Touring Time Travelers in Japan
hello and welcome to inaka adventures today we're nigata city taking part inazo toki time travel an event held by the nikata chamber of commerce and industry as well as jr nigashinihong at least that's how it was supposed to go i want to apologize to those two companies for not being able to get the video out in time even though they gave him permission to cover it my mother passed away during the editing of this video so i needed a little bit of time off to get through it uh i'm not really through it but uh i'm trying to get there so enough of this mopey stuff join me on an adventure i couldn't show answers questions or where to find them there were prizes for the competition that i couldn't show either but i covered it in general enough way that i don't think that they can come after me this was to prevent people from just watching the video and then spamming answers and getting lots of prizes so i understand where that came from altogether it was a pretty well organized event showcasing the nigata 2k there were two courses one in bandai city and the other in furamachi all was to start at nigata station's west gate [Music] well i found the start it's right here like they said in front of the view plaza let's go get a pamphlet [Music] unfortunately the pamphlets were only in japanese but it was low enough level that they encouraged even elementary school children to join so it wasn't too hard to follow so as the story goes we're helping a woman by the name of oyone find her way through the modern city modern i say because she has somehow time traveled from the meiji period now we have to follow these hints that she has given us because she doesn't know left from right in this period if we can follow these hints and come to the final answer we can get a present and she can go home multiverse oyonese okay let's go let's help oil [Music] do you know the sake man the sake man the sake man [Music] bandai exit the buses at the terminal can get you almost anywhere in niigata city i recommend one of the regularly scheduled brt double buses [Music] first destination is bandai city a hub of malls and department stores await [Music] the bandai city bus center is newly renovated and has a couple touchy green or eat while standing restaurants you'll see many rainbows in this area above the bus center are stores a candy shop an open area with stage and much more [Music] [Music] super draft [Music] [Music] [Applause] the rainbow tower memorial isetang is a ritzy department store billboard place 2 features a cinema radio box and manga museum billboard place has a number of stores and restaurants including a disney shop [Music] [Music] when you ain't got no time for lights take the underground crossing [Music] learn about bandai bridge while you do it [Music] media ship [Music] almost all businesses have sanitizer at the entrance fancy places a temperature gauge too [Music] a garden unfortunately closed this windy day [Music] nigata is surrounded by sea and mountains [Music] round and round she goes on most days you can see all three of niigata's islands look awashimo and tokimese nigatojima and sado island might not fit your idea of an island but a fork in japan's longest river the shinano river make it one how about a vending machine cafe [Music] head to toki messi well i've made it to tokimese they have a great view of the harbor and they also have a little park here [Music] yes [Music] gotta head over to pier bandai for drinks and fresh seafood people stay inside the restaurants when weather isn't clement but come out to play on a beautiful day skewer grilled fish and oysters bye you could finish now we went to all the bandai sites in the pamphlet map and therefore found and solved all the puzzles and riddles of course you get a present for completing either course but if you complete both courses you get two prizes plus a bonus prize for getting oyone home bandai is pretty great but can't forget about the historical furumachi area [Music] japanese crested evis are called toki in japanese [Music] bandai is a hub of modern conveniences but furamachi as the name old city implies has a long history and is culturally rich it's full of community events like furumachi dondon and jazz street [Music] furamachi unlike bandai has several shinto shrines shrines mean festivals nice [Music] found some steamed manju for dessert yum [Music] furamachi crossing is always busy [Music] okay i think we're almost there lots of cool old buildings on this side road that they have you walk on this cobblestone path [Music] a ridiculously large number of restaurants and places to drink in this area i can't can't believe it this place right here this is a restaurant with an authentic japanese style garden awesome [Music] [Music] hundreds of side streets like this might not look it but this is a cafe those oyonei from earlier came from here they are actually geisha or more precisely gegi as they're called in nigata their headquarters are in furamachi and can be booked for children's events dinner parties and more [Music] manga is an important part of nigata inuyasha ranma one half and rironi kinshin being greats from niigatans there are a few manga universities in the area go home you're drunk this manga house has art concepts and more for any manga lover along the same road are artistic lights [Music] [Music] toki are important to nigata especially sado they're the prefectural bird [Music] furumachi is also convenient because it's mostly covered so rain or shine you can [Music] a enjoy to commemorate jazz street a yearly musical festival [Music] a small live theater lots of open-air fruit and vegetable vendors here [Music] under furumachi there's rosa [Music] [Music] and open space to take a break [Music] beautiful tile art is everywhere even the ceiling [Music] [Music] [Music] there's even a mall [Music] stopped by after a meeting and saw the finished renovations let's head up to next 21. [Music] it has traded hands a couple times over the recent years so it's a bit of a local insider secret but you can take the elevator up to the 18th floor there is an escalator that you can take up to the 19th floor which has an open lounge [Music] a great monk towers over this temple [Music] building recently finished and houses many businesses [Music] guess we should head back [Music] but i love furamachi at night i love it because this is when all the street lights come on it's like a completely different city [Music] okay let's head back for real now [Music] the bandai gate and has a ticket office to buy specially priced one or two day train passes after a long day of solving riddles i recommend trying one of niigata's best specialty dishes teddy cuts awesome i'm actually loving this mask thing it makes voiceovers way better thanks for watching and learning about nigata city if you like the video hit the like button if you want to see more videos please subscribe and share i'm sticking in niigata prefecture for now but if you have any destination suggestions let me know in the comments [Music] i want you to know that i love you i am looking forward to the day when we can meet face to face see you later mom
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