Driving Around Hokkaido – Furano, Daisetsuzan, Obihiro, Akan Masshu National Park | 北海度ドライブ (4K)

Driving Around Hokkaido – Furano, Daisetsuzan, Obihiro, Akan Masshu National Park | 北海度ドライブ (4K)

[Music] [Music] Fano Fano. So Funo is where we’re going off after this. Yeah. Must be close. It’s mint. Covers looking dark. Turn right here. Uh, no, not yet. Not yet. Oh, actually you could have similar ETAs. This is kind of How would you do anything without a car? No. Impossible. Absolutely no time. Yeah. Nothing. No wind. I’m sure they hit buses a few times a day. Silver birch. Don’t see those in there. Silver birch trees. Wow. It’s still still going. What is this? Wow. This is why we scale of this place. I wonder how much times bigger than is. Well, apparently it’s plus. Oh, is it? Yeah, approximately. That’s it. That’s Yeah. I mean, look at the size of the fields. Always careful. All right, mate. Do a good job there. In 400 me, turn right. Is that Oh, yeah. The clouds. I can’t figure out what these are. It’s got to be some reason. It’s random metal objects, right? Stock bears getting in. But it’s not like a barrier though, is it? Maybe they put something there in a winter on them. Add something to them like barriers. There’s a bunch of stuff over there. Look. Oh, that’s part of it. Oh, they can be tilted, can’t they? Yeah. Okay, there you go. Look. So, either something to do with the wind or the snow, they can tilt them. add to some kind of like thingamajig. What a place. Guaranteed. I knew we’d see deer straight away. Straight hard, right? Uh yeah. Uh wait a second. Uh, yep. Coming up. There is on 6.2. Oh, well, the road go bends to the 283. Yeah. Yeah, the road just bends to the left. Oh, it’s not actually. Okay. No turning. Okay, that’s 6K on this right. Okie dokie. Oh yeah. If you’re coming up south. Yeah. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Was it something? Yeah. Higashi Fetu. So maybe it’s a mountain area. Have to have a look. Oh. Oh god. Is that the road? Just Yeah, that’s Fano on the right. The big is covered with Yeah. Wow. Epic, isn’t it? That’s a tractor, isn’t it? That’s going to be a great shot. Got a mountain with the tractor. [Music] Basically, we’re going to turn left here, but just over there. Yeah. That’s where it is. Okay. The road to But if we were to go straight into that forest, we’d be in the park. Yeah. Park. This is another option for our second monopoly. Yeah. I mean, this looks great. Like lots of mountain flowers. It just looks like a bit more like deeper forest. It’s a bit scary, but it go left where here. No, no, go straight. Oh, I So weird. I think the road bend left in a second. That’s why it’s not telling me any distance. It’s the same road. Okay. God, this is so beautiful. It’s really annoying kind of background music. All right. Just let it blocks your video. So, I just realized found out this car is a hybrid. Oh, is it? That’s why it’s so good. Left in 200 m. Okay, we’re going somewhere. Oh god, good. It’s probably a good sign that we’re going to What’s this place called again? Is it here or up there? Whereas here it’s like just comes through. I don’t know if there’s any parking. Well, he’s obviously getting so Oh god. Cow be potato. Wow. Look at that. So we turn right here. Uh literally don’t know. There says parking there, but um there is down here a little bit. Just expect to stop down here. Right. There’s nothing here. Well, parking. Says parking two. Oh, yeah. There’s obviously parking one, but who knows where that is. Storm alert. We can still try and go up to that sucky duck out there tomorrow. Yeah, I think give it a go. Let’s see what the weather’s like. You can see the highest peak. Probably be some rainbows now. Get a rainbow. You know what? Looking at it right now, looks like we could have been up there. Fine. Looks fine, doesn’t it? I mean, isn’t it? That’s really Yeah, it was from afternoon, wasn’t it? On the evening when it’s like proper raining kind of bit. Oh yeah. Range, whole melting range there. Detazan. We can see Detaan in the distance there. The weather’s cleared a little bit. So yeah, let me read it. Sugar blue pond was made by accident as the byproduct of attempts to control mudslides. Alum aluminium that that has seeped into the water scatters the sunlight causing the pond to look blue. Wow. [Music] [Applause] All right. We can see took Mount Toki and Vake Mount Beer and to the right fan. That is beautiful. Is that cloud there or like volcanic ash? Probably cloud. Hope so. That is beautiful. Do I go straight on? Uh, yep. Straight. Streets. 2.2K down here. Yep. God. So, we went right off. Well, that’s what I was saying. We got this view, so it all worked out. That’s okay. Just tell me when we get there. That is beautiful. Damn it. The weather was actually okay over this way. It’s not over there. [Music] It’s beautiful. So maybe when it says cloudy in Hokkaido, it’s not actually that bad. Well, I think tonight it’s going to be like proper rain, isn’t it? Yeah. Probably starting in 3 hours or so. Yeah, that’s what it’s supposed to be. Go, go, go into the field. What the You like that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that’s probably where we’re heading. Yeah, I assume they’ve got like assisted assisted bicycle over the place. I got that video. It’s like a splatter. Shoot. And this is why this is great cuz if anything happens, we know it’s not our fault. Is that that is it, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah. There. And there. Oh, awesome. Turn right. 300 m. Turn right. Right. Right. I got it. [Music] At the stop sign, turn right, then turn left. Got it. Quite clear. left. Take the next left. Okay, lady. Very bad at cornering. This car’s in 600 m. You got to slow down into the corner and speed up, Stephen. Yeah. Don’t know how to race though. What you race? That’s the racing line. That’s how I’ll get high speed in there racing. Yeah. Paper wire. Sure. I’ll beat you in a race. Let’s find a way of doing it. I’ll race you in my computer. White water rafting. [Music] Race you down. [Music] Take the next left, then continue straight. See? 300 m. Turn left. I don’t need that anymore. What the hell? The wheels on the bus go round and wheels on the bus. Okay. Deter this way. I’ve got one liter of hot water. Got water. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But I think I will get another one. 300 m. Turn left. I mean at the rate. Here we go. The road to Asaki, Mount Asaki. I assume it’s left here. Take the next. There you go. Nailed it. So, level crossings in Japan, you have to stop. And was it 3 seconds? Look both ways. Yeah. And then go. That’s the law, isn’t it? Bizarre, isn’t it? Are you supposed to put the windows down, too? You’re supposed to listen as well. No. You sure? My eyes. I mean, you can see there’s nothing there. What do you think? So, it isn’t a straight line. It might Well, it’s on a bend then maybe. So, I assume it’s up there in the clouds. Yeah. Yeah. Straight ahead. Yep. Dead ahead. It’s quite a long way though, isn’t it? Yeah. Half an hour maybe. Is that right? 36 minutes. Yeah. In 500 m, continue straight. Oh, thanks for telling me to continue straight. 500 meters later. Am I supposed to do something? Supposed to going left or right? Suddenly bizarre then. Wow, look at Oh, it’s really muddy. Look, it’s brought down a lot of lot of sediment. Continue straight. Continue straight into that bus. There’s something over there. Guess we’re not going to go there now. Here we go. Daisen National Park. We are officially Oh, there. Yeah. First national first national park. [Music] In 400 m, your destination will be on the left. That’s the road. Got any money? I’ve got 8,000 yen. Nice. Let me have a look. I think I’m at 500. plenty of people hiking. That’s good. Necessities many I think it’s a typhoon or something. Jesus Christ. This came down. Oh, we’re going to help that. Not a like. Just try tapping the thing. You got to find sponsored by [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] That’s pretty, isn’t it? On the right there over that day. 2:00 that way. Understand though. Half pitch on the left. Half pitch on the left. horses. Oh Nice. Hello. First horses we’ve seen. hard to see. Got to going to do a simulation again. I love that sort of stuff when you see like collisions. I don’t know what kind of damage you would do. Different kind of vehicles, different objects. Yes, this the proper name is Hokkaido Tokihiro Yaki Youth Center. Oh, really? Yeah. Then it’s got this um candy sort of order which is all I think I might just do my laundry in the next hotel. I mean yeah I might be able to get by. I’ve got two right t-shirts. I’ve got one I wore today as well that’s not really dirty. So, I’ve got three t-shirts. Yeah, I’ve reused some underwear, but only one once each. Yeah, ones that I didn’t use for hiking are fine. Yeah, be easier if it’s going to have Yeah, maybe we should check though later. But like surely it have good good facilities for for Li, right? Yeah, I’m not sure why. Yeah. Yeah, I assume so. Anyway, yeah. I think it’d be a bit of a hassle. It must be It’s a national park. Looks like it’s guys from Argentina. Never never met anyone from Argentina before. Amazing, isn’t it? Amazing world when you all these people sort of come together. Oh, shoot. There’s a truck right there. Oh, look. What a lunatic. Look at him. He’s right my ass. Speed up because of it. I know. Oh, lunatic. He’s obviously trying to push me off the road. Could be affected by other drivers. Yeah, that’s amazing. the view. Yeah. You don’t really get any old people driving, do you? This is wide open road to your south. Yeah. Yeah. Good. I hit the sing the bumpy bit to mark the lane. Twisty telly, isn’t it? Wouldn’t want to fall asleep on this road. Mist of death. So yeah. Yeah. Uh well probably 130 400 m. Turn right. Signs for up here. Turn right in 300 m. Oh. Okay. The road will come on end basically. Y round then it will end turn right. Y take the next right side. It’s probably about 60% size. Maybe if you include I don’t know. I’m not sure how long it took to construct all of this this road network. I mean, it’s insane amount of like materials needed. Yeah, it’s crazy. Look at those mountains. Gorgeous. roads. How can Japan, when you see this, how can Japan not be self-sufficient? It’s ridiculous. Yeah. Well, as I say, like if that’s uh this is 60% the size of England and they must be just as productive these fields, you know. Um so you should be able to grow lobster Yeah. Should be able to feed them. Yeah. good percentage of uh Japan’s population were just avocados. And obviously not all the food’s going to be fresh when you ship it. Well, I know. But um I mean it’s not that far though, is it? Compared to like we import from Africa and India and stuff. That’s crazy, isn’t it? Philippines. Yeah. Think about it. Yeah. Especially like wheat and potatoes and that that’s really potential. They should we shouldn’t be importing stuff like potatoes and wheat. It’s been so much of it growing. He’s coming in. Continue for 4 km. Can you take a picture? I can’t take a picture. Whatever. This is the longest wi windbreaking tree. Windbreaking forest. For food in windbreak, isn’t it? Yeah. Windbreak forest. Yeah. Never heard that before. It probably means uh fire break, isn’t it? Oh, but well, yeah, I suppose next we Yeah, that’s usually when there’s cut between two different forests, isn’t it? Literally a windbreak, isn’t it? Yeah. Why would you have a wind forest? Cuz the wind’s so strong from the mountains coming down. It’s on and on forever. I’m recording it. So, it’s interesting. That’s incredible. The scenery, each area, and I said this before, each area seems quite distinct, doesn’t it? Quite quite different, don’t you think? Yeah. Okay. Three caves down here. That’s right. No Hey, that’s nice. like carrots. Now it’s like when you buy the veggies in a supermarket from uh Hokkaido produce, we now we know where it’s from like exactly with our eyes. It’s pretty awesome. This thing’s still going. In 600 m, continue. Okay. Getting closer, aren’t we? Continue straight. Continue for 4 km. Wow. I wonder if I assume it’s a natural thing as well, isn’t it? Um, maybe the groom there as well. Probably should be forest, wasn’t it? Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Is this a uh does that say? But it’s okay. Oh, I guess that’s the end of it. Look at that. The sun’s coming down over there. Lot of view. That might be it. I don’t know if there any restaurants around there. Oh, you got some chicken. Well, I ate that. Obviously, you already ate the chicken. Yeah, I just got a family me. I guess that’s that’s dinner time, isn’t it? Really? Yeah. M&M. You got any any other food with you? Uh, M&M’s and a protein bar. That’s it. Yeah, but I’m hungry. I have some beers. Yeah. How many beers do you get? Three. Jesus. Well, if you give me one beer, I’ll give you one on. Okay. Uh let’s see how I feel. Yeah. Straight on. Um yeah. 1.5. All right. Basically, that’s it, isn’t it? Home street. Yeah. Maybe there is a place around. You never know. Yeah. I’m not really that bothered. Yeah. I wasn’t going to get anything. You said I was like under the impression you got like loads of food. So I was like, “Yeah, yeah, I should get more.” Yeah, that was literally the last shop, wasn’t it? That’s mental amount of distance to travel without any shops. Well, I mean, like compared to, you know, Oh, of course. That it’s amazing, isn’t it? That’s that deep countryside only. Yeah. Just We’re coming up to it then, aren’t we? Keep this recording. We get to chill. I like I like this though, you know. I like doing one thing driving and just chilling. Yeah. Different places. I know. We’ve said like it would be nice to have two nights. I think that’s where we go hiking. Be nice. Yeah. Otherwise, I’ll probably um just intersperse like if I done another 10 days, I’ll say maybe three at three places you’d stop for two nights each. Yeah, that’s a good idea. Different places for the other ones. You can do washing up. Turn left, then your destin. Yeah. Oh, it’s filled up. Oh, doesn’t look too proud. This is very cute, isn’t it? Yui, your destination is on the right. Yeah, we’re not very young there. I called it that. I’m sure everyone No, I know it doesn’t. place in the world. No rain today. Yeah, just a little bit like white clouds. Sunny from 1:00 until 5. That’s good. And uh tomorrow again, you know, just uh just cloudy. Yeah. But like Yeah. Not heavy clouds. Sunny, no rain. Wasn’t no sun marks. Okay. So it might be overcast, but not like heavy. It’s probably better to go if we hike go quite early. Yeah. Then a Saturday, which is Tuesday, is rainy. Oh That’s the the river. Oh yeah, it’s a river day. All day. Um what percentage chance of rain? 50%. That’s not too bad. And how about early that early that day? In the morning, I mean, is that is that better or worse than the afternoon? I mean evening. In the morning, it’s only 0.1 mill. Oh, that’s that’s when cuz we get Oh, in the afternoon it’s 0.3. Oh, it’s not bad. It’s a bit a bit of drizzle in it. Yeah, that’s okay. It doesn’t matter. Be on a river anyway. In fact, maybe it’s better cuz we’ll get less sunburn, right? Is it kaying, right? When we share the boat or is it canoeing? Um, it’s kayaking. But the difference is one of them is one person, one of them is more than one. Right. Kayak and canoe. I think it’s kayak, isn’t it? You can kayak suit one person. I don’t know. So canoeing can do. But the guy paddles for us obviously. Uh yeah, but we can paddle too. Yeah, I I want to. Yeah. Yeah, I’ll do it. Upper upper body strength building. Straight on. Right. Yeah. It’ be nice if the uh the voice told you that there’s a stop sign. Oh, okay. It doesn’t say, does it? Yeah. Muets. It’s nice. Oh, it’s a shrine, isn’t it? Don’t see him like that in camera. Lovely brown. the Avenue of Trees. Look at this. This could be America, Canada, New England. Yeah. Right. So, we New England in America. We’ve been to New England. New Hampshire Vermont. Never been to not really been three times. Glad I went back before uh well before September 11. The best time in the moment downhill since you’re riding 500 m that junction overtake me. I’ll let him overtake me. Overtake me. He’s got his fast car. I don’t know why he’s not overtaking me. Okay. Okay. I recorded that. Send it to the police. It’s not even that fast. That’s a bit risky. I’m doing that on the hill there. Yeah. I’m not in any hurry, so I don’t really care. If I was, I’d be racing them. I let them overtake. That’s it. That’s what we’re going to climb up tomorrow. Left one. Check in is 3 or checkin is from three. Yeah. Can do you have to tell them what time? If it doesn’t say on there, they must be pretty flexible. It just says three. That strict. I mean, yeah. No one’s on the dot, are they? I’m guessing it’s just a code. Sure. It’s fine. Yeah. on the train and messaging. without having a Okay. Yeah. Sorry. So, the kayaking is after staying there. So, this is a shower place at the kayaking. So, we’re going to need to get properly changed, aren’t we? Can’t do what we did yesterday and just be like half joking. We’re not going rafting. Yeah. Sitting in a boat. Yeah. There’s a good chance you might slide there. What? You might you like to you really It’s more of a tour thing, isn’t it? It’s not like it’s like a gentle tour up a very quiet scout. There’s nothing like that. Yeah, nothing like that. They used to make us like and stuff. I did that, too. That’s great fun. I’m not doing that. We had our excitement yesterday. Shitty guest house. I was laughing about tomorrow night starting it. But there weren’t there were no options, mate. That was it. There’s like nothing. There’s nothing. Other places are weird business hotels. Really weird Not even near where we stay where we’re going kayaking kuning or whatever. I spent hours, hours and hours finding something. That was the best deal. Trying to save money, right? Yeah. We w we were looking for the cheapest things possible at the time. We’re only staying at New York Hotel because that was all that was available. We got the best price for that. So, other thing to consider late is where we’re leaving stuff at the airport. There’s a deer right there. Hello. Hi, mates. Enjoying that grass? It’s insane that we have to do 30 5 hours ago. That’s insane. Yeah. It just goes to show you got like plan to get to places much earlier. So that’s a big sign animal crossing. Yeah. Yeah. It’s going to need to stop for different reasons. That’s right. And we stopped for probably an hour and a half and turns around to the left and turn right. Yeah. The hike is just up there. So, it’s not it’s not far at all. It’s 14 40k station. Okay. seems to be closed. Is today Sunday? Uh, lost track probably straight. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Police. So, here’s the IU theater. Yeah, keep going a bit more. Getting kind of close. That’s the expensive hotel. Yeah. Real close now. Uh, slow down. Start slowing down. Taking a left shortly. Slow down. Slow down. Should be a left. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Wow. Okay. Down the end of this road. left it in. We should see it on our right. It’s that building there. Let’s go up here. I don’t know really. That’s probably, isn’t it? Shang. No. Yeah. This is it. This is it. This is it. New hotel. That’s it. It says it everywhere. Yeah. Okay. So, I’m not sure. It’s just a park. Should I go and ask the guy? There’s guys standing there. Does that say Yeah. Yeah, we can’t fit it anywhere. Go back. Go back around then. I’ll speak to those guys. You saw the car behind you, right? Yeah. Yeah. Just put in put in by those red cones. There’s two two guys there, so they they’ll direct us. Just maybe just stop it. Stop it. I’ve got a mask. Oh, he’s coming. There we go. [Music] You turn nice. I’m recording. Look at that one. Hello [Music] Hallelujah. [Music]

(Recorded: 19-26/8/2025)
My friend and I go on a outdoor adventure in Hokkaido, and capture some of the views from the windscreen along the way. We drive from Shinchitose Airport to Furano, including hiking in the Daisetsuzan area, and also visit flower parks and waterfalls. We then drive southeast to the west part of Obihiro, near the Hidaka Mountains, before heading east to Akan Masshu National Park, where we climb Mount Meakan. I hope you enjoy it – there are a few surprises in the video, so still till the end!

This is part 1 of a 4-video feature. Parts 2 to 4 will show hikes up Mount Asahi, Mount Tokachi and Mount Meakan!

Shot on a GoPro 9 and Sony A7III, with a few iPhone 11 clips too.

2025年の8月下旬に友人と北海道でアウトドア冒険を楽しみ、道中のフロントガラス越しに捉えた景色をいくつかご紹介する。新千歳空港から富良野まで車を走らせ、大雪山系でのハイキングに加え、花畑や滝も訪れる。その後、南東へ進み日高山脈近くの帯広西部へ。さらに東へ向きを変え、阿寒摩周国立公園で雌阿寒岳を登る。

これは全4部作の動画シリーズ第1部である。第2部から第4部では旭岳・十勝岳・雌阿寒岳を収録！

ぜひ最後までお楽しみください。動画にはサプライズがいくつかあるので！