Tokyo Neighborhood Street View | Etchujima Pier 越中島

area of koto ward that's the samida river right there check it out in the distance you can just see uh spaceboat making its way towards odaiba i don't think it's gonna be turning left towards us that's a shame but that's okay this is a direction in which this space boat my turn and in this episode we're gonna be taking a look at this neighborhood the pier the station and some history yes above those uh apartment buildings is tokyo skytree how you doing everybody welcome this is going to be pretty um i don't know i don't know it's going to be interesting because this isn't a place that a lot of tourists come to this isn't a place where you'll see international visitors going whoa look at the beauty of tokyo which is a shame because it actually is a very how you doing shane how you doing hello hi 821 how you doing everybody it is a shame because this is such a it's such a picturesque place now i've walked around here in fact i hang out on the point there that's where can i danced a few years ago and i've done a couple of q a there it's a beautiful place scuda this is an original island right here meaning it's not man-made it's it's an actual rock that has been here for for many many centuries and then they built a man-made island on it that's why you have these tall skyscrapers on the point there but it separates the samida river and uh the other canal which i believe is still called samina river going in this direction towards toyotu that's a that's a tai bashi atai bridge in the distance i've covered that in a live stream as well beautiful blue bridge illuminated at night um really stunning on the skyline with sky tree in the background and this direction um is going towards koto ward which is one of the 23 wards of the city of tokyo um in the distance about 500 meters straight ahead is monzen nakacho which is a big station to know really cool stamachi feel a lot of drinking places to go much cheaper area of the city to stay and it's about a 15 minute bicycle ride to the city to tokyo station so not too far away there on the right side you're starting to see it and i'm going to feature this a little bit in the video and i might go back there and give you a tour of it in another live stream that's the meiji maru it's a ship um with a lot of history the emperor meiji back in the day i believe like the 18 1880s maybe 1870s 1880s he he rode the meijimoto that ship from hakodate to yokohama port which is pretty cool so the emperor rode on that ship and now it's docked here near the marine university and if you've if you've ever been in this area or lived in this area that is a kind of a a um icon iconic place for this area and for cult award [Music] all right we're gonna be making a left here where my bicycle's parked [Applause] how you doing everybody welcome to the city of tokyo beautiful day june 1st is here which is awesome and in fact you have here about about 30 minutes to get this pose card this is going out to donald in california thank you donald for signing up at the last minute um the new postcards are coming out in in about an hour so this is the one of the last ones i'll be sending out for for this month thank you so much i'll be putting it into a mailbox if we see one along the way all right the anchor gives it away right this is a port town and they do have cruise ships that will stop here welcome to cult award we were we just crossed from chu award to koto award this is my bicycle straight ahead this is also a um a water bus stop ichijima is the station and um you know there's no boats that actually stop here at the moment just because of the the pandemic and the state of emergency so all boats are canceled at the moment but um there's a map and i will show you a little bit of it and and the space boat does go from oscusa and does it go by here as i think they're doing a training session here looks like those guys are going in all right here's a map of the here's a map of the course this will give you an overview oh is that another space boat i thought i saw the space boat if i see it i'm gonna run over there real fast tokyo mizube cruising line so here's sensoji temple in asakusa asakusa and the sumida river you can see there's a several water lines water buses that go down here this is ichijima right here so it's not too far away and odaiba which is the stop for a lot of the boats are here but some of the boats will go towards this direction to toyosu if you really want a long cruise it's pretty cool to go all the way from like senju or up here down the samida river all the way to kasairinkai koen which is right next to tokyo disneyland and one of the largest kandansha or ferris wheels in japan right here too it's pretty interesting trip um again like if you want a really relaxing afternoon that's the way to go there's tokyo tower or tokyo sky tree in the center let's explore this park i guess they're considering that that's kind of neat those guys are those guys are like um talking about reopening the the cruising i guess they're getting ready for the end of the state of emergency which was extended by the way to i think it was june 20th so well if you take what you can get this is the samita river this is my home i love this river again like if you're if you're going to be spending more time in the city of tokyo i think it's really good to live along the riverside it's pretty relaxing good place for running and walking no traffic signals that's toyosu in the distance and now we got a better shot of the meiji maru from this direction um the university and there's a um a museum on the other side of the street it's pretty neat to go in there i've been in there once a long time ago but it might be time for a revisit prime pro visual thank you welcome meijimoto on the skyline of toyosu that's a lot of new skyscrapers over there some shopping malls the old-timers don't want to live there because they know it's a mountain of of trash that's what the island was built on well the young people don't care to the right is a swimming pool and all the kids from koto ward and the neighborhood can come here and swim in the summer i'm not sure if they're going to open it this summer again despite the fact that the u.s is in a better situation than japan wasn't like that a year ago we won't be reopening it seems for a while hey eddie gee greetings from sydney thanks for sharing tokyo while we can't visit and i hope you can make all look make it back soon look at that cute little pigeon hey i'm on your side buddy buddy hey you're famous he is in ichijima pigeon all right we'll see if he makes another trip trip around town pmx has a white dove there that's pretty funny maha is watching from from egypt welcome it's nice to see people from all over the world which is pretty cool this park is so scenic i love being on the other side of where i usually hang out on the over there on the corner now there is there's many ways to get here from tsukishima station which is the owedo line it's about a 10 minute walk here it's not too bad there's that point that i like to hang out it's such a beautiful place right there on the river so to be on the other side of it is kind of neat i don't come here that often so it's a ten minute walk on the on the oh from the oil line at tsukishima station that's also connected to the yurakucho line and from the other side the other side from monza nakacho it's a it's 500 meters or about yeah about 10 minutes walk to here as well and uh monza nakacha's got some great restaurants really good night life but this is where it's at check it out like i don't think a lot of a lot of people who even live in the city of tokyo don't know about ichijima very well it's not a not a really popular place but you really can do some relaxing here some beautiful park benches bring a bento enjoy an afternoon with a beer or something and watch watch some boats go by that guy's got a it's not a beer is it looks like some tea i have to investigate him get some sunshine on the other side beautiful cherry blossoms during the spring season as well as this side and chuo bridge you see that right there connecting scuda island with um um shinkawa which is a also a man-made island right there all filled in back in the um maybe the edo period the first man-made island in tokyo that's right there and this bridge chua bashi chuwahashi if you just go straight you go straight to tokyo station so it's pretty convenient from this spot tokyo station's an eight-minute bicycle ride if you go fast i go pretty fast looks kind of like singapore doesn't it look at these white benches in the in the sunshine tom servo's in the house one's nakacho is really nice visited the sake shop izakaya you pointed out in the earlier video and had a great time with locals hi from vancouver can't wait to revisit i can't wait to have you back here too hey look at these guys with lightsabers part of the empire oh they got some concrete in there power to the emperor get the red lightsabers that's the one that they used in in for the empire right dan [Music] they're gone hello high rights in here they're the sith lightsabers that'd be pretty cool if they had double double lightsabers yes japan loves these light sticks this they're short they're short ones more like daggers that was the smallest you know when i think about it that might be the smallest concrete truck i've ever seen in in the history of concrete trucks that was not a lot of concrete in there i guess maybe repairing something that looks like a government boat going by there there's more than one if you look back here about 150 meters you have another one coming through see air to the ron is here did you use to marathon train here i did in marathon train here i was living in when with most of the marathon training i was living in shinozaki on the edogawa river and on that river there's no traffic lights going all the way to gunma you could probably go straight all the way to to the center of japan that river is pretty long but the edogawa would train and and the longest i ever did was i think 37 kilometers training on that road one day i went pretty far out to like where there's a highway that i looked on the map and go really i went that far like it was 18 18.5 out and 18.5 in so what is that 37 yeah something like that i was in good shape back then i was still in good shape hey um we're getting close to eight tabashi this park is pretty nice you'll find dubious looking dudes here apparently like to hang out with their shirts off which is unusual for japan in the city but i will not mock them because i would do that too i'm a dubious individual myself all right let's get around here again right there you can see the point pretty clear now i just wanted to come out here and get a better view from this angle um i like to walk in this area i run around here now as well but there's a beautiful you see the steps there you can sit there and watch all the boats going and down the main route here that's the main route they don't come too much on this side i think they're from philippines very cool uh if you go this way straight the boats hit toyosu and they can wrap around going on the other side of skuda island towards uh past the toyosu fish market to odaiba so you can go around that way but all roads lead to tokyo bay all canals here lead to tokyo bay slights like breeze which is really nice right now no bugs it's pretty nice in the and here's the volunteer who keeps the park nice and clean thank you sir we'll see if there's a vending machine i'm looking for a um a mailbox to send to send donald's postcard i think there's like five minutes before these postcards expire these are the may postcards the fast-handed mochi makers of nara was nice enough to let me film a couple of times over the course of the years i've been making videos happy guy quick hands he could be my mr miyagi maybe one day all right let's go down a little bit walk this direction and then i want to take you over towards the meiji maru and maybe towards ichijima station to give you a quick look around i'm not sure exactly what the value of coin ichijima station is the most unpicturesque station in tokyo it is just a cement block above ground that connects you to underground i believe it's a jr station and maybe the ko line uh hits there too this bridge is connects scuda and tsukishima with monzen nakacho award and this is where we are koto ward nice breeze i'm sure it doesn't make the video any better makes me feel better and for those joining us right there um in the left side is the meijimoto ship that emperor meiji rode from hakodate down to yokohama back in the meiji era because he was emperor meiji look at these dudes they look very official open the port open the port open the board open the port they're researching it or something yes let me in that's pretty cool i want to see space boats stop here because if space goes would stop here then that would be really uh that'd be brilliant oh we can see they're keying in the secret code [Music] i think i saw the secret code should i try it out what's the point of going down there anyway all right it's a dead end right here yeah that song comes from james bond's moonraker when he saw the secret code and he went in and saw the poison that jaws and that bad french dude with the doberman pinschers did it's a good movie moonraker i like jaws he's a good character i don't think it's four three two one although that was my zip code when i went to ohio state university it's a four three two one zero was the five digit zip code i thought that was pretty cool for the time i stayed on campus one of the more famous uh zip codes in the u.s ohio state 43210 they thought they were 90210 tried to make t-shirts with it try to be cool but i don't think they sold very well see the tail of a whale um i i am going to be going up to tohoku in a couple of weeks to do some live streaming up there and filming a video for uh jnto which is pretty cool helping them out for um for the pitch to get tourism back to japan it's nice to work with that big agency all right let's let's uh take a look at the map really quickly for those that are watching us you probably want to know exactly where we are this would do the trick as you can see here we are on the red spot that says you are here that makes a lot of sense ichijima is the theme of this live stream this is the samina river or the samitagawa it goes this direction um this is also the samitagawa here you can see just branches this is the point that i usually take you and eat sushi and and hang out with kanai and go for walks i love it because it gives you this clear view towards bashi which is this beautiful blue bridge but space boat and some of the other cruises start to go this direction because there's some shopping malls here there's nakanoshima park which is really pretty connected to the bridge we kind of went there we went underneath there i might take you there for a second if we have some time but um on this end this is a chujima station right here so it's not that far away you can see but it's a very inconvenient line ko line is not one that people take a lot all right and the station itself is not very pretty so i don't know i think it might be better to walk from tsukishima station which is the owedo line and much more much more um practical as well as the iraqi line which connects the yamanote line to here or you can just ride a bicycle for 10 minutes from tokyo station that all works too loads of little bridges as well this area is known for its bridges and canals tokyo is like an amsterdam a lot of people don't know that about the city of tokyo you have tons of canals that run through here lots of canals also on in scuda you can see the former scuda island ferry boarding service there you there wasn't a bridge here back in the edo period and they would cross the ferry from here to here people living on on scoota which is this rock the rest of it was is all filled in man-made but this is an original original rock that was in the middle of the cemeter river it was where osaka fishermen lived and fish and give the fish to the emperor they were the personal fishermen of the emperor tokugawa they all lived and i guess the emperor was wanted to separate himself from the osakan so they put him i put him on an island so there you go and in this in the whole scheme of the city you can see on google maps there's a link in the description if you want to know exactly where i am and take a look at the google maps you can do that it's kind of neat koto city or koto ward famous for stuff in koto ward they have a lot of the bay area stuff koto ward does and a lot of the venues are in kotoku it's also an island there's also a lot of man-made islands in kotoku i believe made out of trash umenoshima is one of them dream island which is made up trashed i believe that it's all the garbage from um world war ii is also in that area they just took a lot of the debris made islands out of it which is just kind of smart across the street over there here's a sign showing oshiage not too far away is the meijimoto museum and the maritime university i actually don't know how interesting this is this is gonna be the station the jr station is pretty bland again it's not something that that i i think it's even it's not even worth showing maybe just the entrance to the maritime museum here i think i'd rather show you the little park underneath the bridge having second thoughts of this uh game plan all right here's the maritime museum it's not a big museum but it has a lot of history again going back to the to the 1870s it's as old as ohio state university where i went which is pretty cool again japan didn't really have a navy if you'd look back at the history they didn't start making ships until um uh if you ever read the book shogun there's an englishman blackthorne in the book john adams i believe in real life and he he helped to build the first naval ships for japan back then and was a personal friend of tokugawa io personal friend of tokugawa became uh one of the the blue-eyed samurai anjin-san i connected very strongly with that book when i read it before i came to japan in college it was an amazing adventure um and i've done a live stream here where you can see in nihombashi a marker that represents the location of where his house used to be which is so cool that they they still preserve that history and you can close your eyes and you can feel how it was in the edo period and the fact that anjin-san had a house right there in nihombashi where all the merchants were back in the day must have been such an amazing site for for him to see i wish they had video back then you know youtube why weren't you around in the 17th century gosh that would have been awesome that um miniseries i think produced by cbs back in the year 1980 is still a classic with richard chamberlain playing blackthorne um the scene opens up with samurai uh boiling in oil i don't know if it was oil i think boiling some of the sailors to torture them to get them to talk or whatever i don't know it's pretty nasty stuff rude awakening but for many americans that that um mini series it was over the course of five days was the first introduction for japanese for americans to japan modern japan because following world war ii you didn't really see a lot of japan in the 1960s and 70s it was a place that was rebuilding really fast and just so far away but it got people thinking about the about japan and in through the 80s and that was before japan really started to boom right pretty good mini series you could get that on on a blue i bought it on blu-ray but it'd be cool if amazon or netflix would would stream that richard chamberlain should have won a couple of awards for that oh look at this is that our pit our white white feathered pigeon friend he gets around all right let's get down here take a look at this park i think this is more interesting and maybe we can get underneath the bridge find a little secret place this is it says right there so this is a little teeny island under the bridge where trolls like to hide maybe a percentage of you who think you can get a snide remark in this is where you guys would be hanging out troll central every now and then in local areas of japan you'll find these public neighborhood uh signs telling you the rules of the park i like these 19 um 70 looking illustrations this one the kid obviously should not be playing with fire so it looks like a fire crack or something what is that guy doing it's a an early form of planking i don't know because he's always trying to hurtle into the water don't do that it's pretty much saying here you can water the plants though if you have a water pot there's a place to wash your hands um don't put your gomi here your trash no motorcycles peter and uh it's a friendly looking guy public notice from the city of koto koto ward we're welcomed by two pigeon making out caught on live video you look so guilty i got you guys i saw you you were necking yeah oh you don't don't you dare try to get away i have you caught look you can go to this table all you want just do it again for our pleasure just do it don't be shy look how they're standing apart i caught you all right you know what i'm just gonna go from another secret spot and i'll catch you in a different place oh look you know don't pretend like you don't even know each other i saw your beak all in that in those feathers all right i think i'm the only troll here yeah i like to have fun with our feathered friends pigeons are nice they keep you company and they look out for the crows whoa i haven't been here i now i re remember i haven't been here in ages check it out underneath the bridge there's like this really weird oh do you think there's a message in that bottle do you think there's a message in that bottle save our souls we're trapped on an island in the pacific i don't know maybe somebody somebody should try to fish that out and i think any bottle you you find floating in the river you should check and see there's a message inside all right check this out you can go underneath the bridge but it's got like this like this um mario super mario brothers hoppy thing some people are making their homes underneath here oh there's our white feathered friend hey i remember you from not too far far away that's that's our strange-headed uh pigeon friend you remember him it's the same one right boy gets around all right we're on the other side here that was interesting um there are some people living underneath here seems like a nice place to call our residents seaside does have uh homeless living here usually uh very unfortunate situations family families usually take care of family here but sometimes people are just leave i don't know i met a homeless lady in kanazawa and we camped next to one another and her family just had disowned her i don't know she wouldn't elaborate on the story but it's very sad all right there's the meiji maru this looks like some yatabune like where they have the um parties aboard them right looks like they're docked here it's pretty cool um i know jacqueline it is a bummer i don't i don't want to bum you out but it is a problem and uh just like with mental illness uh homelessness is not something that is um talked about too much in japan my friend greg from life arm from has a pretty good three-part series on homelessness in japan um you might want to check that out if you want to take a look take an inside look into that topic one reason i don't cover it or at least not for a while is because he did such a good job with it shout out to greg greg lamb who one of the the good youtubers here in in japan making awesome content that inspires authentic that's the way greg's stuff is authentic meiji mata right there from the meiji period and there's one of the locks in here and when there's a tsunami or the water goes up they close these locks and i've had i've experienced that maybe four or five times during an earthquake where the they sound an alarm and the locks close and it makes sure that the areas don't get flooded it works for a few meters high but obviously if it was anything like the um the 2011 earthquake we would not have that same kind of protect whoa look at him she's just hanging out underneath the pole pigeons know how to chillax we can learn a lot from our feathered friends [Music] look at him look at him this is a the pole position oh there's our white feathered friend just went that way sorry for swooping around that way how do you do sir i'm new to the area i was just wondering if you knew of any attractions any comment are you from this area hey gosh just shy around here sir is there a vending machine here many viewers have been asking for the convenience of a vending machine a cool relaxing drink anything comment nothing it's hard to get anything out of them sometimes they'll fly and and bring you to one but these are a little bit shyer pigeons look at that one he's pooping on the top of the stone lantern pretty cool what's that mean did i just say something i shouldn't too oh those are two they were making out earlier look now you get now you're going apart like you don't know one another i know the secret we all do we we were there all right i'll get you guys just more of you that's old whoa this is like a hitchcock movie oh my god look at this is that a crow in the middle that's a black pigeon he's a spy he's in the middle he must be like royalty whoa this is a hitchcock film yeah that's right we need one cat to even the score very pretty cool pigeon politics looking down on the humans hello sirs and mams i'm new here i would like you to point me in the direction of a vending machine any help would be greatly appreciated um the nearly thousand people here would love to have your guidance as well and we spent we respect the pigeon population bow down to the pigeons here's the royal gesture bow down to you sir we bow in in humility please don't hurt us okay just walk away obviously i'm not worthy to even be confront all right is john asking toby for help that's not toby that's like toby's these are toby's nemesis it's another gang okay they're pigeons it's totally different species of creatures they're kinder and they will they will uh they will help humans every now and then mostly help themselves so there you have it i i hope oh this is closed this would be pretty cool if they open this up too it'll take you to the meiji maru meiji maru is open until 3 pm daily but because of corona and everything it's not open all the time so yeah check the website there's a website to it but i will try to do a live stream and take a look in there there's some pretty good artifacts and inside the boat you can get the style of the meiji period in there it's pretty neat to see how they lived aboard ships like this three masted ships back in the day so we'll do another live stream from the meiji maru i think it's a pretty good idea if you have any questions leave them in the comments below [Music] hey mr a ba essence the camera around it's a question here i'm new to your live streams in chat but have been watching all your videos thank you they are awesome thanks for creating great videos from japan a place i would love to visit someday that makes me very happy that this is a place that you'd like to come i know there's a lot of other pretty cool places you could visit but for me this is my home so the more people who come to visit japan the happier i am it's been a long time since i've seen some smiling faces of visitors so mr mr bassins please make your trip here if you have any questions yeah ask me you know ask away in fact i think in the next um uh 10 minutes or so i'll jump into discord for fireside chat for a little bit i'm going the other side of the bridge that's a good idea so nosh ufo bob and our moderators i'm going to jump in the discord after this live stream if you're interested in talking in a fire chat kind of a format very much similar to clubhouse jump into the discord join us over there and you can ask me a question i'll take some quick questions over there about living in tokyo in tokyo this neighborhood places to visit if you have a question about how to plan for your trip here you can jump on in just for like 15 20 minutes i'll be in there um the discord server fireside chat see you there everybody thanks so much for the support donald i'll put your postcard in the mailbox um as soon as i see one on the way back have a good day everybody it's pretty nice out here see on discord

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Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo

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Length: 38min 3sec (2283 seconds)

Published: Mon May 31 2021