I Rode Local Trains From Tokyo To The Edge of Hokkaido! – Final Day

I Rode Local Trains From Tokyo To The Edge of Hokkaido! – Final Day

in the previous video. This is a series where I’m traveling from Tokyo to Japan’s easternmost train station using local trains only. Since I have to make it there in three days, each day there’s a specific place I need to reach. Day two started off with me arriving at Tomakumaya Westport right after taking the overnight ferry from mainland Japan. From there, I continue heading towards the eastern tip of Hokkaido. As I was planning this video, I realized that there is no way I could reach there in just 2 days. Since I’m only using local trains, I have to take a big detour. I have to loop around the north side going up to Asashikawa, then over to Abashidi, and finally down towards Nimo. Since I had more than an hour of waiting time between almost every train, I decided to make the most out of it and try out some Hokkaido food along the way. After one last train ride that took about four hours, I finally arrived at Aashidi Station where I spent the night at a hotel nearby. All right, good morning everyone. This is day three of me going from Tokyo to Japan’s Eastern Most train station using local trains only. And today, if everything goes okay, I should be able to get to Nemo Station, which is Japan’s eastern most train station. As for the current time, it is 9:20 a.m. First thing I’m going to do is check out of this hotel at 10:00 a.m. and then take my first train at 10:24. But before that, I have to eat quote unquote brunch. But today’s train schedule, I have no time to eat actual lunch. So, I got to eat now so I don’t get like hangry throughout the whole train ride. Okay. So, my brunch will be chicken pepperonino I got from Seikko Mart, which is 160 yen. Very cheap. And then salad. Oh, this is 150 N, too. Okay, I’m gonna check out of this, too. Oh, yeah. I’m sure Italians are cringy right now because I’m using chopsticks. There’s no forks. This is actually pretty good. keep saying this, but I can’t believe this is 160 yen. Well, if you ever go to Hokkaido and if you go to Seikkart, you should try this pasta. But at the same time, I feel like most people wouldn’t because they would try to avoid eating combin during their trip. But if there’s no restaurants open, you can go to Seikkart and get these pasta. Okay, now we’re going to head over to the station. Oh, it’s raining. Because I’m doing this with only one bag and my bag’s already like pretty heavy, I decided not to bring an umbrella. Okay. Well, I’m at Abashidi Station at 10:05. The train leaves at 10:24, so I have about 20 minutes. Okay, so the first train we’re going to be taking, oh my god, something something heading towards Kushido Station. And this is just a one core diesel core. They have a bathroom here. Well, today is the day I’m supposed to arrive at Nemudo station. We’ll only be taking two trains in this video with the first one being about 3 hours long. And since this is just a onec car train, it ended up being more crowded than I thought. The good news though is that the trains for this day might actually have the best scenery of this entire series. If you look at the route map, both of today’s trains basically run close to the beach or the ocean area. So, we’ll be getting some nice ocean views along the way. Also, I’m glad the weather seems to be fine now because it was raining a little bit back at Abashidi Station. So, we’ll probably be able to see the ocean pretty well on this ride. Shout out to the weather. Thank you so much. And speaking of this weather, I’ve actually been pretty lucky throughout this trip because I’m filming this video during one of the worst times, right in the middle of the typhoon season. Typhoon season this year especially isn’t a joke. There’s been a lot of heavy rains across Japan and that’s led to quite a few trains or I don’t know if it’s a few trains, quite a lot of trains being cancelled. In fact, it actually messed up my original plan for this entire video series. I wasn’t planning on going to Nemo station at first because my final destination was supposed to be somewhere else, but I had to change it just 2 days before filming part one because the weather suspended part of that train line. I’ll talk more about that later in the video. Exit is located on the right. Police can open up loudly than any door. Right. You can enjoy the view from both the right side and the left side. So on the right side you can enjoy this view of the mountains and field. And on the other side there’s some there. I can’t really show you right now but you can enjoy the view of the ocean. So this is such a cool line. The lake on this side is called Toasun. It’s a pretty big lake right here. On the other side, uh, you can’t really see much now. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] We will soon be arriving at the exit is located on the left. We are about to arrive at this train station called Midi which literally translates to green. Well, so far though it’s living up to its name because I only see greeneries around here. [Music] Oh. Oh, it’s a green colored station building, too. That says, “Oh, that must be freaking old.” These are the containers for trains before they became a private company. Get meat. [Music] Good morning. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Okay, we are here at Shigashi Kushido Station. Another nerve-wracking moment happened when the train ran over a deer and it was a 10-minute delay because of that. Thankfully, it is 1:39 p.m. right now, and my next train that’s supposed to head over to Nimo station will arrive here at 1:44. So, about 5 minutes. Okay, here’s the station sign. I was a little bit worried when I got off here because I thought for stations where there’s like multiple lines running, it would be like bigger. But at least it wouldn’t look this small. But as you can see over here, there’s two stations on the left side. So the station next to Higashi Kushido for the Kushido line which I was on is Toya and then for Hanasaki line which is the train I’m riding it’s Musa [Music] Okay, so that announcement just said that the train I have to take is 5 minutes late. Okay, and that is fine. That’s better than being suspended at this point. This might be the coldest place I’ve ever been for this series. It is 22 degrees, which shouldn’t be that bad, but I think the fact that it’s a little bit rainy and it’s a bit windy. This is the train I’m taking at 1:44 p.m. If I miss this one, then the next one would have been 4:09. I could still take this train to get to Neo station. But the thing is that I will have to take the train that heads back the opposite direction towards Kushido in like 10 minutes. Here is a train, but I don’t think this is the one I have to take. There’s like two conductors. You can say bye to this whatever this is one mile. Uh, this is the destination. [Music] This has to be it. I asked the train driver if this is heading to Nemo station. He said, “Yeah.” So, we’re good. [Music] Okay, wait. This train ride is going to be 2 hours and 10 minutes, but there’s no bathroom inside the train. I drank a lot of water on the first train because I knew that there was a bathroom. I’m actually shook. There’s no bathroom on this train. I’m trying to look for it, but I don’t think I see any. There’s no bathroom over here. And there’s like I don’t see any bathroom over there. Is everyone just going to go on here without Okay, hopefully I’m not in a situation where I have to hold it in real bad for that long right now. So far, I’m okay. This is actually a bit nerve-wracking. [Music] We’re over here right now. [Music] Wow, we’re so close to the sea. [Music] And then after passing by here, we should be able to see a big lake, too. And then we’re going to turn left going back to the mountains again. There are people who’s already at the door taking videos and photos, so I can’t really give you the best view, but this is Lake Akashi. [Music] Okay, good news. There’s actually a bathroom here. It was hidden close to the train driver area, so I wasn’t able to see it. All right, this might be too much information, but I did use the bathroom. I feel so physically and mentally relieved. It’s just the fact that I didn’t know there was a bathroom until like I actually went to the front side. [Music] [Music] We have officially less than 1 hour left until we get to the Moodle station. [Music] Seems like many people are leaving here. Just take the package just in here. Oh wow, the seats are really comfy. thick actually. Nice. Riding these trains give me a better understanding of like how most of the land in Japan, especially Hokkaido, is like mountains. I love [Music] unabitu station again. This is the station building. It’s so tiny. There’s some animals there. [Music] Hope you saw that. Even if it was part second. Oh, I thought that was an animal, but that’s okay. This gimbal sucks. Oh my god. Did I break it? It’s not functioning well. My gimbal is just acting weird. So, I’m going to use my handy camera for this final part of the video. Okay. Thank you for your work. You can go away for now. We are getting closer to the edge of Hokkaido again. And so, that means we should be able to see the ocean again. This is so nice. [Music] We are here at Kumui station and the next station is finally Nemo station. Early in the video, I mentioned that my original plan wasn’t to go to this station. It was actually to go to Wakana station, which is Japan’s northernmost train station. That was the plan until 2 days before leaving Tokyo when I found out that part of the Soya line, the one that runs to Wakana, got suspended because of track damage from heavy rain. Because of that, the only way I could have gotten to Wakana by train was by taking a limited express part of the way and then switching to a substitute bus that takes me to Wakana. And since this was supposed to be a local train trip, that felt kind of anticlimatic. I was debating whether if I should go or just cancel this entire trip. That night though, around 1:00 a.m., I was lying down on my bed reading a train book that had information about Japan’s train lines and models. As I was checking off the Hokkaido section, I realized that Japan’s eastern most train station is also in Hokkaido. So, I checked online for the train status and those lines were running with no suspensions. So, I switched my plan, cancelled some of my hotels and my flight back to Tokyo from Wakana and rebooked everything for Nemo instead. It took me about 2 hours to plan this out and I remember sleeping at 3:00 a.m. after finishing. So, yeah, I highly recommend you don’t do something like this in August or September because of these heavy trains. Also, because this is the last episode of this series, I want to say thank you for watching all the way to this point. I actually timed this series, so the final episode goes up exactly one year after my first upload of this channel. So, the day I upload this video officially marks my first year anniversary of this channel. I really do appreciate everyone who’s been sticking along. I hope you enjoyed watching this series and I hope you continue watching more of my videos in the future. Also, at the end of the video, I added a section showing all the trains I took, the stations I got off, and the total public transportation prices for this entire series. So, stick along if you want to see all of that. arrived at the final stop. Thank you for giving Jr. Hokkaido. Okay, we are here. at Noodle Station finally, which is Japan’s eastmost train station. Oh my god. This is where we are right now. And this was the Hanasaki line that I took to get here. Here’s the overall vibes around the station. Hanasaki senuro epi Japan’s most train station is 19° right now. Oh, these are people waiting to take the train. Here’s the station building for Neuro. Neuro station. Over there it says Neuro, the eastern most station in Japan. And over here on the side is the Neurrohi Kongo information center. So this bus takes you to the eastern most point in Japan. But unfortunately I don’t have the time to go there because I will miss the last bus I absolutely must take to go back. I think voice over Tanner explained it before arriving here. But to make this video happen, I did do a lot of planning and a lot of things happened even when I was filming this video. So, I’m I’m just so happy I’m finally here. So, it is about 4:30 right now and my next train won’t come till 6:58. So, I’m going to be just, you know, chilling around this area. So, thank you so much for those who are watching this video. I hope you got to enjoy this video just as much as I did. [Music] [Music] Beep. [Music] [Music] [Music] Oop. Heat. Heat. Hey, [Music] [Applause] hey, hey. Heat. Heat. N. [Music] [Music] down. Oops. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Music] [Music] [Applause] here. [Music] [Music]

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