"For an overview on the pronounciation of the towns around the trail, I recommend a romanized map of Japan, like the partly bilingual Pocket Atlas Japan (published by Reise Know-How), that you see in the centre left of the picture (with blue margins). By comparing the pattern of roads, cities and shores, it is easy to match the cities in the romanized map with the cities in the Japanese road map."

"I draw additional information into my map: the course of the Tokai Trail, as far as I could find it in the www; and some hotel symbols, extracted from higher scale road maps that I consulted in bookshops or convenience stores while travelling."

"If you tear out the pages, as on the lower right of the photo, you need just 8 sheets of paper for days 10 to 32. However, I recommend to carry also the pages relevant for accomodation, including places that connect to the Coast-to-Coast Walk by bus or train: 1:100.000 pages in the neighbourhood of the Coast-to-Coast Walk and larger scale city maps that are included in the same Lite Mapple volume (City maps for Mie Ken only, even where the road map includes parts of neighbouring prefectures.)."

"In the Google map you see this place as 七越 峰. What about the の (the hiragana letter pronounced "no"), that is on the pole but not on the map? It means "of", as if writing "Island of Manhattan" on the pole and "Manhattan Island" on the map. In Japan it is not unusual to find names with and without の for the same place."

"峯(peak), the last kanji on the pole, is composed of the element 山(mountain), and two other elements. Here, writing vertically on the small pole, the element 山 is written on top of the two other elements. Usually that kanji is written with the element 山 on the left of the two other elements: 峰. I don`t remember any other kanji where you would have to rearrange its constituent elements in order to compare signs with maps. Mount Ryomondake, north of Yoshino on this Coast-to-Coast walk, has 2 kanji spellings."