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 Takanosu it runs 386 km to Takanosu; allow about 6 h of riding. It goes by way of Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle, Futatsumori Site and back through Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
In a quiet corner of Akita prefecture, near the town of Takanosu in the north of Japan's main island, a set of stone circles lies on a low terrace above the Yoneshiro river. The Isedotai stone circles were built around four thousand years ago by the people of the Jomon culture, hunter-gatherers who lived in the Japanese archipelago for more than ten thousand years and made some of the oldest pottery in the world. The site is part of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan, listed by UNESCO in 2021, a series of seventeen sites across Hokkaido and the north of Honshu that illustrate the long, settled life of these people.
Read the complete Isedotai Stone Circles write-up.
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Isedotai Stone Circles is where the day begins. Next is Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle.
Over three thousand years ago, Jomon people in northern Japan arranged stones into circles on a terrace at the foot of Mount Iwaki, the conical volcano that dominates the Tsugaru plain in Aomori prefecture. The Omori Katsuyama stone circle is one of these monuments, with a ring of standing and placed stones that may have been used for rituals, burials or marking the seasons. It is part of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan, inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2021, which celebrates a culture of hunter-gatherers who settled in permanent villages and made pottery for over ten thousand years.
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Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle comes up about 88 km into the recorded legs. Next is Futatsumori Site.
Futatsumori is a gentle hilltop near the town of Shichinohe in Aomori prefecture, overlooking Lake Ogawara, and to an untrained eye it is simply a grassy field among woods and farmland. But this is one of the largest shell mounds in the Tōhoku region, piled up by Jōmon people over thousands of years as they gathered shellfish from the lake and the sea, and it belongs to the same World Heritage group of Jōmon sites as the better-known Sannai-Maruyama. The shell heaps, rich in calcium, neutralised the acid soil and preserved bones, tools and ornaments that would otherwise have dissolved.
Read the complete Futatsumori Site write-up.
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about 192 km into the recorded legs you reach Futatsumori Site. Next is back through Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle, late in the day. Next is Isedotai Stone Circles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Isedotai Stone Circles write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Isedotai Stone Circles. That is the ride.
Isedotai Stone Circles → Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle → Futatsumori Site is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Futatsumori Site → back through Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle → Isedotai Stone Circles is 88 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.