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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106 km from Katsuren-haebaru to Katsuren-haebaru, about 2 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Zakimi-jô site, Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the and back through Zakimi-jô site. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Katsuren castle stands on a limestone hill on the east coast of Okinawa, near the base of the Katsuren peninsula, and its curving walls step up the slope in a series of enclosures to a summit with sweeping views across the sea. It is one of the gusuku, the castles of the old Ryukyu kingdom and the warring lords who came before it, and it was inscribed in 2000 together with Nakijin, Zakimi, Nakagusuku, Shuri and several sacred groves.
Read the complete Katsuren-jô site write-up.
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Katsuren-jô site is where the day begins. Next is Zakimi-jô site.
The walls of Zakimi gusuku curve across the top of a hill in Yomitan like a ribbon of pale limestone, following the contour of the land in graceful arcs rather than straight lines. Built in the early fifteenth century by Gosamaru, a celebrated castle builder of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the fortress is small but beautifully made. Its arched stone gateways, held in place by a wedge-shaped keystone, are among the oldest stone arches in Okinawa. Zakimi is part of the UNESCO site of the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu, listed in 2000.
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Zakimi-jô site comes up about 23 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the.
Okinawa was a kingdom of its own until the late nineteenth century, and the gusuku are what is left of its stone fortresses. The word means castle, but these are curving walls of pale coral limestone that follow the shape of a hill, with gateways like keyholes and view platforms over the sea. The Ryukyu Kingdom, which was unified under King Sho Hashi in 1429, traded between China, Japan, Korea and southeast Asia, and grew rich as a middle man, with Shuri as its capital. UNESCO listed the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu in 2000, among them Shuri Castle, the royal burial place of Tamaudun and the garden of Shikinaen.
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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the. Next is back through Zakimi-jô site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zakimi-jô site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zakimi-jô site, late in the day. Next is Katsuren-jô site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Katsuren-jô site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Katsuren-jô site. That is the ride.
Katsuren-jô site → Zakimi-jô site is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zakimi-jô site → Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the → back through Zakimi-jô site is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zakimi-jô site → Katsuren-jô site is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.