Day 23: Oboke Gorges + Belgian family
8 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Running against the rain: waking up early and cycling fast to avoid the rain forecasted for the afternoon☔️. Of course we didn’t 😅 but at least only the very last part of the trip was a bitЧитать далее
Day 24: We’ve doubled!
9 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Our family*2 = More fun & smoothness! Why? Kids are neutralizing each others, which means that parents can breathe 🤪
We found a lot of super nice & cute 🥰 new friends/babysitters/footballЧитать далее
Day 25: Half way: the paddy fields
10 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Cycling in the paddy fields and picnicking in a beautiful playground with our friends.. Tomorrow our roads will separate, it was a such nice ride with you guys! Good luck in Korea
Day 26: Shimanami kaido 🌉
11 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We did half of Shimanami Kaido, the most famous cycling path in Japan, cycling from islands to islands via huge bridges over the Seto inland Sea. Beautiful Nature and impressive concrete. We saw moreЧитать далее
Day 27: Bridges to Heaven & Space
12 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
After shimanami kaido, we turned west and cycled the Tobishima kaido that spans a network of seven bridges across seven islands to Kure. In the middle, we reached an unexpected heaven with sand beach,Читать далее
Day 28: towards Hiroshima
13 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
View from our dome window: “Good morning & goodbye heaven!” Heading to Hiroshima via the last bridges, a short ferry ⛴️ and a long indoor tunnel. Pierre met with his friend Bertrand coming toЧитать далее
Day 29: Hiroshima
14 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
“I want to go out of this museum” says Lorenzo. Ringing some bells 🔔 of peace inside the beautiful Peace memorial park after visiting the museum. The Children’s peace monument is surroundedЧитать далее
Day 30: Floating Torii
15 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Itsukushima (the island popularly known as Miyajima) and its shrine with the famous floating Torii (gate). It was so inspiring that each one of us expressed himself in different ways in front of itЧитать далее
Day 31: Kyushu, the last chapter
16 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
As we planned to do around 50k we didn’t take the time to take a lot of pictures but, instead, we could get into the ferry heading to Kyushu on time! The last third of our trip is now starting: timeЧитать далее
Day 32: up in the Kunisaki Peninsula
17 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
A - not so - short stop by the beautiful art & coffee (needed!) Touinryo gallery before heading to ascending roads in the Kunisaki peninsula. 100% in the middle of the nature (we didn’t see a singleЧитать далее
Day 33: Shaking to Hell
18 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
After a great night in the company of a quite intense earthquake, we are ready to reach Beppu! Known for its eight major geothermal hot spots, sometimes referred to as the "eight hells of Beppu"Читать далее
Day 34: Family onsen before the hills
19 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Family onsen in Beppu before heading to Yufuin. Beautiful road: in spite of a bit of traffic (and of important elevation gain in the first part), the long descent and the greenery around was aЧитать далее
Day 35: from Comico to steep climbs
20 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Visiting the Comico Museum designed by Kuma Kengo with some artworks of Yayoi Kusama 🐞and the big “Your dog” 🐩 by Yoshitomo Nara.
Then up up up, fast fast fast before the rain starts (ofЧитать далее
Day 36:reaching Aso caldeira in the rain
21 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
The objective of the day was to finish the road 11 that we started two days ago, and to reach the caldeira of Aso, one of the largest in the world, and home to many nice volcanos. What we were notЧитать далее
Day 37: Aso volcanos & its craters
22 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
No rain today! « Siamo contenti! 😁 » even though we might not see a lot with the clouds all around. And it would be a pity because today’s target: the beautiful Aso volcanos 🌋. Just aЧитать далее
Day 38: Kumamoto city concrete&rain
24 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Very draining day in the suburbs of Kumamoto through concrete, big roads, traffic and a bit of rain 🌧️ but we found a new friend for Zoé, a yummy watermelon and a comfortable bed.
Day 39: reaching nature again!
24 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Sunny again and a second day in the suburbs of Kumamoto, finally reaching Nature again! Very warm welcome of an old lady in a beautiful old house but not a super yummy dinner 😅 with a weird pinkyЧитать далее
Day 40: Along Kumagawa
25 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ 🌩️ 19 °C
Beautiful “emerald road” along kumagawa river, despite some works on the way (still fixing the road after the 2020 floods…). We cycled a lot of kilometers at ease, it seems we found a goodЧитать далее
Day 41: Art & Nothing else :)
26 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Cycling under the rain in the morning and a yummy lunch at an Italian restaurant. Public kids library stop! Nice guest house (横川kito) in a very remote tiny village where there is nothing more thanЧитать далее
Day 42: Kagoshima we made it!
28 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
There is nothing to say more than: We made it (on time)! What a journey… Days were so intense (in all possible meanings 😝) that we sometimes couldn’t remember what we had done the same morningЧитать далее
Day 43: 100views of Sakurajima& bye bike
28 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Little break in Sakurajima where we enjoyed the 100 views of this active and impressive volcano island 🌋 and a dinosaurs playground (but no nice beach unfortunately...). In the late afternoon weЧитать далее
Days 44-47: holidays in Yakushima/part1
29 апреля 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
A long trip by bus 🚌 to reach the start of the hiking in the mystical Yakusugi Land, the land of giant and old cedar trees. Lorenzo did a 3-hour walk with (almost) no complaints but lots ofЧитать далее
Yakushima / part2
2 мая 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Meeting with a French guy (friend of friends) living in Yakushima and a splash in the sea! Then rushing for the bus to do an onsen next to the sea. At the end of the day (we decided to leave theЧитать далее
Days: 48-49 Fukuoka
4 мая 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Meeting up with Haruka, Simon, Kai and Sara in Fukuoka !! They were with us the first day of this long journey and the last one too! Zoé took advantage of Sara’s stroller, she has probably beenЧитать далее
Day 50: Going back to Tokyo
5 мая 2024 г., Япония ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Going back to Tokyo with … one extra bike (the hotel in Kagoshima could not send the big box with the bicycle at the end 😂). By the end of this journey:
• Zoé could finally show with fingersЧитать далее




















































































































































































































































