The Himedomachi Cycling Club

This is the blog I kept while cycling from Cape Soya to Cape Sata in May and June, 2024

Although I haven’t updated this blog since I left Japan, I am still getting visitors and I’ve been feeling rather guilty about how difficult it is to navigate. To hopefully make the reader’s experience more enjoyable. I’ve listed the posts in chronological order.

I’m still processing the trip, trying to put words on the things I experienced. I’ll write another post if I ever make sense of it : ) Maybe I’ll even correct the typos.

Pre-departure

Before You Set Out
Riding the Rhone
The Doorstep Mile
Falling in Love
Creeping Ever Closer
Peaks (and troughs)
n+1 of Preparations

Hokkaido

Arrival
Preparations in the rain
The Electric Train to Deep North
Hard day’s night
Slow road to ignominy
Michi no eki-tastic
Bright yellow house and the end of the world
Early to bed …
Zen temples and wooden bears
Hakodate, here I come

Honshu

Fear Mountain
Shortcuts
We didn’t see the Stone Circle
Akita bijin
Having a Bash
Hiking Haguro
Sea of Japan
From Monkeys to Madness
Respect for the Elderly Day
Temples and Tunnels
Bad day in the saddle
Nichinichi Kore Konichi
Rest Day
Ride, Sally, Ride
Asteroids
Michi michi 12h michi
Extremes
Running late!

Kyushu

Hills, tunnels and helpful farmers
Welcome Home
Ghost Train
Fog Island Mountains
Dead Legs
The Road to Sata

Himedo Machi

Where am I?
Warning! Male Nudity. NSFW
Last days

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