Crossing Japan’s Great Seto Bridge

everybody check it out this is the great central bridge you're about to cross this is so exciting on the other side of the tunnel you're just going to see it wow oh man i've always wanted to drive over this i'm going to take it really slow on the left lane and kind of describe to you the things that i see left and right sorry the initial initially oh look at the bridge it just goes on and on to the left there wow all right keep under the speed limit speed limit across the bridge is 80 kilometers an hour again i apologize if anybody was following in on the accidental vertical live stream but this cento bridge was was finished and then i believe was 1987 and it it connects honshu with shikoku and it's it's such an amazing bridge to look at from from a distance different styles to it but anytime you you connect uh one of the one of the four islands to another of the four major islands it's pretty cool wow i think this live stream is only going to be about 30 minutes long but for me this is so awesome how you doing everybody it's now uh about 4 p.m 4 15. i'm finally crossing into shikoku i'm on a driving trip from kansai from kyoto across to shikoku whoa check it out oh this is so beautiful and you can see i don't know you have to be a little bit higher but you can see uh the in let's see it's so beautiful between honshu and shikoku i'm just taking it really slow folks on the right side uh the sun is coming into my side and it's so beautiful i can glance over to my right side and see it glistening one of the most beautiful areas of of japan now this is a double decker bridge so i wonder what how you get underneath it but apparently you can ride your bicycle or there's a a trail that'll take you across the other side i've never done that but it's certainly something that i would love to try wow it's just a you know the uh akashi kaikyo ohashi is the other bridge that'll cut across to shikoku that's closer to kobe this is right next to okay okayama in fact we might even see a sign that says welcome to kagawa prefecture is that it right there on the left side the green one no but kagawa prefecture is the prefecture of the state on the other side that will be hitting into shikoku and we'll be leaving okayama i'm gonna just take it really slow i'm not in a hurry this is so cool all right this guy's a little bit too slow i'm gonna pass him i think he's doing 60. he's dead 60. i'm doing the speed limit it happens all right here comes another set of bridges up ahead oh there's a parking area on the bridge all right this is cool so maybe i can stop whoa look at the cliff on the left side oh there is a parking area okay we got to go to this parking area because it's usually easy on and easy off let's take a look at this oh this is so cool all right i'm turning to the left we're getting off at this parking area maybe there's gonna be like this cool angle of the bridge well eight point eight percent slope i just take it real slow and now you can see sort of the ins the underneath the the bridge there is another trail there's no car no there are no cars on there we're gonna go underneath the bridge we're looping to the other side oh this is so worth it this reminds me of the wrap around to get up to the top of rainbow bridge in tokyo but a much smaller scale wow this is a marvel this is an engineering marvel this bridge here okay we're at the parking area i'm gonna take you out we're gonna take a look around the parking area maybe get a snack and then get back on and drive over to shikoku [Music] in 2.0 kilometers due to bridge repair work the passing lane is restricted thank you for the information navigator lady ah this is nice i'm so excited i think just being outside it makes me excited being outside of tokyo all right so there's a this tells you that the parking area the p let's go over there and we can even walk around and get a pretty nice view of the bridge let's go do that oh wow there is uh straight ahead some sort of observation area so i'm going to just cut across here because there's no in 1.0 kilometers due to bridge repair work the passing lane is restricted you don't say she likes to repeat herself the navigation lady i do appreciate the effort here whoa all right i'm parking right here oh it's so bright okay um i'm gonna turn off the engine i'm gonna get the gimbal which i think is in the back and then uh i'm gonna put you on the gimbal and you're gonna come with me i'm to show you it's not umi hotaro this is a different place stay right here oh it's in the backpack so all right i'm gonna flip you a little bit but after what happened in the last stream you might probably use to it you ready for the flip all right gentle gentle all right and we're on wow wow hey michael sosano's here you need to stock up on some snacks and beverages i do i still got like two hours of driving ahead of me including going um through a mountain and i think i'm not gonna make it in time for uh for the sunlight brondani is here joining us on this trip that's so cool and spike0021 it's nice to have you here too all right up we go this is so amazing yeah this is a we call them service areas or parking areas service areas are usually much much bigger i like the accessibility for wheelchairs to get up here too well done wow i'm so glad we stopped look at this so from this angle we can see we still got a quite a ways to go don't we look at the boat going through there i should call it a ship wow hey irvin's here how you doing and marty's here too i'm glad marty got his package three weeks that's wonderful shikoku on the other side it's a whole nother island looks like mini australia you can see the trucks going across the bridge right there i i don't know what's underneath there i guess they use it um i don't know during busy times or something but you can see the inlet see here it's just beautiful very strong currents go between the two islands here and that ship is uh set for somewhere else this bridge is is is made up of a bunch of other bridges it's all connected though by the highway this is the map here and this kind of lays it out for you this is just kind of describing where the things are but it'd be nice to have some information oh here's the the full the full scope of it so we started through the tunnel there through this live stream and we went across that one and this one and now we're in between here on this island and then uh that's how much we have to go how far we have to go and then there's shikoku on the other side which is the live view right there pretty sweet [Music] all right i got a long way to go so let's go over to this service area real quickly i think the car is okay over there look how lonely my rav4 toyota just hanging out in the back there i think it'll be fine oh let's go hey raj a new traveler welcome you've unlocked some cool emoji there's the spiral we came on do you see that very nice you cannot go high speed it's limited to about 40 kilometers an hour based on physics [Music] lest you spin out of control and over the side all right mask on let's get something from the vending machine or investigate what they have on offer it is pretty nice inside the rav4 it's got more space which is what i wanted i kind of wanted to experience something really nice because it is a long drive we should when we are inside areas around people we still still wearing masks here in japan all right here's the surface area it is a nice day um i picked a pretty good one the the next four days are going to be beautiful live streams all aboard tomorrow morning from uh i'm going to show you the valley the center of shikoku tomorrow morning is going to be beautiful try to get up early for that i guess these are the cables that are inside of the bridge that's pretty massive yeah these this is the the cables looping on that bridge are this thick that's a cool shot so those cables up there that that connect the bridge are that thick nice all right here we go service area just for a little bit is that the mascot yeah it is screenshot his name is wataru and of course you need some shikoku anime action nice you know i i really do love this channel because it it doesn't feel like i'm alone i can feel all you guys here with me we're entering sanuki udon country that's uh the kagawa area on the road to kochi where i'm driving from kyoto to kochi the shimanto as my destination nakamura station which is the center of shimanto city all right they do have some restaurants let's just see what's on offer the name of this place is yoshima it's a pretty nice service area did nightbot just take out sia weird well it's a taco meshi squid rice oh sorry uh octopus rice nice all right i don't want to take you too far in just just give you a quick look around so in the service areas they usually have an area with information right here so you get the traffic updates local information and then there's always a gift shop where you can get confections and and whatnot some udon wow there's a lot of udon it's pretty cheap too it's 7.50 cents for this massive pack oh hey i know these hey guys this is the daimyo package that i sent these tarts from from shikoku they're on the way to you so very cool i'm kind of glad to see these i might pick up one i might let's put the super chats to work and pick one up this is chestnut flavored for autumn i'm gonna try the i'm gonna try the seto lemon oh actually i can try them i can i don't have to buy a big pack of them i can just buy them one by one oh okay [Music] all right thanks we guys try one in the car before we take off let's even get a coffee i'm kind of craving something to go with it here's the vending machine corner and yeah they got a coffee machine here whoa check it out they got weird chips there's a moss burger chips a bunch of other stuff all right let's get let's get a coffee here um kilimanjaro blend mocha american that's me all right i'm doing the american big and jumbo yup that's american i'm gonna go black i can pick it's too late you can pick the strength of the coffee it's just normal that's a shame and you can add the cream and the sugar levels so it says it's gonna take 47 seconds yeah if you want to here's the here are the coins my change mocha kilimanjaro uh and other coffees they do have a cup noodle cup noodle machine here too how do they put the top on all right let's get out of here there's an atm here too by the way just for reference oh this is hot yeah for our daimyo supporters just so you know that's what this tart is the exact one i sent you as a in your daimyo boxes this month so i think you're gonna like it it's kind of cool to see it connected with with this live stream i might have planned it that way though all right back out we go let's walk to the car which is like you know what i might my dad used to park way out here because he said it's easier to get in and easier to get out i said but you have to walk 500 meters to get there that's only like 100 meters carl lewis can do it under 10 seconds gosh his coffee's hot they do make it like an amusement park check out the sign it looks like welcome to the service area it is an amusement park if they had a ferris wheel here it'd be a lot more fun and some of the service areas in japan have ferris wheels so i'm putting you back on the uh dashboard now so you get a chance to take a look at the rest of the bridge this sort of makes up for the really awful vertical live stream that started don't know why youtube app is just funky joy you got that right i could use the exercise sitting in the car all day hey look at the hippie van all right let's go around it gosh i envy that dude that looks like one of the trucks that picked me up uh three years ago four years ago and was hitchhiking he lived in gunma or so he was going from kyushu to gunma where there was a brazilian settlement that he was going to go stay at he had everything in the car it looked like he lived in the thing it was awesome picked me up and took me from a service area in yamaguchi to hiroshima city we both took a look at the gembaku dome and then i spent the night and then went on to miyajima oh i should have taken the trash out forgot about that rav4 is pretty nice look at those tires you can kick them and they won't fall apart back here it'll be okay there's the rav4 it's a sweet ride can't pick the color it just came like that so you guys hit your head there all right off off the gimbal you go you go and on to the holder hold on a second okay let's try one of these tarts this is a taste of you know what i'm gonna drive over to the side here because it's really bright you get all you can get maybe a view of the bridge in the background no you can't all right it's a little bit better i'm gonna try this one here is the one that i sent to our daimyo supporters it's uh chestnut tart sixteen tart uh judoka second i have some alcohol alcohol oh wow it's soft check it out oh this is nice i love japanese confections they're just not they're they're sweet but they're not overly sweet it's perfect i think if it's too sweet it wouldn't go well with something like this the coffee nice bitterness oh that's nice i appreciate this the super chats guys for the the pick me up it's nice we still got a ways to go you know road trips like this they're just so special aren't they and it's a shame they don't have anybody you know with me uh can i and leo are back home can i still has work to do i'll see i'm sure we'll do this again as a family in the future that is so perfect and i'm gonna eat the rest in the uh hotel tonight i gotta i gotta put the lid on i know what's gonna happen you don't put the lid on let's get out of here i can actually put i could actually hold a second put this gopro and get some shots driving right where can i put this gopro i'll try to maybe i'll upload some of these shots to uh to instagram later okay stop and record cool let's go ah where do we go hon sam which is the main road auto locks nice rav4 nice yeah it's not the same leo and can i should be here i know you guys are here but it's it's not the same i i can't hear you i should have i have to activate the discord server i'll go ahead oh actually i have the right away sorry one way do i have to go through the etc again really okay i don't know what do you have to pay to do this okay you don't i don't have to pay anything it's just checking oh you're gonna see the loop-de-loop now now we gotta loop all the way back around [Music] that that beep was the sound of uh usually that beep is a sound of money being taken away from me but this time just a check just kind of saying hey we know you went through there oh that's what it's for the train did you see that in the left the train goes underneath the the uh the bridge that's so cool sun in your eyes oh if you squint you'll be fine hdr does a pretty good job on the iphone that's sort of a big deal right there that sign nobody behind me can take it slow wow look at the view this is the greatest bridge ever all right off to shikoku [Music] shikoku means four countries question can you name the four prefectures of shikoku you have 30 seconds everybody in the live chat the four practices of shikoku five kilometers go who's first same all in one yeah california's not in there irvine you have to put all four of them in one [Music] post all right we got a winner there i can't see it because i gotta look on the road here i think that's daniel d well done daniel d starting from this prefecture kagawa kochi tokushima and tonight i'll be staying in tokushima i'm entering through kagawa kagawa this prefectures claim to fame is the sanuki udon sanuki udon is um uh it's like a really thick noodles thick wheat noodles and i love it they put tempura on top of it the sauce is made the soup is made from adashi broth and it's super cheap here like you can get them as low as a dollar dollar 80 i think 180 yen i've seen them for the basic udon and dashi you eat it in two minutes or less i see people they slurp it they don't even chew they just swallow the noodles whole like snakes i don't know why they do that they're crazy it's a skill um my favorite shop uh in uh zen sushi the owner told me says we call it uh shingo hitotsu you have to eat it within one traffic light traffic turn traffic light turns red eat your udon traffic light turns green again you have to be finished and move on that's how quick people are supposed to eat their uh sanuki udon in kagawa in san giudon country what a beautiful experience this is look at that oh stick and wall [Music] there's a car that was going way too fast i think the signal cutting out means that we're in shikoku i guess it's like we just we just moved into uh shikoku land so i guess shikoku has a different area and maybe the signal changed i don't know it's a whole different world that we're in just drive nice and smooth and don't don't worry about uh don't worry about the signal oh looks like we're gonna be going through some tunnels so you might lose me but this looks i think there's one more bridge after this hold on yeah there's a small bridge that we cross over then we're we're on the mainland this is like a man-made island a dock for some of the big ships i'm just going to stay in the right lane the trucks are going a little bit slower than the speed limit uh the speed limit is 80 kilometers per hour here i'm doing a little bit over 80 now to pass the trucks and then i'll swing back into the left lane nice and gently driving in japan is a real treat i know a lot of americans are going to be kind of wary about driving on the on the left side but you get used to it pretty quickly just give it some time and after about 15-20 minutes um you're you're okay it does take a little bit of getting used to i was used to it naturally because i was used to it naturally because believe it or not the way people walk in japan is they walk on the same way that people drive so mentally i would be walking on the left side just like the traffic patterns were on the road and that sort of got me going that cars these cars really go fast and these the um that kind of mentally set me up for driving so when i got behind the wheel it wasn't too bad i was kind of mentally there but when the problem is when i go back home to the united states and i might take a left turn into the wrong lane just because i'm so used to turning the other way or a right turn those are the toughest but i think you just get used to it just give it some time and your brain adjusts wow look at that sign i that's confusing [Music] in 1.0 kilometers take the exit to the left all right i'm going a little bit over 80 now so that car was is going a little bit faster but i think they gave you a little bit of wiggle room 700 this is where the marugame udon chain is originally from marugame we're entering into marugame city how cool is that wow my arrival time at the my arrival time is now 7 15 p.m which is not ideal but what are you gonna do in 700 meters keep straight if the navigator wasn't telling me where to go i would have no idea the difference was i think with the rav4 here i didn't have to um the navigation system was a lot easier to do everything was touched it's a touch panel on the car here to change it from japanese english was so simple easy to find in the menu very intuitive is ahead 3650 i just got on and paid 35 dollars to ride that bridge what are you they just new jack new jack hustler [Music] oh it says 1800 yen i think the lady just got it wrong i don't know all right says to go straight here don't go to marugame or maruyama matsuyama matsuyama left would take me to ehime [Music] click the like button encourage me to do more driving live streams because it's pretty cool having fun just it'd be a lot more a lot more funner if kanai and leo were here nothing against you guys just the way it is turn slight left left left i think that's this here just stay the course this is route 11. in 300 meters turn right 300 meters if you are in american and using feet good luck uh one meter is about the same as a yard more or less so 100 meters 100 yards i think 100 meters a little bit less all right i'm sorry 100 yards is a little bit more than 100 meters so turn right at the next traffic signal you got it it's kind of a shame that i'm getting here so late because right i really wanted to see the gourd i might i might be able to one yard is 0.92 meters it's about the same um the drive now that i have to go is so beautiful it sits you through a gorge and i'm hitting it at night so i might wake up super early and then just drive back up and down it and do a live stream but or at least record it because i know that there's not going to be a signal through there [Music] drive along the road for more than five kilometers so i'm i'm hoping by you watching this drive you feel comfortable a little bit more deciding to rent a car when you come to japan i don't think it's that complicated you can see there's very little traffic and it's pretty comfortable the roads are quite wide they're very modern the signs are both you see the blue sign there both in japanese and in romaji roman letters so you can you can find the places that you're going to and the navigation system is in english so you don't really have much problem um i think i think if you're on the on the border hold on a second you can see the navigation system is all in english there it's really comfortable you know to drive and if you have a family of four this is probably the way to go you could put your luggage in the back not have to wheel it around go straight to the hotel and out in the countryside hotels have parking lots you know it's so nice to to just go straight to your location not have to go through stations and buses and stuff but with this trip if you have a rail pass um you can either wait to activate it later or you if you activate it you can take the train across to shikoku and then rent a car here but i highly recommend if you're going to get around and to see the sights the rending of cars just is the way to go and um it's just so comfortable so the sun has set the sun is down i we are so late that means we're having fun i got lost in osaka i gotta be honest i didn't didn't know where i was going got lost i i took a low road when i should have been up on the hunching expressway i was down on the local road and and that took like an hour to fix it i might have said some four letter words duck goose [Music] it four letters if you put that slash over the o g o s e just depends um if you have any questions leave them in the comments below i really appreciate it this drive to kochi is so much fun and i'm glad that you could join me on this adventure we just missed the light here uh i gotta drive now some country roads it's gonna require some um some super duper concentration on my part i'm i had a maybe about five hours of sleep uh not ideal look at the i wanted to show you this before we leave you see that do you see the family mart oh sorry do you see the family mart right in the center of your screen look how big that parking lot is that's so easy to get in and out no parallel parking that's what i'm talking about it's so it's so chill driving in japan once you get out of the cities it's really nice so getting a license is certainly worth it and one of the greatest things that i've done here um getting that license and freeing myself from the bounds of train travel which means i can travel around to shikoku and do this episode so click that like button i'll see you in another live stream um tomorrow morning and uh if there's something cool about the ryokan that i'm staying in i might go live live stream from the room if it's something really neat to give you a tour of what it's like to stay at this lodge um have a good day everybody have a good night if you're in australia just two hours ahead singapore an hour thank you for watching i'll see you really soon you

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 16,298

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, bridge, engineering, Great Seto Bridge, Okayama, amazing bridges, tallest bridge, Seto, Shikoku, connect, Double decker, 瀬戸大橋

Id: LOJqHeWgB7s

Length: 42min 3sec (2523 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021