Wednesday 6 April 2016

As More And People Are Riding Bicycles,

for pleasure, keeping fit or commuting,


 we had a look at a bicycle museum in Japan,

 it houses some 9000 plus bicycle-related publications, 

 as well as bicycles themselves, rare parts, vintage posters and magazines from around the world, established in 1981, the Bicycle Culture Center is in Tokyo,

originally housed inside the Science Museum, the BCC, as it’s called for short, decided to move out of their parents house in 2013, thanks to Kato-Sumiyoshi Architects and design fabrication firm TANK, the BCC established a beautiful home on a quiet back street just off of busy Meguro-dori, for those who can speak Japanese but can’t make it to the physical location, the BCC has a fairly extensive archive, with plenty of beautiful Ukiyo-e prints, that tells the history of bicycles in Japan,

Bicycle Culture Center (BCC)
3-3-1 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo (Gmap)
Tel. 03-4334-7953
9:30
17:00 (closed Mondays)

 but you do not have to go to Japan to see a bicycle museum, the National Cycle Museum is in Wales for people in the UK, and the good news is? I get a £1 off as I am an old aged pensioner!


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