Chatan to Cape Zanpa and back for sunset
half dayRoad riders or e-bike riders staying in Chatan who want a coast ride on the seawall and village lanes, with a fish lunch and the seawall again at sunset.
This Chatan half day rides 45.8 km out and back from American Village to Cape Zanpa on the seawall and the Kadena and Yomitan lanes, with lunch at Toya Fishing Port, and returns in time for sunset on the seawall and dinner at Chatan Harbor Brewery.
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Hour by hour
The day一日
- 08:00coffeeCoffee at Zhyvago Coffee Works on the Depot Island seafront
- 08:30rideRide north along the Sunabe seawall and through KadenaThe out-and-back is 45.8 km by our route data, with the north wind in your face on the way out in winter.
- 09:45sightToguchi BeachThe shore where US forces landed on 1 April 1945.
- 10:30sightCape Zanpa lighthouseWalk the rocky stretch from the car park.
- 11:30lunchSeafood bowls at Toya Fishing PortOn the way home.
- 13:30restBack in Mihama for the afternoon
- 17:30sightSunset on the American Village seawallFireworks go up over the water on Saturdays at 20:00.
- 19:00dinnerDinner at Chatan Harbor BreweryOpen from 17:00 for its own Chatan Beer.
The Hilton sits on the seawall at Mihama, so you ride out of the door onto the promenade. Leave by 8:30 to have the lanes through Kadena and Yomitan before the traffic builds, and you reach Cape Zanpa by mid-morning with the hard, wind-facing half done.
Lunch at Toya Fishing Port comes on the way back, and the afternoon is free for the pool or the beach. Be back on the seawall by 17:30 for the sunset over the East China Sea.
Photo Asacyan · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 and others, credited in the gallery
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