tamara.augsten
Cruising
- May 23, 2011
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Hey guys,
I just recently joined tokyocycle and purchased a cheap fixed/single speed bike after months of riding a horrendous mamachari.
Sometime between now and the next month and a half I would like to skip out on a week or so of classes and ride to Kyoto on my own.
I've been scouring the boards reading up about other people routes and what not, but am still not confident about my route.
First of all, i'm not sure how many kilometers I will be putting in each day.
Today i went for a short and really slow and mellow ride along the Arakawa river and rode 70km in 3.5 hours. I definitely felt good and not tired, so i figure i could (hopefully) put in 100-120 km a day.
anyways, i was hoping maybe someone had some itinerary suggestions, as most people seem to do the trip in 4 days and I am not so confident i'll make it there in 4. Also, i know, for example, that some people seem to do the first leg (tokyo-hakone) either via highway 1 or highway 246. which do you recommend?
also, in older posts, some people seem to have taken a ferry at one point in the trip? but i guess that is no longer possible?
SO, if anyone has recently done this trip and would be willing to give me a brief run down, or offer any tips, or link some route maps here that would be WICKED.
thanks so much
(oh, also, good rest stops with cheap hostels, as i am a 22 year old student with LIMITED income)
-Tamara
I just recently joined tokyocycle and purchased a cheap fixed/single speed bike after months of riding a horrendous mamachari.
Sometime between now and the next month and a half I would like to skip out on a week or so of classes and ride to Kyoto on my own.
I've been scouring the boards reading up about other people routes and what not, but am still not confident about my route.
First of all, i'm not sure how many kilometers I will be putting in each day.
Today i went for a short and really slow and mellow ride along the Arakawa river and rode 70km in 3.5 hours. I definitely felt good and not tired, so i figure i could (hopefully) put in 100-120 km a day.
anyways, i was hoping maybe someone had some itinerary suggestions, as most people seem to do the trip in 4 days and I am not so confident i'll make it there in 4. Also, i know, for example, that some people seem to do the first leg (tokyo-hakone) either via highway 1 or highway 246. which do you recommend?
also, in older posts, some people seem to have taken a ferry at one point in the trip? but i guess that is no longer possible?
SO, if anyone has recently done this trip and would be willing to give me a brief run down, or offer any tips, or link some route maps here that would be WICKED.
thanks so much
(oh, also, good rest stops with cheap hostels, as i am a 22 year old student with LIMITED income)
-Tamara