For those of you who don't know my name is Nelson Joseph Pacey, I'm and 18yr UK citizen and i'm currently on gap year.While on my gap year I worked at Primark for several months to raise money for university next year but  then one day on a whim i decided to quit my job and go to Japan for 3 months since I had the spare time and have dreamed of going to Japan for the past few years due to my love of their culture and animation.

During this trip I will cycling around Japan ALONE as i decided this was the cheapest and the best way to exlpore the country.Hopfully this will add more to the experience of being in Japan. I have only planned the route I shall be taking and not were i will staying each night so I hope their are plenty of hostels with free rooms. or a nice place to camp.

Now back to present were I only have 14 hours till I will be a plane going towards Japan! Where I will begin my journey cycling around Japan! Here is a map which shows roughly the route that I shall be cycling from Fukuoka to my target Wakkanai (northern most point of Japan) and then cycling back down  to Fukuoka.

So far I have spend the past day packing my stuff at the last minute and have found out that I'am 5kg over weight limit for which British airways will charge £40 for this. Which is annoying and I'm still under prepared so will have to buy most of the gear that I'm missing while I'am in Japan. I just hope BA dosen't lose my bike as i do not want to have to buy another one of those.

For those of you that are interested here are my flight details

Heathrow Terminal 5, Flight BA005 departing 13:25 June 22nd 2011

Arriving at Narita 09:05 June 23rd 2011

I then have a 6 hour break to my next flight

Narita (Tokyo) Terminal 2, Flight JL3053 departing 15:25 June 23rd 2011

Arriving at Fukuoka 17:25 June 23rd 2011

From the airport I plan to find some random hotel and were I shall stay the night. So thats it! My next post will be when I'm in Japan and I cab find a free  computer at the hotel or at an internet cafe.