Gogyo River + Kokai River - Shimodate Stn. to Mitsuna Stn.
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 15.54 nm
- Elevation gain
- 20 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 30 ft
- Max elevation
- 88 ft
- TrailRank
- 59
- Min elevation
- 68 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 4 hours 20 minutes
- Time
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4812
- Uploaded
- September 28, 2022
- Recorded
- September 2022
near Shimodate, Ibaraki (Japan)
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Itinerary description
Apart from all the garbage in the trees of the river banks beautiful rivers for kayaking; not 100% natural but lots of nature to experience; you can watch many birds and even countless turtles at the river banks if you’re attentive; the Gogyo River and upper Kokai River are quite fast with some short class 1 rapids, only at one spot there is a class 2 rapid where you should be very careful; the rest is easy to paddle; to get to the starting point walk approx. 1.5 km from Shimodate Stn. where you can find a perfect place to assemble your boat an get in; the exit is about 200 m before passing the highway bridge, from there, you have to walk approx. 2.7 km to Mitsuna Stn.
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Risk
62 ft
Class 2 rapid!
This photo is taken after passing the rapid; if the water level is about the same like today keep left when passing and you’re fine (don’t pass on the right side!); during low water level I assume it’s better to walk your boat through the middle
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43 ft
Garbage in all trees of the river bank…
It’s a shame that even in the country side there is garbage everywhere and Japanese are so proud of caring about their environment, keeping the country clean - to my experience they don’t at all.
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