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Keirin racing around Tokyo?
Hello- I'm visiting a friend staying in Tokyo for 10 days next month
and was hoping to check out a Keirin race. Web info is pretty opaque for me, being pretty much entirely in Japanese- can anyone recommend an English language site? Even better, if you've been, any information you could pass along would be great. thanks, Paul |
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Keirin racing around Tokyo?
Paul Hays wrote:
Hello- I'm visiting a friend staying in Tokyo for 10 days next month and was hoping to check out a Keirin race. Web info is pretty opaque for me, being pretty much entirely in Japanese- can anyone recommend an English language site? Even better, if you've been, any information you could pass along would be great. thanks, Paul There are a number of velodromes in and around Tokyo, but I have only been to the Keirin Races at the Kawasaki velodrome. If you get the train to Kawasaki train station (about 40 minutes from Shinjuku station in Tokyo, changing train once), look for exit 17. Across the road is bus stop 13 with a free bus service to Kawasaki stadium. The bus service starts at 10:30am. Around the velodrome, there are lots of fast food sellers selling unidentifiable things, but the hot dogs are tasty if not nutritionally good. There is usually a guy with a track bike on rollers encouraging westerners to go head to head with the locals. Good safe fun. It costs peanuts to get in, but there is a seated pavilion that I could not work out how to get a ticket to get entry. Trackside is concrete terracing with plastic seats - all under cover. Racing starts at 11 and goes on until about 5pm. There is a break between each race - all the track marshalls react to orders by whistle, and all very formal. www.kawaskikeirin.com holds the information you need, but it doesn't translate well with google. I had to get a local to work out which days there are races on. Most weekends hold races during the summer. Don't expect many cycling enthusiasts though - It's more like a greyhound track than a festival of cycling. But it's great fun and highly recommended. |
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