{"id":2870,"date":"2018-09-03T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2018-09-03\/2870"},"modified":"2018-09-03T13:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:06:05","slug":"discovering-and-cycling-japans-biggest-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2018-09-03\/2870","title":{"rendered":"Discovering and Cycling Japan’s Biggest Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\niPhone 7 Plus — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>40 sec, f<\/span>\/1.8, ISO 25 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nStarting in the Ocean<\/span>\nrear wheel in the Sea of Japan\ncity of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I recently did a bicycle ride that I'd been planning for months: to do Japan's biggest road climb, a\nsingle<\/span> climb going from sea level to Japan's highest paved road at Mt. Norikura, at an elevation of 2,717m (8,914'). As far as<\/span> I know,<\/span> it's the biggest possible elevation gain in a\nsingle<\/span> paved-road climb in Japan, and as far as I know,<\/span> it's never been done, or even known of, until\nnow.<\/p>\n\n

I've ridden that “<\/span>highest paved road in Japan”<\/span> road before, as blogged about here<\/a>, but this time I would<\/span> start 110km\n(68mi) away at the ocean (elevation: 0), in the city of Toyama.<\/p>\n\n

I'd spent months researching the most direct route from the ocean, updating road data (as described<\/span> in “<\/span>Updating Maps for Cycling, Including Japan\u2019s Pseudo One-Way Roads<\/a>”<\/span>),\nrefining my elevation database, and scoping out places to get food and drink along the way.<\/p>\n\n

Here's the route that I came up with:<\/p>\n\n