By OKUTO KO/ Staff Writer
November 26, 2023 at 07:00 JST
Hiroaki Futagami touches the water at the mouth of the Shinanogawa river in Niigata Prefecture in September before starting the Nagano Prefecture leg of his challenge to run along riversides up to the highest peak in all 47 prefectures. (Provided by himself)
While some hard-core mountaineers have climbed the highest mountain in each of Japan’s 47 prefectures, no one else has gone about it quite like this. [Read More]
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