Full Length Version – Biking from Kanazawa (金沢) to Matsumoto (松本) 🚲 Japan Cycling, 1 Week Bike Tour

I stitched all three videos together for one full-length version of our 夏休み (summer break) cycling trip! 

We rode from Kanazawa (金沢) in Ishikawa Prefecture to Matsumoto (松本) and back again. It was 430 miles (692km) and 33,192 ft (10,117m) in total over one week, all self-supported.

Part One:
This starts with our first two days of riding from the Kanazawa area to Hida and then to Kanayama (both in Gifu Prefecture) We also stop by the Gujo-Hachiman castle ( 郡上八幡城) in Gero!

Part Two: (starts 12:54)
The trip continues with days 3 & 4 riding from Kanayama (in Gifu Prefecture) along the Nakasendo to Tsumago-Juku (in Nagano Prefecture) and then finally to Matsumoto! We ride along a 7.5 kilometer section of the Nakasendo (中山道) from Magome to Tsumago-juku, which is one of the best preserved and most famous sections. The Nakasendo is one of the 5 routes that was used to connect old Edo to Kyoto in the Edo period. The name means “central mountain route” and there are 69 stations or postal towns along the route. Though it was mountainous, it was one of the most popular ways between the two cities because you didn’t have to ford any huge rivers. It runs through the modern-day prefectures of Saitama, Gunma, Nagano, Gifu and Shiga, with a total distance of about 534 km.

Part Three: (starts 26:28)
The final part begins with our rest day exploring Matsumoto, followed by the final two days of riding – including our longest day to get to Shirakawa-go, over 10,000 feet of climbing in 93 miles! We also get to see Matsumoto Castle (松本城), one of only 12 remaining original castles in Japan.

Day 1: Uchinada to Hida (飛騨市) in Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県)75 miles (120km) + 5700’ elevation 
Ride and Route info: https://www.strava.com/activities/9630102911 

Day 2: Hida to Kanayama (飛騨金山)85 miles/137km + 6700’ elevation  
Ride and Route info: https://www.strava.com/activities/9636670621

Day 3: Kanayama (飛騨金山) to Tsumago-Juku (妻籠宿) in Nagano Prefecture 56 miles (90km) + 1555m (5100 feet) elevation  
Ride and Route info: https://www.strava.com/activities/9643084738

Day 4: Tsumago-juku to Matsumoto (松本市)64 miles (103km) + 1687m (5534 feet) elevation
Ride and Route info: https://www.strava.com/activities/9649367134

(Day 5 Rest Day)

Day 6: Matsumoto (松本) to Shirakawa-go (白川郷)93 miles (150km) + 10,000’ elevation  
Ride and Route info: https://www.strava.com/activities/9663888382 

Day 7: Shirakawa-go (白川郷) to Kanazawa (金沢)54 miles (87km) + 5,000’ elevation 
Ride and Route info: https://www.strava.com/activities/9669827548

🎙️ Want to keep up with the rest of our adventures? We have a podcast! : https://www.ramblingramsbothams.com

Links for more info:
More about the castle: http://www.gujohachiman.com/kanko/sightseeing_intown_e.html 
More about Hida: https://hida.travel/ 
More about the Kinkotsu Alleyways: https://visitgifu.com/see-do/kinkotsu-alleyways/
More about the Nakasendo: https://www.go-nagano.net/en/trip-idea/id16492 
More about Tsumago-Juku: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e6077.html 
More about Matsumoto: https://visitmatsumoto.com/en/
Matsumoto Castle: https://www.matsumoto-castle.jp/eng 
More about Shirakawa-go: https://www.vill.shirakawa.lg.jp/en/ 
More about Gokayama: https://gokayama-info.jp/en/sightseeingspots/gokayama.php

More videos about Japan Cycling here: 
Riding from Kanazawa to Shirakawa-go: https://youtu.be/f-j3oMr7LEE 
Kanazawa cherry blossom tour on a mamachari bike: https://youtu.be/Xjn89S64iXE 
Biking the Highlands of Japan in Nagano: https://youtu.be/gdDsRhyQUPo?si=laJ0etHK0QaQKRdB
Noto Peninsula Cycling Tour: https://youtu.be/AtgQuM1PLaI

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Today Zeb and I are setting out on our longest self-supported Bike Tour yet 7 days including a rest day from kazawa to Matsumoto and back again it’s a 430 Mi trip or nearly 700 km with 33,2 ft of elevation gain it’s about 5 and me and Zeb have started our latest

Adventure this will be the longest bike trip that we’ve done so far we’re leaving from uchata which is just outside kazawa the capital of the shikwa prefecture we’ll be riding through Toyama and gifu prefectures before getting to Nagano prefecture and stopping in the towns of H kanayama Tumo Juku Matsumoto and

Shirakawago we made it about 45 minutes in so we just started but Zeb is repacking his bag B so that it the weight distribution is a little better so I thought I might show you what the bags are that we have for this trip so they’re both rate spine lock bags I have

A smaller one Zeb has a 16 L bag so he can pack a lot of stuff and zeb’s got a Rafa handlebar bag this is a moose pack bag which is made from our friend that we met in North Carolina on day one we got up bright and early to ride as much

As possible before the hot summer sun was fully out sunrises at 4:30 and the summer here so it was definitely an early start the first day would take us 75 M or 120 km to H in giu prefecture from uchata we rode up and over into Toyama prefecture where we followed the

Jinzu river into gifu from there we followed the maawa until we arrived in h h refers to a general area in the northwest corner of gifu prefecture but it’s made up of four municipalities takayama H gero and shirakawa this area gets a ton of snow in the winter but

With the hot temperatures baking us on our ride today it was pretty hard to imagine it in the cold this area is best known for its beef which comes from the blackhaired Japanese wagu cattle breed fattened for at least 14 months there’s also high quality Timber found here and the local

Carpenters have a high level of craftsmanship because of this look where in get through now we made it to stop to get some more water in the vending machine before checking into our guest house for the night we rode into the outskirts of he proper to pick up food at a family

Mark after that we enjoyed our local campgrounds facilities to freshen up since it was still too early to check into the guest house we made it to H and we’re at a campground right now now and we got some snacks at the 7-Eleven and also some dinner for tonight cuz we’re staying in

A guest house that doesn’t have meals and ze’s filling up some water at this really nice little sink area that the campground has we’re going to hang out here for a couple hours and go to a cafe and then be able to check into our guest house for

Tonight we had lunch at the cafe and youth hostel nanuk which was located at the foot of the Hill from the campground cool lunch time they’re like welcome come on in the food was colorful and delicious and the owner was really kind can’t wait we got some fish curry and it’s very

Picturesque out here guest house is around here somewhere we’re here early which is kind of nice I like getting up at 5:00 sometimes we rode up to Our Guest House from lunch where we spent a little time relaxing by the creek until checkin so we’re just hanging out by this very nice

Creek until we can check into Our Guest House Guest House to was like staying with a friend and it was very homey I was surprised by how huge and spacious the upstairs was it wasn’t any air conditioning but at night it got down to 19° C or 66 F so

We didn’t get too hot so our guest house is so nice the owner is really friendly and it must have he must have just had a ton of people here cuz he was running around really frantically and getting our room ready and everything so I kind

Of feel bad that we show up like right after 3: uh but yeah it’s really nice up here we have this whole upstairs room just for us it’s massive and the windows are open and the breeze is coming through you can hear the cicada is a little so yeah it’s very pleasant I

Could go to sleep right Now the next day we had another early start we were pleasantly surprised by the brisk air and the fog in the Valley on this day we were riding to kayama which was an 86 mile or 139 km Journey we made sure to fuel up with our first comini stop of the day for Breakfast breakfast time it’s 5:30 and it’s 19° out it’s great it’s pretty nice not long after starting we stopped in h furukawa’s Old Town wow look at the koi fish wow he through Kawa is only 15 minutes away by car from takayama a larger and more popular city that we’ll ride

Through later however this smaller town was very charming and I enjoyed being able to see both despite our early departure we came across many people out on their morning walks and they were all eager to greet us with a good morning unfortunately here we realized that zeb’s crank was loose which was a

Bit of a concern I was mainly worried that we wouldd have to go to a bike shop and wait in town for one to open but luckily he was able to use our multi-tool to tighten the lock ring and get it to stop moving while H Furukawa was very quaint

And Scenic takayama was more Grand wow as we rode along the river we passed through a morning Market which hadn’t officially opened yet but it was already beginning to buzz one negative of traveling by bike is that it limits your purchasing potential but that’s definitely a positive for our wallets

Look at all these bottles all the sakea from takayama we made a slight detour to follow the cagi kaido to gujo cagi is the sound of babbling that a stream makes this road was recommended To Us by someone we met at a cafe in kazawa who lives in gfu prefecture he

Said he enjoys riding his motorcycle on this road so we gave it a try it was a great road that we’d recommend anyone to use after descending into guu hachiman we were able to see the castle in the downtown area guu hachiman’s Castle is a Yamashiro or a mountain castle it added

A good bit of elevation but we rode our bikes up to the castle this was originally built in 1559 by the local feudal Lord but it was destroyed during the Magi period this version was rebuilt in 1933 we didn’t pay to go inside because at this point we felt like we were

Leaving behind puddles of sweat but it was a really cool castle from the outside and there was a great view of the Town [Applause] below interestingly gujo also happens to be the fake food Capital meaning that they make the most amount of of fake food display products that you see

Outside restaurants the town itself is beautiful split by the Yoshida river that feeds directly into the larger nagara River after our Castle visit we stopped at Cafe kokuchi on the Yoshida river which was another recommendation from our friend she said c ice cream yay I’m so happy thank you Zeb and I agreed

That this Cafe had the best french fries we’ve had in all of Japan the ice cream and the coffee were really good too from the cafe we rode to a convenient store to stock up for the final Road section before leaving gujo benefit of living in Japan all the

Convenience stores is you can get coolish which is just Frozen uh yogurt it’s ice cream yeah but if you buy one you can take it and put it the top of your bibs underneath your jersey and you have a nice little ice pack and it feels really nice it’s a

Good tip from Zeb it’s hot today we climbed out of gujo on road 256 to get over to kanyama which is a town in the gero district of Giu once in kayama we swim in the ma River before checking into our guest house it was so refreshing oh my be careful I’ve been waiting all day for this feels so good it’s so cold I couldn’t finish my fries at the cafe so I put them in my

Pocket now I have Riverside fries Peak Co time right now he finally went under it is refreshing yeah it’s just this water is like to me legitimately cool it’s perfect it’s like the perfect summer day temperature it’s on the chilly side of cold it’s not like

Frigid I’m going to need to lay in the sun after this this area has a lot of trout fishing which is cool there’s our little guest house for the night and it’s an isaka so maybe we can eat dinner there but yeah we already changed we’re still going to shower but

We already changed cuz we got in the river so yeah we’re in comfy clothes now kanayama is also home to this unique tourist attraction which our host was pleased to show us saying that the buildings reminded him of how’s Moving Castle there’s a cool Maze of buildings and small alleys and probably not

Something anyone would go out of their way to visit kanayama for but it was a neat place to walk through and see our guest house for the night was located in an isaka or a bar restaurant on the upstairs floor it ended up being extremely convenient since it was a

Rainy night and we could eat in the same building as we were staying it was also quieter than we expected upstairs which was really nice welcome back to our 7-Day summer break bike trip in the last video we rode from kazawa toita and then to kanayama in giu

Prefecture this time we’re going to Saga Juku and finally to matsumuro in Nagano prefecture day three started with another early morning heading out of kanayama after a convini stop for breakfast we’d be going through shirakawa following the Tui river crossing the kiso river and then finally getting to Nagano prefecture via the historic

Nakasendo it’s day three we Road following the h River until we’ve reached shirakawa which is unrelated to the gash zukuri Village of shirakawago we’ll be going there later in the week though the Confluence of the shirakawa and H Rivers is a beautiful little triangle which we stopped to

Admire from shirakawa we followed the river and rode along the t Road through the higashi shirakawa this stretch of road was unexpectedly one of zeb’s favorites from the entire trip from the shawa Confluence to the intersection of 256 and 257 was really nice there are a couple other Road

Options but the river and the tea bushes here provided enjoyable scenery to ride along atsuchi noo is a possibly mythical snake light creature said to be found in this area though evidence of one has yet to be discovered still at the Annual Festival you can join the hunt for one

And receive a reward if you catch one so far no reward money has been distributed yet on the other side of higashi shirakawa we joined up with the sui River and followed it to nakatsugawa which is like a gateway to the most well-preserved part of the nakasendo the nakasendo is

One of the five routes that was used to connect old Edo to Kyoto in the Edo period we only have 8 miles left or so but we have a pretty big climb to get up to the nendo and then at the top there’s like no convenience stores so tonight

Because our Ron doesn’t have dinner either we I have to buy our dinner here and then of course we’re we got a little wild in there with ice cream and some lunch and stuff so we’re just going to camp out by this family mark for a little while we’re on the old mecin

Now really nice views so we just have to finish with a bit of a climb the name means Central Mountain route and there are 69 stations or Postal towns along this route though it was mountainous it was one of the most popular ways between the two cities

Because you didn’t have to Ford any huge Rivers it runs through the modern day prefectures of saama gunma Nagano gifu and Shiga with a total distance of about 534 km the 7 or 8 km section of the nakasendo from mome to tsumago Juku is one of the best preserved and most famous

Sections we rode our bikes up through mome which is a popular walking and shopping street it was really Steep and the signs said no cars motorcycles but they didn’t explicitly say no bikes the cobblestones were tricky to ride up though and we were clattering a little

Bit noisily with all of our gear and snacks shaking around so we tried to ride pretty slowly and stay out of the way of pedestrians as much as we could if you want to hike this section of the trail starting in mome on the street is

Ideal since you can park and walk along the shops before it turns into a trail and descends through the Cypress and Cedar Forest then you can get in a bus in Sago Juku and ride back to your car good yeah steep yay we made it the new paved Road here follows the

Old nakasendo and it’s open to cars and bikes as we rode along it towards tago Juku and the nagu prefecture border felt like we were going back in time a little tago Juku is the 42nd of 69 Old Post towns and it’s in the larger city of nakatsugawa all right

Hello it’s the nakasendo we’ve done it yeah we didn’t bike down this so we biked down the regular road but if you want to you can hike what was the old nakasendo and yeah it’s really cool we’ll go through a bunch of like coastal towns and stuff ze’s taking a bunch of photos

Yeah it was really cool to see the traditional more preserved Trail section of the nakasendo we followed the modern Road into suaga Juku Zeb stopped in an old shop when we got into town to buy two non-alcoholic Asahi with fake beer in our pockets we rode to the town’s parking lot alongside

The ADI River I’ve been thinking about getting in the river all day and Zeb got some Asahi zero some Asahi zeros in the little town up there so we can have some non-alcoholic beer in the river ah it’s going to feel so good we had some time to walk around and

Explore the town before checking into Our Guest House Saga Juku might look like a town Frozen in time but it still lived in today just under a strict preservation agreement in 1968 the locals started restoring historical sites and the homes within the town they restored about 20 by 1971 and then

Agreed to a charter stating that no place in the town could be sold leased or destroyed in 1976 the town earned a designation from the Japanese government as a nationally designated architectural preser a site we had some sober for lunch and later snacked on oaki or Japanese stuffed

Dumplings the dough had more of a steamed Bagel consistency than other dumplings I’ve had and it was really nice yeah hot Walnut flavor maybe it’s like Chestnut these are cutie asazuke or lightly pickled cucumbers on a stick there are some r Treat and these you could grab after leaving behind a 100 yen

Coin we stayed in shimo choia which is a guest house owned and operated by Suzuki son he’s the 14th generation of his family to live in this building he’s been on a little bit of a Hiatus from running the guest house business because he’s been enjoying spending time with

His young son the 15th generation who was born during the co years when business was slow not only was Suzuki s kind but his house was so incredibly beautiful and peaceful that night we enjoyed our very easy and Casual instant Roman dinner that we brought up the mountain with us

And fell asleep pretty soon after this was the day we would finally reach Matsumoto we would leave the nakaso and Ride Along the kiso river valley through akamatsu and kiso before arriving in the city of Matsumoto leaving Tumo Juku at Sunrise was one of my favorite parts of the week

The town was so quiet and peaceful on our way out we continued following the old nakasendo as much as we could much of it’s now a paved road but in many areas it’s still a hiking trail so sometimes we had to go around it following the nakasendo here added quite

A bit of elevation which we could have just gone around but overall even though this part was slow goinging it was fun to see the History We followed the kiso river which is an area that we visited before in my video about cycling up Mount anake we also stopped at the onono Taki Falls T we rode along the Nay River into shio ji which took us out of the mountains and into the flat land where Matsumoto is located

We passed a sign here letting us know that we had reached the halfway point of the nakasendo which was pretty cool so funny as we were riding just ahead of a typhoon Crossing Japan we were rewarded with a pretty strong Tailwind that pushed us along into Matsumoto I’ll talk

In more detail about this city in the next video but Matsumoto is a city in Nagano prefecture at the foot of the Alps it’s also home to one of the 12 original castles left in Japan we rode through it briefly in my cycling the highlands of Japan

Video command it to mimoto and the first stop is laundry we’re eating some lunch outside the laundromat cuz we have about 25 minutes until we have clean clothes and then luckily they have dryers here so we can finally use a dryer again with our clothes dried we pedal

Over to no Street where Our Guest House the aptly named noat guest house was located checkin was a bit late at 400 p.m. but Zeb was nice to hang out by the bikes while I window shopped the guest house is owned and operated by a young couple who also own the cafe

Underneath W out of everywhere we’ve stayed so far this one had the most European youth hostel type feel if you’re traveling alone and you want to make some friends this would probably be a pretty easy place to meet someone to sightsee with while staying in Matsumoto we timed this rest day

Perfectly because it’s raining right now because there’s a typhoon that’s coming through so I need to get an umbrella we got extremely lucky on this day not only had we beat the typhoon to Matsumoto with the worst conditions expected overnight and on our rest day but we

Also arrived in town on the same day as Lake sua’s 75th fireworks festival it was being held that night for the first time since 2019 despite some fatigue from the day’s ride we caught a train down along with many ukat wearing couples the train tickets were

Less than 700 Yen each and the trip took 45 minutes one way I expected a lot of people people but there were even more there than I thought the whole central part of the city was shut down for the festival and there was paid seating along the lake the lines to get food

Were insanely long and many things were sold out with the crowds but this was the most impressive fireworks display we’ve ever seen I would definitely go again but just bring more snacks next time the next day we’d be able to explore matum on a rest day and we were

Looking forward to it stay tuned to see the next part of our 7-Day natu yasami bike trip thanks for watching we’re waking up today in Matsumoto on the fifth day of our summer break bike trip and it’s a rest day we’re taking a break from cycling to enjoy some Matsumoto highlights the name

Matsumoto literally means base of the pine tree or place of the pine it’s a city of almost 250,000 people in Nagano prefecture and often seen as a hot spot for hikers seeking a gateway to the north Alps this Castle was what I was most excited about seeing since it’s one of

Japan’s 12 remaining original castles the black painted wooden keep dates from 1595 and is what gives Matsumoto Castle its nickname karuo or Crow Castle the brooding somber color was designed to S fear in the hearts of any approaching attacker unlike Gojo’s Castle from earlier in the trip Matsumoto is built

On flat land which meant it was a nice relaxed walk from our guest house to its Gates we arrived shortly after they opened and didn’t need to wait in line however by the time we were leaving the sign at the entrance said to expect an hourong wait they Castle itself takes

Around 50 minutes to tour the moon viewing room was probably our favorite having a nice little rest day in Matsumoto we just saw the castle and now we’re walking on one of the wells cuz Matsumoto is known for its water yeah as we walked we got to drink from

Many of matsumoto’s Springs since there are dozens of natural spring water wells throughout the city we got some coffee and headed to the bike shop clamp to pick up a hand pump for any future flat tires the shop was in a cool old converted Kura or Storehouse we spotted some signs of obon

While walking around which is a summer holiday to honor one’s deceased ancestors the Cucumber horse and eggplant cow represent Shoma or Spirit horses to help ancestors go back and forth between this world and the next we finished our walk with some ice cream back on noat Street luckily the

Hardest decision of the day was what flavored to get this one looks really good also this one okay I ended up getting the dried for Simmon the hosi Kaki and Zeb got this really fancy salted honey I don’t remember the name it’s very tasty the next day we were up before the sun

For our Queen stage a queen stage in cycling is what you call the hardest day of a multi-day stage race like the tour to France today we would be going 93 m or 150 km with 10,000 ft of climbing about 3,000 M okay we’re starting day five it’s the biggest day I’ll be

Good as we left the city zeip got a small puncture in his tire but luckily it looked like the tubless fluid was doing its job and starting to seal the hole before too much air escaped to leave Matsumoto we took roads that we had driven before since it’s one

Of the only reliable route to get over the mountains from Nago to gifu there are a lot of tunnels and quite a bit of traffic but overall it’s not too bad if you’re okay riding in traffic originally we had planned to take the norikura skyline which is

Japan’s highest road and it’s close to traffic but open to pedestrians and bikes however from Reading Google reviews recently Zea discovered that it was closed due to a landslide the website states that there’s no plans to reopen in 2023 but maybe in the future it’ll be open again if you’re watching

This in the future let me know in the comments if it reopened this climb is wild I just got howled at by bunch of monkeys the mountain we passed over is called akand danama along Route 158 the neighboring Mount yake is an active volcano and popular hiking destination

In a many areas along the road you can smell the sulfur and see the steam from the hot water there’s a tunnel that cuts under the mountain but unfortunately it’s closed to pedestrians and cyclists so we had to go up and over would be nice just before the tunnel Route 158

Cuts to the right and climbs along a series of over 14 numbered curves all the switchbacks looked pretty intimidating on the map but it was a fairly G climb with an easy grade and at the time a lot of Monkeys kind of scary but very cool wow now we can eat some snacks and go downhill feels great there was a great View at the top when we passed into gifu prefecture after this we would have one more climb before the long descent to Takayama [Applause] this is the second climb of the day it’s a really pretty wooded area and because most cars go through the tunnels there’s not very many cars on this road it’s really nice at the top of the second climb we passed the Nora Skyline on the gifu side

And we could already see Heavy machiner construction workers at the entrance so it’s probably good that we decided to take our detour after descending down towards takayama we rejoined some roads from day one which took us through H 25 mil to go we’re so close from there

We went up route 360 to the ammo pass this stretch of the trip was the only poor weather we encountered along the whole week it was pouring rain for our final 280 ft climb but that was kind of a blessing in disguise since otherwise we would have been in direct sun during

The hottest part of the day I think this is the top wow Maybe on a sunny day in the future we can see the view from here we’ve ridden to Sher kago before on previous trips but this was our first time coming up and over from this side on Route 360 even though it was the middle of August by the time we reached the guest

House we were really excited about a hot shower we made it we stayed at the same guest house as last year and luckily the owner let us check in early and get dry after showering we enjoyed the guest House’s Pantry where all the snacks were only 150 Yen while flipping through this

Book featuring cafes I actually found the one that we visited on the first day of our trip better time there aren’t too many restaurants open in shakago after 300 p.m. but we decided on a local Yakiniku place to try this Region’s famous heab beef we both found it to be worth the

Price even though we’re not big meat eaters usually the final day was thankfully a pretty straightforward one here we go so it’s 6:00 a.m. now so we slept in for an extra hour our route followed a lot of what we R before but we cut out the more

Adventurous bits to get home more quickly first we started our morning with an early lap around the historic sect section of Shero Village if you live in sheriko you must have to get up early because it was probably only 6:30 in the morning when the town speakers kicked to life and

Started blaring good morning messages they started playing rajio tyo or radio exercises which are warm-up calisthenics that started in the 1920s and they’re sometimes still played in the mornings at school PE classes workplaces and apparently in rural towns so that’s what you’ll hear now All warmed up we were ready to get out of town and officially start our final day of riding we took Road 156 which parallels the toai hokiku expressway and goes through a couple tunnels as we follow the show River Valley we pass through sugan Numa and inura villages in goyama

Which are similar to shirakawago with their gash zukuri buildings on our previous ride we didn’t go through these two places so it was nice to have some new scenery Wow C Wow so cute climbing back into Toyama unfortunately this time of year also comes with swarms of biting flies which were much less pleasant but kept us from staying too long in one place we just have one more climb left to yaku onen and it feels really good to be back so close to

Home we climbed over the Tory Dam before descending down into kazawa and passing through yaku lansen we’re going to shake Kawa from there everything was pretty familiar and we joined the Asawa bike path to take us home along the river this was my biggest week of biking and

It was such a confidence boost to finish a trip that intimidated me I have a lot of really nice memories from this bike trip thanks for Watching