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A closure has been announced

埼玉県 森林管理道(林道)の通行制限情報(秩父農林振興センター管内) as of 2026-07-24, states the following about this forest road: “一部区間通行止め(some sections closed)”.

Section土坂峠~矢久峠
Reason路肩崩落、法面崩落のため(shoulder and slope failure)
Until当面の間(until further notice)

Source: 埼玉県 森林管理道(林道)の通行制限情報(秩父農林振興センター管内) (as of 2026-07-24) / We have not verified this ourselves. We quote the published wording as it stands.

Where this forest road is

林道西秩父線
Nearby forest roads (select one to open its page)
Both ends

Map: GSI Tiles (GSI Japan) / Forest road data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) / Municipality and elevation: GSI Japan (elevation calculated by us)

Data

Municipality埼玉県小鹿野町
The other end is in 秩父市. The road crosses a municipal boundary.
Nearby place name: 河原沢
Length22.18 km
Calculated by joining the OpenStreetMap line segments.
Elevation616m–949m
Lowest and highest points (difference 333m). Sampled every 50 m.
Coordinates of both ends 36.06176, 138.86010 GSI Maps / Google Maps
36.09503, 138.94687 GSI Maps / Google Maps
8.63 km apart in a straight line. This road is recorded as 4 separate line segments, so there is no way to say which end is the start
Surfacepaved
This is the value recorded in OpenStreetMap. It may differ from what you find on site.
Road classificationunclassified (OpenStreetMap classification)
OpenStreetMapway/127614833 way/127616240 way/127616388 way/1419144084

Places to stay a little further out (within 10 km)

NameStraight-line distanceMap
かおる鉱泉Rakuten Travel4.5kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
みどりの村ログハウスキャンプ場 ^Rakuten Travel6.6kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
山あいの宿 「やしき」Rakuten Travel6.6kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
秩父温泉郷 囲炉裏の宿 小鹿荘Rakuten Travel6.7kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
冬桜の宿 神泉Rakuten Travel7.2kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
城峯公園キャンプ場Rakuten Travel7.6kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
【閉鎖】遊び宿KAKA長瀞 ^Rakuten Travel7.7kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
ビッグログハウス/民泊Rakuten Travel9.0kmGSI Maps / Google Maps

Showing the 8 nearest only (4 more)

“Rakuten Travel” buttons are affiliate advertising: bookings made through them earn this site a commission. Which places appear, and in what order, is decided by distance alone. A missing button only means we could not find the place on Rakuten Travel — it does not mean it is closed.

No accommodation listed on Rakuten Travel was found within 3 km of this road. The search was therefore widened to 10 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line distances from the road, not road distances — 5 km with a mountain in between can still take an hour to ride. We do not know whether these places are open or have rooms free — availability and prices are not checked. Only places listed on Rakuten Travel appear here, so this is not everything within range, and only places in the same prefecture are searched: somewhere just across a prefectural border may well be closer.

Dams within 5 km

NameOperatorStraight-line distanceMap
合角ダム3.9kmGSI Maps / Google Maps

These dams are mapped in OpenStreetMap. The distance is a straight line from the road, not a route you can ride. We do not know whether you can get close — many dams sit behind maintenance roads that are closed to the public. Check dams (sabo dams) and weirs are excluded: they are flood-control structures and some are dangerous to approach. OpenStreetMap does not record whether a dam is a check dam, so to avoid listing one by mistake we keep only dams with a known operator, an encyclopaedia entry, or an official website. Some real dams are missed as a result.

Whether you can ride it is not stated here

Traffic restriction — quoted exactly as 埼玉県 森林管理道(林道)の通行制限情報(秩父農林振興センター管内) publishes it. It was published on 2026-07-24. The state of a forest road changes with every storm and every landslide. Before you set out, always check the source and the signs on site.

What is on this page — a location, a name, and quotations of what others have published or written. None of it has been verified by us on the ground. Conditions may have changed since anything here was quoted.

Forest roads were not built for recreational driving