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i'm in kobe right now
it's november but i feel like it's
probably taken me
a little while to get this video up i
am out here doing a little bit of
exploring i arrived this morning and
went
straight to like a ropeway adventure
that it was
it was neat
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this place is out in kobe
took a cable car up here and the colors
were absolutely beautiful
oh boy that's what i'm doing now that is
really long
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oh boy we're spinning
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wow
spider webs why are there spider webs
the sound
the sound is really more terrifying than
anything
and here's me coming into this going
this is going to be easy
my legs
i will say though if you are afraid of
heights
this is not the activity for you
all right let's see if we end up facing
forward this time
not at all always spinning
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every time
how's my back look and now i'm gonna do
some exploring of
arima onsen town before heading to a
campsite for the night i just love the
feel of the town like look at this
little road here it's one of the three
oldest onsen towns in japan there's doko
there's shirahama and then there's arima
onsen
town right here there are lots of own
sands in japan obviously but
it's onsen town right there i also had
kobe
beef curry for lunch it was good spicy
this place is always good
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all right and this is a little rare so
this place is called
onsenji so onsen temple and
literally right beside it is this tosen
jinja which is an onsen shrine
i was literally in kobe just about two
months ago
and just passing that is a loud crow
just passing through
so i just felt like i had to give it a
proper visit this time i'm kind of
running out of time but i wouldn't be
able to forgive myself fighting at least
go to the very top
and check out what's up there so
and that's what she looks like trees are
beautiful
and it doesn't hurt that i'm like the
only person here
i've been getting pretty lucky with that
lately but the part that's just killing
me the part that's eating me up
is that the park is right over that
patagoyama park that is the pathway up
to the park and i'm just
i'm out of time
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okay this is what the place looks like
it's tiny but it's
really nice
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so that's what the campsite looks like
when you arrive at night you never
really know but
it's nice
there's like just one giant cloud above
me right now
and it's spinning a little bit it's
concerning
and just like that the cloud passes the
rain is gone and the day begins
right now i'm in an area called naruto
that's right naruto
uh in tokushima shikoku which is by far
my favorite island
of japan and i'd come out to pretty much
every spot that i'm visiting on this
trip a couple months ago but part way
through i ran into
johay living in his abandoned elementary
school well that
that was amazing so it took up almost a
full two days and i had to shave off
a lot of other stuff and so when i got
asked if i wanted to come back to
experience a bunch of stuff in the area
and i jumped on that opportunity and
well vote
oh oh look at those views
i heard about these a la santa pillars
last time and didn't get a chance to
stop
and visit them so i've kind of hiked up
a mountain a bit today was really hot
today off the sweater and uh
the view alone has been so incredibly
worth it
wow
this whole spot like you've got the
mountains over there the sand pillars
down there
i have no idea where this trail is gonna
lead me
but it's nice just to kind of enjoy
nature a little bit it's nice to be able
to experience
more in shikoku i'm really grateful to
have these opportunities and to be able
to share it with you guys
i don't know if you can see it those
little little caterpillars floating
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there
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yeah that is most certainly a view that
you don't get every day i'm just gonna
i think i'm gonna relax here for a while
and just enjoy this
this is which kind of if you look at it
it has a similar look
to like the naraijuku and tsumagojuku
kind of feel but
again it is 1 30 p.m and there is
almost nobody here except for me and
this little
truck right here also before we go
there's
something that i really love about this
it's 100 yen for a pinecone
so if you want a pine cone and you're
not a big fan of going into the forest
you can just get one here for 100 yen
i absolutely love places like this i
guess i i genuinely feel truly fortunate
to have lived in japan for well over 10
years
and to still be this excited to be here
like it has not died down if anything
has gone up and i
absolutely absolutely love that
and now off to the oboke gorge for a bit
of a boat tour that i wanted to do last
time but didn't get the chance
this gorge is beautiful by the way
this is a nice room gotta get changed
and grab dinner
pro tip for when you're putting on a
yukata by yourself they always say
hide always goes over right
don't mess that up food looks absolutely
delicious it always feels like
just a little more than you deserve but
they put a lot of effort into the
presentation
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that was nice this whole place has been
really nice
last time that i was in tokushima i
stayed at a campsite
a free campsite nonetheless it was still
nice just it's obviously not
this nice and i love the people here
they're just so warm and for one of the
gentlemen
after the boat tour that i took walked
up started a chat with me we got into
talking about shamisen and everything
like that and he gave me this beautiful
box that's made and it's kind of local
to the
area this is it here slide this part
open and then you actually have to push
from here
in order to get these out i am really
becoming a fan of tokushima i can't
believe it took me this long to start
exploring and just down the road from
here is kazurabashi
that beautiful vine bridge that
stretches over the gorge the entire
area is gorgeous it's actually kind of
nerve-wracking to cross this there's
there's lots of space in between each
board your foot could just
fit right through like and this actually
isn't too far off from that abandoned
school where yochan runs his cafe
and his hostel and all of that and this
is why i've been singing shikoku's
praises for years there's so much to
discover
it's pretty easy to understand why i
love shkok so much right like this area
is just even though i came out this time
to experience and do more stuff it feels
like it's still just a taste
we're definitely coming back
you