Aichi Prefecture

While it may not be the biggest or even the most congested of cities, sometimes getting around Nagoya can be a bit of a pain in the backside. Yes, there are bus and subway systems, but it’s no fun getting stuck in traffic, and if you need to make numerous shortstops around the city, it hardly seems worth going underground. Besides, at this time, although the state of emergency has been lifted, you may still feel it prudent to avoid public transport as much as possible. Well, thank goodness for bicycle sharing! What is bicycle sharing? You have probably seen bicycle-sharing adopted in other cities around the world, the hop on hop off bicycles that, for a small charge using smart technology, you can rent, pick up and drop off at designated ports around the city. Nagoya is relatively late to the party (the first such scheme was in Portsmouth, UK in 1995), but it has finally arrived. Not only that but here the bikes come with a little extra oomph. Unlike most bicycles in sharing schemes, which are generally heavy, clunky, and quite difficult to ride (as anyone who has used a ‘Boris Bikes’ around London will attest) the…