About

The Wayfarer Journal is a personal travel diary written by one slow traveler who keeps returning to Japan. It focuses on the corners guidebooks mention in a sentence: Uji's tea houses, the pilgrimage trails of the Kii Peninsula, and the island-hopping cycle routes of the Seto Inland Sea.

Expect honest logistics — train times, walking distances, bridge tolls, what I wish I had packed — alongside the small moments that make a trip worth writing down. New entries are published every few weeks, usually with a practical angle you can use on your own trip.

A personal travel diary of slow trips through Japan's quieter corners - tea towns, pilgrim paths, and island cycling routes.

Got a route suggestion or a question about a place I've written about? Head to the contact page.