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Tokyo bike shop happy snaps

April 21, 2026, by Guy 'Guido' Allen

Join us for a mini tour of some Tokyo motorcycle shops

The gents above are the beating hearts of the UPC Ride On shop in the once thriving bike precinct of Ueno, Tokyo, which is a long-term Arai Helmets expert fitting station.

And below are a couple of pics from the Rabee riding gear and accessory shop, also a local institution. More to come on Tokyo motorcycle shops...

Above and below is Come Come, which from the outside looks like the proverbial hole in the wall. Inside there are two floors packed with gear.

Above and the next two shots below is SCS Motorcycle. It does a mix of new and used bikes,and runs a workshop pretty much in the showroom.

It also seems to have captured the hearts of the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club of Finland.

There is another SCS to the west of the city, which is a much larger place describing itself as a 'department store'.

Sadly the Ueno district is a shadow of its former self, with about eight shops remaining. A decade ago, it was thought to have more like 100.

See this 2016 piece by Motorcycle Cruiser magazine in the USA.

Try this 2026 Google Maps link for a walking tour of the Ueno district.

About a 20 minute walk away is Thunder Motorcycles, located on a substantial tourist street. It's as much a coffee shop as it is a motorcycle outlet and one of a chain of 34 stores. The coffee, by the way, is very good.

Next up, we hopped across to the Red Baron Katsushika store, a mid-sized dealership and part of a nationwide chain.

It has loads of stock on hand, plus a workshop with dyno. The prices for new and late-model machines seemed broadly in line with what you would find in Australia.

The camera-shy salesman we spoke with is a Kawasaki nut, so I showed him a pic of the family ZX-12R, to which he responded his father has one, too. How to suddenly feel old...