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The original was posted on /r/japantravel by /u/Zandorph25 on 2024-05-19 06:57:57+00:00.
Hi all and thanks in advance for any help.
We’re travelling to Japan in July and something we were keen to do was the Shinami Kaido 70km cycling route. I had been reading about the different bike rental options and decided to see if I could get the Giant road bikes, partly because we’re both keen cyclists so it would be similar to our bikes at home, and partly because we’re planning on doing the route of a morning/early afternoon so needed something a bit faster.
I’ve been waiting patiently for the giant store in onomichi to allow reservations from mid July and now that they finally have done, every time I select the option to pick up in onomichi and drop off in imabari on the website it says no bikes available, but if I choose pick up in onomichi and drop in onomichi there’s plenty of availability. I’ve extended the booking length as I know they only offer end route drop offs for rental over two days and we were just going to pay for two days but drop it off early - but still nothing!
Has anyone else experience this and know whether if I just reserve a bike for two days from onomichi I can negotiate to drop off at imabari when I get there? There’s no contact email, there’s a phone number but I’m currently working my way through the low levels of duolingo so not sure I’m quite ready for that yet.