We land in Tokyo on March 25th, and start our ride on March 27th. Our route takes us through four of Japan’s five main islands – Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Hokkaido, and through many cities. We begin in Tokyo, then go South West as far as Fukuoka, then turn around and ride as far North as Sapporo before heading back South to Tokyo.
We intend to ride between 70 and 140 km each day with rest days interspersed throughout. The cities we plan to visit (subject to change) are:
- Tokyo
- Fuji
- Hamamatsu
- Nagoya
- Kyoto
- Osaka
- Kobe
- Takamatsu
- Niihama
- Yawatahama
- Beppu
- Hita
- Fukuoka
- Ube
- Hiroshima
- Fukuyama
- Okayama
- Kamikawa
- Maizuru
- Echizen
- Kanazawa
- Asahi
- Joetsu
- Niigata
- Murakami
- Sakata
- Akita
- Odate
- Aomori
- Sapporo
- Tomakomai
- Hachinohe
- Ichinoseki
- Ishinomaki
- Sendai
- Fukushima
- Shirakawa
- Utsunomya