I Got Lost in Kyoto's Hidden Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Kyoto Japan is covered in hidden mountain paths connected to amazing places like Fushimi Inari shrine... And today, we are exploring one of of the most amazing ones!! What's more? We will have an actual local Kyoto Guide to show us these amazing hidden gems. Everything from the hidden bamboo forest, to the secret back entrance of one of Kyoto's most popular spots!! [More Kyoto Vids Linked Below]
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Kyoto is filled with so many amazing hidden spots!! (There's a ton of vids linked in the description box!!) - potential favorite: Fushimi Inari at night!!
And if you love beautiful hidden areas, make sure to check out the once-hidden onsen town!! th-cam.com/video/m0c5TVXWA4E/w-d-xo.html
**THIS WEEK: Kicking off a HUGE adventure with the Patreon Crew where YOU Choose this years next big adventure!!** Come join the fun!!
i'm so happy to have found your channel!
To be honest, I'm most amazed by the old couple who recognized you after over a year and still remember you do videos. With all the people that come through you still stand out :)
i mean hes not japanese so he does stick out a bit more, so im not too surprised.
@@JDigital123 the point is people native to japan wont see it that way. he doesnt look like them. thats not a bad thing, but it makes him easier to remember because he stands out.
Now, this is how I'd like to spend my day! Wandering the forest, finding hidden trails and secret shrines. I haven't been to Kyoto yet, but this is 100% on my to-do list when I get there. Absolutely gorgeous! And moss!!!😍
the best way to spend a day~
Just need to avoid that unmarked death trail 🤣
Everything you captured such as beautiful green moss, wet ground and the stream down the path makes me realize how cold it was but also exciting adventure you went through! Little snow left on the ground makes amazing contact with the red torii gates too!😊✨
honestly such a great trip to go on!! 10/10 recommend this!!
So extremely
All the secrets, passageways, even hidden hikes, cities with history are so awesome
honestly love it~
When my friends and I visited Fushimi Inari in 2017 we found those trails by accident and just wandered around for hours exploring all of the little shrines and the bamboo forest, one of the highlights of the trip!
Norm you are getting me so excited about my trip in two weeks. My first time visiting Japan my friend and I explored some of the exact same places you showed in this video! We had no idea where we were going and just stumbled upon them. Your camera work really conveys the beauty of those places and reminds me of how special it felt being there.
I hope you have an absolutely spectacular trip!!!
I am sure it will be!
@@TokyoLens It was a spectacular trip!
Wow, Kyoto is more beautiful every time I see it! Also your guide was so knowledgeable! Thanks for taking us along Norm 🇯🇵
Thanks for coming along for it~
Hidden places are just delightful, and give magical aura around them
truly~
Thanks Norm, My wife and I will be staying in Kyoto in 2 1/2 weeks with no real set itinerary, thanks for such a wonderful tour
The amount of information Akiko provided and all the curiosities from the different segments of the Fushimi Inari were a treat to learn about! Thanks for all the content
Glad you enjoyed it!
and thank you so much for being here~
Absolutely gorgeous, fun, and Fushimi never ceases to be awe inspiring and awesome. I'm going to be all over that mountain. 😍 🎶 My excitement is so real. 14 days til I'm back in Tokyo, 20 til I'm in Kyoto again. Have a great week, Norm 💜✌🐦
Fushimi is just the gift that keeps giving!!
14 DAYS?!?! you 100% KNOW that the studio is open for you right?
@@TokyoLens 🥳 🙃 secret insta DM messaged a bit ago with dates, but figured I'd contact once I was on the ground and settled 😆 trying not to bounce off the walls in anticipation
Oh, such a beautiful place and beautiful customs and traditions. The bamboo forest is so magical place. I have to make the trip to Japan and Kyoto a reality someday!
These uploads keep magically lining up with my breaks at work and I absolutely love it 😂 The lesser known or “secret” parts of Kyoto have always been something I am super curious about. One of my favorite videos from you recently, keep up the great work man!
theres a whole extra set of videos in the description with even MORE hidden spots in Kyoto!!
Amazing to see a secret passage to a popular spot!!!
loved it!
I just get an overwhelming feeling of peace when I see things like this. Would love to go one day. 🙏
I love how this video not only showcased the beautiful location you visited but also provided a deep cultural experience. That's so interesting that depending on what side you entered the gate from you also had to enter using the associated sides leg first
Kyoto has been on my list for a decade. The stairs, the historical architecture, the other-worldly vibe…just so beautiful. Thanks for taking us through. ❤️
and its about 10,000% better when you get out of the main tourist areas to spots like this hidden trail!!
This was so beautiful!!! I'm definitely hiring her when I visit Kyoto! Thanks for such an awesome video. I love your joy in exploring.
Secret entrances and hidden hikes, love it! If I ever get the chance to, I would love to do this hidden hike too! 😊
You should! it is quite the beautiful walk!
@@TokyoLens I've added it to my list of things to do in Japan! 😁
I’ve decided to study japanese in kyoto for a year and this is definitely a place I'll be visiting during my studies! Such a beautiful place!!
Fully teary eyed that's an amazing experience I hope to have one day I could feel the energy of the place and your excitement was my excitement 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much for this video! It was absolutely awesome to see this hidden gem of a trail! And that bamboo forest! WOW!
Another beautiful video, and I loved learning all the little things (how to enter the torii, the red clay used for coloring them, the ochazuke hint)! Thanks, Norm!
honestly was such a learning experience for me! loved it~
Absolutely beautiful. These shrines are insane… your hiking vids are awesome, Norm!🎉
Glad you like them! They're a ton of fun to make~
Hidden hiking trail to Fushimi Inari?! This is what I am here for! Bamboo trial?? I've added this to my list. It's so hard to find stillness in Kyoto and this totally ticked that box for me.
honestly every part of this had me smiling inside and out~!
I was smiling through this whole video too! I wish I had known about this trail when my sister was with me. She commented on how crowded Kyoto was at the time (this was like 10 years ago) and I wish I could have shown here this trail! And you saw the previous store owner! How magical!
Just beautiful, nature loving people know how amazing is the feeling being in a forest, love it
Soooo good! Wow, this forest She's so cool !
Moss covered shrines and a walk amongst the bamboo giants. Gorgeous!
I've noticed the music is always so fitting in your videos, really creates a sense of wonder and beauty.
Many thanks Mr Norm, for giving those of us who can't travel, a glimpse into these magical places! 🙏✌️🙏
Fushimi-inari was one of my highlights when exploring Kyoto. Fascinated with the endless amount of Torii
Wow! What a beautiful area! I would love to see this with my own eyes some day. It’s magical places like these that have me completely enthralled by Japan and it’s culture.
Also, so amazing to learn new customs from locals. I absolutely love opportunities like that! 😻
Thank you for sharing your amazing experience with us!
thank you so much for being here for it~
I felt like I was hiking together! Thank you for a amazing tour Norm!😆 Also, Akiko san is a wonderful guide!👍😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much Lemi!
The hidden hike looks so fun!! Definitely my bucket list to check out the Magical Trip tour with Akiko~❤
I actually came back from a long hike when you uploaded the video so I went straight to sleep, good thing I remembered to come back and check it because this is an absolute gem that I will save for when maybe I'll be able to visit the place.
I went all the way to the top of Fushimi Inari a few years ago during summer and while I loved the journey, it really wiped me out for the day. So much to see and photograph.
I went to Fushimi Inari shrine in december and it was amazing, I never knew about all the trails and small shrines around, now I want to go back🤣
My First time in Kyoto, I went on one of the trails that leads from the main path because it was stupidly busy. had an amazing peaceful hike by myself, while everyone else had to stop every for often for people taking photos. There seems to heaps of these trails and they are all surprisingly quiet and scenic compared to the main trail
Three weeks ago I finally visited Japan and fushimi inari was my favorite place. I should stay longer in Kyoto, three days weren't nearly enough, but well I wanted to see so much other places too. And omg, the nice lady on the end of your video was sooo kinde and pacient with us and our limited knowledge of japanese. We got some matcha ice and some beautiful omiyage at her place.
Thank you so much for this video.
I wish I could stay longer or come back in autumn as originally planned, but I didn't get in for the semester abroad in japan.
Greetings, GrayFox
What an amazing guide, perfect fit for a Tokyo Lens video, she had very positive happy vibes and a lot of amazing tidbits. I actually learned a few new things about Japan in this video including now how to properly enter a tori gate.
I loved loved LOVEd the area of Inari. It was a dream come true and I can't wait to go back again.
I really fell in love with the atmosphere and the peace. And we were early enough that we witnessed priests doind a ceremony and their chant was it us for the few first torii 😻
I was looking this morning to find this and every turn I took was right and kept finding all these places in the video. I love Mt.Inari.
I love it, torii gates, shrines, forest, thanks for new video Norm! 😃
such nice walk, thank you so much for showing it to us.
This video is another great reason why I will always keep notifications on for Tokyo Lens videos. Don't think I've missed a vid. Just a bit late watching them 😬.
Your enthusiasm, knowledge but willing to learn really gets me involved in the video and its content. It's the old saying, you never stop learning especially on something you enjoy.
2 things that I made this video special to me is the fact I've been there previously but now have a new reason to visit. One of my favourite photos is of the fox population in the Inari. And my set of the Kyoto photos are so special to me.
And the other is seeing, at 1:56, the car that has stolen my heart and is now my daily (on the right 😂). Seeing the WRX STI in its home county looking so resplendent haha!
happy to have you here! (^-^)
A stunning behind the scenes look at Japan. Their culture is so deep and old. Thank you for a most memorable experience. Your lady friend is an encyclopedia of cultural gems. I loved her willingness to share her knowledge. Well done Sir! 👍❤️
I’m so happy to know there’s other trails at the shrine, AND a different bamboo forest, so I can get those bamboo forest shots and not have to worry about anxiety. 👌 📸
Definitely gonna look into Magical Trip tours!
Absolutely beautiful!💯
Absolutely magical and your choice of music almost got me crying with how beautiful everything was lol. Really hope I get a chance to visit someday!
I did this trail accidentally back in 2019. It was my first visit to Fushimi Inari and the main path up with all the gates was absolutely packed with tourists. I stumbled across the entrance to the trail and decided to follow it up to the top. It was a very happy accident because the forest scenery and hidden shrines were beautiful and there were so few other people on the trail that it was probably the most alone (in a good way) I felt on the entire trip. By the time I made it to the top, most of the crowds had cleared out and I could take my time going back down through the popular Torii gate path, so I still got to experience that, too. Ultimately it turned out to be one of my favourite days of the whole trip. Couldn't recommend doing this more. But spiders... oh, the spiders... if you're arachnophobic at all, be warned (not an issue here, fortunately, but they're everywhere and huge).
This may not be helpful for you, but whenever I walk a trail with lots of spider webs, I try to find a stick with a few branches to wave in front of my face as I walk like a magic wand. It probably looks weird (not that there are many people around on webby trails to judge), but it cuts down on spider webs in your face by at least 90%!
Your love for the shrine really shone through and it made me happy too 🙂
Oh thank you so much for this video tour. I love watching Tokyo Lens and this is my favorite video so far. I may never be able to afford to come to Japan. It has been my dream for a long time. As the two of you walked through that beautiful forest, I felt as if I was there. The shrines, the trees, everything seems so refreshing. I will watch this video again and again. Thank you!
Stone and Moss make the perfect combinations for landscape aesthetic.
love the little treat at the end! I cant remember faces at all so its even more amazing to me.
Absolutely gorgeous hike! Thank you for sharing, Norm! Can't wait for the next adventure!
Such magnificent sight
The way she keeps saying exactly is just so endearing.
Great hidden hike!
This is an absolutely beautiful area. Fushimi Inari is already great but love the magic of hidden shrines and bamboo forests
What a beautiful forest! I don't think I've ever seen plants or trees so tall. The sound of the wind, it's like the forest is whispering secrets to you. I would love to see this shrine one day. It seems like a beautiful, peaceful place, and I love the foxes. Your excitement at being there is understandable. We are booked to be in Tokyo for New Year and for a couple of days in Nagano so my daughter can see and play in snow. I am very excited! It seems so far off right now though.
I can already tell this one is going to be fire 🔥
loved every minute of this one~
Wow what a gorgeous trail - specially the bamboo forest - loved this video.
This was absolutely magnificent! Such phenomenal beautiful sacred places, thank you so much for sharing these 😊
My friend, thank you so much for getting out there and sharing this with us. Truly, this is exactly something I needed, as I feel like in the past few years I lost all the energy and spirit for adventures. Truly an amazing video and thank you again. Wishing you all the best. :)
I love the excitement with which you explore the country of Japan! I'm not certain I'll ever make to that part of the world, so I'm grateful to be able to see it through your eyes.
Thank you for showing us this hike!! Definitely going to do this one🤯
This was so peaceful and cool!!
Love love love lalalala love ur adventures!. Just astonishing how many trails ...and in the most random places. Lucky to have a guide to teach u and us!
wow... looks a calming view at the forest
Omgggg that was so cool! I love the little statues with the scarves 🧣🥹❤️
What a wonderful vlog and a big reason I think you have the best channel on TH-cam. You continue to bring so many interesting topics and places to visit and in this particular one I feel like being there with you guys. My respect Norm from a fellow youtuber, keep it up!
Thank you so much for another awesome video, I am just blown away by all the cool hidden trails, it would be somewhere you would want to get lost in and take a picnic so beautiful. I love the vibrancy of the moss in particular and all the nature, I love the you have overstayed your welcome analogies! Can't wait to explore this place. Keep up the good work! Cat
Always gotta love walking around in nature
She was an amazing guide. Thank you for sharing.
I love her accent! Its so pleasant to hear. Of course, I love everything that you create. I'm binge-watching right now.
It was so fun to see you be the one shown around for a change! Especially with Akiko being such a wonderful guide! 🤩
This was another great video Norm. You are really capturing some essences of Japan and sharing it with so many of us. Thank you.
Michele, thank you so much for those kind words!!
Such an informative video this time, and am so thankful for Akiko sharing her knowledge with us all of these beautiful areas.
This looks so amazing! I love inset what the other hidden areas look like too.
This is such a beautiful video! Thank you so much for taking us trough your journey. I have the fortune of visiting Japan several times and I absolutely want to visit the place ❤
I took this trail back in 2018, so excited to see it again!
Yay! More hidden Kyoto videos! Didn't know about this secret path through Fushimi Inari, but that bamboo grove looks amazing. Gotta try to find that when I'm finally in Kyoto in a few months!
Putting this on my list for when i visit in 2 months. Thank you SO MUCH for capturing this!!!
This video calms my anxiety. I’ve always loved forests. I take it as a sign to plan a visit! Thank you.
Theres a path near Mt Hiei called Yase path of Maple. Its absolutely stunning especially in Aki (fall). You should hike it, all the way up to Hieizan. I just love Kyoto so much!
When I visited the 1000 Gates, I followed an arrowed sign behind a shrine that said Mt. Inari. It lead me through the bamboo forest, past homes and shrines, to a lookout followed by the unmarked top of the mountain. Occasionally I would pass people who I believe lived on the mountain who appeared to be coming home from work. It felt like an intense hike to me, so I was amazed by people who hiked the path as part of their daily commute. I thought the area was pretty isolated…until I heard the cheers from a soccer match taking place on the other side of the mountain.😁 It was only once I made my way back to the Fushimi Inari Shrine that I realized there was an official path for visitors to climb Mt. Inari. 😂🤦♀️ Thanks for the video…it’s left a big smile on my face as I remember that day.😁
Just gorgeous. Thank you.
Just read an article in the Japan Times about Kei Ito who is refurbishing the Ito Shinzo trail linking Toyama and Nagano prefectures and thought of you. Got home from my walk and got this video. Perfect timing. Check it out cause I know you don’t have enough adventures planned!!!! Thanks for the fun.
This was so cool. Definitely know what's on my list the next time I make it back to Japan. :) Thanks for sharing the adventure today!
YES 🙌🏻 I LOVE FUSHIMI INARI TOO 😭 no matter how many people say that you can find similar one in other parts of japan, Fushimi Inari has that special ambience, especially if you go early in the morning. When the morning sun hits some parts of its area, it’s just so beautiful and peaceful
More than anything, this video has me craving spring foliage 😍
Just seeing this brings back so many memories of my time at Fushimi Inari in 2016. Thanks for showing us, Norm!
Notification squad where we at?? Excited to see the gorgeous place you have lined up for us today
Notification squad love~
best group ever!
Fellow Canadiab here. Love this video. Discovered your channel recently and greatly enjoying binging all your videos. Your excitement is infectious and it makes my life long desire to visit Japan increase exponentially. Random question, what coat are you wearing in this video? I love all the pockets.
I have no words for how awesome this is. I will be in Kyoto in a few weeks and I will do my best to find one of these hidden gems.
What a beautiful tour! I was also grinning like a small kid!
I'm sold ont his trip. I'm gonna save for it now. This is exactly what I'm currently looking for in Japan : just walks and hikes with so many beautiful sightings and spiritual connections.
Also love the hiking boots ! I have the exact same. 10/10 would recommend.
Seeing the old couple still recognise Norm after a year, that was the best moment!
Great video as always, good job 👍👏👍
Proper adventure. Looks like perfect hiking weather. Exploring is more fun on foot, and better for you. Right side,right leg. Better remember that