Tokaido

My attempt to bicycle the Tokaido will start on Monday August 3rd. Plan is to finish it in 5 days, which means an average of 110 km/day. Here's the fully packed bike before dismantling and packing it for train transport to Kyoto.



More on Tokaido here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D_(road)

First travel day:
Travel log: Tokaido day 1

Yamadera

Beautiful mountain side temples in the neighbour prefecture of Yamagata. The post box in the picture is actually emptied 6 of 7 days in the week, more than 1000 steps of stone stairs up!

Flowers

Yamadera flowers, med nya kompaktkameran.

6th biggest statue in the World

Hidden away in northern Sendai, this unusual sight can be found. It has 108 statues representing the desires to overcome displayed over the 12 floors inside this big statue.