{"id":413871,"date":"2026-01-15T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:46:25","slug":"shimanami-kaido-cycling-guide-japans-scenic-island-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413871\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimanami Kaido cycling guide: Japan&#8217;s scenic island route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On your next trip to Japan, skip the country\u2019s overly crowded Golden Route of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Instead, go on the Shimanami Kaido, roughly translated as the &#8220;Island Wave Sea Route&#8221; or &#8220;Island Viewing Sea Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At 70km long, the\u00a0Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway \u2013 or more affectionately known as the\u00a0Shimanami Kaido \u2013 connects Japan&#8217;s main island of Honshu, starting in Onomichi City in Hiroshima Prefecture, to the island of Shikoku, ending in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The route crosses the Seto Inland Sea, linking six islands, namely Mukaishima, Innoshima, Ikuchijima, Omishima, Hakatajima, and Oshima, offering panoramic views of the sea and the islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On your next trip to Japan, skip the country\u2019s overly crowded Golden Route of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,941,218763,218764,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-413871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-luxury-destinations","13":"tag-places-attractions","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}