Yoshida’s journey has taken him all around the world — from Asia to North America to Africa — on a trip he says spanned about 77,500 kilometres. …

Yoshida plans to head back to Japan next — this time by plane — where he said he’ll take on a job working at a hotel at Mount Fuji, and get some rest.

Now, he’s finished it all off in the North, walking the new highway from Inuvik to reach the Arctic coast, in Tuktoyaktuk.

A walk in his shoes: Japanese man caps off years-long walk around world in Tuktoyaktuk

“I’m so tired now,” says Masahito Yoshida, who started walking from China nearly 10 years ago