Tag: Japan cycling

• Cycling: Slowing Down

  

  After I’d finished I sat waiting a couple of kilometres from where the festival was about to start at a michi-no-eki and I wondered why I hadn’t just jumped in the car with everyone else.

  Sean

  August 31, 2020

  Cycling, Japan

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• Photography: Camera Gear for Hikes and Bicycle Rides

  

  13th October, 2021I’ve since updated my camera to a Panasonic LUMIX S5. You can read about it here. I previously wrote about the camera gear I use when bike packing here but since the outdoor activities I do in Japan have changed over the last couple of years I thought it might be a good…

  Sean

  December 10, 2019

  Camera Gear, Gear

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• Cycling & Hiking: Oshika – Sampukutoge・大鹿 – 三伏峠

  

  I’ve been wanting to combine cycling with hiking for a while now and decided that this weekend was going to be the time to actually try it out. This is the hike up to Sanpukutoge (三伏峠) on the Nagano/Shizuoka border in the Minami Alps. On a clear day Mt.Fuji is clearly visible so it would…

  Sean

  July 7, 2019

  Cycling, Hiking, Japanese Alps

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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

  Sean

  May 6, 2019

  Bike Packing, Cycling, Gear

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• Photography: One Road, Ten Photos

  

  One road, ten photos. That was the impromptu task I gave myself as I crossed the Shonai River and headed up the short, steep and hidden climb to Joukoji Park, a quiet, partially gravel road that I’ve ridden up countless times over the years. I don’t know where the idea came from or how valid…

  Sean

  February 14, 2019

  Cycling, Japan, Photography

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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…

  Sean

  October 16, 2017

  Bike Packing, Cycling, Japan, Mt. Norikura, Mt. Ontake

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• Bike Packing: Urugi – Fujimi Panorama – Shiojiri

  

  Urugi – Fujimi Panorama – Shiojiri At the end of July and beginning of August I had a few days spare to do a short bike packing trip before a two week trip to Australia for work. A friend of mine, Alex, who I hadn’t seen in a while and had previously been living just…

  Sean

  September 17, 2017

  Bike Packing, Microadventures

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