Walking
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Start With a Walk (February, 2026)
Walking the Miura Peninsula in January -
The Walk and Talk, Nagano Kiso-ji (December, 2025)
An early December walk up the Kiso Valley -
Full Days and the Long Walk (October, 2025)
Full days out in the world over thin days with the algorithm -
Between Two Mountains — A New Pop-up Newsletter (September, 2025)
Walking 200 km of the Kiso Valley -
So, uh, I Walked Through Shibuya (August, 2025)
A little walk across Tokyo thinking about just where this all goes -
Eating Linoleum in Karuizawa (August, 2025)
Went looking for a peaceful walk, didn't find one -
Other Thing, Walking Yamaguchi (March, 2025)
Announcing a new Kii Peninsula photo book, some notes on places to stay in Yamaguchi -
Walking Tokyo on New Year's Day (January, 2025)
A little walk across a lot of time and space -
Tokyo Notes - Public Commons (July, 2024)
Thinking about sentos and shrines and kissaten and their value -
Tōkaidō on Film — People (July, 2024)
Some of the film I shot on the Tōkaidō in May 2024 -
Slow Time and the Bali Walk and Talk (June, 2024)
If you don't have time you can't be bored, and if you can't be bored ya might miss the good stuff -
Ben Pobjoy's Tips for Long Walks (May, 2024)
Ultra-walker Ben tells us how he does it -
Pachinko Road, One More Time (May, 2024)
Going back to walk the Tōkaidō from Kyoto to Tokyo -
Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks (April, 2024)
Always pick the long walk if you can pick the long walk -
Walking 2023 (February, 2024)
We walked about 700 or so deliberate kilometers in 2023 -
Things Become Other Things — Available Now! (November, 2023)
My new book about walking Japan is out -
Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO Part Three (October, 2023)
Let's walk all the way across Tokyo proper, from Chiba to Yamanashi -
The Last Summer Walk (September, 2023)
The summer is done and I only walked once -
Movie Credit Boredom in Japan (August, 2023)
The movie ends, nobody moves, nobody looks at their phones -
British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainwright's Coast to Coast (August, 2023)
Some notes on sandwiches and the English St. Bees to Robin Hood's Bay 300km Coast to Coast walk -
Walking Northern California (June, 2023)
An unexpected week of walks -
Things to Eat and Drink and Places to Stay Along the Kiso-Ji [Part 3] (June, 2023)
Walking from Shiojiri to Nakatsugawa -
Drumming is a Kind of Walking (May, 2023)
Drumming as a proxy for moving through the world -
A Walking Man (March, 2023)
Thinking about Jiro Taniguchi's seminal manga -
Walking Zelda (February, 2023)
Walking Hyrule for some thirty-six years -
Rewalking Tokyo Again and Again (February, 2023)
Some notes from the recent pop-up walk -
Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO² — Winter Edition (January, 2023)
A new pop-up newsletter starting Jan 17, 2023 -
The Sorta Kinda Life Changing Bliss of Walking Solo (December, 2022)
Why I mostly walk alone -
Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO for Seven Days (August, 2022)
A pop-up newsletter running from August 15-21, 2022 -
Walking Venice (July, 2022)
Notes on a week of walking Venice, an incredibly beautiful city that feels totally cursed -
Walking the Cotswolds,
Walking Japan (May, 2022)
Notes on a week of walking through rural England, comparing it to rural Japan -
Europe Walking, New Pop-up Newsletter — MIBAW (May, 2022)
Getting on a plane for the first time in 28 months elevates the heart rate -
Walk for the Boredom of it All (March, 2022)
Boredom is a goal and a fine one at that -
The 'Rules' of Walking (January, 2022)
Which rules to keep, and which to throw away on a long walk -
The Year in Walking — 2021 (December, 2021)
We walked, we wrote, we photographed -
The Next 500km+ Walk:
Ten Cities Across Japan (November, 2021)
Walking Japan in a 10 city blip -
Ōdaigahara Mountain Area (October, 2021)
A few days hiking the Ōdaigahara area of Mie and Nara Prefectures -
Groundhog Day, but Kinda Evil (August, 2021)
Drawing on walks to stay sane -
Walk Questions, Answered (#1) (July, 2021)
Some answers to questions asked about my recent Kumano Kodō walk -
All The Gear (June, 2021)
My general gear list for 2021 -
Pack Exhaustion (May, 2021)
Packing is hard work, man! -
New Pop-up Newsletter — Kumano Kodō (April, 2021)
Prepping for another thirty day walk -
Walk as Spreadsheet (April, 2021)
You fill in the rows and out comes a walk -
Mountain Mode, Village Mode (April, 2021)
The space between walks -
The Walk, A Concept (March, 2021)
Launching a documentary, conceptual walking -
Long, Boring Walks (March, 2021)
So boring! Such wonderful! -
Repetition On the Long Walk (March, 2021)
Looking again and again, and then once again -
A Late Night Walk in a Small Southern Town (February, 2021)
Can't sleep, move them feet -
The Buzz Cut (February, 2021)
You'd think a buzz would be a buzz would be a buzz -
Welcome Back to Our COVID Loop (January, 2021)
Back in lockdown, back on the Ridgeline express -
The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020 (December, 2020)
A million steps in the year of COVID -
Them Post-walk Blues (December, 2020)
Considering life after a big walk -
Nara, Wonderful Nara (December, 2020)
Exploring the mountains south of Nara -
Six Tōkaidō Moments (November, 2020)
Six moments on the Tōkaidō -
COVID-19 and Walking Japan (November, 2020)
What it's like to walk across Japan during the pandemic -
Walking Mode (November, 2020)
Still walking, busy days -
Housekeeping (November, 2020)
We're off, tomorrow -
Prepping for a Big Tōkaidō Walk (October, 2020)
The planned walk vs the unplanned walk -
Long Walk Thinking (September, 2020)
The time has come to consider once again the long walk -
Kanazawa, Clear Nodes (September, 2020)
Walking around Kanazawa in the age of no tourists -
Summer Walks (August, 2020)
Righting the lopsided with walks -
Karuizawa (August, 2020)
Woods and western homes -
Fish & Chips (July, 2020)
A 30km walk to Hayama and back -
A Walk in Griffith Park (July, 2020)
A game on grief -
A Famous Journalist (July, 2020)
Things we say when flustered -
Walking the Inland Sea of Japan (June, 2020)
Art islands and islands lesser known -
A Walk, a Protest (June, 2020)
Can a walk alone, with nobody nearby be a protest? -
Kodomo-no-hi (May, 2020)
Walking on children's day -
A Very Big Walking Website (April, 2020)
Walking the Ise-ji for 15,000 words -
A Year of Walking, and Then Not (April, 2020)
Suddenly being forced to stay still -
Consider Joe Pera’s Gait (April, 2020)
Joe Pera walks like an elderly man -
Walking Nan Shepherd’s Mountain (March, 2020)
Walk in a book when you can't walk outside -
Walking in the Age of Corona (March, 2020)
Let's walk, but not too close now -
The Silver Mine with the Dog (March, 2020)
Go for a walk in Shimane -
Walking the Hagi Ōkan (March, 2020)
A little-known path in Yamaguchi -
A Walk is a Tool and a Platform (February, 2020)
My talk from Figma's Config conference -
The Rigor of Process (January, 2020)
On how walking can reveal the story of place -
Obama, City of Saba (January, 2020)
Visiting Obama City and trying to figure out what makes a tourist destination tick -
Pop-Up Highlights (December, 2019)
Highlights from pop-up walk 001 -
That Floating Feeling (December, 2019)
Out of body walking -
My Kingdom for Bread (November, 2019)
Some notes on prepping for a long walk -
A Billion Billion Steps (November, 2019)
A few moments along the road in Japan -
Cocoon of Sleep (October, 2019)
How to sleep anywhere, reliably -
Oze National Park (October, 2019)
Everyone is elderly and the planks are pretty -
A Review of a Bed — Part 2 (September, 2019)
Monastic sleepy time -
A Winter Walk (September, 2019)
Planning 600km in December -
Responses to SMSes — Part 3 (September, 2019)
More responses to the SMS book -
Soviet Horse Race (September, 2019)
A walk is both a walk and not a walk -
Travel / Walking Gear (August, 2019)
A few notes on gear for the long walk -
Walk as Public Talk (August, 2019)
On giving a talk on walking in New York -
Country Texture, City Texture (August, 2019)
City of stone, city of glass -
A Review of Beds — Part 1 (July, 2019)
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Responses to SMSes – Part 2 (July, 2019)
An SMS experiment, a walk -
Walking, Habits, Systems (July, 2019)
A long walk is a framework for monotonous improvement -
Ascetic Pants (June, 2019)
Stop, walking time -
Walk and Transcribe (June, 2019)
A good tool for a long walk -
The Unresolved Walk, the Best Walk (May, 2019)
Leaving something to return to -
Special photo edition: Didn't Die in the Mountains (May, 2019)
Every aching muscle -
Scale (April, 2019)
Scale is all that matters -
Inoh Tadataka and the Tools of a Walk (April, 2019)
Walking tools and tools for walking -
A Few Feet Above the Earth (March, 2019)
On balance and the inner ear