It is day 2 of the YouTuber road trip

and we are at...

Geibikei Gorge

Which is beautiful so far!

Look at this place! It's so gorgeous!

And what we're gonna do is... Get on a boat

Presumably one of these boats in the background here

and someone is going to paddle us through the gorge!

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Jun got us an English pamphlet

so I can show you guys what kinda stuff they got here

Looks like there's lots of different things that we're gonna see on the way

Chris said that he came here in the fall before

and I can just imagine that it was amazing

because the fall leaves in Japan are gorgeous

Somebody is going to hand paddle us down this gorge for an hour

And it was only 1,600 yen

I guess these are the boats we're going on

Or maybe those ones over there with the roofs?

I'm not sure

So this is interesting...

We take off our shoes to get onto the boat

This is so nice!

And take a life cushion

We need crowd funding for Chris' new socks guys

Yeah, Kickstarter

It's so peaceful

I wanna live here!

I hope these videos inspire you guys to explore Tohoku if you come to Japan

I really enjoy here a lot more than I do Tokyo

It's a completely different experience of course

Tokyo is more exciting, and party culture

Whereas there are so many gorgeous places to check out in Tohoku

Yeah that's my goal of this Tohoku series

Is to inspire you guys to come here, and not only Tokyo

The trip down the gorge is about 2km

The trip there and back will be about an hour

The first point of interest is on the right here

It's known as Mirror Rock

The reflection of the water sparkles on the rock

This rock is 60m high

If you take a good look at the rock

Bonsai, Cedar trees and other plants are growing naturally

out of the rock, so it's also known as Bonsai Rock

I like this place better than Matsushima

I feel like this should be in the top 3

The water is shallow in most areas

So if you happen to fall in

just stand up

As we pass by you can throw a coin and make a wish

Was that Rachel? That was good!

Ahhh so close

This one spot is 5-6m deep

Oh wow!

Wouldn't it be so nice to swim here?

This area looks most beautiful in the fall

This is the view you will see on TV, magazines

advertisements in stations, commercials etc.

All right, so the boat has docked

and we've got 20min free time to explore this area

and then we're gonna head back

So you guys see, not that one, that one right there!

The eye shaped hole in the back

They sell five stones

Wooden balls? I can't tell what they are

for $1

and we have to try to get them in that little hole

and then we can make a wish, our wish will come true

Oh there's different ones!

All right guys, what should we choose?

Oh there's a really cute beetle in there!

I'm gonna choose one for love

One for long life

This is a great kanji lesson

En, en, how should I explain en?

Like, connections?

Something like yeah, that's probably the closest, connections with people

One for good luck

Ah! Kizuna

All right, these are the 5 that I have chosen

Oh that was so close!

Literally 2cm

So powerful!

I'll show you how it's done

Stand back

Aw, come on!

Wow, you have to throw it really hard

Don't know if I'll be able to do it

I think it might've gone in!

I didn't quite see it...

All right, the guys made that look really difficult

Let's see what I can do...

Kizuna!

Luck!

En!

Come on Sharla, you can do it!

Long life

Aw shit...

I'm gonna die really soon ^^;

Love!

Aw you've gotta get love in

There's no way you can miss this

That's really hard

Good try, good try

We're going to get one of these plaques

and write on it all together

Jun got one of the rocks in the hole

So we will use Jun's power to make our wish come true

We have our top secret wish

that we can't show you guys

or else it won't come true

We are gonna put it... Where's the best spot guys?

Hey, people seem to like this spot, it's crowded

Should we put it here?

Seriously though, why?

I like this one, I feel like this is a good one

I'm gonna put it right here

And it looks like we gotta turn it around

because everyone else's wish is on the outside

Fingers crossed it comes true!

All right, looks like it's time to go back

Thank you very much for joining us today

All right guys, that concludes our trip down the gorge

That was amazing, I can't express how much I enjoyed that

It was so gorgeous, and relaxing

And I really like how it didn't feel touristy at all

They kept everything in its natural state

and it was just so nice!

I think this is the most enjoyable thing I've done in Japan so far

In the total eight years that I've lived here, so

I would super recommend that any of you that come to Japan

or already live in Japan

come here and try this!

It's not even expensive

The only trouble is having to get up here from Tokyo

or wherever you live

But it's more than worth it!

I really hope this video has inspired some of you guys to check out Tohoku

I love it here

It is so beautiful, look at this place

Thank you for watching, I'll see you soon! Bye!

Road Trip Vlog Series is on my other channel!