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Next Stop - Suwa, Japan

We’d hoped to get to the mountains, escape the heat, and visit the Fujimi Panorama Resort Mountain Bike Park in the Japanese alps, a few hours from Tokyo. We struggled to find a place to stay near the resort, so we booked a room at Comfort Inn in Lake Suwa. What we didn’t realize was that it’d take 2 hours by bus and train to get to the bike park and 2 hours to return to our hotel. We’d be traveling as long as we’d be biking for about $400 for rentals and lift tickets for the 3 of us, so we decided to see the sights of Lake Suwa instead.


We booked a swan pedal boat, and Patch & I pedaled while Mia steered. It was some of the toughest pedaling I’ve had to do -- and I raced road bikes. After 30 minutes of boat time, we rented typical Japanese "mamachari" (mommy's bike) 3-speed bikes and rode the 16km around the lake, stopping to visit a park, cool off in a small water park, and check out the dam and fish ladder. Then we hopped onto the local bus just as it started to downpour. Perfect timing.


More pics here.

Riding along Lake Suwa.

 
 
 

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