Time to drive the bike back to the Japan Bike Rent shop. Safta chan and I get on the GS one final time and program the location of JBR in the GPS. Two times right, and we are on the onramp to the 20 Expressway. 200 meters further, a frantic toll cashier, waves to us with a Luke Skywalker wand, and explains to us in fluent Japanese, that we can not ride two up on freeways in Tokyo.
It all came back to us. We new the rule but forgot about it. It stemed from a time when the police was cracking down on Yakooza gangs, roaming the city two up, shooting each other. He insisted we turn around and head back where we came from. Only this time, we were driving against the two lane traffic in kamikaze style, breaking one rule just to comply with another. I hugged the wall, turned my hazard lights on, and stepped on it. Safta chan had her eyes closed and was screaming...
Down the incline and a uturn, and we were safe again, back on our way on side roads.
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