Sunday, December 22, 2013

Printing a map

We will not be following the Nakasendo reloigiously, but rather look for places along it worth a detour. We have 22 days in Japan together, and still want to see some of Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, so we plan to spend 18 days for the trip at most.That should suffice for the trail itself plus a few detours.

Map of the Nakasendo, found on Walking the Nakasendo


I decided to print my own map from Google Maps, because I don't want to be carrying a heavy book around, and have to shuffle through the pages all the time.

Even with Google Maps it wasn't easy to find the complete Nakasendo. I took 19 screenshots and marked the Nakasendo on them, then compiled them into a pdf. Also I found a table with all 69 stations of the Nakasendo on a Japanese website, and copied it into an xls file. This way I can always see what township is next, even if we lost the Nakasendo itself temporarily.

I will print and laminate both of those so they are waterproof.

In the next two weeks I will list a handful of possible detours here.

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