bicycles

A black gravel bike parked at the rusty railing of a freeway overpass walkway, with four pannier bags and a helmet arranged on the ground in front.

A black gravel bike parked at the rusty railing of a freeway overpass walkway, loaded up with front and rear pannier bags.

A turnout from a mountain road, with guard rail ends visible to the left and right. Beyond the opening in the guard railing a loaded touring bicycle is parked in a flat area, with the trunks of cedar trees standing in the forest beyond the clearing.

The wall of a two-story utilitarian structure painted beige and bathed in fluorescent light. A row of bicycles is parked along the wall, and a collapsed folding bicycle is locked to a pillar near the wall, with a ratty red backpack on the ground next to it.

A bright yellow vending machine for drinks, with a bicycle loaded with blue panniers in front, and a row of water bottles set out beside the bike and in front of the machine.

A bicycle with rear panniers parked in front of a paved path lined with banners, leading to a Buddhist temple that is higher up the hill and out of view.

A bicycle with rear panniers is parked in front of a wire fence running through a row of trees. A complex of concrete buildings perhaps two stories high with a tower in the center is visible in the distance beyond the fence..

A bicycle with rear panniers parked on the near side of a street bounded by a low concrete wall extended to the right by a guard rail. Beyond the street and above a retaining wall in the distance is a row of half-completed flat-roofed prefab houses.

A bicycle with rear panniers parked in front of a traffic island inside a parking lot. A bush grows in the traffic island, and a sign peeks out of the bush reading (in English translation) “Number Five Parking Lot”. To the left of the traffic island a sign in Japanese asks drivers to turn off their engines when parked.

A bicycle with rear panniers parked on a steel walking bridge about 1 meter wide with faded red handrails and a concrete floor. The view looks down the bridge in the direction traveled, where a white two-story building with red roof stands across a road running perpendicular to the bridge.