TTokyo

In “don’t let your memes be dreams” news, I walked from Tokyo Station to Atami along the Tokaido Main Line.

  • January 4, 2026

Well, kind of. It took me a couple of days.

Day 1 – December 31st

I started my walk at about 15:00. I followed the line and passed Shinagawa, Kawasaki and Yokohama. I recognized some places from previous walks, but it was a very uneventful day. At Midnight I was somewhere between Yokohama and Totsuka and went to get some booze to celebrate the New Year.

Day 2 – January 1st

I decided that the best way to celebrate was to not drink, so I put the booze away and continued on my way. Since it was new years the train stations didn't close and I was able to collect all the eki stamps even in the late hours. I saw way more people on the street than I was expecting, which kind of kept me company.

Just when I was arriving at Ofuna Station I passed by a group of girls and one of them said hello and smiled. That's the most action I'm probably gonna get all year.

At Ofuna Station the lady working the 改札 kindly unlocked the みどりの窓口 so I could get my stamp. This at about 4:00.

After getting the stamp I went to see the Ofuna Kannon, and rested for a good bit on the bench, under Her merciful eye. Then I followed the path and entered the inner shrine, where I wrote my wish in a little notebook. I made sure to properly bow before returning to my little quest. "Yo no creo en las brujas, pero que las hay, las hay."

Walking through the night I began to wonder if and where I should sleep. I decided against sleeping in Fujisawa because at that time I wasn't really sleepy. I continued walking and eventually the Sun rose, and I decided not to sleep and walk until I couldn't anymore, and then to take a train to Atami and spend the following night there.

So I wandered the streets of the breathtakingly beautiful Shōnan region, "walking" from station to station, and stopping to rest increasingly more often. I passed the 80km mark around 11:00. "This is it. If I take one more step, it'll be the furthest away from home I've ever been."

When I got to Oiso I headed to the beach to finally get some rest. I took a little nap here, and honestly I could have died and wouldn't have minded. When I woke up I pressed on to Ninomiya, but at this point I was basically spiriting myself away, I felt like that little guy on a cloud with a fishing rod from Mario kart was pressing me forward.

When I arrived at Kamonomiya I finally gave up. Apparently there were no trains running south to Atami, so I took the train home.

When I got off the train I was moving so slowly that a old lady walking with a cane passed me.

Day 3 January 3rd

Before resuming my walk I went to see Kamifunaka park, as it was a filming location of one of my favorite dramas, Stepmother and daughter blues.

It was one of the best days of my life tbh. The weather was great, the views were amazing, and I was just feeling fantastic. I ate a lot of mikans, I saw the big beautiful moon over Sugami Bay, and got to Atami a couple of hours after nightfall.

I recommend the walk from Odawara to Atami to everyone.

Google maps has a weird bug and sends you deep into the mountains between Nebukawa and Manazuru. If like me you're afraid of being turned into bear poop, you can just follow Kanagawa prefectural road 740.

That's it, thank you for reading.

by pikachuisyourfriend

25 comments

  2. Nice work! I’ve done most of that route as I’m sectioning the Tokaido (done from Tokyo to Nagoya). Nowhere near as pretty as the Nakasendo, but some nice bits around Hakone. Damned cold winds at this time of year!

  6. So how were your feet doing after ~130 KM? Or do you walk this kind of distance often enough that it doesn’t completely demolish your legs afterwards?

  14. That’s awesome. I walked from Ebina to Hakone a few years ago which is only 40 km and I was in so much pain afterwards, I can’t imagine what 140 must feel like. Great work!

  15. Congrats!

    It took me 5 tries to succeed at my 100km-in-24-hours challenge (I did a round trip from Yokohama to some random 7-Eleven in Odawara) following Route 1, 30, and 135.

    I later discovered that there is something called [Tokyo Xtreme Walk]( https://www.asahi.com/xtremewalk/tokyo) where people walk from Odawara to Tokyo in teams.

  17. Nice walk and amazing pics! That must have felt like a pilgrimage 😀😀😀

  18. Waiting to the day that darn plantar fasciitis to go away and it will attempt some section , hopefully the bunions would be too bad.

  19. Man I regularly rack up like 30,000 steps a day in my line of work and am always flashing that count like Billy Big-Bollocks, then your man here just rocks up and casually drops that he walked to the equivalent of bloody Southampton just for the banter.

  23. Ha. I did 13km today around my local area. 5 hours worth including the shops I went into , the food I ordered and ate and then the 15 (?) mins after I got home before I stopped the timer. I got nothing on you. 13 is not even a warm up stretch!

  24. Once again, our mad lad has done it again.

    I see you’ve followed the train line and not the traditional Tokaido Road from the Edo era.

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