I 💜 Wasting Ink → Diaries → These Walking Dreams → Day 1 (April 13, 2017)

🏙 Kagoshima City → Kawanabe, Kagoshima

Map of Kagoshima Prefecture with author’s route between Kagoshima City and Kawanabe highlighted. 🗺 Open map in GaiaGPS →

Posters of a man with text reading: Are you ready to laugh? 📍 Kagoshima University Shimoarata Campus, Kagoshima City

I am.

Ginkgo trees with fresh leaves against a pale blue sky. 📍 Kagoshima University Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima City

A strangely chaotic house on a street corner. 📍 Toso, Kagoshima City

A woman holds the hand of a child on a street lined with blooming cherry trees. 📍 Murasakibaru, Kagoshima City

A Hummer H1 parked in a tight spot.

Another angle of the Hummer shows the huge car barely fitting in its parking space. 📍 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima City

The Japanese love for small boxy vehicles expressed with a large boxy vehicle.

An old bicycle thrown into a river.

Looking down a river with a volcano on the horizon, Sakurajima. 📍 Nagata River, Kagoshima City

Four pairs of shoes on the porch of a house. 📍 West Taniyama, Kagoshima City

An old man sits in a wheelchair in a park under cherry blossoms. 📍 Taniyama Daiichi Central Park, Kagoshima City

Portrait of a Buddha statue with a growth of lichen across its forehead and left eye. 📍 Jigenji Park, Kagoshima City

The Buddha as Ziggy Stardust at the wonderful, 🌸-speckled gorge of Jigenji Park, where I walked out of Kagoshima and into the mountains.

A man washes his minivan in front of a garage with the volcano Sakurajima painted on its door. 📍 Sakanoue, Kagoshima City

A panorama of green hills, Kagoshima City, and Sakurajima.

📍 Hirakawa, Kagoshima City

These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.

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