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

Things are getting settled in at home and it's the fall which means one thing — it's time for our annual fall hike.

引越しが終わり 本格的な秋が到来しました

現在進行形

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

秋は毎年ハイキングに出掛けますが 今回は特別です

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

日本で最も高いバス停に出掛けます！

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

毎年 秋になると 友人とハイキングに出掛けます

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

引越しで大変でしたが 実現できそうです

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.

引越しの後に 出掛けることにしました

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.

道中の日本アルプスは壮観です

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

途中で珍しい場所を通過します

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.

引越しで忙しく 秋のハイキングは無理と思ってました

This trip almost didn't happen this year.

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

この2ヶ月は 引越しでドタバタしていました

我が家も やっと落ち着きました

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.

ルースはメキシカンライスです

家族のことが 私たちの優先事項です

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.

家族が元気だと 人生もうまくいきます

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?

家族も落ち着き 心置きなく出掛けられます

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

ジョン・カズ・私は ハイキング仲間です

第80話で黒部峡谷に出掛けた時 この仲間で険しい山道に挑みました

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

この時の仲間で 毎年ハイキングに出掛けています

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

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

バスは乗鞍スカイラインの 美しい紅葉の中を進みます

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.

日本一の標高のバス停を 通過するだけのことはあります

樹木限界線を越えると 別世界が広がります

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.

緊張する人もいるかもしれませんが 車窓からの眺めは絶景です

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.

標高3,026mの 剣ヶ峰に向かいます

いい自転車！ ここまで漕いだ？

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

軽い風で済むか それとも強風になるか

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.

高山の空気に 少しずつ慣れていきます

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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