There's a nice walk you can take through the bamboo forrest in Kyoto:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%B5%90%E5%B1%B1%E3%80%80%E...

What's sad, though, is that are there roads (and parking lots) in those places... The streetviews just sort of rub it in. :(

A backpack-cam, on the other hand would be great, and give a much truer sense of what it's like to be out there in the middle of nowhere.

I was at an arduino talk at last year's BaaCamp in Auckland, NZ and there was a guy who had made his own street view style cam for capturing hiking trails using arduino and some cameras. Very cool, imagine he's not the only one either.