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I'm thinking of going from Tokyo to northern Gunma via Edogawa and Tonegawa rather than the usual Arakawa and Tonegawa. I'm sure that a book that I've somehow mislaid says that once you reach the "source" of the Edogawa there's no cycling path upstream for quite some way -- that there's a long gap in the Tonegawa path. Yet there's no mention of this in our wiki or Mike's map.
My sense of direction may be crap but even I am capable of staying alongside a river. Still, early experiences of Arakawa and (farther up) Tonegawa showed me that I'm able to delude myself that I'm riding along a river when I'm actually riding along a tributary, etc etc. Unfortunately I got so irritated with my GPS device that I tossed it out, so I can't simply turn off my brain (such as it is) and follow Mike's map; and I really don't want to follow an immensely complex cue sheet (which would probably turn out to be unusable, because it's often hard to identify the road that passes over a cycle path).
If it's all as obvious as I guess, fine; but any useful tips would be welcome.
My sense of direction may be crap but even I am capable of staying alongside a river. Still, early experiences of Arakawa and (farther up) Tonegawa showed me that I'm able to delude myself that I'm riding along a river when I'm actually riding along a tributary, etc etc. Unfortunately I got so irritated with my GPS device that I tossed it out, so I can't simply turn off my brain (such as it is) and follow Mike's map; and I really don't want to follow an immensely complex cue sheet (which would probably turn out to be unusable, because it's often hard to identify the road that passes over a cycle path).
If it's all as obvious as I guess, fine; but any useful tips would be welcome.