This video is part of a playlist featuring videos uploaded across multiple channels and shot during a day-long adventure exploring along the seashore in Japan between the cities of Yaizu and Shizuoka. The link below will take you to the official playlist titled “Abandoned Shangri la Hike”. The playlist is featured on the YouTube Bullet Train channel.
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Welcome to Abandoned Japan. My name is Kurt Bell and I am delighted that you have taken some time to share a little of Japan’s lost and forgotten places with me. I’m available on social media at the links below and can be reached via email at dinnerbytheriver@gmail.com.
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THE PATH OF WILDNESS
The Path of Wildness is easy to find
The course of a stream
Leaves blown in the wind
A beast’s track through the brush
And the direction of our first inclination
The Path of Wildness is an answer and response to a prescribed way of life which may leave some individuals with a sense that their living is little more than a series of pre-determined, step-like episodes between birth and death. The stages of living between these events: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood and senior are themselves natural and in accord with the needs of the species and most individuals. Many find their satisfaction in living this course and to these individuals I have little or nothing to say. Others though long for something more; something innate, genetic and seemingly calling. Adventure and change can give a degree of satisfaction and relief yet even these may seem too tame. To those who feel drawn to something beyond the entertainment and stimulation of senses I offer a walk along The Path of Wildness. Don’t bother penciling the event in your schedule, preparing a pack with goodies and supplies or even inviting a friend along, for this experience is along the course of your first inclination and you must surely always go alone.
Learn more about The Path of Wildness here:
http://wp.me/P5A2F-As
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CHANNEL CREDITS
“Japanese Falls” image is by the artist Lane Brown. See more of Mr. Brown’s work at the following URL: http://lanebrownart.blogspot.com/p/portfolio.html
Channel Theme Music “Song For Kurt” used with permission by Nowherians. Discover more about the artist and their music at the URL below.
http://nowherians.bandcamp.com
27 Comments
nice nsx at 29:12 really love your videos just discovered them today 🙂
hey i quite like your vids and want to spend some time in japan looking around the place alot like you but i'm talking a year or more so if you don't mind me asking how you support yourself? like what do you do for a job?
ROFL… tresspassing in a hotel, ROFL!! OMG UR FUNNY.
ROFL @ MALEMAID….
by the way.. a male maid would be a male servant.
a merman would be a male mermaid.
how long is your average hike? and I agree with AceofMercury as your videos are very interesting to watch as you go on adventures ,which is very hard to do in my town which is small and it there is no wilderness around it.
I LOVE listening to you talk! I love when you are walking by the broken abandoned hotel and you say something like I would love to go swimming down there a little divey dive! Awwww what are we all going to do when you move to the states???? We are going to need our Softypapa fix and all we will hear is "Softypapa has left the building"! Sigh…..
Vertigo makes you sneeze? It makes me feel in my tummy like I am going down a slide or a roller coaster! I had trouble sitting at my computer and just watching you look over the edge! LOL!
14:46 that stone says 小浜 'Obama' "Small beach"
simply a stellar place to live, exactly what I'm looking for in Japan.
Tho building that low to the ocean isn't recommended, after 3/11, and Suruga area is due for a megatsunami this century or next. . .
This has always been one of my all-time favourite Softypapa videos 🙂
Yes, I would have gone down those stairs!!! To fascinating!
Nice video, can't believe I haven't seen it till now.
I Norway 90 prosent wish to live at the sea side. Weird that no one want's to renovate it 🙁
I would kill to renovate those cliff side buildings into one big house… It kills me a little inside to see things fall apart like in your videos, although they are interesting. It just makes me want to restore it to it's original beauty. I mean someone once put their time and hard work into whatever thing, and it's just sad to see it fall to ruin… If I just had all the money in the world! Hehehe! But that's the way life works I guess.
I myself have the same feelings as the person you mentioned form a e-mail about your videos. I don't had any problems with my back / legs tho.
Just have to say i have a big love for you all of your work! Helped me alot in my own life! 😉
Thanks Kurt for the inspiration you have given me through long good relaxing adventures!
Big love from Sweden.
Btw, like the fourth time i see these videos and i thought it was time to write something! =)
a stream of consciousness video hike in semi ruined Japan!!!
when the economic bubble burst some years ago it took a lot down with it from the looks of things.
Shizuoka, Suruga bay.
23:45 random person sitting there.. Really cool spot !
This video is the main reason I like Y/T – there are decent, spiritual people on the great internet – thanks for sharing your interesting and absorbing experiences in a great land.
Love your video~ wish i can go on those journey with you!
Google earth 2015… that road is now gone in part… landslide O.O
Google street view is also from May 2012. Everything is almost exactly the same as when you walked there, could be just days apart.
Like Nezumi66 noticed, I too noticed on Google maps a section of 416 collapsed, due to typhoon 26 on October 16, 2013. It's been closed ever since, from the entrance near the hotel to where you go down to that village. It also looks like they are building a new tunnel from the hotel to that place at about the 24:20 minute mark with what looks like a little torii gate. So that whole part is now all abandoned, you got to capture it in action before it was abandoned.
An earthquake destroy the building I think
Kurt, that dog licked his lips at the sight of you. X{D
Have you ever been to Jerome, Arizona? It's in the Verde Valley. I think you'd like checking that town out.
There's abandoned structures, it's built on a hill like many Japanese towns, has supposedly haunted hotels, it's relatively close if you live in California, and they have a great restaurant and wine store.
I went there once and loved every minute of exploring it. And it felt like being taken out of time. And like being in another country. :{
Here is a drone video showing this area after the road collapsed:
youtube.com/watch?v=iTuAYWKgOR8
Dude u are so much fun to see I really love your videos I watch them all the time keep up the good work make new ones please thanks