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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
568 km one way from Kazo - plan on about 10 h 49 of riding. On the way it passes near Hokuto, Itō and Scenic stretch near Miura. The climb of the day is near Kodamachō-kodamaminami. It tops out at about 1,350 m. Much of it runs through woodland.
Tanzawa and Doshi Road is where the day begins. Next is High point near Kodamachō-kodamaminami.
You top out here; the road stops climbing. Next is Food stop near Hokuto.
A break here. Next is Tokyo / Kanto rides return.
In 1604 an English pilot named William Adams, shipwrecked in Japan a few years earlier and taken into the service of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, built the first Western-style sailing ships in Japan at the mouth of the river in Itō. Adams, known in Japan as Miura Anjin, became a samurai and an adviser to the shogun, and his story inspired the novel Shōgun. Itō remembers him with a festival every August and a memorial by the river.
Read the complete Itō write-up.
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Tokyo / Kanto rides return, about halfway. Next is Scenic stretch near Miura.
At the very tip of the Miura Peninsula, south of Yokosuka, the land ends in low cliffs, rocky shelves, cabbage fields and a fishing harbour that has supplied Tokyo with tuna for generations. Misaki port is the heart of Miura, and that is where you go to eat. The city has around fifty thousand people, but it feels like a coastal country town, with the sea always close and the smell of salt and fish on the wind.
Read the complete Miura write-up.
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Scenic stretch near Miura sits at 418 km, late in the day. Next is Photo stop near Ōhara.
Every September the men of Ōhara carry portable shrines straight into the Pacific, running through the surf to the beat of drums in a festival that has been held for centuries. It is a wild, joyful sight, and it sums up this small fishing town on the eastern coast of the Boso peninsula, where life still revolves around the sea and the boats.
Read the complete Photo stop near Ōhara write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 523 km.
Fuel stop in Kazo → High point near Kodamachō-kodamaminami is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
High point near Kodamachō-kodamaminami → Food stop near Hokuto is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Food stop near Hokuto → Itō is 195 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Scenic stretch near Miura → Photo stop near Ōhara is 64 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.