Omaezaki ("zaki" meaning "peninsula") is one of the two overnight points on this route. This particular peninsula is famous as perhaps the premier spot in Japan for windsurfing, which may be why the headwinds to get to it are so fierce (hence our advice to do this route west to east). On this trip, I elected to stay at the local youth hostel, not far from this lighthouse (there's a map at the base of the lighthouse with the location marked as "YH"). It was a good decision: the meal was much better than usual. Anytime you get sashimi at a youth hostel, you're doing very well indeed...

Omaezaki introduces the color you'll be seeing for the next few hours. Whether it's the white of the lighthouse, the whitecaps kicked up by the wind, the white of the bleached rock on the craggy coast, or the white sand of the beaches you'll be riding along, that's the color that will be with you almost all the way to Hamamatsu. Fashion tip: arranging to come here on a spectacularly sunny day will bring out the white to best advantage.