Despite Japan having 80% of its landmass uninhabited, sheer, bare wilderness, spending days on the trains commuting to and from work in Tokyo and you would think the place a railway subsidised ant farm with vested interests in concrete manufacture, but this is most definitely not the case.

A day away from the centre of Tokyo can refresh you beyond belief, but as a stressed out foreigner who doesn't know those secret hideaway walks and oft or seldom beaten tracks or the means to reach them, thankfully Gary DA Walters has spent the time to outline interesting walks, strolls, and proper hiking trips in his book "Day Walks Near Tokyo"