Japan / Apr 2026

Tokyo to Nagasaki, by air and rail.

An edited route note with city bases, rail gaps, walking days, weather, food streets, and arrival tempo.

Tokyo to Nagasaki, by air and rail.

This is the first public route note. It is still a compact piece: edited maps, selected photographs, and the outline of the trip before the longer essay exists.

The route moves from Tokyo scale to Fukuoka ease, then to Nagasaki's hills and weather. The point here is not to publish every stop. It is to keep enough shape that a later essay can attach food streets, rooms, museums, rain, train gaps, and the small frictions that make the trip memorable.

Japan route overview map — Overview route map for the Japan trip. Public travel pages show edited routes and city anchors, not raw private location history.

Route logic.

TokyoArrival, station transfers, dense walking days, and the first adjustment to scale.

FukuokaA softer base, food streets, airport logic, and a slower urban rhythm.

NagasakiHills, weather, memory, and a walking day with a different tempo.

RailTransfers connect the route into one edited sequence rather than one city note.

ScenesFood streets, hotel rooms, weather, museums, and walking routes carry the public version.

City snapshots.

Tokyo route map — Tokyo / Shibuya segment.

Fukuoka route map — Fukuoka loop and transfer base.

Nagasaki route map — Nagasaki walking day.

Future writing.

This page will become a fuller essay when the scenes are written. For now it stays honest as a route note: city anchors, transfer logic, and visual material that can support the longer piece later.