Episode 2・第２話: http://youtu.be/_Ju7TsFy8vI
Episode 3・第3話: http://youtu.be/gZrdoqRZXss
Episode 4・第４話: http://youtu.be/UNh_-aiFAQc
Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido, was once crisscrossed with an extensive network of railway lines. However by the time the 1980s rolled around, decades of depopulation and lost industry finally caught up to them, with all but a handful shutting down.
This past summer we traveled up north with our bicycles and spent a month cycle touring throughout Hokkaido, searching out and following these decaying symbols of Hokkaido’s past.
In this first episode (of a planned four), we follow the Haboro Line, which ran on the northwest coast of Hokkaido, connecting the city of Rumoi in the south to Haboro in the north.
かつて鉄道は北海道を縦横に走っていた。だが、数十年を経ての過疎化と失った工業のせいで、1980年代に多くの鉄道は廃止された。
今年の夏に私らは自転車と一緒に北に行って、1ヶ月で北海道の廃線を探した。
この第１話(予定4話まで）に北海道の西北海岸沿い留萌市と幌延町を結んだ羽幌線をたどる。
Music credits:
0:09
“Begin Transmission” by Helix Eternal
Used with permission
3:08
“AristoСats in Jungle” by lame grandma with big bag
Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
5:43
“Todavía estoy aquí” by JORISMA
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/JORISMA
Used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
10:55
“La rupture” by Löhstana David
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/david
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
14:20
“Cellule” by Silence
http://altermusique.org/Silence/
Used under Licence Art Libre
(Sorry, incorrectly credited in the video. “L’autre endroit” is the album, “Silence” is the artist.)
18:04
“I will become one with the rocks” by colab
http://ccmixter.org/people/colab
Used under Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0
19:07
“Happy” by 沙野カモメ (Kamome Sano)
http://kamomesano.web.fc2.com/
Used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH1
Audio: RØDE VideoMic
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At the encouragement of another commenter I actually contact NHK World, but they turned me down. Oh well, too bad.
The Horonobe station looks well taken care of for being an abandoned location.
Sorry if I wasn't clear in the video, but Horonobe Station is still in use for the Sōya Main Line. If I recall correctly, in all four of these videos the beginning and ending stations are still in use for other lines that survived being cut. The only exception I can think of is the Shihoro Line (the fourth video), as it's final station was way off in the boonies instead of heading to a city as did the other now-abandoned lines.
nice
im 10 min in…love it! thank you.
This is a really really cool thing 🙂 Actually might have influenced me in deciding to move to Hokkaido ^^
love your video. Saw it on r/cycling. Are you riding on a modified mamacharin?
犬の放し飼いは田舎ならよくあるよ
「番犬」みたいかな
君達のことを知らなかったからビックリしたんじゃないかなｗｗｗ？
新潟と京都も良いよ
地元と、母ちゃんの地元だけど
オススメよ
英語ダメで御免な
楽しくたっぷり拝見させて頂きました！
最高の動画ですね。
私はオートバイでしたが、昔 北海道を巡った日々を鮮明に思い出しました。
Damn, those tunnels still give me the heebie jeebies. Thanks for recording your journey. Loved it
So, have you ever seen any ghost during cycling or especially in tunnel?
I'm not so sure, but I've ever heard that there are many ghost spots in Japan.
So seriously be careful. oh, wait it's 2011…
"I'm looking forward to it."
Beth, maybe not so much.
hokkaido seems to have a beautiful countryside with all the greenery and trees. i first learned about hokkaido thru one manga i read several years ago called hana-kimi where one of the main characters, izumi sano was from there and how hokkaido is snow country
すごい動画だ。北海道の他の廃線も回ってほしい
素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。
さらに廃線は続き、増毛から留萌に至る鉄道も2016年12月で廃止決定。深川から留萌に至る鉄道も廃止の方向に傾いています。
小平は40年以上も前に訪ねていますが何も痕跡がないですね。羽幌駅の宗谷本線との接続が北からだと理解しているのには脱帽です。
焼尻島や天売島、利尻島は見えましたか？何はともあれ、天気に恵まれてよかったです。
いまや北斗星まで消えてしまった。
とても素晴らしい！
良い動画ですね！
俺も行きたいなぁ
なんだこの二人！すげえ。
omg 2011
양덕 패기 보소 ㄷㄷ
北斗星？と思ったら10年前の動画だったw
トンネルは自転車に優しく無いから大変ですね
Hope you’re doing well these days, Adam!