real all of this is real
journey across japan is supposed to be a
family friendly series and
this is very far from family friendly
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welcome to journey across japan escape
to mount fuji
thousand kilometers six days of despair
now these are real rocks
this is a real beach and that's the real
sea
then that must be the real
actual mount fuji we've seen it we've
done it we've escaped mount fuji that's
what this whole series was about
the last four days on this journey we've
had nothing we haven't even seen a
single normal mountain a boring mountain
because the weather's been crap we've
had typhoons clouds rain
horror despair a quarry it's been a
really weird series but we've found it
we've seen it we've done it
and i can't really believe it and i
worry that a lot of viewers won't
believe it either they'll think
that this is a green screen they'll
think this is cgi because that's how
desperate
that i've been look it's a real rock
look
real it's not see this isn't like a set
this isn't this is a real view you can
reach out you can touch it come with me
look real water oh no my shoe real water
it's real all of this is real
what was it you said yesterday joey we
wouldn't see
mount fuji oh
when i look at mount fuji i have no idea
how i climbed it
it looks just unclimbable you haven't
done it right no i haven't i really want
to though i did it i mean i did it eight
years ago
and uh it's definitely been one of the
best experiences i've had yeah in my
time in japan
they say a wise man climbs mount fuji
once a full climbs it twice
just because it's such an amazing thing
to do once but it's so difficult you'd
never want to do it again
but what's our last challenge of the
trip we're about to find out aren't we
last time before anpanman goes into
retirement once more we've had
about 5 000 challenges sent in by you
guys this week and we've done some
pretty crazy stuff
we've uh made a horror film we've made a
commercial
we've eaten some disgusting insects and
poison natsuki
so the bar's pretty high so what do we
got all right let's go
these nuts goodbye man
back into retirement for another two
years
all right the last challenge of this
trip is from
i like cars i like cars who says pimp
your bike part two
pimp your car each person has 1 000 yen
to spend
in a 100 yen shop to see who can make
the ultimate
car gadget right the ultimate car gadget
yes the ultimate cargo from the 100 yen
store
wow that's gonna require some creativity
yeah i don't really have a thousand
years a thousand yen
to be fair you can get some good bang
for your buck at 100 yen storage
sure all right let's go and see what we
can find and let's begin our journey our
final journey across the izu peninsula
let's go
it almost feels like a crime driving
away from our perfect view of mount fuji
this morning but as the morning rolls on
so do the clouds come to hide it away
once more
they were hoping to catch a glimpse of
it just one more time before the day
is out on day six of our journey across
japan and the final leg
of our journey we'll head across the izu
peninsula towards mount
omer one of japan's smallest volcanoes
towering over the city
of itor at 580 metres and it's here from
the summit of this striking looking
volcano that we're hoping to grab
one last glimpse of mount fuji before we
head back into tokyo
first things first though we need some
inspiration and ideas
for our thousand yen in-car gadgets
i must say i'm pleasantly surprised by
the izzy it's absolutely stunning maybe
it's the weather
i forgot what the sun looks like after
the last four or five days of driving
through nothing but rain and thai thing
it's definitely been up and down in
terms of the weather so this is glorious
this is what i thought
journey across japan would look like
yeah sadly yesterday we arrived in new
peninsula
and we went to a british theme park ah
yes the illustrious
uk theme park which is actually pretty
good i was pleasantly surprised yeah was
it like the uk
no it's far too clean but we did get
some fish flip flops yes fish flops as
they call it
go back and watch the fish flops uh that
was great
so we need to find some inspiration for
our pimp our car episode we do
and uh there's a lot of weird places
around here but i think i just found
somewhere that
on the weirdness scale definitely takes
the cake i i'm looking at the pictures
of it right now
and i actually can't even describe to
you what this is well that is always a
good start
so maybe we can go there and get some
inspiration for our pinball car okay
all right let's go away to this place
all righty we've seen some pretty odd
places on this trip so fast the bar is
uh pretty high
we can beat the bar yeah i think this
place definitely take the bar
take
so we visited some pretty crazy messed
up locations on this journey across
japan
series but nowhere has quite an entrance
that looks like this what is this place
joey where have you found
so this is called maboro which roughly
translates to mirage museum mirage
museum and as the name
suggests it is just a museum full of
really weird [ __ ]
it's about it i mean there's like a
gigantic greenhouse up there there's
lots of weird figurines and things but
uh don't judge a book by its cover let's
go inside maybe it's normal
what is that it's like a potato with a
face it looks a little bit like my
friend ryotaro
i've got the face got the face he's not
that like that
it feels like somebody made the world's
most mental garden
and then just left it behind but
everything's kind of overgrown
and it doesn't look overly well kept
yeah
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what is that
that is so bloody bit i've seen some of
the biggest statues in all of japan
that is one of the biggest heads i've
seen that's terrifying
it takes up a quarter of the greenhouse
this is looking down on us
seriously we're supposed to we've come
here to look for ideas to you know
create a gadget an in-car gadget
and this has nothing to do with it this
is just some sort of trippy greenhouse
it's like a lot of ideas for like a
dystopian sci-fi novel
perfect all right give me the next uh
next series what's in the cave
we want to find out god knows i'm not
really sure what the concept is yeah
we need a show i think we'll probably
leave here without working out what it
is yeah i mean what the [ __ ] is that
whoa
look at that that's actually kind of
cool as a top
holiday destination for the tokyo elite
izu peninsula
is hugely popular with domestic japanese
tourists and the influx of money
has led to the region having something
of a reputation for its quirky
magnificent and often bizarre
attractions and exhibits but this place
takes the cake after half an hour
wandering through the seemingly random
exhibits of terrifying dolls and
figurines we're still none the wiser
as to what the overarching theme is or
perhaps
that's the point it's kind of like
jurassic park
meets children's nightmare kind of vibe
going on
[ __ ] what why is there so many
penguins
what is with the penguins it smells like
a kind of
forgotten greenhouse or um what
no
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you've got the creaky door going on
what's behind creepy door number one
oh it's a horse with a woman's head
upside down and the legs on and the
boots
what was that was that a person or a
speaker i don't know what that was
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waiting for the next abroad in japan
video be like
oh wow it's like it's like being inside
the mind of a serial killer
what's this like it's dodgy drawings all
over the world with a macbook
sorry a macintosh with a decapitated
head on the screen
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we came here for a bit of fun right not
that much fun now is
it journey across japan was supposed to
be a family friendly series and
uh this is uh well this is very far from
family friendly
we were going to come here for like a 20
minute like walk through we've been in
here
90 minutes now and then we don't know
where the exit is this looks like the
exit
has just been forgotten and left to to
like grow
what is this place
that was certainly interesting the
things we saw in that
i don't know what it was the things we
saw in there will haunt me forever and
that was like a fever dream to be honest
with you
and uh i mean i don't know if i found
any inspiration for our in-car
gadget that we've gotta make but i i
certainly leave the place feeling
ever so slightly traumatized i
definitely found inspiration for
nightmares that i'm gonna have in the
future
inspiration for nightmares that's right
did that place raise the bar
or did it take the bar it just took the
bar away there's no bar that we have to
go over now took the bar and threw it in
the river yeah anyway onto daiso
let's start crafting these uh let's pimp
our cars
i know what i want today so you go ahead
i'll come on
daiso is japan's largest and best-known
hundred yen store with 3000 stores
across the country and an additional
1900 branches
overseas it has a reputation for selling
just about anything
sweets snacks screwdrivers socks and
sick bags pretty much anything beginning
with the letter s and that is because
daiso has around a hundred thousand
products on sale
in store though its biggest selling item
are batteries of which it sells
147 million a year closely followed
by fake eyelashes my personal favorite
with a pair sold
every 1.3 seconds and someone picking up
a discount necktie
once every 15 seconds cheap doesn't
necessarily mean poor quality though
japanese consumers are more conscious of
quality and reliability
when buying items and daiso is able to
deliver good quality items at such a low
price by purchasing in bulk for its 5
000 stores this is starting to sound
like some sort of product placement for
daiso
it's not but if you do live in japan
pretty much every week you'll find an
excuse to pop into the store
and grab some household items especially
the fake eyelashes
though i suspect today's purchases are
likely to be slightly more
unconventional
my favorite thing about daiso is great
english
this is a hat a woolly hat that says
good humor that art gallery place
nightmare we just went to has given me
some ideas
believe it or not some inspiration and
it starts
with this hat the first piece of the
puzzle okay right now i'm in the
bicycle and class section and i think i
just found some
pretty cool things in here that we can
check out so we've got some
cute cat head wrist this is actually
really cute i also got this backrest
right here
the top with daiso is i'm almost always
perpetually lost
300 yen for a hand what can we do with
that
[ __ ] oh run a bunch of things but i
think something's missing
something anime is missing
you know when you feel like an idea is
taking shape
what do you reckon definitely spent too
much time in that last place every night
got it how much do you spend
884 yen 994.
six yen away right then time to turn
these amazing car gadgets
into reality
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on a scale of one to masterpiece it's a
one okay
finished so we just finished our in-car
gadgets the best money could buy for a
thousand yen at 100 yen store
um who wants to go first joey i'll go
first what's your concept and why okay
my concept is the three k's
the 3k yes that sounds really bad i'm
sorry it does sound really bad
it's the 3ks class plus comfort comfort
and kawaii
right three k's welcome to pink pink
pink my car welcome to pimp my car today
we're showing off the 3ks so we got
some comfort right here with the back
supporter only 100 yen
good value over here we have a little
class
and kawaii combo with the cat pillow and
i
plastered a bunch of curvy stickers on
it because i personally love kirby
and over here we have a little mascot
holder right
i used a i used a bottle holder put a
little panda in there if you don't want
the panda in there chuck the pandora out
you can even put this maniera thing in
here as well you can even put a bottle
in here
it works three ways all right so now
you've got your 3ks you've got your
class
you've got your comfort and you got your
kawaii that's my concept
in my car i win all right what do you
got chris my
concept is security oh
now this trip we've had about ten
thousand dollars worth of equipment in
this car we've had cameras
drones natsuki joey important things and
when we leave the car
all of that stuff's here right it's been
a security hazard and uh it's been a
heart attack for me sometimes thinking
oh
is my drone going to be there when i
wake up is it going to be in the car
well now it is
because when people come to burglar my
car or your car ladies and gentlemen
they're going to see this the picture
the scene you're a
criminal right okay coming towards the
car coming to burglar my drones
yeah as you get near the car you see
this [ __ ] yeah right
you think wait something in the car i'm
gonna talk it's gonna be dark right it's
gonna be dark you're not gonna
see this yeah that's stupid but in the
dark
you're gonna look at that and go wow
wait is that something in the car i
can't be sure i can see a face and a
hand
he's just sitting there he's asleep i'm
not gonna burgle that car i'm gonna
burgle the toyota prius next door
so cars safe drones don't get burgled
you know the abroad in japan security
concept has won the day so who's got the
best in-car gadget is it joey with his
kkk okay oh good god uh joe with his
practical classy comfort bollocks or is
it me
with my ultimate security system for a
fraction of the price of a normal
security system i feel that explanation
was a little biased but vote now
in doubt the comments vote away
izzy peninsula is an incredibly
mountainous region with over 70 small
volcanoes
dotted throughout its landscape and
almost a dozen cinder cone volcanoes
such as
mount omer in all my travels across
japan i'll say right now i've never seen
anything
quite like mount omerol it looks like
somebody fired a shrink ray at mount
fuji with its perfect conical shape
giving it an almost artificial quality
the 580 meters though it is a fraction
of the height of mount fuji although
unlike mount fuji thankfully it is
extinct which is good news
for the city of etor it's 74 000
inhabitants who live at the base of the
volcano
and as for mount fuji itself it last
erupted in 1707 though rather ominously
it is said to be overdue especially
since the 2011
tohoku earthquake and tsunami which
shook the entire country
let's just hope the sleeping giant
continues to sleep for the foreseeable
future
but here on mount omer there's only one
way to ascend a mountain
of this magnitude
oh we made it to the summit of mount
omador
580 metres it was a chair left it was a
chair lift to the top we did nothing we
are lazy and i don't like chairs i have
a phobia ever since i went to france
went skiing
and i came off a chairlift and took out
a family of four french people
i'll never live that down pretty awkward
good god
what have you mount fuji again i feel
almost greedy we've had too many views
with the last few days
from every angle we've gotten that let's
not sugarcoat it this series has been a
[ __ ] show when it comes to getting shots
of the scenery
um the last few days has been wet windy
typhoons crap clouds it's horrible
but now perfection couldn't be better
but that's it guys that is the end of
journey across japan escape to mount
fuji did you have fun joey i did yeah
this was awesome and what was your
personal trip highlight i mean i have to
say dr joey
dr jelly of course resurrected once yes
exactly will we see him again
maybe i hope not and that's for me my
highlight was getting to spend time
with natsuki that was really good i
don't get to see natsuki much these days
so it was really nice to see him
and also just seeing mount fuji you know
i finally got to see it i did
yeah relentlessly bullied for years now
and
that today yeah that comes to an end
that ends now
right now but for now guys as always
many thanks for watching journey across
japan escape to mount fuji we'll see you
right back here on the bronze japan
channel do it all over again for now
joey huge thanks for joining of course
across japan as a fine companion indeed
a huge thanks to norm as the camera
assistant ian as the project coordinator
and natsuki wherever he may be right now
probably spoken somewhere yeah probably
but uh it's been a hell of a ride
hell over 1500 kilometers but it's at an
end thank you guys thanks for watching
take it away mount fuji but don't
up through erupt heart
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ah good times good times probably should
have printed it on bigger paper
effort isn't it there we go
perfect
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