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  • [Impact noise] This is like a first person horror game...

  • ...that I don't want to be in.

  • [Natsuki] OHHH, (beep)

  • Desperation, it's a powerful motivator.

  • This is my master plan.

  • Six days, and a thousand kilometres through Japan's most mountainous region,

  • culminating with spectacular views of Mt. Fuji.

  • But why? Why am I so desperate?

  • Well, in the eight years I've lived in Japan,

  • I've still not had a good clear view of Mt. Fuji.

  • Two years ago, I spent three days at the base of the mountain, just waiting, just trying to get a view.

  • And all I got, were a bunch of clouds, and a bucket-load of disappointment.

  • Worse still, nearly every day in the last two years, I've been bullied by viewers, bragging about all the great views of Mt. Fuji they've had.

  • Look at this.

  • "We were only in Japan for two weeks and these were the views we got of Mt. Fuji!!!

  • Please live vicariously through our photo."

  • No! No I won't!

  • And that, is why we're going on Journey Across Japan.

  • We're not going alone either. We are taking Joey the Anime Man.

  • Now I'd like to tell you I've chosen Joey because he's a good friend. But really, that has something to do with revenge as well.

  • You see, two years ago, Joey took me into a dark haunted abandoned tunnel,

  • and ran off with the torch and left me standing there terrified in the darkness.

  • It wasn't pleasant, and I haven't forgotten it. I never forget.

  • And so this is my chance to get revenge back on Joey, and leave him in a cold dark place as well, so he knows what it feels like.

  • So there you have it! This exciting six-day adventure through the stunning mountainous region of central Japan,

  • is built on a foundation of bitterness, resentment and revenge.

  • Welcome to Journey Across Japan: Escape to Mt. Fuji.

  • ♪ Journey Across Japan Intro Music ♪

  • [Chris] So here he is, the man of the moment, Joey the Anime Man. Welcome to Journey Across Japan, Joey. How you doing?

  • [Joey] Thank you, I'm good, how are you?

  • -I am so happy, that you are on this journey Joey, I cannot put it into words how happy that I am.

  • -I am also happy that I randomly teleported into your car.

  • -It's magic.

  • -So yeah, Escape to Fuji. Have you ever been to Fuji or seen- You've been to Fuji, but have you seen Fuji?

  • -Well, I've climbed Mt. Fuji, but I've never had that kind of, picturesque, beautiful view of it.

  • -Oh, from a distance?

  • -That you kind of see in postcards and photos.

  • -Oh that's really funny, because I've been to Fuji once, and I got a great view of it-

  • ♪ Intense music ♪

  • -I don't know how hard it could be, to just get a view of Fuji.

  • -(unintelligible stuttering) Right, well, we've got six days on this trip, and if we don't see Mt. Fuji, I am going to kill the nearest Australian.

  • -So pray to god Joey that we see Mt. Fuji, for your sake.

  • -Oh, okay, I'm- I'm excited.

  • -But first things first, let's get some breakfast!

  • -I'm starving!

  • -Wahey! Breakfast time!

  • Leaving Tokyo behind, we begin our three-hundred kilometre journey to Yudanaka hot springs in the heart of Nagano prefecture.

  • We're gonna stop off half way in Takasaki City to pick up Natsuki, as he joins us for the first few days of the trip.

  • But first things first, we have the daunting task of discovering our challenge of the day.

  • [Chris] That is a nasty scratch. And it wasn't me!

  • We've rented a Toyota Sienta, it's a slightly bigger car than I've got, my cars a little bit dirty, a little bit too small.

  • I thought there's a chance we may have to sleep inside it, my car wasn't very suitable for that.

  • Anyway, we're joined on this trip by Ian from the previous Journey Across Japan, who's the kind of project co-ordinator guy that smooths things over.

  • And every day of this trip, we're gonna be taking challenges you guys have sent in.

  • Ian's gonna curate three of his favourites, stick them into here,

  • And then we will spin Anpanman and get those challenges.

  • [Joey] *breathless* Jesus Christ-

  • -Good to see you Ian! And also Tokyo Lens Norm is our assistant camera man. They're gonna be in a separate car helping us along this journey.

  • So, what's the first challenge?

  • -Let's find out!

  • -Four thousand challenges you guys have sent in the first week. Four thousand. And I hope it's not too difficult, as I'm very tired.

  • We had to get up at like 7am, to drive out of bloody Tokyo. What we got?

  • -Alright, the very first one is from Calvin A Y, who says, "make a short horror film".

  • -Make a short...

  • -Make a short horror film.

  • -An entire film?!

  • -An entire film in one day.

  • -We've gotta drive like two-hundred kilometres to Nagano today, and we've got to pick up Natsuki this evening-

  • -Oh yeah.

  • -Later on this afternoon. I don't know how we're gonna do it, but we'll see what happens!

  • Alright, Journey Across Japan: Escape to Fuji, let's do it, let's go!

  • [Chris] So Gunma, very famous, strawberry farm, just up the road.

  • Four different types of strawberries from around the world

  • -A whole four?

  • -What do you reckon?

  • -(sigh) I don't know if a strawberry farm is exactly the most optimal place to film a horror movie trailer.

  • I dunno of any horror movies that are set in a strawberry field.

  • -I dunno what strawberry farms you've been to Joey.

  • -Rather than a strawberry farm though, I know of a better place that is actually a lot closer.

  • -Well, we've arrived, somewhere.

  • Not really sure- where are we Joey?

  • We went through the most terrifying-looking forest I've ever seen.

  • -We're at an abandoned stone quarry.

  • -An abandoned quarry?

  • -Yeah.

  • -Which we can't yet see!

  • -Yeah, because it's up in the mountains there.

  • -Brilliant.

  • Are you sure you didn't want to go to the strawberry farm?

  • [Chris] Good god.

  • [Joey] This is insane.

  • This is huge.

  • [Chris] What is this place?

  • Journey Across Japan? More like Indiana Jones.

  • Looks like something out of the X-Files.

  • Like a lost remains of an alien city.

  • [Joey] It's really bizarre to see just how cleanly cut the walls are.

  • It really does look like a lost city.

  • -It does look like a lost city, this was a quarry that they just took- well just a stone quarry.

  • -Yeah, just took rocks basically.

  • -They took rocks! That's what they did!

  • Credit where it's due to you Joey, it does look like a potential location for a horror film.

  • -Absolutely.

  • -So you've struck gold here. It may just be better than the strawberry farm yet.

  • I've talked in the past about haikyo, abandoned buildings in Japan.

  • Very common. Very easy to find in the countryside.

  • But, I've never really come across a place like this.

  • Joey over there. Having fun in the corner.

  • You alright?

  • -(echo) Yeah.

  • -What are you doing Joey?

  • -(echo) Chillin'.

  • -Don't need to make a horror film,

  • It's creepy enough just Joey standing in the corner over there.

  • [Chris] We're now in the inner sanctum of the stone quarry.

  • And what have you discovered?

  • -Look at these platforms here!

  • It straight up looks like a Zelda dungeon.

  • I can see the level design, just *boop boop boop*

  • And then there's a bunch of vases over there

  • And you can hear the *poor imitation of Zelda open chest music*

  • -It's insane, like there's

  • -What, what is that there?

  • -What is it there? There's like three crates

  • And then there's a branch with a rope on

  • For jumping, and like, hooking onto.

  • If there's anyone at Hollywood that wants to bring the new Indiana Jones film to Japan

  • Look no further.

  • -Indiana Jones and the Abandoned Stone Quarry.

  • -(chuckles) That's what the people want.

  • To be fair, it couldn't be much worse than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

  • -Yeah I was about to say! (chuckles)

  • -I'd kind of wiped that from my memory, for all the right reasons.

  • Honestly, what were they thinking?

  • Well we're in the abandoned quarry, there's only one thing left to do now.

  • -What's that?

  • -London Fish and Chip flavoured Pringles!

  • The flavour of London in the palm of my hand!

  • -The fuck is this?!

  • -Pringles have brought out some new flavours

  • This isn't a Pringles sponsorship

  • I'm not sure I'd accept a sponsorship for something

  • as ridiculous as London flavoured Pringles.

  • -Oh dude I'd take a Pringles sponsorship in a heartbeat, are you kidding?

  • -Absolute sellout. Here you are, give that a sniff. What do you reckon?

  • It smells a bit like

  • someone's taken some cardboard and sprayed it with vinegar.

  • -Yeah.

  • [Crunchy noise of Pringles being consumed]

  • I actually like Pringles but

  • but I don't like this one!

  • -It tastes like sour onion flavour, but they went off like three months ago.

  • -Like really sour onion

  • -One to ten?

  • -I'll give it like a two for effort

  • -Two out of ten, one for effort, two for flavour,

  • Don't buy them.

  • -Sponsor me Pringles.

  • -London flavour, what were they thinking?

  • That's what Journey Across Japan's about;

  • Eating Pringles in an abandoned quarry!

  • -You can't find this content anywhere else.

  • -There's a reason why!

  • After having spent the afternoon lost in a deserted quarry

  • Munching on fish and chip Pringles

  • We suddenly realize we're late to pick up Natsuki, and make a desperate dash for Takasaki City.

  • So we're in Takasaki, one of Gunma Prefecture's biggest cities,

  • And we're about to meet Natsuki.

  • And he's not gonna be in a good mood.

  • 'Cause we're a little bit late.

  • -Only two hours late!

  • -Two and a half hours

  • -Yeah, yeah

  • -But we've got some Pringles.

  • And if anything can save the day, and cheer up Natsuki

  • -It'll be Pringles

  • -What I will say, is I dunno where he is.

  • Can you see an angry-looking Japanese guy?

  • Is that, look, there's a guy there

  • Is that, nah, it's a woman.

  • Oh dear.

  • I do feel a bit bad, but that quarry, that was something else.

  • -Yeah, we needed to create our masterpiece.

  • -Quarry versus Natsuki?

  • The quarry's gonna win.

  • No, come on, where is he?

  • Fucking hell.

  • Go and, uh, go and find him, and I'll sit here, I won't drive off.

  • -Alright

  • -We're not bluffing.

  • Like look; Joey's gone.

  • (Knocking noise)

  • -Oh!

  • Oh but Natsuki, in the back

  • In the back

  • Well done!

  • [Joey] I couldn't...

  • -You've found him,

  • -I guess so!

  • -Good to see you Natsuki, how are you?

  • [Natsuki] Fucking hell.

  • -Fucking hell!

  • -Damnit

  • -Are you in a good mood? Happy?

  • -How many hours?

  • [Chris] How many hours?

  • [Joey] Two hours!

  • -Twenty minutes...

  • - Do you have to wait?

  • Stupid.

  • UK time.

  • -(chuckles) UK time?!

  • -I run on UK time.

  • -Always UK time

  • -But I've got a present for you.

  • Good present.

  • Pringles, London flavour.

  • [Natsuki] (in Japanese) Seriously?

  • -Fish and chip flavour

  • [Natsuki] (in Japanese) Incredible!

  • -London fish and chips!

  • -Very rare!

  • -Very rare.

  • Try it, try it.

  • -So you happy now?

  • [Natsuki] (in Japanese) A little.

  • -Ayyyyyy!

  • That's all you need!

  • -And a beer?

  • -And beer, no beer.

  • [Natsuki] Fuck you.

  • -How are the Pringles?

  • [in Japanese] Delicious?

  • -Sour.

  • -Sour?

  • -Like a sour.

  • -Like a sour? Like fish and chips!

  • -No.

  • -No fish.

  • -One to ten?

  • -Five?

  • -Five? Ayyy, okay! If anyone from Pringles is watching

  • Please put some more effort in

  • Alright let's get out of here!

  • So let's go!

  • So our next destination is Nagano Prefecture.

  • Today's more of a kind of transit day, getting us from Tokyo into the mountains

  • It's quite a journey unto itself, right

  • And our last location of the day is an onsen, nice hot spring town

  • In the mountains of Nagano, so you can have a nice soak.

  • You can have a nice long soak.

  • -I need that soak, especially after the dirty ass quarry we went through.

  • -While the delicious fish and chip Pringles may have temporarily saved us from Natsuki's wrath,

  • As we meander deeper and deeper into the mountains

  • And into a brewing thunder storm, the day soon takes a bizarre and uncomfortable turn

  • When we pull over for one of Natsuki's many cigarette breaks.

  • Ugh, this is the fifth cigarette break Natsuki's had since Takasaki.

  • -How many fucking cigarettes does this man need to have a day?

  • -We're in the middle of Nagano, I don't really know where,

  • Natsuki's having a cigarette

  • -It's pitch black outside, I can't see anything.

  • -And we're lost in the mountains and...

  • (knocking on window)

  • [Joey] (in Japanese) What is it?

  • -You had your cigarette?

  • -Too fucking scary point.

  • ♪ Music Impact Noise ♪

  • [Chris] So Natsuki's found, we think it's like a michinoeki, like a roadside stop.

  • What I don't like is that all the windows are open.

  • [Natsuki] Open windows?

  • -That's never really a good sign, is it?

  • At like eight/nine p.m.

  • You can usually find like a public toilet at these sorts of places.

  • We're gonna look past the scary open windows

  • And we're gonna find that toilet

  • -Alright

  • -And we're gonna get back on our way to our nice, cozy, warm traditional Japanese inn that we're staying in tonight.

  • -I hate that you're camera man Chris. I wish...

  • -You have to go first, I'm the camera guy.

  • -From here.

  • -The entrance is from here?

  • -Is it a toilet?

  • -(in Japanese) No it isn't.

  • Look

  • It's a long way

  • Is your head screwed on?

  • What's with you today?

  • It's fine for the people watching

  • But I'm the one in front here.

  • (unintelligible worried speech)

  • [Joey] This is so fucking scary.

  • Actually this is like really terrifying.

  • -Where are you taking us Natsuki?

  • [Natsuki] (unintelligible speech mixed with a lot of "fucks")

  • -Bat, bat.

  • -(Traumatic singing)

  • -Natsuki's seen a bat?

  • (unintelligible)

  • -Quickly

  • Why's it me in front?

  • -What the fuck?

  • -It turns out it's not a public toilet

  • It's some sort of abandoned run-down love hotel.

  • -That's the jacuzzi

  • -Oh a jacuzzi, it would've been lovely five years ago

  • -There's a lot of dust in the air

  • Trash, trash

  • -That's asbestos

  • -Trashbestos...

  • -Traspestos?!

  • -So much dust

  • -Yeah, there's lots of dust in here

  • -Let's put our masks on

  • -Yeah, let's put on masks

  • There's a message on the bed

  • -What does-what does it say?

  • -It say something along the lines of

  • A message from a prostitute who was nine months pregnant

  • -Oh, she left her telephone number!

  • (sarcastic) That's great

  • -Hey, we don't have to film a horror trailer at all Chris.

  • We just found the horror story right here.

  • -Joey's hit the nail on the head, we don't need to do the horror film anymore

  • We found a message about a prostitute who was nine months pregnant

  • And there's a drawing of her, and it's cut open, her stomach

  • What is this? What's going on?

  • Why are we in here?

  • It's like, everywhere you look, there's like

  • Just horror, like the bit up there that's open

  • That's like, that reminds me-

  • That reminds me of The Grudge, there's like a smashed mirror

  • A blanket, a ripped open thing

  • -Oh, broken toilet

  • -Broken toilet?

  • -Yeah, only Japanese style

  • -Oh that's the real horror

  • A Japanese style toilet!

  • [Joey] You wanna, you wanna hold the camera?

  • [Chris] No, you go first Joey!

  • We're a team mate

  • -Yeah exactly

  • -We're a team!

  • -Let's, let's swap, let's swap roles

  • -I saw something move down there, it might... I-

  • Could have been...

  • -I think, I reckon you should go check it out, yeah

  • -This is like a first person horror game

  • That I don't want to be in

  • Fuckin' hell!

  • Shine, shine ahead?

  • Oh what's up? Up?

  • Alright down, down.

  • Ugh there's like a horrible rag on the floor!

  • What is that...

  • So we've established that this empty, giant building is a love hotel

  • There are so many rooms in it

  • Each room is like, stepping into a nightmare

  • You know what, look at these doors

  • (in Japanese) You going in?

  • (in Japanese) Why is the door broken?

  • This room has no smell

  • This room... no smell.

  • Why?

  • -What?

  • -The fuck is this...?

  • This is terrifying as shit.

  • -I'd like to point out that we're not in like a theme park ride

  • We're not in like a room that's designed to be a horror-

  • We're in a-

  • We've stumbled across something that's thoroughly abandoned

  • There is frightening artwork at every turn

  • -Alien style

  • -Alien style?

  • -And bathroom and toilet

  • No bats.

  • Broken, broken, broken, broken broken

  • [Joey] Oh what the fuck...

  • This is probably the scariest room of them all actually

  • -Why is it scary?

  • -There's a bunch of stories, and it says

  • Red village?

  • -Good god.

  • -This looks like a place that...

  • I would find something horrible in

  • (horrified screaming)

  • [Chris] It was coming straight for me!

  • [Joey] (in Japanese) That was scary

  • [Natsuki] (in Japanese) It was so fast

  • [Joey] (speaking Japanese, reading what's on the wall)

  • So roughly, this is a story of a woman named Izumi

  • As it says here, "there's a phone number"

  • Probably not able to be called

  • "She is a housewife

  • Who is pregnant, nine months

  • And, basically she's saying

  • I'm already pregnant, don't have to worry about cheating or anything

  • I'll give you- it costs fifty-thousand yen or about $500 USD

  • To have, uh, intercourse with said woman

  • Please give her a call."

  • -But why is she like, cut to pieces?

  • -I don't know!

  • I really don't know, it's...

  • I'm not okay with this to be honest with you

  • -You were the one who wanted to go somewhere creepy!

  • -Look man, do you wanna hold the torch?

  • Do you wanna hold this torch?

  • -I hold the camera, it's difficult

  • We've explored the abandoned, and hopefully not haunted love hotel

  • We've heard a door slam an awful lot

  • A lot further down the corridor, which is

  • -There's a lot of irregular movement happening in this building

  • -Makes the quarry look like a fucking theme park earlier

  • Fun park, I mean...

  • We've seen giant spiders

  • We've seen mice

  • A door keeps slamming

  • This is one of the most unpleasant places I've been

  • Hopefully we've done it justice

  • But, quite frankly, I wanna get out of here

  • This is the worst cigarette break Natsuki's ever had.

  • -(In Japanese) That was scary

  • -Scary?

  • -Too scary.

  • -What's creepy, you can see like a red

  • -Oh yeah, look at that light up there

  • -That wasn't there before

  • -What was that, we didn't see that red light there

  • ♪ Creepy dramatic music ♪

  • [Chris] We've just arrived, finally

  • About three or four hours behind schedule

  • At Yudanaka hot springs

  • Beautiful hot springs resort, in Nagano

  • But we're so late that we missed dinner

  • How do you feel about that Joey?

  • -Not gooooood

  • -Not good, I don't feel that good either.

  • But luckily we do have an alternative for dinner

  • Tasty alternative....

  • Fish and chip Pringles!

  • There you go Joey, knock yourself out.

  • It's a really beautiful hotel room,

  • But we don't actually have time to appreciate it

  • Because we gotta go to bed now

  • And do it all over again tomorrow!

  • We spent far too much time today in abandoned quarries,

  • Abandoned love hotels...

  • Technically I think we did complete the horror film challenge though

  • Don't you think Joey?

  • -Technically, yes.

  • -Technically

  • -Big quotation marks around

  • -We didn't make a movie, it was more like a documentary

  • We call it a documentary, and we beat the challenge,

  • And that is enough for me.

  • But for now though guys,

  • Many thanks for watching the first episode of

  • Journey Across Japan Escape to Mt Fuji

  • We will be back, to do it all over again

  • In the next episode, check it out, but for now

  • See you later

  • Bed time and Pringles!

  • Live the dream.

  • [Joey] No Pringles!

  • -Fish and chip Pringles... yeah...

  • God that is really quite unpleasant

  • It's never a good sign when the person selling something

  • Doesn't want to eat it either

  • (Camera crash noise)

  • (laughter)

  • [Chris] Outtakes sorted!

[Impact noise] This is like a first person horror game...

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