NEWS
2025年11月30日
Winter Closing 2025-2026 【12/15/2025-2/20/2026】
❄Winter Closing❄
From: 12/15/2025（Mon）Until: 2/20/2026（Fri）
Thank you so much for using our service this year of 2025, too.
This year, we had great events such as Osaka Kansai Expo 2025 and National Sports Game 2025 in Shiga, and these events brought us new people and inspired them to try cycling around Lake Biwa or exploring hidden wonderful places in local areas in Shiga. That was so much fun for us to interact with those guests from new countries and new areas in Japan.
It’s obvious that summer season in Japan is not for cycling as it’s too hot and humid to stay outdoors, even though, there were some challengers who tried Biwaichi in summer and ended up enjoying it as much as possible by taking break frequently in the shades where you can have nice breeze from the lake and by dipping in the water as you are staying by the lake while cycling Biwaichi. Their saying it was fun in the end amazed us.
But for the most people, spring and autumn are the best seasons to cycle as the weather is nice and you can also enjoy seeing faint pink colors in the view because of the cherry blossoms blooming all along the path for Biwaichi in spring, and fantastic autumn leaves here and there in autumn. We would like as many people as possible to experience that though, we are sorry that we sometimes could not meet bike rental requests from some guests because we had been chronically short-staffed. Now here’s a great news that we got a new staff member finally recently for the first time in almost a year! Therefore, we believe we would be doing better work than this year to help each guest have a great experience with our bike.
We are very thankful for all our guests who used us and who come back to us to use our service again and again, which we are really looking forward to every time.
And we are really grateful that we are supported by local people and cyclists, who helped us so much when we were running out of manpower this year. That’s what we realize and appreciate the most this year.
From mid-December, we have to close our shop temporarily until mid-February because of the coldness and the snow during winter.
Meanwhile, we are getting ready for the next season while doing maintenance on bikes and everything necessary for good service.
Have a wonderful holidays and all the best for the new year.
We are all excited about welcoming you from next spring!
【Notice about Business Days during Winter Closing】
★Reservations for 2026 will be accepted from January 9th in 2026.
★During the winter closing, our business days are on weekdays only.
*We are off for New Year holidays & break 【12/29/2025～1/8/2026】and every weekend during the winter closing. You can email us and can make reservations anytime, but we will reply to you only on weekdays. Thank you for your understanding.
We will update our Instagram and Facebook during winter closing, too, so follow us and stay tuned!
➡Official Instagram @biwacycle
➡Official Facebook @biwaichirental
Best regards, all the staff of BIWAICHI RENTAL CYCLE
