The Shiminami Kaido is what made me love biking again. 70km of fishing villages with orange stalls, huge factories and vending machines. And the constant shift between endless water and mountain valleys.
You can ride a bicycle
across six Japanese islands.
43 miles of ocean below you.
Six giant suspension bridges
built specifically for cyclists.
You start in Hiroshima.
You finish in Ehime.
Along the way:
sleepy fishing villages,
lemon farms,
soft-serve ice cream stands at every port,
the sea breeze in every direction.
Not a race.
Not a tour.
Just you, a bike,
and an entire chain of islands
the country built a road over
so anyone could see them.
It might be the best ride on Earth.