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Day 34: Shichinohe to Numakunai
This morning we dropped by an interesting town called Towada on our way to the next destination. Formerly a ‘horse’s town’ (駒の里), this place displays a lot of things related to horses in the public, including…
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Day 33: Aomori to Shichinohe
For our first cycling day in Honshu, we encounter a problem: unlike in Hokkaido, Google Map no longer provides cycling route; we have to set it to driving or walking. While in driving mode, options are given…
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Day 32: Aomori
We scheduled a rest day to visit the writer Osamu Dazai (太宰治, 1909 – 1948)’s birthplace in the northern end of the city of Goshogawara. To get to the other side of the prefecture, we took the JR train to…
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Day 31: Hakodate to Aomori
I woke up early to bike to the harbour to photograph the sunrise and a few surrounding areas, including the premature poet Takuboku Ishikawa (石川啄木, 1886 – 1912)’s family tomb. Among a few passers-by who,…
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Day 30: Mori to Hakodate
Today we said goodbye to seaside landscape because the road linking Mori and Hakodate was inland. It’s a strange feeling to switch from seeing the wide open ocean all the time to being surrounded by forest all…
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Day 29: Toyoura to Mori
By 7 am we were on the road again. Today’s mission is to get as close as possible to Hakodate to check in at our hotel the next day; other than this, we do not have much plan or time…
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Day 28: Muroran to Toyoura
For last night’s camping location, we picked a spot in a big park where the toilets were closed, but which was within 2-minute of walk from a 24/7 convenience store. Everything sounds convenient to me.…
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Day 27: Tomakomai to Muroran
Muroran is a harbour city, yet along the way we biked through today, we didn’t see many fishing boats; instead, there were a lot of mining-related equipments, one of which was grinding something into sand.…
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Day 26: Hidaka to Tomakomai
Today we biked 108 km to Tomakomai to stay in a hotel, the longest daily distance we have travelled so far in this journey. It’s not that we want to tortue ourselves, but that there was simply nothing…
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Day 25: Shimizu to Hidaka
I woke up at dawn and was able to behold the wide expanse of Tokachi Plain from the mountainside dressed in the golden gleam of early sunrise. There was a small amount of snow left on the grass, but nothing…