Two guys, it's never a good sign when the person selling something doesn't want to eat it either.

Oh welcome back to journey across Japan.

Escape to Mount fuji.

Six days.

1000 kilometers of despair.

And we're here in the mountains of Nagano to see the most famous monkey park in all of Japan.

Yeah mm.

The monkeys sit around in the hot springs and laze around in the hot water and it's quite a sight to see.

It's actually about a 20 minute hike up this path and this is the perfect way to start our day.

Especially as we all love monkeys.

Let's go and see the guys Joey and nasty guys.

Morning, Are you excited to see the monkeys?

Maybe love monkey.

He loves monkeys.

I love monkeys.

I am among these among well I can't wait to get up there.

We gotta go and hike about 20 minutes.

Let's go and see some monkeys.

Let's do it.

Be advised.

It says it's like a 20 minute hike up into the mountains to see the monkeys.

It's more like a 40 minute expedition.

The views are incredible.

The bad weather today is making a little bit more difficult because of the mud but it's gonna be worth it when we get up there.

Jiggle cordani literally means like hell's Valley and it looks like hell with all the steam rising off of it but it's finally here and I could barely keep my breath.

Oh space, nobody monkey.

No one there.

Oh monkey smells.

Hello.

Hello.

Mhm.

Don't fucking believe it.

No, there's no monkeys.

There's usually like 50 monkeys sitting there in the hot spring today.

Not a single one.

Not a single monkey.

All this time for nothing apart from a moderately scenic walk.

We sent Joey to go and ask the staff for some answers.

Are they coming?

What do they give it time to when they're coming up?

Uh There is no time currently, and the reason is because since it's getting close to winter, the monkeys are busy gathering food for the winter based, busy prepping for the incense season Bollock, that's what they told me.

They should be in there in the video for this opening, not building a treehouse in the bloody mountains.

God's sake.

40 minutes.

It took together 40 minutes in the rain.

So there's a live video feed of this monkey park which people tend to watch around the world in the absence of monkeys today.

They've got something far better.

They've got nasty moping around the side of the Pittsburgh area.

Amazing.

There is people are gonna tune in to this website and think like where's the monkeys?

And also what is that?

Why is there some creepy looking guy standing there?

But Well, we may not have seen the monkeys, but at least we could do a daily challenge every single day on this trip.

We are doing challenges sent in by you guys.

We've had 4000 submissions so far.

Whittled down to just three each and every day by our production team yesterday we did a horror film, which we kind of knock that one out the park.

So let's see what we got today.

Oh, jesus, you call it.

That was like get everyone off a cliff from Alfie Wilcox.

It says eat a strange slash weird food that you have never heard of in the town slash village.

You are in some sort of weird dish from agony, you know, I mean, not clean, we'll get on google so we can find on the long car journey across central Japan today.

All right.

Then hit the road to scout of it soaked through what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well what a great start to the day that was.

But it's day two of our journey across Japan gets underway.

We head through the mountains towards Toyama Prefecture to a forgotten forest that I've sneakily chosen to surprise Nowitzki and Joey and a place that's been called the creepiest in all of Japan more on that later.

But first things first we've got to find our strange local dish.

Oh yeah, Can't wait.

Well my shoes and socks are soaked through and we didn't see any monkeys because they were on a monkey holiday, but the scenery was good And that's key gonna live live show.

Yeah, you're a star famous, Where were the one?

Who is asking the monkeys were influenced by the column.

That is a very sophisticated sentence I've ever heard.

That was, that was full sentence.

The monkeys were influenced by the coronavirus.

Yeah.

So Nagano is kind of known as the Switzerland of japan.

Very picturesque mountainous region.

Very beautiful.

And though we didn't see the monkeys today, if you like hiking hot springs, there isn't a better place in Japan to experience kind of outdoor activity.

I am hungry because of our challenge.

I suspect we're not able to eat normal food today.

And you've been doing some research, what we found.

So we're doing a little bit of research and supposedly Nagano's weirdest food.

Yeah.

It's mostly known to be of the insect variety.

Oh my God.

Because of course do you like insects?

Do you eat insects that piece too.

Based based.

Really, really never.

Well, there's a first time for everything, unfortunately, about an hour into our drive and Joey's googling efforts finally bear fruit except I wish it had been bloody fruit.

Nothing can prepare me for this.

We found that Joey something very exciting.

Would you like to see?

Not really listening, be loving, be loving baby bees like during the grub stage during the grubstake grub bees dipped in sweet soy sauce.

How the hell do you even eat it?

It looks like, I mean look at it.

It looks like scooped up some soil and stuck in a pot.

So I asked the cash register woman too because I didn't know either.

She said, well, I personally don't need it really, but never a good sign with the person selling something doesn't eat it either.

It's like, I'm not a huge fan of it, but most people just eat it on a time.

She just crack it open, get some chopsticks and they just, I've been six in the past.

Let's see what that has to say about this.

What do you think?

Well, being challenged?

Should we can do it?

Yes, yes.

Should we can do it.

Yes, we can do it of course challenge.

But at the bench to cancel out the unpleasant flavor of the bee larva, not skis getting some wasabi cheese.

What's that flavor?

Salty cheese and deepest style?

Oh, look a dip many what's up?

Certainly a lot more appealing to me than bee larvae.

That's for sure.

Mm hmm.

So today I couldn't find anywhere good to stay the night.

We stayed at this majestic.

Beautiful on sent town.

Yesterday we had no time to experience.

It became certain events that transpired.

But the place that I found today there was actually no good hotels.

So we're staying in sort of a log cabin.

I want a cabin like log cabins asking look at it, look long and the whole cabin kevin moore cabin cabin.

Now we have the perfect dinner, don't we joe we have the perfect dinner because we got, I'll see you marty.

I spent 2000 years on these lava 164,168 on something.

I don't want to eat something that's probably gonna make me sick.

Honey soy sauce.

Honey, soy sauce.

What it is that actually sounds appealing.

Honey soy sauce.

Would you like the larvae?

No.

Would you like honey soy sauce be?

Yes.

Yeah.

You ask anybody, They call that a fancy in Australia made in Australia.

Yeah.

We have arrived at a humble abode for tonight.

A log cabin.

Yeah.

Getting the log cabin.

I've never seen anything so small.

This reminds me of like school camp, nothing but the finest accommodation for you, Joey and other really neat.

It's peaceful, jesus christ wow.

It's straight up the wall county.

Alright, sick.

Welcome to my house.

Mhm.

Let's cooking Orlando aka called the box tonight that it is like old boss leaf like victor.

Left lady left lady later refrigerator, refrigerator toy and pass.

You need to start.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Oh boy.

Uh uh Your favorite good boy business hotel.

That's cool.

This is compact, safety code whips up.

Yes.

Well, spider, spider, spider trash for you.

Cobwebs are now referred to as spider trash.

Spider trash.

Oh, jesus, jesus, jesus style, jesus stuff.

Mhm.

Before we get too comfortable in our log cabin with jesus and the spider trash.

We hop back in the car for our final destination of the day, 1989.

A local entrepreneur whose since passed away paid $56 million to have 800 lifelike statues sculpted and placed in a rural forest.

Grand gestures such as this weren't uncommon during Japan's eighties bubble economy today.

The army of creepy, lifelike figures remain in the forest degraded and in disrepair.

I'd hope to see them during the day.

But due to our long journey, we find ourselves forced to explore the forest at night.

Right?

It's gonna be scary though, like seeing 800 figures in a field at night.

That's my assumption.

My hypothesis.

Oh ship there is.

Whoa, that's not.

Uh huh.

I don't really want to get out the car to be honest.

I really don't want to either.

Oh God, whoa.

It's like I thought it was actually a person just standing there looking.

It was quite pleasant.

I'm more scared of this than I was of the abandoned Love Hotel we stumbled across yesterday.

I've got a little bit of a thing with statues, especially in the dark, everyday fucking place.

Journey across Japan.

Yeah, let's go.

I really, I really don't want to go in there like this is way scarier than the Band of Love Hotel from last night.

Look at that.

Alright, got some protection before we go in afghan.

If we get a bear, if a bear comes across us, they better be ready because I know what I'm doing with this.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Yes.

Oh it's what I don't like is uh we've got the ones in the foreground, but the ones in the background, the light hits them, you sort of see their silhouette, the shadow that it's pretty damn creepy that it's pretty uncomfortable.

And then if you sort of look over there, whatever we without the torch, you can see these figures against the forest, but their faces like, oh, they're really horrible.

Like generally if you like look at them for like 10 seconds you start to feel really quite uncomfortable.

I don't like the faint smile that's giving me look.

Oh God, look at that.

No, that's a night, man.

That's a fucking nightmare.

Oh God, it's really quite unpleasant to look at.

The statue's gotta challenge though.

We've got three of us.

I think we should go in each try and find the creepiest statue, present it in the video and then you guys can decide watching this.

Which one you think is the creepiest.

Just leave like a common.

Are you ready?

No, that's the spirit.

Let's go.

Okay.

Scaly face fashion ist scarf.

He had a scarf fashion.

Ist.

Usually these statues have names at the bottom here.

Like for example, this name is only a first name.

All right, let me see.

Oh, okay, hold on.

Sick.

two words.

Ronald McDonald.

Once you've seen it, you can't really unset.

It's the hair.

It's the makeup.

Well, the face mask you, they're not ski screen, that's there for a kid.

So wolves, car dollar game.