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Japan - Flying and walking in rice fields of Kawagoe・4K

 

Walking at Omiya, Saitama

 

Omiya has the 16th busiest train station in the world. All Shinkansen trains traveling north stop at Omiya station.  This was filmed on the eastside of the station.  

Saitama Kita-Urawa・4K HDR

 

Kita Urawa isn't one of the main stations in Saitama. You get there by taking the Keihen Tohoku line. The west side of the station is were most of the shopping and restaurants are located. About 100 meters from the station is Kita Urawa koen (park). Located in the park is a public museum.    

Old Kawagoe temples, shrines and Bell Tower

 

Kawagoe is located in Saitama about 30 minutes Ikebukuro station in Tokyo on the Tobu Tojo line train. 

Walking at Wako city with cicada sounds and flying over Aya lake

[4K / Rail View]Tokaido Line Rail View

One could make this journey even longer if they started their trip in Kogohara Saitama or Kognei in Tochigi prefectures.   What's amazing about is that, while it isn't the shinkansen is the fact that one can take a regular commuter line train all the way to Kobe.

1000 Year Old Japanese Bonsai Tree Adventure ★ ONLY in JAPAN

Japanese Bonsai Trees have been a part of Japanese culture for over 1000 years going back to the Heian Era. Today, we'll visit the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum 大宮盆栽美術館 in Saitama to see some amazing tree! One in particular is a 1000 year old Ezo Spruce that has a lot of personality.

Japanese man with death wish and/or nerves of steel waits for passing train INSIDE crossing gates (video)

頭おかしい(笑) pic.twitter.com/Sy3fEZwEiu

— タコサバイバー (@moon15remu) January 11, 2019

The video was filmed along the Tobu Urban Park Line, which runs through Saitama and Chiba, the prefecture directly to the north and east of Tokyo. By the time the video starts, the gates are already down and the warning light flashing, and a man on a bicycle, who’s facing in the direction of the camera, is waiting. He’s not on the far side of the gates, though. Instead, he’s standing between them, with no barrier between him and the tracks the approaching train is barreling down.

“I don’t think he’s gonna get hit, but that doesn’t look like a good idea,” says the person filming the video from inside his car, and thankfully the bicyclist, casually balancing himself by sticking his left foot on top of a sidewalk divider, isn’t struck by the train. However, the fact that the train’s horn can’t be heard until the train is already going by suggests that the conductor didn’t notice the bicycle until the train was already right next to him perhaps because his dark brown jacket made him difficult to spot in the nighttime conditions.

After sounding its horn, the train comes to a halt, with baffled passengers onboard staring down from the windows at the man outside who was just inches away from death. Once the train is completely stopped, the bicyclist nonchalantly hops off from his bike, slides it under the gate, remounts it, and pedals away at a relaxed pace, showing he could have moved out from between the gates at any time prior to the train’s arrival.

Tobu's Urban Park line funs from Omiya and Kasukabe in Saitama and Kashiwa in Chiba

Saitama hospital threatens to inject owners of illegally parked cars with needles

A hospital in the city of Saitama has taken the problems of illegal parking to a whole new level.  As you can see from the headline you know what's coming if you're scofflaw. You've been duly warned. 

However, some businesses do have complimentary lots for customers, and sometimes the allure of free parking is so strong that even people who aren’t patrons of the establishment will secretly leave their car there. That’s a problem the Seibu General Hospital in Saitama City has been dealing with recently, and the medical center has come up with a uniquely terrifying way of addressing the problem, as shared in the photo above from Japanese Twitter user @matsujun5213.

The sign reads:

● Parking by non-hospital visitors is strictly prohibited.

● Owners of unauthorized cars will be fined 10,000 yen or given an injection.

● The hospital bears no responsibility for accidents, theft, or other damages incurred while parked in the lot.

The first and third points are pretty standard, but it’s the second one that’s sending chills down internet users’ spines, and not just because 10,000 yen is a hefty parking fine. “Since it’s supposed to be a punishment, I’m guessing the injection isn’t something beneficial, like a vaccine,” mused @matsujun5213, and theories and reactions from online commenters have included:

Some Of The Best Whiskey In The World Is Made In Japan

The tiny distillery making Japan into a whisky superpower

Ichiro Akuto’s passion for making single malts that are ‘not necessarily easy to drink’ is winning global praise

Today, despite working out of modest premises with just two tiny pot stills in the hills of Chichibu, a town 100 km northwest of Tokyo, Akuto’s single malts are winning rave reviews from the global whisky cognoscenti.
Many are willing to pay hundreds of dollars - and in a few cases much more - for a bottle of single malt from what is Japan’s smallest distillery.
The Whisky Magazine, a British publication, has consistently given awards to Akuto’s firm, Venture Whisky, and its range of “Ichiro’s” single malts now rival those from the bigger and more established Japanese distillers Suntory and Nikka.
This year, Akuto won first prize in the Japanese single malt single class category at the World Whiskies Awards.
He launched Venture Whisky in 2008 and produced his first label – Ichiro’s Vintage Single Malt 1988 – the following year. Much of the rest of the inherited stock went into Venture’s award-winning “card” series, with each small batch labelled with the name of a playing card.

Some might schoff at the idea of the Japanese making award winning spirits, but take step back for a moment ask yourself this question: When the Japanese look at product like whiskey they don't consider how to keep it the same by following tradition. They ask how can that tradition be improved. That's how Akuto has looked at his distilleries methods of production.

If you get the chance to visit Venture Whiskey it's located in Saitama and can be reached by taking the Seibu-Ikebukuro  line train from Ikebukuro to Chichibu. The limited express train takes about 87 minutes and costs ¥1,480 one way.  The fare includes a seat fee.

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