| To read about my motorcycling adventures, select the desired portion of the route above or use the 
      geographical index below. Or, to start from the beginning, just go 
      straight to Day 
      1. What's that? You don't want to read and just want to see 
      the pictures? Well here they 
      are.
   
        
        
          | Geographical Index |  
          | Kanto (Central 
            Honshu) |  
          |  | Ibaraki Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Kanagawa Prefecture | Day 
            24 |  
          |  | Gunma Prefecture | Day 
            1 |  
          |  | Saitama Prefecture | Day 
            1 |  
          |  | Chiba Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Tochigi Prefecture | Day 
            1 |  
          |  | Yamanashi Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Tokyo Region | Day 1 Day 
          24 |  
          | Tohoku (Northern 
            Honshu) |  
          |  | Fukushima Prefecture | Day 1 Day 
          13 |  
          |  | Miyagi Prefecture | Day 1 Day 
        2 |  
          |  | Iwate Prefecture | Day 
            2 |  
          |  | Aomori Prefecture | Day 
            10 |  
          |  | Akita Prefecture | Day 
            11 |  
          |  | Yamagata Prefecture | Day 
            12 |  
          | Hokkaido |  
          |  | Sapporo and Environs | Day 4 Day 
        5 |  
          |  | Shikotsu-Toya National Park | Day 4 Day 
        9 |  
          |  | Asahikawa, Bie, Furano, Daisetsuzan National 
            Park | Day 5 Day 
        6 |  
          |  | Akan National Park | Day 
            7 |  
          |  | Shiretoko National Park | Day 
            8 |  
          |  | Kushiro Area | Day 
            8 |  
          | Shinetsu / Hokuriku 
            (West-Central Honshu) |  
          |  | Niigata Prefecture | Day 
            13 |  
          |  | Nagano Prefecture | Day 
            14 |  
          |  | Ishikawa Prefecture | Day 
            15 |  
          |  | Toyama Prefecture | Day 
            15 |  
          |  | Fukui Prefecture | Day 
            15 |  
          | Tokai (Eastern 
            Honshu) |  
          |  | Aichi Prefecture | Day 
            24 |  
          |  | Gifu Prefecture | Day 
            24 |  
          |  | Shizuoka Prefecture | Day 
            24 |  
          |  | Mie Prefecture |  |  
          | Kinki (Region in Honshu 
            around Kyoto and Nara) |  
          |  | Kyoto Region | Day 15 Day 
          16 |  
          |  | Osaka Region | Day 
            24 |  
          |  | Shiga Prefecture | Day 
            24 |  
          |  | Nara Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Hyogo Prefecture | Day 16 Day 
          23 |  
          |  | Wakayama Prefecture |  |  
          | Chugoku (Western 
            Honshu) |  
          |  | Okayama Prefecture | Day 
            22 |  
          |  | Shimane Prefecture | Day 
            17 |  
          |  | Tottori Prefecture | Day 
            17 |  
          |  | Hiroshima Prefecture | Day 18 Day 19 Day 
          22 |  
          |  | Yamaguchi Prefecture | Day 
            19 |  
          | Kyushu |  
          |  | Oita Prefecture | Day 
            21 |  
          |  | Kagoshima Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Kumamoto Prefecture | Day 
            21 |  
          |  | Saga Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Nagasaki Prefecture |  |  
          |  | Fukuoka Prefecture | Day 20 Day 
          21 |  
          |  | Miyazaki Prefecture |  |  
          | Shikoku |  
          |  | Ehime Prefecture | Day 
            22 |  
          |  | Kagawa Prefecture | Day 
            22 |  
          |  | Kochi Prefecture | Day 
            22 |  
          |  | Tokushima Prefecture | Day 
            23 |  
          | Okinawa |  
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