Bikes

This is the place where you leave your bike when going somewhere from Higashi-Hiroshima Train Station. It may not look particularly significant, but if you think that there's 3 rooms of this and most of them are just day trippers, you realise why. Everyone in Japan rides bikes.

As soon as we got there they encouraged us to buy a bike, because it is the main mode of transport. Bikes here don't have gears, but it's completely normal to have a basket on the front, which is useful for transporting stuff while not looking like an old lady, which you would with a basket in England.

I'm just about to hop on my bike for the 10-minute cycle to Saijo Town and the massive department store there (as well as the Muji I noticed last time).