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Where this forest road is

西荒川林道
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栃木県塩谷町
Nearby place name: 大字上寺島
Length8.95 km
Calculated by joining the OpenStreetMap line segments.
Elevation365m–716m
Lowest and highest points (difference 351m). Sampled every 50 m.
Coordinates of both ends 36.81874, 139.79175 GSI Maps / Google Maps
36.85447, 139.78616 GSI Maps / Google Maps
4.00 km apart in a straight line. This road is recorded as 12 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/109344545 way/109344842 way/109345352 way/109346401 way/109347352 way/109347360 way/109347450 way/1387418754 and 4 more

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

NameStraight-line distanceMap
日光鬼怒川 清水の宿Rakuten Travel3.4kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 若竹の庄Rakuten Travel3.4kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 若竹の庄 別邸笹音Rakuten Travel3.5kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
絹の渓谷 碧流Rakuten Travel3.7kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 花の宿 松やRakuten Travel3.7kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 渓流の宿 緑水Rakuten Travel3.9kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 あさやRakuten Travel3.9kmGSI Maps / Google Maps
鬼怒川温泉 鬼怒川グランドホテル 夢の季(ゆめのとき)Rakuten Travel4.0kmGSI Maps / Google Maps

Showing the 8 nearest only (65 more)

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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

Surface — wording taken from articles on the web and reproduced as written (we do not summarise or paraphrase). The date is the date of that article, and selecting it opens the article. Collected: 2026-08-05 / grok-4.3

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