Shizuoka Day 2 – Japan 2025 (7 of 18)
[Music] hey everybody here’s the seventh video in the series displaying our 5,000 pictures from the trip to Japan hope you enjoy [Music] while at breakfast we met an 85-year-old Japanese man who was actually born and raised in Shizuoka but who moved to New Jersey 60 years ago since retiring retiring 20 years ago he travels around the US by train and comes back to Japan every year to visit his family and friends and does some more train travel he was quite the character my husband grew up in New York and since this guy had lived in Jersey so long when he asked where we were from my husband gave him the name of the neighborhood rather than simply saying New York the guy actually knew the neighborhood and couldn’t stop chuckling to himself about it which was super cute [Music] [Music] [Music] hey [Music] hey hey [Music] after breakfast we set out for Nihonra it was still overcast but no longer raining so we were hoping the clouds would be clear by the time we got there so that we would have a great view of Mount Fuji there was supposed to be a bus that left from the local train station and ended up at the ropeway at the station we found where the buses picked people up but had some confusion about buying tickets there was a tourist information center where I explained where we were trying to go and the lady gave me a paper with the recommended package circle it included bus fair there and back plus the ropeway up and down and entry into the museum up at the top i took that to the bus stand and shared it with the ticket lady and then we finally got what we needed the tickets were attached in a long string and at each leg of the journey a ticket would be pulled off move wow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the bus ride just to get there was very scenic it took us through town first and we noticed several places we wanted to stop off at on the way back then it wound up through the hills which were filled with tons of trees we went up pretty high before it dropped us at the bottom of the ropeway we had initially thought that the ropeway would take us up higher but then found out it actually takes people across a valley the trails to hike the valley were closed and had been for some time although when we rode the ropeway looking down it seems like they were doing some maintenance on it so maybe sometime in the future it’ll open back up [Music] [Music] the ropeway was really fun to ride and scenic in and of itself but when we got to the other side it was even more amazing with the haziness partially obscuring Fujian there was a temple which is actually the resting place of Tokugawa Ayasu and his beloved horse and a museum filled with artifacts the artifacts were mostly personal belongings throughout the exhibit the significance of the items was explained as well as the fact that anything that wasn’t personal but was of value had been given away to people it was interesting to think about a shogun doing this and what it meant about his personality [Music] [Music] you [Music] want you you [Music] Hey [Music] [Music] [Music] honey [Music] [Music] after spending most of the day up there we took the roadway back down and caught the bus back to town when we had arrived that morning it was just about the same time as the tour buses and groups so there’d been a lot of people however by the time we left there was hardly anybody turned out we had stayed so long that there was only one more bus that would be going up there after the one we caught so we were just in time [Music] thank you for visiting the Toshibu Shrine the city you can see along the horizon in Sudan Bay to the left is the fishing city of Yis the cave beyond it is located near the mouth of the Oi River beyond that you can see a long cave extending into the bay this is the southernmost tip of deepest part of the valley at a height of 90 m you will be able to see what looks like the path of the river there was a hiking course from the bottom of Mount Ren to the summit of the hiking course has since closed so now this roadway is the only way to visit the Toshoku shrine from Before the roadway was built the only way to visit the Toshoku shrine was to climb the 1,159 stone steps on the south facing side these stone steps are still there to this very day the gondola we will shortly be passing is blue and has a holly crest on it it was designed to resemble a pollen bearing a nobleman why not let the passengers Fore foreign foreign what’s itch fore foreign foreign [Music] on the way back we decided to get off the bus early rather than taking it all the way back to the station that way we could wander the streets a bit and stop into some of the places we saw earlier we found a curry place with really good katsone it had the feel of a chain but was convenient and tasty we also stopped into a bicycle shop when we felt we’d wandered enough we headed for a nearby station but before hopping on the train we went up onto the overpass fujian sat in the distance while the Shinkansen passed beneath us and even with Fujian that far away it still felt very iconic [Music] [Music] [Music] hey hey hey [Music] [Music] for dinner we tried pizza again and struck out Again I guess they just like undercooked pizza there then we did some laundry as became our habit each time we were due to go to a new town the next day there were vending machines in the laundry room which is common there and we got some beer out of them i don’t like beer but it turns out that lemon beer is actually drinkable who knew hey hey hey well that’s it for this video if there’s anything you want to know more about put it in the comments below i’ll post the next video tomorrow so make sure to like and subscribe for more
I’ve got over 5,000 pictures/videos in my phone from our trip to Japan that I want to share. So, I’m breaking them out into one video for each day, plus other videos as shorter extras for the individual videos from our phones and GoPro. This is the seventh day. Hope you enjoy 😊
At breakfast, we had a nice conversation with a retired Japanese who lives in New Jersey. Today’s excursion was to Nihondaira, starting with a scenic bus ride followed by a ride on the ropeway. The museum was educational and the shrine beautiful. On the way back we got off the bus early so we could wander around more (we built in lots of time for freestyle exploration on this trip).
Here are the other days of our trip:
Day 1: Arriving in Japan https://youtu.be/Ig0EqouZDcE
Day 2: Tokyo Day 1 https://youtu.be/E8BzMDBMt08
Day 3: Tokyo Day 2 https://youtu.be/4zbrefFzVfM
Day 4: Tokyo Day 3 https://youtu.be/C5SOXr_XZww
Day 5: Tokyo to Shizuoka https://youtu.be/wbIDOL4RADw
Day 6: Shizuoka Day 1 https://youtu.be/xGf0lvX5CLA
Day 7: Shizuoka Day 2 https://youtu.be/3gtdXTbQ6U0
Day 8: Shizuoka to Kyoto https://youtu.be/VtJLq-ls7Bo
Day 9: Kyoto Day 1 https://youtu.be/8mhvBf1R29o
Day 10: Kyoto Day 2 https://youtu.be/kAGA65sSR84
Day 11: Kyoto Day 3 https://youtu.be/b0wNlwsESxw
Day 12: Kyoto to Nagoya https://youtu.be/iKHfAGrq2G8
Day 13: Nagoya Day 1 https://youtu.be/I__bGqZVCPw
Day 14: Nagoya Day 2 https://youtu.be/qdS__WqWYKc
Day 15: Nagoya to Fujikawaguchiko https://youtu.be/i5ffjTJgCZE
Day 16: Fujikawaguchiko Day 1 https://youtu.be/pX6OmbyrDvs
Day 17: Fujikawaguchiko Day 2 https://youtu.be/Y1klcFs3bVs
Day 18: Leaving Japan https://youtu.be/KdvghBG3kJA
And the full playlist complete with each day’s picture compilation and other miscellaneous videos from the trip (both from our phones and the GoPro): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsv4bxirHRWIZ3hbwiqAtZxHMF5sn3_V
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