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 304 km round trip from Fujinomiya - roughly 4 h 53 in the saddle. On the way it passes Yoshida lava tree molds, Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine, Fuji Sengen-jinja Shrine and back through Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The water that falls at Shiraito has spent a long time underground. Rain and snowmelt seep into the porous volcanic rock of Mount Fuji, travel through the layers for years, and emerge from a cliff face southwest of the mountain as hundreds of thin streams, pouring over a curved wall about twenty metres high and some one hundred and fifty metres wide. The name means white threads, and the effect is just that: a curtain of silvery strands falling into a clear pool, with the Fuji-ko pilgrims once performing purification rituals here. The falls are part of the Fujisan World Heritage Site, and the neighbouring Otodome falls, a single powerful cascade, roar a short walk away.
Read the complete Shiraito no Taki waterfalls write-up.
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Shiraito no Taki waterfalls is where the day begins. Next is Yoshida lava tree molds.
Mount Fuji's lava does strange things to trees. When a flow of molten rock surges through a forest, it wraps around trunks and hardens, and when the tree burns away it leaves a hollow cast, a round tube in the rock that looks like a well or a chimney. The lava tree molds at Yoshida are formed in this way, found along the lower slopes in the dense forest known as Aokigahara, where the ground is black, rough and honeycombed with caves. The flows come from eruptions of Fuji in the ninth century and later, and the forest has grown up over the cooling rock ever since.
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Yoshida lava tree molds comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine.
Murayama Sengen-jinja is the quieter ancestor of the Fuji pilgrimage. Long before the climbers of Edo came in crowds, ascetic mountain priests of Shugendō trained at Murayama on the southern slope of Mount Fuji, and the shrine stood at the beginning of a trail up the mountain. The old name for the place is a reminder that this was a monastery as much as a shrine, a base of mountain monks who practised purification and climbed in rigorous seasons. Large cedars shade the grounds, and a stone path leads between moss-covered stones and old wooden buildings, so the place feels more like a forest sanctuary than a tourist stop.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine. Next is Fuji Sengen-jinja Shrine.
On the eastern side of Mount Fuji, in the village of Subashiri, a shrine has stood at the start of the pilgrims' path for more than a thousand years. The Fuji Sengen shrine, often called Higashiguchi Hongū, the eastern main shrine, marks the beginning of the Subashiri trail to the summit, and pilgrims traditionally prayed here before starting their climb. The shrine is set in a forest of tall cedars and old trees, with a red gate, wooden halls and a quiet, spiritual atmosphere, and it is one of the components of the Fujisan UNESCO site, recognised as part of the mountain's cultural and religious landscape.
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Fuji Sengen-jinja Shrine, about halfway. Next is back through Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Yoshida lava tree molds.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yoshida lava tree molds write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Yoshida lava tree molds comes up about 242 km into the recorded legs. Next is Shiraito no Taki waterfalls.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Shiraito no Taki waterfalls write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Shiraito no Taki waterfalls closes the day.
Shiraito no Taki waterfalls → Yoshida lava tree molds is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Yoshida lava tree molds → Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine → Fuji Sengen-jinja Shrine is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fuji Sengen-jinja Shrine → back through Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Murayama Sengen-jinja Shrine → back through Yoshida lava tree molds is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Yoshida lava tree molds → Shiraito no Taki waterfalls is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.