

I've been trying to find out how far Ash traveled across the Kanto region in
the anime. But I haven't been able to find a good way to do so.

I wouldn't mind if reference to the game is required to get to a proper
answer. [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRwL2.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRwL2.jpg)


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How far did Ash travel across Kanto in total?


Interesting question and strangely enough, I've been asked a variation of this
question several years ago, and this is how I tried to estimate the size of
the Pokemon World in the games at least. The biggest challenge would be to
scale something in the Pokemon Universe to something in real life.  
  
An easy and trivial approach would be is to first, slice the picture into
squares. Then, the obvious thing to do would be to look at the number of
squares covered by a particular character or object that you have an accurate
distance for, and then, it is simply a matter of converting those figures into
the number of squares you have remaining.

Now the question is to find that particular object or character. One
interesting way of doing it, would be to use a Legendary Pokemon or some of
the Pokemon that appear on the map like Poliwrath in Celadon City or Slowbro
in Cerulean city. Since these pokemon have a fixed height, we could simply
look at the number of squares they take up. Then we basically see the number
of Slowbro or Polywrath we can Place on a map.  
  
An example would be something like, a Slowbro takes up 2*2 squares = 4
squares. Now suppose we can split Cerulean city into a 1000 squares, we can
technically fit 250 Slowbros on the map. Then we can simply multiply the
distance with the final value you have.

That said, the value would obviously be incredibly inaccurate. However, it is
a decent enough strategy to accomplish the task at hand. However, your
question with regard to the anime, would be impossible the answer because, in
the anime, the map is obviously significantly more extended and has lots of
new places which isn't present on the game maps. To top it off, the characters
also get lost and take several detours to reach a particular destination and,
since they do most of their traveling on foot, a huge chunk of their travels
is often cut out or skipped until they reason a particular decision.

[![Something to help you
visualise](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kmhPc.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kmhPc.png)


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