Un petit tour en vélo dans la campagne japonaise ?
Il y a quelques jours, j'avais brièvement présenté One Life Japan, une agence de voyage un peu particulière qui propose des tours en vélo ou à pied dans la campagne japonaise, à la recherche de culture «authentique». Je ne sais pas si je pourrai y participer, mais voilà le programme d'une excursion de 3 jours, en juillet. Si un petit groupe de 3 ou 4 personnes peut être formé, une réduction s'appliquera au tarif de 65000 yens par personne.
Voici le programme:
The start point is just about 1.5-2 hours from Tokyo. From there we will ride mostly up-hill through some nice small farm areas. The firstnight is in a great little mountain-top hot-spring town.
On Day 2 we will ride further up in the morning, in time to have lunch at a lake made by the second highest dam in Japan. From there it is a downhill off-road ride on the only path into the Akiyama Valley from the south. Here we will have time for a hot-bath (maybe in the river), and a bear-meat dinner at inn of a local hunter.
Day 3 will be a great downhill cruise on a narrow, paved, twisting road with amazing views. We will be down into civilization with time to check out some of the lower villages and museums if you have time.
One option to get back is leaving 5:43pm, arriving 8:12pm. There are also earlier or later options to fit your schedule.
If the dirt road/trail is impassible, there are still plenty of remote mountain passes with challenging hills. One option we were thinking is to keep day one as is, and instead of passing over into the off-road on day 2, climb further to a 2000+ meter pass with great cruise down into another hot-spring town on the other side. Day three would then be a ride down through small country towns where everyone would be out
tending to their farms.
Sounds great, non ? Contactez-moi si vous êtes intéressé.

















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