It had never been done before.
And, as Ferguson learns, it illustrates that to travel is better than to arrive..
The resulting travelogue is one of the funniest and most illuminating books ever written about Japan.
But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both.
Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan.
Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other.
It had never been done before