Kino's Journey

, shortened to Kino's Journey, is a Japanese light novel series written by Keiichi Sigsawa, with illustrations by Kouhaku Kuroboshi. The series originally started serialization in volume five of MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp on March 17, 2000 before the first volume's official release on July 10, 2000 by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko publishing imprint.

The first volumes was licensed and released by Tokyopop in 2006 before it was discontinued.

Synopsis
Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one girl and her bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, her unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, it is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."

Characters

 * Kino
 * Hermes
 * Shizu
 * Riku
 * Tifana
 * Photo

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World
The first manga adaptation of the light novels: with art by Iruka Shiomiya. It was released under Kodansha's Magazine Edge KC from July 2017.

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World (GOU)
The second manga adaptation of the light novel: with art by Gou. It was serialised in Dengeki Daioh and released under the Dengeki Comics NEXT imprint from October 2017.

Kino's Journey -the beautiful world-
Adaptation of the light novel. Aired for 13 episodes between April 8, 2003 and July 8, 2003.

CAST:
 * Ai Maeda as KINO
 * Ryuji Aigase as HERMES
 * Takashi Irie as SHIZU
 * Houchuu Ootsuka as RIKU

Kino's Journey -the beautiful world- the Animated Series
Another anime adaptation of the 2003 anime series. Aired for 12 episodes between October 6, 2017 and December 22, 2017. It featured fan favourite stories that were selected from a Favourite Country poll carried out in 2015.

CAST:
 * Aoi Yuuki as KINO
 * Souma Saitou as HERMES
 * Yuuichirou Umehara as SHIZU
 * Matsuda Kenichirou as RIKU
 * Ayane Sakura as TIFANA
 * Inori Minase as PHOTO