Day 6 Osaka to Ono first day in Lycra

Seemed to have issues publishing last night, so look for yesterday's Kyoto post before this one

On a nice summers morning the intrepid band of Cultural and Discovery Tour of Japan 2015 riders put shoe to pedal and rode off into the rising sun. While that was kind of a bromancing thing, but after 15 minutes one of us decided to inform the others that we were actually heading in the complete wrong direction!






So a big recalculate of the route and put via Shin Isaka station we road at a cracking average of 9 kph as there was a crossing every 200m with invariably a red light.





At the first meeting of the Baggage truck, fondly named Rody, ( true that's what the sticker says), the locals were out in force never having seen sucked aged but well preserved males exercising. Didn't matter that they had no idea what and why we were doing the ride.





After that Goose had the first and only puncture of the day. That lost him 50 points.



Then across a large river


And into the hills and countryside. Seems Thursday's are for burn offs as many rice farmers were making smoke.


Lunch was a top find, we pulled up at a restaurant so we thought and neatly parked the car. Turns out it was a preschool and we were causing some commotion for the teachers. The Duke used his royal charms and one of the ladies jumped on her scooter and took him down the hill to point out our lunch venue.

This turned out to be an authentic Japanese building and garden on Seagrams matting. So it was shoes off and then ushered into a dining room by a kimono clad waitress. Lunch was amazing for $15 each! Even more surprising is that this is a chain try. Ganko.co.jp

So we made it to Ono late in the afternoon, the peloton best the baggage truck which wasn't supposed to happen, especially since we are staying in the tallest building In The valley. Loss of points to goose and pedals.

Equal stage win by the Black Cav and the Duke saw the Duke crowned in Yellow and Bling, our last man mascot awarded to the flatted and late Goose.

Tomorrow it's off to the seaside via the Himeji Castle ( how many times will this one have been burnt down?)



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Location:Ono