The Reality of Riding Off-Road Across Japan

The Reality of Riding Off-Road Across Japan is a motorcycle-travel film from Ride Thru, selected for its journey-led storytelling. Can you ride off-road in Japan by motorcycle? This video looks at off-road motorcycle riding in Japan, forest roads, dirt tracks and what adventure motorcycle travel here really looks like. Japan has plenty of dirt roads, rough mountain tracks and rindō — Japanese forest roads — but travelling across Japan entirely off-road is a very different proposition from riding somewhere with huge connected trail networks. After riding extensively across Japan, I've found that adventure motorcycle riding in Japan tends to be a mixture of paved mountain roads, narrow backroads, forest roads, broken surfaces, occasional dirt sections and routes that can change dramatically depending on weather, closures and local access. So if you're planning a motorcycle trip in Japan and wondering whether you can build a long off-road route across the country, the answer is more complicated than simply find…