Amakko RinRin Road is bicycle road for bigginners, which through Teramachi from along the canal. It can find the approximately 10km course on TABIRIN. This time, we introduce you on a roundtrip course of about 16km in the opposite direction starting from Hanshin-Amagasaki Station.
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1. From Hanshin-Amagasaki Station to Mukogawa
With Hanshin Amagasaki Station as the starting point, the Mukogawa River can be seen by running the National Route 2 to the west by about 4km.
There is a wide sidewalk along this national road, so even beginners can ride safely. There are a lot of people in front of supermarkets etc. along the way, so you should ride slowly.
2.Mukogawa Cycling Road
Muko Ohashi Bridge on National Route 2 was completed in 1927 and is a beautiful bridge with balconies in the central. It has also been chosen as one of Japan’s 100 best bridges.
From here, you will ride about 3km along the Mukogawa Cycling Road toward the mouth of the river. On windless day, it’s very comfortable a gentle downhill! There are benches and other things on the side of the course, so you can rest.
3.Amagasaki Sports Forest to Ama Lock
Go eastward from Mukogawa Cycling Road around Hanshin Higashi-Naruo Station.
You go south along the canal about 2km from Higashi-Naruo Station, you will arrive the “Amagasaki Sports Forest.” It’s a cycling road along the canal, so you can rest assured here too.
In front of the park, there is also a ferry yard and a good atmosphere!
Approximately 1km from here, ride westward on a broad sidewalk beside a wide road and enter a park along the canal from the Amagasaki Technoland-mae bus stop.
If you run about 500 meters along the canal from here, you will arrive “Ama Lock”, it is formally called “Amagasaki Lock Gate”. They say it is one of the largest locks in Japan for the Panama Canal system, where the water level is adjusted with two doors.
4.About 3.5km canal-side cycling road
Looking at the beautiful canal, we will return to the bus stop direction in front of Amagasaki Techno Land.
We took pictures on the bench along the way!
From here, it will be a course stuffed with wooden boards.
Running with a feeling of comfortable wood sound, the ship you saw from the opposite shore is just around the corner.
A little north, the Kitabori-deai-bashi Bridge is located where the canal crosses the T-shaped path. The Kitahori-deai-bashi Bridge is cable-stayed bridge spanning the Kitahori Canal, branching in three directions to surround a jungle gym-like building.
If you cross the bridge north and turn right, the orange course will appear, and there is also a southern resort-like atmosphere. The fence has a “cherry blossom” pattern, so I’m sure cherry blossoms will bloom in spring.
If you turn left along the canal and go north, you will see National Route 43.
You can cross underground roads on National Route. After you leave the underground road, go a little further and pass through the elevated Hanshin Train. Turn right and head for Deyashiki Station.
5.From Kifune-jinja Shrine to Teramachi
If you go east about 200 meters from Deyashiki, you will get “Kifune jinja Shrine.”
From here, I run around the temple town leisurely.
In the initial Edo period, we counted 20 temples, and even now there are 11. There were many cultural properties in prefectures and cities, including seven important national cultural properties, and landscape conservation and improvement were promoted by the Amagasaki City Beauty Formation Ordinance.
6.From the former Kaimei Jinjo Elementary School to Amagasaki-jo Castle
Passing through Teramachi, there is the former Kaimei Jinjo Elementary School.
It is now used as the Kaimei Government Building in Amagasaki City. There is a park in front of the government building, and you can also take nostalgic photos like this.
Amagasaki-jo Castle with a goal of about 400 meters from the government building.
There is also a post like this.
7.Summary
About 8.5km, more than half of the 16km, is a cycling road, and about 30% is a wide sidewalk. More than 80% can drive without worrying about cars. 16 km is the distance you can drive quickly if you drive on a road bike, but it’s a pleasant location like a river or a canal, so I recommend you to run at less than 10km!
