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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346 km from Kashihara to Kashihara, about 5 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Daigo-ji, Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi and back through Daigo-ji. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
On the plain south-east of Osaka, among suburbs, railway lines and car dealerships, the land is dotted with huge grassy mounds shaped like keyholes, surrounded by water-filled moats, and covered in trees. They are kofun, the burial mounds of Japan's early rulers and aristocrats, and the Tsudoshiroyama Kofun is one of them, in the Furuichi group, about two kilometres from the town of Kashiwara and not far from Habikino and Fujiidera. The group, together with the Mozu group in Sakai, was inscribed by UNESCO in 2019.
Read the complete Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun is where the day begins. 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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Daigo-ji comes up about 55 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi.
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.
about 165 km into the recorded legs you reach Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi. Next is back through Daigo-ji.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Daigo-ji write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Daigo-ji, late in the day. Next is Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun. That is the ride.
Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun → Daigo-ji is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Daigo-ji → Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Pilgrimage Routes - Ômine Okugakemichi → back through Daigo-ji is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Daigo-ji → Tsudo-shiroyama Kofun is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.