good morning please excuse my extremely
messy house i've been away from home for
about a week
filming a video down in hakone area and
uh yeah i haven't had time to unpack but
today super early this morning quinlan
is gonna come over pick me up and we're
gonna go for a little road trip because
it's finally autumn in japan which in my
opinion
is probably the most beautiful and it's
the perfect kind of weather you would
like to be walking around outside in you
don't get too hot it's not too cold
and the autumn colors are absolutely
beautiful up here in northern japan so
we're going to take a little road trip
up to aomori which is a prefecture above
iwate where we live
and we're going to go to a couple famous
locations for seeing the autumn colors
it should be really nice i'm gonna hurry
up and pack a picnic lunch before he
gets here
and then we'll be off i learned my
lesson and i bought
a backpack for hiking this time so i
don't have to carry an annoying tote bag
i'm just gonna throw together some fruit
and this caramel
soy milk is so nice and some granola
bars just some easy stuff to bring and
some water as well
have you guys ever had a persimmon this
is my favorite fruit to eat in japan
in the fall it's amazing it doesn't look
that delicious
so if you've never had one before i can
understand being like
hesitant to eat it but they're so good
honestly if you can get them in your
country please try them this is what
they look like
on the inside they're very interesting
they're super sweet if it's ripe enough
it's gonna be super sweet kind of like
an apricot flavor
really tough to describe but yeah
honestly try them
okay pack up my fruit shove this all in
my bag and
go outside
we are gonna stop at lawson and grab
some snacks i did pack a little bit of a
lunch but mostly just some fruit
granola bars quinlan has the specific
kombini that he wanted to go to
apparently they have better sandwiches
and better
onigiri he knows all the tricks finland
was right they've got some homemade
onigiri here
over here as well oh wow look at that
spam
sausage that's really cool i've never
been to this last one
yes look how big they are i'll try the
i'll try the plumbing we're gonna be
walking and hiking a lot today so i'm
going to bring this it's like a
sports drink basically so our first stop
today
is the hakoda ropeway it's a gondola
that's going to take us
up to the top of this mountain range and
then we're gonna go for a hike and
explore the area the colors should be
really nice right now
i looked on twitter i always do this
before i go somewhere
i look for photos on twitter from like
this past week to see how the leaves are
changing color
and they look like they're like peak
autumn colors at the moment so
it should be really beautiful quinlan
was just telling me the hakoda
mountains are famous because in 1902
there was
an incident there were 199 japanese
self-defense force soldiers
died do you want to tell the story
you're probably better at it
sure um basically this is around the
time when japan and russia
were at war there's a number of sort of
japanese russian wars and they were
practicing for the
um inevitability of needing to move
troops across the hakota mountains
and they were doing it in january it was
just a training insane
up here in north japan and hakko is
famous for bad weather and
basically a big storm came and out of
the 210 soldiers
199 of them died making it yeah the
worst
accident in modern mountaineering
history yeah that's really sad so
there's even a movie you can see about
it i think it's called the hakodi
incident but we can uh put that in the
description
how long's our drive to get up there
from morioka it's about a little over
two hours to get there
so we've got a long drive ahead of us
but we've got onihidi
so we'll be good
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so
all right you guys can see where we are
now we're actually really close to
hirosaki i've never been there before
which is cool we got here really fast
you can see morioka down in the middle
there so we traveled pretty far
and we're going to be getting off the
highway soon so we can see some
pretty uh rice field countryside views
hopefully
3 700. not bad not
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so are we in hirosaki city now do you
actually know what we are as close
close to we just passed kirosaki and we
went through another place called uh
kurorishi
it's always really exciting when i'm in
a place that i've never been to because
i've traveled
the majority of japan so it's very rare
so this is pretty cool
but it looks like fall is the perfect
season to come here there's so much
greenery
we're just making another stop at a
conbini before we start our hiking
adventure but i wanted to show you guys
all the apple trees so
especially the hirosaki area of aomori
is famous for apples
as you're driving through the town
there's apple trees everywhere and they
look so good
we have arrived hakoda ropeway it's
pretty fizzy
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all right so we're just waiting inside
for the ropeway car to make its way back
it's about one
car every 15 to 20 minutes or so and it
costs 2 000 yen for a round trip which
is what we'll be doing
i guess we'll be going up there hiking
and then coming back right
now that's exactly right that's what
we're doing immediately and they have a
little display here with the movie that
we were mentioning earlier it's called
hakodasan
so if you guys want to find it i'm going
to watch it myself i've never seen it
before but it looks a dresser
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nice where should we sit we're at the
bottom looking down or looking up um oh
i don't know well we can be the first
people here so maybe just a fighter
player
so i read online that this rope car can
carry over 100 people in one go but i
can't imagine 100 people cramming in
here
it would be super packed luckily there's
only about
20 people here today so it's nice
this rope is rather smooth i've been on
some that
are quite bumpy at parts so they're
terrifying but this one's
pretty good a little too smooth
it feels like we're floating
okay so they're just explaining about
the accident that we told you guys
that happened it was just over on that
mountain
right behind us there that's where it
happened
this last part of the ride is super slow
we're just parking
oh wow it's so foggy
can't see too much down below
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it's so foggy up here not the best for
seeing the views but it does give it
a really cool atmosphere oh you can see
a little bit though
not everything is covered in fog
down there yeah on the right oh maureen
city
all right let's get moving so we warm up
yes
so quinlan's got this cool app that will
track how far we walk and it'll also
track our route
right it'll track our route how far we
walk um our elevation change that's cool
i come prepared not only with apps but
also with pepper spray on the outside
chance we need a pair
for spray wow i haven't been up here in
years and years really except in the
winter time when it's totally different
oh yeah
god i can't imagine hiking here in the
winter it's fun
in fact i did a video no shoes yeah
snowshoes yeah
it's great i love the mixture of
different plants we've got some bamboo
here
some evergreens it's really pretty
this bamboo grass here it's our salsa in
japanese salsa
in the springtime little shoots come out
and local people love to pick and meet
him but
the bears also love it and so most of
the people getting injured by bears
happens
in this grass because when they're
harvesting they're picking this and the
bears are doing the same thing
yeah scary yeah but this season it's uh
just beerus
no no spring shoots i learned that in
animal crossing
look at the clouds rolling by
so pretty up here where's everyone else
how come no one's joining us
i guess they're going straight back down
many of them i think a lot of just came
up to check out that
yeah cute how the little pine cones are
on top of the trees
oh my god that's so cute isn't it cute
i've never seen that before
look at that look at that so this is
akakura
and then that's odaki the one where
looking at it now i don't think we're
probably gonna go there too
it's a nice stream yeah if you do want
to see what this looks like in the
winter i did a video
i'll link it down below yeah where you
can see we hiked up to the top of that
mountain right there
and walked along that ridge line which
is kind of maybe dumb but we were okay
how challenging was it it wasn't that
challenging but there was some ledges
there
yeah i'll leave it you got to check the
video we made it back in one piece
oh that stress right here it's so pretty
i'm so busy looking the distance i
didn't know
oh it's very sharp don't touch it knife
grass
it's pretty but don't touch it such a
nice path
it must be such a popular trail that
they've built this really nice path so
it's very easy to hike yeah i mean i
think with
most mountains to get to somewhere this
beautiful you'd have to hike about an
hour
yeah but here because you take the
ropeway it's like bam it's really nice
another world cup this way looks like
more fun
yeah we can see two things i love these
little berries yeah
so many nice plants around here and it
smells amazing it smells like pine trees
feels like christmas christmas in
october
it's because this trail is so popular
they've built really nice
wooden planks to walk on so it's great
there are areas that are a little muddy
um they do have long rubber boots that
you can
borrow up at the entrance to this hike
but i'm just wearing my sneakers and i
don't really care if they get dirty
it's like a painting it really does
in japanese when they say the autumn
color transformation they call that koyo
in japanese it literally is like
red leaves basically is how they
translate it but there's something else
they call kusakoyo or the koyo of the
grass
and what you see out there the sort of
golden brown color
in this alpine tall grass is that so
they've got these really neat kind of
stop-off points where you can just chill
on a bench and enjoy the colors look at
how pretty it is
look at all that grass it's so beautiful
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just chilling and eating my me
it's not my favorite honestly it's very
salty they have this new
green tea tendency is usually just like
bottled water but
not a green tea
wow that's really good all right lunch
break's over the real hiking has begun
we are aiming for a peak called akakura
it's gotten kind of steep got some nice
stairs here
the fun will begin soon oh dear i've
already fallen in the mud once
i uh i'm gonna guess that it's gonna
happen a few more times
all right charlotte attempts to cross a
muddy patch
she made it we're good we're good what
just happened there
kind of slipped feels so gross
not the best feeling in the world yep
it'll happen really beautiful view
behind us you can actually see the
ropeway
building that we came from directly
behind us there
so nice it's getting very warm we both
took off our jackets
oh i love the little patches of prairie
yeah
it almost looks like a golf course or
something little lakes little ponds
the last sign said one kilometer to the
peak it feels like we've walked a
kilometer but apparently there's point a
left
slow and steady
that was the longest kilometer of my
life
but we've made it to the summit
almost 10 more sets
oh my god nice work wow
it's a pretty steep cliff 1540
meters pretty cool views from up here so
the peak we're on right now is 1548
meters the fog looks really nice it
makes it feel a lot higher
than it actually is but the fall colors
are super pretty
as you can see around this way there's
this nice ridge
and so um we're going to just walk to
the end of this ridge really cool
i love the ridges if you're going to go
to the main summit odok yeah
the highest point in hakoda then you
would go down and up again but
we don't need to be crazy about it we
can just go to the end of this ridge
walk along the ridges cool
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it's really cool that is a steep
drop-off
yikes
almost at our last peak of the day we've
just realized that we're
cutting it a little close to the final
ropeway car
to get back home so we're gonna have to
turn around here and uh
hurry back quickly across our fingers
that we've made it but
yeah i hope i'm not a bad bad hakota guy
now
like having a get us stuck here
overnight can you imagine
oh my god what a glorious what a view
so many mountain peaks you can see them
all because the fog is kind of fading
now
all right we better go
the fog's gotten so thick that there is
zero visibility
oh that works not bad at all i think we
can make it we've got like uh
i think like five minutes you can do it
you can do it
success we're not stuck on the mountain
for the night
so according to quinlan's hiking app our
hike was about eight kilometers
long and we burned 1700 calories
which is pretty good it was quite
exhausting on the way down
because we were in such a rush but other
than that the hardest part was climbing
up to the peak
but walking along the ridge was really
chill because it was mostly flat
so if you're into hiking i really
recommend this hike especially in the
fall
the temperature was perfect and the
views were so beautiful
so hungry yeah all right guys i guess i
will say goodbye here we're just gonna
drive back to marioka
and i'm gonna scarf down whatever food i
can find in my house
make sure to go check out quinlan's
channel i will have him linked down
below if you enjoy these kind of outdoor
adventure videos he has plenty of them
over there and they're really cool
i hope you guys enjoyed our autumn
adventure thanks for watching and i'll
see you again very soon
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