Cycling in Japan/Hokkaido 2019
2019-09-05 Start: 9:15 / Arrival: 18:15 Distance: 56km / Gained height 280 hm After the past days being so incredible, this was a slighted boring day with a short transfer to Abashiri. After passing some bloomed out fields and several lakes we finally made it to Abashiri, a dying town far in the most eastern parts of Japan. Got to the
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2019-09-04 Start: 10:15 / Arrival: 22:30 (after the izakaya) Distance: 105km / Gained height 580 hm We stayed to night at the rural guesthouse in Kiyosato to make a daytrip to Shiretoko. Actually we planned this as a roundtrip, but decided to shorten it as we already lost some time due to the rainy days. So headed of through rural streets
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2019-09-03 Start: 10:00 / Arrival: 21:00 Distance: 84km / Gained height 1100 hm Early start as we had to check out early. Had some nice talk with the owner of the hostel about the aging society in Germany and Japan. As the hostel was a little bit outside and we would have to return to downhill to the center, we
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2019-09-02 Start: 12:45 / Arrival: 20:30 Distance: 80km / Gained height 1010 hm What a day. Had a very late start due to the “Reiseleiter” (being me, running joke) having to sleep longer due to my nice evening yesterday. Before we started, met Chad from Chicago again, whom got to know already yesterday at the convenience store. Very nice guy – he was
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2019-09-01 First rest day on our trip. Quite unusual so late, but we were doing more like ~72 km day, easily doable. This day felt great. Kushiro is a little bit bit bigger harbour town, very nice to stay here. Got up quite early, had some nice soup with algae and sea snails for breakfast and went exploring the town.
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2019-08-31 Start: 11:45 / Arrival: 17:15 Distance: 72.5km / Gained height 450 hm With the forecast being sunny for tomorrow, we only had to pass this one cloudy day with fizzy rain of to Kushiro – rest day ahead. Transfer was ok – again fizzy clouds, a little bit of rain and some nice mountainous area. Listened to some japanese 70s
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2019-08-30 Start: 10:45 / Arrival: 16:30 Distance: 78km / Gained height 560 hm Started of with fizzy rain. My mobile phone used for routing was also making problems due to the high humidity. Not such a great start. Then rain got heavier and heavier, leaving our goal for today in question. Landscape was very rural farmland with loads of cows. Must
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2019-08-29 Start: 11:00 / Arrival: 19:00 Distance: 100km / Gained height 600 hm Although the weather may seem to be not to nice, this was one of the most incredible rides in my life so far. So diverse, with a bit of everything thrown in. Nature, wildlife, lights and food. Too good to be true. First got woken up by
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2019-08-28 Start: 12:15 / Arrival: 17:45 Distance: 40km / Gained height 200 hm Weather is so unstable and unpredictable here – just starting of and see how it will evolve is the way to go. Today was in this respect a somehow unlucky day. First everything looked okay – although being quite hangover from yesterday’s karaoke. But then fizzy rain evolved
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2019-08-27 Start: 11:00 / Arrival: 19:15 Distance: 95km / Gained height 550 hm Chitose is Hokkaidos main airport, so we had to pass it after breakfast. Not so nice to ride, but this was followed by long straight roads cycling head down…not too exciting but really nice to ride. Point of interest was today the Pacific which we reached after
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