Suspension Bridges and Mountain Trains! (Part 1) – Yuru Camp Backpacking Season 3

This leg of my trip covers all the spots reachable on foot from episodes 3 to 6, where Rin and Ayano go biking around all the bridges, while Nadeshiko takes the train up to the campsite by the dam. Obviously I was on foot, so I followed in Nadeshiko’s footsteps here. I stayed the night in Shimada, then I would take the train to Shimada, then the little mountain train up to the dam, and stay the night in the same campsite that they stay at too. But right when the girls are finishing up their trip, they visit a bridge in Shimada. So that was my first stop.

Horai Bridge

I left the hotel near Shimada station and walked towards the first bridge. It was about 20/30 mins by foot so not too far, and the sun wasn’t too strong that day.

Next to the entrance of the bridge there was a plaque from Guinness awarded for being the longest pedestrian wooden bridge, at 897 meters (a fact mentioned in the anime).

There was a 100 yen toll for access to the bridge, but it wasn’t very strictly enforced. But don’t be that guy, and pay the toll! I paid for mine and started snapping pics.

The bridge was really long, it was hard to see the end of it.

I tried to line up this shot the best I could since I was on the bridge itself. Fuji was totally not visible. But I think we are too far away for it to look this big. Maybe it’s a super zoomed narrow FOV shot to make it look bigger in the anime.

And another shot looking the other way.

Lots of people were walking to the end, but I couldn’t really be bothered, so I turned around and headed back. But in the distance, out the front of the souvenir shop, I spotted something.