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Morning guys! I'm in the car today with my 2 friends Quinlan and Candie in
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the back there. We're going outside to do some exploring! We got super lucky with
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the weather today. So I live up in Morioka city in Iwate Prefecture it's
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quite up north it's almost near the top of the main island of Honshu and the
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environment around here is very different than Tokyo. Many of you guys
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might not be familiar with Iwate but we are blessed with lots of trees
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and mountains and rivers lots of gorgeous nature and for the first time
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today Quinlan's going to take us out hiking so
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I'm gonna explore some of the area near my house and I can't wait to see it
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because I've been watching Quinlan's channel - he focuses on lots of outdoor
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adventures and they all look super exciting and I hope we don't run into
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any bears today. I recently watched his video on how to protect yourself from
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bears in Japan - hopefully we don't run into any but he has assured me that when
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you're on a hiking trail that's commonly used by lots of people, the bears don't
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usually show up so I think we'll be okay right?
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We'll be okay. You know how to protect us if bears show up? I can run faster than
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you! yeah I've got bear spray I'll actually bring bear pepper spray! Oh I
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didn't know that was a thing! Yeah I've got it
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oh wow! Right here, it's actually German. German quality pepper spray!
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Bear spray - so we're fine. All right we're prepared!
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I don't know where we're going it's a surprise, I told him to surprise
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us. So I hope you guys enjoy the video!
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So just making a little pit stop because there are some abandoned buildings here
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that I've always wanted to see, I'm sure you guys would be interested in them as well!
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Love how the trees grow out of the buildings. There's tatami rooms and so
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it's like going back to nature - it's like there's been a zombie
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apocalypse and the earth is being taken back. Yeah so this is Matsuo Mines - you'll
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see some really cool drone footage of it on YouTube
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I've been looking a lot because I've really wanted to come here and there's
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quite a few other apartments in the background there. So the deal with
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Matsuo Mines is from around the 1920s there was a sulfur mine that
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opened up just a little ways over there and it operated for over 50 years. At the
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time these were really high-end apartments for the employees, they're
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like the envy of the area they had a movie theater there, a bath house a
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rather nice restaurant and even flushing toilets, which at that time was like wow!
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you know for Iwate Prefecture people didn't have flush toilets. Actually my first
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homestay didn't, they had just a hole in the ground.
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what happened to them, well basically in 1969 the mine closed because it became
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cheaper to get sulfur as a byproduct to processing oil and so there's no need to
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specifically mine in it and so they closed it down and everybody moved out
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because they lost their jobs and it just sort of went back to nature. Thing is
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you cannot go in here, but if you do you go in here - there's no
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fine. They will tell you get out it's, you know, bad don't do it. But you're not
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gonna get arrested. But don't do it cuz never break any Japanese
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regulations ever yeah. However I just saw a little old lady
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going inside the building there so...
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Man that was awesome I would love to go inside and explore. Quinlan was
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saying that people have left like newspapers and lifestyle items like
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kitchen utensils and there's a astroboy chair in there somewhere which I only
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know because I heard from someone else uh-huh I've never been in there
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definitely not. We parked at kind of like a little terminal area where these
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toilets and some omiyage shops and stuff and we're way up high already we're
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basically at the top of the mountain we kind of cheated a bit but we're headed
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over to that peak there is that right that is right we're gonna climb up to
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the top of that peak and get an amazing view of the area. Quinlan was just
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saying in the winter he wants to come backcountry skiing and after they
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closed down the mountain for the hiking season apparently some older Japanese
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men do some outdoor backcountry skiing in the mountains here and it sounds
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really exciting! There's a cabin where they just leave
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supplies so you can just anybody can just go up and use the cabin and stay
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overnight. We're here and the normal walk that people do around Hachimantai you
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can see these little trails around these they call it marsh but it's a lake the
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Gama lake and Hachiman Lake it's not a marsh and so they do a little loop around
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these that's beautiful and I totally recommend it - but today it's gonna be
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just a parade of people so I thought going up this little mountain will give
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us great views. So it's one km to the summit really short let's
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see how long it takes. Bamboo! This is all bamboo here! So it's a decent hiking
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trail but probably needs some some hiking boots but it's nothing too
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difficult
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look at the view
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the only thing if we actually do see a bear the most important thing is don't
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run just stop stand still look at it then
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we'll be fine in Canada they always tell us if we see a bear to make ourselves
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look big and scary to scare it off yeah but in Quinlan's video where he talks
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about bears he said that the bear is here you should just kind of stay still
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and stare at them you shouldn't try and make yourself look scary cuz they don't
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care. Nice little trail, I like this!
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steep towards the end of the hike
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all right we're heading back down the mountain now and off to our next
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location right we're almost back down to the car Quinlin went ahead because he's
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super speedy he's gonna go get the car and pick us up
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I bet he's there waiting. A lot of people ask me why I live all the way up in Iwate
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Prefecture, especially when most of my work is down in Tokyo I do have to
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commute down to Tokyo several times a month but it's because I have places
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like this where I can just come out and explore it's completely new to me I feel
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like there's always something new to discover here in Iwate it's such a big
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prefecture that there's so much around my house that I get to o experience got
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a little muddy on that trail so prepare for some mud don't wear your best
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clothes or sneakers look at this wooden torii gate it's interesting I think I've
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ever seen a torii gate like this so I found the cutest little of August the
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community today look at that hit I have never seen one like this
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little Halloween Rilakkuma and yeah it sure just tastes like regular wagashi!
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let's try it
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interesting it's kind of a mix of washi and play-doh just different unusual it's
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kind of flavored tastes a bit like caramel okay it's caramel flavor pretty
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tasty it's an interesting texture very similar to chew on play-doh but in a
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good way that makes sense if you guys are around in Japan for the
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Halloween season check out lawson they were selling these so our next stop for
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the day is Goshogake Onsen - you can see it in the back there. Quinlan was
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just explaining to me that they have mud baths and also these little boxes that
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you kind of put your body in and your face sticks out and they fill up with
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steam and you get kind of like a steam treatment it sounds really cool I'll
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have to come back here and try it for myself but the view of the steam coming
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under that one's hands really need we're going to go up to this oh you knew ma
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which is this really well you'll see it's pretty intense and I don't know if
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this trail is open last year this was closed because the volcanic come because
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the volcanoes are literally breaking through the walkway and so those areas
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where the walk was like consumed by a little volcano and so you know a geyser
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or something and so we'll see if we can do this trail or not but if nothing else
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this is really fantastic gwenlyn said this is one of the spots
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where lots of bears show up he's actually been here on a day where they
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had the whole trail blocked off because someone had spotted one there to thank
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the criticize so you whack this you whack this to scare the bears away so a
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kit real hard
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it's not that loud actually came on the perfect day look at the colors Juanita
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Wow look at that oh that's impressive
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oh look at it this is crazy I've never been anywhere like this
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wonder how hot that is 98 degrees Celsius started bubbling over so they
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had to close off the pathway there look at that yeah this place is heaven for
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photographers you must feel they get some really cool photos here this is
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amazing I'm so blown away that this place isn't more well-known however I'm
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glad because this is peak season this is the best weekend to come up here and see
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this place and there are so few people and that's where we just what what is
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yeah a little peak up there haha that's funny
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yeah a little peak right there that's the mountain we just climbed
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alright guys I think we're gonna say goodbye here I really hope you enjoyed
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exploring Iwate and we headed into Akita prefecture now right yes we are
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we're in the neighboring Prefecture at the moment I hope you enjoyed exploring
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the two with us I had so much fun thank you so much to Quinlan for introducing
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these amazing spots to us I will link it down below please do go check out his
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channel and I'll see you guys again very soon