Hello, I hope you enjoy watching our ride through Japan. Lots of people have asked about our route, and other questions about planning, so I've put together a mini-FAQ here: oscarboyd.substack.com/p/how-to-cycle-the-length-of-japan.
What an absolute legend! Really enjoyed watching this from start to finish mate. I gave out a cheer when you turned the corner to reveal Mount Chokai towering over Yamagata’s coastline. It felt like going home again 🍻
This is some of the best film making I've seen on UA-cam. This could be on the BBC. What a great job filming, editing and producing this. And what an amazing, amazing human journey. Thank you for sharing this on UA-cam.
Awesome video bro! Loved hearing the toads (hehe, you know me). What beautiful scenery - and the cafes/restaurants looked so freakin good. So well filmed, edited and narrated, and it's nice to hear some of my music soundtracking your amazing journey ❤
It really is a cyclists paradise! I live in the UK and I've been visiting and cycling in Japan for the last ten years where cyclists are shown respect from drivers and people in general, which makes it much safer for cyclists. The country is beautiful and the food is exquisite. Sadly, good Japanese food is generally difficult to find in the UK. Brilliant video, thank you! Yay!
Thank you for coming to Japan and made this amazing video. This show me how beautiful this my country is. Now I want to ride where I've never been, especially TOHOKU, but I must wait next Spring!
What an amazingly beautiful and truly inspirational storytelling of probably one of the most fantastic bike packing trips. This one is definitely topping my bucket list now. Congratulations to this video! I hope it'll stay on UA-cam for eternity. Arigato gozaimasu! Otsukaresama.
WOW, this one is Truly Special! As an avid cyclist, photographer and Japanophile, I absolutely appreciate the work and effort that went into it's creation, Well Done and be proud, is what I say. This will be shared with friends and rewatched, many times!
there is so, so much beauty in this planet, and i don´t think i´ve ever seen a better showcase of it, than this video here. i´ve been living in Japan for a long time now and have actually visited a few of the landmarks you showed here. the fact that you got your cameras to capture not only the landscapes, but also their beauty, peacefulness, and their grandness, speaks volumes of your abilities as a videographer. i teared up several times during this video... i can only hope to ever see more landscapes as half as beautiful as the ones you captured. that is, unless i grab my bike and start pedaling too... 🤔
The way you put the film together is perfect, it was such a good watch and i’m sure you have inspired a lot people just like me to explore japan on 2 wheels ✌️
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful ride. Watching it was a pleasure and 45 min flew by like nothing. Oh and awesome shots and editing in my opinion!
Superb....having just cycled the length of France, I feel humbled by your wonderful adventure. And, as I lived a few years in Hokkaido, it was great to revisit familiar territory. Arigato.
Absolutely amazing! The adventure itself as well of course, but most "travel" videos of this length are just someone sticking a GoPro to the handlebar and riding along without any commentary. This is proper documentary style and I can't think of a better video I've ever watched about cycling through Japan.
Amazing video! I’m so happy I just stumbled upon your channel. I was a long-time listener of Deep Dive and now I finally get more of your story-telling!
Thank you for including the map. Bike-packing videos rarely have one, but it is so interesting to see the progress while watching the video. Also, your storytelling is marvelous, like listening to an audiobook. 😃
I do some long routes, but this is amazing! I may eventually download the GPX files, but this may be a retirement type trip! You guys had some horrendous rain but good on you for gutting it out! Thanks for the splendid images!
I've been to Japan and absolutely adore it. Plus, I'm a very keen cyclist so this was beautiful to watch. Amazing video guys. Gives me an itch for more wanderlust. Very inspirational. Chapeau!
Seicomart! Absolute proof you made it to Hokkaido! 😁Can't get enough of the place, but it amazes me that you had any time at all for even brief sightseeing with the daily distance you had to cover. Well done!
Every now and again UA-cam recommendations works as I hoped it would and introduces me to wonderful content. Thank you for sharing your amazing adventure. I enjoyed every moment of your journey.
congratulations, man.. for the journey.. THAT IS EPIC thank you for share all the experience and very nice documented video once agai n congratulations for both of you
Thanks for the great video! Looks like an amazing adventure with great mates! I fell in love with (cycling in) Japan so much i married into the place and helped repopulate it a little bit!👩❤️👨👦👦... In my time there over the years Ive also ridden all 4 main islands in my time and experienced the ecstacy of great food, people, roads and scenery / agony of cooking sun, hammering rain and tunnels of terror! 😂👍... Your video brought great back memories 懐かしいですね! Like you at the end of the day would i do it all again? もちろん!!! Thanks again for the great video, g'day from west Australia and hope to catch you on the road in Japan one day! 😂👍🇦🇺🇯🇵🚴🚴🚴🚴
Thank you sooo much for thinking about this and doing a video about it. I've been in love with Japan for a long time, and I like to go by bicycle, but seeing this, I just wondered why I never thought about doing something similar.
As a bike rider, due to a vision problem that is just bad enough, I cant pass the eye test. You guys did okay. 62 miles a day is not too bad. As long as you plan at least one rest day every 4 to 5 days. Thanks for taking me along. Oh, and I ride a two wheeled recumbent bike.
Such an awesome video production of a great cycling journey in Japan! Absolutely great! I am a cyclist (well, sort of) myself. I am a Japanese national living in Tokyo area and have done Sapporo-Hakodate, Asahikawa-Cape Soya and some ride in Oita (which is my hometown). This video makes me want to cycle more places! Thank you for this fabulous video!
Since you said you’d do it again, some thoughts on potential detours and/or alternative routes that might make sense- * Shimanami Kaido, beautiful sea view and wonderful islands. Not sure how best to continue once you reach Honshu though. * Toyama Bay. Said to be one of the most beautiful bays in the world. Probably doable if the route cuts through Honshu near Biwako (also a nice spot), * Tokaido. Beautiful sealine, and Hakone in the middle for awesome onsen. Downside is it takes you to Yokohama and things get worse quickly beyond that. * Niseko is also Japan’s top spot for Gravel cycling so… I don’t know, just throwing it out there I guess.
I loved your footage! I planned to do something similar in 2021. But covid came so I changed my plans. But now I am determined to do it somewhere in the future. Next year I will retire and plan to do the GDMBR first. When I cycle Japan and South Korea I plan to go there and back without the use of a plane! An adventure definitely! Thank you again!👍🇳🇱
The next adventure will be the GDMBR. I will use a drone for the first time. Maybe I will document the adventure in time through UA-cam. But during the GDMBR I think I will use Polarsteps. Still 6 months to go…😜
Incredible journey you did, amazing in such mountainous country with narrow road, not so good for cycling, must be exhausting and faced some dangerous occasions. Hope you would come back again, please cycle along Okhotuk in Hokkaido Island and Pacific coast of Northern Honshu to Tokyo.
I spent 5 incredible and life shaping years in Japan, beginning 1978 till end 1982. Watching this has made me feel so home sick - brilliant and well done on such a big bike adventure
Hey, I watch a lot of bikepacking videos. A LOT. Wistfully dreaming about the day I have the bravery to take my own adventure. I need you to know this is the best one I've seen. Period. Beautiful in its simplicity and positivity. You expertly show the ins and outs of each place you travel to. I'm here at 6.9k views and that seems criminal to me. Well done.
Hello, I hope you enjoy watching our ride through Japan. Lots of people have asked about our route, and other questions about planning, so I've put together a mini-FAQ here: oscarboyd.substack.com/p/how-to-cycle-the-length-of-japan.
Absolutely amazing little guide. Thanks !
What an absolute legend! Really enjoyed watching this from start to finish mate. I gave out a cheer when you turned the corner to reveal Mount Chokai towering over Yamagata’s coastline. It felt like going home again 🍻
Thanks man, and for all the tips in the Sakata area! She's the gift that keeps on giving, and an absolutely stunning bit of coastal road.
If Mr. Affable himself likes this guy, I will definitely check out his channel ❤
Was like Chris and Conner, with less complaining hahaha.... Great job guys
Take some notes on his appropiate choice of bicycletype and saddle height😅
Did I recognise the long blue bridge where Pete nearly met his end? 😂
This is some of the best film making I've seen on UA-cam. This could be on the BBC. What a great job filming, editing and producing this. And what an amazing, amazing human journey. Thank you for sharing this on UA-cam.
Awesome video bro! Loved hearing the toads (hehe, you know me). What beautiful scenery - and the cafes/restaurants looked so freakin good. So well filmed, edited and narrated, and it's nice to hear some of my music soundtracking your amazing journey ❤
It really is a cyclists paradise! I live in the UK and I've been visiting and cycling in Japan for the last ten years where cyclists are shown respect from drivers and people in general, which makes it much safer for cyclists. The country is beautiful and the food is exquisite. Sadly, good Japanese food is generally difficult to find in the UK. Brilliant video, thank you! Yay!
Probably the best cycling travelogue I've seen in quite a while. Gambatta!.
This film was so enjoyable to watch. The quality of storytelling, camera work, and music was perfection. Thank you.
Thank you for coming to Japan and made this amazing video. This show me how beautiful this my country is. Now I want to ride where I've never been, especially TOHOKU, but I must wait next Spring!
日本を自転車の旅で満喫してくれてありがとう！私は忙しくて近隣の山しか自転車で行けていけてないので、このような旅をとてもうらやましく思います！
ありがとうございます！
What an absolutely beautiful bike video! Stunning country, stunning footage
Stunning scenery, cool story, and Oscar Boyd has one of the most soothing voices around.
What an amazingly beautiful and truly inspirational storytelling of probably one of the most fantastic bike packing trips. This one is definitely topping my bucket list now. Congratulations to this video! I hope it'll stay on UA-cam for eternity. Arigato gozaimasu! Otsukaresama.
WOW, this one is Truly Special!
As an avid cyclist, photographer and Japanophile,
I absolutely appreciate the work and effort that went into
it's creation, Well Done and be proud, is what I say.
This will be shared with friends and rewatched, many times!
there is so, so much beauty in this planet, and i don´t think i´ve ever seen a better showcase of it, than this video here.
i´ve been living in Japan for a long time now and have actually visited a few of the landmarks you showed here. the fact that you got your cameras to capture not only the landscapes, but also their beauty, peacefulness, and their grandness, speaks volumes of your abilities as a videographer.
i teared up several times during this video... i can only hope to ever see more landscapes as half as beautiful as the ones you captured. that is, unless i grab my bike and start pedaling too... 🤔
Stunning location, thanks for sharing 👍
This is how I would gladly spend the rest of my life. Fantastic film.
It would get extremely old after a couple of months.
@@earlysdaI would work in some rest days.
@@AndrewVanBeekOttawa Nice pun, Andrew.😀
Awesome trip, happy for a people who is doing things like this.
Thanks for sharing your fantastic adventure.
Can not wait for part 2 :-)
The way you put the film together is perfect, it was such a good watch and i’m sure you have inspired a lot people just like me to explore japan on 2 wheels ✌️
Thank you!! It has entertained me and as well as encouraged me to keep visiting great cycling countries of the world.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful ride. Watching it was a pleasure and 45 min flew by like nothing. Oh and awesome shots and editing in my opinion!
really enjoyed it and great pictures in the end!
Such a wholesome film, thank you so much!
I have cardiology exam in two days and full of stress. Thank you to make me dream.
Good luck with the exam!
Fantastic trip, with great scenery, and awesome storytelling. Thank you!
Excellent storytelling, joy to watch!
This video deserves more attention ❤
Bloody epic ride and video to showcase it guys. Excellent stuff all round. Loved it heaps.
So well made, such a wonderful adventure, thank you for this journey.
Superb....having just cycled the length of France, I feel humbled by your wonderful adventure. And, as I lived a few years in Hokkaido, it was great to revisit familiar territory. Arigato.
Absolutely amazing! The adventure itself as well of course, but most "travel" videos of this length are just someone sticking a GoPro to the handlebar and riding along without any commentary. This is proper documentary style and I can't think of a better video I've ever watched about cycling through Japan.
You deserve more subs. This was epic. I hope in the future I can travel japan like what you did. I hope you can share a detailed route of this 🙏
Terrific adventure, fabulous production values.
Incredible journey almost the all Japanese couldn’t have experienced like that 🎉
Outstanding work all round.
Now there was a show from NHK world Japan called cycle around Japan, you remind us of that mate 😊
What an adventure!
Amazing ride, storytelling and Japan experience. ども ありがと!
Amazing video! I’m so happy I just stumbled upon your channel. I was a long-time listener of Deep Dive and now I finally get more of your story-telling!
Thank you for including the map. Bike-packing videos rarely have one, but it is so interesting to see the progress while watching the video. Also, your storytelling is marvelous, like listening to an audiobook. 😃
Wow what an amazing adventure video!! Glad i came across it, love Japan and biking ❤
Great ride.
Fabulous video.
And wonderful Tadej-Tuft at 25:46 !
Great journey, and a nice film. Deserves more views definitely. Like it.
I do some long routes, but this is amazing! I may eventually download the GPX files, but this may be a retirement type trip! You guys had some horrendous rain but good on you for gutting it out! Thanks for the splendid images!
Great adventure. Enjoyable watching, well cut and produced. Thanks for your hard work in film-making :)
Japan is on my travel list for years but I never thougth about cycling threre. Your gem of a Film changed my mind
What an absolutely great travel adventure and so well-documented! Thank you for sharing!
This popped on to my feed so I clicked play, so glad I did, this is a jem of video. Bravo guys, a beautiful journey.
Added to my bucket list , I will do in future ❤
Excellent video! Ride of a lifetime is right. Great job!
I've been to Japan and absolutely adore it. Plus, I'm a very keen cyclist so this was beautiful to watch. Amazing video guys. Gives me an itch for more wanderlust. Very inspirational. Chapeau!
Seicomart! Absolute proof you made it to Hokkaido! 😁Can't get enough of the place, but it amazes me that you had any time at all for even brief sightseeing with the daily distance you had to cover. Well done!
What a fantastic film! Thank you for sharing your adventure. Your storytelling and videography is wonderful!
Great video, was a pleasure to watch!
Amazing trip! 🤩 Thanks for sharing your adventure along with the beautiful images. So much fun to watch it! 😁
Every now and again UA-cam recommendations works as I hoped it would and introduces me to wonderful content.
Thank you for sharing your amazing adventure. I enjoyed every moment of your journey.
congratulations, man..
for the journey.. THAT IS EPIC
thank you for share all the experience
and very nice documented video
once agai n congratulations for both of you
I super enjoyed your vlog. Ride safe always. Cheers 🍻
What an amazing adventure and video.
I loved all of it.
Cycling in Japan is a special experience.
Congratulations guys! Great journey. Scenery unrivaled. Beautiful quality video and narration. Inspiring, spirited and legendary. Peace out. 😊
Thanks for the great video! Looks like an amazing adventure with great mates!
I fell in love with (cycling in) Japan so much i married into the place and helped repopulate it a little bit!👩❤️👨👦👦... In my time there over the years Ive also ridden all 4 main islands in my time and experienced the ecstacy of great food, people, roads and scenery / agony of cooking sun, hammering rain and tunnels of terror! 😂👍... Your video brought great back memories 懐かしいですね!
Like you at the end of the day would i do it all again? もちろん!!!
Thanks again for the great video, g'day from west Australia and hope to catch you on the road in Japan one day! 😂👍🇦🇺🇯🇵🚴🚴🚴🚴
What an incredible journey! Definitely adding this to my bucket list!
Thank you sooo much for thinking about this and doing a video about it. I've been in love with Japan for a long time, and I like to go by bicycle, but seeing this, I just wondered why I never thought about doing something similar.
This is a superb cycling tour of Japan. Very professional and really enjoyable. Thank you for sharing.
Bravo Oscar - an absolutely brilliant movie and effort from you all.
Fabulous video! What an epic adventure, Japan is on my list in the next few years. Great quality as so many have said.
This was a great watch.
Thanks for sharing your story with us.
Take care and have a great day.
This is THE BEST trans-japan cycling video I've watched on UA-cam! Very nicely done. Cheers!
Congratulations on the epic journey! Appreciations for sharing!
As a bike rider, due to a vision problem that is just bad enough, I cant pass the eye test. You guys did okay. 62 miles a day is not too bad. As long as you plan at least one rest day every 4 to 5 days. Thanks for taking me along. Oh, and I ride a two wheeled recumbent bike.
Great film mate. It makes me feel like travelling on a bike together, I just sit at the desk to see your adventure drinking tea though.
Such an awesome video production of a great cycling journey in Japan! Absolutely great! I am a cyclist (well, sort of) myself. I am a Japanese national living in Tokyo area and have done Sapporo-Hakodate, Asahikawa-Cape Soya and some ride in Oita (which is my hometown). This video makes me want to cycle more places! Thank you for this fabulous video!
Just like the many comments below, this was absolutely perfect in every sense.
what a delightful little film, well done!
What a trip, good on you!
Looks like an incredible journey! And amazing job on capturing the journey, the video production and commentary!
Excellent mix of footages, love the storyline and the cycling narrative. Cheers!
Thanks for bringing us along for the adventure! This is one where I could actually feel the highs and lows of your epic trip.
Since you said you’d do it again, some thoughts on potential detours and/or alternative routes that might make sense-
* Shimanami Kaido, beautiful sea view and wonderful islands. Not sure how best to continue once you reach Honshu though.
* Toyama Bay. Said to be one of the most beautiful bays in the world. Probably doable if the route cuts through Honshu near Biwako (also a nice spot),
* Tokaido. Beautiful sealine, and Hakone in the middle for awesome onsen. Downside is it takes you to Yokohama and things get worse quickly beyond that.
* Niseko is also Japan’s top spot for Gravel cycling so… I don’t know, just throwing it out there I guess.
One of the best 'Japan by cycle' travelogues on UA-cam. Fantastic storytelling and visuals.
A masterpiece! The ride, the filming, the story, congratulations!
@@NickSzasz thank you Nick! Hope you’re keeping well in Kyushu
@@OscarBoyd Absolutely! Still loving life in Kyushu and hitting the roads on our bicycles as often as we can. Ride by next time-would love to see you!
What a wonderful adventure! There is nothing better than experiencing a country by bicycle!
Really one of the best. I enjoyed it immensely and learnt a lot.
very unforgettable experience.... a very nice adventure of a lifetime...
Looked amazing... some proper Type 2 Fun at times though!
The temple you slept in Koyasan is absolutely mind blowing. It is so damn pretty in Japan !
Great story, well filmed and superbly edited.
Cool, I have cycled most of Japan about 10 years ago =)
I recommend anyone to venture out of Japan's big cities, and into smaller cities, and towns. It's a very different experience. This is true Japan
Wow this is one of the great cycling adventure in Japan. Keep up the awesome work. 💯👍
Great journey guys, amazing. 15:00 it's unreal 😂😂😂
Loved it... very well done.
What an amazing film! I had no idea you did video this well. And what an inspiring ride!
Stunning!! Thank you for sharing, it’s on my bucket list now!! 12/10 🎉🎉
I loved your footage! I planned to do something similar in 2021. But covid came so I changed my plans. But now I am determined to do it somewhere in the future. Next year I will retire and plan to do the GDMBR first. When I cycle Japan and South Korea I plan to go there and back without the use of a plane! An adventure definitely! Thank you again!👍🇳🇱
Wow, what an amazing adventure, good luck with it! Will you be documenting the journey there at all?
The next adventure will be the GDMBR. I will use a drone for the first time. Maybe I will document the adventure in time through UA-cam. But during the GDMBR I think I will use Polarsteps. Still 6 months to go…😜
Incredible journey you did, amazing in such mountainous country with narrow road, not so good for cycling, must be exhausting and faced some dangerous occasions. Hope you would come back again, please cycle along Okhotuk in Hokkaido Island and Pacific coast of Northern Honshu to Tokyo.
Man I love your storytelling! Amazing content 🎉
thank you Schabbi!!
This is one amazing adventure film we have seen on Japan. It will help us plan out our next cycling adventure in Japan. Thank you so much !
I spent 5 incredible and life shaping years in Japan, beginning 1978 till end 1982. Watching this has made me feel so home sick - brilliant and well done on such a big bike adventure
Hey, I watch a lot of bikepacking videos. A LOT. Wistfully dreaming about the day I have the bravery to take my own adventure. I need you to know this is the best one I've seen. Period. Beautiful in its simplicity and positivity. You expertly show the ins and outs of each place you travel to. I'm here at 6.9k views and that seems criminal to me. Well done.
thanks so much for the kind words. And I hope you make your bike packing adventure a reality some day!