Why this ride
175 km from Ogasawara to Ogasawara, about 3 h 11 of riding. It stays on the island.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Nishijima and peripheral reefs and Ogasawara Islands
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 175 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 11
- 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. Nishijima and peripheral reefs
The Ogasawara islands name each other like a family, and Nishijima is among the younger members of the group, a modest uninhabited island west of Chichijima, the father island. Chichijima, Anijima and Ototojima, the elder and younger brothers, and Hahajima, the mother island, make up the main cast. The names are Japanese, and yet the main harbour town on Chichijima is called Ōmura, and the bay on its northern side Futami, and the older Western names like Peel Island and Port Lloyd still turn up on charts. That patchwork tells you how the island chain was settled.
Read the complete Nishijima and peripheral reefs write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Nishijima and peripheral reefs is where the day begins. Next is Yomejima and peripheral reefs.
2. Ogasawara Islands
About a thousand kilometres south of Tokyo, in the Pacific, a scatter of small volcanic islands sits on the road to nowhere. These are the Ogasawara Islands, also called the Bonin Islands, and they have never been joined to any continent. That isolation is the whole point. Snails, plants and insects have evolved here in ways found nowhere else, which is why UNESCO listed the islands in 2011 and why some people call them the Galapagos of the East.
Read the complete Ogasawara Islands write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 88 km into the recorded legs you reach Ogasawara Islands. Next is back through Yomejima and peripheral reefs.
3. Nishijima and peripheral reefs
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nishijima 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 Nishijima and peripheral reefs. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Nishijima and peripheral reefs to Ogasawara Islands
Nishijima and peripheral reefs → Ogasawara Islands is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ogasawara Islands to Nishijima and peripheral reefs
Ogasawara Islands → Nishijima and peripheral reefs is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.