Hokkaido, Japan (2022)
- Start: August 22, 2022 — Nemuro, Hokkaido
- End: September 14, 2022 — Wakkanai, Hokkaido
- Distance: ~640 kilometers
The second part of my circumambulation of Japan, on the same calendar day and from the same place where I left off in 2017. My brother Gabor Orosz joined me for the first half, until Abashiri, from there I walked alone. I wrote a series of longer dispatches from the road called Human Again.
Chūgoku (Western Honshu), Japan (2019)
- Start: October 30, 2019 — ShĹ«zan, UkyĹŤ Ward, KyĹŤto
- End: November 10, 2019 — Matsue, Shimane
- Distance: ~420 kilometers
A walk across the prefectures of Kyōto, Hyōgo, Tottori, and a bit of Matsue; about half of the region called Chūgoku, which is the part of Honshu west of Osaka and Kyōto. This was immediately after the month I spent re-thatching an old farmhouse in Kyōto, which will be the subject of my second book, A Something Like Piece. Apart from a few pictures I posted to Glass, I didn’t publish anything about this journey. It was mostly an effort to clear my mind, something I failed at.
Shikoku, Japan (2019)
- Start: January 24, 2019 — Cape GamĹŤda, the easternmost point of Shikoku
- End: February 8, 2019 — Cape Sada, the westernmost point of Shikoku
- Distance: ~500 kilometers
This is the walk that became the subject of The Wilds of Shikoku, my first book. I re-traced the steps of Alan Booth, as I reconstructed them from the book This Great Stage of Fools, who walked across Shikoku in May and June 1983. My friend Gyula Simonyi accompanied me halfway across the island, from there I walked alone to Cape Sada. You can read all about this walk if you buy my book about it.
The length of Japan (2017)
- Start: April 13, 2017 — Kagoshima City, Kyushu
- End: August 21, 2017 — Nemuro Station, Hokkaido
- Distance: ~4,300 kilometers
Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan (2016)
- Start: April 30, 2016 — Hamadan, Iran
- End: May 25, 2016 — Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan
- Distance: ~800 kilometers
South Kyushu, Japan (2015)
- Start: December 7, 2015 — Tarumizu, Kagoshima
- End: December 14, 2015 — Izumi, Kagoshima
- Distance: ~210 kilometers
Yakushima, Japan (2015)
- Start: October 16, 2015 — Hirauchi, Yakushima
- End: October 22, 2015 — Miyanoura, Yakushima
- Distance: ~160 kilometers
Hungary—Serbia—Croatia borderlands (2015)
- Start: September 10, 2015 — Érsekcsanád, Hungary
- End: September 13, 2015 — Beli Manastir, Croatia
- Distance: ~100 kilometers
Transdanubia, Hungary (2015)
- Start: July 23, 2015 — BalatonszĹ‘lĹ‘s, Hungary
- End: July 29, 2015 — Tokod, Hungary
- Distance: ~270 kilometers