11. Day Niigata -> Sado Island 30km

Woke up on Tatami again. Packed my stuff while listening to the album Tiny Bubbles from The Southern Allstars. Great experience to wake up alone in the Yakitori place and get some time for myself.

Around 9-10 am I left for the harbour of Niigata. Got fresh grilled fish and a coffee float (iced coffee with ice cream on top).
After that I went to the ferry station. Next stop: Island Sado, just north of Niigata.

Since I couldn't fold or disassemble my bike, I needed to board the ferry with the car and motorbike drivers. Felt kinda special, since I was the only one travelling with a bicycle.

While waiting for the ferry, I got to talk to Fuka San, who's also travelling to Sado but with his huge fully equipped Honda motorcycle.

Fuka works in Kanagawa and travels to all the places in Japan on his motorbike in his free time.

When we arrived on Sado, we were looking for a good place but strangely, really everything was closed, except the supermarket and a Yakitori Stand in front of it. We went for beers and Yakitori.

After the farewell from Fuka San, I heard a strange sound from the back of my bike. I checked. Two spokes broke. One ripped out of the rim, the other just broke out of the hub.
A really kind japanese couple saw me struggle and asked if they could help. I already thought about a plan and wanted to go first to a post office to send back some unused and unnecessary stuff. Get some weight off the back tyre. The japanese guy helped to put my bike in the car and we drove off to a post office, where he tried to ask for help in some bicycle stores.

I could repair one of the spokes and continued with less weight. Around 5-6 kg.

It was already late and on the way to the top of mount Donden it became dark.

After getting from the sea at 0 meters to around 800 meters, I was exhausted as hell. But, the few from the mountain top were worth it. Also the sky was clear and since it's just a small island, I could see the Milky Way and a lot of stars.

While arriving at the top of Mt. Donden, I met a group of japanese taking pictures and chatted with them for a while. Also we took a picture together.

Right at the sign at the top I put up my tent.

¥¥¥ Total around 8400¥
Diary Coffee 130¥, 650¥ Fish, 560¥ coffee float, konbini 454¥, ferry 5160¥, shrimp chips 200¥, hako und Versand 1500¥ Czytaj więcej