October 15, 2007
Days 7 and 8: Kusatsu to Obuse: Down from the mountains
From Kusatsu, we continued through the mountains for another day before dropping down to Obuse, a small town on the Chikuma River, a bit north of the major urbanized region around Nagano. Obuse is a quiet place, and advertised as a bit of an artists conclave. We stayed herefor a couple of nights, resting up from the hills and enjoying its relaxing, quiet atmosphere.
Its major tourist highlight is the Hokusai museum - Hokusai , Japan's best known artist and the creator of The Great Wave, lived the final years of his life in Obuse - but a major second attraction for us was, of all things, an Italian restaurant. We took full advantage of this option to vary our diet, eating two dinners and a morning brunch before leaving town.
Obuse served as a good rest stop, but with more foresight we would have given up the night here to spend as a second night in Kusatsu instead.
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Today's ride: 43 miles (69 km)
Total: 292 miles (470 km)
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