For muscle training and exercise I went to Kasumigaura by bike. My challenge was to bike 200 over kilometers in a day.
I went across many railways: Keisei Line, Musashino Line, Hokuso Line (Oomachi: 大町), Shin-Keisei Line (Kunugi-numa: くぬぎ沼), and Tobu-Noda Line. There were a lot of pear fields around this area. At
a roadside station (道の駅しょうなん) near Teganuma Bridge (手賀沼大橋) sold many species of pears.
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| Tega Bog (手賀沼) |
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| Passed Ootone Bridge (大利根橋) |
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| Ushiku Bog (牛久沼) |
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| Arrived at Tsuchiura Station (土浦駅) |
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| Lake Kasumigaura (霞ヶ浦) |
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| Kasumigaura Cycling Road (This went on for 50 kilometers!) |
Kasumigaura Cycling Road (霞ヶ浦自転車道) is very nice. The road goes on a higher bank surrounding the lake so you can see the scenery of the lake and the farming fields everywhere on the road. I many times biked as birds flew parallel with me. Someday I would like to complete the cycling road round.
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| Kasumigaura Bridge (霞ヶ浦大橋) |
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| North side of the lake from the bridge |
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| Road still goes on... |
The hot spring has fine wide view of Kasumigaura. So nice to wash my sweat and heal my muscle.
I was so glad to see my weights was less than 70km first time in 10 years!
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| Kitatone Bridge (北利根橋) |
I went back through Tonegawa-Suigo Line (利根川水郷ライン), which was too dark to see small pebbles on the road shoulder.
In this touring I had six bottles (3500ml) of sports drink and four rice balls except a dinner at the onsen.
The whole trip took 12 hours (10:00 AM to 10:00 PM).
(Exact start/end points omitted.)
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