![]() As a person living in Japan, some of the situations and people that Ferguson found were startlingly familiar – and so hilariously described that I found myself snapping photos of some passages and sending them off to friends a couple of times. I truly found myself being sucked in to the journey, and I read the whole thing almost straight through. Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan came to me very unexpectedly, a gift from my mother-in-law after the cover art caught her attention in a used bookshop. ![]() The resulting travelogue is one of the funniest and most illuminating books to be written on Japan. And to make it a challenge worth doing he’d hitchhike all the way, relying on the kindness of some very weird and wonderful strangers… And after way too much sake announced he would be the first person in recorded history to follow the blossom’s progress. ![]() ![]() Will Ferguson was celebrating the event in the standard fashion. ![]() With the same fervour they have for outlandish game shows and tiny gadgets the Japanese go nuts each spring when the cherry blossom sweeps from island to island towards the country’s northern tip – Hokkaido. ![]()
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