good god what a sight terrible terrible
sight makes up for all the pringles and
insects we've eaten the last two days
good morning and welcome back to journey
across japan escape to mount fuji a
thousand kilometers and six days
of despair and we are surrounded by
monkeys
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ironic isn't it yesterday we went to
jigardani valley in nagano to the
biggest monkey park in japan
and it wasn't a single monkey today
we're in a campsite in the middle of
nowhere
and there's a whole family wandering
through the hills around us
so we've just stayed overnight in this
alpine campsite in toyama and joey is
over here
joey the enemy man studying his map of
where we're going to next good morning
joey how are you doing i'm alright how
are you
yeah i'm good did you sleep all right i
was all right pretty hard for you tom
yeah the like the wood was really that's
what wood is yeah yeah the wood the wood
it was pretty hard my back's done
challenge of the day every day of this
trip we're doing challenges you guys
have sent in so far we've had about 4
000 submissions
and our production team have whittled it
down to just three today one of which
is about to come out of amp man
yesterday's challenge
was thoroughly unpleasant we had to eat
some horrible food
bees larvae i liked it don't don't go
back and watch it or don't
it was it was horrible all right what we
got all right here we go
all right challenge of the day is from
thomas newman
who says i like this challenge
make a second dr jelly ad oh yay
dr jelly for those of you that don't
know dr jelly in the original series of
gene across japan
i had an addiction to energy jelly and
joey became the physical human
manifestation of
physical human embodiment of an energy
jelly
that's good
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we've got to try and make a contemporary
modern update on dr jelly
somehow all right time to hit the road
once i've folded this damn map i've got
like a
i've got like a problem i can't fold
them out really
i can't do it i hate maps
leaving the monkeys behind to reign free
we hit the road once more for our 100
kilometer journey from toyama
into giphy prefecture and given we've
just spent the last two days in
forgotten quarries
asbestos filled love hotels and dusty
log cabins we've decided to stay the
night in the hot spring town of ghedor
considered to be one of japan's top
three hot spring resorts
but before we plunge into a much needed
bath our first stop midway is takayama a
stunning traditional town that has
become a popular tourist destination in
recent years
if we're looking for inspiration for our
japanese commercial today hopefully
we'll find it down the city's rustic
streets but first things first
it's breakfast time all right joe i got
a special job for you
yeah this is my breakfast pocket chicky
literally pocket chicken from family
mart
i need you to put it on the stick for me
because i'm driving put it on so you
want me to feed you basically
to a point yes yeah you want me to feed
you maybe the pocky chicken
oh if i was going to escape anywhere in
japan right and just disappear into
nothingness so i'd come
here to the mountains of gifu covered in
clouds beautiful mountain range
don't eat the pocket chick the wasp
right gonna have to pull over in a
minute throw you out a window
yeah on a little toothpick
oh now that is a good breakfast
pocket chicken the cornerstone i mean
nutritious breakfast
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so we're in the old quarter of takayama
it's one of my favorite streets in japan
i've been here once before
and it left a good impression mainly
because of the uh kidagu
wagyu beef we're about to eat on a stick
on a stick on a stick
a wagyu sirloin steak might set you back
anywhere between 80 to 200 dollars in
japan but here the local hiddegu which
gets its name from the nearby town of
hidden can be enjoyed on a skewer for as
little
as a thousand yen about ten dollars sure
it's pricey for a single skewer
but by serving the prized marble beef as
a street food
at least you can savour the juicy
buttery smooth beef without needing to
blow all your pocket money
that is the lunch of kings that is this
makes up for all the pringles and
insects we've eaten the last two days
alright telekimar thank you
oh look at that oh god
that just melts in your mouth doesn't it
it's very buttery and because it's a5 it
means it's quite rich in fat
oh i thought you'd needed some like
sauce or anything on it but now it's
just a bit of salt on it
it's perfect this is really good
perfect and now
this natsuki's hand gel right so before
natsuki left yesterday he gave us his
hand gel
he started his own brand of hand gel
it's typical natsuki cashing in
on a disaster okay some nice hand jelly
75 alcohol very strong it's like
pouring vodka on your head yeah that's
what it smells like maybe natsuki drinks
it with his uh
have a shot for bedtime but what we were
thinking
because i don't eat energy jelly anymore
this could be dr jelly's new thing
oh dr dr jelly for the modern generation
dr jill's going to evolve
to dr hanjo it really is in recent years
takayama has become really popular with
tourists because it's kind of like a
mini kyoto
and it's one of the few places a lot of
tourists have been going to outside of
major cities like tokyo osaka
and kyoto takayama is kind of in the
middle if you're coming to japan for the
first time
put takayama on your itinerary for like
a day and it'll be a nice little escape
from the city
but now we've filled up on some tasty a5
uh
hiragyu it's time to see if we can find
a backdrop for dr jelly
this cat keeps wanting to slash the
shoddy doors
the woman's like stop it and it's like
no
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while the shogi slasher cat is
takayama's undeniable highlight
in firm second place is one of japan's
largest retro museums
the takayama showa khan where you can
transport yourself back in time to the
1950s and 60s
with streets shops and even classrooms
recreated
in impressive detail oh wow
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that's so cool this is like a 1950s
1960s style
classroom there's a lot of nostalgia
around the kind of the showa
jedi the short era because after world
war ii japan went through an economic
miracle world war ii didn't go so well
for japan but after that the country
rebuilt itself
kind of reimagined itself and there's a
lot of nostalgia for that period a lot
of the toys
games culture you speak to anyone who
grew up between the 1950s to the 1980s
and they were kind of
speak very nostalgically and very fondly
about that era
that's the end of that bit
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i don't know what this is it's the
smallest vehicle i've ever been in
i think this is what we should have done
journey across japan 1940s 1950s little
van i love it
full steam ahead joey get in let's go
oh wow oh jackpot
this is amazing it's like a 1960s style
canteen
um lots of cool items this is it
it doesn't even feel like it's fake it
actually feels like a real to scale
like little diner or canteen or
something where you come for like a bit
of lunch
or dinner oh wow what do you reckon
that's perfect actually maybe
so it needs to be something to do with
his hand joe natsuki's bloody
alcoholic hand gel oh that's perfect
right because there's a meal
right there so we can make it like you
just came home from work
and you're like oh man i need a meal but
it's i'm too hungry to go wash my hands
and then i'm bursting with this
i'm too hungry to wash my hands exactly
but that way that is a genuinely
plausible workable situation yeah yeah
i like it i like it a lot should we do
it
i think we should let's do it
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oh it's the [ __ ] camera
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how was that i think it was good enough
that we got it
so we've just finished filming after
about what an hour in this like
1950s style restaurant we've just fished
how do you think it went oh it went
really well
it's difficult to know until we've
edited it but you can see the finished
version of dr jelly 2
at the end of this video but for now
guerrero onsen let's go
let's get out of here
and while you were suiting up into dr
jelly i did discover
a hotel with a room with a hot spring in
it
in a thousand-year-old log
a thousand-year-old life a
thousand-year-old log imagine that
like this thousand-year-old this log has
been there for a thousand years
twenty generations and two foreigners
come along sit in the log and break it
because they're too big for it
that'd be a tragic end to the day but
also hilarious at least we've got a
title for this video now
just this sort of click bait title i sat
in a thousand-year-old log in japan and
broken i'm broken not clickbait
the sort of disgusting filthy clickbait
title you have to do as a youtuber it
sounds like
yeah i would make it isn't it it's a
joey video yeah i sat in a log in japan
look at me
yeah and the thumbnail be him going
stupid
fun fact in japanese ghetto actually
means to vomit but don't worry the baths
here
are filled with geothermal spring water
and not something unspeakably dreadful
arriving at our hotel room we're given
something of a whirlwind tour
by a warm welcoming member of staff
who's proud to showcase
the seemingly never-ending amount of
televisions placed
around our room
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a really quite large room to be honest
that thousand-year-old log
comes with a rather big room we'll give
you a tour in a minute we haven't gone
outside and seen this vlog yet so quite
excited about this yeah
and the grand review
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oh wow that's a that's a log all right
that's a [ __ ] log all right jesus
correct
well just to put in perspective of how
big it is the woman who brought us in
here said that
like both of us could fit in here i
don't know about it to be honest with
you
but uh yeah apparently you just turn
this on the tap on right now it's not
filled at all but
the moment you turn this tap on then the
fresh onsen water from
the ghetto springs is going to come
right out of here
and into here and it should hopefully uh
i don't know intermingle with the wood
or something and make it international
with the wood
the synergy of the wood and the water
so we actually get our dinner in our
room at this giant table
over here um which joey will now
demonstrate but
uh it's a pretty big room we've got two
beds we've got like a general seating
area with a tv
we've got our own nice elderly butler
woman the best way to describe
drivers the maid she's lovely yeah very
nice and she just poured us some tea as
well
and we've got the room where are we
gonna have dinner
one of the key considerations when
choosing a lil khan a traditional
japanese inn
is the food the average cost of a one
night stay including dinner and
breakfast is around 25 000 yen or 250
and the lavish mouth-watering dinner is
a huge part of that cost and the
experience
as a whole some lyokhans do buffet style
but i recommend getting one
with a multi-course kaiseki dinner where
you're encouraged to try all the
immaculately presented and prepared
local dishes placed before you
i mean as brilliant as a buffet is i
know for a fact when i'm served a buffet
my culinary lust for adventure is
quickly drowned out by a lack of
self-control and a plate drenched
in steak and fried chicken with that in
mind we chose this inn not just for the
private bath an abundance of televisions
and telephones but for its delicious
kaiseki banquet
served up exquisitely in the comfort of
our own room
well cheers joey cheers chris what a
wonderful looking meal i feel like a
samurai lord it'll be
a poorly dressed samurai lord i don't
feel like a samurai
you cut it on right one of the best
things about staying at a traditional
japanese inner york
is the dinner and there's nowhere else
in japan that you can really get a meal
like this you have to come to
your khan to kind of get this large
ridiculous course meal
this isn't even half of us by the way
this isn't like a one course or two
course for a three course there's about
20
courses there there's about 20 different
dishes and they keep bringing them in
yeah over and over it's quite misleading
though because you come in you've got
the beef and you've got the
kind of the things you're going to eat
later on in the meal before you so
you've got the main dish there
but you don't eat that for the next 30
minutes it's just a tease i don't know
what half of these are yeah
yeah and if you try and read the menu
good luck with that because
they're written in quite complicated
kanji they use quite
formal um kanji characters for making
menus there
which i didn't know had a kanji until
now exactly right yeah like words like
sukiyaki we
kind of read them usually it's written
in hiragana and this one is written in
kanji absolutely so do that
give it kind of air of traditional
tradition and excellence which is
two things that i stand for tradition
tradition and excellence
better than pocky chicky this to some
extent right where are we going to start
something
we'll eat this 20 course meal and we'll
get in the log
get in the log get on the wall spent
most a day
in the 1950s diner recreating a
nightmare
we're gonna have this wonderful dinner
and i'm gonna get a thousand-year-old
log what a weird day
sounds good to me gotta be like those
japanese like tv shows where it's
shaking way too much
then you've gotta say the inevitable
japanese phrase or she
hey we're at least as good as a japanese
television show now
um
your skills on youtube are wasted jelly
all right
for japanese chocolate should be
fronting in hk world
i don't know what it is but
so we've just finished dinner um i saved
it it was more like a banquet
in size and scale but now's the bit i've
been looking forward to all day we're
here by the log
but apparently it could fit four or five
people in it but tonight it's only gonna
have two people in it and uh
in my book that's already one person too
many go then joe fill up your log
i'll fill up my wok all right apparently
if i just flick this on it'll just start
filling up on its own
right yay
so apparently this water comes straight
out this is all natural
uh spring water from underground for
ghetto
and uh yeah apparently the effects are
the smoothing of the skin
so your boy is about to have some your
boy
your boy and your boy i do you don't
belong on this channel
so much like every onsen there's a rule
before you can't just jump in right you
have to wash your body off so
i'm gonna go over to that corner over
there where the shower head is wash my
body off get myself a little bit clean
and then jump right into this all right
well
it's filled up to the brim it's stopped
on its own once it filled off to the
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brim
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oh
my god it's actually quite comfy uh when
you once you're inside of it
there's lots of space you can easily fit
another person in here
excellent because that's what's about to
happen
now watch all the water go out oh
chris is a fat bar
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it's like a waterfall oh it's nice
though
good god what a sight terrible terrible
sight
this whole journey across japan escaped
the fuji thing it's starting to feel
worryingly like some sort of awkward
date
a week-long date with joey like so i
mean
we're three days into this road trip now
and the weather has been consistently
utter crap yeah this is called journey
across japan escape to mount fuji
imagine how awful imagine how
embarrassing imagine how humiliating
would be if we didn't see mount fuji not
once
on this damn road trip i know it's not
going to happen now embarrassing for you
hilarious for me and everybody else i
would i would cry
like it's just going to be me sitting in
front of a pile of clouds
crying my eyes out that's going to be
the end of journey across japan but now
it's the moment we've all been waiting
for
get ready for dr jelly two here we go
enjoy cheers
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hello
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foreign
so there you have it dr julie the second
commercial i hope it's good
yeah let us know how it turned out in
the comments below and of course we'll
see more challenges in tomorrow's videos
we continue our journey to mount fuji
and hopefully
have our first glance of the iconic
mountain itself but for now guys as
always many thanks for watching
japan thanks for joining us on our
journey today and we hope to see you
right back here to do it again
in the next episode journey across japan
escape to mount fuji
genuinely this isn't like a joke we're
trapped in the basement of a pyramid
capsule hotel inside a shipping
container it's like our own private
capital hotel
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