Name: I Hiked 72 Hours to Japan’s Most Isolated Mountain Village 🇯🇵
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If I could live anywhere in Japan tomorrow afternoon, it would be here.

The untouched mountain villages of the Nakasendo.

The route through the mountains of central Japan folks once took to get from Tokyo to Kyoto.

It's no exaggeration to say it is the most beautiful place in Japan.

If I can't live here, I'm gonna do the next best thing.

I'm gonna walk it across a hundred kilometer stretch over three days.

It's just me, you, a 10 kilogram backpack stuffed full of cameras and black T shirts.

So I've brought Japan's number one best Sherpa along the way.

Join us as we travel through half a dozen mountain towns, encountering wonderful characters, tantalizing local dishes and breathtaking scenic sights at every turn.

And above all, a rustic way of life that's about as far removed from Japan's sprawling urban cityscapes as you could possibly imagine.

Of the 69 post towns between Tokyo and Kyoto.

Our walk will take us through around eight of the villages from Nakatsugawa on day one to Nanaijuku on day three.

With each village having its own distinct identity.

It's one of the most epic journeys we've ever been on in what might be one of the most stunning places on on the planet.

Having gotten off to a late start at 10am We've barely left the town of Nakatsugawa when Natsuki's already plotting his escape out of today's 30 kilometer hike.

While the second half of today's journey takes us along the most popular section of the Nakasendo, through Magome Pass and onto Nagiso, We've decided to make things difficult for ourselves by starting right at the bottom of the mountains in Otiaijuku, the bit most folks miss out.

Our reward is a mysterious forest of moss covered stone steps.

The downside is a relentless uphill climb and the worrying realization that we've forgotten the one thing that we were supposed to bring.

One of the things you have to bring when you come on the Nakasendo is a bear bell.

There's been a lot of bear attacks this year.

Just two days ago, there was one about 50 kilometers north of here.

She'll fucking rate my bear spray or treat.

The hunter Yen Store's finest bear spray.

Now I really start to regret this journey.

It soon turns out, however, that there's something far more dangerous lurking in the forest than bears.

The Nakasende route wasn't just built for convenience, but

as a means of control by the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate.

After more than a century of civil war, Tokugawa Ieyasu needed a way to keep potentially rebellious lords occupied.

Keep them all busy, traveling constantly.

So when Tokugawa Ieyasu had finally finished unifying Japan, he made all the lords go between Tokyo and Kyoto, or Edo and Kyoto, taking mountain paths like this in a policy called Sankin Kotai.

Kept them using their money instead of planning to overthrow a Tokugawa Shogunate, they're busy planning how to get from A to B, spending vast sums of money and time to do so.

You would need your retainers, you would need food and supplies, you would need protection.

Because the mountain path is very perilous.

And it worked because they were in power for about 200 years.

But of course, there was one thing the samurai warlords of the 16th century didn't have when they trekked than that assembly.

He didn't bring bear spray, but he brought a canister of oxygen.

Despite having the cleanest air in Japan out here.

After two hours of walking and having used up his entire oxygen tank, Natsuki and I leave the forest behind and at last gaze upon the beautiful view of Magome, nestled high on the mountainside above.

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