hey guys how's it going good morning we
are fresh and we're ready to go the sun
is shining Mount Fuji is visible and
we're gonna leave Kay's mountain view
Kay's Fuji view for for the forest you
know what I'm gonna stop referring it to
it as a suicide for this it's not called
the suicide for us it's called the it's
like it's got a name I'll get you the
name okey go hard yeah yeah this is my
friend from Argentina say hi and he has
a very interesting cup which is like a
lathe cut aluminum what what is this so
this is a matter mati ma te you are ok
I'm eating these guys the leaves
branches and like I'm going fast like
much okay the whole plant is ground
together ok you can Wow
I mean that's like my dad's driveway I
had that on the side ok and then you mix
it up and you use hot water I'm not
boiling water ok let's make it sing and
there's a there's an aluminum straw and
then the inner wall of the sub-sites
okay containers oh okay okay share one
thing okay
shit about my so is it necessary to have
a wood lining in your cup is that like
something that's that is did you choose
this Cup because it's it's different or
does you choose it it goes really good
yes it's called fineness and Palo Santo
thing is that it should have an English
name
it's very smelly usually
if you burn it they'd have a really nice
aroma yeah and it's got I've never seen
a straw that is a metal straw like that
was it round when you first got it you
just keep chewing it until it's flat
[Laughter]
it's like a tea yeah yeah very
interesting that's what you learn when
you travel you see different people with
different cultures using different
implements to eat and drink different
things cool tying things on yeah yeah
and you'll get better at it too like
you'll find wrapping in certain ways and
but now you've got a jacket that contend
with big poufy jacket now this is Felix
how's it going yeah he's he's going a
little lighter than me what's your
what's your mission
my mission is Mount Fuji today station
five yeah in the cloud somewhere up
there what's your overall mission
finding finding my why I don't know like
where I want to be in the future okay
all right yeah
finding your essence the road will tell
you eventually cool well good luck
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now the force we're headed to is just
next to the city called Fujikawa Chico
it's the main jumping-off point for
people that might want to climb Mount
Fuji if you're interested in seeing
somebody climb Mount Fuji I did it a few
days ago with my friend John so I'll
leave a link to that did you want to
stop and maybe afterwards we go down in
front of the lake instead of this road
okay let's let's put our bikes over
there
these fall colors are beautiful and at
the same time spooky so that'll be nice
a nice contrast to spending the night in
a forest that has some bad stories
attached to it but we're looking for
some good stuff so let's take a look in
town to see what's going on and then
we'll head in to find our campsite a
little later
isn't this sort of how all scary movies
start we hang out at the festival in
town and then later we go into the
forest today and camp out and drink some
beers then Jason comes out
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I'm trying to teach John some blogging
tips and one of them is if there's a
cute dog in the area right that put it
in the video
everybody likes cute stuff looks like a
cannon you know that you know the
Chinese roasters that explode yes you're
not talking about
are you guys interested in seeing what
what sabi root looks like look that's
wasabi root so that stuff you put on
your sushi you want to try it I gotta
buy it if you try it
what's the name of this pepper is this a
you don't know enjoy where do you grow
it Tokyo
yeah stained hotel now he gave you
one is it Oh what it's very tasty you
should try a giant try one you gotta
have one
oh it's not that bad it's not that bad
what Rosa was eating with your hand
don't see the doggy dog huh
he'll die
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looks like a tree is growing out of that
building you know you know that
beautiful building back there with the
tree popping out just gorgeous
it's a shitter
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we're gonna leave here we have some
coffee a little coffee shop and we're
gonna head to the al Qaeda Hara forest
just to give you a little background
this forest was sort of made famous by a
few films they were kind of horror I
don't know it just sort of caught on in
a weird way in Japan and people have
been using it as a location to end their
lives and it's ending your life early is
about as far away from Jo as you could
possibly get you know and you might be
asking why why are you going there it is
it is a different aspect of life and
it's not something I like to focus on
but I think what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna go there I'm going to show you any
signs of of lives that are in despair
and things like this and I'm gonna
contrast that with the beauty and
enormity of nature because maybe it's
it's a it's an interesting contrast to
show you the the downright worst moments
that people might ever have and in
contrast that with the fact that we live
in such a beautiful place on the earth
so I'm told from people who have been
there and friends that I know that there
are some very interesting things to see
there it would be my hope actually that
I might find somebody waiting there
because I'm told that there are people
that go into the forest and and hang out
and contemplate the end and
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Wow wouldn't it be an impactful thing if
we could go into the forest and meet
somebody who is on the precipice of
making a horrible decision show them
that there is light at the end of the
tunnel and there is a potential for
great thing in Asia there's a there's a
stigma there's a responsibility factor
people feel a great burden financially
to take care of their family and get an
education and go to the right school and
do the right things and you know what
sometimes you don't do the right things
and sometimes the world smacks you in
your face you know I've been to press
many times I've been broke I've been
warned
I've been fearful I've been sad but I've
always thought that I'll be wiser at the
end of this road and I'll be better once
I get out of this funk so let's see if
we can get an interesting perspective of
the suicide forest thank you
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Wow guys if you could smell what I smell
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we're here looks a lot different than it
does at night right yeah this is one of
the entrances to the forest it's a
really big area that's underneath the
Mount Fuji we're right here and as a
matter of fact is there's areas that are
way up higher where people do
what this forest has become synonymous
with but they also do it quite quite
close to here as a matter of fact this
area is in the movie the forest which
kind of immortalized that this whole
thing there's a bus stop right across
this way right next to that tour bus
where people will stop and come off the
bus if you're coming by car people will
come here and they'll park their car and
their car will stay here now not
everybody that goes in there stays there
a lot of them decide to come back out
and use the forest as a place of
contemplation but this is the starting
point for a lot of those introspective
journeys this this restaurant as a
matter of fact is is one of the places
that people come to grab the last bite
to eat in this area over here which is
full of vending machines is where a lot
of people come and they gather up snacks
and stuff and going now I could like
sugarcoat this video and tell you that
it's scary and I'm shivering in my boots
but this is actually a beautiful forest
it's actually a wonderful place to walk
is I mean the trees and and the colors
and everything are natural and beautiful
to just label this place as as a fearful
area where people OFF themselves and
it's just ghastly is not necessarily the
truth in fact I'm hoping to kind of
dispel a few rumors that I've heard I've
heard if you go in there you're 4 G
turns off your compasses don't work
GPS can't locate you some of those I
think are true in some some ways but I'm
interested in going in there and seeing
myself Last Supper this is where a lot
of people come Heather
have their last meal for the head in the
forest not even that good
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now from what we've heard when we get
deep into the forest our phones will
lose their GPS service and 4G service
let's see where we're at right now I've
got 4G and I've got two bars and I've
got 31% battery left moss-grown over all
the trees there's a lot of like broken
and piled foliage everywhere and I'm
guessing that we're because we're here
and a little bit of the autumn it's a
little bit more open and I bet during
the summer time it's almost dark here
even during the day because the canopy
is probably more filled in you think we
can get the trikes up here yeah let's
try and think about where we might
settle in the ground that we're walking
on is volcanic debris I can feel under
my feet it's sharp and bumpy our tents
might get ripped unless we find a nice
smooth place up here and that'd be cool
to set up a tent up up on the mound here
this that's a boom box no taping it what
bread is it Tony of course so what
happens when somebody might want to come
here and contemplate the end of things
is they coming here
and they tie on a string next on the
main path after they do that they go in
and right here is a string what do you
say we follow the line
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it's very quiet actually
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maybe somebody or maybe some rocks
either way let's take a look all right
this area here it's hard to tell how
recent this this rope has been laid but
I think this it looks pretty new but
this area looks like it's been it's been
used bags and a heat pad and and some
big shopping bags where somebody might
have brought a bunch of food could you
be any louder John is the opposite of
being light-footed with lighter fluid
bags where they probably brought some
clothes or whatever half a wallet I bet
I bet maybe half of it had their ids or
something maybe they cut it the people
that came here cut it and took it back
maybe I don't know I D this is a this is
a like a document holder for maybe
medical records or something I bet this
is like sort of a waypoint because they
I mean they keep going we should keep
going
maybe they hang out here I mean this is
old there's some old stuff here some of
me thinks maybe this is staged and
here's an older string this is an older
line the line is brand new and even this
path here has been walked fairly
recently maybe even you have some people
here that are just sort of like
thrill-seekers going in playing the
movie
the place reminds me of Lord of the
Rings like an ancient forest covered in
moss overgrowth you're walking on the
remnants of trees and trees past just
over and over and over growth and decay
and growth and death and then decay
growth death decay and this one white
line this one white line stretching off
and just to tell you we have two bars
and my GPS is working good in fact I'm
gonna send a picture to Annie
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we don't want to be out here past sunset
which is about 40 minutes away so I
think that leaves us about 20 more
minutes of walking through the forest
but my assumption is that we will not
come upon anybody or anything other than
this line and maybe those areas of trash
people if that was their intention they
go deep they go deep so that if you know
they don't really want to be found if
that's their purpose and I'm not saying
that this line wasn't put there by maybe
some hiker that wanted to venture into
the forest and laid down this rope so he
could find his way back either way it's
not as spooky as I thought that's for
sure
we could camp in this area right here I
guess or try to find a flat area if he
really wanted to come here to do what
what was he what what we're thinking I
bet he went down five times as much
I bet he's way way down there if he is
there
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I don't know where the saying we've come
to the end of the line comes from
exactly but in this case we've literally
come to the end of the line I look
around this area and I see a broken
branch here a tagged tree over there
just like from a forestry service but
nothing else
john has a bad feeling about this it's
very hard because I'm totally
disconnected from the people that might
come here to end it not not that I've
never been depressed but like I said
earlier I just have never gone so deep
down the rabbit hole to want to leave
this beautiful Rock and look at this
place it is beautiful the string right
there yeah okay
here's a path whether it's an animal or
human it's there but I'll tell you what
one thing I'm not seeing is garbage I
don't see any signs of people well folks
it's getting late
and I don't want to go too far deep into
this place oh that's the path the path
it's a path it's the path all right so
we've run into an actual trail I I don't
know unless I guess you passed this
trail and went straight I don't see how
you could really get lost because we're
bordered on all sides by trails and I'm
guessing you could find one of those
trails now if you were to go beyond
those trails even then there's a 702
Road and a 71 Road
a highway on one side and a21 on the
other and the max you would have to walk
would be five or six kilometers before
you hit a road I don't know I'd have to
dispel the rumor that you could get lost
in here too easy if anything I think it
might be a little hard to get lost you
could hide you could hide here very
easily but I'm not sure if you could
really get lost over here
I feel like we're in a fairy tale Hansel
and Gretel yeah Hansel I'm great though
careful take the whole tree off yeah
yeah it's on the map I mean we could we
could look at this look at this
checking Network what does this mean I'm
so I'm so scared
I'm so I'm so scared yeah my we chat we
chats gone scared not anymore
yeah we have a path you yeah not spooky
no camping no biking no capturing
butterflies no garbage John really wants
to catch butterflies
what well folks instead of it being
fearful and scary it's gonna be a really
interesting night in a beautiful forest
this is the checkpoint where the light
was we have a celebrity this is crazy
oh my trike is being explored
konnichiwa guru go ahead
bye-bye thanks sir
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road heating area what do you do you
think that actually means the roads is
heated you know what okay so we are
we're leaving that area for now there's
people there guarding the entrance and I
don't think we can run in there it set
up camp very easily but the guy said
there's a campsite up the road so we'll
go check it out if it's a nice campsite
maybe we'll just stay there and if it
isn't we'll come back here and hopefully
everybody's gone and we can go camping
inside the forest this is the road
heating area this whole road is heated
now tell me that doesn't make you think
that the trees are gonna come out and
grab me by the ankles and pull you into
the forest right parasite trees just
really old tangled trees I think is what
it's saying but but parasitic trees in
the suicide for sorry sorry my batteries
over thank you sir thank you thank you
nice guy
ten ten minutes twenty minutes okay
hotel okay okay okay okay thank you I
[Laughter]
don't know dude because we know we'll be
back there probably subconsciously that
guy was the guy that told me where the
campsite was or the place to stay and he
must have noticed that we had our things
charging I would have forgotten for that
would have been shitty that's literally
all my drone batteries right all of them
but did you hear what else he said he
said hotel
I don't want to stay at a hotel let's go
up here we'll hang out and maybe we'll
come back you want to take a look let's
go across
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there's some lights on inside it though
it's like a restaurant or something what
does that say
to the direction of beef and ruins
exploration although in such situation
people live the valuable thing has
nothing if it is it will arrive and
moves out you read it it is becoming and
carrying out after store collapses and
snow damage foolish which enters
repeatedly is even though it has not
carried out a for tortious fortuitous
meeting yeah yes
since I'm fearful also here appropriate
arms are prepared whenever it enters it
is restrained by the police fire reports
fingerprinting except for about four
hours since is really troublesome please
do not enter freely in how that's just
Dell computer do the ghosts want to buy
a Dell computer stupid ghosts they need
to go with Apple
[Laughter]
hey guys so it's cold you know now I
don't know if we're gonna be able to
camp inside the forest so what we're
gonna do is set up camp outside we are
next to a soccer field on a little side
road we are we're far enough away from
anybody that nobody's going to bother us
so we're going to set up our tents out
here and make like base camp then
hopefully around 9 o'clock we can head
back to the suicide forest everybody
will be gone we can go in and walk
around check it out maybe sit there for
a little while and just experience what
it's like in the night in the suicide
forest so for now we're just going to
set up camp and making sure there's
nobody going to come out here so for now
we're just going to set up camp and get
out there a little later computer all
charged yeah
where are we right now wearing
announcing a five-star hotel this is
about as far from the Forbidden Forest
as you could get we were we laid our
tents outside of this hotel in an area
that's free and then we walked right
into the hotel walked right into the own
sin nobody asked us any questions and we
have been sitting in a beautiful hot tub
for the last hour let me show you and I
can show you this one because nobody's
here we own this place
we've been charging all of our stuff and
get it and just take killing time and
hanging out in the other side let me
take my socks off I'll show you
check this own son oh it's fogging up so
this has been our own Sun for the last
hour for free we've been sitting in this
beautiful hot tub just hanging out
talking about life looking at the Stars
which are out there and in the inside
area here I can show you through the
glass actually
so we got this hot tub and all the wash
areas and not one person has come in
here to tell us to go it's crazy so now
the trick is we've been sitting in a
sunset for an hour do we do we leave
scot free
because if we left that we didn't have
to pay for anything that would be the
ultimate but to be honest if we leave
like normally when you come to a place
like this you pay to get in and they
give you a towel but what are they going
to kick us out so now what Forbidden
Forest no I don't think so for an hour
all right we'll see little catch you
with whatever we decide all right guys
this is a situation we are situated on
our tents right here we're technically
in the forest the area that that we were
at earlier is down the road a couple of
kilometres it's almost 10 o'clock I'm
gonna go back there
just so that I can show you what it
looks like at night John is gonna stay
here I'm just gonna run up there take a
look and then come back I had intended
to camp there overnight it's a little
bit more difficult than that because
they have security cameras at both trail
entrances they kind of scooted us out
when they when they kind of shut down
those trails and so we set up our tents
out here just so that we had a place to
sleep now when I go back there the
cameras are gonna record me milling
around the entrances and they'll
probably send security out but I want to
go out there just gonna show you what it
looks like a night hopefully there are
no cars parked in the parking lot
because that would mean that there's
probably somebody on the inside and that
we'll cross that bridge when we come to
it but for now I'm gonna get the trike
out and I'm gonna ride down to the entry
of the path area just give you a at
least a good closing I was sitting in
the hotel lobby right outside the own
Sun and I and we had our laptops open
we're warm and comfortable and I looked
it looked at John and I'm like man I
have to go back there tonight I have to
create a ending to this vlog otherwise
it really ends with the fizzle it had
already kind of ended with the fizzle
because I wanted to camp in there but
it's really gonna end it with the fizzle
if I don't go back there and at least
end the story where where I intended it
to end so I'm gonna take you over to the
to the forest one more time let's go I
don't know what happened to me recently
in the last maybe five years but I don't
know I feel like I've lost a lot of fear
I used to be really afraid of darkness
afraid of forests afraid of creepy
crawlies and things and I feel like I
don't know my skin has just thickened by
huge amounts I am literally going back
into the entryway of the suicide forest
because I feel like I really need to
tighten this vlog up and I'm really
disappointed that we weren't able to set
up camp there convincingly and and all
of these things and if you would have
met the Matt from Hell even 5 10 years
ago he would have been so afraid of even
going near that place it's strange how
you grow into a stronger man or lose
some of those childhood fears part of
this vlog is about going to confront
your fears instead embracing the beauty
in places that ordinarily would be
fearful
and that's what this forest is you know
to me at least it's a place that has
been branded with such a horrible tragic
story but in essence it's this place
that is so beautiful and has outlived
and will outlive all of us all right
here's a spot the entryway is right up
then up the path here and this is the
bathroom and there's a car in front of
me parked with the windows fogged let's
take a look at the entrance real quick
we're gonna shed a little light here so
they have some infrared cameras we saw
them during the day they're right here
at the parking lot taping this whole
area
there's one car that was parked at the
lot
it left you can't see anything
I have a phone booth here
I understand the stress that causes
people to contemplate and and and enter
that forest without the desire to come
out I don't empathize personally because
I I've always fought against those
feelings but I can appreciate the Asian
mindset behind those stresses that cause
somebody to go in there you know just
like the hundreds of people that have
stepped off buses at this bus stop to go
in the amount of willpower it takes to
actually go through that is is in a very
op to sway admirable it's it's also very
very sad you know I like even me
standing here I can feel the ghosts of
so many of these lost souls that have
entered that forest I mean that from a
mystical way but just from a practical
way Asians in particular they have so
much pressure in China I've lived there
for eight years and I've seen students
you know pressured so hard by their
families to do a good job and then
thinking of the workforce and they're
pressured and then they get and the
marriages and they're pressure there are
arranged and there's pressures coming
from all sides it's funny because I've
talked to people about what I'm doing
and and I'm not saying that I'm doing
something that's you know unbelievable
you know or or that I'm some sort of
elevated figure I'm just a normal person
that is trying to do something
extraordinary a lot of people don't
think that anything outside of this
bubble that they've built around them is
possible and so they come and they step
off this bus stop in the in the dark or
even during the day just before the park
closes and they walk in there and they
set up a tent in the forest that we walk
through and they sit there
and there's so much pressure on them
from all these different angles
and it's sad you know because there's
only pressure that you exert on yourself
and that's the truth we create all these
pressures all these forces that we
generate our forces from within pressed
against us
you think it's a pressure from your
family telling you you have to do a
certain thing or you have to be a
certain way but you can read infinite
stories of people that have resisted the
pressures of family and went on to be
great people in their own right and
you've read stories of people that have
lost millions lost billions and they go
on to create other businesses or use
that failure as a prop to become even
more successful in in future goals so
any of these reasons that anybody was to
walk in that forest loss let's say you
lost a loved one you know that's
probably the hardest one you know you
lose somebody you love you walk in there
and you want to join them but I can tell
you that there are millions of stories
of people that have lost everybody is
lost you know sometimes you take that
loss and you make it you internalizing
make it stronger you know you carry on
the memory of the person that you you
loved or and you lost and and you try to
live a better life in spite and for the
memory of that person I really believe
that if I could stand at this entrance
and talk to anybody that was willing to
go in there for the very last time and
never come out that I could I could at
least try to break through that ice and
that would be a
that would be a truly amazing positive
ending to a very branded negative place
because it's only branded negative it's
a beautiful forest if you were to go
inside the quiet would be deafening you
might think of that quiet as something
fearful but you can also think of it as
nature at its finest anyways now this
forest is full of many horrible stories
but none of them had to end that way and
who knows how many amazing stories ended
there amazing stories that will never be
told how many scientists businessmen
fathers mothers children grandparents
the the greatest mind might have might
have ended before his time or her time I
guess that's what I wanted to say I
didn't want to come here and be such a
negative Nancy
you know and I didn't want a chronicle
this area and say that it was such a
spooky place and and that evil resides
there because there's no evil in that
that's a forest it's a forest where you
know the unfortunate scum I just wanted
to come back out here because I kind of
feel like I screwed the pooch when we
got booted out and we didn't necessarily
find a way back in to camp and we ended
up going down the street and setting up
camp I felt like this story was going to
be left without an ending I was thinking
Blair Witch II that you know we were
going to be in there set up camp station
you know in a tent and then we could
kind of like investigate the area around
the tent but
that that didn't happen so this in turn
is the ending take it for what it's
worth I'm gonna get back on my trike my
whole life my whole mission is about
adding fuel to life you know adding to
become a better person by by pushing the
boundaries and pushing that fuel into
yourself whatever that is it's so sad
that so many people never have that
epiphany that I've had that the world is
really an amazing place and and failure
comes to the best of us without it some
of the most amazing things in the world
and the universe would never happen
in the first place so embrace failure
embrace sadness embrace pain and brace
loss because in essence it makes us
better people
and to jump out of this beautiful world
in spite of the thing that will define
you is the ultimate tragedy you know we
live our lives and some of us never
never really see real tragedy we never
really are confronted with the true pain
of loss or failure or any of those
things a lot of us need that in order to
reach that higher level this is not a
place of endings what might have caused
you to come here is part of your new
beginning the world is your oyster and
no matter what anybody says your parents
your family or boss your siblings it
doesn't matter it only matters that you
do good and that you persevere because
the world is full of love and love is
beyond failure just just a few steps so
we're gonna end it this thing's gone on
too long held just this diatribe has
gone 10 minutes but I will leave it in
and Jo I do not want any of you to come
to this parking lot for anything other
than a beautiful walk through an amazing
forest
Jagga
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