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Narrow Road to the Interior - Stage 1 "Rain"
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Aug. 11, 2005 Shirakawa -- Sukagawa -- Fukushima (126.48 km)

Shirakawa

Good morning, Rascal! (AM 6:25)

Along Route 4(AM 6:25)

Kage-numa

Kage-numa(AM 8:42)

Otojigataki Fall

from Otojigataki Fall, "Michinoku Cycling Road" bigins. (AM 9:32)

Otojigataki Fall (AM 9:39)

Basho and Sora
They are same stature
as in Kagenuma.

Haiku(verse) at Otojigataki Fall

Sora (Webmaster)

Michinoku Cycling Road ends because of construction. The sign says, "bicycle can't go any more".

Sukagawa

Sukagawa

from "Narrow Road to the Interior"

Basho Museum in Sukagawa (AM 11:33)

What are these?!!!!
Why is ULTRAMAN here?

Sukagawa is famous by Basho, but also is a birth place of 2 big Tsuburaya.
One is Kokichi Tsuburaya(marathon runner),
and another is Eiji Tsubuyara(father of ULTRAMAN and GODZILLA).

There was a birth house of Eiji Tsubuyara at this point.
The monument stands very quietly.
(AM 11:59)

Eiji Tsubuyara and ULTRASEVEN
Good! I like ULTRASEVEN better.

map of Haiku(verse) posts in Sukagawa

Junenji Temple

Haiku(verse) at Junenji Temple

Sora (Webmaster)

Kuri no Hana

from "Narrow Road to the Interior"

Way to Koriyama (PM 1:01)

Koriyama

Koriyama (PM 1:30)

lunch at Sanmatsu-Kaikan
(around PM 2:00)

Asakayama

Asakayama

from "Narrow Road to the Interior"

Haiku(verse) at Asakayama

Sora (Webmaster)

listening FM radio (PM 4:10)

Nihonmatsu

Nihonmatsu is famous as old battlefield.
(PM 5:02)

Kurozuka is very close to Nihonmatsu(PM 5:25)

hurry to Fukushima

along Pref. Road 114 (PM 6:52)

That is the light of Fukushima. (PM 6:52)

Fukushima

reach Fukushima (PM 7:24)

Today's dinner at Izakaya "Dotonbori"

drink at bar "Bon"

Today's inn: Hotel Sunroute Fukushima

**DATA on Aug. 11, 2005**
Weather	cloudy
Route (prefecture)	Shirakawa (Fukushima) -- (Route 4) -- Kage Numa [Yabuki] (Fukushima) -- (Route 4) -- Kagamiishi (Fukushima) -- (???????) -- Otojigataki Fall (Fukushima) -- (Michinoku Cycling Road) -- Kosakuda (Fukushima) -- (Pref. Road 138) -- Sukagawa (Fukushima) -- (Pref. Road 355) -- Koriyama (Fukushima) -- (Pref. Road 355) -- Asakayama (Fukushima) -- (Pref. Road 355) -- Nihonmatsu, Kurozuka (Fukushima) -- (Pref. Road 114, Route 4) -- Fukushima (Fukushima)
Distance	126.48 km
Time	8 hours 04 minutes 17 seconds
Average speed	15.6 km/h
Max. speed	41.9 km/h
Difference of altitude	315 m
Note	All roads repeat small up and down
Accommodation [charge]	Hotel Sunroute Fukushima (Business Hotel) [6,898 yen with breakfast]
Diary	There was a sign " to Fukushima: 75km" just after Shirakawa in Route 4. I felt it was easy to get to Fukushima, from the begining I felt my legs heavy. It was a gentle up road. f^_^; I met cyclist first in this touring. He said he would go to Fukushima, but I never meet him after that because I was not on Route 4 almost all the times. I wonder if he reached Fukushima. At Sukagawa I met "Ultra-Seven", At Koriyama I watched high school baseball on TV, and listening FM radio I went up to the north. Roads are repeated up and down gently. at PM 7:00 I reached Fukushima. It doesn't rain today. Good.

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