Experiencing The Breathtaking Drive Through the Sky-High Grasslands

Experiencing The Breathtaking Drive Through the Sky-High Grasslands

so this is what i’ve got saying that oops oops oh no my tape so i don’t know if anyone will see but you know you have no idea who will check out so just saying that you know exploring japan island now have come to the fourth prefecture out of 47 and they say my insta so hopefully somebody will see it well but anyways the weather has finally got nicer so tomorrow will be a nice day to drive let’s have a dinner finally tonight’s dinner i got the eel again and fishes this is shimaaji (white trevally) she said and kakitamajiru I think it’s egg I don’t know what’s inside but looks good Itadakimasu i’m not really sure speaking of eel my hometown Hamamatsu in shizoka prefecture is also very famous for eel maybe one of the reasons why i like it it’s a fried chicken with the leaves iit’s kind of like a mint(Perilla called shiso in Japanese) it goes well with chicken in this one finished eating that’s good gochisousamadeshita ohayogozaimasu morning and here is the breakfirst it’s very simple you know it’s really like a japanese one i guess something i think it’s kind of unique is this unique to i guess the people abroad would be this one this is called okara i think how can i explain i will look it up later but i’m not really good at this one actually but it’s kind of how can i put okara（soy pulp) i think it’s made out of soybeans i’m guessing it’s sake let me find out well yes i did a quick research about how it’s made so this is the leftover of tofu because you know tofu is made out of soybeans and it’s like you crush the soybeans into pieces then you put that with some kind of liquid and then you know after some time you squeeze it and you know so when you squeeze it you get the liquid again that’s the tounyu which is soy milk yes soy milk and then you get the soy milk and you also get something that is more solid separated from those liquid which is what i meant by the leftover that is okara so it’s a good source of protein and you know so i think it’s very healthy actually so let’s try Itadakimasu nori (seaweed) i have this shirasu (whitebait) I don’t know the name but it’s you know popular little fishes then i pour soy sauce and then i mix it with rice this is corokke corokke is like fried potato kind of japanese type of fried potato actually searched a bit about that before and i didn’t know it was invented in japan i don’t know why how it’s different from like not like fried potato in other countries but it does have different looks and also like it’s kind of like hashed potato i guess but it has the potato but it doesn’t have meat inside but this one can have any kind of things inside for example this one has a corn and also many times you have meat basically pork(or beaf) inside and then that really goes with potato which is this one corokke is like really popular for kids and you know i mean nowadays i realize that it has many fat because of this is fried so i intend not to eat that much but i used to like it and i heard that my mother actually liked it a lot which i have come to realize nowadays when i had a conversation with my mother so then one time my father was actually cooking corokke which does have several procedures to cook so it takes a little while to cook it and it was actually good it was something that tasted better than the ones you get in supermarkets of any kind of places like a shop restaurants i don’t know about the restaurant bus at least it was my mother doesn’t really praise my father much😅 but since he cooked you know he tried to cook good one and then it actually did it tasted good so my mother was saying to my father that you know it does taste better than ones in supermarket or some kind so yeah that’s the story i just remembered so this one is okara with the konnyaku (Konjac) yeah and the vegetables itadakimasu so well i have tried okara thing but I didn’t like it much actually so yes you know everyone has you know likes and dislikes right about the food and then i can probably eat most of the things but you know some stuff i don’t like to eat actually this is probably those few things that i’m not really good at but you know compared to my younger days i have suddenly i have become able to eat more stuff usually you when you’re a kid you have a lot more stuff that you don’t like to eat right for example kids don’t like to eat vegetables it’s like a common thing in japan and i don’t know about the other countries about it sometimes it is like that and i was one of those people but you know as you grow up you start to be able to eat more stuff and then you know i think there’s like a phases to me it was there was like a phase you know after i get you know after i entered elementary school i think i was able to eat you know stuff but you know certainly don’t like several vegetables i guess and i was like you know in high school or becoming adult i think i started to find you know i don’t know how to say it’s enjoyment of eating many stuff many ingredients actually so i was i become able to eat the ingredients that i didn’t like before for example while traveling this time actually i was in Tokushima and then in one place there was like shiitake mushroom that i had in a restaurant and i didn’t like it much when i was a kid actually I hated that taste but at that restaurant the shiitake mushroom tasted like really rich and it was kind of chewy but you know it was juicy and really tasted good so that’s something that you know i realized that my taste got different than when i was a kid so speaking of that kind of change i think that’s kind of a beauty of aging you know which what mr kuma the architect that designed the facilities in yusuhara town where i was visiting yesterday when he talks about the one of the facilities which was a beautiful bridge he designed he was saying that as a point of the design he was mentioning that you know beauty of aging so i think that is you know connected to what i am eating right now the things i just come up with you know about the food and about change you get while you get grow while you grow older so let’s enjoy the change gochisosamadeshita hello so finally i’m getting a sunny day which is really nice and then for this year for the first time i’m wearing a t shirt half sleeve t shirt i feel more comfortable and so i’m leaving here this matsyama ryokan actually since it’s a sunny day finally after you know having many rainy days i will go to shikoku karst which is said to have a really great view of nature on the mountains so i’m you know now it’s 10 o’clock but probably i get there before 12 i guess actually i got this osushi from the owner of this matsyama ryokan this way this way yeah he said that he’s got that from the supermarket near here as a leftover but he shared it and then told me that i can have it for lunch so i really appreciate that and then i really appreciate their hospitality and it was you know overall a very present stay if you have a chance you can visit and they have also wifi i didn’t use it but they have but anyway it was good and so i will start driving then okay so i was stopping at the gas station and filling the gas and i just had a conversation with the people working there and was making sure if the map the roads to the shikoku karst is ok to drive by this car and then they said that you know that road on the map direction you know like the road was too narrow you know like passing by two cars to each other so they suggested me to you know take a detour but it’s going to have like two lines so which would be safer for me to drive so it’s always nice to talk to people who are in local and talk to locals who know better than me of course about the places i am visiting in local places but it’s a good reminder that if you’re visiting local places talk to the people there and it’s better to understand more about the place i guess so just sharing the tips for traveling so here is the kind of like a you know starting point to get to the shikoku karst and then top of it it is called tengu kougen(天狗高原） you see on the board there’s a cow and I wonder how it’s going to look like so i’m going to shoot a video of me driving from here also i saw a sign that says that there’s more 18 kilometers to tengu kougen top of the mountain it won’t take that too long probably more than 30 minutes i guess so i think this is a really popular place for motorcyclists as i have seen a place one of the hostels that i saw in the Yusuhara Town was designed for a motorcyclist oh my gosh it’s high i’m in such a high place it’s a bit scary actually I wonder what if you know like the brakes (while driving a place like this) got a program suddenly and if I become unable to stop the car i have to go straight onto the guardrail and cross it and actually fall down to the mountains and then certainly I will die so i think i really need to regularly check if there’s no problem on this car for driving so i have to be careful with that i guess even though it is difficult to find a partner or company that can check everything is all right about this car and the company that i’m sure will do that is the one that i bought from this car from which is in Hyogo so i think i need to have more people who like to have this kind of car in every prefecture so that i can visit when I am traveling it might stop so i think i used too many gears so i think it’s best to like run with like the 3rd gear which is like a moderate one finally i’ve arrived at the top of the karst area so i will explore okay so i have just arrived at the top of the mountain and i’m getting a breathtaking view out here can you see it i don’t know wow can you see it wow this is incredible it’s such a great weather and nice mountains that you can get look over like the kochi mountain areas of kochi and the air is so fresh a german term and meaning limestone and so these i guess these rocks that you can see would be something like that i guess but over there looks pretty nice so i’m thinking of driving up there and at the top it’s a little windy so i should wear a jacket and then drive up there and take videos so i think it’s maybe a restaurant karst terrace and there’s a bathroom and also this nice looking hotel which i actually wanted to stay for one night but you know because of that rain i gave up on coming here but you know i heard it’s like planetarium at the top and you can sit and look over the sky during the night so you can see like you know beautiful stars on the sky at night which i was hoping to see but you know maybe some other time so this one says that so shikoku karst is one of the so it’s a national natural park one and then it’s said that it’s the one of the three major karst areas in japan and i have found this you know like a place where you can walk down and take a rest and then that place looks really nice to you know have a lunch super relaxing i wonder if there’s any way to come up here if you don’t have a car maybe i don’t know if there are buses that come here but there may be but you know bikers like to come i think it’s very good for resting so the height is now above the sea level it’s 1485 meters and you can see many kinds of flowers and plants and so you can get different kind of views for every season well let’s try to get there it’s under the sun so today i got sunscreen creem only on my face so i have a little resistance to the sun Hi Man : Genta. It’s okay. It’s a guy who took our picture a while ago Me: Am I alright? Man: Go down and play there. Man: He barks but never bite. Me: Can I enter? Genta, I’m coming in. Man: Genta, don’t do it. Me: Ojamashimasu (I’m coming in) not sure if he’s happy or not he’s checking if i’m okay or not I passed the test i guess i forgot to bring a selfee stick and you know taking the video from that angle which isn’t great so here is the osushi i have got from the the owner of the ryokan so this is the hotel called Hoshifuru Village Tengu and so i was just checking with the planetarium and they said that you know they are going to explain about the stars that you can see from around this Tsuno Cho area so i don’t know i was kind of thinking that you know it would have been much better to see like natural real stars so well that’s why you know i mean today i probably won’t be able to see stars but still you know lost interest in seeing artificial stars so maybe some other time and it had been nice to be able to stay at this place for today because it’s clearly weather is really nice so at night i guess it should be able to see stars in the sky that would have been great but i still enjoyed pretty much this view and so lastly i will take a look inside this hotel for the future visit sometime it looks pretty nice actually front and it has a restaurant and i think it’s where you can get drinks and stuff and it’s a piano as well so those are probably like the rooms for staying many bikers with helmet Here’s a place where you can buy local stuff cows and the cookies and cheesecakes using like milk i guess yeah shikoku karst cookie with stars shape so looks like many stuff using like milk it’s a cheesecake gyunyu (milk) chocolate oh it’s a milk bread wow interesting it’s a cream puff (shew cream in japanese) i can try that and it’s a restaurant steak don Clerk : Would you like to sit inside?
Me: No, thank you. so all those, observatory and panorama room panorama deck and also there’s a large public bath those are all for only the guests who are staying you know well I hoped to see the panorama room at least but you know so it looks like a nice place to stay for a night and when i checked the price it was like 12,000 yen (= about $ 80) around that price so that’s reasonable i think so with this great view so that’s for this hotel and then i actually saw this so it says that this is like a borderline between Kochi prefecture and Ehime prefecture Ehme is the one that i’m going probably sometime at next month so i’ve already stepped into the ehime prefecture but i’m a little bit still in kochi and have few more days to explore okay so i’m now in the karst terrace and this is like a place where you can buy coffee and also you can get a guide about this shikoku karst it talks about how this place has been created and reporting like how it was made and talks about the limestone and the foccil fuels and also how they are now using limestone as resources so i’ve got to understand that mostly these so this kind of limestone that we are now seeing used to be a coral leaf and then it was with water melted and then some are left unmelted and then those are the ones that we are now seeing and also it talks about these natural creatures such as birds and insects and also here you can also see foxes rabbit and it’s called badger anangoma i want to see that actually it says that you can see them during the daytime and lunch sorry i didn’t see them but you know here you have videos projected and these are the speciments of i think konchu insects such as butterflies and tonbo how do you call them (it’s dragonfly in English) tonbo and kuwagata(beatles in English) many of them okay right okay i’ll move up to the hill There was somethng in front of my trike Oh this is one way😅 I wonder if I can go. I’m not really sure if I can go. It may not be possible. Can I make it…? Ikeruka? (Can I make it?) i see cows wow looks so narrow. I wonder if it’s okay to go through. Excuse me. Did you come from that side? (from Ehime side)? Do you think the road over there are too narrow for this car? Man: Ah You don’t know?
Me: No because I came from the Kochi side. Man: There are both wide and narrow part so it should be okay for your car. Man: Is thie a car you rented? Did you come here by this car?
Me: No. This is mine. Yes I came by this. From Hyogo prefecture and I am exploring Japan by this. Man: By this? Is this 50 cc?
Me: It’s under 250 cc. Man: Can you drive on highway?
Me: Yes, but I don’t because it’s scary. Man: Yeah if it does, that’s gonna bother me too haha.
Me: yeah I know. Man: Well, looks like it’s working good today.
Me: Yeah, anyway thank you. i was asking if the road is too narrow or not and he said it should be fine with this size of the car all those limestones are once in the ocean and it’s got lifted up here because of the movement of the plates oh there’s a lot more cows i should stay here and take photos with more like a somewhere I can park with more stability here maybe it’s fine to stop a bit so this is what shikoku karst is pretty much so it’s saying that it’s this windmill actually is in Yusuhara town where I was yesterday and then this one is for the purpose of having zero carbon emission and then you know this is the third windmill that they probably have bought from a german company, Enercon and you can see a clip of the video where you can see like how this thing was brought from germany i guess yeah i’m kind of curious i’ll check that later so i drove up a bit and you know came to this point where you see a ranch bokujo (in Japanese) and several cows right up there as well sleeping like lying down on the grass such and i hear the whistles of birds hohokekyo it maybe toad lily such a peaceful day and peaceful place to you know just take a deep breath and feel the air so close to the cows he’s eating grass so cute so he is trying to cross the road i don’t know I wonder if I can make it. That looks a bit tough and steep umm…maybe difficult. Oh will I make it? Oh I made it. Oh this is a place where you can stay for night. Did’t imagine. so it’s Shikoku Karst, Mezuru Daira so now i’ve got to the ehime side it’s called mezuru daira and then oh yeah it’s the view is also great from this side as well and it’s himezurusou it’s a place you can stay for a night so there’s i think two one is here and then another one is a hotel and so people can do camping as well you know like those places which would be very nice i guess yeah great place for camping as well there’s a sign of coffee so i’m wondering if i can buy that right there probably sold in that white ban i guess so don’t bring food and Karst Coffee Oh that’s cute ah its preparing now it’s said they are now preparing for the opening it’ll be starting at 2:45 pm so which is like one hour from now nah but it’s you know it’s cute This is two wheels? no so i have just stopped at the cafe near the restaurant and the hostel on the top of this shikoku karst on the so there’s like shikoku karst is basically on the both sides of kochi and eheme prefecture and now i came to the ehime side and then this cafe is selling this ice cream using the milk from the cows in this ranch of shikoku karsto area so let me try yeah it’s milk tastes really thick and it’s pretty good so i have waited for this karst coffee shop open and they just opened and then i got this ice cafe latte with milk made in here so the owner of this cafe said that the most popular one is this Karst coffe Cafe au lait so i actually tasted and it tasted really good and what was interesting was that this car with two wheels he said he towed it to this place you know just like a dragging by a car with a cable and so that’s what he said and then this shape and two wheels car looked really interesting for me and then yeah nice views nice coffee okay so i will go back to Kochi city today then i will fly back to tokyo for a few days and then i’ll come back here in Kochi city next week so yeah probably it will take about two to three hours i guess like three hours to get to kochi city today so wish me a safe drive okay so i’m finally back to Kochi city and i’ll be actually staying for one more night at the sawada mansion since Mrs. Sawada, Sawada Kazukosan and the famine are so nice and i have no complaints about the room for staying for short period so but on the way back here i just got an idea that i was just parking the car while doing that people can take a picture or some people want to know what is like (I mean what this car is about) so i just put this paper without any cost and this is for now it’s fine i guess you know like I’ll later on put some kind of QR code or with a bigger sign of my account number account information to make it more legible so for now i’ll just put the paper and draw you know wrote the info with a pen so It’s for yeah i think it’s better than without having any kind of information so let’s see

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Thank you for being here 🙂 In this video, I visited Shikoku Karst, famous for its great view of nature and the mountains in Kochi prefecture.

Leaving Yusuhara Town behind, I headed for the Shikoku Karst, where driving and breathtaking views can be enjoyed. This limestone plateau, located at an altitude of 1,000 to 1,400 meters, stretches intermittently over about 1.5 kilometers from east to west. Due to the high elevation, I drove cautiously, worried about the rickshaw’s power, but managed to reach my destination. Ascending from the Kochi side, I first arrived at Tengukogen, which offered a spectacular view. Moving to the Ehime side, the white limestone rocks, resembling a flock of sheep, added accents to the landscape. I enjoyed the scenery changes, watched cows grazing freely, and relaxed with a coffee from a cute, rounded kitchen car surrounded by photogenic items like plush cows and swings.ge structure, highlighting the aging of wood and exuding a divine presence.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Opening & Intro
0:54 Dinner & Breakfast at a ryokan
13:54 Driving To Shikoku Karst
25:45 Exploring Shikoku Karst (in Kochi prefecture, checking mountainous view, hotel, museum)
38:54 Driving Through Shikoku Karst from Kochi side to Ehime side (ex. seeing ranches, windmill)
51:05 Exploring Shikoku Karst on Ehime side. (ex. Karst Coffee)
57:01 Going back to Kochi city & Ending
※The mascots that appear at both sides in the ending are KUROSHIOKUN from kochi Prefecture and MICAN from ehime prefecture as I’m heading from kochi to Ehime😇

【Info of the destination】

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⛰️ Shikoku Karst
📍 Nishitani, Kumakogen Town, Kamiukena District, Ehime Prefecture 791-1802, Japan
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URL : https://kuma-kanko.com/spot/spot398/
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🏨 Hoshifuru Villlage Tengu
URL: https://village-tengu.com/
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