Category: Shimanami Kaido
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Shimanami Kaido videos
Here are two videos from the second day of our Shimanami Kaido excursion. Maybe no commuting this week Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking about commuting via Dionysus this week, but each morning when I get up it looks like rain. Yesterday I could hardly see a thing out the window. It turns out only some of…
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Shimanami Kaido reprise
About a month ago, Fearless Leader Joe and I were discussing rides we’d like to do and he mentioned he wanted to ride Shimanami Kaido. The Halfakid and I did this one back in 2018 on rental bikes. We did the route in one direction only that time, opting to take the ferry back from…
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Hotel options for rides
Shimanami Kaido 竹庭 清正乃湯 4km from the end of the route in Imabari, very flat Kasumigaura 潮来ホテル 500m from Itako Station
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Shimanami Kaido gets National Cycle Route status
Shimanami Kaido, the island-hopping cycle route from Onomichi in Hiroshima to Imabari in Ehime, has been named a National Cycle Route. The Halfakid and I cycled the route in April 2018. We got lucky with the weather and hit peak cherry blossom season. The course was not challenging, with well-marked roads and gentle climbs to…
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The best of everything on Shimanami Kaido
The little planning I did before the ride paid off handsomely, and we enjoyed amazingly good weather and cherry blossoms in full bloom. The views — particularly the Seto Inland Sea from the bridges — were breathtaking, and we were simply too at peace on the road to stop and take enough photos. We arrived…
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Shimanami Kaido — Game On!
And here we are with two days to go. Fearless Leader Joe went over his handlebars in January, taking a gouge out of his leg which required stitches and immobilized his knee for a couple of weeks. But that was followed up by an undiagnosed fracture which he finally had treated in late February. Long…
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Never too early to start planning a ride
I finally started looking at possible routes, hotel stays and transportation for the Shimanami Kaido ride. We’d thought we had a five-day range to play with, but in the end it came down to a single weekend. And now we have a further complication in that Joe Lejog is recovering from a bike spill, so…
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Shimanami Kaido
Shimanami Kaido is a route bridging the islands between Hiroshima and Shikoku in Japan’s Inland Sea. It’s also a very popular cycling route for beginners on up, with cycle rentals and cyclist-friendly stops all along the route, as well as ferries between various islands. With the quality rental bikes available, you don’t even need to…