As our time in Japan nears its end we spend two days in and around the magnificent Mount Fuji. You can only climb Japanās most famous volcano in the summer so we instead embark on a variety of different Fuji related activities at the base. We begin in the Oshino Hakkai traditional Japanese village which is like stepping back in time. Fed by melt water from Mt Fuji, the village contains eight crystal clear spring water ponds set amongst old thatched roof houses and traditional Japanese food and craft shops. After exploring the village we drive to the Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine, a shinto shrine and UNESCO World Heritage site found in a clearing at the end of a long pathway of tall cedar trees. We then head into a forest to visit the Fugaku Wind Cave and Narusawa Ice Cave which are kept cold by underground ice. They were created following the eruption of Mt. Nagao and contain silk worm breeding projects and stores of different tree seeds. Once out of the forest we drive up to the Koyodai Observatory, a concrete rest house constructed more than 50 years ago which has an incredible view of Mount Fuji. The following day we drive south to the Mishima Skywalk, a 400m long bridge with views of Mt Fuji and comes complete with zipline, zoo and forest assault course. Finally, we swing by the famous Hakone Shrine which is the perfect place to end an unforgettable two days in the area.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Oshino Hakkai Village
4:39 Kitaguchi Hongu Shrine
6:17 Wind and Ice Caves
10:07 Koyodai Observatory
12:54 Mishima Skywalk
22:57 Hakone Shrine
I wasnāt expecting this Iām backwards I canāt even see anything Iām going backwards this spot as well is a really good place to come to see it whatās it called itās called kicha and welcome back to Japan look we are weāre in the ashino haky village just beneath the
Magnificent Mount Fuji which is literally insane like when we saw her this morning we were driving we were like where is it where is it and it just I just appeared and I just was Iāve never I think Iāve never been like so shocked itās huge itās huge itās I the
Only way I can compare it to is seeing the pyramids for the first time itās like when it just looms out of nowhere itās just the perfect Mountain yeah it looks fake it really does look fake itās itās just incredible we canāt climb it as well sadly because you can only do
That in the middle of summer which Iām very sad about you know I love a mountain climb but weāre going to be doing lots of Fuji related activities anyway down here itās just Iām just yeah like weāre in this Japanese traditional village now and itās just absolutely gorgeous itās like nowhere weāve really
Been in Japan is it no it feels very different here itās almost like being in donāt know like Canada or North America that is the biggest that thinkās a monster fish I literally ever seen got weird gr on it so sheo hacky is the villag is basically fed from the
Meltwater from Mount Fuji I think you can go to top wow this is cool I donāt I I guess itās what I donāt know an old like water me or something I know look here itās cozy tight up here isnāt it look guys out there itās no so wow Japanese noodles Japanese
Noodles hold up hold up you eat it whatās it saying donāt really taste of anything tastes like wheat yeah itās good wow oh bye what a nice man heās your best friend isnāt he yeah cuz heās just there making the flow no oneās speaking to him a little chat so
Caring arenāt you I just like to eat food even if itās Dy yeah thatās thatās the real reason isnāt it the waterās like Iāve never seen anything like it itās like turquoise isnāt it absolutely magical Fuji water have one I donāt really know what it is but
Japanese sweet sweet sweet the sweet the beans oh the bean oh cool and then theyāre warm whatās it saying thereās a red bean paste in the middle Middleās good is it like a sweet oh look theyāre sing in there as well is it like a sweet thing oh itās next to
The rice things that we ate outside say corn 700 it must be expensive here the outside is a bit tasteless but the insideās really good is it sweet yeah sweet but itās like Fruity sweet itās not like sick sweet Iām impressed 100 yen no complaints for me you like it no now I
Give you the ticket now I give you this I give 500 back ah complicated doy deal going on you basically Park gear cost 300 but if you spend the 300 in their shop you get it off so this was cost 600 but including our parking it was basically
300 what is it oh itās pumpkin seeds like Wasabi pumpkin seeds theyāre absolutely delicious a driving view doesnāt get better than this it looks like itās erupting Iām worried Iām going to crash cuz Iām looking at it so much that does probably happen to a lot of people thatās what I mean
L wow everyone trying to get the good photo of Mount Fuji down this Alleyway itās fight for survival out here the age of social media is upon us this is the kitaguchi pongu shrine T trying to trip me up think sheās funny thereās lots of coins in the river you
Go collect get uh which is basically the biggest Shrine in the area look itās a was we found a wasp oh itās a wasp waspy look how greasy my hair is Iām sorry we are wearing the same clothes every single time you see them because we donāt talk squeezing in Japan and this
Is the only warm stuff we we bring enough jackets and jumpers another day another dog photo shoot in Japan this time kimono terer Edition thereās like a huge Theme Park roller coaster Zone place what right look at dog I bought Tilly tickets as a special
Present chance to be a fine thing for a special present what did you get me for my birthday last year St what do you we this year right weāre in the deep dark Forest now Iām terrified phly scared of bear attack and weāre looking for caves you like it down
There Quake with thatās all Iām saying thatās the spirit so those are the eggs or are they the eggs stumbled across a silk worm breeding facility didnāt expect this but in the C weāll go with it storage of the seed tree seeds keeping the seeds fresh Cas they need to reforest the
Mountain all right thatās the end of cave number one the Wind Cave the ice cave is down a little 30 minute hike oh through the woods and even this rock on the ground you can see is kind of volcanic yeah volcanic like molten lava chās got her bare protection stick
There samurai headband to match youāre match ready bear arenāt you this this is what you do you see them you stop you slowly back away like this making yourself big and then if they come towards you well the advice is to lie on the floor
But I doesnāt sit well with me if they come towards you supposed to hold your ground make yourself as big as possible and basically just make as much Joys as possible intimidate them they they like to false charge and then stop at the last moment but if they do actually make
Contact of you and itās like itās over at that point you just l on the ground play dead and if you got a stick try get it in the eye or something but to be fair I think itās itās a big bear you donāt really have much much of a chance
Do I just slow down nice mushroom over there cing out for dinner Sor but this is I donāt like it in here Forest has become nice and green now and nice and terrifying syās got her orc Pike Iāve got a big big Club and how
Long do you till we get there I think about 10 more minutes oh I hate this hereās an explanation of why itās cold actually the melting water goes under the frozen ground and then itās cold ice C time oh my God EDS what you have to D
You have to crouch oh God just me to lean on I think hold on to it like pull yourself on with bit oh God this is Extreme ah you can do this I wasnāt expecting this oh thatās the ice what the ice huh oh no oh but this is
Ice oh itās just dark ice okay kind of cool what do you think sir letās see whatās up ahead I think that might be it no surely not no Iām not joking just that I yeah you better take a better look little disappointing but there was some ice and it was a cave
So what more we expecting yeah thereās just a bit more ice in there in like the winter wow this is pretty nice whoa Mount Fuji looks so cool dude M Fuji man m f man I think you should just lean a bit further forward look at the concentration in his face right now
All right Weāve Come to an observatory point or a Viewpoint that is an observatory as is otherwise amazing has a Viewpoint I think the sun being low makes all the trees look wow like more autumnal itās so crazy because you can really get perspective of how big it big it is
Because the trees are so tall and huge and then you come up here and they just look like tiny just just spots you know itās like a sea of trees down there you just never never get bored of looking at that itās absolutely gorgeous 3,776 M
Tall imagine how cold it is up there it just looks like the perfect volcano are the volcano you see in like cartoons films this can you see there thereās a little um like there hot no I canāt see that sorry Iāve literally been a tourist
This whole trip I just canāt get over it it is insane probably the most incredible thing Iāve seen in Japan and up there with some of the most incredible things Iāve ever seen this spot as well is a really good place to come to see it whatās it called itās called
Um hold the thought hold the thought everyone coai Observatory coai Observatory lovely one youāre a nice horse arenāt you come on I likey Sala good morning good morning everyone weāre back itās the next day we just had a nice coffee weāve been blessed to another Clear Day incredible views of the
Mountain we woke up to this out of our window we were like no we like it cannot be but then the the clouds have cleared and the sun is shining on Fuji land today and where are we going first to a Skywalk the Skywalk weāve made it to the Skywalk
Which is what you can see behind you but first we stopped for a little Japanese fried chicken snack I was GNA you couldnāt even wait till I filming to try it is it good so good taste it that what you know itās really good oh yeah salty chickeny oh God there
Is Army how are they all going to fit on the sky Bridge itās going to collapse that many people it itās the best chicken Iāve ever eaten so good so good thank you it was so delicious you take card okay 200 for primary school students that oh okay where are we visiting from
Do you have a pen here oh EG oh s Iām tripping out silly boy we got 50 Yen discount on ice cream no no he so you coming I Got we spoke too soon this morning when we said uh weāve been lucky with the weather Mount Fuji is I think that no I donāt think it is that all the one just behind it either way we canāt see it you can see it from this pick there we go
What it looks like just imagine that is there weāve been lucky with the weather though these last two days I mean we didnāt plan as usual weāre idiots and it could have itās been cloud and rain the whole time so weāll take weāll take it really shaking why is it shaking so much
Must be the wind come on keep moving oh god listen to the noise it sounds creaky Mak some oil itās right in Japanese manufacturing We Trust thatās the thing if I was in another country I maybe would have trust it so much look at it wobbling up wo we do the
Where where where uh the zip line yes where do we pay oh uh some this over okay oh Ed look you go oh okay your granddad would like out here he likes that he used to build Bridges didnāt he all over the world weāve made it to the other
Side it was exhilarating on there yeah weāre now going to see how much the zip line is cuz Iām really up for it Iām a galine junkie weāre doing it weāre doing the zip line itās only 2,000 Yen per person 10 what grade are
We English P weāre not in a Grade hey I have to put my weight here Iāll be it they donāt want to let you on are they how are you how are you 5ā² 6 h Iām 6ā1 actually such I yeah they measured me at the doctor the other day
I thought I was just bang on 6t and they said I was 6ā1 how big are you 58 and a half you over under Ā£18 Iāve gone for the nice autumn colors of Japan until heās gone for Grandmaās carpet Grandma carpet is that the same get the purple ones
Hat Tilly is now a dinner lady getting ready here we go how you feeling as nervous as your Skydive Iām excited Iām nervous everyone else is doing their Japanese intro down here and weāre just here watching a video makes us check the equipment ourselves please find a home
And I do hope theyāre doing all this for us when we out there cannot slide people who have more than 176 lb kids or please compare your weight with your partner understand how to do the zip line the only one didnāt take any of that in by the way Pella are you ready
To fly with me oh Should I fly with you please enjoy the zipline see you sickhead oh no you nervous I am a bit I donāt get out much is that on going well yeah but is it on is it on yours on is that it is that yeah I they let us
Do it Bo here we go standing on the edge of Destiny oh my God hold this is it on itās on on on nothing when do we do we B he they said to bend yeah oh God I love youe sit down too please sit down sit down and sit down all your
Weight 3 2 1 Go spinning around instantly Iām backwards Iām backwards I canāt even see anything cuz Iām going backwards I got this I got be Iām facing the wrong way How okay go oh God got come inside this way okay you oh my God thank you I literally span around and was facing the other way the whole time I didnāt see anything you can spin yourself round I thought that might be dangerous so I basically missed out on the whole view well how was your
Experience Terri cuz I was coming back as I stacked it so rly on the landing as well I literally just died on the floor that was fun so now we walk up this hill and we got one more to go back in the other Direction Iām going to
Really try and relax and enjoy this one that was so fun that was a better wasnāt it they wouldāt let me films you had to hold on with two hands that one but like holding on with two hands means you can literally like control where youāre going itās weird because when I
Was going over basically thereās a massive drop and I thought Iād feel really ill when the ground came under but I it was fine I liked it itās kind of relaxing I like that itās not that fast itās more just like enjoy the view I love that my ears look so good in
This I think Iām going to take it home 10 each yeah 10 each cool gloves as well which show them show them the gloves how they make the didnāt even realize this it makes the uh the bridge Sky got the zip lineer some dinosaurs M Fuji good wholesome Japanese stuff thereās a woman
Walking a mirat it sound like a zoo in there weāre going in I know no we are oh okay okay okay I think uh we canāt be spending another 2,200 y here Iād rather spend 2,000 go on the SK ride again you come for the skybridge and then all this
Weird stuff at the end of the sky Bridge itās like itās like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that they make you pay for the skybridge though to get over here I know I was disappointed by the skybridge and now Iām like this has been really good
Yeah like I appreciate the sky Bridge more now I agree I donāt know why itās a nice time to be on it with the sun low and the a bit quieter trees all shiny and autumnal I canāt believe we were flying that scared you almost donāt have time to
Look down and think do you yeah like youāre actually a bit more scared walking on here because I think oh am s for yourself no but like you have more time to think yeah you know what I mean yeah I know what you mean I feel sick feel look
Lightheaded yeah so that fried chicken and maybe the zip line do you call it that a little bit yeah I just adrenaline though what I feel faint the adrenalineās the taking its toll until Iāve got really sleepy and Ill do you think thatās actually the adrenaline going probably thatās I feel
A bit like w youāre not used to this kind of stuff are you Tyās version of adrenaline is like a sale at the supermarket isnāt it f all right Iām stop filming now first T gate weāre through woo we basally drove so far to get to the sky
Bridge that we were like basally in a any and thereās a really famous Shrine here a lot of people do a day trip from Tokyo even though itās nearly dark we were like it letās swing by on our way home and check it out itās chicken a
Out down Iām still coming down for my adrenaline rush right so weāve done no research on this Shrine CU I didnāt realize we were coming here and the actual shrineās up there at the top of the thing but TI titās feeling a bit uh bit tired of a zip line arenāt you I
Donāt know whatās happened I just suggested getting Dominoās in bed something really must be wrong this queue that you see here on the right oh my God itās literally the queue so you can get a photo here in between the gate this ends the two-day Vlog in Mount
Fuji highlight and low light seeing the mountain for the first time low light when I fainted on the sky Bridge my highlight probably the observatory yesterday evening that the view out there was just amazing it was so peaceful I enjoyed that zip line a lot
As well oh yeah I forgot low light was probably the caves which were slightly disappointing I wonāt lie yeah maybe give them a Miss to honest it might have been the time of year we were here um yeah thatās the end weāre going to drive back to wherever we live a Lakeās
Probably going to crush this might be our last video ever cuz she feels faint um thanks for watching drop like if you enjoyed subscribe if youāre new someone likes their new gloves and Iāve got new gloves
2 Comments
The mountain view is beautiful š
Looks like you both had lots of fun
Especially on the zip line
Amazing views š