can bang down some quick thoughts.
Bike built fine on the tarmac except I have a disc that's rubbing and a split ferrule that's making the rear shifts pretty flaky. I'll need to sort that before I need the big gears. I would recommend flying BA instead of Japan airlines like I did. BA has a much better bike policy and it's a code share flight anyway.
Cycling in Tokyo itself is kind of hit and miss, it looks a bit like a Terry b video except the drivers are more polite (a taxi let me pull out if you can believe that). At least with google routing there's a lot of hammering down the side of 6 lane arterials, continually moving into and out of the door zone of cars that are parked in the "bike lane".
Blue lug yoyogi park has a lot of blue lug branded tat that ends up costing you about 40 bucks by the time you take it to the desk. It's full of bored girlfriends being lectured about "Grant Peterson" and boyfriends who keep saying "I've only ever seen these online, they're meant to be really nice." It's worth a visit to get a reflector and some stickers but you could otherwise miss it.