This time, I rode the Ikoma Cable Car to the Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park in Nara Prefecture. The Ikoma Cable Car has uniquely shaped cars, and it was fun both to see and ride.
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๐ถ๐บ: Ikoma Cable
https://www.kintetsu.co.jp/senden/ikoma_cable/
๐ข: Icomasanjo Amusement Park
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Love your channel! As someone whose dream it is to visit Japan one day, I would defiantly wanna go here seeing how beautiful it is. And those cable cars cannot get any cuter!!
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Love seeing hidden gems like this! It looks so well maintained!
This is a great example of what I was saying about how you find interesting places to go to. With the limited time I'd have on a trip to Japan I'd never go to a place like this unless it my 253rd trip and I'd seen everything I wanted to see and more, lol. So again I thank you for these videos, because without them I'd miss out on a lot even if I'd already seen a lot.
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All three cable cars were cute.
The views from the amusement park is incredible. The day pass price was very reasonable since you can ride as much as you want.
You're lucky you can go to a place like that.
๐ฎ๐ช brilliant video sharing very good
As a swiss Man, used to swiss Funiculars, I don't see the "steep" in this one. we would've most likely done that incline with a Rack Railway….
Worlds steepest, both Rack Railway (Pilatusbahn, 48ยฐ Incline) and Funicular (Stoosbahn, 47ยฐ Incline) are located here….
Another great video thanks. A very beautiful scenic area, and I now crave an ice cream even though its 1030pm !!
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The amusement park is so gorgeous with the cherry blossoms! The fact that the cat and dog funiculars meow and bark respectively when they pass each other is adorable! I'm glad they did that, on top of theming the cable cars after a dog and a cat, because it's the little things that count! And the cake-themed one on the Sanjล Line is just as cute! The fact it goes through an actual neighborhood shows it's more than just a tourist attraction, it's an actual commuter line for people! Geography is a key reason why transit isn't a one size fits all, as in while a mode of transit may work in one place, it may not effectively work in another! As shown here, in the case of mountainous cities or mountainous neighborhoods of cities, using cable cars/gondolas, funiculars, or maybe a monorail may be the best option! When you build funiculars in urban environments like here, you get to both serve all the people who live on such hill and get a bunch of tourism revenue from people riding it for fun or in this case, to get to an amusement park! It's a win-win!
In La Paz, Bolivia, a city in a canyon at an elevation of roughly 3,650 m above sea level, their gondola network is the backbone of their transit network, tackling the challenging terrain and better serving La Paz and El Alto by alleviating the traffic of winding streets. My favorite funicular is Haifa's Carmelit, named such because it goes up the religiously important Mount Carmel! It opened in 1959 and is quite the unique system since the oldest underground transit system in the Middle East is actually a funicular that's only 1.1 miles long but has a couple stations! Not to mention it serves the beautiful Bahรกสผรญ World Centre! Not the only underground funicular as another is Istanbul's Tรผnel which opened in 1875 and is the second-oldest underground urban railway in the world after the London Underground, and the oldest in Continental Europe since it predates the Budapest Metro! It was the idea of French engineer Eugรจne-Henri Gavand after a visit to the city and noticed how many tourists struggled going up and down Yรผksek Kaldฤฑrฤฑm Avenue.
As you mentioned, the Hลzanji Line is the oldest commercially operated funicular in Japan as it opened all the way back in 1918! Hลzanji station serves the Hลzan-ji temple which wasbuilt in the 1670s and was officially dedicated to the deity Acala/Fudล Myลล, though it has become a cult-center of the deity Kangiten or the god of bliss, the Japanese Buddhist equivalent to Hindu god Ganesha. What's now the temple was originally a place for the training of Buddhist monks as Mount Ikoma was originally an object of worship for the ancient people in the region, and thus this area was selected as a place for religious training. The training area is said to have opened in 655 by En no Gyลja, the founder of Shugendล, and it's where monks like Kลซkai, who founded Shingon Buddhism, was trained. When the Ikoma rail tunnel was built after a difficult construction, Ikoma got rail access to places like Nara and Osaka, and thus more people moved to the area, eventually leading to the Ikoma Cable Car and the amusement park!
For those who don't know: Deer are a symbol of Nara because the deer in Nara were historically viewed as sacred! Historically, they were considered divine messengers. The legend goes that the thunder god, Takemikazuchi, appeared in Nara riding on a white deer. The deer carried a scroll in its mouth, and Takemikazuchi warned the awestruck mortals who beheld him that from that point on, the deer would report their actions to the gods. The humans took note, built shrines, and granted the deer protection. Killing one of these sacred Nara deer was punishable by death, and so for hundreds of years, the animals roamed freely. They became semi-tame around humans, losing the fearfulness that most deer species possess. After World War II, when many Japanese were eager to cast off the past, the deerโs sacred status was officially revoked but were instead designated as natural monument and are protected as such!
It's a Beautiful experience ๐
Looks very similar to Ninja ranger's bus.
I wanna go here!
Great video; I wanna be there tooโคโค II have just started doing YouTube recently ๐๐
Thank you sir for this content!
There used to be some older/retro amusement parks (Kiddieland, Santaโs Village) near where I grew up, Chicago. I think theyโve been torn down. Sad.
Thank you so much for sharing these experiences with us. Except now i want to travel to Japan even more than ever!โค
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The train carts barking and meowing at each other is too cute ๐
Love your videos but how come you always blur your face? Lol
PLEASE PLEASE can you take us to the Team Lab Museum?
Sorry for the weird questions, what type of wrist watch are you using?
It got me curious about it after seeing a few of your videos.๐ i love your videos, some day i will travel there..some day.
This video was a lot of fun to watch.
Those cable cars were so cute. Of course they have to allow adults because Japanese parents don't let their children go about w/out them do they? That had to be the most quiet amusement park I've ever seen. No loud music. No children screaming or shouting. Wow! Of course, very clean. I'm always so impressed.
Yes, it might feel like "embarrasing" to enjoy rides alone as an adult but life is too short for worrying about things like that! As you said, you travelled to be there so why not and enjoy your time there as much as you like ๐ I still like amusemement rides as an fellow adult, however I do skip some rides, I've noticed that my stomach can't handle some of the rides that I was able to handle as a kid haha. Also I'm really scared of free fall rides so I avoid those too also :")
Very nice video, likes from me!!
your approach to creating content is refreshingly original!
That's cute.๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Ctfu at "MIKE" It very likely could mean something different in Japanese but it's funny to me as an American bc its such a basic common American name for a human n its being given to an adorable looking cable car cat๐๐น๐ป
Why so quiet?
It must have been early
Itโs a bit Erie without people ๐ฎ
Seems like nice place and cable car
Great trip. Finally you visited this place.
What is the name of the music at 20:41 ?