Before the monkeys of Nagano, we were as you might know (if you read the blog or my twitter account;) in Tottori Ken. Tottori is the birth place of my wife so through the past years I have been there quite often, and I know it more than most of the Japanese! For people in Japan, Tottori is often known as the place where there are dunes (sometimes called the Japan desert !! o_O), and others... Read more

I still have a log of photos from my holidays taken few weeks ago. Today let's go to Nagano prefecture. We stayed at a pension near the Myôkô-Kôgen station (about 15/20mn by car). Been still autumn, no snow yet in the area. Getting out of the megapole Tokyo-Yokohama was quite refreshing I must say. The family pension was close to a golf course and ski pistes... Read more

These photos were taken during August and at the beginning of September, this is a last taste of summer 2009 (right now (1:45 AM) we are in a middle of a typhoon, heavy rain ... worse forecast is expected tomorrow morning just when we go to work...Gambarimasu! ). I sorted the photos by themes this time : City : Shots taken after a day at the office in Shibuya. Time to r... Read more

As I was busy far from Tokyo I completely missed the CMWC, which is quite frustrating, and so, I have nothing to show about it... :/ I guess like me you found blogs and flickr accounts covering it. Maybe you can also check this list of J-Blogs, they are all about fixed gear : cycle.blogmura.com/pist/, some have covered the event. As for now, here is an other safari-photo in the jungle of Tok... Read more

Last night going to rent some DVDs to Tsutaya in Minato Mirai, I met the Yo!kohama Fixed Gear fellows. I could not stay long with them but we had a good chat and they agreed for me to take pictures of their fixed gear bikes. As you will notice, they were all brake-less. First is a superbe 3rensho, property of T*****i San. I love the combination of white and blue. M... Read more