The Other Hachiko?

That’s right! If you thought that Shibuya was the only Hachiko statue … well, it’s not. The other is in ODATE, AKITA in the north of Honshu Island and it was made around the same time at the other statue. The Odate Hachiko depicts a younger dog with pointy ears. The one in Shibuya shows Hachiko’s last year.

WHERE IS IT?
https://goo.gl/maps/G59r4LaA9kJ2
忠犬ハチ公像
1 Chome-3-1 Onarichō, Ōdate-shi, Akita-ken 017-0044
0186-43-7072

The Akita Inu also has its roots in Odate and the statue is worth a stop if you’re in the area.

Greetings from ODOT day here in Akita prefecture and I’ve come here for one thing in particular that’s a really windy day one thing in particular and it’s just outside the station so I hitchhiked here yesterday from a place just outside of Akita city I got here

About 7:00 p.m. and I’m going to go to this place right now I’ve been here for about 30 minutes filming and it’s so cool it’s a really windy spring day there’s not a lot here and adopted to see and this is one of the most famous

Things to see in the city I’m under the camera around and take a look first there’s almost nobody here okay I just want to point that out before you closer this is the other Hachiko statue there’s one in Shibuya that’s really really famous this is the second one and

They’re both made about the same time again this is logical yeah there are two of them this has go station is in front of a station statue and what’s different about this one well the one in Shibuya here’s our down it was later in Hotchkiss life this one is hunger

Times I’ve said to my friend take let’s meet in Shibuya where do you want to meet let’s be an arch come let’s be a hard to go because it’s so famous it’s that famous world the world’s busiest stations in here there’s nobody here to

Me this is really crazy cuz I can set I can tell you right now today is Saturday and in Shibuya I bet you there’s a thousand people in front of the hunter statue all waiting for somebody and here just not a soul just me place with information about this statute we know

About the one in Shibuya this one is up let’s go this should be honest completed in 1934 stuffed Hotch goo is yeah you can still Scotch gonna be stuffed and put in a museum and we know and give it to the army a model of this statue in its young age

Difference and the model of this statue in his in his last behind it is statute dedicated to the Akita Inu which is the Akita breed of dog and which is what haschke was and it’s famous from fist for this area of Japan this is not keep the prefecture so and they have me

Statue this statue behind the Hachiko statue in front of our data station You can look back there it is well Dante is really off the grid if you compare Shibuya versus on that day but that is completely off the grid if you go back into the station or Dante station I think there’s about I don’t know 15 trains a day

Here’s Hodge go let me go to the station to look package via station as well so there’s a lot of similarities between the two and that says you can see junior old dot a beautiful sunny a day but just the wind is a lot there my bags in about

Ten minutes I’m going to be walking over to the interchange to try to get a ride to try to get a ride to hit Oh sake Oh daddy station and here’s this here’s the train schedule what a contrast at Tokyo there’s about a nine o’clock there’s no train at all this is crazy

And at seven o’clock no train and you’d see there very very few trains come into the station in Akita what um I sometimes just not even any staff you can see it’s just empty in the train line here is very very simple there’s ODOT day yeah and there’s not that many lines if

You compare it with Tokyo it’s a lutely different world off the beaten track here but Haj go is a left of big is really important to this you can see Hotch goes in a lot of places on posts I have some posters here and inside the waiting room you can see there’s Hotch

Go sort of I’m now I’m at junior or dot a station now has the date on that so cute aren’t they looking I love the Akita Inu In fact this is Akita prefecture you see Right here’s where I am this is a day and it’s famous for Hajj go and you can see a lot of other attractions in this place I was here just a couple of days ago and then I went here yesterday to Olga honto they have the namaha geek

Namaha gay this is some scary scary dudes those aren’t masks well I don’t know what they are actually but they’re pretty creepy yesterday it’s a lot of them You see that’s the view outside the station it seems like there’s my bag there are my bags here and then there’s the Hachiko statue and there’s not much there’s not much activity out there except for the construction happening behind there Sometimes a futurists will come about 30 minutes ago there was a group of tourists they came they took a picture and they left not many hotels here either The wind has really blown blond me blow me away here but it’s been it’s so far it’s been a pretty good trip I stayed at a hotel nearby which is nice I charged the reason why I had to do that was I’d to charge all my

Batteries I had stayed in a tent the night before and two nights ago I was in I was in a Hakuba at at the people’s house who picked me up they let me stay in one in their house for a night which is really great and now I’m in O’Day and

I’m going to the interchange I’m going to the interchange to start to hitchhike I have to get the hit osaki it’s not that far I have it’s 11 a.m. about 11:00 a.m. and I have to go about I guess it’s like 80 kilometers I think you can get

There before 5:00 p.m. that’s my goal and I want to take a look at see what the cherry blossoms are like and I’m gonna stay in hit osaki for a while before I move on to Hokkaido my goal is to be in Hokkaido by the 27th and that’s

The debt Oh Oh Dottie is actually the end of the trip but I have an announcement to make because of the Kickstarter has been going so well people been asking me to do a stretch goal I guess for me a stretch goal means I got to keep going

Right uh do I want to keep going not really not really I don’t really want to keep going but I’m afraid of Toby I’m afraid that Toby might get angry so III have to keep going for Toby if you want to yesterday’s dream you know who Toby is Toby uh

Toby’s he’s a nice guy we had some fun with him yesterday I’m gonna keep going I’m gonna um maybe spend a couple of days in Hirosaki look at the cherry blossoms to try to take it easy and then go up to Oh Kaido and then charge

Forward to walk on I that means I got to go through South Laurel I go through nobody bet soon which is an aunt in town I go through a cycle WA and I go to walk and I and if there’s a place on the way that I stopped and great but I’m not

Sure I’m not sure exactly why why would I find I want to fight at least one thing in oak I know that I haven’t done before seen before or food that I haven’t eaten before that should be pretty easy to do but yeah I want something to happen it’s out of the

Unexpected something completely new or else what’s the point of this trip I hitchhiked this thing 14 years ago and I don’t want to do the same thing exactly the same thing I did before I learned to try something new I I did stop in nobody Benson which is the famous once in town

But I didn’t go into the bath so that’s one thing I definitely want to do and there’s some unique pond set up in the north near walker night and there’s also eyelids ah there’s also island off the block on I not Russia because you can see Russia from walk

But there’s some islands near them that I want to go to but it just it just takes time so if I go there that’s what I want to do awesome seafood I had 20 massive scallops or a whole top day for 500 yen last time 14 years ago and

Without in wok on high so I’m looking forward to going back there the signs were in Russian – so that was pretty cool you know the second language is not English there it’s Russian here’s a dentist oh man it’s 11:30 I gotta go really not

A lot of activity here no da day but I’ve wanted to stop here and bring you to the other hunch go if you’re in Japan visiting I guess I’ve been getting some pictures from people sending me Hachiko photos well here you go there’s another

Hot to go in town his name is hot comb this guy the younger lunch go I like how he’s got he’s got a um like a leash family back there of a key leader and I stayed in a hotel just over there was a five thousand yen a night with spring

Good breakfast that was a friend the Royal or dot a hotel all right everybody I’m gonna leave you with that me and hunch goes rear not a lot of people here but a pretty good experience and if you come to a key thought you you definitely should stop

It or Dante just to check out hunch go so wherever you are in the world have a great day I’m going to hit the road right now start hitchhiking I’m not going to like broadcast it this time but I’m gonna live a cast as Haskell bus

Which is coming in which is pretty cool Shibuya has a Shibuya has a hajikko bus as well but this one is I guess for authentic because this is Hachi goes birthplace he’s people well his dogs there you go the hutch coupe us back how cute is that never mind advertisements go with the

Hot school bus like all the people to look at this Red Bull here measures the level of snow so they get a lot of snow here in the winter all right I’m adding her folks thanks for tuning in to this very fast Hachiko episode here an old day I’m back

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