<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4c63c3b2-3612-45a5-83f0-7f4ac94f50b1/FC5BF4B1-B4D5-4B4C-991C-95567DD9065E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#" href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#" style="font-size: 11px;">travel.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> No Squishing: Biking a Tokyo Rail Line </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/travel.nytimes.com/img/7BE4FF6E-39C0-4921-9D09-FDDCDFDD101D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#"><P>ON a busy Friday morning, a packed commuter train slid across an overpass and into a station in central <A title="Go to the Tokyo Travel Guide." href="http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/asia/japan/tokyo/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo">Tokyo</A>. Business-attired men and women poured out and raced to glass-and-steel office towers nearby. My friend Lloyd Nakano and I watched from the street. We also planned to follow the route of this rail line, the Yamanote<SPAN class="bold">, </SPAN> one of the busiest in <A title="Go to the Japan Travel Guide." href="http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/asia/japan/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo">Japan</A>. But instead of jamming ourselves in among the three million to four million people who pack its trains daily, we would be on bicycles, navigating streets, lanes and alleys as we roughly traced its path around the city.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#">The Yamanote charts a loop about 21 miles long through the heart of Tokyo — an iconic commuter line that has stitched the city together since its completion in 1925.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#">Riding the entire Yamanote loop by train takes only about an hour, but we allotted three days for our tour.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/travel/20explorer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss#"><P>On two wheels, we were now part of this flow, too. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FC5BF4B1-B4D5-4B4C-991C-95567DD9065E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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