Thank you! It's a pretty awesome place :)

Hey Alex - yes some places on Airbnb can be taken for months, often even with a "monthly discount" if you take whole months, though of course you can't rent permanently. Another service I've used to get monthly apartments in Tokyo is "Sakura House". These would be significantly more expensive than regular local rent rates, but that is to be expected.

Feb will probably be a winter wonderland! Hope you have a great trip!

Hey Kelvin, yes! The folks organizing the queue usually have a plan for people in the queue who need to use the toilet. You will need to remember your position in queue - there are markers, might be a good idea to go up to an organizer and ask where the nearest toilet is. Personally though I've always made sure to go before the queue. I don't know how far away the toilets typically are.

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This was late November 2023. It's a good time for the the foliage color around town, but up in the mountains the conditions were more winter-like - which is charming in its own way.

Also, is the trail pretty easy to follow? It looked like a lot of the path was hidden by leaves.

@@rachelsaelid6081 Hello. No it didn't take me 5 hours to get to the top. In fact, going up and then back down, including all the filming and including some exploring and having lunch at the top, took me just under 6 hours total - it's not a very long trail. The trail is pretty easy to follow yes, even covered by leaves it's usually pretty clear where the trail is compared to the surroundings. If you want to be safe, you can also consider getting an app like Yamap that has the trail maps as well as usually pretty reliable real time positioning.

​@@JasonmoofangThanks! That is helpful information for my trip planning. I'm looking forward to hanging noodles at the summit too.

@@rachelsaelid6081 Hope you have a great hike!

This was mid-December: but note that if you're after snow, I'd usually recommend January as conditions may fluctuate in December. In this video I was on a tour, but I've separately traveled this region before. You can actually reach both Kanazawa and Takayama by train so a train pass works pretty well. I've not personally taken an express bus between Kanazawa and Takayama before, but they likely exist.

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Hello! Thanks for watching. I grew up in Malaysia! :)

Nice. Is it a lot different than the view in late autumn here?

@Jasonmoofang We live not far away. In the summer, it's so bright there that your eyes hurt and the views are endless. At 30+ C, happy insects and the deep sweet smell of flowering manuka, it's quite different to the drizzle you had to contend with. And of course, there's endless ice cream ha ha.

@@dossnone4554 Sounds awesome! And yeah I was definitely a bit miffed at not getting to enjoy ice cream :( Thanks for watching!

Yeah someday I may have to go back! The basement on the ship was under some sort of renovation when we were there so we didn't get to go down :( But we did visit the Nebuta museum the evening before! Transportation down to Oirase and Towada were also tricky in midwinter. Maybe a spring revisit some day would be awesome.

@@Jasonmoofang I think you went to so many places very efficiently in the short period. Well planned! Autumn foliage in Aomori is amazing every where. Last Autumn, we stayed at Hotel Jogakura for Hakkoda and Oirase Keikyu Hotel for Oirase gorge. We harvested some apples at Apple Park. We went back this Spring for Sakura in Hirosaki . We went to several places in Japan, but Aomori is just so beautiful to explore more, so we will back again the next spring. My husband’s favorite onsen is Sukayu Hot spring in Hakkoda. I saw somewhere today that the tour to Sukayu onsen has chosen as the No.1 luxury tour in the world. Mahalo!

@@prettyblue3879 Thanks for the info! I've also been to Akita just south of Aomori before and my own favorite onsen is Tsuru no yu Onsen there. Unfortunately I think it has become much more well known since and it can be difficult to get a room now.

Thank you! Come a long way with the narrating I think :)

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Hey thanks! Yeah I usually like to try keep a somewhat "first person" perspective in my videos with the talking heads, but I've also experimented with a more purely "third person" pov style.

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Hey! Thanks. A little closer to your part of the world this time :)

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Haha thanks for finding this old video! Absolutely try Mt Daibosatsu - not all that hard or strenuous if you do it from Kamihikawa Pass, and the views are pretty incredible.

This was mid December! It was a relatively mild winter though.

@@bejogaming7206 mostly 1080, 60p and 120p, but upscaled in post for better KZbin quality.

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Thanks! Yeah the night stuff were shot f1.4 and f1.8. I don't think I have lowlight shooting quite down yet but it turned out kinda alright on this one. Certainly some of the darkest conditions I've ever tried to shoot in. And yeah this is pretty much the not-so-secret way to avoid the usual crowds at Takao :) Some people even do it with just their phone lights.

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This was a year and a half ago, it was a ballpark of 3-5000yen. It's likely that it has gone up a bit now.

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Thanks! This was middle of December 2023. It was a relatively mild winter, but around this time things can change rather quickly between thick snow cover to little accumulation like in this video.

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Yeah it's pretty sick. This was mid-late May, think it's a pretty good time for it if you are ever around town!

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リュックに入れていたのにアイゼンを装着しなかったから、余計に苦労しました 😅 字幕が役に立ってて、よかったです！自分の日本語力がまだ足りないので、AIの力を借りて頑張って作りました 😄

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Thank you, it was!