Man spends six months travelling 4000 miles to pull off incredible proposal to girlfriend

A boyfriend has wowed people after putting together a stunning and creative wedding proposal.

Grand gesture proposals can be something of a mixed bag. Ones featuring a potential bride's family and friends, or lots of people gathered together watching in public seem a bit over the top, and can put a lot of pressure on someone to say yes in the moment.

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Sometimes the best proposals are just when you're sitting watching your favourite show together and someone says, 'hey, wanna get married?'. 'Sure!', then you high five and order pizza to celebrate.

However, one boyfriend came up with an idea which seems to strike just the right balance for a big gesture. Rather than making a big scene in public, Yasushi "Yassan" Takahashi quietly set off on a journey to ask his girlfriend to marry him.

He did this using GPS drawing. This is where you track your location on GPS and use it to sketch out an image of something on the map.

Yassan took this to the next level using the technique to spell out the words 'marry me'. But it wasn't over one city or neighbourhood, no. He spread the words out over the entire country of Japan.

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The trip to propose to his girlfriend Natsuki ended up covering some 4,451 miles across Japan. It took Yassan six months to complete the trip after carefully planning out the route. He even quit his job so he could undertake the journey - that's some serious dedication.

Not only that, but the feat ended up earning Yassan a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, holding the record for the largest GPS drawing.

The drawing even includes a love heart with a cupid's arrow going through it on the northern island Hokkaido.

And just in case you were wondering, she did say yes.

Yassan now does GPS drawing full time after he left his job, working as an artist.

Describing the feat, he said: "I planned the route on Google Earth and then quit my job and left. I hadn't really ever gone outside of Tokyo. I was able to discover all kinds of things that I had only known about in books.

"At night, I camped out in my car. There was heavy rain, snow, and earthquakes but I never gave up."

Natsuki said: "I kept thinking: 'Where are you going without me?'". She added: "Of course I answered 'yes'".