19 | Voyage à vélo : DÉCOUVRIR le JAPON autrement

19 | Voyage à vélo : DÉCOUVRIR le JAPON autrement

We decided to go to the Onsen by bike today. (Japanese Bath) In this episode Hi, we’re Fiona and Bryan, two Swiss who left everything to travel by bike on the roads of the world with a weakness for tall people. spaces and beautiful images

We share with you here our discoveries our encounters and our learnings ready to contemplate the silence of the asphalt or savor the sound of the gravel so here we go for a new episode. make yourself comfortable and welcome to this adventure.

It’s good we give our it’s good we give our first pedal strokes in Japan and we left our friends who are traveling for 4 months here in Asia and today they are going to look for to go, to buy bikes ‘occasion. It was so

Cool to chat with them. Honestly, a great meeting is always the same, it’s crazy when you meet people on a trip after 5 minutes as if we were or as if we had already known each other for a while.

We can talk about everything, there aren’t the usual barriers we have when we meet someone at home. We had already almost forgotten that here we drive on the left and not on the right, so

Luckily we were on the sidewalk and we realized that we had already forgotten that we had to drive on the left. We’ve been driving for 2 km in Japan, we’ve just left the ferry and we come across a temple, wonder will be on every street corner in this country. It’s really promising if it already starts like that. SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND SHARE 🙂 Second day in Japan yesterday the stage was quite intense since we had to travel around seven kilometers to arrive at our warmshower in addition to having to find a SIM card. So it took a long time in the end we had to drive at night and the night comes very, very early

Rather than in South Korea so that’s a bit annoying and the roads are much less suitable than in Korea for driving at night . we’re going to try to get up earlier and then yesterday we had a bit of a transition day. I think our heart stayed a little bit

In Korea because we really fell in love with it and everything was so easy and so dedicated, perfect for cycle touring, that we had a bit of a transitional problem going from Korea in Japan we unfortunately compared certain things a little, my time it’s a bit characteristic

Of humans sometimes to compare what they know so yesterday was a bit of a comparison but at the same time with the chance to realize the privilege of being here to be in Japan to be able to ride in Japan so that’s really really great and

Above all also the chance to be hosted at a warmshower from the first night that we honestly love it’s great, someone who knows the region, he can recommend other things to us so for example we showed him our itinerary and we have already changed our

Second stop, it’s already sending a lot of weight into the city where we are and I think that Japan is going to be a big discovery, that promises in any case. So we thought that the Koreans were very big fans of karaoke but I don’t think we had yet seen the level of the Japanese. There we have just sat down on a small bench for dinner and in front of us the building

Is dedicated to karaoke rooms. But First Class so there is advertising for the interior of the rooms. They seem to be having a lot of fun. Today we take a tunnel, a tunnel that allows us to cross an arm of the sea instead of going over a huge bridge. A first Japanese bivouac carried out everything went well last night we found a small park a small square and apparently the bivouac seemed tolerated from what our warmshower told us with the added value of the Korea and Japan public toilets. You’ll never see it but this slope is so steep! Fortunately the view is incredible and what awaits us at the top just as incredible hot never has the climb and yet we are still the champions of steep climbs it’s so steep. Today our stage takes us to a peninsula that our warmshower recommended to us so frankly it was hilly to get here we had a headwind so we really didn’t make much progress but on the other hand that worth it as every time it’s a little

Nugget in the middle of the sea the waves the color of the water it’s magnificent there is a little wind but it’s not disturbing and wow what and what’s more seen that we woke up early this morning and well now we’re going to be able to enjoy our afternoon so that’s classy. Last night it was incredible we had a beautiful sunset, the only problem was that it was very windy so we couldn’t sleep at the spot behind where the Warmshower is. told us to sleep we had to come and take refuge a little behind a building that was more or less

Unused for the moment since it’s not at all the season to come here and we see that the season is shifting towards the fall and it’s more of a beach atmosphere but it doesn’t matter and the thing that was incredible was the stars and the lighthouse which really turned

The light of the lighthouse into the stars just above it was frankly too beautiful. What is the discovery of the day, the Japanese supermarket because we visited the convenience stores a few times, we visited the 7-Eleven, we visited the Familymart, we visited the Lawason and now we have just visited the supermarket, almost bought the whole store

So much that there was everything that made you want to eat and we still made a small selection for today. So we took breaded chicken but the breading is slightly sweet then we have sushi with smoked salmon, edamame and here

Shrimp fritters, shrimp or octopus? uh seafood fritters. Well if you don’t agree wel It says here what it is and on top of that there’s something to remember which is that we were afraid that Japan is really very expensive and there we have all that for dinner plus

Lunch tomorrow morning plus a dessert it cost us 10 CHF. Does this remind you a little of Switzerland, we are in the Moutier gorges. (Our region in Switzerland) We are so lucky because in fact we were stopped because Bryan was flying the drone and there was a little grandmother who came towards me who started to speaking

In Japanese I didn’t understand anything unfortunately I had the reflex a little late but still the reflex to take Google Translate and I made her speak in Google Translate and it’s incredible because it worked really well and in fact she wanted to tell us where

We had to go through to go towards Hiroshima so it’s so cool turn left turn right and then she just explained to us the harvest that was being done there right next to us which is the harvest of rice so there the lady explained to us that

This is the rice harvest with the machine they are harvesting the rice they are going to throw away all the straw that they no longer need and you see the little white van with the blue bag in fact they are going to put the entire rice harvest in there. The lady in question

Who is right there crouching in her vegetable garden is the person who came to speak to us. Who went to the hairdresser? It’s me, 6 weeks since I was at the hairdresser so we were looking for a hairdresser and there was one on the side of the road we stopped and in 15 minutes it was fixed and all for barely 4 CHF. Here the other fabulous thing is that there are drink machines like these everywhere in the streets, in any case each time water, coke, a Fanta and then afterwards lots of their stuff like coffee milk tea you can’t die of thirst in this impossible country. We decided to go to ONSEN today to warm up a little because the last few nights it was a bit cool and we’re going to go find out, we have no idea how it works so the ONSEN is the traditional Japanese bath that will do good for our little muscles and our joints.

So already I think that it shows we are clean we are reviving Renaissance are reviving we have little eyes there. We could go to bed so much that it… It was great for 5 francs each a shower, baths, a jacuzzi, a sauna, shampoos enough to

Wash like never before I might as well tell you that when you are in Bivouac in fact ONSEN is paradise. so very simple you go inside you take off your shoes before entering important point there is a slot machine is that you put the money to pay then you

Can put your shoes in a locker the receptionist she will give you a another key to your own locker you will just have to undress and wash yourself before going into the first baths. Yeah I had three baths outside, no there were two

Ah seriously!? No two outside baths and one outside jacuzzi. We had a bath outside more… Ah well that’s it, since the men and women are completely separated we didn’t have the same space, let’s continue this day we have an island to visit. yes let’s go. She wait, it’s time to go to the restaurant, I want the leftovers… The island of Miya-jimai is mainly known for its famous Tori, this traditional Japanese portal planted in the water, but you will also find there other curiosities and specialties such as hot oysters and small cakes in the shape of maple leaves,

Momiji manju the island is also known for its free-roaming deer, very accustomed to tourists. So here we offer you a real-life sequence in the life of a cyclo traveler, that is to say Bryan’s mattress which has been pierced for several weeks already and so we took the water bottle from the tent

And we are going to put some small droplets of water on the heat seal, I found three new points we can find these manufacturing defects quite easily. One more night of bivouac and not least, it rained all night. So since it’s still a little early we’re going to go

See the famous Tori which is planted in the sea and then we’re going to take the boat towards Hiroshima we have a short hotel night waiting for us to recharge all the batteries because there we reached the maximum of the maximum of what we could do without having to charge we even finally

Used the iPads to charge our phones and yes with an iPad we can charge an iPhone that ‘s great class and there we are going to go finish taking down our tent and we’re going to go. We are still on the island of Miami with the tori and what you need to know is that there are deer in the wild that are very used to tourists and so the tourists give them food. clearly eating and all of a sudden there are two deer running

On my bike I don’t really understand why because I have nothing and in fact they grab our little pack of trash and she takes off with it. Really not very smart because he had absolutely nothing to eat and then there was waste on the island, so Bryan ran after the

Doe to get the trash and we got it back. I’ll make sure they go, no, there’s nothing at all, come on, girls. ah, these little creatures are vicious. It’s already time to return from our little stroll on the island of Miya-jimai and it’s really worth it yes really worth it for half a day even a day if you have the time but half day it’s really half day yeah it’s good and before leaving

We were missing an essential element of the specialties to taste there it was the little biscuits whose name I don’t remember and so it’s are small cakes in the shape of a filled maple. So we have one with beans because that’s our

Little cute peach tree since we arrived in Korea and there it’s the Macha, Macha the big class. Head to the shopping center because we’re fed up with this mattress that’s deflating so we’re going to try to go find one while waiting to receive the new model. There are sales, could there be sales at the same time? So here is the section of mattresses to

Save my nights, it’s not crazy, I tell myself that this more or less mid-range, low-end model should do the job perfectly for the next few nights until sea to summit M’ sends one under warranty to Taiwan. We left the bikes for a few hours, we are going

To go on a free walking tour in the city of Hiroshima, it is an opportunity to visit the city quite quickly and efficiently, we are going to test that, we have never done a Free walking tour in our life this is a great first. Free walking tours are city tours guided by

Locals and based on tips according to satisfaction at the end of the tour Hiroshima and its particular history seemed perfect for us to introduce ourselves to this method of discovery thanks to our very good guide. learned more about the terrible tragedy that struck the city

On August 6, 1945 that day the United States detonated an atomic bomb above the city completely razing it several hundred thousand people died and the city was completely subsequently rebuilt. Only the ruins of a dome located at the epicenter of

The explosion have been preserved as testimony to this horrible tragedy since its inhabitants and the Japanese are campaigning for peace and that such an act never happens again. Here we are at the end of the 2 hour visit with our guide here in Hiroshima and frankly it was very beneficial we learned lots of little anecdotes. Really the right plan. In one afternoon we saw a lot of things and took a lot of things. that’s true

Yeah we’re going to do it again eh it was so good it’s by traveling that we learn and moreover thanks to our channel we are convinced that you will learn little tips for preparing your next trip and on top of that we have a website where we try to list

All the articles on it. All the practical information that we discover like which bank to withdraw money from or where to buy a SIM card or which operator to choose all the little tips that we had to research to be able to do so in order to be able to find the best

Tips well we shares them with you in informative sheets about the country if you want to travel there by bike or even not by bike sometimes there are some super useful tips. Like for example here we will give you the internet link to make the reservation so

You will just have to click when you arrive in Hiroshima you register for the free walking tour and then off you go. How to finish the free walking tour well… Honestly, they know how to do IPAs well in Japan. Today we’re meeting in a small park as usual because it’s becoming the habit in Japan the best bivouac we found is in the parks we try not to disturb too many people we come when it’s dark and we try to get up early enough and then

We’re going to unpack the tent, we’re going to have lunch and we’re going to attack a series of small islands that we can pass on a cycle path so we’re looking forward to discovering that. So today we have some great

News to tell you Fiona she has finally found some figs. July, August September 3 months to find one from Albania I got one in Turkey and then here we got it offered this morning by the neighbors and this morning we are having lunch on the bench there is the neighbor

Of behind who arrives with a box and in the box there were three figs, it’s always small gestures that are a great pleasure to receive and it’s the kind of small gesture that reminds you that you are in the right place at the right time. That day, a few kilometers after our departure,

We met Ophélie and Grég who were pedaling in the opposite direction. These Normans have been traveling for several months already, the flow goes so well that we chat for more than an hour without seeing the time pass it’s a shame that our paths don’t go in the same direction but who

Knows maybe we’ll see each other again in another country in the meantime he gives us lots of recommendations for the itinerary that awaits us so we adjust our route and we are ready to discover the Shimo-Kamagari road and its many bridges. We arrived 5 minutes before the last ferry of the day arrived. As if it wasn’t possible to be more on schedule than today the boat arrived, moored, we boarded and we left and these are things that are really enjoyable when traveling, these are things moments where it

‘s not by chance there’s something else hidden behind it’s beautiful events that emerge during the adventure when nothing is planned and yeah you don’t always have to have something planned you need to be flexible from time to time… Knowing how to be flexible and then changing your plan at the

Last minute and that’s what we’re doing in Japan, we change plans every 3-4 days, it’s simply an adventure It gives me goosebumps to tell you this because honestly today was crazy. So we simply arrive at the most beautiful

Spot that we have been to in Japan for the moment, we are treated to a magnificent sunset right behind it, it’s just incredible and this evening we sleep there really at the top so we thank you the beautiful cycling community who are currently traveling even those from previous years

Because there is always something to share a little tip and as a result we find ourselves in this kind of place thanks to other people thanks to good timing thanks to to our lucky star. Today is a very very special day Universal Studio Japan. Unbelievable what happened to us is…. I can’t believe it yet. In the next episode… The adventure continues on the roads and on Instagram to support our work, don’t hesitate to like, subscribe, comment and share our videos and our content.

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