I love everybody from the Takayama Could obey Alpine route.

This is this snow walk and the weather is really it's going in and out between clouds.

It's completely all like a white out with clouds and thio Absolutely clear blue skies Right now it's sort of in between.

We've got blue skies, but the walls here are really what's famous.

I've seen this on TV in brochures all over Tokyo, and this is the first time for me to make the trip because I just happen to be in the area and, uh, this is once again the Takayama could obey Alpine route.

I'm in Toyama Prefecture, which is Gosh, I don't know about get her by Shinkansen from Tokyo.

It's about two and 1/2 hours on the way to Kanazawa, and then you gotta take a train and a cable car and bus, and you eventually get here where there are 15 meter high walls or more.

I'm not really sure, but views absolutely beautiful here, highest point of snow wall.

So wait have to walk another 400 meters to get to the highest point.

What is overwhelming to me?

It's not the snow walls I've seen a lot of snow before.

I mean, if you traveled to Canada or to Switzerland or Thio, you know, Northern countries, you got to see stuff like this.

It's not super special, but for a lot of people in Asia especially, you know, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, They don't see stuff like this.

So most of the tourists are coming from Asia.

I saw some Westerners here is Well, guy from Italy I was talking to on the bus.

Um, this is the second time that Japan and he just wanted to come here and check it out.

I mean, from Italy, you probably have stuff like this in the in the northern part of Italy.

But to him, Japan is just having to be here.

Depends a special place.

This route just opened.

It's open between the middle of April until about I'd say June ish when it all melts away.

But yeah, most of tourists from Asia.

So if we walk another 300 meters will get to the highest point of the wall.

Well, I wonder how that happened.

Way Push the button to live.

Stream was completely white, like I couldn't see the blue sky at all.

Now it's the clouds parted and we have beautiful weather In 30 seconds.

You can absolutely.

It could change again.

Where were engulfed in clouds.

And it's a mysterious look where you can only see about four meters in front of you.

I had this image in my mind only gruesome graffiti, snow graffiti.

You see that?

Happy Easter, everybody.

Well, the day after Easter for their celebrating in the United States around the world, Lots of graffiti.

I don't like that too much Daisy and Frankie not cool.

Daisy and Frankie.

So people are writing graffiti on the walls and then taking pictures of it.

Definitely not from Japan, but wow, is it?

Turned out to be a beautiful day.

Half of the road belongs to the vehicles, the cars and buses and the other half to people.

Just walking, Which makes it.

It's a really nice tourist attraction.

All right, so we're getting closer and closer to the highest point of the wall.

On the way there.

Photo points.

They put signs up where you can take pictures.

Yeah, So it's four degrees self here.

The war.

Here's 19.

And the elevation 300.

Yeah, the way.

People.

10 people okay called the cyclical video.

Don't you see?

She's a maid?

She's in a video.

My kid, it is that's interesting.

Today they have equipment for mountain climbing.

And they went up to the summit of one of the peaks here, and I asked him if they were a lot of other people.

There is, Yeah, there were 10 10 people.

You come down here.

It's a complete K.

It's complete chaos, but they're dressed.

They're dressed for the part of mountain climbing and again, like from the city of toy Yama.

Remember?

I came in with I'm hitchhiking now Japan, from Kagoshima to Hokkaido.

And when I guy pick me up brought me through, um, the highway into the city.

You could just It was just stunning because you could see that the city of toy Yama and above it, these beautiful snow capped mountains.

Guess it would be similar to something like Vancouver or just about every Canadian city.

Maybe, except for Toronto.

Here's another photo point.

It says that the AMA and you know, the highest point 19 meters.

So this is the highest point.

Let's see if I can Yeah, they said.

It's equivalent to a five story building.

There's only one way to find out.

Taken elevator, right?

But there just doesn't happen to be one.

I'm in everybody's pictures.

Wow, that's really beautiful.

It's good.

The other side.

I love how blue the sky is in your elevation with No So we've walked about half a kilometre.

Let's go to the end here to take a look, see what it looks like.

I'm going back towards the the walk.

You know, when I came in by bus, came in by bus about 30 minutes and it was completely white out and you could see all the people standing here lined up.

And they're all taking pictures of the bus driving by because the bus is just absolutely dwarfed.

Here we go.

Here comes the bus.

The bus was just absolutely mortified.

Let's see because another bus 19 meter high wall vs bus wall winds that's live room was taking my picture wasn't me.

They're taken.

They're taking the bus going by because of the contrast between a very large structure.

The bus on these massive 19 meter walls again the height of these air five stories are about 19 meters according to the information.

Wow, Look at that.

And what's more, more impressive The fact that I have four g signal up here toe broadcast this.

I don't know if the signals if the video is clear not but the fact that Japan has a signal it all allowing me to broadcast this live is incredible again.

This is toy Yama Prefecture.

This is the Yama could obey alpine path which is open between the middle of April until about the end of June when the snow melts.

It just opened up about a week ago and you can see here everyone's trying to take a picture.

Let's see if I can selfie stick this up to the top and, uh, clear the rope.

Wait for you.

Okay.

So we can't go any further.

This rope holding me back.

I really want to find my e.

I really want Good question.

Can you yodel here giving radio trucks that are coming?

You're a lot louder, but you know, a little shy.

All right, let's let's walk back into it and see if you get it.

It's a nice views of Alpine route from elevation here.

Yeah, thanks.

Everybody for joining me on this.

I'm really happy have you all with me on this mini adventure off of the hitch hiking trail.

The train right here from toy Yama Yama Station to Takayama was was stunning.

The last 30% of it.

Photographer.

Beautiful.

I'm so glad that the clouds parted again.

When?

When I started this about 45 minutes ago.

It was totally white.

You couldn't see more than a couple of meters in front of you that blew away and the blue skies came out on.

Um, I've been very, very fortunate.

So I'm just gonna walk for a couple of minutes back towards the station.

That understanding?

Yeah, that the body.

I'm not gonna wait in line for a selfie with a sign saying It's the highest wall he gets rated in photo shop.

I guess it's not the same.

People love to take selfies.

It's crazy.

I hear some information.

There's some information in English for you.

So let's see here.

I don't know.

Question.

Why does not the snow wall collapse?

The height of the snow wall as of ordinary year is about 16 meters.

This is equivalent to the height of the building five stories high.

The density of the snow is approximately 500 kilograms per cubic meter.

Wow!

And the snow nearest the surface of the earth is hardened by the weight of eight tons, so there's no need to worry for collapse.

Yeah, sure.

Also, the snow melts on Lee from its surface.

Therefore, the quarter of snow widens each day as we hear the footsteps of summer.

Nice poetic ending to that.

The footsteps of summer Good.

Oh, this is good information.

I didn't know this stuff, but tiny areas globally.

Prominent area for heavy snow Otani area so called Yuki No Otani We, which means big valley of snow, is one of the heaviest snowing areas within Mount Tateyama.

Cut the Emma snow and blizzard is far strong, then stronger than what the what mankind could imagine as an ordinary snow.

And the mixture of the new falling snow in the fallen snow stirred up by the wind creates the spot with a deep snow.

Not the best English, but, uh, I get the point and it's in Chinese and Korean as well for everybody.

I should probably put it in Thai and Indonesian because I think there's more tourists from those countries too.

But those people, almost everybody can speak a little bit of English.

Okay.

Welcome to touch me on a bus.

He's a fresh off the boat for the first time.

We've been here for 20 minutes, huh?

So what?

I will bit a little bit further with you and then we'll end the feed.

But what an experience this is.

I love how they add information.

Those joining us late, I'm in the top.

Oyama could obey Alpine pass in Toyama Prefecture, which is on the other side of the Japanese Alps from Tokyo.

It's a lot harder to get here than you think.

Let's see here, Takayama kun Ah, plow car generated by 550 horsepower road rotary engine which removes snow from the top.

Oyama could obey.

I'll bind Pat route.

It has the potential to shoot away snow 45 meters and removes 4000 tonnes of snow per hour.

It's pretty cool.

It reminds me of Thea, um machines that I saw that Alma the airport in the episode I did in Almaty couple of months ago.

How have they ploughed this new Do I need to keep reading this in order to plow through the highland bus route covered by 20 meters of snow.

Way needed to survey using a compass.

Now we have a GPS global position system and a bulldozer, so we could allow much fast and accurate.

We have two bulldozers lying together to carve and plow through the snow on to clear through the path.

It takes approximately 7 to 10 days to clear through the Otani route.

Probably you also were humming like action music with that or else it just wouldn't fit the narration.

All right, more tourists are coming, and that means it's time for me to go.

I'm gonna be streaming again from Toyo Mama on the only in Japan Go channel.

Yeah, And for those of you Uh um what you only in Japan these live streams air just for the next for one more week, and then I'm going back to the old format.

So if you're not a fan of Livestream saying, hang in there and we will be back to the normal two per month.

Two episodes per month, um, highly edited and very well produced, All right, Al facades of only in Japan.

So just hang in there.

Yuki No, Karen dot Okay, so you could see here there's a rope and you can see the months of snow fallen.

It's It's like line rings on a tree, I guess, and you could see from each layer snow the month on the day.

And if they create a sort of calendar starting from January January 8th, Thio April 5th.

That's nice.

You can see that the pink one is from from January and gradually got higher.

Biggest fall happened in February, which makes sense.

Let's hear the brown one was in this'll brown one, which is about two meters up, was January 17th and then the red one, which is right here.

That was February 5th.

And then, if you go all the way up here between the red and the yellow one, that's February 5th and then February 23rd.

So there's a massive amount of snow.

You can see that this calendar's pretty cool, so the stripes on the snow wall is a calendar.

That's that's what they wrote.

So one more time, this is the Takayama could obey Alpine route.

Actually, I'm a three picture and I'm here for the day as part of my hitch hiking trip from Kagoshima D O kedo, which is available like Kickstarter.

You have 10 more days, 10 more days to order the DVD Kickstarter of this amazing trip.

You're gonna see some HD and really high quality images of this on the DVD, and I'm thinking of a way to get high definition video to those who buy the DVD as well.