My journeys always start the same way. Aboard my gloss-black, fixed-gear Tokyobike bicycle, I join a swarm of others who, at each green light, make the city their own. At my side are parents, pensioners and police; students, salarymen and shopkeepers. Children bike themselves to school -- solo, of course -- alongside centenarians picking up groceries.
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The author navigates his neighborhood aboard his Tokyobike, connected to the streets that surround his apartment on the western fringe of Yoyogi Park. (Photo courtesy of Jeremy Smart)
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