Name: Japan's Highest Bus Stop Leaves You Breathless | Life in Japan Episode 183
Uploaded: 2022-08-21T17:40:19.000Z
Duration: 14 min 17 s
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Things are getting settled in at home and it's the fall which means one thing — it's time for our annual fall hike.

Gerund

This year we're heading to a place which holds an awesome record in Japan, and getting there is half of the adventure.

The superlative

Get ready as Life in Japan rolls through Japan's highest bus stop.

OK, this is it! Heading on a new adventure, here we go.

Every year I like to take a fall trip with some friends to explore parts of Japan I haven't been to yet.

With our move consuming all of our free time, it almost didn't happen this year.

Weeks of rain also kept us away from this adventure.

But as we got settled into our new home, the rain stopped, so we planned a unique one day trip.

In order to pull it off, we're getting up early and heading way outside of Tokyo.

but the scenery of the Japanese Alps promises to be spectacular along the way.

We hope to summit the highest peak at Mt Norikura,

and to do that, we'll have to go through a unique point in Japan.

This trip almost didn't happen this year.

Our first priority has been to get settled into our new apartment.

We've been spending every free moment of the last 2 months focused on our move.

But now that we are mostly settled in, we can use our free time for other things.

Yes, making sure the family is well adjusted has been our big priority.

Anna Cakes, did you have a good school day today?

Yea, you like your new school but you miss your friends.

Yes, when the family is doing well, life is going well!

Here honey, I'll hold it and you go try it.

Let's see! First time for me under kotatsu.

I had my first time at my friend's house, they have a kotatsu, so I went under it.

Never, never! It's like a bath and you don't get wet, huh?

With the family doing well, it's time for this year's fall hike!

John, Kazu and I are no stranger to adventure in Japan.

The sun's shining down and look at this path here.

In Episode 80 of Life in Japan, we braved Japan's deepest gorge

and found ourselves on one of Japan's most beautiful and dangerous path through the mountains at Kurobe.

This challenging but amazing experience solidified our bond of friendship

and since then we've tried to make it out hiking every year.

The buses wind up the Norikura Skyline, zig-zagging back and forth past beautiful foliage and ski slopes.

Working on the ski run, clearing it out. Wow.

Drop offs along the way remind you that you are climbing so far up into the mountains that you will reach a point that holds a record in Japan.

Soon you reach the tree line, and from there you can really start to appreciate the road you are traveling.

If the bus ride makes you hold your breath anxiously,

the views offer the one-two knockout punch by taking the rest of your breath away.

Mt Kengamine, the highest point in the area. 3,026m (9,927 ft)

The forecast called for windy and cold conditions, so we did our best to prepare.

Still, we weren't quite sure just how bad it would be.

Would it be a light headwind, or were we risking getting blown off the mountain altogether

I'm not going to lie: it's windy and it's chilly.

Nothing quite like the feeling of being on top of the world.

And here you can see the road we came up.

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Japan's Highest Bus Stop Leaves You Breathless | Life in Japan Episode 183

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