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this is what we're up against here
it's about two or so hours
up the mountain we're hoping to get up
there before the sun comes up
and you'll have to excuse my excitement
on this one i have wanted to explore
this place in the dark since like 2005
when i was just a little kid
jumping around i feel like a little kid
again i am so excited about
exploring this place at night
well it's dark i'll give you that it's
kind of what you expect for this time in
the morning we just came through the
main entrance way here and then the path
splits off right and left we're gonna
take
the right path also i should note that
it's actually not this
bright in here it's really it's just the
camera
i can't believe this camera man there's
no way i would have been able to film
anything like this like 10 years ago
i think i actually have some footage
from it getting dark in fushimi inari
really and it just didn't look good i've
never seen these signs before
well okay so if we see monkeys we
probably you won't see monkeys
one of the really fun things about
fushimi inari is there are all these
little
off paths or alcoves for you to go
around and explore
there's way too many for me to have
explored them all
a lot of them are really small and
simple
like this but worth a little visit
nonetheless
fushimi mean that he's one of those
places that i've always wondered what it
would be like
to explore completely empty
i've gotten it near empty have you ever
been here without people no
no i've always visited during the day
the first time i was here in 2005 it was
almost empty
i came during the evening and went down
at night
and going down at night this way the
path is very clear
right but going the opposite way the
path kind of splits yeah when you're in
the dark it's
tough to tell which way to go
so basically everything else is back
this way
and mount e-nutty and thankfully
restrooms are gonna be this way
also i don't remember having all these
go this way and way back
signs you know i think people getting
confused here might have been a problem
before
the first time i had no idea which way
to go
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and it looks like the bathrooms are only
open from 7 30 a.m to 4
20. that's a weird they're gated yeah
legit
they're just closed right up why why are
they closed for like
three hours and 10 minutes that's just a
really weird amount of time to have the
bathrooms closed for what was that
wait it's
definitely you heard that right yeah i
heard that i heard that definitely
coming from okay it's probably a monkey
dude
it's probably happening you saw the
signs let's keep moving okay no
monkeys today nope
i'm not dealing with monkeys today
especially some of the monkeys out here
can be really really aggressive
so as cute as they are wow that's
beautiful over there
we've got another alcove over here and
this one's actually a really nice one so
let's go check it out
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i will say they keep this area really
well lit even at night
but you feel like you've discovered a
hidden area obviously it's not hidden
anybody can come up here but
it's got the fields that's for sure
victor are you ready for the real creepy
part
yeah what's up what's that what's creepy
there's
there's a guy over there i heard i heard
like a bag rumbling but yeah it was like
a monkey or something and oh no
he's doing is just like this yeah
okay okay so it looks like it was a bit
of a shortcut we probably would have
come up from there
and there we go this way it is not that
bright out by the way like we can't see
can't see that it's just no it's just
pure darkness everything looks more like
this to us but let's
ramp up
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this is everything i thought it was
going to be it is quickly climbing to
the top of my recommendation charts to
check this place out at night
between the light cutting through the
moon up in the sky and everything this
is just
spectacular victor what do you think man
is it worth it more than i could have
asked for to be honest
you never imagined to have a place like
this entirely to yourself
it's just wow and now in addition to
monkey warnings we also have boar
warnings so double the fun
one of the most obvious merits of
visiting during the day would be that
these
shops and whatnot are open but there are
also no shortage of vending machines on
the mountain either did you hear the owl
yeah yeah totally some of these shops
here you can also get your name
and the date and whatnot hand written on
a small
toady shrine like this one here this is
a little bit bigger but they do have
smaller ones
high-tech automatic lights
they cannot overstate how impressed i am
with the effort they put into lighting
everything this is not what i was
expecting
no not coming out here this time no
it's a short timer
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it's like victor's never seen a light
before that just automatically
expecting everything to be pitch black
to be honest yes yeah i'm not
complaining
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oh we're already at one of my favorite
viewpoints
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victor noticed a shooting star in that
that sky shot that i just took there
and i'm just lucky what could i say but
the question is before i showed you did
you notice it
the goal was to go up in the dark and
come down
with a little more light that way we get
to experience both sides of it and now
we're racing the sun
it's a view you get from this space here
and it has the added confusion of not
just
one not just two
but three different routes that you can
go from here this map of the potential
possible routes in fushimi
that is a pretty good representation of
why i say you can spend an entire day
here
don't sell yourself short on the amount
of time you give yourself
yeah don't try to rush this place no so
which
way do you think we should go left or
right well
can't go wrong but going right
yeah and as soon as we get back into the
tory gates it's dark again
loving the mix of blue and orange as the
sky starts to light up it really looks
nice coming through here
also this light is a bit of a vibe
victor victor's not enjoying it moving
on
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how long did we spend in that tunnel
like no more than five minutes
what it's like
at least we're close to the top what
okay so that that particular stretch of
torii gates is just a mystery
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we're almost at the top this this has
just been a lot of stairs
the one thing i've always wished about
this mountain is the top wasn't just
like
like this that we could that you could
actually like see the view from the top
of the mountain
but with fushimi inari it's really about
that experience of
walking through the tunnels of tori
gates and finding all those hidden paths
off to the side
this place is really an adventure in its
own that's why this is to
this date by far still one of my
favorite places in the entire country
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dude i think i found one of my favorite
spots and i totally forgot about it
have you been through here no
it's not quite a waterfall so don't get
too
excited
there's a there's a bucket
what it's the famous fushimi inari pipe
bucket
all right so um the little waterfall
thing i told you about
finally found it but the only way you
can see this area
at all is with the night vision and this
little night vision light
the camera does nothing
because these are such a beautiful
bright orange
but
you know the camera just ruins it i'd
rather you not see it than see it like
this
i'll get a better camera someday and
come back
you