Route runs from Tokyo’s back-alley chopper shops out through the Japanese Alps and the Noto Peninsula’s fishing villages, working the Nakasendo’s old post towns and the kind of backroads that don’t show up on a tourist map. Days split between the city’s underground custom-bike scene and rural stretches where the crew shoots slower, closer, and with the people who actually live there.

This is a content shoot first, a group trip second. Expect early starts, tight riding days and a two-person crew working on the move, not a group ride with a camera along for company.