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I was sitting down last night for about three hours trying to decide the best way to do this thing.

Trying to plan such a trip with no money raises a lot of questions and concerns...some greatest hits include:

1. Where will I sleep?
2. How will I get from one city to another with the destination being about 100 miles away.

So obviously these are things that I have been contemplating for the last month or so, but I've been getting more serious about it now and am weighing my options for how I'm gonna get around Japan and not die doing it.

The way I see it, if you wanna make an omelet, you gotta break a few eggs. As a poor college student, the figurative eggs im breaking will be the literal bank. It's gonna take moolah. Bucks.

But that's not the important part.

Right now, I'm not gonna worry about the money. The big issue right now for me is how I will be able to see the entire country in 60 days. People could possibly spend years in Japan and never be able to see every shrine, temple, amusement park or internet cafe the place has to offer, not to mention the bidet style toilets that made me feel like less of a man with each use.

But let me testify to you. The Japanese electric toilet is a thing of beauty, and the squirty thing will leave you in complete joy after one try.

But thats a whole different story.

Bottom line is this...

This is what I'm gonna do:

Two weeks travelling among the 23 wards of the humongous Tokyo and surrounding cities. The neverending metropolis.

South towards Kawasaki and Yokohama.

Then through Shizuoka past Mt. Fuji towards Nagoya.

On to Osaka, all surrounding cities, Nara, Sakai then Wakayama. Ferry to Shikoku Island. Cross the island, ferry to Kyuushuu Island.

Through Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Kitakyuushuu, back to Hunshuu, through Hiroshima, then Kobe.

North through Fukui, Kanazawa, Nagano, Niigata, Akita, Aomori. Ferry to Hokkaido. Five days on the northernmost island.

From then, a smooth southern return to the queen city Tokyo immediately following a long and lonely ride through Sendai. Then on to America out of Narita.

That is what it looks like to go through 60 cities in 60 days. This is what I'm going to do. The itinerary still exists albeit in a looser form.

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