Riding bikes in Japan!

So I rode about another maybe mile along the river in Kanazawa in March. So March gets one more pitifiul mile:) On April 1st... no fooling I rode about 8 miles from Matt my son's apartment to downtown Kanazawa. OMG it was on a cruiser bike and as you know I do not usually ride on streets here in Spokane because they are too busy and dangerous. Well picture riding bikes in downtown Seattle and that is what it was like. The streets were all either alley size or intersections that had 12 lanes. Still it was fun. Then Matt said oh by the way I have no brakes. Really... I just could not believe it! Everybody and their brother rides bikes here and in fact bikes are registered just like cars. We made it back to his and his finace's apartment in one piece so even though it was not a very long ride it was pretty exciting just dodging people and cars. Now about the date. It was the 1st in Kanazawa but the 31st in America so technically I could count it for March but since the ride was in Kanazawa I'm going with April. So now I am at 176 miles so far this year. yea! Now I can say I have ridden a bike in Japan which is cool.