Why this ride
A 98 km one-way ride from near Kukichūō, about 1 h 40 of riding.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Gunma Three Mountain Day · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 98 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 40
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
Distance and timing basis
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Photo stop in Kukichūō
Kuki is the kind of place that rarely appears in travel guides, a pleasant, low-rise city in the flat farmland of north-eastern Saitama, crossed by railways, rivers and expressways. Kukichūō is its central district, with shops, homes and offices, and it makes a practical stop on the long run north from Tokyo towards the mountains of Gunma and Tochigi.
Read the complete Photo stop in Kukichūō write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Photo stop in Kukichūō is where the day begins. Next is Gunma Three Mountain Day checkpoint 8.
2. Near Tokyo
When the poet Bashō set out in 1689 on the journey that became The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he left from Senju, on the Sumida river, where friends saw him off. This finish lies in that same old northern edge of Edo, in Arakawa ward, a neighbourhood of narrow streets, small workshops and wooden houses that still feels more like shitamachi, the old downtown, than the glassy Tokyo of Shinjuku and Roppongi.
Read the complete Near Tokyo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Finish at Gunma Three Mountain Day checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Back to Gunma.
3. Back to Gunma
Zama is home to an American army base, Camp Zama, which has been there since the 1940s and is the headquarters of the US Army in Japan. The Sagami river runs a few kilometres to the west, and Mount Oyama, a sacred peak, rises on the horizon on a clear day.
Read the complete Gunma write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 98 km.
Leg by leg
Photo stop in Kukichūō to Near Tokyo
Photo stop in Kukichūō → Near Tokyo is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.