Originally Posted by
gycho77
Here are some options
- your parent is a professional track cyclist
- attend a high school or college that has official track cycling team(very rare)
- or pass Keirin test and become a professional keirin racer(test is very tough)
Japan has gotten a lot better in the 10 years since I started riding here. There were always a handful of public tracks, but they are building more these days. Also, pro track, while not officially open to non-pros, are more and more often having "club days" when an organized club can invite people to ride, and there are the occasional "try the bank" open races.
But even so, none of these are just show-up-and-ride. You do have to jump through some hoops, but that's ok. The alternative, as Carleton rightly pointed out, would be chaos.