Kido Takayoshi
With his ideas still developing, Bakunin left Japan from Kanagawa on the SS "Carrington". He was one of 16 passengers, including Heine, Rev. P. F. Koe, and Joseph Heco. Heco was a Japanese American, who eight years later played a significant role giving political advice to Kido Takayoshi and Itō Hirobumi during the revolutionary overthrow of the feudal Tokugawa shogunate. They arrived in San Francisco on 15 October. Bakunin boarded the "Orizaba" for Panama (the quickest route to New York), and after waiting two weeks boarded the "Champion" for New York.