Japan for Road Trippers & Driving Travelers

About this book

Japan is the world's most rewarding driving country — and this is its first complete English guide for the driver. Two hundred entries in one uniform format begin with the grammar of the road itself: left-hand traffic, the sign system, expressways and ETC, service areas, renting, fuelling and parking. Then the country unrolls region by region — Hokkaido's straight grids and snow roads, the Alps and the Noto coast, the great Seto bridges, Shikoku's gorges and Kyushu's volcano country — before taking the car onto the water: Okinawa's sea bridges, the island chains, the great overnight ferries. Part 7 reads the road culture that feeds the driver — above all the michi-no-eki roadside-station network as one system — and Part 8 assembles the journey itself: honest distances, one-way rentals, the blossom chase north and the colour chase south, family and solo and three-generation drives, and graceful reroutes when the plan breaks. No tolls quoted, no rules asserted, nothing that expires: every entry ends with the official channels to confirm the living details, so the knowledge stays true. Written in Japan, for the traveller who wants the wheel.