The night before the Chubu Coast to Coast Twistybutt in October, I got a current comparison between the over half-century-old Tomei and the noticeably newer Shin-Tomei on a 220km run west to Iwata. It brought home how much better the newer, gently meandering Shin-Tomei is and how good it would be if the whole way from Kanto west were that smooth and free-flowing. Also started thinking about when they both came to be, why I couldn’t ride the whole Kanagawa to Shizuoka leg yet and when it would be completed. Short answer, 2027.