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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: “一部区間通行止め(some sections closed)”.

Section起点+2.5km地点から終点まで
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

林道西沢線
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栃木県日光市
Nearby place name: 小百
Length3.85 km
Calculated by joining the OpenStreetMap line segments.
Elevation470m–736m
Lowest and highest points (difference 266m). Sampled every 50 m.
Coordinates of both ends 36.82330, 139.65185 GSI Maps / Google Maps
36.81505, 139.66096 GSI Maps / Google Maps
1.22 km apart in a straight line. This road is recorded as 3 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 classificationtrack (OpenStreetMap classification)
OpenStreetMapway/216195779 way/216195797 way/216195803

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

NameStraight-line distanceMap
素泊まりの宿 サンモーレRakuten Travel4.3kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
リブマックスリゾート鬼怒川Rakuten Travel4.3kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 ホテルハーヴェスト鬼怒川Rakuten Travel4.3kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川仁王尊プラザRakuten Travel4.3kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川渓翠Rakuten Travel4.3kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
せせらぎの宿 鬼怒川温泉 ホテル万葉亭(BBHホテルグループ)Rakuten Travel4.3kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
ホテル森の家Rakuten Travel4.4kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉ホステル ケイズハウス日光Rakuten Travel4.4kmGSI Maps / Google Maps

Showing the 8 nearest only (159 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
今市ダム627mGSI 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 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