Top Moments

Relive the top moments of my trip around Japan: best, worst, weirdest, etc

Cape Sata (佐多岬) – Mission Complete (任務を成し遂げる)

Cape Sata (佐多岬, Sata Misaki) is the southernmost point of the mainland of Japan and my main objective. With overwhelming joy, I can say after 8hours of solid riding, +2,000m of elevation (1,300m of which was in the final 30kms) and a completed Halo audiobook, I managed to roll into Cape Misaki blaring my motivation …

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Mount Fuji 0-3776m

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. So considering this was only 9 and a bit quarter miles of elevation, this was a damn long day. Most people start hiking up mount Fuji from one of the '5th stations' which is basically the farthest point you can drive a car to. But …

Izu Peninsula (伊豆半島), Shizuoka

After waking up to an empty bottle in a brown paper bag, I grabbed a few power sticks (bananas) from the local and started my journey towards Izu Peninsula (伊豆半島). As mentioned before it's renowned by the Japanese to have the 'prettiest' beaches on the mainland. I rode my bike just getting out of the …

Chiba Coast and Mount Nokogiri (鋸山), Chiba

The temperature and humidity have definitely picked up over the last week as I head further south. Roughly 28 degrees and 80% so it's hard to ever feel dry when you're on or off the bike. Riding along the coast, I was hoping to find something with a few waves. Towards the end of my …

Happy Science, Chiba

I left Haru's house in Katori in the early afternoon and set off south along the coast of Chiba. It's quite renowned in Japan for having nice beaches and good surfing, although coming from Australia I must be spoiled as the beaches I saw were mediocre at best. I happened to run into this little …

Sawara City (佐原市), Chiba

After no sleep, I decided a short ride to Chiba would be a good idea. I contacted my couch surfing host to let him know I would be arriving today and he said that would be fine. So I set off on a 100km ride along the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture towards Chiba. The ride …

Couch Surfing in Sendai, Miyagi

I made my way from cat island towards the largest (i think?) city in Northern Honshu, Sendai. I had arranged to stay with a few amazing and accommodating couch surfers. I turned up at Jakub's house who said he left the keys for me and to 'make myself at home' until he returned. So I …