Hello, my name is Cruise! Today we're in Nagano, Japan.
This is one of the more mountainous prefectures here in Japan.
I'm here with my friends Sean and Zac
We're taking a break by this mountain safety shelter
I wanted to show you guys what's inside.
look we're doing some Reno cycling today so lean dough is kind of like a mountain
road or dirt road so this is the road we've been on today and I'm on my
mountain bike this is my Scott scale mountain bike and Zacks on his new
Mueller gravel bike we'll do a bike introduction for this really soon so go
check out the other video and Sean's on his Richie mountain bike here
anyway let's check out the shelter so this thing's really small we've got a
little roof here a little rain guard and a little patio that you can check out so
this means sort of zero disaster and we all want to participate in safety and
Prevention of disaster relief and stuff got a little bench here and little tarp
not sure what that's for let's go check inside so we've got a little sliding
door this is open so anyone can come in if there's some heavy rain or some storm
or something or you're just really tired you need a break you can take a break in
here take a shelter from the elements and this is a really small little room
here really simple we've got some sort of brushes here so we can keep it clean
from all the dirt and stuff so usually in depend you take off your shoes when
you go inside I'm not sure the etiquette for here what do you guys think do you
need to take off your shoes to go in here should be alright yeah so the other
interesting thing here is they have two tommy benches so this one is wood so you
don't have to worry about getting this one dirty but this one's tatami which is
a little bit more delicate I'm really
prai's to see that here so anyway you can sleep on that really comfortably
most Japanese people sleep on to tommy mats so we can easily fit a person over
there a person here a person here and possibly a person here so maybe three
comfortably maybe a max of four people in here and more if you sleep on the
floor we've got this sort of stove here so you can keep warm and this goes up to
the roof escaping out there that's really interesting and I also noticed
there's some bottled water in here I don't know if I trust this let's see
what else we've got kind of like a journal here so this says write anything
that you want this is from 2009 let's see what some people have written in
here so people just checking in maybe writing some notes on different places
that you can go different recommendations so pretty cool and it
doesn't look like it continues too far we've only got a couple pages in here so
this one's 2018 but on the left side we see we go 2013 so there's a five-year
gap on just one page it doesn't seem like too many people are writing in this
that's too bad and a lighter so you can light up your cigarettes they're
supposed to be really against forest fires and stuff in here and let's take a
look inside here oh we got some leaves ready to start our fire really cool
stuff anyway that's it we've also got a window here overlooking the woods
beautiful area and we're gonna continue on with our ride so let's get out of
here
this is what it looks like on the other side some more trails here lots of
hiking trails around here anyway if we're gonna continue on on our adventure
like the cross Becky's unfortunately hitting a few roadblocks on our ride
lots of little rock slides along the way clearing it out doing our Park
unfortunately I had some really bad luck at the beginning of today's ride and I
broke my GoPro camera lens right before the start of the ride I had this huge
plan to film this great full adventure ride plug today and I just sort of had
to cancel it last minute because my GoPro broke and I didn't have any other
good camera to really film this video so most of the videos you're seeing today
were filmed on my smartphone in between our rides and our brakes as you saw
there were a bunch of landslides that we had to ride over today probably wasn't
the safest place to be riding but it was absolutely beautiful exploring the
deeper mountains in the Nagano area and we had a beautiful view of the Japanese
Alps the snow-capped mountains off in the distance beautiful views and we also
got some fresh water up at the top of the mountain and overall just an awesome
day of riding with Zak and Sean and I actually turned out to be a nice thing
to not have to worry about filming today's video so I'm sorry I couldn't
get much better video for you guys but I hope you guys enjoyed today's video if
you're interested in watching more videos about cycling and life in Japan
hopefully we're going to be making some more cycling ride vlogs in the near
future so be sure to subscribe so you can check those out and we'll see you
next time here on two-wheel cruise