Bike Parking

Recently, I accompanied Abby to her final voice lesson with her teacher here in Tokyo.  This entailed traveling by train to Higashi-Kurume Station which is located in a kind of suburban netherland between Tokyo and Saitama.  Abby’s singing was absolutely exquisite.  In fact, her breathtakingly beautiful rendition of Mozart’s operatic aria ‘Un Marito, Donne Care’ made me cry. But her translation of the libretto made me laugh!  Mozart and his cronies definitely had a sense of humor.

On our way back to the station, we snapped these photos of a bike parking lot.  In Tokyo, where many people commute to stations on two wheels, bike lots of various types are common.  What caught my eye this time is the cute, little gate — the same type used for car parking lots in miniature!  It almost looked like a toy.

Located near the gate, the above sign indicates that there are empty spaces for both bikes (above) and motorbikes (below).

As you can see in the photo at the end of this post, there are separate sections for the two types of cycles.  But both areas are remarkably neat and orderly.

Motorcycles on one side, bikes on the other.