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Last update: March 15, 2025

A walk around (and out of) Japan

Between 2017 and 2024, I walked nine thousand kilometers in four parts around the Japanese archipelago that crossed eighteen of the country’s islands, including the four major ones.

You can read the field diaries I kept on the first and seconds parts of the journey: These Walking Dreams, in 2017, and Human Again, in 2022.

From March to June 2025, I’m an artist in residence at Tenjinyama Art Studio in Sapporo, Japan, where I’m writing Data Reduction 9K, a blog about figuring out whether the walk was interesting enough for a book. Sign up here to get an email when I write a new post:

The Wilds of Shikoku

In January and February 2019, I walked across Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands. This journey was not directly connected with my long walk around Japan. Instead, I followed in the footsteps of Alan Booth, the English author of The Roads to Sata and Looking for the Lost, who walked across Shikoku in May and June 1983.

The Wilds of Shikoku is the short book I wrote about this journey that I published in print in 2019. You can read more about the book here and buy a copy in my shop.

I also kept a field diary as I walked.

Alan Booth’s account of his 1983 journey, Roads Out of Time, was published in February 1985 by Winds, the Japan Airlines in-flight magazine, then re-published in 2018 in the anthology This Great Stage of Fools.

I’m currently working on a Hungarian translation that combines Booth’s account with mine, which will be published here later in 2025.