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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A 409 km round trip from Shimokizukuri - roughly 5 h 59 in the saddle. The stops in between: Isedotai Stone Circles, Goshono Site and back through Isedotai Stone Circles. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle write-up.
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Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle is where the day begins. Next is Isedotai Stone Circles.
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.
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Isedotai Stone Circles comes up about 90 km into the recorded legs. Next is Goshono Site.
In the hills of northern Iwate, a short ride from the town of Ichinohe, a group of round houses with grass-covered roofs sits in a quiet clearing among cedar and broadleaf woods. They look like something out of a fairy tale, low mounds with doorways and smoke holes, and they are reconstructions of pit dwellings from the Jomon period, the long prehistoric era of hunter-gatherers who lived in Japan from around fifteen thousand years ago until the arrival of rice farming. The Goshono site was a large settlement in the middle Jomon period, and excavations found that some houses here were roofed with earth rather than thatch, which is why the reconstructions look the way they do. Since 2021 it has been one of the components of the World Heritage site of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan.
Read the complete Goshono Site write-up.
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about 205 km into the recorded legs you reach Goshono Site. Next is back through Isedotai Stone Circles.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Isedotai Stone Circles write-up.
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back through Isedotai Stone Circles, late in the day. Next is 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 at Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle. That is the ride.
Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle → Isedotai Stone Circles is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Isedotai Stone Circles → Goshono Site is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Goshono Site → back through Isedotai Stone Circles is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Isedotai Stone Circles → Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.