We Drove 1,000km Across Japan With a Baby

We Drove 1,000km Across Japan With a Baby

Japan was a country we dreamed about visiting for years, but instead of trains and hotels, we decided to experience it a little differently.

For the next 17 days, we lived out of a tiny RV with our one-year-old daughter, driving over 1,000km through rural Japan. From the streets of Matsumoto and ancient Japanese castles to hidden ice caves near Mount Fuji, onsens in the mountains, snow monkeys bathing in hot springs, quiet roadside stations, late-night ramen shops, and some of the best scenery we’ve ever seen.

What started as a simple road trip quickly became something much more.

This is our full journey through rural Japan.

🇯🇵 Places featured:

* Tokyo
* Mount Fuji
* Hakuba
* Matsumoto
* Nagano
* Yamanouchi
* Chichibu

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0:00 Intro
2:11 Arriving in Japan
5:16 Tokyo Train Chaos
12:23 Picking Up Our RV
14:35 Driving Through Tokyo
16:17 First Night in the Mountains
20:11 First Real Japanese Ramen
22:41 Sleeping in the RV
31:14 First View of Mount Fuji
33:45 Mount Fuji Viewpoint
39:40 Lake Kawaguchi
46:16 Exploring Ice Caves
49:06 RV Life in Hakuba
54:28 Snow Monkeys in Hakuba
55:52 Lyla Sees Snow for the First Time
56:27 Snowboarding in Hakuba
1:06:49 Matsumoto Castle
1:12:26 Trying Nagano Soba
1:20:18 Zenkoji Temple
1:23:28 Onsens & Mountain Towns
1:24:24 Snow Monkeys of Yamanouchi
1:30:52 Apple Pizza in Japan

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