>>1252215I drank a fair bit of sake but it just doesn't scratch that ice cold refreshing beer itch for me. I think being vegan would be really difficult, especially with the language barrier. I mean you'd at least be missing out on pretty much all the food, but you'd survive I'm sure.
Here's my original route. Unfortunately because it took longer than I'd hoped to get through the alps I had to cut out pretty much the entire Kyushu portion. I took a ferry from Kitakyushu back to Osaka, and rode from there back to Tokyo to fly home. The only train I took other than subways to get around cities on my rest days was from Nagano to Jigokudani Monkey Park. It was cozy as hell.