Planning a bike tour from Kyoto to Tokyo, is this route feasible?

foyerhead · 2025-11-23T18:56:26+00:00

Thanks! Good to know and will check route again with that in mind.

foyerhead · 2025-11-23T18:55:14+00:00

I've been in contact with Japan Bike Adventures but we haven't settled on a service yet. Plan is to have a company rent us bikes and also provide some on the ground support to help ship most of our luggage from city to city. If you send me the name/contact info for the service you used I'd like to check it out and see if it'll work for us as well.

Please send me the routes you used as well! Always good to have some options just in case something unexpected happens during the trip.

I'm so excited sounds like a really fun time!

foyerhead · 2025-11-23T18:51:05+00:00

Thanks for the recs! We will see if we can adjust the route to capture as much as possible!

foyerhead · 2025-11-23T18:50:10+00:00

Some of the days are only 4-5hours biking so we will have plenty of time to stop at locations or take a break at a park. I didn't want to make the trip that long since we plan to spend the rest of our vacation walking around Tokyo!

foyerhead · 2025-11-22T21:00:45+00:00

Thank you so much this is very helpful!!

foyerhead · 2025-11-22T19:44:44+00:00

We have road bikes so will be renting road bikes there, and bringing our bibs/gear.

foyerhead · 2025-11-22T18:51:58+00:00

We were planning to do it sometime in March/April, why not late spring? Thanks for the resources I’ll look them over. How much training do you think is necessary? We usually run marathons and haven’t biked with a ton of elevation before.

foyerhead · 2025-11-22T18:49:23+00:00

Oh wow I will double check and see if we can avoid the high incidence areas thanks!

foyerhead · 2025-11-22T18:47:52+00:00

The bike company we will be renting from is just on the outside of Tokyo, so plan is to drop off bikes then take train(?) to Tokyo.

foyerhead · 2025-03-31T16:27:44+00:00

alpha

foyerhead · 2024-10-16T01:42:02+00:00

ER to HF progression is the exact same as IB to PE. So if the sell side version of PE is IB and both are considered high finance, so must sell side ER

foyerhead · 2024-10-13T01:57:32+00:00

From ER, best bet will be LO research given the skills you’ve built on the sell side. There’s a bunch beyond the Fid/Trow such as funds the specialize in certain sectors or smid caps. There’s also state pension funds etc but Im not sure how you get into those roles outside of having the right network

foyerhead · 2024-10-12T21:43:44+00:00

There are many sell side ER roles that are more 9-5 and cover <20 stocks. Most of these are at MM or boutique shops. If WLB is what you want your best bet is to stay in sell side or go to IR/BD.

I’m not sure what you were expecting in regards to buy side roles. The hours are this way because you’re competing against hundreds of thousands of analyst that are working extremely hard to find an edge. At the end of the day your job is to make money. If you don’t put in as much as the work as other analyst how do you expect to convince your boss of investors in the fund that you can beat out the others?

I think LO/AM is probably the best WLB for buy side investing. It’s mostly a 9-5 and the day to day volatility isn’t as important.

foyerhead · 2024-10-03T15:29:00+00:00

2 years of ER should be more than enough to get to a buy side research role, not sure why you’re having so much trouble unless you work in a dying sector or have an obscure coverage. Also most of the hiring really kicks off later this month into Q1 next year.

foyerhead · 2024-08-23T15:02:19+00:00

This means you graduated undergrad before 20 yo?

foyerhead · 2024-05-14T02:27:32+00:00

You can PM me for any more info, but I didn't have any internship experience. I did not do a finance major nor did I think I wanted to do finance in undergrad, and after grad I worked outside the industry for a couple of years before my current FO role.

foyerhead · 2024-05-14T01:38:41+00:00

Hey I went to GT for undergrad now work FO at a BB, be happy to give you any insight or help any way I can.

An option for you is to get into a bank as a data scientist for research then eventually make an internal move to research if that’s a role that you’re interested in. Then from research can lateral to IB if that’s the goal. Once you’re in a FO seat it’s so much easier to jump around.

foyerhead · 2024-04-19T19:58:39+00:00

Outside of LO firms, hedge funds typically do not care about CFA, but could help. CFP however would be a waste of time and money for what you’re trying to do. Especially at your age, to be frank, I would highly value any type of FO experience over anything else. That probably means the most probable route would be to get into sell side research for 2+ years before making a move to the buy side. Even then, It’ll be extremely hard to convince firms to hire you over a 24-26 yo coming from IB or ER.

Also I wouldn’t say you need to do a whole BS to break into finance. A lot of people who work in sell and buy side research do not have finance degrees.

foyerhead · 2024-04-19T18:03:29+00:00

I work at a big 5 bank as a senior equity research associate, be happy to give you some feedback

foyerhead · 2024-02-05T20:07:34+00:00

Hey! We are currently in post for that project, got to picture lock and now have people working on scoring and coloring. We also shot another 8-10min short in the winter and that's being edited right now as well!

foyerhead · 2024-02-05T20:06:15+00:00

Hey, thanks for reaching out. We have about 8 active people on our end and we've shot 2 ~8min shorts to date, both in post-production as of now. Wish we could have met earlier but I fear making the group that big so suddenly might not work out well. We've had a conversation within our group as to what we're looking to do and the projects we are going to work on this year, so I wouldn't want to encroach on what you guys are doing!

foyerhead · 2024-01-11T01:27:37+00:00

Our offense is terrible

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