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 253 km round trip from Yoshino-chō - roughly 4 h 15 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hakuchoryo Kofun, Daigo-ji and back through Hakuchoryo Kofun. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Ōminesan-ji is a temple on the summit of Mount Sanjō, one of the peaks of the Ōmine range in the heart of the Kii peninsula, and it holds a special place in Japanese religion. It is a centre of Shugendō, the mountain ascetic tradition that blends Buddhism, Shinto and older mountain worship, and its practitioners, the yamabushi, undergo arduous training on the ridges. The temple is famous for another reason too: the mountain is still closed to women by tradition, one of the last such places in Japan, which has become a subject of ongoing debate.
Read the complete Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji write-up.
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Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji 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 67 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 127 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 Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji. That is the ride.
Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji → Hakuchoryo Kofun is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 59 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Hakuchoryo Kofun → Yoshino and Ômine - Ôminesan-ji is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.