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A closure has been announced

栃木県 県西環境森林事務所 as of 2026-08-14, states the following about this forest road: “全線通行止め(closed for its whole length)”.

Section全線
Until解除未定(no lifting date set)

Source: 栃木県 県西環境森林事務所 (as of 2026-08-14) / We have not verified this ourselves. We quote the published wording as it stands.

Where this forest road is

林道山の神線
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栃木県鹿沼市
Nearby place name: 上粕尾
Length4.00 km
Calculated by joining the OpenStreetMap line segments.
Elevation755m–1,094m
Lowest and highest points (difference 339m). Sampled every 50 m.
Coordinates of both ends 36.62187, 139.50692 GSI Maps / Google Maps
36.60361, 139.49694 GSI Maps / Google Maps
2.22 km apart in a straight line. This road is recorded as 6 separate line segments, so there is no way to say which end is the start
SurfaceNot recorded. Whether it is dirt or surfaced is unknown.
Road classificationservice/track (OpenStreetMap classification)
OpenStreetMapway/116683983 way/116684148 way/116684275 way/116684364 way/116685023 way/1389206908

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

NameStraight-line distanceMap
古峯神社Rakuten Travel4.1kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
ザランタン鹿沼Rakuten Travel4.7kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
和朗庵Rakuten Travel6.1kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
足尾の宿 かじかRakuten Travel9.1kmGSI Maps / Google Maps

“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.

Whether you can ride it is not stated here

Traffic restriction — quoted exactly as 栃木県 県西環境森林事務所 publishes it. It was published on 2026-08-14. 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