roads

A dirt track running into dense forest, exactly wide enough for a small car to pass through.

A loaded touring bicycle is parked at the base of a concrete staircase largely covered in an overgrowth of dried weeds.

A paved mountain road with a signpost indicating it is (in English translation) “Shizuoka Prefectural Route 32” and below that “Fujieda Kuromata Right of Way / Fujieda City, Ichi-no-Se District”

The rooftops of a small village, viewed from above, with a portion of rusted steel guardrail blocking a corner of the frame.

A bicycle parked on a city sidewalk, with a rusting steel overcrossing and stairs above an intersection in the background.

A path laid out with circular stepping stones fashioned from colorful pottery shards set in concrete.

A bicycle parked in a narrow patch of asphalt between a rusted guard rail and a trafficked road.

A bicycle parked on a narrow asphalt road leading into forested land.

A bicycle parked on a road in the midst of towering cedar trees. A guardrail is visible in the foreground.

The handlebar of bike is at the bottom of the photograph, standing above a small narrow forested gorge cut by a small stream extending below on the right, with a roadway suspended along the mountainside to the left.