Lived in Japan for 20 years and enjoyed riding his bike for almost 40 years.
Wanderer
The author enjoys the Wanderer Map which tracks the unique roads ridden anywhere around the world. The author has the largest unique kilometers ridden of any of the riders registered to the service with 2.07% of all roads of Japan ridden as of September 2024 (Wanderer counts any road (term used loosely) that is open for cyclists to ride on based on OpenStreetMap Data). The September map is below.
Road Cycling
Long Distance Touring
Inside Japan
- 2023 – East Hokkaido (Wakkanai to Hakdoate)
- 2022 – Okinawa – Iwakuni
- 2021 – Matsue – Kubokawa
- 2018 – West Hokkaido
- 2018 – Yonago – Hiroshima – Himeji
- 2018 – Tohoku (Morioka – Tsugaru – Akita)
- 2017 – Ohenro (Part 2)
- 2016 – Tokyo – Osaka
- 2016 – Ohenro (Part 1)
- 2015 – Fukuyama – Kumamoto – Oita
- 2014 – Fukuyama – Kumamoto
- 2013 – Loop of Seto inland Sea (Fukushima – Imabar – Oita – Shimonoseki – Iwakuni)
- 2012 – Toyohashi – Onomichi
- 2011 – Tour of Tsunami (Fukushima – Miyako)
- 2010 – Karuizawa – Yonago
- 2008 – Shungu to Akida
- 2007 – Shikoku/Kyushu
Outside Japan
- 2024 Europe (Rhone : Zurich – Med – Milan)
- 2019 Europe (Rhine : Munich – Stellvio Pass – Stuttgart)
- 2019 North Vietnam
- Taiwan
- 2014 UK
- 2008 Vietnam (Hanoi to Hochimin)
Studies
- Japanese Language N1 – Too many years ago to remember
- 日本旅行地理検定 初級 ( Japanese Geography – Entry Level)