Tokyo, Mountains, and Giant Bugs

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Cycling Across Japan Ep.1
We set up our bikes, our cycle touring gear, and set off on our journey across Japan starting in Tokyo. As we reach the outer edge of Tokyo and start to enter into the mountains we realize that Japan becomes more wild and rugged than we expected. We're inspired by the lush forest and beautiful views and we have a good laugh about our first night camping on the road.
We're Zach and Kyle, and welcome to our channel, Earth Runner!
We've been dreaming up a channel where we can document our adventures together, and Earth Runner is just that. With inspiration pulled from yes theory and their slogan and call to action: seek discomfort, we decided to finally start our own channel documenting our journey and our personal growth. Our goal is to connect with the natural world and to discover what it means to live life in a free and fulfilling way. We'll be cycling, hiking, running and so much more in wild places both at home and abroad in pursuit of this goal. We want to showcase the beauty and uniqueness of the places we travel and inspire you to go out into the wild.
Through our experiences we will challenge ourselves physically and mentally, and to get out of our comfort zone while having some fun and lots of laughs in the process. We aim to build a community throughout this journey and we hope you join us in our adventures.
The first video of our series about cycle touring across Japan.
In this episode, we get over our jetlag by eating some tasty food in Tokyo before heading West into the mountains in preparation for Fuji Rock Music Festival and a hike of one of Japan's 100 most famous mountains.
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@EarthRunner 10 ай бұрын

We are stoked to share this Earth Runner adventure with you all! We have more from our journey across Japan on the way and more big plans coming up! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed watching this episode of our adventure.

@JohnMFlores 10 ай бұрын

Glad we found your channel. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.

@LesleyJacobson 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing experiences. Love the content and the 🎶 ❤

@Housesparkler Жыл бұрын

That food looks delicious. Make sure to rest when you need to guys.

@twowheelsintokyo7039 9 ай бұрын

Good video. An interesting coincidence that you met your friend Marina at Midtown, which is where I am fortunate enough to live. BTW, Tokyo has 14 million people, the greater metro area (within commuting distance of the city center) has more than 30 million. But 90-something percent of Japan is quiet countryside.

@corey9g Жыл бұрын

Bike lanes!

@sumsarmadi6313 Жыл бұрын

Amazing!!!

@Bikepacking Жыл бұрын

Cool just subbed

@gemmasleik8012 Жыл бұрын

Yay, so excited for more Japan content 🤩🤩 the roads there look amazing!!!! What are you using to navigate?!

@EarthRunner Жыл бұрын

We were using Maps.Me at first and then it really got us into a bad situation haha (as I was warned it would). So we’re a bit snakebitten and just using driving routes on Google Maps mainly!

@polyvitagame Жыл бұрын

Please make a sub channel where you just catch bugs

@EarthRunner Жыл бұрын

Don’t worry there is more bug content coming. But great idea! Haha

@artpadgett2868 Жыл бұрын

Really good job on the video and editing. Btw at 3:55 you are talking while riding - how to you do thie and not pickup background /wind noise?

@EarthRunner Жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks for the comment. As for the wind noice, I’m not doing anything special. Im using a GoPro Hero 10 camera paired with their media mod. This camera just has fairly good noise reduction built in for action shots and movement.

@VagabondTurtle 11 ай бұрын

This is a big dream❤ I planning to do a shorter round next year in Japan and then the long haul a year after so it is super exciting to watch and follow your trip here ❤❤😊

@EarthRunner 11 ай бұрын

Awesome!! Please let us know if you have any questions about our trip!

@VagabondTurtle 11 ай бұрын

@@EarthRunner I probably will have some :) mainly when it comes to cycling in Japan, otherwise I’ve been there couple of times so worked out a lot of things, but cycling there is yet to come. How easy it is to get by among the cars? I see sometimes it’s not much room. Is it a lot of elevation?

@EarthRunner 11 ай бұрын

@VagabondTurtle the cars are generally respectful and traffic never seemed to get too bad. The only part of our riding that sometimes felt dangerous were the tunnels, of which there are many. Sometimes there are sidewalks but other times we just had to ride in the middle of the road with our lights on and hold up traffic for a few minutes. And there is indeed a lot of elevation in Japan - we did over 30,000 meters of it during our trip!