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you're not gonna say journey across
japan destination to suck
i'm not fat perfect
no no way i need to pull over now
good morning and welcome back to journey
across japan escape to mount fuji six
days and a thousand kilometers
of despair and we in a capsule hotel
inside a shipping container
at the base of mount fuji and yes that
is as ridiculous
as it sounds but we're here to do one
thing today and that
is to see the iconic mountain itself and
it's just outside that door so
grab your cameras let's go and take a
look at mount fuji
oh god getting out of it
we've traveled almost a thousand
kilometers for this view and it is
spectacular is what i would have said if
we'd seen the view
of course it's not there expectations
reality
can't even see a single piece of mount
fuji yesterday there was a typhoon right
the weather said oh tomorrow morning
it's going to be a blue sky does that
look like a blue sky i'm a little bit
angry
as you can probably tell but we are
gonna be loitering around mount fuji for
two days
uh around this area so hopefully at some
point over the next two days we can
catch a glimpse just a fragment just a
piece of mount fuji and i will be
vindicated and i'll be happy
anyway speaking of happy look it's joey
the anime man how you doing jay hi
i'm good you're not gonna see it i'm
just letting you know right now we've
got two days left
and as you said we traveled five days
this is the fifth day we're on the road
and we get this journey across japan
destination to suck
apparently destination anyway
we've got a challenge what we got today
you guys have been sending us challenges
the last five days of our trip
uh we've had about 5000 submissions
we've wheeled it down to just three from
our production
team and joey has chosen one what we got
all right
this one is from bowie davidson bowie
davidson either
fake name or the best parents in the
world what kind of music they listen to
who says because of the pandemic
traveling overseas is difficult
right now it is that's right each take a
selfie that looks like you're not in
japan
and let viewers choose the winner right
interesting i mean we certainly can't do
it here
given this or pagoda is one of the most
iconic views of japan
every single japan guide has this on the
front cover
with an actual view of mount fuji so
let's get out of the rain and
uh let's get going this is the more i
stand here the more depressed i feel
with that view
all right let's go
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so as day five of our journey across
japan gets underway
we make our way around the beautiful
lake kawaguchi at the base of mount
fuji the perfect weekend escape away
from tokyo
being just a two-hour drive from the
city today is actually the shortest
drive of our trip so far
as we effectively circumnavigate the
mountain with our final destination
being izu peninsula which juts out into
the pacific and allegedly offers some of
the best views of mount fuji in the
coastline and amidst the drive in our
desperate attempts to see the mountain
confusingly we've got to somehow try and
find the least looking japanese place
for our challenge seriously i'm starting
to wish i'd brought a bloody green
screen
i'm not gonna lie that was the most
elaborate opening we've had to uh video
on journey across japan escape to fuji
so far we climbed up a mountain no less
ladies and gentlemen yeah and as you
climb up the stairs to the pagoda
there's a bunch of warnings for
a whole load of boss battles you have to
get past it was the monkeys
bears bears and a wild boar yeah
electric fences
wizards and witches and [ __ ] weather and
[ __ ] weather it's a
really arduous climb to get up there
yeah
but it was a bitter pill for me to
swallow given that most of the photos i
get from uh viewers
bragging about their mount fuji view
it's always from the churrito pagoda
right right
i've never actually been to the trudeau
either so i was hoping to get
that same experience but i guess the the
abroad in japan curse was upon me as
well
abroad in japan i've never been able to
see fuji
so have you ever been to lake
kawaguchiko yourself jerry no i haven't
i've been
nearby it since i've been to aokigahara
but i've never actually been
at the lake before so it's a really
beautiful place like uh
i would put it on my top 10 list of
places to come to japan you've got
all right uh you get the blake itself is
beautiful you've got hot springs nearby
some nice real cars you've got fujiku
highland park the best theme park
in front of that in japan and they're
not too far from there you've got hakone
of course japan's
premiere hot spring no
what no no way
no no i need to pull over now oh my god
no way
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there it is mount fuji we're filming
this in 6k
take that to all the haters all the
people that sent me photos themselves
selfies without fiji i'm the winner now
i've done it i've got it it's there
i don't know what to do now in some
respects we weren't actually
expecting to see it especially this
morning there was so much cloud over it
screenshot that take that that's going
to be everywhere
every time someone sends me a photo
hahaha look i found mount fuji
never again because look ha 6k
have we never done cgi right that's not
a green screen look i can reach out i
can touch it
i can touch it yeah we've done it
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i'm not leaving until i've got a proper
view that's a little bit of it that's
like 100 meters i want all
3776 meters anyway
we've stopped here at family mart which
seems boring now but
in alpine regions mountainous regions in
japan they changed the branding
for convenience stores as you can see
family mart is usually bright green
it's actually got this kind of wooden
finish and in fact of all the family
marts i've seen in japan this one is the
nicest looking it looks like a swanky
four-star hotel but the reason they do
that is to blend the convenience stores
into these mountainous regions just
makes it look more aesthetically
pleasing and nice now joey mentioned
he'd found somewhere potentially for us
to take a photo
and i just can't concentrate because
look it's mount fuji look there it is
again
it's there yeah it's about fuji joey the
tiny tiny tip of it
it's their hair i know our journey's
over thanks for watching guys hope you
enjoyed it
all right what you got oh i got your
family chicken
you really are a great friend you know
the you know the way to my heart joey
oh well guess what i found another way
to your heart because i happen to find
a british theme park a british theme
park a british
theme park an ing land good god
what what what why how i've been to
england once
right and it it looks better than
england it looks pretty insane wow
yeah all right so i think that might be
the perfect spot to film
uh our challenge for today well i'm
gonna finish this family mark fried
chicken while overlooking the summit of
mount fuji the abroad in japan dream and
then we'll go this british theme park
and
we're going to uk in it has he got a
double-decker bus
i [ __ ] hope so
good god we've just arrived and uh
there is the british theme park it's
like a little village
is it nostalgic it's very nostalgic it's
like i'm home
wow let's get in there all right what
are we waiting for
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i'm home
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there's like a working train station
here with a little train actually yeah
yeah
this is actually quite impressive if i
was drunk and i woke up one morning
with a big hangover i would probably
think yeah i'm not in the uk
but it looks like the uk still it's
really surreal but very interesting to
see
a sort of japanese interpretation a
japanese perspective on what the uk
looks like
well there's a pub over there called uk
margaret
uk margaret margaret i don't know
and there's humpty dumpty as well just
like the uk look at this
that is the most sinister interpretation
of humpty dumpty that i've ever seen
like growing up as a kid we
brought up to love humpty dumpty he's
kind of this friendly character who
accidentally falls off a wall i think we
can all relate to that but
that is not someone i can relate to that
is absolutely horrifying
it feels a bit like uh
stratford-upon-avon which is the
town where william shakespeare was born
and kind of got that
architecture from the tudor era yeah
right so we've got about an hour joey to
go around
and take some photos this is a home run
in terms of taking photos somewhere that
doesn't look like japan
couldn't be better so now joey and i are
going to split up and take three photos
each
around the park and uh come back and uh
then we'll get you guys to vote on which
one you think is the best which person
took the photo
that looks the least like japan i'll
meet you back here in an hour good luck
okay all right so uh let's start with
the railway
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all right i've only ever been to england
once but i know enough about it
to uh know what looks the most england
like let's go this way
there's this little kind of 1920s 1930s
style
form of transport i don't know what it
is is it a bus
i think it's a bus there's a train
coming over
what there something like this yeah
something like that
that was pretty british all right let's
do that looks kind of cool from the
outside but
i've been playing around with it i can't
even get in look at this
door doesn't open very far but
and i've got passengers teddy mcbee
basil the bear i think this could be a
good
a good place to kick things off opened
in 1990 shizenji park has spread over 50
hectares with the 15-inch gorge railway
built by a british company
i know the park may seem like a ghost
town today the uk is one of the most
desired travel destinations for japanese
travelers
a study in 2019 ranks the uk as the
fifth most desirable place to visit with
hawaii taking the number one spot
followed by france italy and australia
and the mainland us
in sixth place after an hour of taking
degrading selfies joey and i meet back
up to see
what we've got
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so we've taken our photos and we're
about to go through them but before that
just as we walked into this place we
took a photo of joey and i standing in
the street and i wrote
great to be back home showing my good
friend joey around he's come all the way
from australia and he's not disappointed
and we thought we'd do it to see if
people actually thought it looked like
the uk
and what have we got joey well we got uh
a bunch of comments
a lot of them are just you know
unclearly understand our sense of humor
like i feel there's a joke here i'm not
getting
this picture is trying to tell us
something but i can't point it out but
then you have some people who are
genuinely like
not gonna lie didn't think the uk
actually looked like this
do you want to start with your first
photo jay will go one at a time sure
uh so the first one is this one right
here it's me in front of the double
decker bus
penny lane yeah uh i call this uh barber
shop on the corner
barbershop on the corner yeah because
that's how penny line goes right penny
lane there's a barbie on the corner
that's a very clever one yeah my first
one is
me driving that little truck over there
and i call it who's driving this thing
uh it's me with a little bear you put
way more effort into your selfies than
that i don't i get carried away with
this stuff
i love it i love it but what do you got
next uh i got this one right here
oh wow i snuck into a train station i
snuck into a train station yeah without
a train yeah early morning train station
there's a train here but i haven't i've
heard it but i've not seen it every time
i go to see it it's like pulls out the
station and drives off somewhere
my second one is back at the uk margaret
my favorite pub um but wait it
uk margaret sounds like some sort of
abrasive british
grandmother but it's the pub that the uk
deserves all right what's your final
photo then
this is my final photo it's the side of
the bus of the first photo
but i just wanted to get this because
this has to be quote of the year right
at the
on this thing it says upon the theme of
human nature and culture with its
wealthy
natural environment we create this park
to give you a
breathing space prepared for the coming
year wow romney bus transport
carrying on the theme of kind of bizarre
japanese english my third and final one
is this one and it's called the thorno
of the rose
there's a little rose bush over there
just like the uk and there's a sign
warning people about the thorns on the
rose and they've cocked it up over it
and
please note the thorn of the rose so
there you go those are our three photos
please vote on the one
you like the most write the name of the
photo in the comments and uh
see who the winner is but for now let's
get out of here karen on journey yeah
let's go see if we get one last glance
of mount fuji while we're here
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i did i broke i broke the uk
as we're leaving the park by good
fortune we catch the eye
of the park manager and to thank us for
turning up he leads us into the gift
shop to generously gift us
a pair of flip-flops so the manager of
this place has seen us walking around
with a camera
found out where youtube is and is now
giving us a present
this is a unique thing of the british
theme park fish flops
they're sandals they're flip flops the
shape of a fish genius
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fish floss this day just got at least 25
percent better
but the generous gift-giving wasn't over
yet it seemed for me
the friendly park manager had one more
item in mind
wow tonight
i'm not fat yes
this is the shirt that speaks to me
this is the best day of my life finally
a t-shirt that speaks to me
debbie deny i'm not fat perfect
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oh wow good god
i didn't actually think we'd see mount
fuji on their journey across japan
escaped mount fuji in the last few days
it's been nothing but rain clouds
typhoons
but look at that seriously that's an
insane shot and it's not
it's not green screen it's real it's
actually this is a real thing
again i can touch it's there why am i
green screen
green screen it's not real look at his
face well seriously i'm i'm ecstatic i
feel vindicated
and it's it's the end to what's been a
relatively good day that british theme
park was uh
interesting certainly interesting be
sure to vote on who you think took the
best photo there was certainly some uh
exciting
some exciting photos taken along the way
but for now guys we're gonna end things
here our hotel is just around the corner
be sure to join us for the final episode
of journey across japan escape to mount
fuji for now guys as always many thanks
for watching
i'll see you right back here on the
aboard japan channel take it away mount
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fuji
next time
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journey across japan is supposed to be a
family friendly series and
this is very far from family friendly