Name: Discovering An Ancient Hidden Road To Tokyo | Life in Japan Episode 164
Uploaded: 2022-05-25T17:45:24.000Z
Duration: 26 min 13 s
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Hidden in plain sight, an ancient road snakes through the hills of greater Tokyo for over 10 kilometers,

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going up and down ridges, behind subdivisions and cutting through forests

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As I head out to hike this old road, I wonder if I will get caught in a storm

or get lost in the forest where I'll get stuck in the dark.

One thing is for sure, you would never guess to find something like this here.

OK, after some searching, I think I found the way to the entrance of this path

And it's a 10 km path that I've been wanting to do since I discovered it.

It this hike—this climb—is any sign of things to come, we're going to be up in the hills.

And it's right here that my phone says we should be going this way.

I don't know what too terribly what much to expect,

So starting this late, I sure hope I can make the whole trail before it gets too dark.

OK it's 3:05 PM, I found the head of the trail here

Here we go, it's going off in this direction

Hopefully I have enough time to the end, to the Karakida station

This is going to be an adventure, here we go. I've been looking forward to this.

This means I have found it and look, here we are

We're all the way at the top of this map here

And going to follow this puppy all the way down here to the end at Karakida.

This is just crazy, I don't know how many times I've driven on that road

Ten kilometers before it gets dark should not be a problem

The problem is you have to watch out for the signs to know which way to go

And there's some places on the trail that are a little tricky to know where the turns go

And so I really hope that I get those right.

That will determine whether I can make this all in time or not.

The train line where I started is all the way down there—

And I had to hike all the way up here, so that gives a little bit of perspective.

If you talk about things that get my excited, let me tell you what...

Hidden trails that go along ridges through the middle of the suburbs,

Through the mountains and up back through different places,

Even though I use a lot of energy to walk something like this.

There's lots of little turn offs like that and that way.

Well in this case I'm going to go the way that looks like the main route if there's no other marking.

'Cause I took Ruth to go shopping at BookOff

And as I was walking there I came across a big sign

And discovered that I had stumbled upon this huge trail

I just discovered something I had no idea was here.

This map I came across, and look at this huge trail that goes through Tama.

And it looks really cool. I really want to try this sometime.

And found a guy who had done it and posted pictures of it.

And I was like "Yes! I've gotta do that the next chance I get."

I understand a number of these kanjis but there's a bunch I don't.

But there— that's the good sign right there.

Tama Yokoyama no Michi. We are in the right place.

I read that this route follows and old trading route that used to be the road through the Tama Hills

And people and the traders would go and use this road to get around.

Now there some main roads right down into the valley next to this which have become the main roads

But this path exists as a reminder of the ways that people used to get around.

This has been going up for awhile, I bet there's a view coming up.

You can see the trail continuing along that ridge in the distance.

But now as I get out here the sun's coming out some

It's one of those beautiful Spring days that isn't too hot

There are a lot of different places where it veers off

But if you look for these plaques and especially these signs

I've seen a lot of these signs here, they're very helpful.

They have distances and they show you which way the trail goes

And you can know "OK, here we go, we're going across the road here."

Now not all of this trail is an actual trail.

Some of it follows along the road or pass the backs of businesses.

And different things—some schools are along the way.

There's lots of different interesting things that you find along this trail.

Well it appears to cut through a university here

There's all kinds of ballfields, it looks like a nice place.

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