Thanks for that last link. My problem may be when I've got to Kholmsk. The ferry from Korsakov (on Sakhalin) to Wakkanai (Hokkaido, Japan) runs only 'once or twice a week June -Sept,' according to my Lonely Planet Russia guide, new edition. Is this the end of September, I wonder. I don't want to be riding across Russia when the air is full of mosquitos and then land in Japan when it's still the rainy season, although I suppose I could hang around on Hokkaido until the rains stop on Honshu. Is there an alternative route into Japan? I've read the DBS ferry runs from Vlad to Donghae [South Korea] and then on to Saikaiminato in Japan (can' find that last place on the map!] but that it's passengers only.
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