{"id":16732,"date":"2017-04-23T23:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2017-04-23T23:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:51:16","slug":"cycling-japan-chino-to-takasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=16732","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Japan &#8211; Chino to Takasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[sgpx gpx=&#8221;\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpx\/Track_2017-04-23 184407.gpx&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Strava route <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/954182051\">details and here<\/a> the pictures I t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sc\/s8easiwgdcdan81\/AADVMdjYVHEBQLksRhAv8qSCa\">ook are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weather: Sunny all day but only 6 degrees at the top<\/p>\n<p>Hotel: Toyoko Inn 1 in Takasaki<\/p>\n<p>Great ride up to over 7000 feet, amazing to see really deep snow at the side of the road. The most stunning descent ever\u00a0down Meganebashi Valley, 1400 feet drop in 6.6 miles down the very twisty road.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16733\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chino_to_Takasaki___Ride___Strava.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16733\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chino_to_Takasaki___Ride___Strava-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"Meganebashi Valley descent\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chino_to_Takasaki___Ride___Strava-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chino_to_Takasaki___Ride___Strava-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Chino_to_Takasaki___Ride___Strava.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meganebashi Valley descent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16734\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16734\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-024-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Geoff Jones with bike and snow drift\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-024-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-024-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2017-04-024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roadside snow higher than the bike!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[sgpx gpx=&#8221;\/wp-content\/uploads\/gpx\/Track_2017-04-23 184407.gpx&#8221;] Strava route details and here the pictures I took are here Weather: Sunny all day but only 6 degrees at the top Hotel: Toyoko Inn 1 in Takasaki Great ride up to over 7000 feet, amazing to see really deep snow at the side of the road. The most stunning descent ever\u00a0down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}