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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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