Michael Schubart’s Weblog

Yesterday I participated in the Yamanote Challenge (mentioned here the other day). We were about 18 people and we completed the course in 8:30 hours, with a long luch break in Shinjuku and a long coffe break at Chalet Swiss Mini, an authentic (?) Swiss log cabin right in the middle of Nippori. This year we did the tour in clockwise direction for the first time.

The photo shows us in Shibuya. Notice the statue of Hachiko wearing the official Yamanote Challenge t-shirt.

It was a great event and I’ll participate next year, too. Drop Michael an e-mail if you want to join. His address is in the invitation (PDF).

Looking up the river from Takeshiba Pier.

Yamanote Callenge 2004 is coming up on 10/10/04: Join us riding our bicycles around Tokyo’s Yamanote line:

48 kilometers. 28 stations. One day.

Click here (PDF) for the invitation.