Kyoto is a city of bicycles
Kyoto is a city of bicycles. School children, businessmen, mothers with small children, all ride. I even saw women in business suits with slim fitting skirts with nylon stocking and heels riding bicycles. These are ridden on the sidewalks, which are quite wide, not in the streets. All riders are highly skilled. They pass each other and the pedestrians with no effort and no accidents. If some one comes too close to a rider they can hop off and then back on without stopping. I saw a woman at least 52 or 53 y.o. do just that.
