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The Japan Rail NEWS tour

It's my goal to visit the compass points of Japan's railway system, from the North, East, West and South. I'm trying a more dynamic way of sharing updates about this trip, so if you want to follow me please go to allrite.at/blog

Update 27 September 2017

I've finished writing almost 30,000 words of text of the trip and am compiling it along with images and video into Stories which I will release on a separate site. It's a huge process! I may also publish each day separately on this blog in future.

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