Riding a bicycle at your leisure in East Tokyo. Sauna and beer at Touken is the goal.

To go for a leisurely stroll on a bicycle without any purpose. This is called pottering. Unlike a race, it is a time to stop and admire the scenery, to suddenly jump into a store, or to pedal in vain. This time, we will be pottering around East Tokyo. We will ride Brompton's "Brompton", which will be available for rental at the pop-up at Hamacho "Token".Classic Editon". I decided to go back to "Touken" and toast with sauna and beer! That's all. A trip without a destination is the best luxury.

Photo_Junpei Ishikawa

Text_Shinri Kobayashi

Model_Maho Okada,Keisuke Tagawa,Izumi Hidaka

Edit_Amane Yasuda

Spot_01 Ota Bakery

The Brompton can be folded and parked like this.

The first thing to do is to get some breakfast, because a hungry stomach is a hungry stomach. A well-worn sign on the wall tells the history of Ota Bakery, a bakery in Higashi-Nihonbashi.

This is a bit sudden, but the sign in the above photo, "Founded in 1877," is false. We found out after the signboard was made that the real establishment was much older, in the first year of Meiji Era. Incidentally, if it was one year earlier, the company was founded in the Edo period. Amazing history: ......

If you talk to the store owner, you will be surprised to learn that it was the first milk store in Japan, the first store in Japan to sell that Coca-Cola, and so on... There was too much information... I heard that Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the famous literary figure, was also a customer of the store.

East Tokyo is an area where such historical stores and spots are right next to everyday life.

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Bread made with natural yeast is baked in a lava kiln that uses far-infrared rays for fluffier baking. The reason for using natural yeast is, simply put, that it is more difficult to handle than baking powder, but the taste is much better.

Preparation for the day begins at 4:00 a.m. and the store opens at 7:00 a.m. It is a traditional bakery that satisfies the morning stomachs of residents before they go to work.

When I asked the three of them what it tasted like, they replied, "Not only is it delicious, but it seems nostalgic.

Generation Z apparently misses this taste as well.