So today started as everyday should with a breast breakfast and a taxi ride.

The taxi arrived slightly earlier than planned and  with the rear seat down we easily fitted both bikes and all our stuff in.

The destination was Frog Cycle
フロッグサイクル to try and rear my bike. The rear hub was stripped down in seconds to reveal a mess of grease rust and other stuff. After some cleaning it was found that 2 of my pawl springs had broken and so had one of my pawls.

One pawl and spring could easily be fixed. A ball bearing was used to extend the broken spring. The mechanic did a great job was friendly and keen to get us back on the road and fixed the bike at short notice.

We slowly and softly peddled our way to Shibushi. I think the ball bearing sprint extension might have dislodged at some point because the peddling was a little bit crunchy but then became smoother so I think I am now riding with just one pawl springs out of what should be three. 

Our day ended with checking into the hotel at 3 pm we were kindly allowed to put our bikes in a big 1st floor Japan, ground floor UK. Storage room.l, which was great.

We did the hotel arrival standard. Showers hang stuff out to air and coin laundry, although we did this after buying a large super market dinner. We  had a little walk around the town didn’t see that much and then watch peep show and were both falling a sleep just after 8pm