Inubosaki Lighthouse – Driving from Choshi City to Asahi City, Chiba Pref. [JAPAN] 4K Slow TV

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In this episode, we traveled from Choshi City to Asahi City in Chiba Prefecture.

00:38 Kawaguchi, Choshi City
05:16 Moto-Choshi Station
13:07 Inubosaki
21:14 Choshi Dover Line
24:33 Asahi City

About Choshi City
Choshi is a city with a warm climate that is located in Chiba prefecture and surrounded by the Tone River and the Pacific Ocean. Efforts to revitalize Choshi include projects such as the Naarai Marine Resort.

Choshi is located on the eastern tip of the Kanto plain, and is about 100 kilometers from Tokyo. It’s longitude is 140.50 degrees east and latitude is 35.44 degrees north. It is a city with fishing, agriculture and tourist industries. To the North is City Of Kamisu in Ibaraki prefecture, the Southeastern side borders the Pacific Ocean, to the West are City Of Asahi, and in the North west is Tonosho town.

Choshi’s total area is 83.87 square kilometers. To the South is Byobugaura cliff, and to the East, the Kimigahama beach. Inland, there are flatlands along the Tone River. The Southwest area is on the Hokuso table-land, while the Eastern region is covered with gentle rolling hills.

About Moto-Choshi Station
Moto-Chōshi Station (本銚子駅, Moto-Chōshi-eki) is a railway station on the privately operated Choshi Electric Railway Line in Chōshi, Chiba, Japan.

Moto-Chōshi Station is served by the 6.4 km (4.0 mi) Choshi Electric Railway Line from Chōshi to Tokawa. It is located between Kannon and Kasagami-Kurohae stations, and is a distance of 1.8 km (1.1 mi) from Chōshi Station.

Moto-Chōshi Station first opened in December 1913 as a station on the Chōshi Sightseeing Railway (銚子遊覧鉄道, Chōshi Yūran Tetsudō), which operated a distance of 5.9 km between Chōshi and Inuboh. The railway closed in November 1917, but was reopened on 5 July 1923 as the Chōshi Railway. Motochōshi was the name of the area at the time the station was built.

The station was used in the filming of the 1985 NHK TV drama Miotsukushi.

The station became unstaffed from 1 January 2008.

The station was renovated in August 2017 as part of a special Nippon Television 24-hour TV project.

About Inubosaki Lighthouse
The lighthouse was built in 1874 by the British engineer Richard Henry Brunton and is registered with the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities as one of the “One Hundred Most Important Lighthouses in the World”.
It is also a Tangible Cultural Property and an Industrial Modernization Heritage Site.
Standing at 32 meters tall and constructed of bricks in the Western style,the simple white form fits in beautifully with its surroundings.
Climb the 99 steps to the top for a panoramic view of Kimigahama Bay.
The lighthouse complex also boasts a small museum housing photos and explanations of the lighthouse’s history.

About Asahi City
Asahi (旭市, Asahi-shi) is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

As of May 1, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 66,811, and a population density of 510 persons per km2. The total area is 129.91 km2.

Asahi is located in far northeastern Chiba Prefecture, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the southeast.

Asahi has a mild climate. The average yearly temperature is 15 degrees Celsius. In 2007, Asahi received 1744.5 mm of precipitation.

Humans have lived in the Asahi area for at least 25,000 years. Clans gave way to a central power during the Taika Reform in 645 A.D. The Chiba clan, or branches of it, ruled the entire Shimōsa region for about 400 years from the Kamakura period. During the Sengoku period, the Chiba clan gained the protection of such powerful clans as the Odawara Hōjō clan, allowing them to get a stronger foothold of power over the area. They lost control when the Hōjō clan was overthrown in 1590 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After that, General Kiso Yoshimasa settled in the region. He restored the Ajito Castle, which was the inspiration for the name “Asahi.” As the governor of the region, he became a popular and respected politician. When poet Nonoguchi Takamasa visited the area in 1852, he wrote a poem about the general, from which the name “Asahi,” which can mean “rising sun,” was taken:

“from Shinano / adoring the rising sun / he came to the eastern land / and there remains the evidence of his earthly life”

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