More Recent Developments

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.

Up next: Transportation

Ready and Not

I spent about an hour tonight putting together pictures that I am going to use for headers on the page in the future.

I had one of the best opportunities of my life to be able to go to Japan for the time that I did. I was there for a little under two years. From that time I can honestly say that I fell in love.

I looked through hundreds of pictures tonight of my experiences. I was able to experience unimaginable beauty. The people, the sunsets, the rivers, the mountains, the cities, the never-ending fields of green tea, they all still remain a solid and eternal part of my heart.

It makes me so glad to be able to go back to experience it once again even if the circumstances are on a totally different scale.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for joining me.

First Draft Itinerary

After a lot of careful thought and consideration into how and where i should try to spend my time in japan living like a hobo. This is the itinerary I have created for the cities i will be passing through during my trip. This covers the actual 60 cities over the 60 days

Ahem.

Part One: Tokyo

Day
1 Machida
2 Harajuku
3 Shinjuku
4 Shibuya
5 Roppongi
6 Kawasaki
7. Yokohama
8. Fujisawa

Part Two: Shizuoka and Nagoya

Day
9 Numazu
10 Fuji
11 Fukuroi
12 Hamamatsu
13 Toyohashi
14 Nagoya
15 Gifu
16 Ogaki

Part Three: Kansai

Day
17 Kyoto
18 Yawata
19 Osaka
20 Namba
21 Matsubara
22 Sakai
23 Wakayama

Part Four: Shikoku

Day
24 Tokushima
25 Takamatsu
26 Matsuyama
27 Yawatahama

Part Five: Kyuushuu

Day
28 Oita
29 Kumamoto
30 Ogori
31 Fukuoka
32 Munakata
33 Kitakyuushuu

Part Six: Hiroshima

Day
34 Shimonoseki
35 Hofu
36 Hiroshima
37 Okayama
38 Kobe

More to come...