Home at last! What an epic trip, nearly 3500km’s, a couple of rainy days but overall good weather, and some amazing sights and experiences. Loved it and hoping to do more trips like this one.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kameyama to Tokyo << Previous Day | Next Day >> | Photo Album | Video Weather: Mostly sunny Ride: 583km; highway past Nagoya, then windy roads all day (some closed), followed by highway through Tokyo Stay: home Woke up fairly early, but I had heard Ben leave even earlier. Despite not having a shared room for the last night there was no mistaking his bike! I got ready and was on the road in glorious sunshine shortly after 6am to try to avoid the traffic around Nagoya. Skipping breakfast it was, after a couple of wrong turns in Kameyama, straight onto the highway for a pretty smooth ride past Nagoya. While there was some traffic about, it wasn’t too heavy and I made good time. By 7:30 I was off the highway and stopped at a combini before heading up into the mountains and smaller roads – time for the customary coffee and sandwich brekky! My plan for today was to mostly to just keep off the highway back to Tokyo, so I strung together a bunch of smaller roads which roughly ran parallel to the highway a bit north of it, winding their way through the moutains. The first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,41,22],"tags":[96,42,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}