Category: Bike Packing
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Cycling: Curve GXR – One Year Review
It’s almost a year since I bought the Curve GXR and it’s fair to say that it has become my main bicycle. I use it for pretty much everything
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Cycling, Hiking, Photography: A New Direction
You may or may not have noticed that there haven’t been many posts in 2018. While I’ve been spending more time than ever outdoors in the Japanese countryside cycling, bike packing, mountain biking, and hiking, cycling in the Australian countryside, or back ‘home’ in the U.K., the name Bike Packing Japan has often felt restrictive…
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Cycling & Hiking: Mt. Norikura – Bike and Hike to 3026m
Mt. Norikura (乗鞍) is considered a right of passage for many cyclists in Japan. It’s the highest road in the country and only bicycles, taxis, and official buses are allowed up. It’s sometimes called Japan’s version of Alpe d’ Huez with plenty of switchbacks, 1200m of elevation gain from the Norikura Heights car park, and…
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Cycling & Hiking: Mt. Norikura
Mt. Norikura (乗鞍) is considered a right of passage for many cyclists in Japan. It’s the highest road in Japan and only bicycles, taxis, and official buses are allowed up.
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Cycling: Checking Road Conditions Before Leaving
As you are probably well aware Japan is a very mountainous country. It is also very wet, especially in the typhoon season from late summer to early autumn. Heavy rainfall and mountains can obviously lead to landslides and it is for that reason that it is always a good idea to check the road conditions…
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Bike Packing: Kasugai – Gujo – Kadohara – Meiho Onsen
Fukui prefecture (福井県) seems to be a fairly unexplored region of Japan for cyclists and as a region along the Sea of Japan coast it used to be considered an isolated region before modernization. It’s northeast of Gifu prefecture and getting there from Aichi (愛知県) by riding through Gujo Hachiman (郡上八幡) in central Gifu (岐阜県)…
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Bike Packing: Gokayama – Takayama – Nakatsugawa
Friday evening after work I hitched a ride with a friend and his wife to Gokayama (五箇山), a world heritage site, high in the mountains in Toyama prefecture (富山県), about 3 hours north of Nagoya. Arriving around 11pm we all chose to sleep at one of the Michi-no-eki (道の駅) that you can find everywhere throughout…
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Bike Packing: Agematsu – Mt. Ontake
I did a short bike packing trip from Agematsu (上松) to Mt. Ontake (御嶽山) recently, catching the late afternoon train from Kachigawa (勝川) north of Nagoya to Nakatsugawa, where I changed trains to Agematsu. From there I rode just under 40kms west towards Kaida Kogen (開田高原) before finding shelter in a small picnic area at the…
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