Back from Chiba by Bike

I'm back from a more-amazing-than-expected (and more urban than any previous trip) four day trip in Chiba/Miura/Yokohama area. The path was not exactly what we planned, so I post the actual route. This time it is more accurate than any other bike tour route I have posted. I am using this jogging route simulator (all in Japanese) to trace my route on Google Maps, get the total distance, and then I import it into Google Earth. maybe I was just using Google Earth wrong, but this is much more easy than trying to trace the exact path in Google earth, and I never figured out how to get the distance calculations in Google Earth either.

Anyway, here is a Google Earth kmz file for anyone thinking of taking a bike trip in Chiba (round trip from Tokyo). This is a good route, although if I were to do it again (and with more time) I would have changed some things about it.

I want to make a commentary about all the details, but Tomoe and I have to catch a bus to Nagano tomorrow morning where I have a job interview related to outdoor/environmental education, and we will spend the rest of the four days looking at old, traditional Japanese style houses which tend to go for as little as 5,000 yen/month ($50) in the mountains. One house we have our eye on has no indoor toilet (awesome!!!) and will only be an hour or so commute by bike and train over some beautiful mountain roads.