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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
It goes by way of Hakuchoryo Kofun, Daigo-ji and back through Hakuchoryo Kofun. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Ômine Okugakemichi is not a road at all, at least not one you can ride. It is a mountain trail that runs for about a hundred kilometres along the spine of the Ômine range in the Kii peninsula, linking Yoshino in the north with Kumano in the south, over peaks, ridges and rock faces. For more than a thousand years, yamabushi, the mountain ascetics of the Shugendo tradition, have walked it as a spiritual practice, combining Buddhist, Shinto and older mountain beliefs, with rituals at sacred rocks, waterfalls and cliffs along the way. It is part of the UNESCO-listed Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range, inscribed in 2004.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi is where the day begins. Next is Hakuchoryo Kofun.
South-east of Osaka, on the plain where the rivers of the Yamato basin spill out toward the bay, the land is dotted with enormous green islands. They are kofun, the keyhole-shaped burial mounds that the ruling clans of Japan raised in the fourth to sixth centuries, and the cluster at Furuichi is one of the two big groups that were inscribed as World Heritage in 2019, the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group. Hakuchoryo is among them, traditionally held to be the tomb of Prince Yamato Takeru, a hero of the ancient chronicles.
Read the complete Hakuchoryo Kofun write-up.
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Hakuchoryo Kofun comes up about 68 km into the recorded legs. Next is Daigo-ji.
The oldest building in Kyoto does not stand in the city centre but in the southeastern hills, at the temple of Daigo-ji: a five storey pagoda completed in 951, which has survived fires, earthquakes and wars that destroyed almost everything else of its age in the city. The temple was founded in the ninth century on Mount Daigo, and its grounds spread from the foot of the mountain to the summit, linked by a steep path, with halls, gardens and sub temples along the way. It is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Daigo-ji write-up.
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about 128 km into the recorded legs you reach Daigo-ji. Next is back through Hakuchoryo Kofun.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hakuchoryo Kofun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hakuchoryo Kofun, late in the day. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi. That is the ride.
Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi → Hakuchoryo Kofun is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Hakuchoryo Kofun → Daigo-ji is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Daigo-ji → back through Hakuchoryo Kofun is 60 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hakuchoryo Kofun → Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.