Kanjo 完乗 - Perfect travel

[Kitayama]

I have to confess something. I'm a noritetsu, a person who likes to travel as many railway lines as possible. My target is Japan. According to my statistics, I have travelled by train in Japan for 187 days. Some days maybe only a trip to the shopping mall in Kuzuha, some days much more. At 130 days (out of the 187), I have travelled a railway line for the first time.  So far, I have travelled 48% of the network (including subways and tramways).  My goal is to do 100%  a k a Kanjo - "Perfect travel" - before I'm leaving this planet. (Read more about kanjo here: http://www.desktoptetsu.com/kanjo.htm ).

 

My wife is currently in Japan visiting her parents. So, how have I spent my evenings after my work at the Head Office of SJ, the largest passenger rail company in Sweden?

I have made travel plans for the rest!! I need "just" ~145 days to complete the whole network. I travel in Japan ~15 days per year. Hmmm... 10 more years before the goal is completed.

 

When I tell my wife about this, she will call me Nerd, Otaku and similar Japanese words. But, she joins me on the trips if I go the to some nice place, onsen or mountains. But the Kansai and Kanto suburb lines, I have to travel alone.... 

 

End of confession.  /Göran (a k a Kitayama)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lurkingknight]

lol. That's 10 years provided that they don't put new network down. :P

 

I understand completion ocd very well, I'm sure I suffer from it as well in some form, but not regarding train ridership... more like... must get projects complete for deadlines, at the cost of quality.

[stevenh]

Kitayama, no wonder your site is so amazing.

Something to aspire to, the information it contains.

 

Meanwhile, I love the idea of Kanjo and will have to get started when I'm older and richer.

 

I wonder if we should build a site where you can list the routes you've done already?

[Steve4031]

To paraphrase james brown's songy "say it loud, im black and proud"... "say it loud, im a railfan and proud.". My first trip to Japan will be Solo so I can RIDE stuff every damn day!!! Lol. Can't wait. Already wrote the itinerary. And this trip us 2 years in the future.