Nagano Station SHINKANSEN Platform Tour Adventure

welcome everybody we are now on the hokuriku shinkansen inbound to nagano station and i'm going to be giving you a tour around nagano station as soon as we arrive boy we're cruising pretty fast uh it's supposed to be a rainy day here clearing up a little bit later on you can see the clouds are covering up the mountains there in the distance but i'm pretty excited about this in about two minutes we'll be arriving on the platform hiding everybody we'll be arriving on the platform of nagano station so this is going to be um a tour of the platform area and also inside of nagano station and if you've never been there before if you've never been to nagano station you are about to be there right now live with me and if you take a look at the live chat you might be able to um catch my attention and uh i'll see if i can show you around a little bit uh going on the hokutika shinkansen and the tohoku shinkansen there are so many tunnels that you have to go through uh it is hard to get signal oh there's some of the um what are those peach trees oh man nagano has some of the best vegetables so that means it has some amazing um cuisine here we'll still we're still cruising pretty fast [Music] so we are in nagano prefecture right now oh look at the mountains i haven't left tokyo in a very long time because of the state of emergency but thankfully i've been invited to come here and i have some work to do and i can bring you with me i had to take a pcr test before coming here it was one of the requirements negative and uh also i'm fully vaccinated so [Music] good morning everybody we're now pulling into nagano station they're making the announcements right now [Music] beautiful look at all that nature out there [Music] all right you're ready to go let's see which door let's see which door it is so this train takes it takes a practice it's about 200 and 222 kilometers 230 kilometers from tokyo takes about a little bit over 90 minutes an hour and a half maybe about 95 minutes to get here normally without the shinkansen the drive here would take forever now we're starting to pull into nagano city that's beautiful [Music] [Music] again nagano was made famous from the 1998 winter olympics [Music] it's a place a lot of tokyoites escape the heat they come here in the summertime and oh look we're being welcomed well thank you for that nice welcome and thank you michael for being a member a traveler for the last 11 months i appreciate that we're pulling in right now and we're going to have a station tour i'm pretty excited about this i'll show you my ticket on the platform again here tokyo tanagano [Music] all right we're pulling in now [Music] i think that's the shinetsu line now nagano station was was built in 1888 but it has had a lot of renovations and we can thank the shinkansen for that it seems like there are only about five people in my car so the shinkansen is really really light again um we are still in a state of emergency and i only travel when i'm invited to do so the nagano electric railway is also here okay what's the other side that's departing the platforms are almost empty here compared to tokyo [Music] nagano this is awesome oh it's a 54 degrees fahrenheit 12 degrees celsius it feels even cooler than that because my body is so used to the hot weather now this train departs at 32 so in about a minute now we'll stay here until the train departs the hakutaku the hakutaka 553 there it is bound for kanazawa it was a pretty sweet ride it's nice to see a lot of the wow this soba stand is closed probably because of the pandemic so we're gonna see we're gonna see the shinkansen take off and then we'll jump up uh leave the shinkansen platform for a minute so we gotta go up those stairs in a second so this is i hope this video is also a good orientation of nagano station i think i i was here once a few years ago for uh change trains [Music] it's nice to be here i gotta i gotta return to tokyo [Music] tonight so they take telephone cards only i believe get those up you can still get those at convenience stores spatinko look at the reflection just shows you how clean these trains are goodbye pleasant journeys onwards on its way to kanazawa i feel so alone now there goes my ride i like how the staff is always confirming stuff it's for safety so here we are let's let's take a look at nagano station guys are you ready boom up the stairs we go we're the only ones on the platform except for the staff but because of the pandemic you can see a lot of the soba stands and the shops on the platform are closed again there's just not enough riders or passengers that are traveling at the moment hey awesome adam from 2099 is here welcome it's a second breakfast traveling hope you guys are doing well nice to see you [Music] okay here's the exit here so let's take a look inside of the shinkansen terminal here it's not a very big place here here's my ticket [Music] tokyo to nagano again i left at um 7 52 a.m you can see and it tells you the arrival time 9 30. car 5 row 15 seat e so there's about eight about 8 000 yen for this ticket about 80 dollars okay i think i think we're getting a chance to see some more shops but there is a little bit of a gift shop and a you can get an ecke ben here that's good to know we're gonna go out the central exit here and it tells you i like it the changing is is pretty easy this is a nagano den tetsu line and if you're taking the local lines for jr you take the shinano tetsudo that's in this direction so there's a special exit for that here so just look up and it'll tell you which way to go um you want to take the shinano tetsudo for kurohime [Music] in english too so that's pretty cool that they lay it out for us like that hey chan i hope you're doing okay in the trunk there we have we have the best audience on youtube i'm telling you that we took my ticket i guess i'm stranded here until i buy another one [Music] you're never alone john i hope you get enough oxygen in there all right here's the thumbnail looking back on nagano station's uh shinkansen exit entrance right there now this is one of this is one of this it's not as big as i thought it would be nagano being again the capital city for the prefecture of nagano but when you compare it to other shin condensations it's not too big so i'm not sure how long this is gonna be but we're gonna take a look and see what's here i haven't been here in a couple of years at least it seems like a couple of years but this is a newer station the shinkansen i believe for nagano coming in um what was it right before the olympics and then extending to kanazawa what was it 2014 wow look at the view oh this is gorgeous check it out do you see the purple mountains wow please refresh your screens um i think the quality is back maybe it's just lagging inside of the stations but i'm not showing you the um mountains and we're in the morning here right it's 9 30 in the morning so you can see until the clouds burn off if they do because it is raining you have such a wonderful view and the air is so fresh even though i'm breathing myself in this mask it's mixing in with some really nice um really nice air look at that i bet you there's some nice onsens mixed up there in the clouds around the base of the mountain it is like a painting all right let's check out the other side here so i'm going to go down the steps and we're going to come up the escalator i want to show you the whole street view area of the station so let's take a look at the east side which is not as popular or not as crowded as the other side please let me know if the signal is not good as well and i will do my best to hurry hurry through some weak spots here so you can see here the shinkansen track going straight through there um karuizawa and uh ueda were two stations that i passed to get here to nagano and then this one continues on the uh to toyama and kanazawa so on this side there's not too much here there's an underground car park a highway bus stop here and then there's a bus park for tour groups in the area so it's it's pretty basic if you're in one of the tour groups there you know now where the bus stop is on the east side and we're now going to the uh zenkoji side and zheng zhengkoji is one of the big famous temples here in i i believe so zen jo i thought it was called something else but maybe i was wrong again like i don't know nagano city too well it's not one of the places that i've lived in but i've been here many times um but they're very famous for the i believe zenkoji shrine uh temple which is beautiful i'll tell you a little bit about that my one experience going through there all right up the escalator we go so there's a 7-11 on this side that's about it a couple of hotels all right there's some lockers and you can see the mascot for nagano he's a bear with an apple head i love the mascot there's a whole whole series of mascots associated with the nagino mascot here i love it you can find this mascot on cans of beer too which make it even more interesting the more you drink the more colorful that mascot gets all right here we go around uh the castle nearby here is um absolutely beautiful nagano prefecture one of the natural prefectures and again this is where we escaped to for the city of tokyo here's a map here of the area around the station and just to give you an overview of what nagano city looks like again it's very natural even the signs made of wood smells of wood there's nagino city in the main train station right here and you can see just looking at the map in the overview loads of mountains in between there there's takayama village there beautiful place and we were on the east side already we're going to be investigating this side of the station right now walking through here where is where is the um main shrine here sorry temple i haven't been there in ages but it is a big tourist attraction um we'll figure that out i guess it's it's somewhere i don't know i have a video in ages there's a prefectural office building that's where the uh prefectures um where the governor would be in there [Applause] all right so we got a beck's coffee stand that's where i got my coffee from before and this is where you could grab the tickets before you get out of the shinkanse and there's the entrance there most people are coming here by shinkansen i think by local train is a pretty long hike not gonna know to kanazawa is gonna cost you another uh 85 or 8590 yen that those two prices are the local train price and then the express charge for the shinkansen and then if you're going to tokyo you can see the prices are late out there i paid an extra 300 yen for the seat reservation i don't know if i needed to do that but it's a little bit cheaper if you don't get it if you have a jr rail pass the reservations are free so it's about 78 80 if you take the seat reservation if 100 equals a dollar right now it's actually 110 yen to the dollar hey joy see you later all right let's go out the exit here hold on a second there's a nagano city tourism office here so wow so they got all the maps and information in english here too check it out okay here's a nagano city guide and shows you around with the buses here that's nice so everything is laid out right here in front of the station i'm not gonna the last thing i need is more paper trying to do everything digital that's a really big map that folds out and this one looks beautiful this looks like some sort of treasure map look at that wow i might grab some of these for daimyo supporters hey rei's vlog thank you so much thanks for watching alright let's go down the steps here and and check out the west side of the station tribute to the 1998 nagano olympics on the wall over there on the left i believe there's a manhole cover across the street too we're gonna go and try and find how old were you guys back then this was 23 years ago this is the year that i came to japan wow i came here in 1998 uh just after the olympics i came in the summer but the olympics took place in the winter of 98 so it was about five months later but i remember the build up for this because i was about i was getting ready to go to japan when the olympics were taking place hired to come here uh so this is the the local line gate for the jr line you can see a train has just arrived so we're gonna wait for the people to get to get out of here it looks like there's some shopping malls on on the west side of nagano station so let's go check that out people are actually riding in their age so the west side is called the zenkoji exit which is a a temple here now these shops sometimes they have really good bentos inside you can see the shopping mall called midori which means green in japanese let's take a look here so in the basement there's an udon shop that looks pretty good a hanamaru is a big chain then there's some cafes on the first floor the second floor looks like it's got some ice cream whoa look at that chestnut on there very nice and then when you get to the third floor some more restaurants there's some naga it looks like that's not going to wag you up there nice and there's a sauce katsudon oh that's one of my favorites sauce katsudon and some soba can't go wrong with that omurice they don't open till 11 though so i'm gonna have to to hang out and inside this um uh oraho which is omiyagi or omiyage or gift shop we would say gifts is this word right here omiyage so there are a ton of gift shops here a lot of mochi one of my favorite foods from nagano oyaki these are the hot pockets of nagano they're so good oh man oyaki you got to get them when you're here in nagano a lot of chestnuts are very famous cookie here apples are quite famous here as well so you're going to get a lot of lots of jams here because the fruits are wonderful here in nagano city nagano prefecture oh check it out so it is open oh okay so we can let's have a walk through oraho to end this live stream all right we're going to come back here in a minute but before that i want to take a look at at the area in front of the uh zenkoji entrance which is the west side of it look at that massive don quixote over there living in texas now i miss it so much thanks to the view of nagano station i'm glad that you could be here and i can bring you home bring you home a little bit i met for the first time i met my friend kakia monsan it's it's funny to say friend but gosh we hung out quite a bit it's been a couple of years because the pandemic kakimon is one of the most famous porcelain makers ceramics in in all the world and he's down near nagasaki in saga arima and i met him for the first time during his exhibit here on the roof i came with an npo and we became friends ever since then and bringing back memories of the last time i was here his business card just says kakiamon 15. he doesn't even even need a first name all right the kakeomon uh family is considered a living treasure of japan which is pretty awesome i'll take you you know what if i can i started filming an episode on kakiamon's um factory kakimonsan's factory and uh gosh i need to go back in there because he wasn't finishing off the work and he told me to come back but that was three years ago so i haven't been able to finish that now i can film it in 8k so i'll be back and and go visit kakia monsan and show you what he's doing over there again the the stuff that he makes going all the way back to 400 years 15 generations have been making it there so it's just funny how i met him up there on the roof of the tokyo department store for the first time all right looking back at nagano station wow i love these wooden pillars here look at the front of the station it does look like these massive trees which nagano is famous for very natural looking um the manhole cover i believe is across the street so i want to show you that there's a nagano olympics manhole cover which has been around for 23 years i've been told that the pumpkin spice latte is a real thing i guess we can kind of see on the menu here like i don't see it being advertised though i guess it's off menu i'm sure i'm sure you guys don't want to see starbucks [Music] i am super glad that the new gimbal is coming out the osmo mobile 5 next week will be announced because this gimbal is very close to having a name it's it's not as smooth as it was it's a little bit jerky but i might have to to configure it in the app again oh hey there's a post box so for mj who's living in uh uae so mj buddy i have your postcard here uae just opened up if you want to get a postcard join the postcard club on patreon i'm going to send this to you from here buddy here's the stamp i put up there this is a nice stamp of of the castle in izu wakamatsu so i know you want me you want to you want me to hold these on hold on hold these on to you until you can visit but kanai's telling me to clean these out so i gotta send some of them little by little i've been holding on some countries can't get postcards or couldn't get air mail so i've been holding on to them but uae just opened up mail with japan post so on its way it goes little by little i have a year and a half of postcards for you buddy got a chance to meet mj uh visiting last time he was here in ginza it was nice to see you know i really miss you guys i really miss you guys i can't do any meetups i haven't seen anybody it's just lonely sometimes i have all these you found me cards and i'm discouraging people from finding me apple apple pie shop oh look at those cakes yes please all right we have some time before the light changes let's just take a quick look-see take a quick look look-see at the apples for me [Music] look at that fruit one oh they got apple pies over there i can kind of smell it all right stay on target i got work to do here as well oh man thanks for the fun live stream love the nagano apple bear mascot suzette is here yeah i love that mascot too it's so funny he's very t-shirt friendly looks good on a t-shirt oh i think that's the manhole cover right behind the guy there i'm crossing the street and two two um two more bars that's in an onagi restaurant too right in front of you right in front of you unagi is freshwater eel on ago is saltwater eel so unagi would be quite good here the river's being really clean it's a little chilly here in the winter but oh [Music] you hear that this is for people who are blind um it announces that it's safe to cross and then you can hear it's a warning that it's turning it's turning to red there so for oh here it is boy it is not looking too good it every year it gets a little bit more beat up looks like they made it in 93 when they announced the olympics were coming here but starting to get chipped away somebody needs to clean this manhole cover up wow all right let's let's cross back over the other side but getting some distance from nagano station gives us a really nice view of it again if you're looking for that nagano sign it's it's right up here on the corner i'm digging the i'm digging the um architecture the design of it with the big wooden pillars in the front of the glass that roof in there so if it's raining vending machine [Music] anything special about no it's all this it's all the same stuff come on nagano up your game hey apples sewage sewerage shouldn't that be sewage i don't is that a word sewer again don't don't know all right it is a beautiful station [Music] [Music] how you doing hey i know you're brothers excuse me i just wanted to say your your cousins in tokyo say hello your tokyo cousins say hello and they've asked me to deliver this message to you that's all stay warm i'm sorry we couldn't i can't give you your your gift site says i can't deliver your gift stay stay cool speaking of cool these nagano pigeons are pretty cool operators look he's just hanging out there how you doing it's cool operator it's like the matthew mcconaughey of pigeons how you doing brother just fine just fine just fine all right let's go let's check out this um department store and take a look at some of the gifts i like it sometimes on the first floor inside the basement or in this case the first floor there is a supermarket which is cool so you can sometimes it's not open until 10 a.m you can see again we're a little bit early but you can grab a cheaper bento probably at the supermarket if you want to but uh sometimes you just normal bent oh i like to get the uh apple juice of nagano that stuff is so pure okay let's go up to the uh gift shop here hey katayama clarifies sewerage the provision of drainage of suit by sewers well done so it is not a mistake it's just a new word for all of us some of us a few of us it's just me mostly all right we're back inside of nagano station so just going to take a quick look see here and then i think we pretty much did a a good job of of looking around and some of the gift shops here you can grab something and get back on the train this one looks like things have made of apple oh and the spices these spices chichi very famous here in nagano gonna have to get some of that when i go back although you can you can get it pretty easily in tokyo but they have such a wide variety of them and we'll see what's at the end here is it like a food court oh check this out look at the chestnuts [Music] wow [Music] our trunk 89 i've been there stayed at the hotel metropolitan nagano next door i was there to visit the upper hold on a second upper togakushi shrines rows of cedar trees hey there is a food court here this is pretty awesome okay here's an over pass that takes you straight to don quijote how cool is that that's pretty cool so a lot of the shops are closed seems like there's a bar oh there's a there's a sake bar check it out you need to get some sake here i don't think i'm gonna do that because that would be not good before work oh check out this gift shop this looks really pretty again the number one gift here is apples what look at that layered apple pie what what oh my gosh can i i'm getting one of these for you can i look at that look at that oh yeah mama this is this is the good stuff this is a kanjuku yukidoke apple pie it's um about 15 16 1670 yen oh that's gonna be great and then here's some miniature apple pies here but i think i like that that ring there let's take a look at some of the other gifts here that they have in the station again there's a lot of the things are very natural uh this is the apple tarts here one of these is about 380 yen or 3.80 approximately some apple juice in stylish bottles it's about 20 bucks for this for that juice pack again the water is good here so you have a lot of craft beers made here in nagano and of course a lot of sake and wine oh wow not gonna whine i mean it's not it's not great but it is pretty good and it's getting better hey dc diane not going to olympic funds for kana and liam you got it i'm going to be taking that i'm going to bring home a lot of um omiyage back to back home so i appreciate that check this out i've never seen this beer before six hop ipa that looks pretty fun i have to get one of these for um for when i go back uh oh look at this this is chili pepper beer what all right i gotta i gotta get this too when they come back oh it looks like kanai with chili pepper dress oh this is the best beer ever all right i gotta get that too i'm making a list i'm i'm now accumulating ideas now for gifts hakuba beer that's also one of my favorite places and not and nagano hakobah it's beautiful landscape and then there's some sake here on this side there's some nikori which is the sake that looks milky which is a more um you can see oh you see the hole on the top that still let it breathe but a um more of a i don't know how do i say a less refined version of sake uh one of the reasons people still make it is because you don't require all the licenses and taxes are a lot lower for doboroku but it is there is alcohol in there it's a little bit rougher than sake which is more pure so it's an acquired taste i think it's more alive too wow that looks like some good sake that one bottle is 11 000 yen that'd be a good gift purple cat audio buy an assortment no but am i i'm sorry i cancelled it's okay bud it's okay i'm just glad that you're here i'm glad you're here with me and nagano i was just hanging out here by the bar wait a second could i get a one sake shot i wonder hold on a second so all right i like that they have wipes here again i don't want to drink alcohol before i'm about to work but if i have some time before i leave i get to leave in about eight hours i might be back here to get to get a couple of shots but i can't i can't have a morning shot that'd be pretty weird um they do have glasses of wine it's about between four dollars and thirteen dollars for a glass of wine all right i guess they're serving mostly wine here oh my gosh check this out amazaki's soft ice cream wow now that i can get behind let's be they what why do they hide it behind the credit card sign wow that looks good okay i've marked off i've marked off about a dozen things that i'll be picking up what country are you from it says touch it i don't have a sticker somebody already touched my area well some people from mongolia were here bhutan is represented wow do you think somebody just made it up i don't know maybe sometimes just people mix stuff up a lot of comedians in the world all right this there's the mascot there because aruku also means to walk so arukuma is pretty cute he's got all these goods oh my gosh look at that big arukuma plushie that's about 27 i might have to get that for leo although kanai said don't because there's no space in the house so maybe you'll have to get this little teeny one hey there little guy cute oh these are so good too these chestnut pies wow that's a taste of tomoko tomoko just just got here and of course whenever i see apples apple pie tomoko this would be your paradise this is apple pie heaven nagano eki is full of apple pies let's see i think there's some apple oh here's some more apple pie check it out wow this is about 17 for eight of them in here all right those look pretty good i'm gonna these are on my list here i don't know do they have one ah he thought [Music] hey ah they do this strawberry jam wow i told her she's got all the flavors wow wow and this is the full-size sauce katsudon there wow [Music] okay so maybe i'll get a sauce katsudon coming back home they're really good all right let's try this here as i wait for the rest of the people i came here early just so i could do this live stream um some of the people coming from tokyo to help me with the shoot are on the shinkansen right now so let's try this apple pie here right in front of the nagano 1998 sign if you're having fun click that like button [Music] i'm always having a little bit of fun when i do these live streams okay let's open this up here check out the floor of nagano station what youtuber shows you the floor wow toasted let's come here to the corner ah here's zenkoji [Music] really good there's this light butteriness to it just semi-sweet the natural flavors of the apple come out that's pretty good for an omiyage apple pie is the main temple it is so beautiful in there and the story is if you pay a little bit of money in the basement there is a test it's all dark in there and you have to feel the walls to find a golden knob on the inside and if you find that knob it brings you good luck but i have to tell you it's completely pitch dark which is what pitch dark means pitch black but it's a pretty cool experience and it is a little scary if you don't like darkness in small places you would not go in there but it's hundreds of years old i went there 20 20 years ago i don't think it's changed much okay there you have it that was pretty good adventure if you have any questions if you have any questions leave them in the comments below um i hope that this episode on nagano station kind of gives you an overview so when you do come to nagato you are ready you have just been to the station from the east side to the zenkoji west side you're now a nagano station master you can pin that to your chest you're gonna have to make the pin yourself but when you do send me a picture [Music] this is the part of the live stream where you can you can write in where you're watching from anybody from outer space it's nice to hear from you oh that's why we're here i'm here for fireworks i wonder if this is the place where we're gonna be launching them they're taking me they're taking me there now all right everybody [Music] whoa mexico city i see you guys are still in mexico hawaii tampa seattle texas portland perth melbourne houston wow awesome vegas baby chan is writing in trunk squam awesome malaysia netherlands sacramento american canyon england with apple bath finland sydney singapore el salvador manila awesome the whole world the milky way jason jason's out there and jason i know that i've seen your your screen your background it is the milky way i can i can confirm that all right everybody there you go nagano station i had a lot of fun i hope you did too um don't forget to click that like button and i get a new main channel episode coming in a few days if not tomorrow if i can get it out it is about up there in hokkaido at the coldest yakiniku festival in kitami it was like -20 and i was barbecuing outside with 2 000 people one of the things that we could do before the pandemic that episode should be coming um very shortly thanks so much for watching everybody i'll see you from nagano if i have time and i find something interesting i might go live again later today who knows just really happy to be able to to share this experience with you [Music] jen you would do great in the basement there you would you would love the basement of zenkoji shrine zheng koji temple you'd love it there ciao

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 20,146

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, Nagano, Nagano Station, Shinkansen, bullet train, Hokuriku Shinkansen, E7, Japanese train station, Trains, Japanese train, Japan Rail, JR

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Length: 49min 56sec (2996 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 01 2021