Drive Nikkō Iroha-zaka, Japan

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Nikkō Irohazaka in Japan is a 1-way switchback mountain road (of course there are 2 separate roads; up and down) that ascends more than 1,300 feet (396 m) from Nikko to Lake Chuzenji.The route was popular with Buddhist pilgrims on their way to Lake Chuzenji, which is at the top of the forested hill that this road climbs. There are 48 hairpin turns, each labeled with one of the 48 characters in the Japanese alphabet: while the narrow road has been modernized over the years, care has been taken to keep the number of curves constant.

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