Curated overland routes

Long-distance driving routes worth the time. Each one is editorial first — the historical, scenic, and cultural context is what makes the drive worth doing — and regulatory facts cite the same primary sources the rest of the site uses.

• 🇯🇵 Japan · 534 km · 5 days · moderate

  Nakasendō(中山道)

  The Edo-era mountain road between Tokyo and Kyoto — still drivable, still scenic, still mostly empty.

• 🇯🇵 Japan · 1,600 km · 10 days · moderate

  Hokkaidō Summer Loop(北海道一周)

  Japan's big-sky overland — straight roads, low traffic, volcanic coast, dairy plains, the closest thing to a Japanese road-trip cliché.

• 🇺🇸 United States · 1,055 km · 7 days · easy

  Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1)

  The 1,000-km California coast — from Mendocino redwoods to the San Diego border, the canonical American road trip.

• 🇨🇦 Canada · 7,821 km · 14 days · challenging

  Trans-Canada Highway 1 (BC to Newfoundland)

  The full ~7,800 km national road from Victoria to St. John's — the longest single-route overland in Canada.

• 🇺🇸 United States · 755 km · 4 days · easy

  Blue Ridge Parkway

  755 km of crest-line scenic motoring along the Appalachian spine — Shenandoah to the Great Smoky Mountains.

• 🇰🇷 Korea · 180 km · 2 days · easy

  Jeju Island Coastal Loop(제주도 해안 일주)

  ~180 km circuit around volcanic Jeju — Korea's Hawaii, in a single day or three.