hi, I just was reminding my cycling tour through japan, summer of 2008 ,through 5 weeks and around 3800km. I enjoyed the fantastic environment from hokkaido until the end of kyushu (sata misaki), I came back with a quite different look of that magic country, you know here in basq country (europe) people has just the image of the japanese big cities...
I just wanted to share my experience with you, if anybody want just to talk about it...