🇯🇵 Sakata & Akita, Japan (2026)

Long train ride, calm, no tourists.

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When we left on our tour at Sakata this morning, there wasn't any mountain. As we get close to our sail away, however, we just noticed the massive volcano, Mount Chōkai, off to the north. 😮Impressive. #cruise #japan #sakata #yamagata 🇯🇵🗻
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Leaving Sakata, we make our first substantial departure from the coast, heading inland to eventually make our way to Kakunodate. With beautiful weather, the ride up the river valley was very pleasant, until it wasn't...

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Day 13 - Sakata to Mamurogawa

I know the whole breaking the bike down so it fits into a rinko bag and dragging it and your panniers onto a train is a PITA.  But trust me, if you are intending on riding this route, catching the train from Kiyokawa to Furukuchi…

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A two night stay in Sakata gave us a day to explore this little city. Quite strange to see very familiar supermarket brands in a thoroughly unfamiliar environment.

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Sakata

For Australians of a certain age, the word Sakata immediately brings to mind a particularly bad TV advertising jingle for rice crackers.  When it became clear we'd not only be passing through a town called Sakata but staying a night or two, I joked to…

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Twelve days of riding and the first 'puddles in your shoes' type rain we've had. Not bad given the Japan Sea Coast is renowned for its precipitation.

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Day 12 - Atsumi Onsen to Sakata

The running joke is that I'm made out of icing sugar, because I don't like to ride in the rain.  While we've had a few rainy days before now, they haven't been heavy rain where your socks are saturated and squelchy and the touchscreen devices…

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🔔#Earthquake (#地震) M4.1 strikes 16 km NE of #Sakata (#Japan) 9 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1670502
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