I really struggled at first- I was getting pretty baked. But the hill wasn't very big, so I soon got to the top.

Doing that and the speedy descent really woke up my legs, and it was easy riding the rest of the way into Beppu.

There, I found a ferry to Shikoku. On board I met a fellow cyclist, from Tokyo. We chatted for a bit and biked through town together. Very fun, unlike the ferry, which ended with some drunk man shouting bad English at me, and peeing on the car deck.