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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From Fujinomiya it runs 232 km to Fujinomiya; allow about 3 h 31 of riding. It goes by way of “Oshi” Lodging House, Nirayama Reverbatory Furnaces and back through “Oshi” Lodging House. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Fuji does not need an introduction, but the shrines around its foot deserve one. Yamamiya Sengen-jinja stands on the southwest side of the mountain at the edge of Fujinomiya, in Shizuoka Prefecture, and it is one of the old shrines dedicated to Konohanasakuya-hime, the blossoming princess who is the deity of Mount Fuji, and her cult spread to the whole country as the Sengen shrines. The Yamamiya precinct is a calm, cedar-shaded compound where the mountain presides from behind, and the main buildings stand in the old Edo-period style, with dark wood and copper roofing, and the mood of a place that has served pilgrims for centuries.
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Yamamiya Sengen-jinja Shrine is where the day begins. Next is “Oshi” Lodging House.
Mount Fuji has been a place of pilgrimage for a thousand years, and the lodging houses in Fujiyoshida are what the pilgrims used. Believers in the Fuji cult, called the Fuji-kō, travelled in confraternities from Edo and farther away, and when they reached the foot of the mountain they stayed with an oshi, a guide and priest who arranged their prayers, their meals and their climb. The streets of old Kamiyoshida still have a few of these houses, with deep entrances, long rooms and a small shrine inside, designed for groups to eat, sleep and prepare. UNESCO lists one of them as part of the Fujisan cultural landscape.
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“Oshi” Lodging House comes up about 49 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nirayama Reverbatory Furnaces.
Two pairs of tall brick chimneys stand in a quiet suburb at the base of the Izu Peninsula, looking strangely European against the green hills. They belong to the Nirayama reverberatory furnace, built in the 1850s to melt iron for casting cannons, at a time when Japan felt threatened by Western warships arriving in its waters. The project was led by Egawa Hidetatsu, the local magistrate, a forward-thinking official who studied Western military technology from Dutch books. He died before it was completed, and his son finished the work. It is the only surviving reverberatory furnace of its era in Japan that was actually used for casting, and since 2015 it has been part of the UNESCO site of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution.
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about 114 km into the recorded legs you reach Nirayama Reverbatory Furnaces. Next is back through “Oshi” Lodging House.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete “Oshi” Lodging House write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through “Oshi” Lodging House, late in the day. Next is Yamamiya Sengen-jinja Shrine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yamamiya Sengen-jinja Shrine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Yamamiya Sengen-jinja Shrine. That is the ride.
Yamamiya Sengen-jinja Shrine → “Oshi” Lodging House is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
“Oshi” Lodging House → Nirayama Reverbatory Furnaces is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Nirayama Reverbatory Furnaces → back through “Oshi” Lodging House is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through “Oshi” Lodging House → Yamamiya Sengen-jinja Shrine is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.