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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
434 km one way from Yoshii - plan on about 6 h 50 of riding. The stops in between: Kashima-shi, near Kashima-shi and Chōfu. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
One of the oldest written stones in Japan stands near Yoshii. The Tago stele, carved in the early eighth century to commemorate the creation of a new district, is part of a group of three ancient monuments in the area that were added to UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2017. It is a modest stone under a protective roof, but its age and significance give pause in a landscape of fields and low hills.
Read the complete Photo stop near Yoshii write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Photo stop near Yoshii is where the day begins. Next is Tokyo / Kanto rides return.
Kashima's great shrine claims to be one of the oldest in Japan, and its deity, Takemikazuchi, is a god of thunder and swords. A stone in the shrine forest, the kaname-ishi, is said to pin down the head of a giant catfish beneath the earth whose thrashing causes earthquakes. Only a small rounded top shows above ground; legend says that no amount of digging has ever reached its bottom. The forest around the shrine, with tall cedars, deer and a spring-fed pond, is a cool, dark refuge on a summer day.
Read the complete Kashima-shi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tokyo / Kanto rides return comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is Food stop near Kashima-shi.
Kashima's great shrine claims to be one of the oldest in Japan, and its deity, Takemikazuchi, is a god of thunder and swords. A stone in the shrine forest, the kaname-ishi, is said to pin down the head of a giant catfish beneath the earth whose thrashing causes earthquakes. Only a small rounded top shows above ground; legend says that no amount of digging has ever reached its bottom. The forest around the shrine, with tall cedars, deer and a spring-fed pond, is a cool, dark refuge on a summer day.
Read the complete Kashima-shi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
A break here. Next is Boso Peninsula Pacific Sweep checkpoint 8.
Studio Ghibli's Pom Poko tells the story of raccoon dogs fighting the bulldozers that turned the Tama hills into a new town in the 1960s and 1970s, and this finish lies right in that landscape, between Inagi, Chōfu and Tama. The hills are now covered with apartment blocks, roads and shopping centres, but pockets of woodland and farmland survive, and the Tama River runs through the valley below.
Read the complete Near Chōfu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Boso Peninsula Pacific Sweep checkpoint 8 closes the day. Next is Back to Boso.
The Tokyo Bay ferry is the secret of this point. It carries motorcycles, and it is the pleasant way to link the two peninsulas, since the alternative is a long drive around the head of the bay or the tunnel and bridge of the Aqua-Line.
Read the complete Boso write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Finish at Back to Boso. That is the ride.
Photo stop near Yoshii → Kashima-shi is 213 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Kashima-shi → Near Chōfu is 141 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.