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22 Mar 2008 (green)

Original plan was to head South through Hachimantai, Towada-ko, Tazawa-ko, but I met a biker that told me that the roads are still closed for the winter. So I decided to head down the Pacific coast instead. I was under the impression that the Pacific coast is not very interesting, but that's not true at all! I hit the coast around Misawa, then headed South on R45.

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By evening, it was getting quite cold, so I started looking for a hotel. Drove for ages, heading inland on R45, almost as far as Ishinomaki, but no luck. Finally, shivering uncontrollably, I saw a sign for a love hotel in the middle of nowhere. Yes! :drinking:


23 Mar 2008 (magenta)

I really wanted to see the rest of the coast, so I backtracked up R45. It was worth it. Beautiful roads and scenery.
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Along the way, purely by accident, I bumped into something pretty neat. A memorial for the last Canadian killed in WWII.
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This overlooks Onagawa Bay, where he died.
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A bit further down the coast, I bumped into a fantastic skyline road, R220, on a peninsula that I can't pronounce. It's just a bit East of Matsushima.
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This road is great! I suspect that this is heaven for riders from the Sendai area. It runs for maybe 20km, full of twisties, no cars, just a bunch of maniacs on bikes.
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A bit further along, I bumped into this ship. Not sure what the story is, but it's called the San Juan Bautista.
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The next peninsula, Miyato Hanto, is quite nice too. Right above Matsushima.
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Next was Matsushima itself, which is one of the 3 most famous tourist sites in Japan.
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That's about it. It was time to go home, so wound my way along local roads, got on the Tohoku Hwy. at Izumi and blasted home.

The weather was great, with highs of 13C. Fantastic roads, met some nice people. All in all, a pretty decent first tour of the season.


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