誰も訪れない日本の隠れた京都

誰も訪れない日本の隠れた京都

All right. So, good morning, evening, afternoon. Today, we’ll be visiting the town of Tsuna, a little Kyoto buried in the mountains of Japan’s least visited prefecture. In the last video, we covered the long train today to get there. So, feel free to check that out afterwards if that interests you. But without further ado, let’s get straight to it. And we start our journey on the historic Tonomachi Street, which has a lot of really beautiful kind of old buildings, which apparently is kind of like a preserved samurai street. And you can certainly see it with all the beautiful kind of like whitewashed buildings and wooden structures, but we’re just kind of walking through on the way to our first thing, which will be the castle. And um when I looked online, apparently you have to like ride a ropeway, but it’s not just a kind of regular ropeway. It’s like an individual seat one. And it looks pretty fun, but also a bit terrifying. So, we’ll see how that goes. Yeah, let’s make our way over and we’ll see what Well, we’ll see what we see on the way there. Apparently, this road is supposed to be really beautiful. So, I actually walked down this street yesterday. And I mean, first of all, there were a lot more people yesterday than today. I’m not sure. I guess a lot of people just didn’t stay over. But also over there, you’ve got like the very, how do I say, stereotypical kind of, oh wow, there’s koiish in Japan’s kind of side rivers or something like that. But, um, this time it’s actually true. So, let’s go take a look at that. In case you didn’t see the last video, Suano is located in the south of Shimanet Prefecture on the west of Honshu. It’s a small town with a population of around 6,000 and one of the best spots to visit in the prefecture as we’ll see. Oh, you’ve also got a Catholic church here, which is yeah, also pretty cool. And yeah, look, you see you’ve got some koiish. Uh I took a I took a video yesterday of like there being loads of them. And as you can see what they do, I’m not sure if he’s he’s trying to eat that little bit, but if you kind of crouch down like this, they’ll be like he’s got food and kind of open up their gaping mouths at you. But uh yeah, these guys are pretty huge actually. It’s weird to see them up this close over there. I think there’s more people. A lot more. A lot more people. A lot more of them. Hey, but you know, we can think of them as people. Why not? Don’t know if you can see. You got a spider. It’s moving. It’s moving. It’s okay. I’ve I’ve agitated it. Okay, let’s let’s move away. So this red bridge here is actually the railway bridge that we took to get to Tano. So there should be, if I look on my phone, there should be a train coming over there, which is where Tono station is at 9:34 and it’s 9:31 right now. So, if we wait a few minutes, we should be able to catch a train passing by here. So, let’s wait a wee bit and see what we got. So, I’ve set up one camera on one side of the bridge, but as you can see here on this side, you’ve got a shrine, and I’m just going to see if I can get a cute little view from this side as well. So, there’s the bridge over there. Um, let’s see if we can kind of take a look over here. This is romantic. I’m just going to also hope that uh none of my goods get stolen cuz I’ve just left them with the other camera. So, let’s hope um people are people are kind and nice. So, it should be coming. Oh, maybe we can get like a cute sneaky little view from here. Oh, I think it’s coming. Yeah, there it is. Oh, look at that. Oh, isn’t that just bloody awesome? a one one car one man train cutting through this beautiful little town. Oh, that is what it’s all about. All right, let’s go back to uh my my other camera and hope that it’s still there. If it if it’s not, it’s going to be a big problem. This trip’s going to take an abrupt turn. All righty, it’s still there. Thank god. All righty. So, that was just something that uh what we happened to see by pure coincidence. I did not plan that. I knew the bridge was here, but I had no idea the train would actually come at a perfect time. So, that’s great. So, what we’re going to do is just continue on our original plan, which is basically to go up to the castle, which involves us actually seeing some other stuff as well. This place is just full of just so many cool things and areas wherever you go. I mean, just in right now, we’re we’re walking through the shrine, which I got the other PO view from. So, you know, go through the gate. You’re supposed to always bow. So, let’s do that. And yeah, look at all that. Isn’t that bloody awesome? I mean, come on. These are the sorts of places you you must go to. You know, if you’re coming to Japan for the first time, you know, Kyoto, Tokyo, of course, you know, you you feel need like you have to go. But I feel like every time I, you know, talk to my friends, I’m like, okay, do you feel like you have to go? But like ask yourself, why do you have to go? What is it actually that you want out of Japan? And if it’s more like these kinds of places, then I think, you know, why not come over here? Although it does it would take about 6 hours from Tokyo to get here. I I still think it would be worth it. Doesn’t that sound cool? Let adventure. Anyways, we’re continuing on that way. Let’s go. So, this is the high school of Tuano, and it seems that they’re having like a baseball tournament over here. That’s cool. Wish my high school was in such a fancy area. Look at that. And that’s what we’re taking, the chairlift, because I’m already so sweaty just from walking up there. It’s a bit embarrassing to be quite honest. So, we’re just going to take the nice, easy, relaxing way through. But first of all, I need to just make sure my bag is secure and everything so nothing falls out cuz that would be, I think, an absolute disaster. So, let’s be very careful. Uh 400 Make one way. Thank you. Oh my god. This is uh this is I I this must be what people who take ski lifts feel like cuz I’ve never taken one of those before. Oh boy. This is something. This feels very unJapanese that they um they don’t have any like seat belts or anything like that. This is literally just I’m just This is I’m just free. I’m just free. Oh boy. I don’t want to be free. Oh Jesus Christ. This is a lot more terrifying than I thought it would be. And it’s only getting higher. Oh my god. Don’t think I could go down. It’s too scary. Jeez. Okay. It just feels like What if this just kind of just just collapses? What if I’m I’m just gone and I’m going to roll. Oh no, don’t look down. Oh my god. I just looked I just turned back and this is an absolute disaster. Do not do that. Oh Jesus Christ. It just kind of like slowed down or something like that. It’s very scary. Oh my god. Qu embarrassed. Everyone’s just nonchalantly sitting down, whereas I’m just like internally. Oh my Jesus Christ. Doesn’t help that these all look very rusty. All right, see we’re coming up to the top finally. Oh my god. This is one of the most terrifying things I might have done. And I’ve done some I’ve done some things. I’ve jumped off rocks into the sea. I’ve I’ve slidden down mountains. But this is terrifying. Oh, hey. Wa. But look at that view. Oh, okay. And al and suddenly it’s all worth it. So, I’m in a bit of a pickle what to do. The lift going down is definitely the easiest way to go down, but it’s also looks bloody terrifying. So, we’ll need to sort out what we do there. But, let’s go and take a look at the castle. Wow, look how big these walls are. I mean, again, how do they bloody do all this up in the mountains? It’s absolutely incredible. Oh my. Look over there. Oh my god. Just look at that. That is absolutely spectacular. Oh Jesus. Imagine being like a daimore like you know a high lord living or staying in this castle and seeing this view. Seeing your whole domain stretching out in front of you like this. That is absolutely incredible. Simply astonishing. Wow. Oo, look at that. Wow. Look behind us as well. Look at that view. That’s incredible. Jesus. This should be the main part of the the big boy part of the castle. Oh my god. I’m honestly It is absolutely ridiculous how hot it is in October. Like it’s it’s not supposed to be this hot. It’s like 30°. That’s like above average summer temperature for the UK. It’s bonkers. I don’t I don’t get it. Oh, but look at that. Oh, yeah. We’ve got something good. I’m going to die. All righty. And we’re walking back. And wow, that was honestly an absolutely drop deadad gorgeous view. If you’re coming to Sona, you have to come up here. Just hope it’s not like 30 bloody degrees in October like it is today. Honestly, it’s absolutely insane. So, after complaining a bit more about the weather and bravely deciding to take the chairlift down, we hop to our next destination, Taikoani Inari Ginger, a famous shrine right next to the stair lift. Although a shrine has existed here for a good long while, when talking to some locals, it was apparently thanks to the crafty business of a local monk who made the area famous a few decades back, leading to all the splendor you see here. Being in an early shrine, it’s also strongly welcome foxes from all sorts of different media. The main shrine’s looking a little busy today, though, so I’ve decided to loop to the back of the shrine to see what I find. [Music] Wow, we found like a hidden fox shrine of some sorts. But that one over there looks kind of like a horse. That’s just me. [Music] Oh, soch. [Music] [Music] Soch. [Music] Ginger. [Music] Oh, [Music] All right. So, we’ve got our gouin and with that our journey to the shrine is complete. But we’ve still got a trial ahead of us. We’ve got the stairs. The stairs of Red Tory gates Oh my god, that is a ginormous spider. Jesus Christ. So, if you’re wondering what all these tour gates are, they’re actually all kind of donations. If you I think like donate a certain amount or whatever, you basically get one of these uh tory gates and you’ve got kind of your name or company or whatever. So for example, this says here Kitaku City. So Kitaku near where I live. Kokura Minami. So South Kokura. And then this is a company Kimoto maybe. So like some electronics company and they donated it in 30 in July. So yeah, that tells you kind of you know who donated it, where they live and you know when they did it. So yeah. Isn’t that cool? Oh, and we’re finally at the bottom. That was actually a very pleasant walk. Uh maybe different to if you would have have ascended up, but yeah, that was nice. Very nice. So, the last thing I’ll be looking to show you is the steam train that runs between Shinyamaguchi and Tuano on the weekends. But before that, I wanted to highlight that you can rent bikes outside the station, which I strongly recommend as you can get some really amazing views and of course find some truly hidden little areas. All of this is just an excuse though to show you this pretty awesome shot I got while looking around. Do kind of a yearly festival which includes kind of horseback. Oh my god. Bloody hell. Someone call Hawkai and get him to draw something cuz that was that was a scene. But yeah, anyways, let’s get back to the scene train. All right, so I’ve just talked to the um tourism agency and they said you don’t need to take it to go to see. You just need to pop through and it will arrive at 106 107. So we’ve got about 15 minutes. So we we should have plenty of time. In the meantime, let’s go and pop in. So, one thing as well, if you see right in the distance, there’s actually a turntable, which apparently one other thing you can see is the the actual steam train going onto the turntable and turning around, which would be very awesome to see as well. I’m not sure what time exactly that happens, but if we can watch that, let’s do it. All righty. And now all we can do is wait. Oh, the barrier is going down. What was that? Oh, you can hear it. Oh, there it is. Wa, that’s so cool. Wow. Wa. That’s insane. They’re like communicating. What the hell? Whoa. Look at it go. Wa. Wow. Wow. Look at that. Oh, that’s so bloody cool. They’re blown the whistle of both this train and the train in the front of the station. They’re like channeling each other. Oh, that’s so cool. Let’s see if we can get to the front and see it in action again. [Music] Oh, that’s so cool. To be clear, it’s not coming from that train. It’s coming from over there. It’s coming from that train in the front. Oh, look at all that. Wow. A real function scene train. That is bloody awesome. Look at all these people getting pictures. If you’re patient enough, as I said earlier, you can see the steam train move onto the turntable as it prepares to make the journey back to Shinyamaguchi. But that will be where I end my video on Swana, a truly hidden gem, which I really recommend you check out. There’s far more I didn’t show in the video, such as festivals and other shrines and temples. So, there’s still more out there to be discovered if you go. For now, though, I’ll see you in the next video where I take the train all through Shimani Prefecture, Japan’s least visited Prefecture. But for now, peace and see you next time.

In today’s video, we explore the town of Tsuwano, Japan’s hidden little Kyoto in Shimane Prefecture, the least-visited prefecture in Japan. We explore its shrines, mountain castle, and a variety of trains that pass through the area. I hope you enjoy!

00:00 Intro
01:26 Samurai District
02:27 Trainspotting!
05:33 Chairlift to Castle
08:09 Exploring the Castle Grounds
10:28 Shrine
13:24 Walking through Torii Gates
15:09 Cycling in Tsuwano
15:51 Steam Train
18:03 Outro

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