Mamachari are utility bicycles relied on by families for a variety of basic transportation needs, including lugging groceries from the supermarket, getting to the train station, or shuttling children ...

Mamachari bicycles are the perfect bicycle for city cyclists, ridden by everyone – old/young, female/male, students, salarymen, mothers, grandmothers and fathers in Japan. No other bicycle is better ...

Tokyo cyclists use practical "mamachari" bikes with sturdy frames, baskets for shopping and seats containing one or two small children. Up to 14% of all journeys in the city are made by bike.

E-bikes are new tech for most people, but Yamaha got the whole thing stated back in the last century. I was lucky enough to spend some time in Japan in 2004 - eleven years after that first Yamaha “PAS ...

A Japanese man riding a ‘mamachari’ bike with his children in Tokyo. Tokyo: The Japanese, as a nation of 120 million people packed into the floodplains of a largely mountainous country, are a ...

Sure, Tokyo public transport is very convenient, but nothing beats having your own two wheels and the flexibility to explore the city at your own pace and without the constraints of the train ...

VanMoof, the electric bicycle company that impressed us last year with its speedy and stylish Electrified S, is releasing a new model designed specifically for Tokyo. The Electrified X is more compact ...