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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#479 - Hike Japan's Nakasendo Trail

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hear about hiking Japan's Nakasendo Trail as the Amateur Traveler talks to Dave Grenewetzki about his experiences on this trip into the Japanese countryside between Kyoto and Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:05.4

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0:16.3

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0:18.6

I got my bags packed on a roll.

0:22.4

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go. Looking real good in my

0:27.6

passport photo.

0:30.6

Amateur Traveler, episode 479. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about hiking in the

0:36.1

countryside of Japan. We'll hear about mountains and rice paddies, Rio Cans and

0:41.5

Castles made of wood. as we hike Japan's Nakacendo Trail.

0:47.0

Welcome to the Adventure Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll hear more from our

0:55.7

sponsor who is Travel Smith later on in the show, but first let's talk about Japan.

1:07.5

I like to welcome back to the show Dave Granowetsky who's come to talk to us about Japan. Dave, welcome back to the show. Hey Chris, great to be here.

1:11.8

Dave has been on the show twice before, once talking about Iceland,

1:15.0

which made my list of top shows that I remember for the last 10 years,

1:19.0

and then also India, and I enjoyed that episode as well.

1:22.0

So welcome back. You did a part of Japan that I did relatively

1:27.2

recently, but you did it very different than I did.

1:30.1

Yeah, I spent many years in video game business and I traveled to Japan often on business, mostly to Tokyo and Kyoto.

1:38.0

So we went back this time purely in vacation mode and decided to try to get off the beaten path and out of the big cities and indulge our hiking

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