INFORMATION
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
2025年8月23日
CLOSED From August 25th to 26th
Thank you for using us always.
We are off for three days from August 25th（Mon） to 27th（Wed）.
During the period, we cannot receive any calls, so please leave messages via email if there’s a rush. Still, we basically reply to you AFTER the Wednesday（27th）.
We appreciate your understanding.
2023年7月16日
SUMMER BIKE TOUR 2023 – Cycling tour to Kawachi Wind Cave –
～ Let’s explore Japan countryside by bike! ～
Cycle to “Kawachi Wind Cave”!
Here’s the information about our bike tour. We will cycle for Kawachi Wind Cave in Taga Town. Let’s enjoy the COOL nature to cool off! Here’s the 3 ways to cool off during the bike tour. 1. Explore into a mysterious & fantastic wind cave. 2. Enjoy a yummy shaved ice!! 3. Cycle along the crystal clear river in the mountainous area. – then perfect to refresh yourself! ■Subject ・11 aged and over ・A person who will follow our instructions ■Date
↓Definitely worth visiting! Get a COOOOL!!
2019年6月4日
The Rainy Season Promotion 2019 Now !
The rainy season promotion will come again this year! We have provided this unique promotion every rainy season, since customers looked fun and got excited with rolling a dice.
In the rainy season, the condition becomes a little difficult for cycling. So, we arrange this promotion for those who would try to cycle despite of the rain. We would like them to pump up their motivation by getting a free service or a present as follows!
Let’s enjoy!★ This promotion period is limited in the rainy season from June 8(Sat) to July 19(Fri) in 2019★
～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～Special 1： Get a present or free option service!
●Let’s roll the dice !
➡You will get one of six services or presents! We prepare one service or present according to the number of the dice.
You might get a service of “500 yen OFF the rental price”, if you’re lucky!(depends on the number of dice!)Special 2： Fender for free !
●Usually our rental bikes don’t have a fender.
➡When you use our rental bike and it’s rainy, we attach a fender to your bike for free.
Special 3： Cancellation fee becomes free when it rains.
➡Only during this promotion, the cancellation becomes free only when the reason is the rainy weather.
～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～ ⇩The view of plum blossoms algae blooming in Jizogawa river, that is flowing in Samegai Town, where is 5 kilometers to the east of Maibara station. A good spot worth visiting by bicycle!
⇩So pretty flowers in clear water.You can see them only in summer season.
About the flower ➡ http://kitabiwako.jp/spot/spot_362/
