The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

But for whom is this service intended? Here is quite a residential area where everyone owns their bike with bigger wheels than these. For Chinese tourists? Can they recognize these as bicycles to share when every description is written in Japanese?

I even wonder whether such service is necessary for this town where there is already a bike hiring scheme called Seaside Bike. We also have well-developed and punctual public transportation networks, plus, sightseeing buses organised by the local authority. What’s more, I would say Fukuoka is not an extremely safe place to cycle around. There are drunken drivers everywhere and cyclists are not perfectly law-obeying, to be honest with you. Both bike-renting service do not seem to offer their users a helmet or any protective gears. You don’t want to get hurt while you are in a foreign country, do you?

If I were a tourist here, I wouldn’t venture to cycle myself even if I were (much) younger without problems with eyesight and locomotion. I would rather enjoy convenient and safe public transportations which offer multilingual services (though only on the timetable).