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After Niseko, I was dishevelled, smelled funky due to shoes and had more gear, yet I had much more luck hitching even though theoretically it should have been the other way around...go figure!!!
* UPDATE 2024 *
Had our personally worst hitchhiking experience in Japan. Waited long hours & were then often taken for just a few km or to the wrong place. It worked very well though after we developed some rules for ourselves: Only hitching at SA/PA with at least 1000 Google reviews, being extremely visible to people who stopped (not exiting cars), discussing our exact destination before entering a car, not even trying after 4 pm, and always staying on the main route between the biggest cities. We then met very nice people & had a lot of fun. Still mixed feelings about the experience: It usually took 3h to get to a SA/PA, which made hitchhiking very long.
== How to get in and out of cities ==
