Planning - best web pages for routes

Here some notes on those web pages I have found most helpful for tour planning. See also this blog post about cycling roads.

Worldwide:

• Open cycle map: 
• https://www.opencyclemap.org/
• This map shows (some) of the local cycle lanes. Specially now that the cycle lanes from the ministry of transport web page have been deleted this could be a good tool
• Komoot: 
• https://www.komoot.com/discover
• Route planning tool

Japan everywhere: 

• Proposed cycling courses, ordered by things such as "mountain", "along rivers"... Possibility to select based on map. Except Saitama (and maybe a few other places) the bicycle roads are the same as from the MLIT (see below)
• http://www.cycling-tomorrow.jp/road_course/#tab_3_pt 日本語
• Cycling the length of Japan, but often through the mountains, with elevation maps, but not very detailed tour descriptions
• http://japancycling.org/v2/cguide/
• Cycling paths from the ministry. Quite badly made web page, which also does not seem to be maintained since many many years, but it is still the only place I could find the 135 official bicycle lanes in Japan. 
• http://www.mlit.go.jp/road/road/bicycle/road/index.html (does not work anymore)
• https://www.mlit.go.jp/road/bicycleuse/good-cycle-japan/national_cycle_route/english.html (now this exists... but has WAY less cycling lanes than the original web page from the minstry had)
• Kancycling, this web page has good ideas for tours, but no detailed maps.
• http://www.kancycling.com/KANcycling/Destinations.html
• Panasonic, list of proposed cycle courses in Japan, that can be selected from a map. Also if you register maps can be downloaded.
• http://cycle-guide.panasonic.jp/special/yamahon/index01.do 日本語
• Strava, list with over 100 routes in Japan filterable by profile, area and elevation gain
• https://www.routes-of-japan.com/　日本語
• Japan Eco Track, web page with routes all over Japan
• https://www.japanecotrack.net/
• Tabi Rin, nearly 900 courses. Filterable by area, distance, difficulty... English version seems to have only very few routes
• https://tabi-rin.com/ 日本語
• Here some others, I listed elsewhere
• https://bicycletraveljapan.blogspot.com/2017/06/bicycle-routes.html
• https://bicycletraveljapan.blogspot.com/2017/06/bicycle-roads-in-japan.html

Long distant routes:

• Pacific cycling road from Chiba to Osaka https://www.kkr.mlit.go.jp/road/pcr/index.html

Hokkaido: 

• 11 different routes through Hokkaido: http://www.14degrees.org/hokkaido-cycle-touring-routes/
• Tokapuchi 400 (400 km): https://www.mlit.go.jp/road/bicycleuse/good-cycle-japan/national_cycle_route/tokapuchi_en.html
• Around Bibai: https://www.city.bibai.hokkaido.jp/uploaded/attachment/2254.pdf

Aomori:

• https://aomori-cycling.com/

Ibaraki

• https://ringringroad.com/cyclingibaraki/rideplan_cat/ringringroad/
• https://itako-cycling.com/course/

Nagano

• https://japanalpscycling.jp/nagaichi

Shizuoka

• Several routes in Shizuoka prefecture: https://shizuoka-guide.com/english/cycling/#tmp_area_cours_03
• Around Gotemba: https://spotogotemba.com/gotembacyclingcourseguide/

Toyama

• https://cycling-toyama.jp/en/course/

Kansai:

• Biwako and around: https://en.biwako1.jp/map/
• Cycling in and around Kyoto: http://www.cyclekyoto.com/
• Tea themed routes: https://www.pref.kyoto.jp/kyotoyamashiro/cyMap-index.html
• Hyogo long cycling routes: https://web.pref.hyogo.lg.jp/ks11/hyogo_cycling_model_routes.html
• Other lists I found: https://bicycletraveljapan.blogspot.com/2019/11/cycling-routes-in-kansai-region.html
• Okayama: https://www.okayama-kanko.jp/hareiro-cycling/
• Maps around Osaka https://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/daitoshimachi/kouiki_cycleroute/ (very hard to read)
• Nara: https://www3.pref.nara.jp/cycling/module/1032.htm#moduleid1032
• At an onsen in Osaka, I picked up a map of suggested cycling trips around the Northern part of Osaka and it contained also links to several other maps. So sharing here:
  

• Osaka North  http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/daitoshimachi/kouiki_cycleroute/cycle2019.html
• Osaka South http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/daitoshimachi/kouiki_cycleroute/2018_cycle_jikken.html
• Nara -Kyoto http://nara-cycling.com/map/nara-kyoto/
• Kyoto tea fields https://www.pref.kyoto.jp/kyotoyamashiro/cyMap-index.html
• Nara - Wakayama http://nara-cycling.com/map/nara-wakayama/
• Nara http://nara-cycling.com/map/narakuru/
• Wakayama  https://www.pref.wakayama.lg.jp/prefg/020200/cyclingmap.html
• Hyogo https://web.pref.hyogo.lg.jp/hnk09/cyclemap.html
• Biwako (Lake Biwa)https://www.biwako-visitors.jp/guide/detail/179?categories=1
• Senshu http://welcome-to-senshu.jp/cyclingmap/
• Aigawa http://www.aigawa.jp/茨木市サイクリングマップ「go-cycling-to-aigawa」を制作しま/
• Kawachinagano https://www.city.kawachinagano.lg.jp/soshiki/16/25969.html
  
  

Fukui

• Five lakes on the coast Gokoichi https://www.pref.fukui.lg.jp/doc/sokou/bicycle/map_d/fil/gokoichi_cycling_1.pdf

Shimane

• https://www.kankou-shimane.com/cycling/cyclingroute/

Shikoku

• Ehime: https://ehime-cycling.jp/course/

Hiroshima

• https://dive-hiroshima.com/feature/cycling/

Yamaguchi

• http://cycleken-yamaguchi.com/support/cycle-root/

Kagoshima

• https://www.kagoshima-kankou.com/for/highlights/cycle-tourism
• Kagoichi: https://www.japanecotrack.net/activity/137

Practical information

• List of bikeshops etc: http://www.cycling-tomorrow.jp/ 日本語