Why this ride
Out of Zushi, one way: 97 km, roughly 1 h 46 in the saddle.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Shosenkyo Gorge and Lake Kawaguchi · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 97 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 46
- 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.
Scenic road chapters
Shosenkyo Gorge and Lake Kawaguchi checkpoint 8 → Back to Shosenkyo Go
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 41 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 32 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Photo stop in Zushi
Zushi is a small, relaxed seaside town on the western side of the Miura Peninsula, tucked between Kamakura and Hayama, with a crescent of sandy beach facing Sagami Bay. It has long been a retreat for Tokyo families, and in summer the beach fills with swimmers, windsurfers and stand-up paddlers. Out of season, it is quiet, with dog walkers and joggers on the sand and fishing boats pulled up at the end of the bay.
Read the complete Photo stop in Zushi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Photo stop in Zushi is where the day begins. Next is Shosenkyo Gorge and Lake Kawaguchi checkpoint 8.
2. Wako
Honda's engineers have tested ideas in Wako for decades; the company's research and development arm grew up here, and the name still turns up on buildings around town. So does RIKEN, Japan's largest research institute, whose headquarters and laboratories occupy a large campus in the city. For a rider ending a long weekend, there is a pleasing symmetry in finishing a ride where so many motorcycles were born on drawing boards.
Read the complete Wako write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Finish at Shosenkyo Gorge and Lake Kawaguchi checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Back to Shosenkyo Gorge.
3. Back to Shosenkyo Gorge
Matsudo is a city of nearly half a million people on the Chiba side of the Edo River, the border with Tokyo, and nothing about it says Shosenkyo or mountains. It is a commuter place, an hour or so from the gorge's Yamanashi valleys, and so a natural endpoint when the day's riding has taken you back through the whole sprawl of the Kanto plain. Think of it as the dock where the ship comes in.
Read the complete Shosenkyo Gorge 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 97 km.
Leg by leg
Photo stop in Zushi to Wako
Photo stop in Zushi → Wako is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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