Nov 05 2009
This is how far bees living in ginza can travel
I’m going on a bike ride today, track my progress:
The Ginza Honey Bee Project (sorry its in japanese) is keeping bees on the roof of a building in the centre of the city. Bees can apparently fly 4km in any direction……. so I thought I’d see what they can see by cycling around the circumference of it. Potentially opening myself up to all kinds of scary cyber privacy issues but decided to use an iphone app called mymovingmap to track my progress. The circumference of the circles is about 25km…. Setting off in about 20 mins I hope.
UPDATE I managed half way around and took about 500 pics but then the light started receding and I called it a day. I got from Roppongi Hills going North (clockwise) around the area and ended up just south of Asakusa on the sumida gawa river that borders between taito and sumidagawa wards. I’m thinking of finishing the ride on Monday by going anti clockwise from Roppongi down through the sea-facing wards and back up again to nearby asakusa. Wow those bees travel far, I was pretty tired coming back – even though I didn’t do the circuit I was still the other side of the city when I decided to came back, it must have been between 20-30km in all. The mymovingmaps gadget worked great, when I sort through all the info I collected I’ll put up a collated map of where I actually went.
It recorded my journey in pieces, they are:
Roppongi Hills to… Just down the road
Gaien-Mae to Ichigaya
Iidabashi to Asakusa
(some parts missing)
Stay tuned for more on Monday.
