For its many active volcanoes, Kyushu is Japan’s Land of Fire. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are the ugly and life-threatening manifestations of Kyushu’s subterranean activity. The pleasant sides of Kyushu’s underground stirrings are its countless onsen, the hot springs, hence Kyushu is Japan’s Onsen Island.
As an island with strings of smaller sub-tropical islands all around it, Kyushu abounds in the endless coastline. While much of Kyushu’s coast is developed, much of it is pristine and stunning.
Kyushu offers an incredible variety of nature, fascinating history and alluring culture. Everything a touring cyclist could dream of is in Kyushu — from challenging terrain and fantastic roads to the ever-present onsen where to soak your aching muscles.
Bicycle Touring Kyushu, Japan’s third largest island, is a travelogue and a cycling guide for an avid cyclist and a travel enthusiast.
The essence of the book is the pictorial, a 17-stage photographic journey of Kyushu’s most spectacular parts as narrated by a cyclist traveling around the island.
Written by an avid cyclist and a photographer, with many cycling guides to his name, an adventure and cultural travel professional with four decades of travel throughout Asia and the rest of the world, Bicycle Touring Kyushu provides an insightful background for a richer and more rewarding travel experience on this extraordinary island.
346 pages, containing 957 photographs with informative narrative, details of route stages and distances, and the related GPS tracks you can download and follow as if a guide is showing you the way, the book promises to entice any intrepid or armchair traveler, above all, anyone planning to set out on a similar journey around Kyushu.
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The paperback version Bicycle Touring Kyushu of this title is available on Amazon.