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*Comment: The biggest thing I found wrong with the hitchhikers guide to Japan. I '''rarely''' got good rides in the morning, in fact, my ride/wait ratio was much worse with 20 minute waits for 20 minute rides in the mornings vs 30-40 minute waits at night for 2 hour rides. I would always use morning to walk around, explore my locale, then start hitching after noon. I got most of my best rides in the early afternoon and right around 17:00-18:00. Hitching after 20:00 takes a lot longer, but often you get '''really''' good rides out of it. I would '''not''' suggest waking up early for rides. [[User:Traceoftoxin|traceoftoxin]]

*Comment: In Japan, I've never hitchhiked in the early morning - always in the afternoon, and occassionally at night. Still I've never waited for more than an hour (usually 10-30 minutes) and I got some long rides, too: from Fukuoka to Kagoshima, or once (at night!) from Tokyo to Kyoto. [[User:MatsumotoJoe|MatsumotoJoe]]

If the weather is bad, it's best to give up hitchhiking for the day and figure out something else to do. A sodden figure standing forlornly in the rain with his thumb out is not a pitiful figure in Japan, he's a dangerous lunatic.