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Manseki Kanemitsu
金光万石さん
at the meeting point, Sanjo Starbucks, Kyoto Japan
Today I went out for a short, mostly-easy bicycle ride (track at Strava) with Manseki Kanemitsu, another member of the Cycling Kyoto! group on Facebook. Rain was forecast for the late afternoon so it was just us.
It was my first real ride since the grueling 90km mountain/snow adventure three weeks ago, and my third “real” ride in total, since my inaugural ride a month and a half ago.
(We're planning to do a more ambitious ride tomorrow with a larger group, so that'll be ride #4.)
We decided to head off to the Arashiyama area of western Kyoto, which unfortunately involves a lot of city riding just to get there.
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Point-A-to-B City Riding
9:55am - taken while moving at 30 km/h
We stopped by a tofu shop whose owners he was friends with, noted because they are perhaps the last shop in Kyoto sill use the old-style wood-burning hearth that I've often seen in old temple kitchens, but have never actually seen in use...
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Iriyama Tofu Shop
入山豆腐店
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Still Made By Hand
手作り
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Wood-Burning Hearth
古いかまどをまだ使っています
京都弁で「おくどさん」言います。
Off we continued toward Arashiyama...
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10:56am - taken while moving at 14 km/h
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“Guts Pose”
in front of the Seiryoji Temple
清凉寺の前のガッツポーズ
( I missed focus horribly on this one )
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Quaint North-West Arashiyama
getting steeper
11:04am - taken while moving at 14 km/h
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Tunnel
11:11am - taken while moving at 18 km/h
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Very Steep Downhill Section
11:14am - taken while moving at 15 km/h
the road eventually deadends, so we'll have to come back up later
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Little Village Stream
with some plum blossoms at left
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Finally in the Mountains
11:23am - taken while moving at 9 km/h
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11:25am - taken while moving at 10 km/h
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“Warning: No Shoulder”
11:28am - taken while moving at 5.2 km/h
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End of the Road
entrance path to the Kuuya Shrine
空也神社までの小道の入り口
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Now on Foot
ここでは足で行く
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Kuuya-taki Waterfall
空也滝
The guy performing devotions alternated between praying in front of the waterfall, and dipping into the cold water. It was quite cold, so I'm sure he was freezing, but that was likely the point.
I'd prefer to come in the summer when one could cool down after the ride up.
I grabbed a quit snapshot of Manseki...
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Manseki
... and he of me...
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Me
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Quick Prayer for Traffic Safety
交通安全の祈り
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Looking Back
on the way out
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Rejoining our Bikes
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Very Bumpy Road Back Down
12:01pm - taken while moving at 7 km/h
Where we took the tunnel on the way in, on the way back we wanted to take the short (but insanely steep) road over the mountain, but it turns out we couldn't.
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“Road Closed”
There's a side road that goes up for a short distance... it gains 28m of elevation in about 150m of distance... a ridiculous 18% average grade. Here we're headed back down:
Sections were so steep that my front tire would come up with every downstroke of the pedal, threatening to have me fall backwards off the face of the road. Luckily this section was short.
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Back In Rural Western Kyoto
12:36pm - taken while moving at 12 km/h
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Picking Up Some Tofu on the Way Home
Even though they're not a Yuba shop, I thought they might have some as a natural byproduct of making tofu, and I scored some that they were willing to sell me. We had it with dinner tonight and it was fantastic. Next is to try the tofu, perhaps for breakfast prior to tomorrow's tougher ride...
More good looking bicycling roads.
Interesting looking tunnel. Is it just for bicycle traffic? How long is it?
There’s a map link under the photo, but anyway, it’s 500m. It’s for two-way traffic, though long signals on either end keep traffic one way at a time. Big city busses use it as well, which would make for fun for pedestrians because there’s not much width for a bus and a person. At least they have lights on inside… I’ve been in before when the lights weren’t working! —Jeffrey
Welcome to cycling.
That ride looks great. Maybe I’ll get to ride properly around Kyoto one day. (Back in 2001 Julia and I hired bikes at Arashiyama and rode along the path next to the river, but that doesn’t count.)
It’d be a really unfun ride on a mamachari! Arrange a visit and I’ll somehow arrange bikes for you… —Jeffrey
Seem you have to train some more, that guy is in front of you in almost all the pictures !
I certainly do need to train more, but I prefer to be in the back because I prefer having someone in the shot. Manseki and I went out the next day as well (yesterday), in a group of 7 on a much tougher ride. A few times I thought I’d try to see how it went not being in the back, but my photographer subconscious apparently won because I always found myself quickly alone at the back. 🙂 —Jeffrey
Looks like some really beautiful trails!
huhu, that was not a first degree comment on my side, obviously you did the ride together so “being the first is meaningless”. But I note in the new post you have many pictures of riders coming toward you and they do look great, that is a good mix with people’s back. Anyway it seems you’re having tons of fun, my daily cycle trip to work is not as spectacular !
I knew you were joking… I did the same kind of thing as we arrived at the end of the trip… I happened to be the first one to roll to a stop, so I thrust my arms in the air yelling “I won! I won!”. 😉 Where I didn’t win are the riders coming towards me… I missed focus often. I need to practice with fast-approaching targets, and bring a 70-200 with me next time. —Jeffrey