CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Uji it runs 247 km to Uji; allow about 4 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun, Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji and back through Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The oldest building in Kyoto does not stand in the city centre but in the southeastern hills, at the temple of Daigo-ji: a five storey pagoda completed in 951, which has survived fires, earthquakes and wars that destroyed almost everything else of its age in the city. The temple was founded in the ninth century on Mount Daigo, and its grounds spread from the foot of the mountain to the summit, linked by a steep path, with halls, gardens and sub temples along the way. It is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Daigo-ji write-up.
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Daigo-ji is where the day begins. Next is Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun.
The tomb attributed to Emperor Ingyo stands in Fujiidera, in the eastern suburbs of Osaka, and it belongs to the Furuichi group of kofun, the other half of the World Heritage site shared with Sakai's Mozu tombs. It is a large keyhole-shaped mound, wooded and surrounded by a moat, and like all imperial tombs it is managed by the Imperial Household Agency and closed to visitors. Scholars debate whether the attributions to specific emperors are accurate, since they were made long after the tombs were built, but the scale of the monuments speaks for itself. Nearby, the tomb attributed to Emperor Ojin, Kondagobyoyama, is the second largest in Japan by volume.
Read the complete Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun write-up.
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Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun comes up about 57 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji.
Ōminesan-ji is a temple on the summit of Mount Sanjō, one of the peaks of the Ōmine range in the heart of the Kii peninsula, and it holds a special place in Japanese religion. It is a centre of Shugendō, the mountain ascetic tradition that blends Buddhism, Shinto and older mountain worship, and its practitioners, the yamabushi, undergo arduous training on the ridges. The temple is famous for another reason too: the mountain is still closed to women by tradition, one of the last such places in Japan, which has become a subject of ongoing debate.
Read the complete Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji write-up.
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about 123 km into the recorded legs you reach Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji. Next is back through Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun, late in the day. Next is Daigo-ji.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Daigo-ji write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Daigo-ji. That is the ride.
Daigo-ji → Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun → Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji → back through Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ingyo-tenno-ryo Kofun → Daigo-ji is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.