Ikurahama Natural Park Parking Lot
伊倉浜自然公園駐車場

Woke up after a good night’s sleep at the campsite.

All was fine. With the camping situation.

We took our tents down fairly earlier they were pretty wet which is/was annoying.

Moved our bikes around to the view point, hot vending machine coffee and bread and peanut cream banana for breakfast. The person who gave us Kimchi was back and I worked out that they work at the service station type place. They kindly gave us some Onigiri (might technically be called something else).

Started cycling around 8 ISH as we had a long day out longest one.

There were about 7 tunnels which are great as it knocks the tops of the hills!

Roads were a mixture of nice mountain roads running through the mountains to horrible roads running through urban areas. The number of traffic lights really takes it toil and the stop start is horrible there seem to be a lot of traffic lights.

There were three shop stops today, first supermarket for lunch regular super market okay stuff, man outside sharpening knives and other tools. He had three angle grinders. We had lunch on a bench outside. 

Second shop was the convenience store that had nothing in that we wanted. So we spend a while walking around and then left. Then we did something that we don’t do often and go off the route. This was a 2.4km out of the way trip to a supermarket. This was much better than the earlier shop but ended up buying too much food.

The cycled for a few more kilometres and made it to another place that said it was a campsite but really it isn’t.

It is like some surf school/ municipal building that has toilet cold water showers and loads of taps.

There were quite a few people here when we arrived having a sort of BBQ on a terrace area, with a good view of the sea. The all packed away pretty early.

There is another cycle tourer here he has camped in a slightly different location to us. There are a couple of people sitting near a vending machine and a car has arrived as well. However it is all very quiet. Dinner was tofu noodle some vegetables and some sauce thing. It was alright. Cup of decaf earl gray, Peepshow with a sea view and bed.

Not sure if I mentioned yesterday that we saw 5 other cycle tourists.

The was one we went past in a tunnel just a nod no chat. A tunnel isn’t a great place to talk. Then we met 4 people who were cycling the length of Japan. They had just finished the ski season out here and where cycling back to there house in the north. They didn’t seem to carry anything. They were finding the same thing with campsites being closed but open.

Forgot to say cycling yesterday there were a lot of surf shops, so many car dealers and a lot of other shops.

I meant to write something else here this morning forgotten now. Maybe there are a few boats out at Sea. A few navigational lights.

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