Going To Kumamoto To See The One Piece Statues.
All right, day six. Off to a great start. I was starting to feel a bit tired from all the busy days I’ve had. And guess what? I got off at the wrong station. Yep. Look at that. It’s dead. When I was getting off the train, I was thinking, “Wow, Kuma is pretty quiet, too. There’s not many tourists. Might be like Hita. No, I just got off of the wrong station. So yeah, which kind of sucks cuz now I got to wait another 40 minutes for the next train. At least I got another station stamp for a memory. Got off on the wrong station. finally back on track. So, yeah, unfortunately I think I’ll only be able to do four. I had originally booked a tour to do eight of the 10 statues and it was about 36,000 yen. And then I asked which statues we do and then she sent a message back. Then they also sent a message back. Oh, so you got two options. First option, we take a taxi to all locations which will cost another 45,000 yen. or I can take my car and that’s another maybe $16,000 yen. H So then I thought about it. Thought about it. $500 just to see these. Bit steep. I use the money for something else. I don’t know. Maybe girls bars. Actually use it to buy this camera. So yeah, they’re going too. All right. As you can hear now, it’s probably really windy. I haven’t bought my mic today. I haven’t used it at all actually. I just don’t want to carry it around. And also to make things better about today is I forgot to bring my power bank. I bought the cord, just not the power bank. So, I’ve got limited filming time today and my phone’s already on about 50%. So, lucky I’ve got two. Oh, we’re here already. All right, let’s have a look at Zoro. That is so cool. It’s like, “Hey, you want to go see statues of historical figures in the world?” Nah. You want to see statues of non-fictional characters? Oh, sorry, fictional characters. Here we are. The Rona Z. [Music] Okay. Although I did learn something today. That building over there must be where I buy the uh the uh stamp or statue. Look, there’s actually a lot of people. Well, not a lot, but there’s a few. I didn’t think there would be anyone at this one cuz it’s so far out. I think it’s actually no a school. So to actually buy the figure, you got to go somewhere else. So that’s where I head to now. Zoro, it’s pretty cool. We’re going to go to the shop now and get the statue or I don’t know what it is. It’s a statue or um figure or car. Maybe there’s a stamp too. I don’t know. I see these are one of those days I’ve been saving the budget for. One down, three to go. Wish I could have done more though. Wish I could have done all of them. Maybe next time. This little hobby shop, if they do have it, but I did get this card, which is pretty cool. Now, I don’t know if I got here too late. I mean, it’s only 11:00. He could have been sold out from already, so even if I did come at the right time, I was supposed to, um, I probably still wouldn’t have got it. But if Zoro’s sold out, considering where he is, I don’t know if I’ll be able to get the other ones. I doubt I’ll get Luffy cuz he’s in the he’s in the main part of town, but maybe being Luffy, they might have more. Um, but no, there was no Zoro. At least I got the card. That was pretty cool. Um, yeah, I would have liked the statue. Unfortunately, they had another one, uh, but it didn’t actually it wasn’t the same as they had like a little figure, but it wasn’t the same as his actual statue. Uh, and it was more expensive, too. So, the one I wanted is actually matches the bronze statue. It’s like a little bronze or gold statue that matches the same one you just seen in the video, whereas the other one was a little bit different. He had some other Zoro figures, too, which Zoro is usually hard to get when you’re overseas. They’re usually all sold out, but they were a bit bigger. I don’t have any bag to carry it around, and I don’t have space or weight in my bag at the moment. All right, on to Luffy statue. Now, what a day today has been. So, I don’t know whoever was watching when I went to Hita and I said, everything went to plan. Everything worked out perfectly for me, which doesn’t always happen when I travel. Well, guess what? That luck has come back. So, on the way back from the other station back into uh where I need to get to to get to Luffy statue, when I’m waiting for the train, I’m looking for my pass and I can’t find it. I lost my JR pass on the last day. Yeah. I mean, at least it was the last day I lost it. Um, and at least it was just that, not like money or my passport. But in the end, I’m going to have to buy another Shin Kansen ticket to Kumo uh Fuka, which is about 60 bucks. So, that’s annoying me a little bit cuz I’ve been doing so well with my budget in. And that $60 I could have spent on enjoying myself, I guess, food or drinking or buying something. Instead, spending money that I should have already had, which is annoying. This day has just been full of stitchups. Um, that’s going to change my plans a little bit, too. I was going to go see the Jimbeay statue and it would have been really nice to cuz it’s by the water. I mean, makes sense. He’s a fish man. But cuz I don’t have the JR pass now, that means I got to pay for that return trip. And uh I don’t know if I can just justify going out there and back, paying for it, and just to see it come back and go back to football class. So, going to see these two next statues. Probably get something to eat and then probably head back to Fukuoka. Now, I mean, I know there’s a castle here. You can see Kumamoto. I’ll see how far away that is. But, um, the trams are nice here. I think it’s this city that have the reused trains, not Nagasaki, because the tram that went past the first time, it had San Francisco or some American place. The one I got on, I don’t know what it had, but it was different as well. So, maybe keep my eye out, see if I find that Portuguese tra down here. But yeah, so I was going through my pockets, uh, like my bag and my pockets to see if I could find my ticket. I still got this piece of rubbish in the back pocket telling me how to use the pass, but the actual pass itself I lost. How lucky is that? Ah man. Hopefully I can get out, get rid of the bad luck early, and then the rest of the trip should be a lot nicer. I hope. Surprise, surprise. Luffy’s also sold out. It’s a zero from two. Not my day today. So, I was kind of debating whether I should go to the chopper one or the wind has been taken out of my sails. These probably sell out pretty fast, if they even had them on stock today. Um, originally I was going to stay here and give myself maybe one or two days to do all of them. Uh, but I ended up cutting my trip a little bit shorter and yeah, I didn’t want to travel with my luggage and that. But after seeing what kind of city it is, it wouldn’t have been that hard. But just to try and plan this whole trip, I decided not to stay here. So, I’ll head over to Chopper, see Chopper statue, and then I’ll probably just go back. Probably won’t even see the castle. I’ll have to come back here another time. Spend more time down here. That is close. I was hoping I got a one piece. Yeah. Tony Chopper had done and dusted. Um, the place was closed, so I couldn’t get I couldn’t even get the card, which is a shame. Um, and as for the gold statues, I don’t know. Like, I reckon probably someone just buys them all and scalps them off. Or maybe you just got to be lucky. Um, either way, I’m not too bothered about that. I would have liked to at least just get one. Would have made a nice little souvenir. Um, but I don’t have anywhere to carry and as I’ve said many times today I’ve got to buy another ticket back home. Nice day. I’d like to go a jimbe. I just don’t know timewise. Like yeah, I can see why now the tour was so expensive. Uh, I would have paid maybe the 500 if I got to see all of them. Got to see all of them. I probably would have still paid the 500. is the fact that I only got to do eight out of 10 and I wasn’t sure which eight I was doing cuz the description varied on the site. So, um but yeah, I definitely if I get a chance to try to come back down here, spend just to do the statues. You’d probably want to give yourself two days if you don’t want to rush it. Uh if you’ve got a car, then yeah, you could probably do it in one big day. And also if you want to get the uh statues because I’m sure there’s more to see in Kumamoto than the One Piece statues, which I’m pretty sure there is. Um but yeah, that’s kind of really the only reason I came down here for this this time. I have to admit though, Kyushu is not a bad spot. Um yeah, Nagasaki really like Nagasaki. here. I’ve only seen the statues, but it still be nice. And Fukoka was nice. Hito was nice. But just be aware like most of my interactions have just been in like Japanese and I can’t speak really good Japanese and yeah their English is probably they’re still a little bit better than my Japanese but not by much. So yeah, it’s been fun,
Kumamoto Japan. I went to visit the one piece statues
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