Sadly the Japanese have no concept of pickup games. Everything has to be reserved by a registered organization because there has to be a chain of responsibility and that chain can’t include private individuals.
But you can just register as a basketball club, lie about your membership, and reserve the local public court as that organization. They won’t blink an eye.
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I was told I had to join a team and a league if I wanted to use the ward gym. “Can I just shoot baskets with my son in this empty gym?” “No.”
The only outdoor public backboard I found was waaay up the Kamo river in a park.
https://preview.redd.it/p6d6r5m18lrb1.jpeg?width=2600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be85f6a366a491be5df6c0fcfc67b79efd34304c
Sadly the Japanese have no concept of pickup games. Everything has to be reserved by a registered organization because there has to be a chain of responsibility and that chain can’t include private individuals.
But you can just register as a basketball club, lie about your membership, and reserve the local public court as that organization. They won’t blink an eye.
Try this https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zxy9FH5mSAXTjTeH8, I guess you can join people that play there sometimes