Inline Skating Notebook

The K2K 130km skate from Kiryu to Kasai was held Oct. 29th. The route of K2K passes through 6 prefectures, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba, Saitama and Tokyo along 3 rivers, Watarase river, Tone river, Edo river. It is not race but also be outlaw skate without support.

Four participants, Fujii and Luis and Noro and I, met at Tokyo early morning and took on the train for 1 hour and 45 minutes to get the starting point Kiryu. There were not rain but a pavement was wetted yet by night rain.

We started to skate from SakuraNishiki Bridge just 9:00am to get the finish point Kasai before sunset. Left to Right: Participants of the K2K 2006, Noro and Luis and Fujii.
take to the 7:00am Ryomo No.1 trin to Kiryu	passing through Ashikaga City
skate for Fujioka along Watarase river	on the trail around Watarase Lake
Unfortunately, Luis from New York retired at Koga City
took half hour break at Sekiyado on the midway	the festival was held in Sekiyado at same day
Sekiyado Festival with Daimyo's procession as Edo-era style
at 90km point between Kawama and Misato.	to move to the other levee at Misato
the shadow of 3 skaters on the ground	It is already a sunset soon.
We have done it before sunset. Finish time was 16:42.

Photo Album by Noro : 2006 K2K 130km
Tokyo Inline Skating Guide: The K2K 130km 2004

The Popular Trails for Inline Skaters in Tokyo Area

The Route Map of the K2K 130km
0 - 50km from Kiryu to Koga	50 - 100km from Koga to Misato
100 - 130km from Misato to Kasai	How to use the route maps

The other K2K-130km, leave Kiryu at 5:30am, will take place Nov. 4th 2006. You need to stay at Kiryu the day before the K2K. Meet at the Family Mart Store 5:30am near Kiryu JR station. It takes about 10 hours and some to get Kasai. The route is almost same but the speed is not fast.
Photo Alubum of the K2K 130km Nov. 4th (Yahoo!) by Noro Photo Alubum of the K2K 130km Nov. 4th by Dai-chan