Day 1 – September 13th
Weather reports said it will rain overnight en route to Sado but weather should be fine starting morning in Sado so instead of cancelling my Sado trip for 6th time, I decided to take chance and go. Long story short, it rained very hard whole night, was very windy and I had to slow down/stop a lot. Nonetheless I reached the pier to board the first ferry to Sado in time.
Early morning Niigta from the ferry
The Osado mountain range from ferry, weather didnt improved as promised by the weather report…
it kept on raining in Sado so I decided to skip skyline and headed towards Sado Gold Mine
Someone was living in this house…:)
A few shots in Sado gold mine showing old time working conditions
Headed towards Japan sea next. Weather became a bit better. Rice fields everywhere
On the coastel route weather was very bad, very windy and waves breaking on the road
Continued anyway
You can get ride in these small circular boats called Taraibu, mostly 70+year old women operating them!
Weather finally improved.
The Sado post office building
Some pics of the old Sado village, these are not preserved houses but people still live in these
Weather improved so I decided to take a full run on coastel rourte to Cape Hajikizaki
Some pics enroute
Stopped at small shrine in the woods
Cape Hajikizaki
Made a fill loop on north side and came back to Ryotsu. Checked in a ryokan and went to bed straightaway.
Day 2 – September 14th
Early AM start and went to Dondenyama ib the Osado mountain range. Nice scenary around. Dondenyama
Sankyaku wan
Conituned towards Cape Senbonohanaa and took the coastel route down towards Mourazaki. Beautiful day. Then went on to Osado skyline. Some pics from the skyline
Took a sushi lunch at kaiten sushi place. For the price i paid, it was much better that what you get in tokyo.
Started exploring random routes after this and found Sado meusum narrating history of Sado by using robots. Pretty natural movements by these machines, was impressive
Went to the only monument dedicated to gold mine workers in Mano only to found out that the care taker had gone for a 2 hr lunch….
Bamboo fencing still seemed to be the favorite here
Most places other then ryotsu were completed deserted even during the middle of the day
Some more random touring
The island is beautiful but carries a sad feeling. Almost all the youth seem to have moved out to bigger cities, in two days I saw an abanduance of 70/80+ people doing all kind of work but almost no teenagers or kids …
The other thing in abanduance were eagles, found a lot all over the island
Finally boarded the 4:00pm ferry and headed back to Tokyo
Stealing a page from cmac`s book 
the FZ in Sado
GPS track
