Why this ride
The stops in between: Minamijima and peripheral reefs, Yomejima and peripheral reefs and back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Imotojima and peripheral reefs and Yomejima and peripheral reefs
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 282 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 52
- 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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Imotojima and peripheral reefs
Imotojima, the younger sister, is a name that gives the Ogasawara islands a family feel, and the islands really do read like a family spread across the sea: Mukojima, Yomejima, Anijima, Imotojima and the rest.
Read the complete Imotojima and peripheral reefs write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Imotojima and peripheral reefs is where the day begins. Next is Minamijima and peripheral reefs.
2. Minamijima and peripheral reefs
A thousand kilometres south of Tokyo, in the Pacific Ocean, the Ogasawara Islands rise from the sea, a scattered chain of volcanic islands that have never been connected to a continent. Minamijima, a small uninhabited island just off Chichijima, is one of their jewels: a ring of jagged limestone around a sheltered cove, the Ogiura, with white sand, turquoise water and a sinkhole beach that looks like something from a dream. The island and its reefs are part of the Ogasawara Islands World Heritage site, listed by UNESCO in 2011.
Read the complete Minamijima and peripheral reefs write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Minamijima and peripheral reefs comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Yomejima and peripheral reefs.
3. Yomejima and peripheral reefs
This is the one place on the list you cannot ride to, and it is worth being clear about that from the start. Yomejima is a small, uninhabited island in the Mukojima group, the northernmost cluster of the Ogasawara Islands, roughly a thousand kilometres south of Tokyo in the open Pacific. There are no roads, no people, no landing stage for visitors, and the reefs around it are part of the protected area that UNESCO inscribed as the Ogasawara Islands World Heritage site in 2011.
Read the complete Yomejima and peripheral reefs write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 141 km into the recorded legs you reach Yomejima and peripheral reefs. Next is back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs.
4. back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Minamijima and peripheral reefs write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs, late in the day. Next is Imotojima and peripheral reefs.
5. Imotojima and peripheral reefs
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Imotojima and peripheral reefs write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Imotojima and peripheral reefs. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Imotojima and peripheral reefs to Minamijima and peripheral reefs
Imotojima and peripheral reefs → Minamijima and peripheral reefs is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Minamijima and peripheral reefs to Yomejima and peripheral reefs
Minamijima and peripheral reefs → Yomejima and peripheral reefs is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Yomejima and peripheral reefs to back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs
Yomejima and peripheral reefs → back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs to Imotojima and peripheral reefs
back through Minamijima and peripheral reefs → Imotojima and peripheral reefs is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.