【北海道初体験】外国人バイク乗りが日本で圧倒的な感動を味わう【後編】

【北海道初体験】外国人バイク乗りが日本で圧倒的な感動を味わう【後編】

I don’t like it when it gets rocky! Is Ori okay? This road is absolutely beautiful! Right next to the sea. This is probably the wildest hot spring I’ve tried in Japan. This place was pitch dark. There was no light at night. So I was freaking out. We interrupted your breakfast, didn’t we? Argh.

Something got into my helmet. Maybe a bee or something. Honestly. What is this place? Is this road even real? That was freaking scary! My hands are shaking, even. I can’t believe this is actually free! There’s no need for a shower at home. Good morning, people. It’s 8:30 in the morning,

It’s our third day at this campsite, but it’s the first day we finally get to enjoy this wonderful view from here. Check this out. This place is known to be covered by a thick layer of fog. And it has been like that for the past two days. We had heavy rain last night,

And wasn’t expecting to have this beautiful of a day today, so we decided to go out for a ride. The sky is beautiful today. There is a place right at the corner right here that I want to show you. There is a lighthouse and you get beautiful views of the sea.

And yesterday we were so lucky that we got to see some sea otters swimming. There were babies. It was absolutely beautiful. Okay. It’s honestly the first day that we get to see the view of the whole Cape. That you see over there, is the tip of the cape.

And that’s where we saw the sea otters swimming yesterday. This place is quite famous for ‘Konbu’. It’s an algae. An algae. So. Yeah, maybe. I don’t know if they are ‘konbu’ or not, but… It looks like it. The sea otters are not here yet.

Hopefully later during the day we’ll get to see them. You see, the fog is coming all the way here. It’s going to cover that tip of the cape. It has already covered that tip. So I guess we were so lucky this morning that we got to see this beautiful place uncovered completely.

Look that, guys. You only see fog over there. Just a couple of minutes ago, it was completely uncovered. However, on this side, there’s no fog at all. Hey, buddies. Today we’re going to be riding along the North Pacific Ocean Coast. We’re going to be visiting Japan’s Easternmost point, you guys.

We’ve already been to Japan’s northernmost point, and now it’s time to check another point off our list. I think it’s about 100 kilometers to that point. About an hour and a half from here. Not that far. So we’re leaving Kiritappu Cape here, and we’re going to drive all the way to Nosappu Cape.

Our tent, we left it at the campsite. We’re just going to go around the peninsula and come back tonight to the same campsite. Wow! Look at all that seaweed! Or ‘konbu’. The algae. Wow! This road is absolutely beautiful! Right next to the sea. I think that was Clubman. That’s my bike.

Look at all that algae being dried there. Amazing. It is a very hard job. I’ve seen people organizing one by one for them to dry, and at night they have to pick them all up because it’s super foggy and it becomes very, very humid.

And then the next morning, if it’s sunny, like today, once again, they take them out and they organize one by one, one by one. It’s a very, very hard job. And I’m surprised that they’re still doing that manually. Like when you go to the supermarkets and you see these products,

You don’t know the story behind them. Coming here and learning that they do it manually, is still something very, very surprising for me. Look at all that fog coming down here. We’re going to this Cape, but I don’t know if we’re going to be able to see anything at all, you know?

I guess we’ll see once we get there. Hi there. It is so windy! Right next to the ocean. There’s a viewpoint there, but honestly, you cannot see anything. So we’re just going to keep on going. Look. This is the algae I was telling you about. So you can see…

These are pretty long, maybe about 5 or 6 meters long. And you can see one strip. One by one. I don’t know how long it takes to dry. I would love to ask someone. It’s a pretty hard job to organize all of this and then pack them all up at night.

Look at this ’Torii gate’. It is made of, like, very natural trees. Yeah, pretty rustic. And that’s the temple. Temples here in Hokkaido are different, aren’t they? Oh, look! There’s people working the seaweed here. Look, there’s people organizing the algae. Wow. These are pretty long. We came down this small side road,

And it is… It’s a dead end. But all of these families here work with the seaweed. They’re saying ‘hi’. Very, very interesting. It’s a very small community, and they have these huge parking spots. And it’s the parking place for the seaweed, I guess. For the algae. Well,

I don’t know where the blue sky went, but all I can see is fog around me. Everything completely covered. Everything completely covered. We cannot even see the sea anymore. I can see a few horses there! I don’t think these are completely wild horses, are they? Oh, look at those beautiful horses.

Oh, look at the baby one. They’re very muscled, these horses. There are a lot of dairy farms on this side of the of the island. They’re literally everywhere. Did you see it? It’s looking at us, the deer. The deer! The voice of the deer!

We stopped here and there was this deer making a noise. I’ve never heard a deer make a noise before. It’s the first time. Wow. Kaito’s checking something there. I wonder what it is. Oh, yeah. We’ve seen these little signs all over Hokkaido,

And it’s whenever they see a bear in the area, they just put this one. So, a bear was last seen here on the 13th of June at 6:15 p.m.. Horses are so curious about us. They’re all looking at us. It was great bringing Apollo along. Oh, they’re coming! Hey, buddies. Hi there.

We need to find a gas station sooner rather than later. Kaito is running out of gas. The closest city is about 20 kilometers away from here. I hope it’ll be okay. We’re getting closer to Nemuro city. We should be able to find something there. Where do you come from? We live in Yamaguchi.

Really? And you came by bike? Yes, we’ve been traveling by bike. This is our first time in Hokkaido. Pretty interesting. Hokkaido’s seaweed is of high quality, isn’t it? How long do you let it sit outside? Let me think… – You let it out for the day and then take it in? – Yes.

We start harvesting the seaweed at 5:00 a.m. and at around 8:00 a.m. we come back from the sea. We then orgnize them one by one. Hello. Is it okay if we see where you keep the seaweed? Your Japanese is really good. I studied hard yesterday. I studied hard Japanese yesterday.

You wouldn’t be able to speak with just a day of studying. I’m actually half Japanese. 7-Eleven uses this seaweed in their hotpots. We got some tea from the family working with the algae here. Very, very kind. Thank you. Thank you for being our ‘models’. Thank you. Such a nice encounter.

That guy is actually part of a sea otter research group. He said we could see sea otters at Kiritappu Cape. Since we can only see them from afar, I asked him if we could see them up close somewhere around here. He told me a sea otter visits the port down here quite often.

The thing is it often comes late in the afternoon. We might not be able to see it now. Everyone works with seaweed here. The seaweed from the family we just met is actually sold to 7-Eleven. It’s interesting to learn where the food we eat is produced. In September and October,

They harvest a different type of seaweed. So they produce seaweed for making broth and for consumption. Those are 2 different types of seaweed. Where is it? It might be too early. It’s not here. What a pitty. It’s not here. What a pitty. What a long flight of stairs!

Going up these stairs would be a tough workout! No way! It got really foggy. It’s so foggy I can barely see. It seems it’s always foggy this time of the year. We were told it would be like this. We’ll keep driving across this fog, and we’ll head… Hold on. We’re going off-road.

It looks like we’re off-roading now! Will Ori be okay? Out of the blue, off-road time! I’m loving it. Colombian memories are rushing in! Okay. We’ll push through this foggy off-road trail and make our way to Japan’s easternmost point, Cape Nosappu. Is Ori okay? She seems fine. Okay. Let’s go right! It’s super foggy!

Can you really gather all that seaweed from here? It’s crazy how much seaweed there is in this area. I honestly can’t see a thing! I forgot to restart my meter, so I’m not sure how far I’ve driven since my last fill-up. I might be reaching the limit.

And there don’t seem to be any gas stations around here. Shoot. Shoot! No gas stations in sight! I’ll have to check the map. Let’s see… Where’s the gas station? There are a few. I found ‘Eneos’. ’Eneos!’ It’s 166 yen (per liter). That’s pretty cheap. How many liters did it take?

Oh! 5.93! It was the limit! That was close! Okay. I can now ride without any worries. My bike doesn’t really hold much gas. The fog here is really thick! We’ll reach the easternmost point and won’t be able to see a thing. ’Beware of deer’. It stays here to be careful with deer.

I couldn’t see anything with my goggles on. The goggles fog up, and I can’t see a thing. I can’t see the cars coming. If I can’t see the cars, I don’t know how I’d spot a deer coming out of nowhere. I’ve got to be cautious. Look!

You can barely see the houses right there! I can’t see a thing! Since I can’t see, I can’t tell what kind of place this is or if it’s nice. Ah, it’s a port! Whoa. There are lots of ghost ships. Ghost ships, guys. Since we can’t see,

let’s not drive into the ocean by mistake. Ah! The guy who’s walking across Japan! That’s the guy Ori talked to the other day. Unbelievable! He’s already here and he’s on foot! He’s pretty fast! I have no idea where we are. Not at all.

The only thing I know is that the sea is on the right. Ori entered… She entered someone’s house. Is there a road there? Okay. She says there was no road. Is this a ‘Riders’ House’? There are several shops here. Let’s go right. We made it! We did it!

We made it to Japan’s easternmost point! The only thing we can see is the lighthouse. Apart from that we cannot even see the sea. This is not a very lively place, unfortunately. It’s not as popular as the northernmost point of Japan. Right now we’re going to head to a place somewhere nearby.

The guy we met at that seaweed shop, seaweed atelier, I don’t know how to call it. He said he knows of a place where it is very common to see sea otters. He mentioned there are two of them. So we’re going to head there and see if we’re lucky enough to see them.

However, he did mention that we have more chances of seeing them in the afternoon, like late in the afternoon. And it’s maybe 1 p.m. or so. Or maybe even earlier. So we might not be able to see them. I think this used to be a watch tower many years ago.

But look at the building nowadays. Completely abandoned, completely tattered. Wow. It is pretty crazy that it is just left like that, you know? The building. They do nothing about it. Is this the place? But if they come all the way here, they would be hit by boats. It’s so sunny here.

And still so foggy, just like a kilometer away from here. No sea otters. Maybe it’s too early to see them. He did say it was supposed to be later, right? We are taking one of these off-roads side roads, to go down to the ocean. We’ll try our best to find the sea otters.

Oh, it gets pretty rocky. I don’t like it when it gets rocky! What is this place? Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is not the bike to be doing this with. We managed to come down here to the shore, but, there are no sea otters today. Ever since I came to Hokkaido,

I’ve been wanting to try some good ice cream. You know, there are so many dairy farms here that I’ve been wanting to try something really, really good. So, again, we asked the guy we met at this ‘algae parking space’ and he recommended us a place, sowhere near the place we’re staying at,

And he says it’s the best ice cream here in Hokkaido. So we’re going to go and try it out today. Wow! Just 3 minutes ago, the sun was up and it is super cloudy, super dark here. I’m just crossing my fingers that it won’t rain until we reach the campsite safe and sound.

Look at all those dark clouds over there. It rained! No way! I think it’s just a dark cloud on top of us. We’re just going to go straight ahead and try to go away from it. Shoot! Not what we were expecting. Look the weather back there! Blue skies. Gosh.

It hurts the rain on the face. It really hurts. Ouch. Ouch. It really hurts! This is not good. We should stop. It’s raining too… Thankfully, we are ready for all types of weather. We are now using these waterproof rain gear from ‘Rough and Road’. These will keep us dry until the campsite,

Or until until we reach the ice cream place. Okay. We’re all geared up for the rain. It is a must to have a raincoat when riding a motorbike. Especially in Hokkaido. We’ve been blessed with nice weather, but honestly, it changes like this.

So we’re very happy to have brought this rain gear with us. It is so compact and so light that really it doesn’t bother us to have it with us at all times. It actually stopped raining! No way! It stopped raining! How come? Well, apparently here is where they sell

The best ice cream in Hokkaido. Let’s go see. Thank you. It’s good. It’s really good! It’s really good! I don’t think it’ll be different from other ice creams. It’s really good! Really good! Wow! Deer, again! They’re running. Hokkaido is truly amazing! It’s wild and beautiful. We’ve made it to our campsite.

Well, not exactly. We just made it to the hot spring, which is just 5 minutes away from the campsite. We’re going to go soak in the hot springs, relax, and then go back to sleep. What an adventure today. Oh, yeah. The next day You’re not going to believe this. This place…

I mean, we’re the only two people in this place. And this gym is pretty great, you know. It’s free! Look at this. You got a bunch of machines for cardio, and you got some weights here, mats over here. I mean, this is awesome. Keep in mind, this is all free.

We’re going to go get changed, exercise a little bit and then probably we’re going to go to the pool. I’m still in shock. I cannot believe they have these places for people, not only for people who live here, but for tourists who come here

And want to use this place and is all for free. I still cannot believe that. And there’s no one. This is the changing room. They have lockers here, lockers over here. And, this is the shower. This is the shower. And it’s free. I cannot believe it.

Like I cannot believe they have all of this clean, super useful. I mean, all you need and it’s all free. No, this is too much for me. This is too much to take in at once. Kaito’s been killing it lately with those weights. And next to the gym, there’s a pool.

I just can’t believe I just took a hot shower, I exercised. All of that for free, guys. We decided not to go into the pool today because it’s already almost 2:30 and we haven’t had lunch. So maybe tomorrow we’re coming back. Good morning, people. It’s 7 a.m.

And we’re ready to leave this campsite. This morning we woke up at around 5 a.m. and we could see all the boats that go out to sea down here, you can still see a few of them and they go to harvest the seaweed. The algae that they dry on these lands nearby.

It is a beautiful place and we were so lucky to spend the last couple of days here and we had both fog and we had a little bit of sun, so we enjoyed these beautiful views. It was amazing! Now it’s time to hit the road. My bike now is loaded.

The towels need to dry a little bit more and Kaito is having some cereal over there. Well, it’s time to leave. What a great place. Okay. Ready? This little friend is looking for something to eat this morning. Okay. We saw all sorts of animals while staying at this campsite.

We went to see the sea otters at the very end of the Cape. Apparently, there is a family of nine over there. It might be getting bigger because there are some babies as well. We also saw some deer here. We saw horses. We saw a fox walking at night on the streets. Amazing.

I think the only thing left to see are the bears. We’ll see if we’re lucky enough to see them. It is quite cold here. I think it’s about 14 degrees, you know. Plus, it’s cloudy, so it is pretty cold. These horses are beautiful. Look at that baby horse. Really, really cute.

We’re going to stop at a nearby convenience store to have some breakfast. Maybe have some hot coffee, because it’s really cold. Seicomart, the convenience store has been our to go place for breakfast and lunch, maybe for the past five days. And here we are. Seicomart. I’m going to miss this convenience store.

I’m having two croissants. They’re really good here. Bought some cereal, and yogurt. Let me tell you about today’s plans. Today, we plan to ride for about 300 kilometers. Right now, we’re on the east side of Hokkaido and we’re going to drive all the way to somewhere kind of in the middle of Hokkaido.

We’re going to be visiting the largest wetland in Japan! It is an area of about 260 square kilometers. That is pretty large. And that place is home to so many animals. Maybe we’ll be lucky enough to see a few of them. Tonight, we’re going to be staying at another campsite.

And now that I think of, we’ve been living off of our ten for three weeks and it’s amazing how comfortable we feel with it because it’s like we’re not tired yet. Usually when you start camping all the time, you know it’s like the bed is not comfortable enough, it’s cold, it’s hot.

But so far it’s been great and the weather has been awesome here in Hokkaido, so it hasn’t been that hot. Oh! That truck is transporting all the algae. Tonight we’re going to stay at another campsite. And this campsite, it’s located next to another beautiful hot spring. It is a natural hot spring,

And the name of this hot spring is actully ‘Shika no Yu’, which translates into the ’Deer Hot Spring’. Iit might be popular for deer to visit the area. I’m not sure. We’ll see when we get there, I guess. You guys, look at this truck! This truck here is also transporting all the algae.

Who knows where it is going. Look at all that algae. Amazing. Every day, Every day, people go out to sea and bring in amazing quantities, like huge quantities of that algae. Look at that piece of land over there. It is almost completely flat. That’s really interesting. Wow.

When we first got here, we couldn’t see any of this because there was a thick layer of fog. And now it isn’t sunny, but at least you can see all of these little islands over there. Wow. What an incredible place. It’s so peaceful here.

Just looking at the sea, the greenery surrounding this area. Amazing. Hey, buddy. There is a little fox here. You wanna cross? Come on. Go ahead. Go ahead, buddy. Whoa. Hold on! Bye boy. So, according to Google Maps, we’ve got the sea on the left and a lake on the right.

I mean, it’s just an extension of the sea, isn’t it? So many birds waiting to have a piece of the fish the fisherman is bringing. They haven’t had their breakfast yet. Wow. Look at this fishing town right next to the sea here. They’re like many small towns like this one

All over Hokkaido, all over the places we’ve been. You cross the mountain and then you go down to sea level and you find one community. Then again into the mountains, again down to the sea side. And you find another community. Yeah. Pretty special. Wow. 7-11. Haven’t seen one of those in a while.

We’re not going to be riding anymore along the coast. Instead, we’re going to take this route into the mountains and to the center of Hokkaido. This landscape here, it’s so vast. You don’t usually get these views in the rest of Japan because most of the land is used for agriculture.

So it is very, very rare. It feels weird for me just to look at this land like that where there is absolutely nothing. It’s been 3 weeks since we arrived in Hokkaido, and we’ve come to realize that people here are incredibly kind. Just listen to this story. It turns out, That hurt!

Hold on. Anyways, we spent a total of 5 days at the Kiritappu Campsite, and one day, someone surprised us with a crab. 2 days ago It’s pouring outside. But to our surprise, something wonderful happened. When we got back to camp, some fisherman where having a party.

They invited us over and surprised us with a crab. Not only a crab, but mamy more things. Let me show you. We got two crabs, some shrimp, and what’s this? These are some dried saffron cods. We got a lot of them. You can only catch these now in Hokkaido.

This crab could easily sell for 10,000 yen in Tokyo. (70 USD) Incredible. Thank you, fisherman. It tasted amazing! I appreciate the folks in Hamanaka Town. The weather has been lousy lately. Our towels just won’t dry. That’s why Ori has them hanging from her bags. They’ll dry out in the wind.

I see a crane over there! I don’t recall ever seeing a crane before. We’re finally in the wetlands. This must be the wetlands. Just ahead, there’s a spot where you can supposedly catch some incredible views! This to my right is a lake, right?

We haven’t reached a high enough point for a great view yet. Okay. Let’s take this backroad. I didn’t expect to find a train here. Okay. Go ahead, Ori. It seems like Hokkaido has had an impact on Ori’s mood positively. She’s been having a blast! Is this for real? An off-road trail!

And it’s wet! I had cleaned my bike just before this. I got to go slow. Wait, cars are coming too? Of course there are! Riding on roads like these brings back memories from Colombia. This road is a breeze compared to the ones in Colombia.

But the potholes here are just as bad as those in Colombia. Look, guys! Baby foxes! Wow. Wow. Unbelievable. Sorry, buddy. I scared you, didn’t I? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This dirt road feels never-ending. It’s incredibly long. It said we’d be there in 2 minutes, and that was 10 minutes ago.

I prefer these rough, unpaved roads in a place like this. I’d love to off-road here. What an amazing place! There’s absolutely nothing around—no buildings, nothing. We’re almost there. The paved road is right ahead. Ah! We’re here. It’s here, isn’t it? Right there. From here,

We just have to take the steps, and we’ll reach the viewpoint. Okay. We made it to Kottaro Observatory. Let’s go. We made it to the wetlands. However, there are a couple of stairs that we need to conquer before taking in the views. Check these out. Maybe it takes more than 20 minutes.

20 minutes? Yeah. Really? Yeah. That’s a lot. I’m not ready for 20 minutes of this. It’s really hard. Look at that. Super beautiful. Wow. This view reminds me of the wetlands in Colombia. It is just this vast land, with rivers, ponds and lots of animals. It’s just beautiful. Wow. This wetland was amazing.

Really amazing. I mean, I was born in Japan here and I’m 36 years old. I didn’t even known that there was something like this here in Japan. It’s wonderful. Whoa, buddy! It’s quite dangerous. Okay, so now we are heading to Daisetsu-san. Daisetsu-san means in Japanese huge snow mountain.

Even now, maybe, even in summer, there must be snow there. How cool. Actually, people go super fast here. Yeah, it’s too much. You see? No, it’s crazy. It’s really crazy. Now I have a problem. Now that we are riding in the middle of the mountain, I cannot find a gas station.

And I need it. Really, I need it. I’m really worried about running out of gas. There must be one somewhere here. Yes! There is. ’Cosmo’. ’Cosmo’ gas station. 168 yen (per liter). I don’t even know if it’s cheap or expensive. Is there a good Italian restaurant around here?

There’s one called ‘Green Parlor’ near the airport. You can grab some pork cutlets there. Really? Yep. Fill it to the top, please. Okay, got it. Thank you. I’m safe now. Here it is. We made it to the ‘Green Parlor’ restaurant. Okay. It’s here. We’re trying something new today.

We’re not stopping at Seicomart anymore. At least for today. Well, it turns out the restaurant the guy from the gas station recommended us, it wasn’t an Italian restaurant. It was more like a steakhouse. Anyway, Kaito ended up eating there. I guess I’m going to just find something else to eat later.

What are those yellow flowers over there? What a beautiful contrast between the yellow and the green. Ah, sunflowers! We still have about one more hour of riding before reaching our campsite. And I can’t wait to soak in the hot springs because the day

It’s been a little bit too cloudy and a little bit too cold for my taste. Hello there. Wow! They all got so curious with our presence. Let’s try. This is so much fun. They all came closer. Well, I guess we are not 100% lucky with the weather.

And it just started raining a little bit stronger, so we’re going to get… We’re going to wear our rain gear. It started raining so bad, that we decided to wait out the rain here at this roadside station. Thank God we found some parking with this roof.

We’re going to see if we can find something inside to snack on while we wait on this rain. I’d been craving pizza for so long. We found it in this remote area. It’s good. Now it’s not the rain, but the fog. It is covering all of the mountains at the front.

Oh, honestly, at least it’s not raining. Can’t wait to soak in that hot spring! The river! We’re getting closer! The hot spring is supposed to be next to the river. That was quite dangerous. This wild deer crossing the street. Really, all of a sudden! Sorry, buddies! This place is honestly very, very secluded.

I wasn’t expecting it to be this high in the mountains. We have crossed, God knows, how many deer, while climbing up here. So we’re trying to go really, really slow, just because, really, they come out of nowhere! Just like this: ‘pum!’ So if we go fast, it can be quite dangerous.

And we haven’t encountered any other car, any other person, any other rider. Nothing! Nobody for the past maybe 30 minutes. I don’t know. Let’s see what this place turns out to be. It looks like we’re finally here. Wow! Some deer! Over there. We’re not really sure where the campsite is.

This seems to be the hot springs, maybe? The deer just saying hi over there. Hey, buddies! Apparently. this is not it, guys. This is a separate hotel. I think we finally found the campsite. And it’s really hidden in between the bushes. We asked someone at the building up there,

But he didn’t know anything about a campsite. I was scared that we’d be the only ones at the campsite. I think I wouldn’t be able to sleep like that. Probably one of the hardest campsites to find, honestly. So this is a paying campsite. I think it costs about…

Ah, yeah. It says ¥250 per person. That’s about… Less than $2. Well, our tent, it’s already set up. Kaito’s snacking on some dried fish. You really got to be careful with those. They might attract some bears. Over there, at the very end, we have the toilets

And on the other side we have the water station. We’re now going to try this hot spring next to the river. I was looking forward to this moment this whole time. Oh, yes. This is probably the wildest hot spring I’ve tried in Japan. This is the kind of hot spring I like.

In the middle of nature, not really accessible. That makes everything more special. I hope we really don’t encounter any bears here. Shoot! We should’ve grabbed the flashlight. It’s amazing. Just there on the river there is a deer. Can you see it? Wow! That’s why people call this place ‘The deer hot spring’.

’The deer hot spring’. But honestly, I’m pretty scared. Oh, it’s over there. Where? Over there. Wow, this is super cool. I’m loving this, but we’re getting out of here before it gets dark. Wow! It’s this one! Yeah. It’s really hot. But it’s so cool. In the middle of this river. This is amazing.

This is amazing. The only thing is that it’s getting dark pretty soon and I don’t want to be out here when that happens. This feels really nice. Especially in this setting. There’s a deer! It’s looking this way! Amazing experience, you know?

If we were not in such a wild place, I would stay here longer. But we don’t want any beer enconunters here. It’s 9 p.m. and we’re already here in our tent. There were so many insects coming after us. It was impossible… We didn’t even have dinner today.

We were outside, we turned on the lights and there were so, so many bugs. Like, I don’t mind bugs, you know? I’m okay with insects. I’m okay with that. But today there were way too many. Way too many. So we decided just to call it a day.

We’re going to go to bed and tomorrow we’ll find somewhere else to sleep, probably. Good morning, people. It’s 6:40 a.m., and today we’re ready to go on a new adventure. Kaito and I really love this place. We were actually thinking about spending another night at this campsite.

Until the bugs attacked us last night. There were so many of them, you guys. We weren’t even able to cook dinner last night. There were really so, so many of them. So we decided to pack our stuff and just keep on rolling and find a different campsite to stay tonight. Before we leave,

I want to show you what we really loved about this campsite. It’s actually these natural hot springs. Yesterday at about 7 p.m., we came to shower, to soak in these hot springs and it was getting dark. So we didn’t really spend too much time.

And I thought it would be nice to show you guys these hot springs during the day. This is the kind of place Kaito and I, we both love. Look at this beautiful 42 degrees Celsius hot spring. Just beside this super cold river. We’re all set up to leave. Oh, what a beautiful place.

We saw a lot of deer here last night. Amazing. We even heard the deer. It’s like a little cry they make. It’s quite loud. It’s quite high, the pitch of the deer. It’s quite interesting. If I hadn’t seen one making that sound, I would have thought it was probably a bird or something.

Kaito’s almost ready. Let me… Okay. It’s quite a challenge getting out of this parking space. Okay. It’s quite hot and humid right now. We might see a lot more deer on our way out of here. Last night, at one in the morning, I heard an alarm.

Guys, imagine being out here in the woods and hearing an alarm at one in the morning. Kaito was completely asleep. I was freaking out. I honestly thought it was kind of a sensor that went off like an alarm went off because a bear was nearby or something.

And that’s the way people here, like the community let people at the campsite know that there’s a bear nearby. This place was pitch dark. There was no light at night. So I was freaking out. I woke up Kaito and he was like, maybe it’s a car alarm.

And then he went right back to sleep. Like, in one second he went back to sleep. It wasn’t a car alarm. It was something different. And I still don’t know what it is. It took me a while to went back to sleep. Okay. Today’s plan is a very interesting one.

We’re going to be riding for about 250 kilometers and we’re going to reach this city called Furano. This place is known for its lavender fields and for others… Whoa! A deer! Just in front of us. As usual, we need to find breakfast.

And the thing is, we’re pretty far away from any convenience store or any supermarket, for that matter. Now that I think back at last night, if something happened to us, there was no reception at that place. We wouldn’t be able to make a call.

Even in this path out here, there’s still no reception. So that you can have an idea of the kind of place we’re at. Pretty remote. Hey, buddy. We interrupted your breakfast, didn’t we? He was literally eating one of those huge leaves. Do you hear that? Those are the deer.

They’re responding to my Apollo cry. After 20 minutes of descending from that mountain, we finally have some reception, and we were able to find a convenience store, which is 20 minutes away. So it’s still pretty far away. We’re really hungry, but we have no choice,

So we got to go all the way there. Hopefully the weather will get better today. The sky is pretty cloudy. I honestly hope we won’t get any rain, but I don’t know. We’ll see. Look at that. Pretty cloudy. We made it to Seicomart. There’s no one here today. I hope they have croissant.

They are so good, their croissants. We didn’t have any drinking water at the campsite we stayed at yesterday. That’s pretty weird here in Japan. But we were lucky to find water here. Next to this roadside station. There has been a slight change of plans. We are no longer going to Furano. Instead,

We are going to Asahikawa. It’s the name of another city. Right now we are kind of in a valley and around this valley there is a mountain called Daisetsu. It is known to have a lot of snow in winter, and we found out that there are amazing viewpoints

Whenever you started going around it. I couldn’t have asked for a better day to ride. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting it to be this sunny since when we woke up this morning it was super cloudy and it even rained a little bit, so we were so lucky. New day, new adventure. Let’s go! Argh.

Something got into my helmet. Maybe a bee or something. I just got stung here. I have no idea what that was, but it hurts so bad. I hope whatever that was is no longer in my helmet. Another very, very steep road ahead. At least that’s what it looks like.

TR seems to be having trouble going up. What an amazing place. I’m loving these back roads. Look at this road! We’ve been doing a lot of ups and downs today. Something we really want to see in Hokkaido is that iconic picture you always see on milk cartons.

That’s a view we’re itching to see. We’ve been here for about 3 weeks, but haven’t seen that view yet. We might finally get a glimpse of it today. What a straight road! Completely straight! It’s a straight road as far as I can see. And there’s nothing but mountains all around us.

We’re making our way to somewhere on that mountain. There are so many cows. ‘Bear sighting’. Interesting way to write it. It’s written as if bears were coming out right now! Ori went down the wrong way. Ori That was not the right way, Ori. Make a left there. Honey!

Ori took a wrong turn again. Wow! it’s just like a car! “Caution: Animals in the area!” I’d rather have signs telling me where not to be cautious. We’ll arrive soon. It’s just there! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Look at this view! Wow! Amazing! Can you see there? Over there. The cows. Over there.

Wow! Everywhere! What a view! What an incredible view! Wow! How stunning! Wow. What a beautiful place. I now know where they get this packaging image for the famous Hokkaido milk that they sell in every supermarket around Japan. I’m not sure how much we’re going to be able to see from the viewpoint,

Since it is very foggy right now. But honestly, just riding up here, it’s more than enough for me. It is incredibly beautiful here. Whoa! What a change! We can barely see anything ahead. What is this?! What happened?! It was so sunny a while back.

Yeah, we won’t be able to see a thing from the viewpoint, guys. I mean, we’re going even higher than now, and we can’t see anything already, so… Well, we made it. And guess what? All we can see is fog everywhere. Oh, my God! Literally nothing at all.

Not even a couple meters down there. We can’t see anything at all. Oh, my God. We couldn’t come here without trying the famous ice cream. It’s really good. But the other one we tried was also really good. Which one do you prefer? It’s difficult. Both are really good.

We’re on our way to the campsite. We’re going north towards Asahikawa. We’re getting closer to the middle of Hokkaido! There’s something pretty cool on the route, so we’re heading there. Let’s go! The road ahead is always straight! Ori has been on the lookout for bears all day.

She hasn’t stopped looking to the left! She’s determined to see bears at any cost. By the way, I was really scared last night at the ‘Deer Hot Spring’. I was all comfy and chill at first, but just 10 minutes later, it started getting dark and there were several deer nearby.

I got scared, thinking any wild animal could come out at any moment. I asked Ori to quickly get out of the hot spring. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Again, what a beautiful place here. Wow. Oh! Can you see that? There! There’s a bridge! It’s no longer in use. I’m going to stop somewhere here.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Wow! Really cool. It’s an old railway bridge. Wow. There’s a viewpoint about a hundred meters away. It seems to be a nice bridge, so let’s walk. More riders are showing up. Okay, let’s go. Look at this. What it says here.

Everybody has these little bells that they use while walking. So we’re going to try to find other people walking because we don’t have any bells. Wow! The railway we see over there was built in 1937 and it was used until 1955. This is actually a dam.

So right now they’re going to start letting the water fill in this place. And in October, we won’t be able to see anything at all. This whole thing that you see on the background will be covered by water and the next time we’ll be able to see it will be in January.

I’m going to connect this to charge the mobile battery and then this other for my phone. I believe this central area of Hokkaido missed the memo that it’s already July, and it’s supposed to be sunny and warm. Instead, it is really cloudy and cold. I can’t believe that. Hi there, buddy.

It’s only 3:30 p.m. but it feels like it’s already five or six here. It’s so dark. There’s barely any sunlight coming in. What is that road over there?! It’s super high! Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa! We’re pretty high! Incredible! We can jump on a parachute from here, guys. Wow!

The bridge we just passed by a couple minutes ago, is actually part of Japan’s national route with the highest altitude. We’re at a viewpoint now, but it looks pretty far, actually. That is the highest point of the national route. And we were all the way there.

Well, we cannot see because of the trees, but we came all the way from there. Oh, it’s the highest national road in Hokkaido, not in Japan. Just in Hokkaido. We are an hour away from our campsite. It’s already 4 p.m. and we’re not staying at a free campsite today.

They asked us to arrive before 5 p.m. So honestly, we cannot stop any more for any photos or drone shots today. I would feel bad if we had to make someone wait for us, so straight to the campsite from now. This is a huge dam! Wow! Gigantic! It started raining!

The weather changes really from one minute to the other. A couple of minutes back, I would have sworn it was not going to rain. And right now, look at this. Whoa. Quite the rain. Kaito was really running out of gas. We’re so lucky we just found this one on the road.

What’s it called, this gas station? I heard is the cheapest one in Hokkaido. Just a bit more, please. That’d be okay. Thank you. We made it to our campsite. And to tonight’s hot spring, right over here. It seems like a pretty nice place. Pretty cool, this place. Very different from last night’s campsite.

Okay. Let’s stop here. Oh. There is not a lot of people. We made it! I barely feel my butt, but we made it. We just finished setting up our tent in this soccer field. This is actually a pretty nice campsite. We’ve got the hot springs just 2 minutes walking over there.

There is a golf place over there, and the bathrooms are just there. And the water station is just over there. It is pretty clean. It is pretty well-organized. It is the ideal place to spend the night. We’re going to cover our motorbike in case it rains

And we’re going to go take a shower. The bikes are now ready, and we can go soak in the hot springs. This is a very popular place to come skiing in winter. We might do that someday, This year, on the 16th of June, there was a bear

At this place at six in the morning. What a relaxing hot spring. They sell this ticket here, that includes the entrance to the hot spring and a meal here at the restaurant. So we both chose that option because it’s already quite late and we don’t want to cook tonight.

So we’re going to eat here and then go sleep. I guess. They’ve got ramen, udon. All sorts of noodles and curry. This is the place here to eat. We both got ramen tonight. How is it? Maybe this is the number one ramen. It’s so yummy.

In the middle of Hokkaido, I don’t even know the name of the city, but it’s good, you guys. Good morning, people. It’s 6:30 in the morning and we’re almost ready to leave this beautiful campsite. There’s so much to see in Hokkaido. It’s been already three weeks since we got here.

And I mean, we could spend all summer long here. The temperatures are great. Nature is amazing. It’s the perfect place for riding. But we have awesome plans in Honshu, so we got to keep rolling. Today’s going to be an amazing day. We are going to be leaving in about 5 minutes.

Kaito is finishing putting the the bags on the motorbikes. And I’m just recording. Anyway, a new day, a new adventure. Let’s go! It’s 6:55, and we’re finally leaving. Our objective is to leave the campsite before seven in the morning every day. Because we like stopping a lot. We like enjoying the views. Okay.

Central stand is off. Yeah, we like stopping a lot, taking time to take photos. Yeah. Just be present, I guess, and enjoy as much as possible the amazing views Hokkaido has to offer. So, that’s why even if we only ride for about 200-250 kilometers each day, we rather leave as early as possible.

Look, there’s even a basketball court, a tennis court here. The hot spring here was amazing. There was a jacuzzi. It was so nice. So today we are trying new recording equipment and there is a piece missing for this new camera that we’re trying.

We’ll show it to you maybe in a couple of days and we need to pick that up. So we need to go to this Yamato office, which is about 30 minutes, 40 minutes from here, I don’t know, somewhere in the way anyway. But that’s one of our objectives today.

Our plan today is to ride for about 200 kilometers. We stayed last night at this town called Pippu, and we are going down south into an area called Furano. This area, is famous for its lavender fields and many other flowers grow there. It is just a colorful area.

I can’t wait to see that, really. It’s one of the highlights of visiting Hokkaido, so I’m really excited about that. We’re still riding on this area around Mt. Daisetsu. And for some reason I was expecting to see like the mount, you know, like this big mountain, Daisetsu-zan.

But somehow all we see, it’s like a big valley. Or maybe it’s because it’s been foggy since yesterday, and I I still don’t know which mountain is Daisetsu-zan. Wow! Look at those rice fields. Beautiful. I feel like it’s been a while since I last saw the rice fields.

We’ve seen a lot of wheat. We’ve seen a lot of corn, and other types of plants, I guess. But not many rice fields in Hokkaido. Look at that. This area right here, it looks more like Honshu. All the places we’ve visited are so different from Japan’s main island.

But this part, you know, the rice fields, the houses it really looks like the rest of Japan. It’s the first time I’ve had that feeling since we got to Japan. Since we got to Hokkaido. Wow! Look at how green that is. It’s amazing. Coffee time. I hope they have coffee here because

Not all Seicomarts have a coffee machine. So we have been disappointed a couple of times. And they had coffee! Cheers! Last night, right before going to sleep, Kaito heard this weird sound right outside our tent. I immediately thought it was a wild boar,

But I had my doubts because I’ve heard there are no wild boars in Hokkaido. But I wasn’t sure. So I googled it and it turns out that yeah, there are no wild boars in Hokkaido. They are everywhere else in Japan, but not here in Hokkaido.

So we were there staring at each other, wondering what the weird noise was and we still don’t know what it was. If you have some ideas of the wild animals here in Hokkaido… I don’t think it was a bear though. I mean, it might be, though, but yeah.

Just let me know if you guys know of any wild animals that commonly visit these campsites. Just so that we can be at peace. I’ve notice all houses here in Hokkaido have these huge kerosene tank at the entrance. And this is because, of course, winter is really long here

And it gets super cold, maybe about -20 or -30 degrees celcius. That’s one of the tanks right there. The tracks visit each of the houses and fill up the tank maybe once or twice during the winter. And what’s really interesting is that a couple of days ago

We were talking with a guy and people here actually receive some help from the government to buy kerosene during winter. So that’s how harsh winter is here. You see, these are all the tanks they have here. Outside their homes. Look at the state of that house over there.

I’m still really surprised to see these new houses next to these completely tattered buildings. Isn’t it dangerous? I mean, when typhoons come or something. But they are so, so many of those. What is that tower? Wow. I really need to clean my motorbike today. It’s so dirty and there are so many bugs

Stuck to my tires, to my windshield, my head light. Everywhere, honestly. Poor Clubman. Look at that engine. Look at how dirty it is. Kaito’s bike as well. Oh, we made it to the airport. Asahikawa airport. It seems like we’re finally leaving the city behind! Woho! I love these kind of places.

Look at all those colors from the wheat, the rice. Wow. Beautiful. The grass for the cows and the horses, I guess. I’m just looking at this road here and thinking that that was the end of it, where you see those big trees over there.

But I don’t know if you can see it on the camera, but I can see the tip of the road that goes all the way up there. This place might get a lot of snow in winter. Wow, beautiful. You see, that’s the road I was talking about.

It goes all the way to the top. Wow, look at this road! This is probably the coolest road I’ve seen in Hokkaido! We’ve just reached the first slope. We’re going down. There’s another one and there is a third one. And who knows how many more.

This road is even cooler than the most famous one that’s called ‘The Road to Heaven’. WOW! Look at that! Look at that! It looks crazy steep! This is unbelievable! For real! Up we go! Whoa. Whoa! Look at that beautiful view! Wow. So many different colors.

We’re just going to stop here for a while to take in these beautiful views. Just last week. Today is… 19th. On the 4th of July, a bear was seen in this place. They always choose the most aggressively looking photos. It’s kind of sad.

It’s not like they’re like this the whole time, you know. Daisetsuzan is the biggest national park in Japan. Wow. All we see here is part of that park. In winter, everything turns white, of course! This place is really, really amazing! Look at this. Even from this side.

People started showing up as soon as we took the photo, so we keep moving. There seem to be many roads like this around Asahikawa, so we’re hoping to discover more. What a beautiful place. There are many houses, which hasn’t been the case along the roads we’ve taken. We’re heading to a city now.

What a beautiful tree, right? Such a unique place. This place had its image used on cigarette packages at one point. Let’s go. I haven’t come across big forests In Hokkaido, but there are vast fields with trees popping up here and there. I find that stunning.

What’s up with this place? It looks kind of weird. A guesthouse? The vibe here might have something to do with the train tracks. Ori’s coming! Apollo and Ori are coming! Wow. Check that hill. That field. This is definitely a view you can’t get in Yamaguchi. The ramen we tried yesterday was super good.

The one at ‘Green Park Pippu’. That ramen by the campsite at the hot spring building was delicious. That’s probably the second-best ramen I’ve had, right after the one at Yoshimuraya in Yokohama. That’s how good it was! Definitely in my top three, no doubt about it. You guys should try it.

This place totally looks like a golf course. There are lots of people here. Lots of RVs too. Hello. You come from Yamaguchi? Yes, from Yamaguchi. The parking lot for the bikes is free, but the cars need to wait a long, long time and it’s not free.

That is another advantage of traveling by motorbike. This is one of the places I’ve been dying to visit. Hello. Oh, bike? Rider? Great! Hokkaido is awesome! Absolutely. It feels really weird because usually we don’t visit this very touristy spots, and this one is like super touristy, right? There’s so many people around.

But the flowers are beautiful. Thank you. Okay. Have fun. It’s so nice meeting other riders here. They all have these super interesting places. They all suggest us to visit this place, that place and this place again. And I mean, there’s so many great places to visit in Hokkaido that we could spend

A year riding every day and probably we will never finish. It was a nice place to visit. I probably wouldn’t come here twice. I honestly thought this place will be more like a natural place, you know? Like, you know, when we arrive,

We see the rice fields, we see the wheat fields and yeah, I thought it will be like that, you know, like this huge mountains covered with lavender flowers and marigolds. But I wasn’t expecting it to be like, kind of like an Attraction Park, I would say.

They have all these buggies, they have the tractors. It’s a little bit too much for me. These roads in Hokkaido, really. There are a lot of ups and downs. Just like a roller coaster. Wow. Another of these roads. Look at that. Pretty cool. I honestly prefer this kind of view, these fields.

Like this, on both sides. Whoa! And another one! These roads are crazy! These are pretty cool, actually. Whenever you think you made it to the last one, there’s still another hill. Hi there. Whoooa! Honestly. What is this place? Is this road even real? Wow, this is the craziest road I’ve ever seen.

This is more extreme than the others. Whoa! This is unbelievable! For real? I can’t believe this, honestly. It looks so steep ahead! This is nuts! Amazing! For real. Honestly, it’s not really steep. Why does it look so steep? And once you’re here is not steep at all.

I look at the road from my mirror and it looks amazing. Honestly, a super big thumbs up for whoever built this road. Plus, the surrounding views are just amazing. We want to visit this magical blue pond, but the thing is, it is a very, very popular spot to visit in Hokkaido.

Therefore, there’s going to be a lot of people. I usually don’t like visiting crowded places, but this one I honestly couldn’t resist. We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully, it’ll be worth it. Shirogane Blue Pond. Wow, yeah. There’s a lot of people. This time it’s not free for motorcycles. We need to pay ¥100.

It’s super crowded. Super, super crowded. We made it to this magical pond. The water is a little bit murky, but it’s still very, very blue. Wow. It is actually very pretty. Really, really nice. Cream soda, ice cream, everything, everything. Blue beer, even! Look at that. Everything is blue. Your face is blue also.

Oh my god. What a great place, this Blue Pond is! It’s mind-blowing how blue it is! I read about why it’s so blue, but I’ll admit my understanding might not be the best. There’s a specific element and thanks to it, the pond gets its blue color. Such an amazing phenomenon! Actually,

We figured out that crowded spaces aren’t our thing. In these natural settings, the sounds of nature are key. It’s a whole different experience with just the natural sounds, like the birds singing. We really love visiting nature spots for the tranquility. I don’t think I’d go back, but it’s worth visiting once.

The best places are those in nature with few people around. However, those are usually the places with bears, deer and other wild animals. Wow! What a view! Stunning! Hokkaido is absolutely stunning! I just can’t get enough of this place! Hokkaido’s amazing! Truly amazing. Ori went pretty far.

That’s because the Clubman has impressive horsepower. It’s a fast bike. It tackles this slope with ease. For TR, this is quite hard. Isn’t it surprising to see all this lavender right by the road? Hokkaido’s such a unique place. Regardless of where you visit. For real. Loaded truck.

With food for the cows on horses. We made it to the ‘Panorama Road’. Another huge lavender field. Look at that. That whole mountain is covered in lavender. Over there as well. All that mountain, just lavender. And look at the amount of cars that are there. Security. What is a security guy doing here?

Oh! That’s how many people there are. Even here, there’s people to guide the cars and buses that come visit this place. Crazy. Thank you. Everyone’s here. There isn’t much space left. If you guys want to visit a lavender field, I’d try coming to this one and not to the one we went previously.

This is way better. It has larger fields and all flowers of different colors. And it’ free. We are now going to head to our campsite for tonight. It’s 3:30 p.m. I mean, we did amazing time today. We visited so many places and still had enough time

To stop for a while in each of them and enjoy them. However, Yeah, there’s one last stop we need to do before before going to the campsite, and that is Yamato. We need to stop by a Yamato office to pick up this camera gear thing. We made it to Yamato. Thank you.

Only for this small piece, we came here. I think this is it. This will be home for the night. Oh, seems quite nice. I like this place. Sometimes this gets too heavy that my head hurts. I’m happy to be here. What time is it? 4:15 p.m. Great timing. Our tent is already set.

This is another free campsite. There are toilets. There is… There are two water stations, actually. There are no showers. However, there are some showers, they call them ‘coin shower’ here. So you basically pay like ¥200-300, which is about $2, and you get 15 minutes of hot water to shower yourself.

So I believe they’re not that far away from here. Hopefully at a walking distance, we’ll see. We are going on a little expedition. This time, riding two up on Kaito’s motorbike. We’re going to get some beer. Hokkaido butter is actually quite popular. And I just found this butter pudding.

I’ve never tried it or come across it. Let’s try it. I honestly prefer the standard one. We found this beer only found in Hokkaido, so we decided to give it a try today. We’re going to enjoy this beer while cleaning our motorbikes. That’s the plan for tonight, guys.

They are super dirty from the last couple of days. So yeah, we basically are going to do that now. Good morning, people. It’s 6:30 in the morning and we are getting ready to leave this beautiful campsite. I honestly can’t believe how well organized these campsites are in Japan. This is a free campsite.

We’ve got drinking water. We’ve got toilets. We got a beautiful space to organize our tents. There is a river passing nearby. And most importantly, we have all these kind of boxes where we can throw away our trash. This is very, very rare.

If you have come to Japan or you live in Japan, you know how hard it is to get rid of the waste. Especially when you’re traveling, you know, you don’t have access to a fixed place where you can throw away your waste. They have for the food waste.

This is the burnable waste, combustible garbage. They also have for pet bottles. They have plastic, they have hygiene products. I mean, this is pretty, pretty amazing. And the fact that is for free, it is even crazier, you know. This is how our bikes look today. My bike is not looking that cool

Because I’m drying all of our towels and our bathing suits because we went to the river yesterday. Well, it’s time to leave. We woke about 30 minutes earlier than usual because they announced the rain from, like kind of nine in the morning in this area.

So we wanted to get away from this area as soon as possible. But I really don’t know. I really don’t think it’s going to rain. It is pretty sunny right now. Ready! Today it took us a bit longer than usual just to organize our stuff. The tent was so wet this morning!

It didn’t rain, but just the humidity of the place. There’s a convenience store just like 5 minutes away from here. So I think that’s where we’re going to have breakfast now. Seicomart. Cheers. Cheers. This coffee is honestly super good. I don’t even know if 7-Eleven or Lawson sell cafe latte.

I hope they do, because there’s no Seicomart in Honshu. Okay. We are leaving the city of Furano, which is right in the middle of Hokkaido. And we’re going to be driving west of Hokkaido. Kind of like to the southern peninsula of Hokkaido, because we don’t have many days left here.

It’s kind of sad but exciting at the same time, you know, since there’s still so much more to see in Honshu. But we have had a great time here. We’re going to be driving for about 200, 200 something kilometers today. We’re going to be camping near a lake. I believe is called Shikotsu.

And apparently there is a free hot spring nearby. Japan is amazing with these free things around the country. Free campsite, free hot springs. I mean, it’s just unbelievable. Honestly. By the way, this lake, Shikotsu Lake, is actually the lake with the purest water in Japan. This is the ‘melon road’.

It’s really called the ‘melon road’. Melons are very popular here in Furano. Melons and watermelons. Last time we visited this farm, it’s called Tomita Farm. And… Where they have these huge lavender fields and they also sell melon, you know, a souvenir. And they are actually super expensive!

I was surprised to see that price tag. One melon for about ¥8,000, guys! That’s about $70 for a melon. I don’t know if it’s normal elsewhere, but that will be super expensive in Colombia. I just can’t believe people pay so much for a melon, you know. This tunnel is so frickin’ dark.

And so cold as well. We met this crazy, funny guy at the campsite we were staying at. One night, we were just having some drinks by the fire and we were talking about how sometimes it’s hard to find a shower while traveling.

And he told us this crazy story about not taking a shower for about two weeks once. I don’t even know how he survived two weeks without taking a shower. And he found this place where there’s a hot spring for feet only. These kind of mini pools where you can soak your feet.

So he decided to soak his whole body in this hot spring for feet! You know, the water is not even deep! Can you believe that? Kaito and I have done crazy stuff, but nothing beats the story of that guy! I’m really hoping to see at least one beer before leaving Hokkaido.

But the clock is ticking! We only have a couple of days left here. We’re doing a quick stop here. There’s so many residues from the bugs that crushed me while driving. Eww. It’s the same on my pants and on my goggles. They’re saying it’s gonna rain today,

So we’re doing our best to get to our next destination before the rain comes down. We’re now driving down the southwest side of Hokkaido, but there’s not a whole lot to see around here. I asked a bunch of bikers for recommendations in this area, but they agreed there isn’t much to see here.

Most people either head back to Otaru, catch the ferry and leave Hokkaido. Or head to Tomakomai to catch the ferry and leave Hokkaido. Look at that ski area. Is that an intermediate course? The mountain looks quite steep. I’ve only been skiing once in my life, but I’ve gone snowboarding several times.

About two years ago, Ori and I went snowboarding. A friend of us joined us too. That friend actually crashed into Ori and she twisted her ankle. Since then, we haven’t gone snowboarding. So Ori has only been snowboarding once. We haven’t seen a bike older than Ori’s on this trip. Ah! We have, actually!

We saw one the other day. The Paris-Dakar. That bike must be two years older than Ori’s. I get really excited checking out vintage bikes. Look! This whole area is a corn field! What a large field! There’s not a single corn, though. Maybe it’s not the right time?

I had this image of corn growing in warm places. But Hokkaido’s corn is famous, right? Look! This is all corn! Whoa! Here too! All corn! The wind is awful today! The bike is moving a lot. The wind is throwing the bike left and right.

Just look at the bathing suit and towel that Ori has on her bike. They’re practically flying with this wind! Ah! There’s no wind at all when stopping. But it hits you from all directions when moving. Wow! Once more, guys! Here we go again with the usual problem. I’m running out of gas!

And we’re in the middle of this mountain! This is not looking good! Not good at all. There seems to be a couple of waterfalls around this area so we’re going to try to explore a little bit and try to see them. Pretty cool, huh?

I love it when we don’t have a fixed itinerary planned, and we just come across these beautiful places, just like the waterfall we stopped at a couple of minutes ago. It’s honestly a big surprise and I love that. My recommendation: Leave always a little bit of space, a little bit of time

For those unexpected things you might find along the way. Shoot! My tire! I just got a full flat tire, all of a sudden! I don’t know how I didn’t fall there, but oh my God! That was freaking scary! Wait, I need to put… I need to put it in neutral. Shoot!

It’s super heavy! Whoa, man! I cannot put it in neutral, Boo. Shoot! What was that? Honey, I really thought I was going to fall there. I slipped completely to the side. I cannot put it in neutral. Shoot! What was that? Shoot! Wow. Look at that! It’s completely flat, you guys!

I’ve never felt so scared. My heart is pumping! Completely flat! Look at that! Shoot! My hands are shaking, even. Shoot! That was scary! This is a very heavy bike. Let’s get this bike out of the way! It’s so heavy. Let’s go! I can’t imagine if this happens and you’re alone.

You got nobody to push you. Okay. It’s just over there. Okay. Should we put it on the central stand? It’s bad. Of course, there’s no… We need to remove the bag. Man, I’m still shaking. I’m so glad there was no car coming on the other side

Because I just couldn’t keep on the left side. It slipped twice! I don’t even understand what happened! Shoot, man! There must be something huge. A big thing that just went in because it went flat in just a second. I’m still shaking. Honestly I’m still shaking.

I’m so glad there was no car coming from the other side. Oh, shoot. Shoot. I’m seriously shaking, Boo. I’m so glad we brought all of the tools and we even brought a spare tube for both of our bikes. Because you think this never happens, and then, it happens. There’s even no reception here.

So even if you want to call somebody for help, I mean, without reception, you don’t do much. Still can see any signs of a foreign object in my tire. There goes my black paint. It’s over. Shoot. Let’s see the problem. Come here. Oh! It’s here! It’s huge! Where did you find it? Look!

Oh, no! It’s a huge, huge, huge, huge hole. The question is… There must be something on the tire. We need to find it. Is that the only one? Oh, it’s really big. Like you can even see it from afar. Ah! Found it. Shoot! What is that, like a metal scrap or something?

Bring the pliers. Shoot! Look from the inside. You can… Of course. At least, I’m glad I didn’t fall off the bike and it didn’t happen to someone else. I might have to… No way! Show me. On your hand. Really? This thing. This thing. Of course, man. What is this anyway?

Yeah, a scrap metal or something. Imagine if you ride at 70 kilometers per hour and if it happens that. Shoot! We got a brand new tube, and we have this portable pump. We bought it before coming to this trip. And it was thanks to Eddy, from Colombia Moto Adventures,

Who really recommended us to have something like this whenever we travel. So glad we bought it. Should I do it? Maybe you should. It’s always a challenge to fit it in there. Thanks, beautiful. You’re welcome. You are really, really lucky. Yeah. Super lucky. I’m really happy for that.

Kaito is trying to do as much as possible with his hands to avoid damaging the paint from my rim, but honestly… I’ll have to paint it again once we get back to Yamaguchi. It could have been worse, honestly. It could have been worse. Okay. Oh la la. Oh la la. Well,

Nothing I can do for that now. We’re having problems even inflating the tube. Somehow it won’t go higher than 30 kPa. No idea why. It just won’t go any higher. And it won’t pop here. The tire won’t pop. It is not working. We tested the machine before coming here, at home

And it worked perfectly. We don’t know what’s going on, but we decided Kaito is going to go to the nearest gas station. Like this. We managed to attach the tire like this. It’s about 15 minutes away from here. I’m going to wait because my bike is completely in pieces right now.

Yeah, that’s the plan for now. I’m leaving, honey. Okay. Bye, Bee. What a day! I’m just really relieved Ori didn’t have an accident. I’m glad she didn’t fall. I heard her saying, ‘I’m going to fall, I’m going to fall!’’ At that moment… I was up front, so I couldn’t do anything.

I just kept wondering what was happening. I totally freaked out. I’m relieved nothing happen to Ori. The tire might’ve gotten a bit warped. Where’s the gas station? I’m still 5 minutes away. It’s just ahead. But, is it open? There it is! Okay. I made it to the gas station. Is it open?

It seems open. Excuse me. I’d like some gas and air for this tire. Can that be done here? Is it the same kind of valve as in cars? It is. It’s not going in? You won’t believe this! There was a hole in the inner tube.

I might have pinched the new tube with the tire levers. What bad luck! It means the air pump is not damaged! The air wasn’t holding. It was escaping through the hole. Such bad luck. I’m now on my way to a bike shop to buy a new tube. It’s near the sea.

It’s been 30 minutes since I left the gas station. How much longer? 13 more minutes. Shoot! I got it. I’m going back now. I can’t believe the kindness of people. There was this very nice biker who stopped by and he brought me some ‘Aquarius’ and also some specialty from Hokkaido, I guess.

He told me it was potatoes, so I’m going to try this while I wait on Kaito. It’s already 4:30 p.m. I’m really hungry. Are you alright? I’m fine. I’m glad. Thanks for asking. There are quite a few bears that come out around here, actually. Oh, is that right?

My husband just went to the gas station… The guy just told me to be careful because apparently there are lots of bears coming from this forest here. I guess I got to keep an eye out. Anyways, I’m going to try this while waiting on Kaito. So good! Why haven’t I tried this before?

I’m going to keep some for Kaito too. It’s a 45-minute drive to Ori’s location from here. Round two. A guy stopped by and told me to be careful because there are lots of bears coming out from here. Eh?! Really? Yeah. Oh, my God. No way!

We gave it another shot at inflating the tube, but air kept leaking out, so we had to remove it once more. There was another hole here. And a big one! Hold on. It was like this, right? Where was it? Here? The tube is finally in. Now it’s time to pump it up.

It’s actually drizzling. Hopefully, it’ll stay like this and it won’t get any worse. Somehow that electric pump is not working, so Kaito had to go again back to the gas station, which is about 15 minutes away from here, 30 minutes roundtrip. And I just have to wait here. Nothing we can do.

It’s already 4:20 p.m. and honestly, I want to get out of this mountains as soon as possible because of the bears here and because we would like to arrive at the campsite before sunset as well. I left my wife in the middle of a mountain. Somewhere nearby? Somewhere near a lake. Shikotsu Lake?

By the road? Yes. We figured we’d again punctured the tube with the levers, so we decided to leave it to the pros. 2 hours later I’m back! Hi, Ori. Sorry it’s pretty late! Okay. We’re finally leaving. What time is it? It’s 7 p.m., guys! At least we have some light.

Oh, I just waited there all afternoon long. Kaito did all the hard work. We finally, well Kaito finally ended up taking the rear tire to a motorcycle shop nearby. When I say nearby, it was 40 minutes away from here. I was lucky because there were a couple of people that stopped by.

There was this guy who brought me something to eat and something to drink. Really, thank you so much for that. And a couple other people stopped by to ask me if I was doing okay. There was this guy, Rei-san, who stopped by and kept me company for about an hour or even longer.

Thank you so much for doing that, really. Honestly, what an adventure! What a day! What a day! The nearest city here is called Chitose, and we wanted to find a hotel nearby, but I think a campsite is a better option since there is one just 20 minutes away from here.

So we’re going to stay at that campsite tonight and tomorrow we’ll see. We’ll see what we’re going to do. It’s so dark. This must be a very beautiful place. Can’t wait to see this place in the morning. We made it. What a day! What a day, guys. So glad to be here now.

Good morning, people. It’s 6:40 in the morning and unfortunately, we are ready to leave this campsite. I say unfortunately, because this is a beautiful place. We got here yesterday at 7:30, almost 8:00 at night. It was already dark, so we didn’t get to see the views we got here. Let me show you.

We had our tent right here, right in front of this beautiful lake. And that is Mount Eniwa. Something like that, I believe. There’s a lot of other tents over there. There is a water station and they are really clean toilets over there. This is not a free site.

We paid ¥1,000 per person, which is not really bad. We were actually happy to find this place because yesterday well, we had a pretty long day with my flat tire, and we were so happy to find this place just like 20 minutes away from the place that that happened.

The hotels were pretty far away. So honestly, I believe we were lucky to find this place and such a beautiful place right next to this lake. This is how my rim is looking after yesterday’s surgery. It’s not pretty, but honestly, it could have been worse, you know.

It could have been the whole bike if I had fallen, you know. I guess it’s okay. I’ll just have to paint it again. Time to leave this awesome campsite again. Last night, there were a lot, a lot of deer right over here. And they get so interested whenever I use Apollo. Like that.

Really. They looked at me. They were just staring at me the whole time. It is so crazy. Okay. Another super well-organized campsite in Japan. There’s even a little restaurant here. Ramen. Coffee. Pretty nice. Honestly. Well, the plan for today is basically to drive along this lake.

Yesterday, we were planning on doing that, but since I got that flat tire, it was not possible to do it. I saw the lake a little bit last night and it was absolutely stunning. So I’m really looking forward to driving along the coast of the lake for a little bit today.

And then we’re going to go to another hot spring that we wanted to visit yesterday, which is actually a free hot spring! Can you believe that? A free hot spring! From the pictures I saw online, it looks pretty well organized. So honestly, I really want to check that out.

Japan has so many free campsites, free hot springs and they are all really well maintained, well organized. So I really want to visit that place. Well, we got to find a convenience store or a place to have breakfast and Kaito also is in need of some gas because yesterday he ended up going

To many places, you know. And even he went to the gas station, he went to the bike shop, he went back to my place, he went back to the bike shop. I mean. Anyway. Yeah, he drove for a long, long while yesterday. So he really needs gas right now.

One of the guys who stopped yesterday to help me, the guy that brought me the potatoes, he told me something that stuck with me and is that I really thanked him for bringing me some food. And he said, ‘Well, you know, you’re a biker. I’m a biker. We take care of each other’.

I think that’s really cool, you know. I really loved that. And I guess it’s my turn now to paid it forward to to somebody else. Yeah. Whenever I have the chance. It actually started raining, so, Ugh. We need to wear our rain gear.

It’s sunny on one side of the lake and rainy on the other. The weather changes so fast. We’re just waiting on the side of the road for the rain to pass a little bit. Kaito is looking for a convenience store somewhere nearby. But… I’m checking the weather. Oh, okay. How is it?

It says that it doesn’t rain here. But it’s raining. So it’s not correct. It’s always like that, guys. And there’s no convenience store nearby. So I guess we’re going to have to wait a little bit longer for breakfast. We found a gas station, but it’s too early and apparently it’s not opening today.

Well, I guess, we just keep on going and try to find a different gas station. I’m just glad the weather was not like this yesterday. Imagine Kaito having to drive all that way in the rain and me waiting there in the rain. I waited from 1:30 p.m. until 7 p.m..

That was the whole time I was there standing. That little parking lot was home for 6 hours. Wow! I need to clean my goggles to see. Wow, it’s absolutely beautiful! The sun is coming out on that side of the mountain. It’s really beautiful. Even on a cloudy day. Wow.

This lake is the one with the purest water in Japan. And it is also a caldera, guys. It has a depth of about 300 meters or even more in some areas. Yesterday, while I was waiting next to my bike, this guy, Rei san, stopped by and we started talking.

And I asked him, until when he drives his motorbike, before it starts getting too cold here in Hokkaido. And he said, ‘Well, if you really try to ride as long as you can, maybe November’. Oh, but I mean November should be freezing here.

Even in Yamaguchi, it’s already cold to drive a motorbike in November. So I want to know, guys, if you live in Hokkaido and you own a motorbike, I want to know since when you start riding your motorbike and until when. In Yamaguchi we have driven our bikes in winter,

But honestly, it’s quite hard. It’s too cold. The hands gets too cold, it’s freezing and it’s not really pleasant. We are heading towards Tomakomae. I think it’s not really a large city, but it’s the closest place to where we are, where we can find a gas station.

We’re planning on going across the mountains, but it’s not possible right. With the gas left in Kaito’s motorbike. It’s sunny! I feel like I’m overdressed for this weather. It feels really hot right now. Humid, mostly. Awesome! Oh, it’s pretty hot. Can’t wait to take this off.

And we found a gas station that is open. Regular ¥175. That’s pretty expensive. Maybe the most expensive we’ve seen so far. Thank you. Thank you. We’ve had crazy weather today. It rained, then the sun came out and the rain stopped. Not many people are riding today, maybe because of that.

Now we’re crossing the city of Tomakomae. We’re heading towards the seaside, we’ll continue along the coast, and we’ll eventually reach ‘The Hell Valley’. Have you guys heard of that place? When people think of hot springs in Hokkaido, Noboribetsu often comes to mind. We haven’t been there yet.

When people saw the crater and the boiling water, they thought there might be a devil inside. That’s why it was called ‘Hell Valley’. We really want to check that out, so we’re heading there. I takes about an hour from here. According to Google Maps.

We can see a bit of the sea on our left. Once we cross it, we’ll be in Aomori Prefecture. It’s right on the other side. There’s something I want to ask you guys. Yesterday, while I was changing the tube, I punctured it. Twice, actually. And both times, it was with the tire levers.

I puntured two tubes. I still have a lot to learn. Anyone up for giving me some pointers on how to work these levers? That was my first time piercing a tube. I’m still shocked I pierced two tubes. If you have any tips on avoiding that, feel free to share.

We’ve been riding just 30 minutes from the rain, and now the weather is fantastic. The sun’s out, but the wind is seriously strong. Oh, but the clouds over that mountain seem pretty dark. The Okamoto gas station seems to be the cheapest in Hokkaido. A friend with a camping car mentioned it to me.

But I just fueled up, so no need to stop. Ori’s all geared up for the rain today. The rim is messed up because of me. That cloud looks suspicious, doesn’t it? I’ts not looking good! That’s why we’re still in our rain gear. You guys won’t believe this! There’s a massive bear up ahead!

You finally found a bear, Ori! We finally got to see a bear, guys! The road was so straight that it made me tired. We’re going to have some coffee at this Seicomart. There was no coffee this morning at the convenience store. We really needed one. Okay. Okay.

I’m wide awake now, and we’re good to go. Hi there, Ori. This is where that famous bear park in Hokkaido is located. Number 1 in the world… What’s written there? What does ‘boribetsu’ mean? I still struggle with Japanese. The number 1 bear park in the world. Sorry about that. To my left,

There’s a theme park that recreates an Edo period city. We’re skipping it this time. There are lots of hotels here, but that’s no surprise, thanks to the famous Noboribetsu hot spring. So many buildings here, and they’re all hotels. Impressive. That’s how famous this place is! Ah, I can spot the hot spring steam!

How nice. The Hell Valley. We’ve arrived! There’s a devil here. What you see behind is what people call here the ‘Hell Valley’. And the reason is thousands of years ago, when this volcano erupted, of course, gases started coming out. And after the eruption,

These gases that you see in the background kept on coming out and people living in the surrounding areas believed there were demons living here. So that’s how the gave it the name The Hell Valley. So we’re basically in the crater of the volcano.

And I think the eruption took place about 10,000 years ago. The mix of the rocky surfaces, lush greenery, and rising steam is truly beautiful. What a beautiful place. 20 minutes walking and we arrived to this wonderful place. The smell of sulfur is very, very strong here, isn’t it? Yeah. Super strong. Wow. Wow.

This is just the place we saw from up there. Pretty, pretty cool. Really magical place. The smell is so strong. Oof. Really. You can smell the sulfur. Wow. It is beautiful here! Woho! The guy we were talking with at the hot springs recommended us to drive along this coastline

All the way down to the Cape Chikyu. And apparently it’s a very beautiful area where they are very, very tall cliffs and the views are amazing from there. So that’s where we’re heading right now. Honestly, the wind today is really, really strong. My bike is going to the right, to the left.

Yeah, it is honestly a bit scary. At least I’m happy it’s not raining any more. It’s really sunny. But honestly, the weather has changed so many times today that I wouldn’t be surprised if it started raining again. Someone is walking! Good luck! Oh, there’s someone going around Japan. On foot! Good luck. Whooooa!

The first sighting of the cliff. Impressive! Wow! Wow! Oh, it’s a pity we cannot go there. Really? We can’t go there? I was just really enjoying the view. We’re getting closer to the Cape, and as you can see, this is a very narrow road for two cars at the same time.

I don’t know how is that even possible. So far we’re lucky we haven’t encountered any other car coming from the opposite direction. Whoa. A very industrial area. Shoot! The rain’s here! Eh? And it stopped. What was that? What was that? Wow. Just look at the place we have arrived. Absolutely beautiful.

It’s amazing what nature can do. Why is it always so crowded? These places are way too popular. Okay, let’s go check the view. Thanks, Boo. Kaito always helps me to get off the bike since it’s too heavy and I need to use the central stand to park my bike.

It’s quite common to see dolphins swimming up here, but apparently we’re not lucky enough to see them today. We’re going to have lunch in this place. What did you order us? Salt-flavored ramen and soy sauce-flavored ramen. The noodles. Japanese noodles. Thank you. Thank you. Soy sauce-flavored ramen salt-flavored ramen. Let’s try it.

This one is really good. Yeah, it’s really good. It’s good. It’s really good. Okay. We’ve come all the way down south, and now we’re heading a bit north. We’re heading to the campsite. We’re staying at a new campsite. It’s about an hour and a half from here.

It’s a bit far, but we’ll enjoy the ride. Take a right there. I’m not sure why, but the ramen in Hokkaido is really good. Really good. No matter the place. Even at the lesser-known ramen joints, the ramen is still good. When you guys visit Hokkaido,

Make sure to try ramen at the lesser-known places. That’s the train station. It’s called ‘Hahakoi’. How do you read that? What a name! This is making me feel dizzy. It’s endless! I have no idea what this bridge is called, but we’re crossing it. What a long bridge! Whoa! The wind is really strong!

Whoa. The wind is way too strong. I might get blown away. Shoot! I can’t take the bypass. Okamoto gas station, the cheapest gas station in Hokkaido. Time to get some gas. Shoot! We’re heading straight into those dark clouds! It’ll rain for sure! And it’s sunny to my left.

We’re going to have rain for sure. Shoot! There’s steam coming out. This might be a hot spring. Is this a hot spring town? Watch out! Car coming. What a big hot spring hotel! This is actually pretty common in Japan. You’ll find big hotels in remote places like this one.

That’s a weird color for a river. Are those hot spring waters? A hot spring water river? Turn right somewhere there. We take a right here, and the campsite should be ahead. Shoot! It seems like it’s really tucked deep into the mountain. This place… It was closed until recently. Ah! There are other riders.

It seems nice. There! It’s written to watch out for bears! A bear showed up here recently, and they had to close the campsite. It was reopen recently. Okay. We made it. We did, Ori. We just finished setting up our tent here, and right now we’re going to a nearby hot spring,

Which is about seven kilometers away from here. And can you guys believe it is for free? Like, I mean, they have a pretty well organized space and is all for free. I’m really excited about checking that place. Here we go. This is it. We made it to the hot spring.

This is the building. It looks a little bit old, but anyways, it’s free. And it’s closed? But I just saw a guy coming out of here. Really? Yeah, with the basket. Oh, yes. We found the entrance. It’s right here. From 1 p.m. until 9 p.m.. Welcome. Go ahead. It’s quite heavy.

So basically, the only rule is that you write how many people come in with you. And at what time. And the time we’re using… It’s crowded. Really? Just a couple of minutes ago, there was nobody here. The women’s side might not be too crowded. It’s true, it does seem crowded. Well, enjoy.

Thank you. Come on in. Thank you. It’s very hot. Can you speak Japanese? Just a bit. You come from Sapporo? No, I live in Yamaguchi. You’re going around Hokkaido? Yes. -You’re going around Japan? – Yes. We’re starting from Hokkaido. From Hokkaido? Yes, exactly. All the way to Okinawa? Take care of yourself.

Thank you. Everybody left so I’m going to show you around. This is where you put your clothes and this is the bath. You got some showers over here. And then the hot spring. Wow. I can’t believe this is actually free! There’s no need for a shower at home. This is so awesome!

Hokkaido is just incredible! This was such an incredible hot spring. Just in front, there are big hot springs. By hot springs, I mean hotels. Those could be high-end hotels with lots of guests and tourists. They might have spacious hot spring baths, while here is relatively small.

But what you experience here is unique, and you won’t find it there. You get to talk to locals here, and meet other travelers. Yeah. Traveling is really all about connecting with people. – What a nice place. – Yes. I’m loving this experience, you know, talking with the locals. It’s different.

If you go to a hotel, well, it’s a nice experience, for sure. But coming here, just talking with the locals, which live just a couple of minutes away from here, that is really, really awesome. And I’m loving that experience and the fact that Japan

Has these places for free, it’s really, really, really surprising. Yeah. There aren’t many places like this. We’ll keep on discovering more places like this, guys. Good morning, people. It’s 7:20 in the morning and we’re about to leave yet another beautiful campsite. This place was actually closed for a couple weeks

Because there was a bear that was seen here, right here. So we were lucky that it was open. But still, there are signs everywhere to be aware of bears and not to leave food out here because that attracts many wild animals. This place is also a free campsite.

We got toilets over there and we got a water station. Apparently the toilets are really, really dirty. I didn’t go in. Everybody says it’s better just to go in the bushes. And that’s exactly what I did. It is really rare because usually toilets in Japan are super clean, even in free campsites.

But anyway, today is actually our last day of touring in Hokkaido. It is a bittersweet moment because we have loved our time here, but it’s time to keep going, guys. Time to go. We met a couple of guys yesterday, from the camping cars. These people. They were super nice.

We talked for a very long time yesterday with them. And they’re traveling all over Japan. That’s very, very cool. Okay. Thank you for everything. Have fun. See you. They’re waving goodbye. Such a nice couple. They were from Osaka. Well, it seems to be a sunny day. We need a sunny day

After that rain from yesterday, the clouds. I just can’t believe this is our last day of riding our motorbikes in Hokkaido. I’m sad and happy at the same time. I have loved riding in Hokkaido. Nature is beautiful, really beautiful here. But I’m also excited to go to new places in Honshu.

So, yeah, today is not really our last day in Hokkaido because we’re going to be spending a couple of days at the campsite we’re going to be arriving later on today just to catch up with some work. We are going to be driving for a little bit less than 200 kilometers today.

It’s not that much.. We are going to be going to the southern peninsula of Hokkaido. I really had to clean this bike a little bit. It was way, way too dirty because of the rain yesterday. And while cleaning it, I actually found the bolts here that hold the exhausts, were pretty, pretty loose.

So Kaito is tightening it up for me right now. Every once in a while we check all of the screws of my bike. Whenever I clean the bike as well, I double check every screw and every time we find at least one that is loosened.

Yesterday, when we were driving up to the campsite, I really thought that the water was murky because of the rainfall. But it turns out it’s actually because it’s mixed with hot spring water. Crazy, right? I think it’s the first I’ve seen something like that. Like a river. Beautiful.

One of the things I love about traveling to these rural places is that you can find sometimes these little shops on the side of the road and you find some local vegetables or seasonal fruits and there is no one there to sell them to you. So it’s just a trust system.

You basically leave the money there in a small box and you take whatever you want. That’s pretty cool. Wow! Beautiful lake! There are so many lakes on the west side of Hokkaido. And the most interesting thing about them is that most of them are actually calderas.

So they used to be volcanoes that erupted maybe thousands of years ago. And now they are very, very deep lakes. I think it’s the case with this one as well. This is the Toya Lake. Such a beautiful day to ride next to this lake. What happened here? Can we go?

Oh, we need to stop. Looks like a landslide here. Look at all those bags with pet bottles and cans, man! That’s a lot. I mean, when you see it like that, you really think twice before buying a plastic bottle, you know. A plastic water bottle.

We’ve been waiting here for a couple minutes already, and there has been a lot of trucks passing by, and I’m receiving all the dust and I just cleaned my motorbike. I feel like it’s already dirty. It’s way too hot. I wonder how hot Honshu is now. Okay.

I’m turning into a roasted chicken here. For real. Roasted Ori. Big, big hotels just in front of the lake. And they all have hot springs. There are so many hot springs here in Hokkaido. I mean, well, there are volcanoes everywhere. So no matter where you go, there will always be a hot spring.

Most of the time whenever we have the choice between a seaside route or a mountain route, we always choose the seaside. It was the case today, but somehow we couldn’t even see the sea. We were the whole time in between the mountains. I keep on wondering where the sea is.

Ah, there it is! The Pacific Ocean. These beaches along the coast of Hokkaido are usually very, very long beaches. But most of the time it is prohibited for tourists to go inside and swim in these areas. One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most about riding here Whoa! Definitely not that.

One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most about riding in Hokkaido is the fact that you can ride for kilometers and kilometers before finding any stop lights. I think it’s going to be something to get used to whenever we go back to Honshu and we’ll have to go across big towns.

We’ll have to stop almost at every corner. We are now going towards Hakodate. The south, south of Hokkaido. Oh, it’s really hot today. Hakodate to the left. Bikers here are riding without any jacket. That’s how hot it is. Hakodate, 102 kilometers. We’ve been on this road for over 30 minutes now.

And the whole time it’s been like this. Straight, straight, straight, straight. The wind is really crazy here. Whenever we have a truck passing by, it just pushes me to the side. My God. That was rough! The first stop in over 30 minutes of being in this straight road.

The temperature really does change a lot. Just a couple of nights ago, I was sleeping with my jacket on and now… Oh, let’s see if I can breathe a little bit. And now, it’s like… It’s really, really hot at night. When we let kind of the window open in the tent,

We have some cool air coming in, so it’s still okay. But I wonder Whoa! What’s that? Kaito got something in his goggles. Look at that butterfly there. Oh, my God. Look at these little buddy. It was trapped there. Goggles, goggles, goggles. I managed to put in my goggles somehow. The amount of wildlife

That we have killed while driving our motorbikes, it’s unbelievable. The number of butterflies, flies, bugs in general that have crashed against us while driving, it’s just uncountable. It’s time for a little break. I need to stretch my legs. Feels great. We found an Italian restaurant about 6 minutes away from here.

And it’s already 12:21. So we’re going to be stopping there for lunch. Before heading to the campsite. It’s so hot, that is the first time I opened my jacket like this. Just to let the air in. Okay. ‘Piatto’. I’m having a tomato sauce pasta with mozzarella and eggplants. And Kaito’s having…

Cabbage and anchovies. Okay. It’s been a minute since we had lunch at a restaurant. I’m running out of gas, but there’s a gas station just in front. Compared to the places we’ve visited, gas here is quite cheap. Cars rush down this road, so if you want to cross to the other side…

It’s quite the challenge. Let’s go! It wasn’t that challenging after all. 680 yen to change the oil? (4.5 USD) That’s cheap! Regular gas is also cheap! You’re really thorough, Ori. Okay. You’re good to go. Okay. We checked the air pressure too. This phone holder I’ve got from Quadlock had gotten quite loosened.

That happens. I asked for some tools and got it tightened. I recommend you guys this Quadlock phone holder. It’s great. It gets crazy hot when you stop. It’s summer. Summer has come to Hokkaido. The south is really hot. You guys know what comes after the pasta, right? It’s time for dessert!

Dessert has been our weakness lately. We’re now going to get some dessert. I’m itching to get in the water! Being this close to the sea in this hot weather, and not being able to swim, is a bummer. This is our last day riding in Hokkaido, and there are no clouds at all.

No clouds, the sea looks beautiful and it’s entirely blue. At the very end, there’s a glimpse of a massive mountain. Wow. We’ve arrived at our latest go-to spot for dessert! Seicomart. We come every day. This is my dessert. Hokkaido’s Chocolate Cookie Bar. This is so good. I’ve been eating it every day.

So good. We’re now heading to the campsite. It’s about an hour away from here. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! That mountain looks pretty close! Is that snow? It’s white at the top. What an unusual mountain shape! I’ve never seen a mountain with a shape like that! Is that kind of depression from an eruption?

What an interesting shape! ‘This ain’t a song for the broken hearted’. Whoa! Wow! There’s no light here, so lots of animals might show up at night. We’ve got a lake on our right! We’ll be arriving soon! We’ll be camping by the lake tonight. What a fantastic spot, don’t you think? We’re here! Is this the parking lot?

This one on the right, I guess. We’ve arrived. Whoa. Looking good so far. Okay. There are bear warning signs. We are all set up at this new campsite. We have our tent over here, and right in front of us, the most amazing view! We just found another free gym to exercise.

Can you guys believe that? We’re in this small town of Nanae and they have this gym for the people who live here, for tourists, for everybody who wants to come to exercise. That is pretty, pretty amazing. Hello. Hello. This place has changing rooms and they also have free showers.

They have a couple of sinks here and the free shower is over here. Something very basic, but it is amazing that its for free. And they have hot water. Amazing. This is where they have the training room. Kaito is getting ready to exercise. They have a couple of machines over here.

And some cardio machines over here. I still can believe that Japan has so many of these places for free! Good morning, people. I actually didn’t want to finish this video before showing you around this beautiful campsite. We’re going to be spending here a couple of days before going down to Aomori.

So let me show you around. We’ve got our tent set up here. We’re actually drying some clothes right now and we got it just in front of this beautiful lake. Look at that. There is actually a lot of wildlife around this campsite.

We got a lot of birds coming to visit us every morning. They’re actually quite noisy. And there are a lot of foxes on this road right over here. Like so many of them. This campsite is actually free. There is a big parking space, there are two water stations with a cooking area

And they are very clean bathrooms as well. This is one of the water stations over here and the building you see over there is actually the toilets. I’m going to show you inside the bathrooms. We’ve got the women’s bathroom over here and the men’s bathroom on this side.

We’ve got a couple of Japanese style toilets, and there is one Western style toilet. They’re all very clean. This is actually one of our three top campsites in Hokkaido, and it’s actually the last campsite we’re going to be sleeping at in Hokkaido before going down to our Aomori. Yes. A bittersweet moment.

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