Day10: Aosahana - Paradise Uncle Gann's Island (~49 miles)
Up early, out of the beach and onto our scheduled destination--Uncle Gann's Island! Well, it's technically not "his" island--I'll explain later.
To get to Uncle Gann's Island, we took the "shimanami kaido" or the island-wave roadway, a gorgeous route that island hops across six islands and takes you from Honshyu to Shikoku. It's a big highway but with a really awesome bike route/pedestrian route right next to it. It was great.
I got general directions from my Uncle, but we were fortunate to bump into some Japanese guys who lived in the area and were cyclists who told us that we had to take a ferry from Onomichi to the first Island, Mukaishima in order to start our bike ride. Turns out one of them is here in California biking around for a month!
Up early, out of the beach and onto our scheduled destination--Uncle Gann's Island! Well, it's technically not "his" island--I'll explain later.
To get to Uncle Gann's Island, we took the "shimanami kaido" or the island-wave roadway, a gorgeous route that island hops across six islands and takes you from Honshyu to Shikoku. It's a big highway but with a really awesome bike route/pedestrian route right next to it. It was great.
I got general directions from my Uncle, but we were fortunate to bump into some Japanese guys who lived in the area and were cyclists who told us that we had to take a ferry from Onomichi to the first Island, Mukaishima in order to start our bike ride. Turns out one of them is here in California biking around for a month!
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| Our very helpful guides who told us how to start the route. |
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| A map of our route. |
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| Jason looking giddy on the ferry ride. |
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| First bridge from Mukaishima to Inoshima |
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| Second bridge: Inoshima to Setoda. |
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| Third bridge: Setoda to Omishima |
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| Fourth Bridge: Omishima to Hakatajima |
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| It's 50 yen (~$0.50) to cross each bridge if you're on bike. Pedestrians are free. |
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| The route is really nicely marked throughout the islands. |
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| The only crappy part...the bike entrance to the bridges is uphill. gah!
Once on Hakatajima my Uncle picked us up and we took the ferry to his intsy wintsy island of ...30 people!!! Ave age: 70?? maybe?
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