This film shows what a typical hostelling holiday in Japan might look like. The film primarily follows a large group of hostellers who travel together in picturesque mountainous regions of Japan, stopping off at several different youth hostels, taking part in various activities and also visiting some well-known sites. A mountainous skyline is shown. Title card - ‘[Japanese] Produced by Motion Times’ A group of young people are shown cycling close to a shoreline. One of them holds a flag...

This film shows what a typical hostelling holiday in Japan might look like. The film primarily follows a large group of hostellers who travel together in picturesque mountainous regions of Japan, stopping off at several different youth hostels, taking part in various activities and also visiting some well-known sites. A mountainous skyline is shown. Title card - ‘[Japanese] Produced by Motion Times’ A group of young people are shown cycling close to a shoreline. One of them holds a flag with a triangle youth hostels logo. Mountainous views in Japan are shown. Title card - ‘[Japanese] Sponsored by Morinaga & Co. Ltd.’ A group of Japanese hostellers are shown walking across a mountainous area, followed by walking towards a very large Japanese torii gate structure. The group are shown in a village pointing to buildings, and then admiring a view over a lake. The group reaches the outside of a youth hostel - the large sign at the top of the building reads ‘JYH’. They go inside. Title card - ‘[Japanese] Travel Youth Hostel’ Buildings and office blocks in a Japanese city are shown. Office workers are sitting at desks, either working on paperwork or speaking on phone calls. Engineering workers are shown operating machinery. Agricultural workers are shown moving wheat. A large group of workers are shown in a courtyard. Factory workers are shown packing items from a conveyor belt. A man and his colleague are shown sitting on the grass. The man lays down with his hands behind his head, looking thoughtful and daydreaming. Clouds are shown in the sky. Volcanic smoke is shown coming from a volcanic region on a Japanese island. Views of rivers and waterfalls are shown. Snow on the mountains is shown. A group of young people are shown walking up to a youth hostel. They enter and are greeted by the warden at the desk. They present their membership cards and they pay for their stay. The warden picks a key and points out where their room is upstairs. The two young men follow the warden upstairs and down a corridor for the dormitories. They enter a dormitory where they are shown the lockers and the bunks. The two young men do a polite bow to the warden and sit on their bunks, before putting their rucksacks in the lockers. One of the young men is shown washing in the shower. Outside, a young man is shown standing up in front of a circle of people on garden chairs, as he appears to be telling a story. His small audience are then shown clapping. Inside, a group of hostellers are shown playing table tennis in the common room. Another group of hostellers are shown sharing a large bath together. One of them is shown drying himself with a towel on the side. The large group of hostellers are shown leaving the hostel with their flag. They are then shown on a boat, travelling on a big open stretch of water, with mountains in the background. The hostellers continue to walk through the mountains, followed by a bright floral meadow. One of the hostellers pulls out a small book about plant/flower identification. The hostellers are shown on a rocky area with steam surrounding them; a bubbling volcanic puddle is shown, as one of the hostellers points it out. The busy cityscape of Tokyo is shown, followed by the exterior of Ichigaya hostel. Two hostellers enter the hostel and present their membership cards to the warden at the desk. Behind the desk, two pictures are shown. One shows youth hostels founder Richard Schirrmann, and the other shows Altena Castle (Germany) - the first youth hostel in the world. A globe spinning is shown, followed by maps of the world. Several youth hostel triangle logos are shown on a red background. A montage shows the exteriors of many youth hostels in Japan, as well as some activities in the hostels such as dancing. A map of Japan is shown. The exterior of a youth hostel is shown. Some hostellers are shown doing stretches and aerobics outside. Two people are shown skiing down a mountain. A youth hostel in the snowy mountains is shown; people carrying skis and wearing warm clothes are shown walking up to the building. ‘Azume Youth Hostel’ is written on the sign above the entrance. A group of hostellers are shown getting on a ship, which is a youth hostel. Another group of hostellers are shown playing a ball game outside a youth hostel in the countryside. A montage of other Japanese youth hostels is shown, including a few still under construction. A group of hostellers are shown in the lobby of a youth hostel. Some of them are writing in their membership booklets. A travel guide is handed over to one woman. The large group of hostellers are shown walking away from a hostel with their flag. Some hostellers are shown sitting outside peeling potatoes. Others are shown in the kitchen preparing dinner, including chopping vegetables and stirring rice. A mountain landscape is shown. Hostellers are shown picking up trays of food from a counter and taking it over to benches in a dining hall to eat. Some of the guests are shown washing up and putting away all the crockery in the hostel kitchen. A candlelight ceremony outside the youth hostel is shown. The hostellers, who are standing in a circle, swear their oaths of friendship to each other whilst holding up lit white dinner candles. They sing, and light the candles of those to their left with their own flame. Exteriors of another youth hostel are shown. Inside, a group of hostellers are playing charades in a common room. The hostellers are then shown dancing together in the common room. An analogue clock on a wall shows the time of 9.55. Two young men in a dormitory are shown getting their bedding ready for the night. They wave to each other from their bunks and go to sleep. An exterior of the youth hostel at night is shown. A sunrise is shown. Hostellers are shown doing more chores, such as mopping the floors of the hostel and raking the leaves outside. The large group of hostellers are shown leaving again with their flag. They wave to the warden as they walk away. Mountain views are shown. The group continues to hike up a grassy bank. The hostellers are shown looking around archeological ruins in Shizuka. They sit down with a stranger and share food and water. The stranger has a youth hostel triangle badge. He points out the badges on one of the other hostellers. The hostellers leave the site. A flowing river is shown. Hostellers are shown making their way across the river by holding on to a large rope and walking sideways through the water. The hostellers walk up a track. A large group of monkeys are shown running around the track, and the hostellers stop to feed them. They continue on their journey. The group are shown entering another youth hostel. The film ends with a large landscape of mountains and water.