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why I ride my bike in Tokyo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.10.03

This footage explains one of the major reasons I like to take a bike in Tokyo rather than ride the excellent train/subway system. In this video, some twelve people cram themselves into an already jam-packed train.

And this isn't even downtown Tokyo—it was taken in neighbouring Yokohama!

And then, well. Just watch.

rand()m quote

I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell