The size and quality comments are right on. I recommend the Liahona bicycle. It has good equipment and is guarenteed to las the whole mission. Liahona is on the web and is located on State Street in Murray Utah. I put about 100 of them while I was in the office.
Regards Elder Totten 1999 - 2001 |
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| If I am not mistaken a bike is required in the mission and you will use it everyday. If you know about bikes that will help because they usually break. Also, the bikes in Japan are not made for larger Americans. I know of several Elders whose bike frames broke. The mission president used to recommend certain higher end brands that seemed to hold up better. It is your call but I do know a few Elders who went through several bikes and then still ended up having one sent from the states. |
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| Most of my areas in Tokyo South needed a bicycle to get somewhere. Train travel can be expensive. Walking was out of the question when I served in the southern Shizuoka Zone. A bike is probably a better idea than not. |
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| I was there from 80-82 and the only place I remember needing a bike was down south in Fuji. You could probably take a bus to most places, but the bike allowed us to set our own schedule. Used bikes then were easy to acquire-cheep. Lots of times one could easily acquire a broken abandoned bike and fix it for next to nothing. In fact if memory serves, I used 2 to make one. Hope that helps. |
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| When we left there the mission included west over to Cofu, Fuji, down to Hammamatsu, up to Tokorozawa and everything inbetween. The temple is in the North mission as are at least three of the English speaking wards. Two at the Temple annex, one at Shibuya. The other English speaking ward was at Sensoiki (sp) but I don't know if it is in the South Mission or not. Regards Elder and Sister Totten 1999 2001 |
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| I was there from 80-82 and the only place I remember needing a bike was down south in Fuji. You could probably take a bus to most places, but the bike allowed us to set our own schedule. Used bikes then were easy to acquire-cheep. Lots of times one could easily acquire a broken abandoned bike and fix it for next to nothing. In fact if memory serves, I used 2 to make one. Hope that helps. |
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| Currently the JTSM boundaries are all of Shizuoka ken, Kanagawa ken, Yamanashi ken, and pretty much all of the Tokyo shi/mura areas, Setagaya-ku and Nerima-ku in Tokyo, and a part of Saitama ken. I did a quick search and it looks like Kanazawa is on the Japan Sea coast - this is definitely not in Tokyo South. |
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| This is a follow-up to a prior message regarding mission boundaries. My first branch when I was called to the Northern Far East Mission (which split when I arrived in 1968) was to Kanazawa. Is there any chance that my son who was just called to the Tokyo South Mission may serve there during his two years? I would have thought it would be part of the Nagoya Mission but from internet listings it looks like it is now either part of the Tokyo North or Tokyo South Mission. (By the way I was saddened to just learn from these sites that President Bills passed away three years ago. My mission president who headed the other half of Japan, President Okazaki is also now deceased though it has been a pleasure to keep in touch with Sister Okazaki over the years. (This will by our third son to serve missions in Japan, the other two served in Sendai and another in Hong Kong.) |
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Our son was just called to the Tokyo South Mission. On a somewhat dated Japan mission map it appears this mission reaches almost to Nagoya and extends North to Kanazawa and South to Yokohama. Does it include the area of Tokyo where the temple is located? Is there a more current map available?
http://www.gatheringofisrael.com/atlas/asia/far_east/tmjapan.gif |
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It has been a long time but in the Tokyo South Mission while I was there I didn't ride a single bike. It was all subway and trains and hoofin' it on foot
no need for a bike at all |
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