JOURNEY ACROSS JAPAN: NON-STOP NORTH ⛩️ Major Series Announcement! (Patreon)

5 years I made a promise I couldn’t keep.

A journey 2,000km across Japan shared through daily videos.

The whole aim of doing daily videos at the time wan’t so much an obnoxious challenge, as a way of taking viewers along the for the ride. Tune in everyday, join the journey and discover Japan.

And in many ways the series delivered.

We discovered unexplored regions of Japan, met many wonderful people along the way and had a refreshing variety of guests every step (or rather, every pedal) of the way.

However, we also failed to live up to the promise of daily content due to poor planning and boundless stupidity on my part.

Ever since, I’ve wondered what if we could live up to that original promise.

Well after 5 years and a ton of learning, it’s time to find out.

It’s time to end 2023 in style.

It's time for JOURNEY ACROSS JAPAN: NON-STOP NORTH!

1,500km. 6 Prefectures. 6 guests. Daily videos. Daily challenges.
(And not a single fucking bicycle in sight thank god).

As you guys may know, despite being home to six huge, diverse prefectures, Tohoku region in north Japan receives less than 1% of overseas tourists. Over the course of 21 days travelling through Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, Aomori, Akita and Yamagata, on Journey Across Japan we’ll encounter the people, places, sights and dishes that make the region unique.

There’ll be some familiar locations and not some new ones along the way and with daily challenges sent in by viewers to spice things up, it’ll make each day just that extra bit hellish.

But hopefully we’ll be able to encourage more folks to head up north on their trips to Japan. Especially as on recent trips to Kyoto and Osaka for a separate project, I nearly got swept away in the crowds. It’s a shame more travellers aren’t diverting from the usual spots.

Unsurprisingly, given the cold weather and snow we’ll face, we won’t be able to use bicycles on this trip (oh no, what a shame!). But we’ve got some other cool transport lined up.

And to produce daily videos with a high production quality, we’ve hired quite the team to make it happen.

Above all, I’m just looking forward to spending time in Tohoku, my favourite place in Japan. I realised that given Ryotaro and I produced so many travel videos there around 2016-2018, I almost felt as though I’d done it all, even though that couldn’t have been further from the truth. And I don’t think I should feel any shame in re-visiting certain locations again given half a decade has now passed. (Especially as we now have 4k wonder vision).

For those of you now really worried that I’m going to get burned out and shatter more promises, we have no less than six editors working on this trip and a team of 10 people joining at any one time. Simply put, there’s nothing short of an army this time around.

And though the videos will be released daily, there'll be a two day delay for editors to work on each video, giving a safety window to the series. For example, we start shooting on 28th of November with the first episode dropping on December 1st.

EXPECT more details in the week and a full public announcement, but for now guys, I hope you’re as excited as I am about this journey. Hopefully we can end 2023 in style with the trip of a lifetime, across an amazing region of Japan and above all, take you along for the ride every step of the way.

Journey Across Japan: Non-Stop North - across land, sea and snow, here we come!
(And get your challenges ready, you'll be able to submit them in a couple of days time).

P.S. This is a PATREON backed project guys, so a big thank you for making this possible!