The Side of JAPAN That Media Does Not Show
We went off the beaten track in Japan and in the countryside discovered the 2 most beautiful villages called Magome and Tsumago. Which in our opinion are the most beautiful places in Japan.
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日本人のコメントが多いように、外国の人の日本の旅動画を見、再確認、また何かしら誇りみたいなものを取りも戻させてもらってる日本人も多いと思う。注文は、現実に不敬、またはそれを誘引しかねない行為などがあった場合にすればいい。
風景の細部をも語られ、日本風のお辞儀などされてる方に、今は筋違いとも思える。
みんなほんと綺麗事ばかりのコメントだから日本人の本音を書いてあげるよ。
マジで外国人旅行者は学んでから来い💢
鳥居にぶら下がったり 電車内で踊ってみたり
日本人女性は簡単にsexができるとか
ほんと腹の立つことこの上ない。
旅行者ならその地域に対するリスペクトを持ち、地域住民の迷惑にならないような観光をしてくれ。
我慢強い日本人でもここ最近の外国人旅行者には怒りを感じている事をわかるべき。
周りに人がいなくて、本当にスペシャルな時間でしたね。小さい頃は自然の中で虫を取ったりして遊ぶのが当たり前でした。暗い森の中で一人でいると少しの恐怖感と自然と自分が一体になってる気持ちよさが同居してその感覚が大好きでした。私はヨーロッパに20年住んでいたので、日本の自然がどれだけ特別で豊かなものだったか大きくなって身にしみて分かりました。日本の自然は神様が作ったと感じました。ちなみに私は何の信仰もありません。
海外で感じたその感覚が大切なのに、日本に帰ってきてからは全くこのような素晴らしい場所に行けていませんので、この動画で一緒に連れて行ってくれて本当にありがとうございます。本当に素敵な経験ですね。
日本人の私でも心が落ち着く風景です
素晴らしい‼️
映像が、とても綺麗でした😃👍
良いビデオでした！
馬籠宿や妻籠宿がお好きなら
「宿場町（Syuku ba machi ）」という単語で調べると、似たような「歴史的な街道沿いで旅人を泊まらせていた村」に出会うことができます。
その他、昔ながらの街並みが見たければ「小京都（Syou Kyoto ）」「小江戸（ko Edo ）」などの単語で。
または、各都市からアクセスしやすい場所なら「歴史的景観保存地区（Rekishi teki keikan hozon tiku ）」などの単語で調べてみるといいと思います。
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宿＝guest house
場＝place
町＝town
小京都＝little Kyoto
小江戸＝little Edo
歴史的＝historical
景観＝view
保存＝keep
地区＝area
Thanks for visiting our home country Japan. 🎉
The picture is somewhere in China, not Edo/Tokyo!
Hello from Canada 🇨🇦. Your video just came up in my feed. I’m on bed rest after a bad scald burn all down my left side and I’m kind of saturated with political videos about upcoming U.S. election. As their neighbours to the North, we are very invested in having sanity prevail. Loved this video and hoping you have many more for me to explore. Merci! BTW we visited France and drove all over after my husband’s conference and never visited Eiffel Tower or other typical tourist attractions. We had a wonderful time exploring less busy areas.
Sendai, a major city in the Tohoku region, has many Japanese tourists, but almost no foreign tourists. This is because there are no fancy structures that are of value to foreign tourists.
This is a city between the city and the countryside. Many artists and foreign students live here in the rich nature and quietness of the city. There are also many such cities in Japan.
少々過度に右翼的な日本人のコメントが散見されますがあなた方はお気になさらないで下さいね。
文化に敬意を持って観光し、良さを広めてくれてる方に対して迷惑外国人が来るからやめろ、と批判するのは明らかにお門違いです。
地方の魅力を広めてくれてありがとう🙏
Even as time goes by and the surface of a town changes, nothing changes in the underlying foundation of the unique Japanese culture.
The common root of the creation of originality in Japanese culture is the uniqueness of its geopolitical location and the influence of its natural environment.
Even if they import culture and knowledge from abroad, they are not dominated by it, and after a certain period of time, they select the content, integrate it with their own culture, improve it, and eventually create a new style.
Why, then, have they been trying to improve existing things and create new ones?
The reason is obvious: the unique natural environment of Japan, an island nation.
The environmentally adaptive behavior of the Japanese people as they survive in the harsh natural environment has given birth to a Japanese behavioral culture in which people cooperate and help each other, and always come up with feasible ways to improve without giving up, even in harsh realities.
Japan's original country name "NIPPON”means "the land under (of) the sun" , but another traditional country name is "WA (YAMATO) ” , meaning “Peacefull Harmony”. So Japan's real name means “the Land of the Sun” and” the Land of "Great Peacefull Harmony (of People and Nature),”
The history of Japan is very old, about 2,000 years since the Emperor's reign, but humans began to live in villages and communities in this island nation about 14,000 years ago, during “the JOMON pottery” culture. (That's 30,000 years ago, if you count the Neolithic period.)
Surrounded on all sides by the sea and geographically isolated from the Eurasian continent in the Pacific Ocean, this island nation has a warm and humid climate, and because it is a volcanic island, mountains occupy about 70% of its land, it is rich in underground clear water resources through its natural filtration system, and is blessed with diverse vegetation and fishery resources.
For this reason, people have lived here for tens of thousands of years, enjoying the abundant nature and living in peace with nature. Since ancient times, the people of this land have respected human harmony and have lived in peace by working together as a group.
However, while the natural environment of this island nation is rich to live, it is also harsh to live and has both light and dark sides.
They have shared and enjoyed the blessings of nature by pooling their wisdom and collectively overcoming numerous severe and harsh natural disasters, such as frequent volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami, summer typhoons, and heavy snowfall in winter.
This is because this island nation has a harsh natural environment that cannot be overcome by power of a single person.
power of Individuals are too weak to face the fury of nature when natural disasters suddenly strike the wealth they have built up and can destroy their cities overnight.
That is why Japanese people believed that they should suppress their egos, avoid conflict among humans, cooperate with each other to create a livable environment and maintain public cleanliness, and join forces to prevent disasters before they occur and to restore the environment immediately after they have occurred.
They believed that this is the most wise, efficient, and rational way to survive and to maintain peace and freedom in each other's lives, this would bring about better results rather than to create more chaos and conflict by insisting on each other's selfishness.
because of the environment in which disasters frequently occur that cannot be resolved by individual power alone.
And this thinkings have given rise to Japan's unique teachings, culture, and behavior.
For example, it is fundamentally connected to the Japanese mindset of "Behaving in a way that does not bother others in public places," "Helping each other if someone is in trouble," and "Not doing bad things even if no one is watching."
And one of the teachings of the ancient Shinto religion, "Purify yourself (kiyome) by getting rid of Defilement (kegare)," has been taken over today as a basic manner to "Not pollute even in public places," to “Always keep the environment and yourself clean”, and to make everyone, regardless of status, gender, or age. feel comfortable equally.
The warm and humid island climate is not only a paradise for humans and animals, but also a paradise for bacteria and microorganisms to thrive.Without cleanliness in daily life, bacteria can easily multiply and food can spoil.
It is clear why the ancient Japanese Shinto religion taught the importance of “maintaining a clean environment on a daily basis. Even before the development of science, they strictly taught cleanliness because they knew that laziness and uncleanliness would lead to plague and other disasters through the growth of invisible bacteria, leading to the death and destruction of a people.
This is the ancient wisdom to survive safely in the dangerous natural environment unique to this island nation（the climate in Japan, unlike that of the other continent, is humid, and pathogens can easily multiply.)
Over the years, the wisdom to survive in this particular land has been formed into a unique Japanese behavior and culture that values cleanliness, flawless work, and diligence, which is different from other countries. Because otherwise they would not have survived for so long in the natural environment of this land.
From ancient times, living in this island nation and experiencing a special natural environment where both sides of heaven and hell coexist at the same time, Japanese people believed that human beings are not the main actors or rulers of the natural world, but only a part of it and one of the many objects kept alive by the natural environment.
Therefore, they took a humble attitude toward the natural environment. They also believed that it is important for life to maintain peaceful harmony with the surrounding environment, such as living in harmony with other living creatures and the natural environment, and cooperative behavior among human beings.
They also believed that this way of life was the wisest way for each individual born into this world to live happily for the rest of his or her limited lifetime.
Against the backdrop of the island nation's unique natural environment, they regarded natural phenomena as the embodiment of God and gave birth to Japanese “Shinto,” a religion of nature worship that reveres not a single deity, but the eight million gods that inhabit all things in the natural world.
They feared and respected the gods, who inhabited all things in the natural world and gave life to humans, animals, and plants on earth, and at the same time had a terrifying dual nature that could suddenly change into a god of destruction at the discretion of the gods beyond human thought.
And Their accumulated experience in adapting to the duality of heaven and hell in Japan's natural environment gave birth to the idea of the “spirit of harmony” among the Japanese people. Furthermore, it has been born a national temperament of “pragmatism and earnestness” and a “desire to improve and develop the status quo” by adding creativity and ingenuity without giving up on reality.※
The ancient name of Japan, "YAMATO" "WA" (peaceful harmony between people and nature), represents "the wishes and reality" of the people who have been trying to survive in the rich and at the same time harsh natural environment unique to island countries, which is different from the dry and stable land of the Eurasian continent.
And it is in this ancient Japanese country name "YAMATO/WA" that the essence of Japanese culture, the origin and secret of its unique culture, which is very different from the cultures of other Asian countries on the continent, is hidden.
Please stop introducing Japan. It's being ruined by annoying foreigners. Don't come.
日本に来て下さってありがとう！地図では小さく表示されますが日本は意外と大きな国で至る所にこの様な場所があります。私もバイクで人口物を避けた旅をしていた事があります。知られていない素敵な場所はまだまだ沢山ありますし、固有植物溢れる日本を楽しんで下さいね😊
一本筋違えばフツーの民家です。なんなら主人の父方親族宅の裏側だ。
お願いです。そっとしといてください。観光客がたくさん訪れることがないようにしてください。私たちはそれを望んでいません。
I am half way through your video I find it interesting that shows the beautiful sight. Will continue following your journey video which I am enjoying them.
Is my plan very much to visit Japan as a tourist by group agent tour . Thank you
大きい山や木、雷までを信仰対象にしている、自然と共に生きてきた国です。
自然豊かなところは、生活するには不便ですが。
熊には気をつけて❗
Thank you for this video, that place looks Amazing!!!
Yes rural Japan is truly wonderful. I had a similar experience in the Wakamatsu Islands near Nagasaki. How is it that so many young Japanese move from country areas and live for most of their lives in metropolitan shoeboxes?
イザベラ・バードを学習してください。
イザベラ・ルーシー・バード（Isabella Lucy Bird）
1831年10月15日
 イギリス・ヨークシャー・バラブリッジ（英語版）[1]
台風が来ている時に進路にある山間部に行くことは日本人なら絶対にしない選択ですね。
ご無事で良かったです。
Don't forget to carry bear bell or whistle with you when you go into forested area of
Japan. Especially in the fall when they need to fatten up before hibernation.
Also during spring ,early summer when new babies are born as mother bear bacomes
very protective and aggressive.
It's bigger threat than car accidents in Japan lately since hardly anyone hunt anymore.
初めて視聴しました。
とても素敵な動画でした
美しい場所はいっぱいあるけど、世界中の人に教えた後は宝探しの強盗が墓を荒らすような惨状が待っています。
The old man in Tsumago (or Magome? he said like "Welcome~"), is so charming.😊
千葉県で生まれ育ちました。外国人観光客は、成田空港から千葉県を無視して東京に直行します。千葉県にも美しい場所はたくさんありますよ。
嗚呼、五平餅が食べたいよう。
Congratulations on the successful exploration of rural Japan! These are some of the beautiful ancient towns that are forgotten among modern Japanese people. These towns are getting somewhat revived partly thanks to the new visitors from abroad. Overtourism is indeed becoming a big problem in many countries; however, well-mannered tourists like you are fun to interact with and always welcome 😉
Tokyo is a city created by modern civilization.
Kyoto is also a city that was created over 1000 years ago.
However, if you take a train for a few hours, you can feel more than 2000 years of Japanese history.
Thank you for introducing me to the wonders of Japan.
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