Japan’s Pacific Blue Ocean & Highway Drive from Kochi (Shikoku)

hello everybody welcome to kochi prefecture this is the kochi coast line and that that's the mighty pacific ocean and you can see a beautiful blue color that comes out of it hope you can depending on the signal this is the live stream wow and i have about 10 minutes before i gotta get get to the airport i've parked the car over there you can see the rav4 and i thought i would just do a little pit stop here before i make it to the airport it's just so nice to enjoy a little bit of nature and of course i got the drone out and took some nice drone shots i'm gonna hide the drone just in case or i might take it with me so i got the air too and uh was able to get get some really nice shots for the for the video all right let's go down here i wanted to show you uh a little bit of a closer look we can walk down to the uh to the coastline i'm hoping that the signal holds strong hey broadshot studio it's kind of a jungle route but as long as i take care it should be fine i've got an external mic to help knock down the wind because it is quite windy here apparently people go this way as long as there's no big spiders i'm okay this reminds me of my trip to ogasawara a few years ago oh whoa whoa the mighty pacific and i'm an an atlantic city kid atlantic ocean kid i grew up in in new jersey where the water was not quite this this blue see if i can walk a little ways in see if we can get a nice view maybe i climb this outcrop wow let's see if i can get the angle right here beautiful and if i go straight this way i think i get to the to america but i i think for me it's really interesting to see even in tokyo you don't really see the pacific you see kind of tokyo bay and the areas where there's a lot of boats big ships tankers going through there here we we just get pres pristine pacific ocean and kochi is really famous for its surf and surfing so this is probably a place that you want to come and bring your surfboard or rent one i remember drinking at a market in kochi a couple of surfers it was a live stream actually a couple of surfers came up and we had some drinks together really cool guys from chiba from nagoya from osaka they all got together and they drove down to kochi why because the surf is freaking awesome here maybe not right here you probably well that's not too bad right there look at that but not a ship in sight i love it this is on the drive back from shimanto river it's just so beautiful um i had to stop and take some drone shots here kind of rocky it's it's a little bit better maybe from up there let me take you to back up to the jungle route and then i got to get back in the car make my way to kochi maybe you can maybe can join me for the drive back a little bit don't want to sprain my ankle i shouldn't even say that that when you say that that usually when you spin your ankle if the sunlight is hitting it at the right time you see this really beautiful emerald blue that's a pacific blue and it's even deeper out in ogasawara they call it bonin blue it's this really deep blue i've never seen before it's a little bit brighter here the wind is what's knocking the phone around even on the gimbal it's quite windy i'm surprised drone dronechan survived some some really far off shots all right back up the jungle route don't forget the drone i also have to do frogger and cross the highway of death it's all part of the adventure feels like indiana jones hey is that where that expression i'm jonesin comes from indiana jones i don't even know what that means oh like you do it wild man like indiana jones they named the dog indy ah oh baby tig i think i stepped in doggy doo doo i don't think it was doggy is it me all right one last shot here then we're going to go to the car the mighty plus effect hey everyone in hawaii aloha i think this direction kochi saying no can't hear anybody unless the wind that just picked up is everybody don't know looks like a washboard down there a b and b 77 aloha that's this way towards rapa nui easter island hola i think they speak spanish and easter island and the highway just hugs it this is the uh hold on there's a sign here is this the shitahama coast quite rocky all right let's get to the car again i got to cross this highway of death death because if you're not looking around the curb you don't know what's going to hit you well you do actually a car i'm not gonna let that happen not live anyways i'd do that pre-recorded then i can get it in 8k all right this is good here but this direction it's not good see it's it's very it's tricky you could swim there there's some shallows over here that aren't very rough i would i would make sure you come with some sandals or some aqua shoes aqua socks so you don't cut up your feet okay we're clear we're booked to the car raffle waiting for us [Laughter] it's magic as long as the key is near me it opens up okay okay do it do it done [Applause] [Laughter] okay here we go oh my arrival time is getting bad they say you're supposed to be there an hour before flight how's 45 minutes it's all good safety first auto on squeeze me on what oh engine first wait why are these things pop out where why the rear view mirrors pop in oh there's a police officer sorry sir i didn't break the law it's better if he passes now because then we're behind him unless if i drive like a bat out of heck it could be an issue all right turn around watch the road here we go signal make sure there's nothing coming on the road of death hold on i think i can stabilize you by putting this here all right road of death is clear signal on done goodbye pacific hello cochi yoma airport destination final destination tokyo oh sorry [Music] speed limit is 50 i'm going 55 let's slow down okay a lot of little teeny fishing towns going through here a lot of little should i say people a lot of old ladies that are really short cute big smiles people when they see other people they really like it here in kochi they're really receptive to outsiders i love that i think some of them might be outsiders themselves kochi is a really i don't know it's like the frontier it feels like it feels like you're a pioneer when you come to a place like this um just like you just saw highway stop i went through jungle to get to the like probably a lot of beaches are like that just special here make sure i'm talking about more exciting like indiana jones i'm jonesing yeah so the highway the highway along the coast it does wind a lot speed limit is 50 right now and on the highway it's 80 typically 80 kilometers per hour which is like 55 maybe it's not really that fast but i think they they give or take about 10 kilometers maybe so yeah you can do probably 90 but i would you know follow speed limit because this is a live stream and i should encourage good driving it says my arrival time is 12 42 my flight is at 1 35 so i think we're gonna be okay usually once i hit the highway i make up some time because i might go 81 kilometers an hour one over just you know it's hard to see exactly the speed limit but i have to drive safe saga park station saga koen eki if anyone is looking on google map that's where i am in coach prefecture along the coast and there's the station right there the tracks that is right on my left side there's a tunnel that goes through that mountain we go around it on the on the highway so i really wonder how long we're gonna have a signal here oh god i love all these places to turn into to enjoy the coastline and you can bring a drink with you you know like some i got some sparkling water down there just take it in there's a damn wow i'm not a damn a lighthouse sorry starting to fret at my native native language it's a lighthouse very different structure um i filled the gas tank to this rav4 i had about according to the thing i had about uh 80 75 kilometers to go before the tank was at zero and cost me dollars eight thousand wow look at the blue color hold on i don't know if you can see it you gotta you gotta pan over the right side there you go a little bit red light now you can see the tunnel for the train up there on the left wow you see it now b-e-a-u-tiful really nice hey lisa oh great to see you remember for remember for 13 months pretty awesome all right here we go again it's a straight ahead and you can if you go to the right you go through the town okay oh this is the copper i passed before hello sir it's the yokohama tunnel interesting until you don't see me anymore [Music] i usually don't listen to music because i forget to bring some with me the last time i listened to music i think was when [Music] gosh uh there's another youtuber in the car and he has he connected his uh um mp3 player which is an iphone to the car stereo i rebecca on the other side i wanted to be before we get to the highway i wanted to talk a little bit about driving and kochi to end this series i can't i'm over here so i'm looking forward to that so driving in kochi is a really pleasant experience it's the roads are really open now i'm you can see on my right side i just went past the train station train is not really an option because there's only maybe four or five a day that go along here so you have to plan your trip around the train times with the car you plan your trip around whatever you want to do but it's a really pleasant experience to drive and coach for the most part the highways are like this it's very easy driving for a lot of americans it's just coming overcoming your fear of driving on the left side but for me i've been walking on the left side you know before i got my license so mentally i was there um let's check out the road it's kind of more interesting than than looking at me uh here's you have these places called michi no eki on the left side you can pull in there restrooms almost every single town has one of these where they sell local goods local vegetables are in there um local restaurants it's a great place you could all shows park your car and spend the night there there's a lawsons a lot more lawsons in shikoku than 7-elevens or family marts lost in country is shikoku i i figured out but driving here as you can see the roads are really open no traffic i think if you rent the car inside of the city of tokyo you're going to be a lot more stressed out so maybe you want to jump in a taxi and just go a little bit outside of the city i don't know or maybe make sure your hotel is a little bit outside of the city of tokyo when you run to the car but the toyota rent-a-cars and orex and and nippon rent-a-cars a lot of them they all have offices at major train stations and and uh believe it or not in a lot of rural localities i thought that was pretty amazing so you always have access to a car a lot of locals a lot of locals will rent they have small cars to get around their town and they rent a big car if they want to take a trip i was talking with some people at nakatosa and the lady at the tourism office she's uh i think she's originally from there but she said that she has a small car to get around nakatosa this is where i ate the the um the two lunches two days ago and when she wants to go to like hiroshima for costco or ikea she rents a bigger car for the day and then drives back in the evening so that makes a lot of sense because the big cars drink gas like like a fish in water drinking water they don't actually drink the water right they breathe the water strange metaphor [Music] it's pretty it's a pretty calming drive sometimes you'll see a temple or a shrine on the right side of the left side it just they sort of just pop up and you can stop and park and go go take a look that's the stuff you do when you drive whatever you see you can park and go investigate and that's what i look at as an abandoned suzuki um mechanic garage pretty interesting it looks like we're getting closer to the highway now so if you're looking for adventure in japan you can do it by shinkansen and then rent a car you don't have to rent the car from tokyo because driving is pretty darn expensive but maybe considering the shinkansen rent-a-car hybrid pass might be something that's interesting too it just depends on it just depends on how you like to travel i i remember meeting um lots of people almost i'd say like 85 percent of the tourists that come here that that i meet and talk to say that they have a jr rail pass whether it's one week or two weeks and they time it so that they can travel really hard for seven days and they spend the rest of time in tokyo in the beginning and at the end or in osaka um my feeling is i would fly into kansai every time because there you got kyoto you got nada you got osaka you got himeji hiroshima is closer tokyo is two hours away because around tokyo there's not that much you got hakone you got niko you got you know some attractions up in ibaraki tohoku is a lot closer you got fujisan but kansai just makes a lot more sense because you can do all that in a few days in tokyo and you could spend two weeks in kansai so rent the car you know when you get the kansai rent the car because it's easier to get out of kansai and then drive towards the sea of japan or shikoku or you know if you're in tokyo you can drive up to tohoku but it's so wide up in tohoku it takes forever to drive up there shikoku is perfect for rented car i think this is a frontier and if you have the car it unlocks a lot of attractions that you don't see otherwise the other thing that shikoku is very popular for is the 88 temples and we're just passing there's a should i honk at her there's a pilgrim he's got one of the pointy hats and a towel and he's wearing uh pilgrim wear like a fashion sense they hike around the shikoku the hiker and chico go into 88 temples and shrines um usually for three months it'll take and um you know that's really seeing the country you could do in a car probably in a few days see what i'm saying so i hope that this kind of like guide helps you making decision uh i did this because i want to encourage people who do visit kansai to maybe rent a car and take a trip to kochi and this is a four day course and you can do it too i saw a heck of a lot yeah for one night i probably should have spent two months of shimanta for two nights i probably could have spent four i wanted to make a knife i could have i should have spent six but all in all the course uh i'll put a link in the description i'll see if i can get a google link so that you can just follow along where i was on this trip it's it's extraordinary to get in a car and just go and i didn't unlock this until i finally got my license about two and a half three years ago and since then it's been completely i've seen japan in a different way majority of people in japan they drive they have cars because they don't live in the city that's not true the majority lives in the city there's a lot of people car japan's got a lot of car makers nissan toyota honda suzuki mazda just to name a few it's probably that's probably most all right check it out we got some nice greenish don't know how the signal is i'm not lying to you who wrote that i'm telling you from knowledge you can either take it or not take it that's up to you but i would take it people ask me what do you want to do what's your what's your perfect itinerary and i said i don't know everybody's personality is different if you're like you know an akihabara guy you're like manga anime and you've never been to japan before you could probably just spend your whole time in akihabara and nakano i think that's kind of a waste but everybody's different and i what i want and what i like is not what somebody else is going to want and like and this is the big thing this is why i hate giving people travel advice i can show you places and you can look at it and you can decide whether or not it's for you some people don't like temples or shrines they all look the same to them after three or four of them it's like they want to eat for me i like to travel to eat too i want to have local food because japan is one of these gastronomic paradises where you can do that i like to travel for food so if you want to get to the roadside places you're going to need a car to get to the really local stuff not everything's at the train stations and more and more it's like chain stuff so unless you want to you know eat mcdonald's and and dominoes and yoshinoya which is pretty good oh look at the green on the left side oh man it's a little bit gold too because the they're gonna be harvesting uh kaina station is to the left for anyone tracking me k-a-i-n-a uh kochi is 78 kilometers away in 700 meters turns light right yeah but driving in kochi super easy shimano is a little bit more challenging there's some places where they're one car roads but they're two ways so you have to go slow and stop uh maybe two times i had to go in reverse for about 10 meters or so or the other person went in reverse a couple of times too in 300 meters turns light right ah we're getting on the expressway i think i just saw expressway awesomeness achieved okay kochi green sign turn slight right at the next traffic signal then take the expressway yes expressway baby red light it's so bright i really need a pair of glasses hey brontonia good timing aloha for some treats to for some drinks just dropping in to say hi can't stay cause i'm supposed to be working hey brundoni did you hear me say aloha from did you hear me say aloha did that guy cross on a red light i i yelled aloha from the cochikos to my hawaiian friends expressway [Music] i don't know if it's a 56 i just know that the speed limit is 30 and i'm going 50 the car behind me looks like he wants to go 50. all right there's grooves on the road here so you don't slip off kochi has a lot of rain in the winter it's just really amazing to have these blue skies i hope it's coming in in full hdr which the iphone delivers quite well just for just because it's so awesome looks like they're building another highway overpass for something when the highway extends all the way to shimanto city it's going to be freaking awesome you can get there a much quicker but you might miss some of the stuff like the ocean that i just showed you that's nice just to stop for 15 minutes get some drone shots get back in the car bada bing bada boom off to the airport arrive at 12 30. i got 90 minutes all right tunnel might lose you i'll see you on the other side did i even go through the toll gate no drive along the road for more than five kilometers all right 70 kilometers i'm going 75 lights on always turn on the lights and the tunnels or keep it on auto and then it does it for you [Music] oh we're gonna lose this signal soon hey friends says friendsguard358 just cut that in the corner of my eye well there's a raccoon did you see that there's a sign on the left for raccoons cochise 74 kilometers away this is awesome [Music] you could use some music maybe some teen spirit from nirvana something like that 24 degrees celsius it's it reads right there [Music] the wind sock says winds coming from the right side don't know if it's north or south this is the tachibanagawa 936 meters probably see on the other side this one's a long one so all right the other side cruising at 75 kilometers per hour 73 tunnel whoa whoa it opened up beautiful agnes lim thanks i'm going to stop up at a rest stop if there's one on the way for a quick drink and just stretch my legs put that to good use well motorcycle gangs peter it's probably in there probably wearing all leather [Music] king jono tunnel two kilometers long 1916. i'll definitely see on the other side we're going to lose signal i've been pretty impressed so far but i'm going to pump it up to 75 get through this one quick dark you can hear me the tunnel's really dark we're in the center of the mountain it's crazy 68 kilometers away from kochi but it says 85 on my radar thing because it's going to the airport smooth driving on the highway my joy joy said yes it was simple i could catch it on my corner of my eye i'm looking at the road but just in the corner of my eye i can see chat just like i can see that navigation system they're kind of together all right we're halfway there 900 meters to go i can't believe we still have a signal of anything even if it's minecraft quality that's impressive they must have put like white like some sort of signal inside the tunnel well done i do have cell phone reception just about everywhere there's some places where it's weak but you can make phone calls no dead spots there there are though like in the middle of wilderness but it's pretty impressive because two years ago the dead spots were really bad and now they've they've fixed it we had 3g in some spots now everything seems to be 4g just 3 bars instead of five all right other side nice and bright no glasses i forgot my sunglasses in 700 meters turn slight right hey john came with us here i caught that side of my eye it turned like pink it's good to have you here i'm gonna pick something up from for kanai she wants some musicals should buy or some music musical show is really famous here i'll buy her some musical gifts that's awesome thanks man turn slight right all right slight right this is route 56 i'm getting on yeah traffic light turns light right all right traffic light red light can turn in here there you go it's a pretty hard right something says this navigator lady is is from the uk bob joe chip it in for the use of cultural funds john kimura give i see you get 55 bucks it's not fit route 55 is drop 56 [Laughter] that's pretty cool you almost had the route right that's funny franco 358 just checking back in thanks wow that's pretty impressive the signal is is uh is good all right follow that car ooh that car's not supposed to go over the line there please restrict it 5.0 kilometers turn right just tilt you a little bit more towards the scenery without the navigation i probably lost you can use google's your google smartphone instead of the the car navigation actually it might be a good idea if you're going to the country use both this is a good tip because a lot of the places are registered on google registered especially older rent to cars this is a semi new one i think 2018 maybe 2019 but older rental cars have older navigation systems so sometimes they might not be up to par but google maps always is it's good to have both of them going and you can plug in your smartphone um get you can i would encourage you to bring it from home instead of trying to buy one here or get it ordered on amazon and have it sent to your hotel but the suction cups that i have to hold your smartphone are very useful inside the car so you might want to get one of those i have three suction cups to really get it on there depends the size of your smartphone that's good to have as well as a long wire to keep your phone charged and you put it in the middle and it does a really good job of navigating getting you to where you need to go both of them the thing is that the google you you definitely need to have ford 4g uh a sim card you can't use wi-fi with that was that the mayor he's wearing one of those political sashes that they wear in japan pretty cool oh you can see a lot of the old houses they look like uh some of them look like akia abandoned like no one is living there some weeds growing at him there's a lawson see this is the third law since we've passed almost almost tempted to stop in there but save it for a rest stop pachinko it's a shame these some of these most beautiful buildings in the towns the old towns they're all from the showa period and then you'll see a brand new like really nice looking place you think is a hotel no no pachinko all those bright lights looks like vegas really clean on the outside temple just passing there's a sign to tell me uh that that's dead all right there's a rare family mart okay red light there's a supermarket a drugstore um it's nice i'm gonna be getting on the expressway again uh the the drive through kochi through shimanto it's a sort of mix between highway and low way but it's scenic nonetheless we're going towards suzaki hope the signal's good 12 30 arrival time i can live with that what i can't live with is a 12 45 arrival time because that really puts me as a kitty kitty uh hustle to the airport follow that silver car well there you go again pachinko place really nice sign stylish it's the center of the city pachinko awful people they gamble all their money away i don't want to see that the signs as you can see really quickly passing over me they're all in japanese on the top kanji english on the bottom it's uh very easy to understand not chinese because they could probably read the kanji uh not katakana not korean it's all in english so i have not had any trouble with road science in japan ever in the last 10 years i wouldn't say ever 23 years ago not everything was in not everything was uh bilingual everything every a lot a lot of stuff especially in the countryside just japanese and katakana which is good to learn the katakana alphabet speed limit is 50 here i'm going 60 okay slow down beautiful skies we've had these puffy clouds the entire four days i have taken some amazing pictures too for the postcard club this month is askousa they should be arriving in the u.s soon um they should arrive to our three patreon supporters in japan for sure already but next month i don't know there's a seto bridge awesome shot that i took with the drone um there's some amazing shots that i took in kochi and in iya it's going to be a tough pose card for for next month but we will see which one which image wins out when you go on these road trips you really can uh there's just too many opportunities to take amazing photos and i have to say that dji air in 2s turn right is awesome the one inch sensor the size i have the mini which i can fly in certain restricted areas but the um oh there's a roadhouse i should just stop there in 300 meters turn right all right it's better than slightly right sometimes it's the same thing well there's a roadhouse they just turned into one it's a big one just don't have time another lawson's on the right turn right at the next traffic signal then take the expressway expressway three two one yeah nice slight emotional joy expressway let's press away yeah i'm not this happy when i end at the exp and the expressway when they tell you the toll that you just paid then it's not so it's not so wonderful but that means i can shape up some time expressway also means service area and i can get off and hurry up motor dude looks like a bandit bandana no bikes no scooters just rav4s oh look at the traffic coming here everyone wants to go to the countryside whoa gnarly god i want a motorcycle gotta do it gotta get the license well there was a did you see that that looked like the arkansas razorbacks there was a wild hog running sign so there's some uh um uh hogs wild boars in the woods here that's pretty cool sign i met a guy in ohio he he in the middle of the night he would um steal the signs he had a collection in his room and i told her aren't you afraid one day you're gonna get caught he said no i guess he lived out really out there some places in ohio it's out there 70 kilometers per hour is the speed limit right now usually it's 80 but i think uh when the the highway gets a little bit wider i can open it up a little bit more uh but i don't really want it if you look on the left and the right it's just so beautiful i have maybe a i don't know 15 20 centimeters higher than you can see a little bit more i should put the camera on the roof then like a teles periscope look drive along the road for more than five kilometers so what do you think let me know in the comments right now is is japan a lot easier to drive in than you thought it would be now that you're watching me do it somebody who you know gets lost walking around town always falling down and stuff bumping into people i can do it and i think if i can you can too so what do you think is this easy enough for you to drive is it cool and calm is it chill is it easy is it navigable i want to hear from you sound off drivers this is shikoku so this is the driving paradise well that may be hokkaido shikoku is like really really close or if not better simple the gps is in english it is [Music] yeah i feel confident that's pretty cool but you might you seem like you live here all right we're cruising at 77.77 big thank you to john kimura i'm extended because of his his lovely uh donation for gifts from kochi airport for us and i really appreciate that thank you john uh can i leo and i we really love you and i know you're always looking out for us and and that special care i never come and ramsey silence the same way he's always getting making sure i bring home some flowers or some gifts and uh that's great it's nice to have you driving with me too because it's it'll be a lot boring feels like you're here which is why somebody wrote a comment i never met someone who talks so much i laughed i think i gave that one a thumbs up not a hard mark though because i think she meant it in a bad way i don't know it's all good i take criticism well learn from it every now and then i lose myself lose it and respond and i delete it it's like a tweet a tweet that went private public and then quickly deleted but sometimes i'll write a response and then delete it never send it and then you stop doing it because you realize it's just a waste of time [Music] but i like to send responses if i can it's nice postcards i love sending postcards [Music] all right it looks like it looks like um we're getting close to where we open it up a little bit but i if i remember correctly there's some tunnels we got to go all through it's getting blurry look right now i'm so deep i'm so deep i'm gonna keep going until uh john kimura's uh the super chat goes away set of respect but i if it gets blurry it might get better again through this tunnel but if i if i'm going to keep going for a little bit longer because it's just fun this way so if you lose me i'll be back but this tunnel looks long this tunnel looks long cruising at 77 still lights on i can tell you a little bit about this tunnel it's 2 393 meter meters long so 2.3 kilometers it's gonna be a long one about three minutes maybe [Music] oh it stinks too inside here it smells like my my old roommates uh bunk a little gassy i had the top bunk too stuff waft up i have to keep the window open and then in the winter you get off crying cool they said i can't breathe i don't know battles control the window he controlled his area and i learned after two years i stopped having roommates i couldn't breathe [Music] i guess there's a cafeteria school cafeterias it really deserves stuff that gives you gas that was always pretty good [Music] all right we're out of the tunnel thanks for keeping me company i was just talking to myself hopefully that audio did not go through the tunnel you didn't hear my roommate talk [Music] really the signal is good through tunnels this is more of an experiment now okay this is as much as an experiment as anything else marty's in the house don't forget to buy something for leo all right you got it i'll get something for a little leo i'll see if i can give him a plushie or something marty oh it's going to be awesome we're going to call him marty too the little plushie i don't know if they got it i'm sure they got something at the airport i'll have a little marty in the in the house now [Music] two marty's now i don't see any service areas on the i don't see any service areas on the um navigation so i wonder i'm gonna get my hot coffee my arrival time is still 12 30 30. [Music] wow we're way high up whoever sometimes the most marvelous engineering structures are the highway bridges that nobody can see i'd like to get the drone down there they say got tunnel couldn't see the distance but we're following rock 56 if not the highway is around 56. see sweet potatoes here flying in gosh if i only had wings leave the airport actually i'm gonna have wings i'm gonna fly to tokyo in an hour and a half i've already live stream you know what i might if you are a a traveler i might live stream from kochi airport from the observation deck i'll give i'll do a special live stream for all of our travelers and our patreon supporters so if you're if you're a member um you're using the special emoji i think it's it's like 90 yen or something less than a dollar i'll do a special live stream uh from kochi airport to look at the airplanes because i know a lot of you haven't been to the airport in a long time no nakatosa that's where i had lunch a couple days ago it might be nice to see what's going on at the local regional cochi road yoma airport from the observation deck [Music] after i get the little marty i'll get a little marty at the at the gift shop all right this tunnel is uh kawasaki tunnel 545 meters and i can already see the other side [Music] i've been talking to a little leo marty i've been talking to leo through facetime and he recognizes me over facetime and it's it's it's so awesome he recognized me through facial expressions funny faces and strange sounds that i do and i do these these uh dance beats and he recognizes me through dance beats i have a couple ones i have a very um i can't do high-paced dance beats but mostly like mid-ground suits and uh kind of a deeper each inch yeah he likes kanai doesn't like the unchewing because he says it sounds like unchee which is poo in japanese you can't control it signal is gone i apologize there's a turn up for nakatosa uh i don't know how how the signal is going to come in but john kimura's chad is still hanging in there so i'm still going strong [Music] as i can this is the end of the kochie um episode two driving kochi the course you know i'll put a link in the description i'll show you when i get back to tokyo what i did just to round this off but i love this drive let me tell you the cost of this car well maybe this is minecraft you can still hear me maybe so the rent-a-car that i got uh it was about it was less than a hundred dollars a day this is like a really nice suv i think it was maybe eighty dollars a day seventy five dollars a day plus the tax and then it that came out to under under fifty 000 yen so that's about 450 so with taxes and everything that's pretty reasonable and then um some motor guys but that line is really close uh and then there was a charge for them to drive it back to uh from kochi to kyoto and that cost a little bit over uh 20 000 yen like about 200 but if you can if you factor in gas and tolls probably i'd come out ahead okay because even the toll crossing the great center bridge was like 35 dollars and then the other highways it was like 75 80 that's 120 is for the tolls plus the gas probably come out about the same or a little bit ahead so all in all it cost um with my 20 gold member discount of toyota rent-a-car about about under 700 for four days which seems high but it's worth it when you're going out there to film a lot of content it certainly is worth it because um yeah getting around traveling is probably the biggest expense and we have a really good community on patreon and i'm glad that i can use that now for traveling traveling expenses budgeting adventure showing you around sharing so i have an obligation to to show you tunnels the depths of kochi it's pretty deep it smells like my roommate again except it's more pleasant because it's like gasoline gas probably more dangerous although you don't know what he ate [Music] nasty stuff [Music] all right we got another tunnel so we get a little air break here there's a little parking place so if your car breaks down you can be able to i still don't have a parking area um this tunnel is i missed it began with an s if i even come close to that white line it goes off on the right side there's like a a blackness i think that's where all the dirt goes in the middle for years i don't know but it makes the line look like it's it's a lot closer so you end up going a little lower to the left and the right [Music] oh our gassy smells the depths of this tunnel cochi is a land of tunnels it's land of a lot of things but some of these top there was a tunnel it was five kilometers long i'm not joking that's like four miles long right a little bit over 5k but 5k is 3.1 miles so about three over three miles long shouldn't think of the conversion i remember 5k is 3.1 miles because i ran cross country and would do 5k races which were 3.1 miles 10k is 6.2 miles so we kind of figure it out but it's easier just to use 5k 10k why wouldn't we use the metric system in america it's not better system is not better metric you use the metric for a couple of months it's so much better [Music] i see sunlight or very bright headlight at this point it's hard to tell it looks like must be sunlight i'm impressed that we have a signal for this long susaki nishi awesome we just left the tunnel i don't know if the signal's any good uh folks but uh i'm driving now to kochi airport from shimonto and i'm kind of going i can see the some of the ocean another tunnel now it's a double tunnel this one on the left side too [Music] tulsa is 19 kilometers away still no oh there's a parking area well there was the first time that the signal stopped it did it again it said reconnect and they had to touch the screen for a second [Music] all right thumbs up thumbs up for the moderators for hanging in there for like an hour uh tokushima 192 kilometers this is the oma tunnel 505 meters if you take a look at instagram i put in a hyperlapse that took me about 10 minutes to make and you can see 10 min 10 or 15 minutes and like 50 sec 50 seconds i think 45 50 seconds it's pretty cool [Music] and i'll see if i can put some drone shots up on instagram today just so some of the shots that i got from the schumacher man can't wait to come back here in november i'll be back in kochi for with kevin reilly and we're gonna do some uh do some live streams with kevin eat some food have some fun kevin's never been kevin's been in japan longer than me and the dude has never been to kochi insanity i've been every prefecture at a minimum of three times most of them like five six seven but there's a few places i've only been like three times like saga prefecture and uh uh where i think the saga the rest have been [Music] maybe five times four times five times that's one that's kind of hard to get to [Music] hyogo is kobe but hyogo goes all the way to the other side so deep yoga i've only been there maybe three four times been to more recently a lot but i didn't go to shimane there was this saga totori and shimane were the last three prefectures that i didn't visit [Music] we can play the game can you name all 48 prefectures from uh south to north from okinawa to hokkaido i think i can do it you can do it all right let's let's try while i'm driving i'll start start from okinawa next is kyushu there's the kagoshima kumamoto saga nagasaki fukuoka miyazaki next we have shikoku we'll do that ehime tokushima and kagawa then we go from honshu we have yamaguchi hiroshima shimane tottori [Music] osaka kyoto hold a second let me go to the ctc [Music] fukui um if we stay on this side we have ishikawa toyama i said osaka already so we can't remember we have to can't forget wakayama and me then we have aichi and if you work your way up there we have shizuoka yamanashi nagano tokyo and if we work our way up from there we have good ma to chiki then there's fukushima miyagi iwate ibaraki and chiba don't forget those on the corner there um gosh what's next [Music] yeah nagano is up there not gonna snuck in the middle there's no sea access to nagano and then there's a tohoku right i've already named it so on the other side there's uh iwate and aomori and yamagata which is snug in the middle of there don't forget yamagata miyagi fukushima the other other two for the six prefectures for tohoku and then there's one more that's 47 that's crazy one more is hokkaido and then you have okinawa right down the bottom case i didn't forget that that's 47. boom did i miss any did anybody count did i miss any [Music] oh i forgot nada you are so right i forgot i knew it was the one 46 okay good call nara [Music] i went up the coast yamaguchi toshi shimane no that's a city that's not a prefecture [Music] nada sometimes it's hard because you think not as a city but it's also a prefecture dang nabbit i knew it [Music] and i forgot shiga that's that's an embarrassment because i was there she goes lake biwa yeah good call i miss shiga so that's all right 45. i can i can i think back when i travel mentally and i can go go through it i think i think i was saying i miss chica because i was going through the tollbooth you come the excuses but if you can name all the prefectures then you are a traveler yeah shiga and fukui is one a lot of people forget she got nara the ones in the middle there it's easy to forget gunma and tochigi [Music] but i lived there for a long time so those are easy and you think of the onsen too a lot of old center in these in these countryside so when you travel around you do especially for own center for food you go to these to a lot of the prefectures that are out there saga in is one that people forget nagasaki and saga saga is easy easy to forget because it's so nestled out there and it's there's no airport and there's no shinkansen so it's really out there oytai as well because you got to go around no shinkansen huita it's pretty it's fun but i'd like to do that every now and then i just so i can remember and then i don't i don't forget the prefectures if you're doing it same with the yamanote line stations you can play that game go around yeah if you're enjoying the drive sponsored partially by john kim thank you uh click that like button you know just encourage me to keep going just kind of running on steam here waiting for a service area to stretch my legs i thought there was a there was one a lot closer uh glenn writes in it's blurry now [Music] this is also for science to see where the blurry parts are and where now we're gonna i'm like i am literally a topographer i'm mapping out where the signal is good by this so based on the signal the strength of this we only get to know where the good places to stream and the bad places the stream are this is for science [Music] that signal was a thank you for all the thumbs up you're just giving [Music] google street food should have signal strength in there too no john don't do it i was gonna end no tell kimura extended this it's like a this is like a jukebox john just extended he added to the jukebox it was like really bright pink for a second okay i was like out of ammunition too i don't know what else do i talk about next uh can sing original songs sometimes they don't come out politically correct though i mean i i mean that in this sense like i don't know what's changed in the last 20 years in the u.s if they say something like commando or raw dog or something i don't know what they mean i can't comprehend [Music] sometimes you could take a tune and turn it into something good i learned that there were extended lyrics to the jingle bells batman smells song somebody told me that there was extended lyrics [Music] something to keep in mind i wonder what they're growing here you know this is the land of yuzu [Music] the arrow arrows telling me get back into my lane oh there's a parking area there i should have stopped dagnabbit you know what i'm still looking for a service area it's 11 42. [Music] a hydrogen car did not pass but they do have hydrogen cell buses in tokyo they're kind of cool actually i i sent my daimyo supporters a tomi carr i've been doing that every few months uh this month this is i'm not going to tell you what it is but it'll add to your collection for the diamond supporters but then they also have the hydrogen cell bus as a tomy car that's so super cool so maybe that's something i can send so we're now going through the tulsa area so you can see it's just really beautiful lots of uh uh rice that's golden uh they'll be harvesting that soon it's a little bit later here usually october is the month of harvest that's why they have that skinny burger the harvest moon um is in the mcdonald's scheme burger that's why they put the egg on top of it yeah the hydrogen cell buses are pretty cool um so maybe i'll put something as a tommy car in a few months every now and then is that trian thanks again for the further encouraging for me to find a rent car yeah you're welcome i think it's important i think it's really good to rent the car and get out of the tourist area to see something more natural and you can see that here in kochi a lot of nature mount fuji also you can circumnavigate is that just a nav sailing word you can net circumnavigate mount fuji and that takes you past um um that forest that people go into and never come out of um the there's also like the dark side of mount fuji where it's just all forced but you can do that in in uh six hours drive around mount fuji and come back but you probably want to want to take 12 hours get the rent-a-car at 8 00 am and come back at 8 pm and you can you can drive once around mount fuji take some pictures from all different sides it's beautiful the highways are so nice usually not very crowded especially on weekdays the service areas are second to none so beautiful especially on the on the um expressway there's a couple of really nice service areas of beautiful views of mount fuji but rent a car 12 hours drive around mount fuji come back it's something you can definitely do um really make a great day out of it or rent the car and for two days and spend the night somewhere and then loop back uh to tokyo on the other on the next day leave your luggage at a main hotel or something i'll take it with you that's the great thing with the car you have a boot you have a trunk you don't have to leave your luggage around there you don't have to wheel your luggage onset you don't have to you could totally just get on it you can just throw your bags in the in the trunk and then you're off [Music] you forget about that with the with the cars where you gonna go i don't know there's a car behind me i wanted to let him pass because he's faster than me all right sorry truck didn't know if you wanted to pass or not somebody you have to do visual communication i learned when i was getting my license like to triple check everything all the time it made you paranoid taking driving lessons here in japan it's really hard um after you go through the driving now i'm going uh 85 because the speed limit's higher now um yeah after you 85 kilometers an hour not miles per hour uh you drive for a while you you get paranoid of and you start doing all the safety checks and stuff and it it just follows you through the rest of the years as a driver i'll never forget the hardships of learning at the driving school so i could pass the driving test it was hard but necessary look at those blue skies cochi 18 kilometers awesome we're almost there i'm making awesome time too um arrival time is still 12 30 though uh-oh all right i better dude 86. [Music] is here trunk for your junk or a chan wait did i just say that out loud what does that even mean chad i'm telling you we're gonna i'm gonna donate a hammer so you can get out one day make sure you get some sunlight get some vitamin e [Music] all right i like the little sounds eno town we're passing through yeah big shout out thank you john kimoto for extending this live stream but yours truly's got to go because the phone is going to die this extended live stream for science to check where the single strengths are strong and weak and to test my ability to marathon talk for 75 minutes i think i succeeded kept you entertained and you kept me entertained because if i talk if i talk to myself without you here that makes me insane but if i do it with you here it makes me an entertainer so or a youtuber really all right for travelers if you are if you pay a buck for the channel i will show you cochi airport as soon as i arrive for a very quick uh stream from the observation deck of cochi airport take a look and take a look around there so i do appreciate the support that we've gotten over the years through only japan go and want to say thank you for everybody who's a traveler um and a patreon supporter uh see you again really soon i'm gonna leave it here uh shout out thanks again john and drive safe that's what i'm i'm doing eyes on the road [Music] gassy smell again gosh not nice [Music] you

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Length: 75min 11sec (4511 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 09 2021