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Long-distance trail in Japan
Nakasendō
Nakasendō runs 557 km through Japan in one continuous line. The route below is the waymarked relation itself, kept by the people who paint the blazes, not a line traced over a map by us.
Walk any of it with wayly and the trail keeps its own score. Every track you record clears the ground you covered, and the share of the trail lying inside that cleared ground is your progress — 445 km of it — 80 % and it counts as walked. Nothing to tick, and nothing to remember when you get home.
Trail passport
28 stamps, one for every 20 km — pressed by the tracks you record, not by a button
About the trail
The Nakasendō (中山道, Central Mountain Route), also called the Kisokaidō (木曾街道), was one of the centrally administered five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto. There were 69 stations (staging-posts) between Edo and Kyoto, crossing through Musashi, Kōzuke, Shinano, Mino and Ōmi provinces.
Walk it, or just look closer
The full route view carries the height profile, the climbs, the weather over it and a GPX you can put on a watch. Open Nakasendō in the route viewer →
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Questions
How long is Nakasendō?
557 km. wayly counts it walked when your recorded tracks cover 445 km of it — 80 %.
Which countries does Nakasendō cross?
It stays inside Japan.
