How much I eat in a day to cycle 130km across Japan! (a LOT)

How much I eat in a day to cycle 130km across Japan! (a LOT)

This is everything I have to eat in a day to cycle across Japan. On today’s agenda, we’re cranking out a fairly intense 80 miles of riding from Toyako to Saporo. Because I woke up kind of in the middle of nowhere, today’s going to have to be a hotel breakfast type of day. And in terms of quality, this place was pretty solid. Though it did have a generic Japanese hotel breakfast lineup, the food was fresh and they gave me a fairly generous slab of fish. But still, I was looking for something a little bit more. So, after I got riding, I realized that I was surrounded by tons of orchards and fruit dealers. So, I stopped at this farm selling their local apple product. First, I picked up this apple strudel, but I found I was being stalked by some wild beast. And this dude would not leave me alone. I turn around, he approaches. Turn around again, he keeps coming, but I didn’t let it ruin my strudel sesh, which was nice and flaky with a good amount of filling. And I also picked up this little apple cake that was moist and sweet and a big old Castella log for the road. I’ve never had one of these before, so I’m pretty hyped for this one. As I kept moving, today was a pretty remote day of riding, and it would only get more so as we keep rolling. So, to stock up for this haul, I finally got to unlock a new convenience store and tried out Hokkaido’s very own Seikko Mart. Here, they seem to have a bunch of Hokkaido specific products, a pretty solid hot food section, and lots of cans of meat, which I would assume are for people who live in more remote areas to have a point to stock up at. But, for my purposes, I just needed copious amounts of fluid and some carbs to get me through one of the longest stretches of gum without a kambini. So, after snagging those and chatting with an older Japanese cyclist, I headed just down the road to grab some lunch at this quaint little roadside stop. I decided to go with this little sizzling hot plate using local beef and also a side of karag. At this shop, they also had a selfs serve unlimited rice inside section as well. With these sizzling skillets, the fat and juices from the meat mixes with that soy sauce glaze and coats everything so so nicely. Also, it’s common here that fried chicken is eaten with tartar sauce. And I was a little bit skeptical of this at first, but it has kind of grown on me. Then as I took off into the unknown, the next 5 hours or so were through a series of winding mountain highways and eventually some bike paths where I didn’t see a single other rider for hours. But eventually I descended into Sapodo, saw this sign, and then checked into my accommodation for tonight. The options in this city were all very expensive, so I had to settle for the studio apartment that ran me 75 bucks a night. Then for dinner, I got one of the meals I was most looking forward to in this entire trip, a beautiful bowl of miso butter corn ramen in Sapo’s famous Ramen Alley. This bowl had a salty and tangy broth that paired so incredibly well with the creamy smoothness of the butter and sweet freshness of the corn. And I also picked up some kimchi and gyoza to round things out. See you guys tomorrow.

This is everything I eat in a day on my bikepacking trip across Japan! Today, we travelled from Toyako to Sapporo!

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