These Walking Dreams: Day 42 (May 24, 2017)

Esaki Lighthouse, Awaji Island, Hyōgo → ⛴ Akashi Strait → 🌃 Nagata Ward, Kōbe, Hyōgo

Map of the Akashi Strait area in Hyōgo Prefecture with route between the Esaki Lighthouse and Kōbe highlighted. 🗺 Open map in GaiaGPS (A,B,C) ⇝

The world‘s longest suspension bridge, the Akashi Kaikyō, on an overcast morning, with a bird of prey flying overhead.

A manhole cover shows the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and some flowers.

Seven dwarves in Santa hats, four of them riding motorcycles, on a shelf.

A silver Maxda RX–7 sports car parked in front of gray industrial buildings.

People fish on a pier overlooking the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge.

Two boys play baseball on a beach with the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in the background.

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.