Karuizawa to Myoge Arafune Forest Road by e-Bike: Unexplored course recommended for intermediate and advanced riders.

Model Course

This is a course for intermediate-level riders that passes through the suburbs and climbs up the Myogei Arafune Forest Road with a height difference of approximately 200 meters. Along the way, you can ride your bicycle while feeling the sunlight filtering through the trees and the fresh scent of the forest and the breeze. If you are lucky, you may see rabbits, deer, and squirrels!
If you use an e-Bike (electric bicycle), you will be able to use the assist function! You can climb up the mountain easily.
At the goal, you can enjoy eating Genghis Khan and soft ice cream at Arafune Panorama Camping Field (Uchiyama Farm), and enjoy both gourmet food and cycling.
(Myogei Arafune Forest Road can be ridden from April to November *Closed during winter due to snow)

Karuizawa Station
Happu Pond to the villa area
Asama View Spot
Dashing through the forest
Kozu Farm
Arafune Panorama Camping Field (Uchiyama Farm) Genghis Khan
Karuizawa Station

SPOT 1

Karuizawa Station

START

It is a stop on the JR East (Hokuriku Shinkansen) and Shinano Railway lines. The Shinano Railway is a symbol of the area, which was once the main artery of transportation, formerly the Shinetsu Main Line.
Click here for the course map

8.5km

SPOT 2

Happu Pond to the villa area

South area of Karuizawa. Passing by golf courses and quiet villa areas, you will reach Myogei Arafune Forest Road.

13.6km

SPOT 3

Asama View Spot

The special view only here is impressive. A special and spectacular view point from which you can see all the way to the foot of Mount Asama.

15.0 km

SPOT 4

Dashing through the forest

You can experience the colorful seasons of spring with its fresh greenery, summer with its lush green, and autumn with its autumn leaves. I want to take a deep breath.

21.2km

SPOT 5

Kozu Farm

The oldest Western-style ranch in Japan, established in 1887 at an elevation of 1,000 meters, is home to about 150 Jersey cows, which you have a chance to see up close during grazing hours.

23.4km

SPOT 6

Arafune Panorama Camping Field (Uchiyama Farm) Genghis Khan

The goal is a camp field in the sky on a plateau at an altitude of 1,200 meters. The Jingisukan set meal eaten in the great outdoors is so delicious, both the meat and the air, that it will blow away any fatigue you may have had up to this point. Please try it. (Yakiniku set menus are also available.)
*Open every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays, 11:00-15:30 (last order 15:00).

Approx. 23 km

SPOT 7