>>2806087I wild camp all over, as do many Japanese. Here is the deal with that:
In a national parks, people and rangers really want you to stick to trails and designated camping spots. Parks can get super crowded and it can be a shitshow so of course they don’t want the destruction of hundreds of people camping.
There are some exceptions to this if you are in very remote parts or it’s winter but it’s all still technically illegal. If I am anywhere near main routes in season, I camp in designated spaces and it would be real shitty for some gaijin tourist cunt to mess with that. Again, remote parts sometimes have no people or nowhere developed, so you have to wild camp and in that case leave no trace, try to be stealthy, and move if someone tells you to.
>move if someone tells you to. This is the motto of camping in forests in Japan.
Yea it’s all privately owned, but a lot of times people don’t give a shit. Just stay for a night and move on, no one will notice. Don’t have a fire and scorch the land, don’t damage trees, and don’t leave trash. If someone comes and tells you not to camp there, don’t fucking argue just move on.
Plenty of forestry roads going into fuckall forest that no one will ever know you camped on.
Also protip in a pinch, lots of super remote deep forest shrines falling into disrepair. These are generally acceptable to sleep at for a night as long as you don’t go into the shrine of course.
Also lots of mountain cabins around too.
But yea, Japan is awful for out. Don’t come here, it’s too crowded.
