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Here are some statistics from August 2, 2003 to April 25th, 2018 of my hitchhiking adventures in Japan. I’m sorry I didn’t do this from when I started hitchhiking regularly since 1998.

My days of hitchhiking in Japan are over. On May 5th, 2018, I started a brand new life in Guam with my bride! The chart shows the distances I traveled by hitchhiking since I kept records, a total of 258,500 kilometers. I estimate the total distance hitchhiked over 20 years from March 1998 to be 350,000 kilometers.

Unless I return to Japan with my bride Tess, it looks like my hitchhiking days are over! I do look forward to visiting Japan with her and traveling with her at least once by hitchhiking. I think she will enjoy it too!

Stats from August 2, 2003, page updated May 24, 2018
Item Total Percentage of total vehicles
# of days traveled 1084
Total distance traveled 254,484 kilometers
Longest distance in a single vehicle: 600 kilometers
Shortest distance in a single vehicle: 0.1 kilometers
Average distance per vehicle 62 kilometers
Average distance per day hitchhiked. 234 kilometers
Longest trip to date: 1457 kilometers (trip to Kyushu in year 2009 from Niigata City)
# of vehicles: 4133
# of trucks: 212 5%
# of married couples or whole families 629 15%
# of vehicles with children under 10 years old 223 5%
# of vehicles with small children with only mother present 79 1.94%
# of ladies unaccompanied by an adult male 691 16.7%
# of single male/female couples 103 2.5%
# Company presidents 85 2%
# of cars with non-Japanese foreigners: 68 1.7%

Everybody else not included in the list of percentages is either a businessman or a company employee.

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Hitchhike Stats — 2 Comments

    • It depends where my destination is. Going to Aomori City from home is about 250 miles. Going to Osaka is about 360 miles.

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