Hello from Tokyo

[sirpent0r]

Hi all,

Mavic Air 2 user. I recently moved to Tokyo and am finding a lot of restricted flight areas... pretty much everywhere. I've read about applying for "permission" to fly, which I may look into but curious if anyone has any recommendations or "go to" spots to fly in the area? I live in the Setagaya area and see what looks like some non restricted space west of the Tama river around some golf courses and other green space areas but not sure they are ok.

thanks!

 

[dirkclod]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots .
I hope you will find our site helpful and look forward to any input , photo's/video's you might post .
Don't be shy and ask anything if you can't find it by searching .

 

[old man mavic]

welcome to the forum

 

[Thomas B]

Welcome to the forum from the deserts of Arizona! Enjoy.

 

[MA2 317]

Hello from the Crossroads of America sirpent0r,

Hopefully someone can help you find some spots to fly.

Welcome to the Forum.

 

[wjkrysak]

Welcome to the forum. We look forward to your participation and your view of the world.

 

[eaglesurfing]

Welcome to the forum and enjoy.

 

[mrjohnc1]

Welcome!

 

[Dedal]

Welcome.

 

[hea-kun]

Welcome!
I live in Nagoya, Japan.
Japan has strict regulations and it's hard to find a place to fly.
But compared to Tokyo, Nagoya still has a few places to fly in the city.
Please refer to the videos I've posted here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH7e6tuE34O0v2yJDC2kjZQ

 

[Drone Master]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots! Enjoy the forum!

 

[Laborous]

Welcome to the forum from the beautiful woods of Maine!

 

[Steel63]

Greetings from Florida

 

[Mavikhan]

WELCOME ABOARD!

 

[RkyMtnHigh]

Hi all,

Mavic Air 2 user. I recently moved to Tokyo and am finding a lot of restricted flight areas... pretty much everywhere. I've read about applying for "permission" to fly, which I may look into but curious if anyone has any recommendations or "go to" spots to fly in the area? I live in the Setagaya area and see what looks like some non restricted space west of the Tama river around some golf courses and other green space areas but not sure they are ok.

thanks!

Welcome to the forum from the beautiful mountains of Colorado! Back in the early 1980's I lived up on Hokkaido for a little over a year. Absolutely loved Hokkaido and Japan. Happy and safe flying!

 

[sirpent0r]

Welcome!
I live in Nagoya, Japan.
Japan has strict regulations and it's hard to find a place to fly.
But compared to Tokyo, Nagoya still has a few places to fly in the city.
Please refer to the videos I've posted here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH7e6tuE34O0v2yJDC2kjZQ

thank you!

 

[sirpent0r]

Welcome!
I live in Nagoya, Japan.
Japan has strict regulations and it's hard to find a place to fly.
But compared to Tokyo, Nagoya still has a few places to fly in the city.
Please refer to the videos I've posted here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH7e6tuE34O0v2yJDC2kjZQ

thank you.... took a trip to Hakone but got rained out unfortunately

 

[SpitFire]

Welcome to the forum from Chicago the Windy City.

 

[msinger]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[keio]

Hi all,

Mavic Air 2 user. I recently moved to Tokyo and am finding a lot of restricted flight areas... pretty much everywhere. I've read about applying for "permission" to fly, which I may look into but curious if anyone has any recommendations or "go to" spots to fly in the area? I live in the Setagaya area and see what looks like some non restricted space west of the Tama river around some golf courses and other green space areas but not sure they are ok.

thanks!

Welcome to mavicpilots.com, "neighbour" ! ;-) (also living in Setagaya-ku and owner of a Mavic Air2 here ^^)
Well, sadly we have in deed tons of restrictions around. Best is you check this post which has several infos on the topic. Basically, as you noticed, it's restricted everywhere "officially" and where it is not, it is also "inofficially" (local restrictions, private, etc). Like you, i searched a lot, and thought about tama river shores, green areas like golf spots etc too, but found out it's also prohibited by the ward, just not reported yet on the official map from MLIT. Your best bet to train is sadly to join a drone school (hangar training, sucks but well...) or move to a dedicated place like i did, which is sadly not a good fit for a regular training solution. Only other alternative would be to find some relatively remote area and fly there very early in the morning (before 5-6AM ?) when no old wanabe "policeman assistant" is roaming around (many cases of delation in Japan). But like me, Setagaya-ku : dame desu... Everything remote is out of reach without car/train. Feel free to contact me for further infos or even to meet and plan a fly together maybe. =)