I guess that’s what I get for deciding and ordering stuff only a week prior… both stores I ordered stuff from sent me emails saying that they had to wait on stock before they can send out my items. This means that instead of going to Kyushu, I guess I’ll just make a couple day [...]

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Spring break starts next week, and I’ve been wanting to do something or travel somewhere within the country for it.
A day or two ago the thought popped in my head to hop on a ferry down to Kyushu with my bike and do an almost loop of the island. This would pretty much be in [...]

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Day 10
???, Yamagata - Fukushima, Fukushima
Distance: 94.89 km
Average: 20.5 km/h
Max: 50.1 km/h
Total Distance: ~836.02 km

Final day (finally writing the last one of these).
I woke up, packed up, and headed out. The weather wasn’t quite as rainy today; it switched back and forther between clear and a light rain, but I still kept [...]

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Day 9
Niigata, Niigata - ???, Yamagata
Distance: ~130 km
Average: n/a
Max: n/a
Total Distance: ~745 km

On the morning of Day 9 I was planning on leaving where I had spent the night, the internet cafe, at around five in the morning, which is when the overnight package deal I had [...]

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This past weekend I took the bus down to Tokyo for the Tokyo Game Show. Saturday and Sunday were open to the public. I figured that I’d be able to see what I wanted to see in one day, so on Sunday morning I left my capsule hotel and took the train out to western [...]

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Previous day, Day 7 Part 2 — Next day, Part 9
Day 8
Niigata, Niigata
Distance: ~45 km
Average: n/a
Max: n/a
Total Distance: ~615 km

The above figure of 45 km of cycling for the day actually ended up being quite a surprise for me when I checked my odometer at the end of the day. If this had been a [...]

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Due to so much happening during Day 7, I’m going to split this up into two entries. If you want to read the first part, head on over to Day 7 Part 1
Stats are for the whole of Day 7, not just Part 2.
Day 7, Part 2
??? - Niigata, Niigata
Distance: ~30 km of cycling
Average: n/a
Max: [...]

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Due to so much happening during Day 7, I’m going to split this up into two entries.
Day 7, Part 1
Tadami, Fukushima - ???
Distance: ~11 km
Average: n/a
Max: n/a
Total Distance: ~547 km (the distance on the map below is a typo and I don’t currently have Photoshop installed to fix it)

Today I once again woke up bright [...]

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So much for posting these updates every other day, eh?
Day 6
Tajima, Fukushima - Tadami, Fukushima
Distance: 61.76 km
Average: 19.5 km/h
Max: 62.1 km/h
Total Distance: 539.10 km

By the time I woke up in my hotel bed in Tajima, I knew that today was going to be a pretty short day. I was a lot further along than planned, [...]

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Day 5
Nasushiobara, Tochigi - Tajima, Fukushima
Distance: 82.90 km
Average: 20.3 km/h
Max: 59.2 km/h
Total Distance: 475.62 km

Due to the cold and rain I barely got any sleep this past night. I ended up spending close to four or five hours in my hammock just listening to music on my mp3 player. Finally once the sun started to [...]

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