it's the sort of place you uh you go to write a novel uh how are you doing anyway pete yeah
i think i had a few too many of those beer-like substances too much beer right no no that
is not beer do not call it that they were quite alcoholic still six percent despite
the phenomenally cheap price 100 yen they'll get you there but you'll pay the price well
given we've got about six hours to drive today i uh i hate to set but we're not going to
be able to stop anywhere for lunch that's good what wait what about like a convenience
store yeah maybe can wait can you please help me accomplish one of my little bucket lists
one of your little bucket lists yeah yeah i've always wanted to have ramen in the snow
while it's snowing some people want to go to the stars others just want to have cut
needles in the snow
oh man dreams do come true don't they brought you on the abroad japan channel oh it's so
cold my car is so cold i can't get my glove on my hand it's like frozen so uh what do
you think though it's nice that we have the option to eat a quick meal in a when you're
in a tight spot i feel like this is a really crap commercial for cupcake the way you're
marketing it um but no it's very convenient like in a convenient store in japan only can
you get the miracle of cut noodles but you can get it filled up with hot water as well
and in fact pete himself prepared both of our cups using his incredible cooking and
preparation skills well done pete it's one of the few things i can do well is pour hot
water in the noodles what flavor did you get i got the um curry curry what about you standard
the problem is it was filled with boiling water about five minutes ago when we got it
and uh the water's now frozen and it's just eating cold noodles so it seems good on paper
in theory but in practice um it doesn't really work unfortunately thanks for letting this
dream come true buddy anything for you pete all right i'll see you in the car
yeah it's pretty cold i don't know why we're doing this it's not very fun back in the car
oh my god i don't believe it guys but we finally made it to wakanda in one piece japan's most
northern town uh we still got a little bit of a drive another hour to cape soy most northern
points but uh come on then let's get this mug the sooner we get the mug the sooner we
can get onto capes it's all good i've got them lined up on the phone right now answers
are coming soon my friend all right all right here we go
hello natsuki it's chris here as well hello mr brother in japan
you remember you bought me a mug for my birthday
but i i dropped it and i broke it oh sorry what's up a few weeks ago i called you and
i asked you where did you buy the mug and you said and i quote i bought it in a store
in wakanae which store did you buy it in
i
don't remember what what
why did you say you bought it in wakanda
oh this way in the winter for nothing when i'm through with you pete this mug won't be
the only thing that's broken [ __ ]
i know you want to kill me i'm i'm really sorry about the mug but at least we had some
fun right okay um all right what was your favorite part of the trip so far
okay i'll go first um you know what there was no one particular moment that i found
impressive i would say it was the journey it was the adventure that we had along the
way much like the wizard of oz chris let this be a lesson to you it's not about the end
result even the wizard of oz had a relatively satisfying conclusion this whole trip was
predicated on you getting a mug that doesn't exist yes that's true but imagine all the
other treasures that we acquired along the way so um you've had some time to consider
it what was your favorite part for me it would have to be the icbm the intercontinental buddha
missile um a butter in a missile silo you know what i do feel like we're at the edge
of the world right now right i mean cape sawyer i guess it is the edge of the world japan's
world right yeah but beyond that it's just nothingness the sea and russia
oh i don't believe it we've actually made it to cape sawyer and there it is and it looks
remarkably desolate and cold do we have to get out the car it's going to be brutal yes
absolutely we have to go come on bundle up good get your scarf get your gloves i mean
how bad could it honestly
this is be cold oh my god
here we are the northernmost point of japan
let's go back it's cool
there we are folks the end of the line there's a monument up on the hill over there the korean
airlines flight 007 which was shot down by the soviets in 1983. tragically 269 people
lost their lives and the plane actually went down i think about 100 kilometers in that
direction this is the closest point in japan to where the plane went down other than that
there's uh yeah there's really not much here and of course today we can't see russia we
can't see sakhalin because the weather is unfortunately against us but uh back to the
car i'm currently defrosting while pete is in the shop buying some souvenirs i can only
hope it's food here he comes is it food i got it please be food it's not food it's better
better than food yeah so i haven't eaten in ages why are there no restaurants open i'll
wait because nobody comes in winter well i didn't get the bear mug but i did get this
what is that this is a a mug it's a bug this is a mug commemorating the northernmost point
of japan and it is my treasure forever thank you very much try not to break this one yeah
i'll be careful i don't want to have to drive all the way back here to replace it again
but seriously thank you for being the architect of this absurd adventure it's been a lot of
fun thank you thank you you can check out pete on his twitch channel premiere 2. that's
the one he's on twitch every other day of the week there's no escape he plays a lot
of video games a lot of retro games and things right that's right come have some fun with
us but i want to say really thank you very much for bringing me all the way up here for
a mug don't mention it it was definitely worth it but uh for now guys as always many thanks
for watching abroad in japan check out their japan patreon for more behind-the-scenes content
but now we've got a drive back to akanai long trip back to our hotel now that we've been
to the most northern part of japan i was thinking about our next adventure no we're not going
to the most southern part or the eastern part or the western part we're not going anywhere
else ever again no you had it right as far south as we can go in okinawa i have an old
broken periscope that i got in ishigaki that i need to repair a broken periscope well it
wasn't broken when i got it um no can you sail no i can't sail well you're you're from
england that doesn't mean i can sail okay then we'll bring a sailor we're gonna bring
[ __ ] popeye now just imagine it chris sandy beaches crystal clear water and when was the
last time you had spam make it stop
that was so awkwardly staged that was so awkwardly staged i'm sorry