I Went Treasure Hunting in Japan and Found Something INSANE
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Ever heard of Geocaching? It's a cool app that let's people go around treasure hunting and finding actual treasures hidden by people across the globe. And so I wanted to see if I could find anything (maybe even THE ONE PIECE) if I ventured out into the mountains of Okutama, Japan... and to my surprise... I FOUND SOMETHING CRAZY.
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The true treasure they found was the friendships they made along the journey
The true treasure they found was the lawsuits they made along the journey
Pokémon S&V sounding ass. 🤣
I swear if that's how one-piece end, i will flip
The one piece is real.
Fuck friendship, I want riches! Where is my enormous stack of loot!?
On today's episode: Joey doing random side quests because he's already done the MSQ of Tokyo
with the upcoming expansion, osakasward coming soon
trial series and raid soon
@@dynamoxavier AWARD WINNING OSAKASWARD
I don't think that quest is finishable! It's self perpetuating
@@jerrysaen enjoy Japan today!
as someone that is very into geocaching you just gave us more publicity than we have had in years! thank you! also try the city there is some very interesting puzzle caches too!
City caches always surprise me on how well they hide in plain sight.
I want to try geocaching but in my country most "caches" are drugs therefore I'd look very suspicious
No one can hide from The Anime Man
but they can always hide from Josh The Manga Lad
Is there a way to request a geocach in your local area? There aren’t many where I am but I want to play!
Geocaching is more like a little niche hobby. It's a sort of thing all over the world where people will put coordinates for something to find, and at least before the app, they'd have something to write your name down, and the usual courtesy is you can take something, but you also need to leave something behind for the next person to find it.
Also before the app, I don't know if they still do it nowadays, but you would need to have a GPS unit because you would be given the GPS coordinates of the geocache
@@tentacletimeeternal-3812 You can still do it the old fashioned way of download the cords into your GPS, I did that for a while but the phone just makes everything convenient, you can look up the logs, hints, recent photos, etc
I remember doing geocaching when I was younger and the way me and my friends did it was to just look at the site, see the general location and a picture of the area and try to find that. We were also in like 4th grade (so 10-11 years old) so we just had fun with it.
@@tentacletimeeternal-3812 Yeah i remember doing it in boy scouts, we used gps units, i think we had smart phones by then, but it was a weird middle ground time where the gps units were actually still kind of better for it.
There is at least one cache that is out of this world, being placed on ISS in 2008 by Richard Garriott.
Geocaching is SO FUN! It's like 20 years old, the app is relatively new. I haven't done it in a while cause I've found every cache in my area and don't drive. It's so fun! I mean, you ARE breaking one of the rules of Geocaching by showing EXACTLY where these are, but the community will forgive you as you're bringing more exposure to it, meaning more people, meaning more fun! You should make at least one of your own, Joey! Go for it!
If you've exhausted your treasure hunting opportunity, why not flip the script and try your hand at setting up a cache or two? Embrace your inner squirrel, give back to the community, and find pleasure in imagining somebody ALMOST getting stumped by your work, and getting really excited when they finally find it!
@@TheDeadBacon I've thought of a few places. Like a water medium-sized water-proof box on a thin rope tied to a fence that's just a couple feet above a water inlet to my local river. Have the box hanging underwater. Or a small in magnetized to a screw in the eves of a covered area of my local public park.
@@zackmarkham4240 Just make sure people don't get injured trying to reach them. ^^'
@@kaizokujimbei143 Of course
Joeys just an JRPG protag doing side quest to up is XP for the final boss
I’ve been geocaching ever since I was a kid. I remember the very first one I stumbled upon by accident, I thought it was a bomb. Can’t wait to do it in Japan one day.
Yes but be careful sometimes people stumble over actually WW2 bombs 💣 , pls 🙏 don't try open 😱
@@larsstougaard7097 Might help if you carry a metal detector.
I've loved Okutama for years, and I've always wanted to visit, so imagine my total surprise and giddiness when I find out you went to Okutama for this video! Thank you for making my day Joey!
Geocaching is awesome, not sure if they still do them but the whole “travel bug” thing was really cool. Hope people who watch this and want to do it themselves do so respectfully, we used to leave geocaches but pretty sure they’ve all been stolen at this point.
TBs are still a thing :)
I remember we found a little travel bug car
What is a travel bug?
I suspect I just don't know the eng word, is it like where you go from one clue to the next?
@@Mara_1337 a travel bug is an item or something that is in the giocash which people take across the country and a record is kept of where it's been. You take it and put it in another giocash
It's awesome to see that geocaching is still a thing. Back in the early 2000s when GPS devices became more common place it really took off. Remember a few on-the-road camping/geocaching trips from back then. It's a fun hobby that I hadn't thought about in years.
Pog my man went out to find the one piece IRL
Can we get much higher?
@@xenobestx8423 So high Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
best part about geocaching is that they are usually in and around cool places and monuments. And it's a great way to visit some places you would have not otherwise visited. Great to see you enjoying it, next time grab some friends along it's super fun to compete who finds it first!
11:50 "This is the micro size. This is the smallest size you can get." Oh Joey, wait until you hear of nano-sized caches
I used to have a lot of fun as a kid geocaching with my Dad and Grampa. I remember the hardest one we found was a magnetic micro size that was slightly bigger than a capsule pill, which had just a rolled up paper log inside. The greatest treasures we found were the memories made along the way 🌈
This is actually so good, hopefully this starts a new trend because Geocaching is such a great way to get people out and exploring areas (and learning basic orienteering). As others have said although there were a few faux pas in showing the location and being obvious to random but it’s ok as a new cacher and it brings more people in to the hobby.
Remember to leave not just the cache how Ou found it but also the surrounding environment, making sure not to destroy or damage sensitive ecosystems. A tip for most caches is to try look right on the GPS coordinates, especially that one at the station, I reckon it could very well be a fake rock in the garden or magnetized somewhere on the bench. I’ve even seen fake screws as caches so micro caches are indeed micro
Interesting to see Joey doing something I enjoyed doing ~10 years ago, even though Geocaching was a bit different back then (being without an app and only going by coordinates, you would bring with you stuff so when you found the cache you would take the contents, except the note where you wrote your name/date, and then replace it with your own, and sometimes the cache would lead you to others caches and/or have riddles/red herrings). I did this in a small town in rural Sweden as well, so not something only in big cities.
Should honestly do more of these geocache videos lol
my family has been geocaching for about a decade now! we used to make a point to do it any time we went on a road trip. theres not many tips and tricks other than finding a bunch and gaining intuition in what kinds of places someone might hide a cache. the two you found i think are prime examples of both urban and wild kinds
I used to geocach years ago, we had a janky little GPS and a list from the internet. I was like 12 at the time and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Eventually our little GPS broke and we just kinda stopped, now there's an app and you've made me want to get back into it! (Also, tangentially, as a huge bookworm, North of Beautiful is a book with a lot of geocaching in it that I loved)
I am going to do this in my country. I think I am going to make like ceramic coin sized medallions with a stamp to leave in the cache. I would love to see a geocache competition where you pair into teams. you and Aki, Chris and Sharla, Garnt and Sidney, CDawgVA makes a team same for Natsuki, Ryotaro and Pete, the Tokyo creative TokyoLens crew can put together a couple of teams and you set a time of one month of going out and whoever gets the most documented finds wins and the rest of the competitors have to throw a party for the winners.
Geocaching has been around for much longer than apps even have existed! I remember my friend in primary school used to go geocaching with her dad and they had a little device to thell them coordinates! They are all over the world! Really cool and I hope now that it gets more popular, people don't start messing with the caches
Geocaching is so neat! I have a friend that travels all over the U.S. for work, and he's always checking to see if there's a cache nearby. Whenever he has time he'll facetime someone so they/we can find the cache together, even though we're hundreds of miles apart.
I used to do this with my brother about 10 years ago. It's not a bad way to spend an afternoon.
I once found a geocache under a bridge as a kid and was so happy with it, I took it home not knowing what it was😂
whats that
@@newt2120 a used needle
@@oliver-04 ???
I used to do this with my Mom as a kid in our hometown and it was pretty fun. It got us all outside and exploring places we never would have even thought about otherwise.
Geocaching has gotten so advanced, we used to just have coordinates and a hint with no clue if we were actually on the right spot
A very good introduction into Geocaching. I do it from time to time here in Germany. It can be a fun hobby, timesink if you are in a new place or a fun way to explore unkown sides of your Hometown.
If you to it no matter what place please, try to blend in and to not be a suspicious person. And please try not to destroy anything or go/break into forbidden places!
This is so cool to see you too!! Me, my brother and dad go geocaching here in Ireland! We literally had to climb the tallest sea cliffs in Europe to get one of them one! ALMOST gave up on it…glad to report it was found!
Geocaching is so sick I used to do it when I was a kid. I have to go back and try it again
Its really annoying me that they couldn't find the last one 😂 This takes me back to when I was in to geocaching about 10 years ago, really good fun.
When I see the environment of Okutama, I fell in love with this place. I wish I could buy a house around Okutama if I have enough saving. Thank you Joey for sharing us the amazing world of Japan. Also I will try Geocaching once I moved to Japan.
I remember we got to go geocatching in school one day. It was to teach us how to look at maps and GPS, it was super fun going around the neighborhood in groups, looking for small hidden bags or boxes.
I used to geocache with my dad a lot when I was younger, there was one right by my house that I loved to find every time we went over there. Glad you got some fun out of it!!
This was actually a way better video than I thought! Seeing places other than tokyo is refreshing and treasure hunting
As someone who loves to geocache, this was such a fun video to watch!
I'm so glad someone else is talking about geocaching!! Lithuania doesn't have many geocaching locations as it's not popular here, but I'm happy I could live the dream through this video uwu
Oh, nice to see some geocaching again, it's a pretty old concept and the term geocaching is not a company or such 😊 I did it for years with my garmin gps, planned trips, packed my tools, did nightcaches, caches involving climbing or caving, it's a sick hobby.
I want him to look for a nano cache now 😅 they can get so much smaller Joey you have no idea. I’m so glad more people are getting to see the world of geocaching
I’ve enjoyed geocaching, especially ones with some challenge. One was a series of puzzles leading to the cache, with only the coordinates of the first challenge being given. Each subsequent puzzle provided a clue or coordinates to the next one, and finally the treasure. On another I was “First To Find” and it only gave nearby coordinates, and required a code that had to be figured out from a clue. Luckily, I remembered enough high school chemistry to recognize periodic table symbols within the clue, and then used their atomic numbers to sequence the code. We even got our own geotags created, with a unique logo and tracking number. We leave them in the cache, when people take them, they can enter them online, and leave them in another cache. Some have gone around the world.
YAAAY you're geocaching! I love it, it's such a fun hobby! I'm hoping to log some caches whenever I go to Japan. Honestly, the more you do it, the more you get used to the different types of cache styles. I'd recommend looking up different places people often hide things so you can get an idea of what you're looking for.
Man, I don't think I've been Geocashing in almost 15 years (Floridian here). We didn't have an app at that time so imagine how much more wild it was! It would be fun to go do it at Disney or something....Anyways, if you take something you always have to leave something as part of the game. I remember some cool finds back in the day!
Make sure you log the "did not find" attempts - the owner of the cache will usually go check it if multiple people can't find it. Sometimes they get moved or the weather will cover it up with mud or similar.
thankyou for doing a video about geocaching! geocaching is amazing!!!! the amount of adventures i have had while geocaching! i once thought a reflector piece in a wooden pole was a geocache because it moved, i pulled on it, out came a giant mega chad of a huntsman. the huntsman then decided to climb up my leg. dam aussie spiders! good times :D we also had a moving geocache event with garden gnomes, those gnomes went on so many adventures. i just bought a whole bunch of stuff for swaps. now i cant wait to geocache in japan. happy geocaching!
Geocaching has been around for ages. I remember my friend in college telling me about it about 12 or so years ago. Glad people are still at it.
I still remember the times I used to go geocaching with my dad and this surely brought some memories back. Great video Joey!
Geocaching is so fun and you explore so many interesting places through it. I've been considering hiding some caches in my city. I had a friend who introduced me to it and within the past year we found nearly 100 caches
I enjoyed this video thoroughly...much more than I expected. Thanks for your amazing work, Joey!
Really cool to see you trying out Geocaching, I’d definitely like to see more of these videos in different places! Also one of the best things about Geocaching is that it’ll take you to some interesting places!
Joey: "Although, Geocaching, if you're watching this..."
Us: 👁👄👁
First time I went "treasure" hunting was when I was 11. This vid gives great nostalgia
Geocaching has been around for more than 15 years. Back in the earlier days, there was no phone app. Instead, you had to type the coordinated into a handheld GPS type device that would tell you direction and distance (but wasn't super accurate sometimes due to tree cover or something) 🤣
Geocaching existed as a hobby since maps and compasses got affordable to the common citizen.
The real trick to doing it is to use nothing more than said map and compass and working off nothing more than the estimated pacing distance.
This is such a cool concept tbh, something left in 2008 is still being found 15 years later
I installed geochache to make myself get out of the house more because finding hidden treasure sounds fun! And I mean it did work...for a bit...but then I got lazy again lol.
Tips I guess would be to bring gloves (sometimes the container is dirty), bring a little trinket to put in/swap something with, always take a pen (like you did) and to have another set of eyes to help look. Sometimes they are VERY well hidden and the hints suck. I've had to come back to ones multiple times to try and find them. Or they're not very well upkept and put in areas where it's dangerous/not easy to get to or they're no longer there.
And obviously obey signs/local laws while hunting.
Wow, I haven't thought about Geocaching in close to 15 years...glad to hear that it's still going strong.
Dude this vid was so fun! You should definitely do some more of these in the future
Best video in a minute Joey good to see you're still having fun
I love geocaching. Please sponsor this boy, Geocaching-App-Dudes-and-Dudettes!
THis has brought back many childhood memories. Thank you
Been a few years since i last did any Geocaching but i have a good deal of experiance with something like 300 caches that i have found, the vast majority of my hunting has been done in my home country sweden but whenever i travel abroad, which is rarely i like to do some geocaching to. I've even made 1 geocache myself. My nr 1 tip for finding micro caches specifically is that they usually come in the form of uninflated soda bottles, the little plastic tubes that later become all different types of soda bottles.
But geocaching is great, its a little something extra to do while exploring and experiancing the great outdoors, and i love that its global, no matter where you are there is bound to be a dosen for you to find. Great to see you try it out!
Hit me up I have something for you 🎁.............
thank you joey for todays video, really fun and interessting video
Love the video and keep up the great work joey
I’ve done some geocaching, it’s fun to do with a few friends. I haven’t done it or even thought about it in years, so thanks for the reminder for something fun and free to do once spring comes. I love coming up with cool little things to leave in them.
Geocaching is a blast, a great way to explore new places and see new sites. When you find one, you should log it to let the owner know it is still active.
I have gone to Japan just for caching, thanks for showing it off to your community. Happy Hunting!
It’s crazy u uploaded this I just downloaded the app around 3 days ago
Please do more!!! Very fun video to watch. Thank you sir
Me and my parents were crazy about this some year ago! The criativity of people who hide their caches is genious.
please do more of this geocaching content, its such a fresh and fun ideas!
i used to love geocaching, i also used to go outside
its really fun to see all the creative hiding places, ive personally found one inside of the pole of a street sign and one inside a fake bird house. Ive seen online where people hide them inside fake bolts on things ect so finding them can be a really fun challange!
I feel like this could be a fun series just to do. Geocaching across Japan
Great to see new people joining the geocaching community! I’m planning on doing some caching in Japan later this year so it’s nice to know that it’s an active hobby other there too. A couple hints for next time: micro caches can be smaller than that! I’ve seen some that are hidden to look like screws, snail shells and even gum! They are certainly the trickiest to find. If you’re looking for larger boxes I recommend the paid version of the app. It unlocks a lot more caches
How much does it cost?
Look under everything. Try every nut and bolt. Sometimes it's a large bolt with a magnet in it. Some Caches are in small camera film cases. Some are magnets about the size of a 1 cent coin. Also if the cache is large enough you can put in little things to gift to others who may need it. Shame all those items were old. But they get wet and weather damaged a lot. If you think one needs maintenance message the person who put it there. Also some caches require photo taking. Also some are Co ordinates. Which take you to 3 different locations. Setting your own cache is an amazing feeling.
you have to look on the back of signs, at the bottom of poles or on top of things because they're usually in a place like that. Sometimes it's underneath a bridge or a rock as well.
yayy, geocaching is fun! i always go for the ones with trinkets inside to switch with 😍😍💗💗
I learned for the first time that there is a treasure hunting spot near Okutama Station. By the way, you can make a call by inserting a 10-yen coin, which is Japanese currency, into the phone booth, and it will be used when your mobile phone is gone. Telephone booths are often installed in stations with heavy traffic.
this made me want to get back out an cache, so happy to see it getting some spotlight the hobby deserves
Awesome treasure hunt in Japan anime man,fantastic job.
11:20 the silence as joey found it, underrated mudan editing moment
Geocaching was very popular among the guys when I was in the Air Force. There are tons of caches on the Okinawa main island which was very cool. Then going on TDYs to other countries, one of the first thing we would check is if there was any caching we could do in the area (answer was always yes).
Love this !
This was SOOOOO FUN!!!! I'd never heard of this! So cool! I can't wait to try it! Thanks for the video! 🌞
Congrats on discovering Geocaching :) There is a group of wonderful cachers down in Tokyo organising fun events - that's my top 1 advise - go to those meetups and talk to the seasoned cachers - they will recommend the fun ones to do :) That's how we been discovering 28 countries including Japan and still counting :)
And don't be afraid to drop messages to the cachers that have found the cache before ;) We are friendly folks :)
When I visited Tasmania with my family, my father would go around looking for treasures everywhere there.
It's been such a long time since then but it was nice to be reminded of it.
Now that I've learnt about it again, I'll definitely spend some time going around and looking for treasures in my area.
Love the content keep it up bro
One of the classes I teach has a unit that talks about geo cashing. It's a pretty old text book so I thought people don't do it anymore. Pretty cool to see people still doing it and in Japan. Now I can show my student's your vid.
I miss your anime content but I'm happy that your doing content that makes you happy and I'll continue to support. Much love
Hit me up I have something for you 🎁............
Loved watching you play
This is very interested video Joey
Wow, I haven't look for Geocachings since like 5 years ago 😅🤣 it was pretty fun and yes sometimes you can't find them all 😊
Awesome video!! One big trick a lot of people do here is to hide them in the base of a light pole (say in a parking lot) - the bottom square actually lifts up! Be careful of bees though!
I loved this! Would love to see you and maybe your friends go on a huge treasure hunt!
The Finnish Humppa-band Eläkeläiset (the Pensioners) started to do this sort of activity a long time ago (I think 90's). They hid booze bottles to random places and released the maps to the locations in their web pages. I bet there are still many of their bottles hidden in the Germany even now.
my parents have been geocaching since 2007...
great for me since that meant theyd go out into nature almost every weekend and i could play DS and watch TV without control
Geocaching has been a thing for a long while. Super fun....... until you find the cach a guy has pooed in, or an empty one cuz people took the stuff in it but didn't replace it with anything for the next person.
This looks so fun!
I live in the USA near Atlanta, GA. I tried Geocaching and found it to be pretty interesting. I think I will try it again because of you. My One Piece adventure begins again!!!
Geocaching has been around for years. I remember when I was a kid there were a few in a big forest near my house and there was even one in an underwater hole out the back of a local reef. Was really fun finding them.
I liked this. Would watch more!
As a tea enthusiast the genmaicha in your ad read caught my attention. I gotta say, the roasted flavour in genmaicha isn't neccessarily bitter, and it comes from roasted rice grains instead of roasted tea itself (the tea leaves are steamed iirc).
Hit me up I have something for you 🎁............
I absolutely love this video, do some more treasure hutting videos around Japan
I've been wanting to get into this! Last summer I accidentally found one in rural Indiana. I was on a day trip walking across a covered bridge and happened to look up and spot it in the rafters. The paper inside said it had been there since 2008. There'd been one before (placed in 2001) but a flood washed it away. Definitely sounds like a fun hobby!