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Shosenkyo Gorge and Lake Kawaguchi · part 1

Plan this ride

Recorded distance
39 km
Riding-time estimate
46 min
Journey
Loop
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.

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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.

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Why this ride

A 39 km loop that starts and ends near Tokyo, about 46 min of riding. The plan has 1 food stop marked.

Scenic road chapters

Shosenkyo Gorge and Lake Kawaguchi fuel gate → Shosenkyo Gorge and Lak

Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 63 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.

Chapter facts
Length
18 km

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Tokyo

    Every ride from Tokyo begins with a negotiation. The roads are good and the drivers are disciplined, but traffic lights are many and the pace is steady rather than fast, so patience is part of the toolkit. A Sunday dawn is the easiest time to slip away.

    Read the complete Tokyo write-up.

  2. 2. Kawaguchi

    First, a confusion worth clearing up: this Kawaguchi is not the lake town at the foot of Mount Fuji, which is spelled Kawaguchiko and lies far to the west. This is Kawaguchi city in Saitama, a big, busy place of nearly half a million people just across the Arakawa river from northern Tokyo. On a ride to Shosenkyo and the Fuji lakes, it is where you leave the capital behind, or where you come back into it, and it is a sensible place to eat before or after.

    Read the complete Kawaguchi write-up.

  3. 3. Tokyo

    Return visit. Read the place description above.

    Read the complete Tokyo write-up.

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