Honshu; the longest and biggest island I will have to cover. Almost all the well-known cities lie on Honshu, and this in a relative small distance from eachother. Most tourists will stay in between Hiroshima and Tokyo, with Kyoto, Nara and Osaka in between those two cities. Honshu alone makes up 60 percent of Japan’s surface, with a length of almost 1300 km. It also has Japan’s highest point: the legendary vulcano Mt. Fuji. After Kyoto the route will take me to lake Biwa (see the map above). With a length of 64 km, this is Japan’s biggest lake.