2023 Japanese Odyssey Portraits

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The 2023 Japanese Odyssey took place this past fall, and once again, photographer Eigo Shimojo was there to capture the magic. To showcase some of his work, we put together a gallery of 45 of Eigo’s amazing rider/bike portraits from the event. Enjoy the visual journey here…

compose Logan Watts
time Jan 11, 2024
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Photos by Eigo Shimojo (@eigoshimojo); Above No.16 Sorachi Sakai (JPN)

This sixth edition of the Japanese Odyssey started from Kagoshima City on October 24th, 2023, with dozens of participants taking on the challenge. The 2,700-kilometer route led riders all the way through the interior of Japan on a succession of climbs and mountains as they made their way across the length of the country from south to north, finishing in Hachinohe (Aomori Prefecture). The theme of this year’s event was “The narrow road to the deep North,” and once again, photographer Eigo Shimojo was there to capture all the riders. Eigo sent us the gallery of images, and you can find bike portraits from 45 riders below…

2023 Japanese Odyssey Portraits
NO.51 MARK BUDREWICKZ (AUS)
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NO. 42 NICK RUNTSCH (USA); TBD
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NO.3 AMY CLARK (USA)
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NO.8 KA YEW LING (MYS); NO. 31 VLAD ALUKHANOV (RUS)
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NO.1 KYOKO FUJIE (JPN)
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NO.22 JAMES MACNEILL (IRE); NO.29 ANDREI OSTANIN (USA)
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NO. 40 TIM MAYBERRY (AUS)
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NO.14 JOHANNES REINING (DEN); NO. 37 MATTHIEU FRASER (CAN)
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NO. 34 PETER McGregor (CAN)
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NO.15 DMITRY TKACHENKO (RUS); NO.2 MIKE GURNHUM (CAN)
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NO.20 HSI-CHUN TSAI (TWN)
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TBD; NO.11 ERIC COOPER (USA)
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NO.59 WlSLI SAGARA (IDN)
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NO.24 JOSH IBBETT (GBR); NO.53 ALEKSANDER KOPP (GER)
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NO.52 JANA KESENHEIMER (GER)
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NO.66 SANDRO POPPE (GER); TBD
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NO. 47 MAREK RUPINSKI (POL)
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NO. 12 LEA GOTH (DEN); NO.28 ADNAN AEDEWAN (MYS)
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NO.23 ZHIYU XU (CHN)
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NO. 35 ARTEM KOLOREV (RUS); NO. 32 LI JIANG (CHN)
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NO. 33 MARCEL GRABER (CHN)
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NO. 41 MATT BRADY (GBR); NO.25 BRUNO DEVINCK (BEL)
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NO.55 YUDI ANDHIKA (IDN)
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NO.27 CAMILLE COLLE (BEL); NO.56 ADRIAN CHANDRA SUSANA (IDN)
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NO.21 SHOTA NAGAYAMA (JPN)
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NO.18 YUSUKE OCHIAI (JPN); NO.7 ALIAKSANDR PUSTAVITAU (BLR)
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NO.17 HIDEKI FUKASAWA (JPN)
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NO.9 ROBERT McWHOTER (USA); NO.6 PHILLIPE BECHET (CHE)
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NO.54 COSMO HARRIGAN (USA)

Find the full gallery pf photos on Eigo’s Instagram profile at @eigoshimojo.

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