have a good ride!
welcome to another video
today is a bicycle commuting video
today we will introduce my wife's new bike commute route
I have the day off of work today, so I can film her ride
Thuong (my wife) recently started a new job
it's a few kilometers away from home
and she decided to start commuting by bike to work
last four years that she's worked in Japan
she's always rode a bike but it was always a really short ride she wrote on
her Japanese mama Teddy but now she's a daily bike commuter like me I think her
commute is about five kilometers one way so 10 kilometers each day nothing too
long but thought you guys might be interested in the route that she takes
so we're gonna be riding together this morning she's got her high-visibility
jacket on for extra safety
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so we both start on the same Road this is the green road also known as the
Higashiyama Doherty tune goes east I go west I go into the city and she goes a
bit further east into no cock day
I got a bunch of questions on the last commuting video I made asking is it
legal to ride on the sidewalks here and the answer is yes especially on these
types of dedicated bike paths sometimes it's clearly marked you can
see we've got the cycling lane here in blue on other ones the smaller sidewalks
that I was riding on in the other video there'll be a sign up above the street a
blue circle with the pedestrian and a bike if you see that sign it's okay to
ride your bike there so these sidewalks I was riding on the other day are okay
to ride you just need to ride at a reasonable speed and of course
prioritize the safety of any pedestrians
over to the left here we've got our local shopping mall a PETA bunch of
stores in there
sometimes we do our grocery shopping there there's also McDonald's
psycho joy this is where you can buy a mama cherry the Japanese bike over here
we've got karaoke we don't go too often bye
so this guy's here for safety for the school children's like the elementary
school kids they come out in big groups there's lots of volunteers
help with their safety mute to school
and this intersection we've actually got the giant store of Naugle right here so
I made a tour video there a couple of months back you can check it out we've
also got another McDonald's I think we got like four or five different
McDonald's within two kilometers of our house y'all know tanki says oisin hmm I
mentioned on the channel recently I bought a car I actually bought the car
from this dealership I don't think I've introduced in the channel yet but
hopefully soon I rarely drive it we've only driven in
it maybe three times what soul no clue a key Thai soup
so sometimes these bike lanes are meaningless because a lot of walkers
won't ride in the I won't walk in the right lane and to UM times extracting
from the wrong lane as well right now
and this is actually the maglev train the linimo one of the few maglevs in the
world completely automated system that goes over to Morty Colonel Park the
cycling course I make a lot of videos about there on this channel we've got
another bike shop over here cause a fun bikes there's a guy there that speaks
English I do a lot of my bike maintenance requests there and over here
we've got our other shopping mall this is the new narf de on way bigger a bunch
of stores there but we rarely go there
dudes run into the train
this is the royal home center this is where we bought two interns mama cherry
Pike there's a fun video when we went there to buy her bike and go check that
out when so last year we had this difficult process of getting to hung my
wife's Vietnamese for people who don't know she's not Japanese though we do
speak Japanese together we had to get her immigrated back into Japan
I had to sponsor a visa do all this paperwork everything in Japanese and the
first thing she said when she moved back to Japan was I wanted like I want a mom
attorney by Mia Mamma cherry the really fun times fun memories
this next building over here on the left is the Toyota Automobile Museum I've
been wanting to go here for a while we live really close but we've never been
unfortunately so have to come here one day maybe film
a video
most people when they come here go take the train and get off at this station
however I have to put the gun
and if you're stopping at the station this is the gate I Doherty station
so these guys here in the blue are factory workers my wife used to be a
factory worker as well here for four years on the JIT ko program which is a
program for people from less developed countries like Vietnam China to come
work in Japan it's technically called the skilled internship program so they
can come to Japan and get high qualified or high technical skills and their job
and bring those skills back to the home country but it's just a mask for cheap
labor in Japan my wife did that for four years here and we met when she was doing
that program I think she knows those two people so those two guys are actually
her kohai meaning her the people who came after her to the company so they're
going to the same direction today they all commute on the same path sometimes
you see large groups of them commuting together because there's lots of
factories in this area part of the Toyota
all in relation to Toyota for the car industry
we've got some mini fits all quarks here it's too early in the morning growing to
be there right now
left turn branching off the main road
we've got a ichi statute here
also got some questions about like the agriculture here in Japan and you can
see bunch of rice farms we were just on a busy road one short turn here we are a
bunch of rice farms rice farms everywhere here
this is a headquarters for the Quranic otaku bean one of the postal delivery
services here
and over here we've got a new idea or you can we actually haven't been here
yet about hoping to come one day mainly for
the food want to try some of the Swedish meatballs
looks like we're catching another one of the worker groups here
yeah pretty head older bike a height
mukashi Kimmy more so I don't place it up top and the last bit to her work is
actually up the hill so she struggled for four years riding that heavy bike up
the hill
yeah these guys are gonna just walk
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starting to enter the Hillier section here
and this is the part of Japan that I really enjoy riding more but we're still
in the area where there's lots of cars but once you get out a little bit
further we got some similar roads very few cars I think it's really really nice
alright guys Taunton has to get to work so we're gonna say goodbye here
have a good day at work you did our side
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