The final installment of my Japan tour. Links to previous entries: Days 20-26, Days 14-19, Days 7-13, Days 3-6, Day 2, Day 1, Start of Tour Day Twenty-Seven – Ina and towards Fuji – 2018-04-04 – 70 Miles I started the day out on the main road, Route 19, but took a side road and […]
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Day 20-26 – Japan Bike Tour
Days 20-26 Days 14-19 Days 7-13 Days 3-6 Day 2 Day 1 Start of Tour Day Twenty – Osaka to Kyoto – 2018-03-28 – 35 Miles I checked out and got on the road to Kyoto. I stopped at Osaka Castle to take a look at it from a distance then rode through a nice […]
Day 14-19 – Japan Bike Tour
Here is another installment from the journal I kept during my Japan bicycle tour in March 2018. Roughly the progress of the trip through this post. 776 miles in. For the previous installment CLICK HERE. Day Fourteen – Off Day in Matsuyama – 2018-03-22 – 0 Miles Today I woke up and got breakfast at […]
Day 7-13 – Japan Bike Tour
So I apologize for the intermittent updates of this journal. If you want to read the preceding pages to this entry, you can go here. Starting from Day Seven in Nagasaki: Day Seven – Nagasaki – 2018-03-15 – zero miles The next morning I ate the weird $11 hotel breakfast and then went back to […]
Day 3-6 – Japan Bike Tour
Previous Entry Sunday March 11, 2018, 40 miles (64 km) – Total so far: 110 miles (177 km) Today was a good reminder of how difficult bike touring can be. The day started out great, although I walked up the big hill heading north from Sata – I’m a little worried about my knee. I […]
Day 2 – Japan Bike Tour
Previous Entry Today’s riding was spectacular. I continued following the coast in the morning, climbing up away from small towns, passing through tunnels, then flying downhill towards the next small town cove. The infrastructure is wonderful and Japan has set up everything to be very convenient and well thought out. I stopped at a Lawson […]
Day 1 – Japan Bike Tour
Previous Entry This morning I got a very lazy start watching the BBC and getting packed. I planned on going to a fishing store to get some flies and it didn’t open until 11:00am. I ended up going to a different fishing store anyway and it had a pretty limited selection of flies. I stopped […]
Japan Tour – Getting to Kagoshima
I’m going to finally start making some detailed entries for my Japan bicycle tour. So far I’ve just posted a lot of pictures without any real description of the tour, but I’m going to start typing up and editing the journal I kept on the trip. So here goes, this is a description of the […]