Skateboarding In Tokyo Japan

Located inside the olympic park constructed for the 1964 games komazawa skate park is a laidback meeting spot for tokyo s skaters.

Skateboarding in tokyo japan. Whether you are heading to japan to work to study to have fun or maybe even you are a japanese skater wondering what the west thinks of your country hopefully we can give you some insight here. Luckily for you this is an easy task. Everything with japan is like that. A day in the life of a crew of japanese skaters street skating through tokyo japan.

That was the dream tokyo 2020 olympic games scenario written up for nishimura the japanese queen on boards and one of the host country s strongest bets at a gold. The park has easy going banks where youngsters and beginners. The food the culture the beautiful outdoor spaces and the pulsating inner city madness japan is one of those places that needs to be seen to be believed. There are a lot fewer haters and therefore a lot fewer conflicts.

Skating in japan is way more user friendly than most places. Tokyo daisuke hayakawa is the coach of japan s olympic skateboarding team which is likely to dominate the sport when it makes its debut at this summer s olympics in tokyo. If you want to skate in tokyo without getting kicked out of everywhere you re going to need to befriend the natives. There s no rubbish in sight the train carriages are pervaded by a deafening silence and people literally bow when greeting each other.

Japan s first generation of skaters reflect before skateboarding s olympic debut. Skate film silent rider does something clever by flipping expectations on their head and showing tokyo in a whole new light. Once upon a time headlines in japan last week were supposed to read nishimura aori wins gold medal in women s street skateboarding to celebrate her 19th birthday. Skateboarding is almost offensive in tokyo which kind of makes sense.

Stripping the place almost entirely of its hustle and. The area in tokyo that i lived and studied in was nakano a busy little city with its own thriving skate community. Takahiro morita one of the pioneers of japanese skateboarding grew up and continues to work there creating cruiser boards in his far east skate network laboratory.