In Japan, an E-Biking Attraction on an Abandoned Railway

Earlier we looked at Motobalineras, Colombia's ingenious motorcycle-railroad adapters. These allow villages to travel along abandoned railway tracks.

Japan, too, has something similar. In Gifu, the Kamioka Railway was shut down in 2006. Six years later a company called Gattan Go! popped up, repurposing the abandoned rail lines as an attraction. The company rents electric-assist bikes connected to a platform fitted to the tracks. This allows cyclists to journey up into the mountains, crossing bridges and traveling through tunnels otherwise inaccessible to cyclists.

Two courses are offered, with journey times of 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes.

The scenery looks gorgeous: