Asagaya- Arakawa- Hanno- Greenline- Backroads- Haijima- Asagaya

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A glorious day. Kids playing along the Arakawa with their new bikes, rollerblades and remote controlled cars they got for Christmas; then on to beautifully quiet mountain roads where, if I stopped, I could just hear my (worryingly rapid) heartbeat; an onigiri lunch on a roughly hewn wooden bench overlooking the valley ... a great ride. 
The only downside was having to stop every 15km to stretch my painful shoulder, and the fact that there were a lot of grumpy people out today: only one hiker (begrudgingly) returned my greeting of "konnichi wa", and up on the Greenline when I had my camera out, one obasan stopped her K-truck and warned me I'd better not take any photos of her house: a house which I'd already passed, was hidden behind a hill, and I recalled was far from photogenic. 
Anyway, apart from all that, a wonderful day out on the bike - last ride of the year!

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Asagaya- Arakawa- Hanno- Greenline- Backroads- Haijima- Asagaya

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Itsukaichi- Kazahari- Imagawa- Tsuru- Uenohara

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