With the crazyness of Tokyo behind us, we headed to Minakami where it was time to suck it up for a week of work to pay for the trip.
Three trips a day, 84 clients a trip...
12 rafts and hardly anyone who speaks a word of English. The result? An absolute GONG SHOW! 
One of the quieter trips where I had the luxury of safety kayaking...
I learnt to do my paddle talk and rafting commands in Japanese, and to deal with totally incapable miniature raft clients, but I still haven’t got the slightest clue about Japanese T.V… 
Each night after work we would paddle a different river and we found some good white water and had some crazy missions (mostly in the dark which is why there are hardly any pics!)
The gorge below the big drop on Fox Canyon.
We had lots of adventures and misadventures… including swims out of horrible closed in man made weirs, and having to climbing out of a super deep, super steep gorge blocked by a tree strainer (with the assistance of numerous ropes, ladders, bridges and even the bullet train tunnel which we climbed on top of!).
The busy bank holiday 'golden week' came to an end and we hatched a major mission with the other guides to check out a creek that looked like it had some amazing potential for some world class creeking… pics and details coming soon.
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