Why this ride
78 km from Kashihara-shi to Kashihara-shi, about 1 h 23 of riding. On the way it passes Horyu-ji Area, Yashimazuka Kofun and back through Horyu-ji Area.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Fujiwara Palace Site and Yashimazuka Kofun
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 78 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 23
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Fujiwara Palace Site → Horyu-ji Area
24 km on Fujiwara Palace Site → Horyu-ji Area.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 24 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Fujiwara Palace Site
Before Nara, before Kyoto, there was Fujiwara-kyō. In 694, the Empress Jitō moved the Japanese court to a new capital in the southern part of the Nara basin, the first in Japan to be laid out on a Chinese-style grid of streets, with the imperial palace at its centre. It lasted only sixteen years, until the court moved north to Nara in 710, but it marked a turning point in the history of the Japanese state.
Read the complete Fujiwara Palace Site write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fujiwara Palace Site is where the day begins. Next is Horyu-ji Area.
2. Hōryū-ji Area
The buildings at Hōryū-ji are around thirteen hundred years old, and some of them are among the oldest wooden structures anywhere in the world. Founded in the early seventh century by Prince Shōtoku, a regent remembered as a champion of Buddhism and a founding figure of the Japanese state, the temple was rebuilt after a fire later in the same century, and parts of that rebuilding still stand. In 1993 it became one of the first sites in Japan to be listed by UNESCO, as the Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area.
Read the complete Horyu-ji Area write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hōryū-ji Area comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yashimazuka Kofun.
3. Yashimazuka Kofun
In the southeastern suburbs of Osaka, among houses, rice paddies and railway lines, rise wooded mounds surrounded by moats. These are kofun, burial mounds built for the elite of ancient Japan between the third and seventh centuries, and the Furuichi group around Fujiidera and Habikino contains some of the largest in the country. Yashimazuka is one of the smaller mounds in the group, standing close to much bigger keyhole-shaped tombs attributed to emperors and empresses. Together with the Mozu group in Sakai, these mounds were listed by UNESCO in 2019 as the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group.
Read the complete Yashimazuka Kofun write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Yashimazuka Kofun. Next is back through Horyu-ji Area.
4. back through Horyu-ji Area
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Horyu-ji Area write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Horyu-ji Area, late in the day. Next is Fujiwara Palace Site.
5. Fujiwara Palace Site
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fujiwara Palace Site write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Fujiwara Palace Site. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Fujiwara Palace Site to Horyu-ji Area
Fujiwara Palace Site → Horyu-ji Area is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hōryū-ji Area to Yashimazuka Kofun
Hōryū-ji Area → Yashimazuka Kofun is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yashimazuka Kofun to back through Horyu-ji Area
Yashimazuka Kofun → back through Horyu-ji Area is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Horyu-ji Area to Fujiwara Palace Site
back through Horyu-ji Area → Fujiwara Palace Site is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.