alright so we just went through the initial part of the Inari temple walk
and there's a bunch of different temples bright orange and we're here I think
it's around 11 a.m. now and there's gotta be like thirty thousand people
here it's insane there's nothing to get snacks before you
start your climb and there's washrooms here as well and
then after that I think it's like four kilometers up so take advantage of the
bathroom before you start your hike all right let's go we're walking through the
Inari right now and these poles are so close together that if you decide you
want to escape the madness of all the people there's no getting out of here
they're just built like an inch apart so NOT recommended if you're claustrophobic
but it's pretty cool it's really interesting I can't believe they built
something like this
so now the entire here is opened up a little bit more you can really see the
space between the poles if you do want to escape the crowds you can sneak
through there definitely a lot busier than I was expecting it and I know I've
referred to this many of times that's because it's busy so when we started out
at the very bottom at the Inari shrine there was 30,000 people or more and we
were not excited to do this but as we kept on going and we got near this
summit it splits off into three trails and kind of separates the pack and I
think a lot of people at that point decided not to do this summit and
probably head back down there's also a main shrine which we're gonna hit up on
the way back which will probably be busy yeah so yeah it does get quiet so don't
get discouraged if you come at peak hours and you're like oh my god there's
so many people it's intense pretty cool going up here it's
interesting like every like five to ten minutes of walking there's like these
little areas where you can get snacks and buy a candle and stick it in the
sand and say a prayer and then little statues and stuff everywhere
so it actually in this video you're probably gonna think that we just keep
looping back the same footage but in fact the entire place is like this ooh a
secret trail let's go here I don't know what it says but it's a secret
let's go it's probably a view spot come on so we decided to go off of the
regular trail down this dirt path where there's nobody and I think we might have
picked up the monkey tracks I'm not sure because we haven't found the monkeys yet
we're just gonna go a little bit further but it's getting a little bit too wild
for Megan's liking and yeah we'll see what we can find we don't want to get lost - we
are like in the middle of Japan right now
Kyoto Japan
dead trees, why, maybe it gets really windy up here at night we are really really
roughing it here I want to see a wild boar and a monkey. monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey.
yeah it's pretty cool exploring here still no sign of the silver back gorilla but as we continue to
venture into this deep deep jungle you never know so we just came down from the
summit and now we are currently at spot 11 on the parks map and we decided to
take the long route out so we're going to spot 12 it's an extra loop and and I
highly recommend taking this route because I haven't seen a single person
down here yet I was gonna say this one seems like it's on its last leg. So to speak.
uh this is the main prayer area it spot number 10 and there is like a lot of
places to pray everywhere it's quite amazing actually
and like up here look at there's um it just keeps going and going you can just
keep going through and there number too 88 80 and I'm like holy smokes it's amazing
this is amazing there's three things we do in Japan look at shrines look for
coffee and look for food I sleep it's not true I sleep like a baby but she
loves me so she doesn't mind my baby snores they snore like a cute soft
Puggle that needs a snuggle definitely getting less busy now it's 12:30 and
it's we got here at 10:00 and that was like the peak hour when you look at like
the time charts I remember there's a
well maybe people are stopping and just having lunch or something I don't know
seems less busy to me we have arrived at the main shrine we're so lucky it's
amazing I'll admit at first when we got here I was a little bit of a hater but
now it's a lot better because it's calm down we get just didn't see and enjoy
the shrine love it I love it this is like a different kind of looking area I
had like the big red banners I don't know what they mean
somewhere. Tell us about the Foxes. I don't know that much. It is supposed to be good luck. Is this the sake and rice god?
oh yeah it's for sake and race that people harvest is supposed to be good
luck for that that's what this shrine is all about right it's the God God's of
sake and rice? I think so. what does the Fox say what does the Fox say
don't rip your little pantaloon's there buddy
oh you dum-dum cherry blossoms in the air I really love them and I don't care
cherry blossoms are in the air today a
rubber ducky you're the one, you make my bath time so much.. hey check out this thing.
so we just left this shrine and there's a bunch of food trucks out here I don't
know if you call them food trucks, food stands?
and lots of meat options if you like bacon how do you know looks really good
and it smells really good I think we're looking for a place to sit down though
there's a lot of like street standing Street food here which is awesome but my
feet are like annihilated so I don't know I think you're just supposed to
kind of like stand off to the side eat and then continue on your journey but
we're just gonna find a seated restaurant and so warning to the wise
Google Maps does not work here we've now tried to go to three different
restaurants with Google Maps and it set when you says you're there you're like
in an alley with nothing around you so does not work so we're not idiots
because we definitely like really looked around and yeah third time it takes you
to like really nothing so don't use for restaurants it has helped us just like
navigate train stations it's okay finding hotels
in Tokyo for restaurants is the worst zero help just finished walking like 600
meters to a specific vegetarian restaurant that doesn't exist we don't
know if it exists or not but Google doesn't know where it is so
we're just surf eater so really need to sit down we've been hiking all day have
a drink and figure out the life of a vegetarian so we just finished our G and
T's aka gin and tonics and we are now walking past the Kyoto tower and down
some back alley somewhere I don't really know with you
Oh Shia Dorian Street Street and heading to somewhere we're just heading back
towards our to our neck of the woods still in search of food the last meal we
had was approximately five calories more than five calories but there's a long
time ago I thought you meant that didn't tonic oh that doesn't count a gin and
tonic is not a meal if anyone's watching this gin and tonic is not a meal
especially kids like there's so many good restaurants here and they'd all
look they're super cute and super cool but it's you really have you have to
plan your meals here yeah this is not a this is not North America where you can
just like come here and walk in and sit down and have a great time eating tons
of food it's like if you want to have good meals here you need to plan it I
think if you're a meat-eater you can go into pretty much any restaurant if it's
open still well you can walk around in there's like a million restaurants you
can walk into or street stalls or whatever yeah but if you do have a more
restrictive diet you're gonna starve unless you the good news is we have lost
some weight I'm really excited because we've walked by the energy we'll have
walked 30 kilometers in two days which is like a decent amount a marathon yeah
well not quite maricon marathon I believe is 50/50 for 50 days anyways
you're going to leave that but we've walked a long ways in two days it's a
decent amount we've burnt some serious calories and my top app is coming in top
ABBA I have an AB coming into keg but then on top of the keg there is one can
just like sit there flee by the end of the trip I'll be on to the to AB section
which is a goal that many of us have and very few of us have achieved
so we're just walking down the alley all the sudden we come across this amazing
temple this is the higashi-kurume station plumb Ginji temple and
unfortunately we don't have time to go in there because we're starved but you
can just see how beautiful is there's a moat going around the entire structure
and looks pretty cool like there was a little opening that was
the staff entrance only and there was cherry blossoms you can just literally
walk anywhere and there's something to see or do and you're like oh yeah you
can go it you can go into Google Maps put in star book put in Starbucks sorry
we've brought to you Starbucks and McDonald's or okay so you can put the
Starbucks and you're making your way to Starbucks and all the sudden you're like
walking you're like oh there's the temple here let's check it out
there's a literally temple we actually stumbled across two of the biggest and
most popular temples here and pagodas so there's a temple on every block just
like there's Starbucks back at home there's a literally a temple in every
block which is even better because more petrest
didn't you