Kyoto ➡️ Yasu
2024年6月26日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
🇺🇸 First day of the hike started at 5:30 am. Goals for the day were crossing the Biwa lake and getting to Moriyama. I overdid it for the first day and got a bit of heatstroke but found an Onsenもっと詳しく
Yasu ➡️ Biwa Beach Camping
2024年6月27日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
🇺🇸 I found a cute little camping spot on a beach a few hours off of Hikone I wanted to reach today. Starting at 5am the temperatures were bearable and I really enjoyed the first few hours. Iもっと詳しく
Biwa Beach ➡️ Hikone
2024年6月28日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
🇺🇸 I packed up my wet tent in the early morning hours and spend a few hours waiting until the rain would settle a bit. In the mean time two older gentlemen arrived to clean the toilets and theyもっと詳しく
Hikone Day 2
2024年6月29日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Exploring Hikone
Hikone ➡️ Maibara ➡️ Nagoya
2024年6月30日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
🇺🇸 Walked a few hours but decided to take a train to Nagoya and spend the three rainy days there.
🇩🇪 Ich bin ein paar Stunden bis Maibara gelaufen habe aber dann entschieden einen Zugもっと詳しく
Nagoya 🗺️
2024年7月1日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
🇺🇸 Explored Nagoya and ate Yatabon‘s famous Miso Katsu - That was yum! But it‘s unfortunately still raining. Perfect weather to buy some Magic cards.
🇩🇪 Nagoya erforscht und Yatabonsもっと詳しく
Nagoya Day 2 🗺️
2024年7月2日, 日本 ⋅ 🌫 27 °C
🇺🇸 Another uneventful and rainy day. I visited a few temples and tried Mazesoba. Another great meal 😋
🇩🇪 Ein weiterer regnerischer Tag an dem nicht viel passiert ist. Ich habe mir einもっと詳しく
Japanese Central Alps Day 1
2024年7月3日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
🇺🇸 First day in the Japanese Central Alps with burning temps of up to 34C. Slept under the stars because I couldn‘t find a spot to set up the tent.
🇩🇪 Erster Tag in den japanischenもっと詳しく
Okute-juku ➡️ Oi-juku
2024年7月4日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
🇺🇸 Looking forward to the upgrade from a no tent night to a nice Ryokan made the hike all the better. An hour after leaving I finally got to a FamilyMart to eat a meal again after almost 24もっと詳しく
Oi-juku ➡️ Magome-juku
2024年7月5日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
🇺🇸 Hottest day so far and way too long of a hike. The first and last hour were great with beautiful scenery (especially towards Magome) but the middle section was really boring making the dayもっと詳しく
Magome-juku ➡️ Nojiri-juku
2024年7月6日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
🇺🇸 The day started a bit later due to cool temperatures and cloudy weather. The famous Magome-Tsumago Trail was today‘s main plan and it was really beautiful. I also met the kind man fromもっと詳しく
Nojiri-juku ➡️ Fukushima-juku
2024年7月7日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
🇺🇸 This was definitely one of the least enjoyable days so far. The hike was fairly boring with most of the day spent alongside the highway but also extremely hard after how long yesterday wasもっと詳しく
Fukushima-juku ➡️ Narai-juku
2024年7月8日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
🇺🇸 Late start due to lower temperatures today. Unfortunately the heat in the open and directly in the sun was still rough so I took an early break to ear Katsu-Carry at a very old-school Bar.もっと詳しく
Narai-juku ➡️ Shiojiri 🚃 Matsumoto
2024年7月9日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
🇺🇸 With the next week looking rainy and being slightly past the halfway mark I decided to take a small 3-day break in Matsumoto. The 20km hike to Shiojiri was fairly easy and had a few very niceもっと詳しく
TCG Stores and Meeting Tourists
2024年7月10日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
🇺🇸 I woke up late and spent the first part of the day exploring Matsumoto and visiting all the card shops I could find - I found a few nice deals but it wasn‘t too impressive. On my way backもっと詳しく
Matsumoto Day 2
2024年7月11日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
🇺🇸 Last day in Matsumoto so I decided to visit the longest standing Castle in Japan: Matsumoto Castle. I forgot my phone at the Guesthouse so no pictures unfortunately but it was spectacular andもっと詳しく
Matsumoto 🚃 Shiojiri ➡️ Suwa
2024年7月12日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
🇺🇸 Rainy day and it only stopped about 30 minutes after I arrived at my accommodation - Lucky! The actual hike was fairly easy and nice. Suwa was a bit of a dull city but there were 4 Onsen in aもっと詳しく
Suwa ➡️ Wada-juku
2024年7月13日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
🇺🇸 No rain today so crossing the Wada Pass was safe. While I knew this was going to be the hardest part of the Nakasendo, I didn‘t expect it to be this hard. The first ~15km were just constantもっと詳しく
Wada-juku ➡️ Middle of Nowhere
2024年7月14日, 日本 ⋅ 🌧 22 °C
🇺🇸 Rain. Way too much rain and no hotel that had a free room. So my planned 15km day turned into another 25km day - Great 👍
At least I found an Onsen 20 minutes away from a Roadstation whereもっと詳しく
Asashina-juku ➡️ Karuizawa
2024年7月15日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
🇺🇸 Slept surprisingly well and was surprised by a really nice and sunny morning. Because the rain was supposed to pick up again towards 12am, I decided to walk as far as possible and take aもっと詳しく
Karuizawa ➡️ Isobe
2024年7月17日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
🇺🇸 Today was without a doubt the least fun I have had on this trip so far. While the view from the Usui-Pass was unbelievable, descending it towards Gunma Prefecture was pure hell. Betweenもっと詳しく
Isobe ➡️ Takasaki
2024年7月18日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
🇺🇸 Really short day and I arrived at my Hostel before the reception even opened. Luckily they let me go into my room around 12:30 but the showers were still being cleaned so the owner drove meもっと詳しく
Takasaki ➡️ Fukaya
2024年7月19日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
🇺🇸 Started at 6am, arrived at 4pm. That‘s a fairly good way to describe the day. I‘m glad I started so early because from 10am onwards it was consistently 33C+. But physically it was a greatもっと詳しく
Fukaya ➡️ Fukiage
2024年7月20日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 36 °C
🇺🇸 Short day and not a particularly picturesque route. In Kumagaya I passed a few festival floats from the Uchiwa-Matsuri, a festival of the Yasaka Shrine, where they carry floats around theもっと詳しく
Fukiage ➡️🚃 Omiya
2024年7月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 34 °C
🇺🇸 Ankle still felt wobbly so I only walked to Fukiage Station (~1 hour) and took the train for the rest of the way to Omiya and spend the day exploring it. The Railway Museum was very nice andもっと詳しく







































































































































































































































