7 in 10 Japanese Children Now Have Virtual Friends

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Welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast. Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm your host, Chris Probe, but joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete Dawson. Pete, how the devil are you doing? What's going on? I'm good. All of the pate I consumed over the Christmas period is still coursing through my veins.

Um more pate than more. More pate than what kind of pate? Um Arden. Ya Arden. I don't know what's in an Arden. Chicken livers? I don't like livers. There's a bit of pa there's a posh version of it that's got a bit of pistachio in it. Lovely audio. Absolutely lovely audio. I've started to make my own dip for uh You are the you are the one percent with your cancer, aren't you? I made me on dick with uh really cheap mayonnaise and lemon juice and pepper. And I was just absolutely seeing that off.

And I wonder why I'm a size. But I am cut but I am cutting out the lattes as discussed. I'm having uh Filter coffee. I've switched to filter coffee people. When I did uh the original journey across Japan with Ian, good old Ian. Yeah, Ian. We love Ian. We love Ian. The uh driver and producer.

He had a latte every day, times like three. Right. And I think he put on like five kilograms. He needs it man, he's busy. He loved those lattes. Yeah. And I was like, just drink like me, just drink a black coffee with a drop of milk. Cause a latte is like th you know, three quarters. Or even or even a black coffee with the sugar is probably better for you. Proper milk.

And I think he stopped and he immediately lost like four kilograms. Yeah. So don't don't drink Lartin. The thing is though, Ian's Ian can say that off Ian being a man who r goes for a lot quite a lot of runs, he uh he probably can ship off a bit of work quite easily. But I'm I'm very sedentary these days and uh I just I just I just e a bit of eleven aside on a Sunday is not gonna really So I watched uh

Eyes wide shut. How dare you start the show like that? How dare you Or rewatch it? Toss that toss that hand grenade in. I haven't seen it. I'm familiar with most of the cues. You haven't seen it? I'm not I d I don't know. What is it? Kubrick? Is it Kubrick? Is it Kubrick? Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Right. He finished it. It was the longest production of any film ever made, four hundred days. Longest continuous production. Yeah. Uh he finished the edit.

Then he died. Yeah. And then the film came out like nine months later. Right, okay. And there's a lot of conspiracy theories, you know, uh was he killed?'Cause there's there's a a section in the film that's about a very mysterious, scary cult. Right. The film's rather prescient in the Zera Epstein stuff and all the rich and powerful and all the people you see photograph with him. Um I don't think there was a conspiracy theory about him being killed. I think it was just old.

And smoked a lot. Right, yeah. But who knows? Who knows who died by natural causes heart attack is the official thing. How many ladders have we seen off a day? That's a question. sort of aura around him. You know, like in the nineteen sixties people said that he filmed the Moonlanding. 'Cause obviously two thousand one Space obviously comes out nineteen sixty eight, it looked

Incredible, even to this day. Nineteen sixty nine man goes for the meeting. Why would he have um why would he want to do more space stuff? What was his film after Space Odyssey? I I guess you'd sort of lost that question, wouldn't you? Clockwise. So he would have been born of space, wouldn't he? Followed by Barry Linden, the shining full metal jacket. Right. Eyes wide shut. That's pretty good, isn't it? You seem to remember Kubrick as well. Well he's my

I'd say my favourite director's Martin Scorsese, second favourite director, Kubrick. I love Scorsese. But Kubrick. Is like my biggest inspiration as a director. Every film he made and especially in those last three, four decades, was a work of art and you know, he put like three, four years into each film and you'd see that on the screen. For example, Ice Wide Sharp. It's set in New York, right? Yeah.

And none of it was shot in New York,'cause it was shot in London. Oh, okay. And I when I first watched it, I had no idea years ago when I watched it. Yeah. Uh but Kubrick had a fear of flying. And he moved over here, I think late nineteen sixties to film uh uh Doctor Strange Love. Yes. Nineteen sixty four, I think. Right. And uh since then

He lived in North London and he didn't ever travel. Oh he didn't, you know, fly ever again. Yeah. So all of his films are in the UK. Oh. So full metal jacket, all set in set in Vietnam. It was just shot my sister like Greenwich. Uh The Shining. It was all like a back lot. She I think not Shepperton Studios or Ely. Right, yeah. Uh

All of his films. I had no idea. Two thousand one Space obviously. I think it was uh Shepperton. Yeah, but I mean you can't you can't say that's filming America. It doesn't matter where you're filmed, isn't it? But he wasn't he a big lens guy. He would like modify lenses just to get certain effects out of them. Yeah. On uh Barry Linden, which is a sort of

Uh I d I don't think I've ever heard of that film, Barry Linden. It's really good. It's um it l every shot looks like a painting. Right. And it's inspired by a lot of paintings of the Renaissance era, I think. Um What w uh the lens, yeah. He used them. A special NASA lens. Oh, how did you get that, yeah? Yeah, quid pro I'll shoot the moon lad and you give me the lens. Job done. It was like a.74 F stop lens. Right.

It's big. But he can he can shoot in extreme low light conditions and like the shots in Barry Linden are like indoors in these sort of uh eighteenth century houses, nineteenth century houses. Yeah. And they're all like lit by candles. Right. And they're not using like big soft boxes like we are now, they're using candlelight. And it looks incredible. You know. The uh very much like

uh my daughter's infrared camera that I've got on. It's the same. It's exactly the same. It is the same. She knows when the infrared lights on, so I think she might be magic. We've got a a young key brick up and coming. As soon as I turn as soon as I go um You know, d she's crying or whatever, so I'll I'll go on my app and I'll go, right, what's going on here? Um and uh as soon as I turn that light on she goes

And like looks at the camera. It's really spooky. It must make a noise. No no, I think it's just a I think it's a a very dim red bulb that um has a bit of IR in there that I'm I'm I'm completely blind to. Um and yet she's looking superpower. X Men. Yeah, absolutely mad. Absolutely insane. Don't like it. Don't care for it. Have you not seen Eyes Wide Shut?

I've seen Full Metal Jacket. What were the other ones? Apocalypse Now scene. That's not Kubrick. I can list them off. Doctor Strange. My dad was a big fan of it. Two thousand one Space Odyssey. No, never seen it. Shining I've seen. Clocker corns I've seen. Uh Lita. Never seen uh the killing. I haven't seen direct Spartacus. He did, yeah, but he sort of wasn't overly happy with it, I think. No. God, he had a long

We had a massive film critique. Oh he died at seventy. I mean, good god. I mean like yeah. Well you know, in the golden age of Hollywood he made a lot of films that I have to actually go back and watch. But it's it's the killers. Nineteen sixties onwards. Right. Where he made like one film every three, five years. Yeah, yeah. Starting his stuff. That's absolutely wild.

No. I've watched some of it. You watch you've seen a clockwork orange? Yeah. Which is basically what I imagine Hartley Paul's like. it was filmed in London in a bit of Liverpool I think yeah I love uh I I love the old But the aesthetic of clockwork it's it's uh yeah it uses a lot of brutalist architecture, but it feels like the future of this really dif sort of fucked up sinister future. What was that film that was set in a big brutalist tower block? And it had

The man it had Loki in it. Oh high rise, I think. High rise. Could have been better, but I enjoy I think some films you can enjoy for the aesthetic. ac mae'n ymwneud yw'n ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud ymwneud Uh, in the middle of the night, kids walk out their front door and disappear. Okay. And an entire classroom of kids goes missing. Right. Uh

Except I think one student and they have to unravel what's happened. I see. And it's a i the first three quarters of the film are quite scary and spooky and eerie. Benedict Wong does something awful in it. And uh and then the last quarter's kind of funny and absurd. Mm. It's it's kind of the whole film feels like a build up to a an epic punchline. Right. And the punchline delivers. I was laughing Very loudly. Yeah. At the end of the film. Was like a lot of people, I think. Was that Joe Cornish?

I'm excited. Well you should watch Weapons. Okay. That was very good. And what oh Zach Krager it was. Yeah, Zach Krager. He did the film called Barbarians. Um which is also pretty good. And also One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson. Absolutely I I was thinking about that film for um ages after that. Family, yeah. It's like getting into London from from Essex, isn't it? One mile after another on a fucking train. Um one coffee after another. I mean Paul Thomas Addison is

A legend. His films are incredible. Again, not enough people have seen them. Like Magnolia was in there. Boogie Knight. You see Boogie Knights, right? Boogie Knights. There we go. That's good. All is forgiven. I was young. I was expecting to be dirtier. Do you know what I'm like?

But it does worry me, you know, a lot of people haven't seen all these good films. I I always feel like oh I've not seen that much. Oh like Chris's film film club, watch it together, stream it. Chris's film club. You talk about lenses with people. That would be cool. Yeah, go and go watch Kubrick's films. I I watch two thousand and one Space Odyssey like every Right. And it really surprised me.

I run out of ideas. You keep on thinking you're gonna do your space odyssey every uh every summer. Two thousand and twenty five of space travesty. Yeah, exactly. Uh we've got a story this week.

From Steve. And I think you should read it. Alright then.'Cause I don't want my cough to get worse. Exactly. Um Oh I just drank a hot bit of coffee there, didn't I? Um Dear cool Chris and petrified Pete, rude, uh my wife, uh this is from um uh Steve. Um my wife, Yukimi, is from Osaka, so we visit quite often to see families and friends. Um a couple of years ago we were walking around Denogie and came across a nice looking bakery, so we went inside to see what they had to offer.

Uh the ladies inside were all very friendly, but didn't speak any English and my Japanese is basic at best, but it didn't matter as I was with Yukimi and her friends, so they were chatting away while buying loads of cakes. Um I heard someone mention that I was from England.

When suddenly an elderly Japanese man with purple hair wearing a red silk coat appeared and started to talk to me. Wow. He seemed quite friendly. And I got the impression he was in charge. So we chatted away while purchases were being made. He commented that my Japanese was very good, which is odds.

uh because I hadn't said anything on the high but uh I thanked him anyway. It's in the Hunger Jozu innit. Um He then said he wanted to take a f take a photo with all of us so he went outside where there was a comic statue of him located. He then insisted that I use my phone to take the picture. Um the photo was duly taken with all was all looking a bit bemused while he gave a double thumbs up and then he said thank you and disappeared back into the shop. After a little research.

Uh we discovered that he was a local celebrity who was the CEO of a company making sweetened bean paste for dessert. And he used to appear in his own T V adverts. All a little strange, but quite in keeping with the randomness that is Osaka. Have you had had had any uh random encounters with local celebrities?

uh in Japan or here I suppose regards Steve. I mean like d we don't really have in the UK um U apart from like that bloke who looks like Rod Stewart who's always on the news talking about Brexity stuff. Who looks after the who's a plumber guy. Pimlicore plumber man. I don't know who that is. Google Pimlicore Plummers and he's a guy who looks like Rossi. He's like a Pimlico Plumberman.

And so so we don't have that culture that you have in America where like the guy who's got like the fucking sofa bed shot. will be like a famous local celebrity because he'll be doing his own adverts and stuff and they're really effusive and very um charismatic and stuff. We don't really have that culture. We don't so we've only got like big brands and stuff. We don't have anybody. But I like the fact that um Steve met

the famous red bean paste factory man. I my friend nearly introduced me to someone who was famous. Mm but they didn't. And there was a guy who climbs Mount Fuji wearing a suit. Okay. Nice. That's his thing. That's his thing. Does things in a suit. I think he climbed Did he climb Everest? Right. Oh he gave it a shot. That's my flowers, I'm wearing a suit. Unbelievable. Uh people who uh in our last recording session thought I was

uh wearing uh no trousers. Why why was that? What were you why was that? No trousers. No, my uh I was wearing cream sort of chinos, I think. Oh. Cream trousers. They look like my skin. Let me tell you. My legs are not that colour. They are red, they are blotchy, they are hairy. Samtal kommer från knud sjuår. Hej. Du råkade ha sönder din pappas laptop. Ja, men jag kollar bara när i marken och så går du så kunde han inte varit på mig. Aha, hundögon ja det är en klassiker.

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Disgusted. Disgusted. But I haven't have I met any other celebrities? Like so product-based celebrities. You know what I mean? Oh, he's famous for sort of being have you ever met like a famous chef? A Marco Pierre White, etcetera? No. You sort of see like people like bodging around um Soho quite a lot. Like a lot of'cause it's where people sort of hang out, really, isn't it? Restaurant once. I mean he's a famous publican, I suppose, and many ways. And Stuart liberated me once. Right.

I would say Stuart Lee is one of my favourite comedians. And I uh I think I I raised my arm and it triggered my watch. Right. I was wearing like a Apple watch at the time and it went a light went off. Right. And then he like stopped his whole performance. And it's like you there. You don't have to film this.

Why are you filming and I was like I just I just sat there like uh what can you say? You can't uh get involved. Unless you're an idiot. Unless you're an idiot, you can't get involved. Just don't get involved. Sort of go on. So I just sort of sat there and enjoy it. Treat it like a little personal a personal cameo. I think so, yeah. But uh but I think the worst thing you can do is try and get involved'cause no one wants to hear from you. I can't go Oh no, I didn't.

You were a liar You're a big liar. And people do film those gigs. So it's good to call them out. They wouldn't do it that obviously. Cameras are small these days. Why would I be holding a phone in a gig like, yeah, you keep saying those jokes or film it? It's a shit why would anyone do that? Who's the one who used to get really upset? Lee Hurst, remember him? No.

He's gone a bit mad. Um but yeah, he would he would have people thrown out. I think he'd confiscate all their phones as well. Rightly so. Don't steal Lee Hurst's material.

What is going on this week in Japan, Mr Donson? What is In the news. Well We're not talking about bean paste no more. We're not in Kansas anymore. Uh yeah, a brand new survey of over we love a survey here on the Bronx Podcast. Uh more than uh one thousand six hundred elementary and junior high school students in Japan have found.

that over seventy percent of kids now say they have at least one friend that they met online. Wow. Uh not on the playground, not through school clubs, but through places like video games, social media and online communities. The way children make friends today is evolving just as fast as t as the technology they use. For many of these young people, teaming up in an online game or chatting through an app feels just as natural as inviting another kid to come over after school.

A lot of these online pals aren't even the same age. About forty percent of the kids surveyed said that their online friends were usually one to three years older than they are, and sometimes even older than that.

It's shared hobbies and interests, like the games they love that bring them together, bridging age gaps that may never have happened uh back in the old uh playground school days. Um when you were a kid you didn't have any I I didn't have many people who were outside my house. I didn't have any friends online met your friends.

Um and they're all roughly around about your age from that age. But I I never had friends outside my s like age group really. Right, right. It was there was just not it's just not something that you did really. Do you have any friends online? Did the in was the internet invented when you were young? No, it was very it was all um chat rooms. Remember chat rooms? It was always chat rooms, yeah. Age sex location, all that business. Yeah.

Uh yes, apparently um eighty percent of kids with online friends have shared personal information with them. Things like age, gender, birthdays, the area they live in, or even their first name. Wow. Problematic. Um most of kids are pretty cautious, they're pretty street smart and internet smart. Nearly ninety percent uh said they'd never actually met their online friends in person. Others said

They only consider meeting face to face when they're older or feel they know the person much better. Um they're evolving, these uh these digital relationships. Pokemon. They are evolving. Um somebody said that um is it Charmeleon?

has evolved to another thing and evolved. And then then it's a um Char Shara broad. It's good stuff. Good at a YouTube comment, guys. Great YouTube comments. You should leave more. I mean with these online friendships I only ever see clips of people just swearing at each other when they're playing Call of Duty. Yeah. Is that what we're talking about? That's pretty much how it works. Uh have I got any friends that started on

Not really. I'm not really sorry. I've got three million friends. I mean I don't have that video game component, but I suppose I it's I have friends online. Right. Folks that I talk to and the amongst the community. Yeah. And then I'll meet them. Yeah. And it's kinda cool. Yeah. And that's how when I go to Lost Bar, everyone in there

You know. Yeah, that's a sort of um it's being a Zedlist celebrity. Mm-hmm it's different, isn't it? Mm. But you know, it's it's it's kinda cool, yeah. I mean the internet It we we always talk about the negative stuff, the bad stuff. But the internet is pretty cool. It's it's pretty amazing that you know, you can have a community of people around the world. Yep. But like on the Broadway Pan podcast, whatever.

You've got people around the world, you've got like a people in like Brazil that listen to you talking while they're on the bus. Yeah. You've got like a guy in Portugal who's going to the zoo. Just doing Portuguese talking about it. You've got there's a man and he speaks Portuguese. But it's it's really cool. I I find that very I remember when we first started doing this.

I was always trying to encourage people to be like, Where are you where are you listening from? What's going on? Yeah. And it'd be fascinating. They're like, Oh, I'm in Latvia, get a Skill Listen to the Broad Japan podcast. Yeah.

I and I try and like picture that. I'm gonna have to the whole planet. Shall I look at the stats now? See who we've got. Sure. They're all from they're all from like Chelmsford actually. Let's have a look here. So we've got uh looks. Whenever I do a live show I always kick off with like Where are you watching from? And it's really fascinating. Yeah. There's loads. Well we've got uh

US Virgin. No, I got n there's nobody listen Oh no there is no there's one. I I think you get one download for every little air like f you get one in Fiji, one in Gambia, one in Namibia, one in Papua New Guinea. Um let's have a look. We've got two. It's where you got two. The Northern Mariana Islands. That's cool. Is that the Mariana trench? Is that right that's right in the stick?

Uh Mon we Monaco's only got two as well. So you've got we've got the same amount in Monaco, which is much closer. Three in Gibraltar. I mean this is like over a very small um couple of uh episodes I think. But uh yeah. We're three in Cape Verde at the moment, yeah. Lovely. It's pretty dim there. Yeah. Listening to all times. Let's have a look at all time. Listening to your lack of knowledge of Stanley Kubrick. There's a lot of lot of benign listeners. A lot of benigners.

Tajikistan? Yes please. Oh wow. Yeah. Jolly good. Nice. Go and meet them all. Go and meet them all. I I'm I'm hell bent this year on doing a project with Natsuki where we meet his sort of fans around the world. Right. And go to Sort of random places and maybe. I'll do France and no further, Chris. It's a deal.

I think they could be quite good. Yeah. Finding the Natskies of a country. The Natskies of uh I don't think there's a place to other insane other insane people. Um finding Natskies of the world. Um but yeah, so I it's kinda cool. You have your online friends. Yeah. I j I like that the people are being careful, I think. Cause I think the the young generation from from mine and to a lesser extent your generation, um, people are less likely to pick up the phone.

So they're less likely to pick up the phone for people, they're probably less likely to meet them in person. So it's probably these relationships probably do stay on. I mean, I don't pick up the phone. Well exactly, yeah. Neither does Sarah, she's older than me, so I don't know that way. But um she uh but you have a situation where um uh if someone is too keen to meet on l offline, I think that's a problem.

Let's meet. Let's not. Let's not actually. You seem way too keen. Has anybody ever wanted to meet you offline? Uh it's no it's more it's mainly like when I say I'm going somewhere for like a weekend, just get pissed. I'll always get a couple of people going, Oh Pipe, I'll show you around I'm going

I don't I don't have time I've I'm here for like a day. I don't have time to do the stuff I need to do. But I want to do that with that skill. I want to go, Are we going here? Mm. Come and meet us. Yeah. Nice. See what happens next. Yeah. Got uh get yourself to Tajikistan. See how many nuts can up together. I just wonder what the visa requirements are for Didjickston. I watched uh a British dude from uh Wales who cycled from uh Wales to China. Right.

And he went through Tajikistan I think. Or Turkmenistan Turkmenistan. Yeah. And that it's like he's going through all these European countries and it's like today I'm in Hungary, today I'm in you know, Greece, today I'm in Italy and then It gets to there, it gets to Central Asia and it's like, I'm in Turkmenistan. I'm still in Turkmenistan.

I'm in Ted Medicine for another week.'Cause the fu all of Central Asia is like a joke size. It's huge. And uh and it's uh but really he did a one video on this whole journey. And uh fair play to him. Uh you do need a visa to enter Tujik Tajikis. You can't even say that. Absolutely dribbling. Absolutely dribbling. We'll be back in a moment, guys. Your stories, comments and questions over in the facts machine.

And we're back with the fax machine. What have we got this week? From our listeners, Mr Dolson Phillipson. Got a message from Ronnie from Leeds. Uh hi guys, I'm off to Japan in April. First time visiting, and my itinerary is bursting with things to do.

Whilst I'm there, I plan to buy all the fun, wacky and cheap toys I can find, so I've sorted birthdays and Christmas presents for all my nieces and nephews for twenty twenty six. Where do you recommend I go for finding fun, quirky toys and games for them? Youngest is eight and oldest is fourteen. Thanks guys. Ronnie from Leeds. Hmm. Uh uh Near Yogi Park is a place called

And there's some interesting it which sounds problematic. Oh I know what you mean. Yeah it's in little it's in uh Parajuku. And that's a good that's a good like four level um uh shop that you buy stuff that you don't see everywhere else. I recommend Loft in Shibuya. There's always some cool stuff going on there. Is it Kotobukiya in Akihabara? I think it's pretty good. Is Loft... Loft is like a...

Sells everything. Right. Stationery, toys, legacy. Memorabilia. Mm. It's very fun. I get I spend hours in there. It's my favourite shop in Japan. What's that one you like? Tokyo Hands. Yeah, Toki Hands is cool as well. There's lots of cool stuff in there. Toki hands. Loft and of course Donkey Horte. Yes. Donkey Horte is a lot of fun. Yeah. It's chaotic though. And with the with the increase in choose one that's off the beaten track a little bit because with the increase in uh tourists.

The tax free things just massive lines and lines of them. I think they're stopping tax free soon. Mega Don Quixote in Shibuya, which is like next to Los Bar, is Uh like insanely busy and not fun to go in. No. Uh but there's one in Nakamegru that's a lot more quiet and a lot more fun.

And uh I'd I'd always go shopping there if I have to go to Donkey Horter. So go there. And you will find something good. I promise you will find something cool. Kit Kats and Gatch Pop. Uh hello Chris Pete. I remember Chris saying that Japan is still very much a cash Bay society. But is this true? I'm a bit of an anxious traveller.

And as my wife and I visiting Tokyo for the first time next year, I wanna make sure I get it right. I wanna uh d I wanna ca I wanna be an anxious traveller and I wanna carry three thousand pounds on my body at all times. You don't need three thousand, no take like, you know Twenty thousand yen. Which is like a hundred and fifty dollars. Right. Yes. That's a good amount. That's a good amount for a night out,'cause that can cover you w whatever happens. I mean, it's um

They they there's a lot more car payment stuff in Japan now than there used to be. Certainly in the last two grades. Um the only place you need cash Really, is the smaller restaurants whether you still use like a like a ramen shop that we use like a uh coin machine system, whatever, vending machine. So uh and in the countryside I was in no where was I? somewhere in um Shikoku and um no, sorry. Uh central Japan Alps and I got a taxi.

And they did not take car payment. And I was like, Oh shit. But luckily I had it just enough. to pay. Uh so yeah, taxes, small restaurants. Other than that, cards. Interesting. Get yourself a sweaker card when you land. Yes. Get a sweaker card. Um

And the last one, Pete, I'll let you read it out. Uh yes, uh Jeremy, hi Pete and Chris. One of my hobbies is model painting and I enjoy listening to your podcast as I'm busy detailing the locomotives, carriages and other scening elements scenic elements in my station behind the I know he did that with Natsuki. I d the in uh I know he went to

Like Donkey Hote is it Donkey Horte? Right. Uh you're the bash camera. Yeah. I've got a whole floor dedicated to models. Yes. I was gonna make a video with Natsuki. We built a city for a thousand dollars and we're gonna buy all these trains, yeah, buildings, build this big fucking city. I feel like that would

Be rubbish. I feel like no, not for the video. I mean like the way you do it would be rubbish. Oh well. That's gonna be like, oh the train's broken. Yeah. It'd be disaster. Train crashes your law. Yeah. But also I realised I didn't have

The table space. Yeah, you'd need that room, yeah. What fucking ten of these tables we're on now. Yeah. To spread out a train. Maybe you could have that s the the the the kitchen not kitchen, the front room set that you've got. Maybe a reduced version of that. A little

Yeah, Carrie. You can hire out a little bit. Yeah. I kinda w I kinda want to see that. Yeah. Um I've I've booked my first trip to Japan in September twenty twenty six and I'd like to know if there are any unique train experiences beside the Shinkansen. Thank you both. Uh

Shirakami train that runs between uh Akita and Almori. Yeah. And it goes along the Sea of Japan coastline and it's the most incredible scenery, uh, in North Japan. But you kinda want to go in autumn when it's not so rainy and cold and horrible. Um There's there's like character trains. It's like a Pokemon train somewhere. Saitama, the uh railway museum where you can drive your own train. They've got like a little disaster waiting to happen.

Drive your own tra you drive your own train. Like they have little sort of reduced versions of um the Amanote line trains and stuff and you can kind of choose which one you're gonna get in and uh presumably it has a quite a realistic uh way or Or any arcade, the denture de Gore fucking machines. A year ago I took on a to sleep on a luxurious sleeper train. You did, yeah.

Um yeah, great stuff. There's there's lots of but every sort of um every sort of sort of rural Um sort of off the beaten track, uh, you know, hard off or any of those kind of like shops or even little um shopping centres that have a couple of levels, uh Invariably we'll have a shop that just sells train stuff. Yeah. I don't know whether that'll fit your gauge on your railway um setup in your attic, but

Um i i d it it's well worth a a visit'cause they've just got such lovely stuff and you will come home with a suitcase. Bring a suitcase, bring an empty suitcase and then stick it full of free stick it full of trains. Can you imagine? Turn it up a heathray, like what's in this bag? Load of trains. The uh Shinkansen model number ten. Yeah, I've been on a plane, here's my trains, and I'm about to get on an automobile home. Uh the uh I um

I painted a doll's house over Christmas, or before Christmas with my daughter. And it was the most nightmarish bit of painting I've ever done. So I'm never gonna I'm never gonna do anything say again? Why is it so difficult? Fiddly. Small little bits and b they're just having to pin the worst.

No trains for you, Pink. No trains for me. But I think I'm I'm still tempted to do that idea with Natsuki. Could be kind of fun, couldn't it? Yeah. Oh Natsu'd uh get a real chance. Just a bit too random an idea. Why? What do you think, guys? Should you spend some money on a model city? But I think that I think the Charm of having this tut available in a place, you know, it unique stuff, like I'm making a little kind of village with a little 7 Eleven.

but then what do you do with it?what?what do you do with it? Tell me Natsuki stamps all over it like bloody uh Shrink Natsuki down, walk him through. Yeah. Like uh what'd you call it? Godzilla. I've empty. I did it one time. I did a video called Why I Hate Japanese TV and in that I had a diorama of a sitting room and I shrunk myself down. And it looked quite convincing. Yeah. And then we I opened the sliding door.

And flicked myself and I like flew off camera. Yeah. Well you could film you could film an abroaden Japan in your diorama. Explore this unique city, Natsuki Town, Natsuki Hyphen Town. Natsuki Yama, Natsuki uh uh uh Mura. Natsuke Mura. What would you call the video I built now? I built a town. Yeah, exactly. We got one day. Why you the all this earth earthquake relief? I did it in a day.

I will I will put that in the maybe pile. Put that in the maybe pile. The twenty twenty six. What's in the non not gonna do it ever pile? Uh Nickel footage. Video of you and Nico. We'll be back later in the week, guys. Do it over again. But for now, have yourself a great few days. We'll see you right back here to do all over again on the Abroad Japan. Abroad in Japan is a stack production and part of the ACAST Creator Network. Lyxfrunkost var. Valios nya svartvinbärgsjogurt är inte bara krävs.

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