{"id":2211,"date":"2013-11-18T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2013-11-18T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:12:58","slug":"road-bike-rentals-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/road-bike-rentals-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Road bike rentals in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I visited the new Astuto Continental shop in Akasaka, Tokyo (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.jp\/?ll=35.675119,139.732396&#038;spn=0.002194,0.004128&#038;t=m&#038;z=19&#038;brcurrent=3,0x60188c7fc66d16f3:0xa3eea2aae430a8e6,1&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=35.675153,139.732396&#038;panoid=Ci5Oo_ZSt_R_AMtN1vSBaA&#038;cbp=12,105.13,,0,-14.2\">map link<\/a>). GS Astuto is a local wheel builder and bicycle shop run by long time Japan resident Tim Smith. <\/p>\n<p><img src=https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-VoQJ4sy_hQE\/UoibkJz5SSI\/AAAAAAABPtk\/alW20PkBMF4\/s400\/IMG_6402.JPG\" title=\"Astuto Continental shop in Akasaka\/Tokyo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides selling high quality wheels and road bikes, it is now also filling a void in the market in this metroplis of 13 million people: road bike rentals. While there are several companies here renting out &#8220;mamachari&#8221; (simple utility bikes) and city bikes, it has been difficult for locals and visitors to find road bikes for weekend rides or to explore the country on short stays.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, GS Astuto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyocycle.com\/bbs\/threads\/road-bike-rentals.4890\/\">announced on the Tokyo Cycling Club forum<\/a> that they were building up a stable of rental bikes in various sizes and shapes, including lightweight road bikes, TT\/aero bikes and cyclocross\/CX bikes. Tokyo and surroundings are a great place for cycling all year round, whether you prefer flat rides along the major rivers and the coast line or the hills to the west and around Mt Fuji.<\/p>\n<p>The Astuto Continental shop is based in Akasaka Mitsuke not far from Aoyama dori, right next to the Akasaka police station. <\/p>\n<p>Address: 1,2F Akasaka TO Building, 4-9-19 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 (\u3012107-0052\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u6e2f\u533a\u8d64\u57424-9-19\u8d64\u5742TO\u30d3\u30eb1,2F)<br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astutoconti\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astutoconti<\/a><br \/>\nContact form: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsastuto.com\/road-bike-rental-in-japan\/\">Road Bike Rental in Japan<a\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I visited the new Astuto Continental shop in Akasaka, Tokyo (map link). GS Astuto is a local wheel builder and bicycle shop run by long time Japan resident Tim Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}