I just finished up my tour of Hokkaido and Northern Honshu. This was my third tour in Japan and my goal was to follow the fall foliage and find as many big passes and steep climbs as possible. I spent the majority of the tour wild camping and avoiding major cities. I explored a lot of closed roads and overgrown doubletrack, spent a lot of time looking for spots to use my tenkara rod and being paranoid of bears. The tour began in Sapporo, continued up the northwest coast of Hokkaido to Wakkanai, over to the Shiretoko Peninsula, through the mountains down to a ferry over to Hachinohe on Honshu. From there I headed up into the mountains and stayed high all the way until the outskirts of Tokyo.
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I just posted my Japan trip report seconds after you. Lovely photos! The one of Rishiri is stunning, and I’m pretty sure I saw that exact crane boat thing. How was the weather at this time of year? We reached Wakkanai in June and it was pretty nippy with the wind blasting around.
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I just finished up my tour of Hokkaido and Northern Honshu. This was my third tour in Japan and my goal was to follow the fall foliage and find as many big passes and steep climbs as possible. I spent the majority of the tour wild camping and avoiding major cities. I explored a lot of closed roads and overgrown doubletrack, spent a lot of time looking for spots to use my tenkara rod and being paranoid of bears. The tour began in Sapporo, continued up the northwest coast of Hokkaido to Wakkanai, over to the Shiretoko Peninsula, through the mountains down to a ferry over to Hachinohe on Honshu. From there I headed up into the mountains and stayed high all the way until the outskirts of Tokyo.
I just posted my Japan trip report seconds after you. Lovely photos! The one of Rishiri is stunning, and I’m pretty sure I saw that exact crane boat thing. How was the weather at this time of year? We reached Wakkanai in June and it was pretty nippy with the wind blasting around.