A married train otaku and Ekiben enthusiast, Daisuke takes a break from managing his business to experience a grand tour of Japan by rail. Along the ride, he comes to meet a series of travel partners who accompany him for portions of his journey. A fusion of every middle-aged railfan’s dream, a fictionalized travelogue, and a gourmet manga.
As Ekiben Hitoritabi is half travel manga, half domestic tourism ad funded by JR East, it’s no surprise that every one of the hundreds of locations featured in its panels are taken from the real world.
Ekiben Hitoritabi is such a long, location-dense project that looking at the holistic map can be quite dizzying. If we zoom into the scale of prefectures, it is a lot more readable and you can generally make out the shape of the route by the positioning of the stations visited along the way.
Kyushu
Shikoku
Kansai & Chugoku
Aomori & Hokkaido
