Any tips for routes from western Tokyo to Kamakura?

[Derwood]

Am planning a ride tomorrow from around Higashi-Kurume down south to Kamakura and Shonan, back again on Sunday. Seems like the best route (along the Sagami River) would require a pretty big detour to the west to hook up to the Sagami path, just wondering if anyone can recommend anything more direct? Following rivers seems to be a good option once I hit Midori ward in Yokohama, but getting there seems to involve taking a main road like Route 15. Any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated!

 

[Ludwig]

Find your way to Inagi, then Tsurukawa Kaido and Machida Kaido to Machida, from there along the small river all the way to Fujisawa.

 

[Pucci]

That would be the Sakai river 境川　

Best way to the coast by far.

 

[StuInTokyo]

If you check out this thread timdesuyo and I did a ride down to Zushi, we actually came out on the coast at Kamakura then rode over to Zushi, it was not a bad route at all, some early traffic stuff, then at the very end traffic, but the part in the middle along the Sakai river was very nice indeed.

There is a link to the route we took further down in the thread.....

OK >> HERE << is a link to the route we took.

Cheers!

 

[Derwood]

Great! Thanks all for the suggestions, heading out shortly.