Just How Different Are The EXTREMITIES Of Japan? + Cat Island

[@KobeanHistory]

I had a lot of fun editing this one I hope you guys enjoyed the little edits I did inbetween regions. Also there is an extra bit for the people who watch until the end ;)

[@zigmeisterful]

Thanks Kobean. Great stuff, and keep up the good work! :)

[@AD-hq2uz]

Great job editing!

[@ender3960]

Love this lol, was that your voice at 5:14 ?

[@KobeanHistory]

@@ender3960 Haha yea that was me

[@ender3960]

Lol 12:44 I did not think that!

[@absinthe_noire]

30% geography, 20% history, 50% toycat being cute around cats!! That's what I'm talking about =^_^=

[@randomcat7246]

Ero Noctua whoa he loved your comment!

[@TheMarioManiac]

Cat island is your natural habitat :O

[@ender3960]

lol

[@swamp2213]

@@ender3960 lol

[@themanthemitchthelegend6183]

Shouldn’t the Dutch theme park be called Nether-Land?

[@justarandomchannel1319]

yea ikr!

[@GravityFromAbove]

Toycat I like how your videos have gone from maps to the actual reality.

[@SilvanaDil]

They still have designated smoking cars on the train! That's almost enough to make me want to move there from the U.S. (Why is a Puccini aria, "O Mio Babbino Caro," followed by a Neapolitan song, "Funiculi, Funicula," being sung/broadcast in a Dutch themed park in Japan?!)

[@Josev-TV]

Totally appreciate the amount of work that went into this video. Makes me want to know all regions of Japan.

[@WhateverNameIsStillAvailable]

Omg I love middle east Japan with the cat island! =D And they did a great job with the Netherlands theme park aswell. It's just as clean and orderly as the real deal!

[@AD-hq2uz]

Love living vicariously through you and your travels!

[@roysuttie5847]

The Dutch theme park looks eerily similar to a real Dutch medieval city centre, just so weird seeing those mountains in the back, since there are no mountains in the netherlands

[@sapphirerose4494]

I really really love this video Toycat :) much more informative than i expected, very interesting

[@TheGadgetPanda]

I'm glad you went to Sapporo. I recently watched a super fun J-Drama on Netflix called Stay Tuned set in the wacky world of Sapporo local TV. You do see a lot of overhead shots of the town and surrounding areas and it looked really interesting. I might just have to fit it onto my long planned, long postponed visit.

[@suimarc]

Could you maybe do a border video about the strange city borders of Montréal? I just discovered that there are a couple exclaves within the city of Montréal. Might be interesting to know the background.

[@theElectricthrusts]

Ahahaha I love cat island. Little baby cat on the thumbnail!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@frisianmouve]

The Japanese nailed the Dutch architecture, the only thing missing is that you don't have to pay constant attention to not get run over by bikes

[@muffin_____]

Toycat visits cat Island is just so fitting

[@ripwig6682]

Excellent video. Considering you don't live in Japan you did very well giving accurate and interesting information.

[@ripwig6682]

You should go to the kerima Islands, miyako or ishigaki in okinawa and chill on the nice beaches for a few days.

[@FairyCRat]

Tashirojima: Toycat meets actual cat

[@BradleyGearhart]

Wow you really outdid yourself this time. Keep up the good work!

[@somewhereright3160]

I wanted to go to Husten Bosch during my overseas studies in Japan but didn‘t end up to. So it was nice to see it in your video. However, I‘m planning to go to the original flower garden in the Netherlands in a few weeks and I‘m really excited about it. The Japanese have great taste to like the Netherlands. They have both benefitted greatly from trading and exchanging science knowledge with each other. I remember that bridge in Okinawa that blocked the sea view. It sucks indeed xD Great video!

[@JFKenji]

Just a short explanation as to why this theme park was built. The Dutch were in fact the ONLY westerners that were allowed to trade with Japan when the isolationist period started (sakoku) up until the Americans imposed trade when showing up with their so-called black ships (kurofune) in the mid XIVth century. The Dutch had a tiny settlement called Dejima in the outskirts of Nagasaki where all goods were carefully inspected before entering the country. The main reason for this is because the local governors at that time wanted to prevent the spread of Christianity they judged incompatible with Buddhism and Japanese culture. The Jesuits, especially the Portuguese and some Spaniards were pissing the shoguns off with their intense conversion campaigns and their deportation - and elimination in case of non compliance ultimately saved Japan from this form of colonialism in my opinion. In the meantime Korea got largely christianized and the Church was getting a larger foothold in China. Though the Dutch were not the best at assimilating the colonized peoples and mingling with them (cf. Indonesia), they were extremely wise at doing business and simply did not bother trying to promote Christianity in Japan, hence the exception.

[@cassiee8632]

That’s amazing. I loved the video! I have to visit Tashirojima when I go to Japan. Now I just need to find someone to go with...

[@Token_Nerd]

Interestingly, Hokkaido is more sparsely populated than the Tohoku region of Japan. It's part of the reason why JR Hokkaido is in so much trouble while JR East is super profitable (though JR east has the benefit of running all Tokyo's commuter lines).

[@jeanssold2131]

9:06 cat balls, youre welcome😎😎😎

[@amduser86]

the netherland theme park is a strange place and i thought the old german style house on top of the shin-kobe ropeway is wierd.

[@purplepanda8805]

I think we as internet-tians have relied too much on putting people into country boxes, when there's often vast cultural and linguistic differences within a country. It is good to see more people looking further than the lines drawn on the map.

[@nickames3808]

I'm SURPRISED the train uses an Emglish voice. MEMO to.Suga, LOL

[@jurrenkroon]

Wow I'm Dutch and I must say that the theme park is very well done and tasteful. I doesn't look very fake. Good job Japan!

[@dylan2478]

Ja echt eh

[@dylan2478]

M. de k. Ja echt

[@Token_Nerd]

Top 10 saddest Anime endings.

[@JoseManuel-um9xu]

The portuguese were the first to trade with Japan, not the netherlands

[@cheeb1468]

Thank you, this is so interesting

[@mies1mies]

can you do a video on the tokyo metro?

[@StardollLoverXD]

Petition to make little Japan in the Netherlands

[@oldsport5875]

Did toycat do a q n a Saturday?

[@johnotm]

Touhoku is actually called the north east. It's what the name means 東 tou east and 北 hoku north. Japan is not really that small it is bigger than most countries in Europe including Germany and the UK.

[@PkPvre]

This Dutch theme park is crazy

[@culwin]

Defined countries didn't really exist or were very vague until Europe went around carving everything up.

[@JennaGetsCreative]

"Are you broken?" 😂 I had a cat who was that unnecessarily vocal. Her name was Deeojee (D-O-G), shortened to Dee, and quickly extended again to Demon. Beautiful grey & orange torbie who WOULD NOT SHUT UP, and insisted on clearing every surface she could get to. My current kitties are much quieter. Camo ("The Queen Mother, Camilla") and Pebbles ("Lady Penelope of Lorne"), and their cross-country brother Billy ("Sir William, Black Knight of Lorne"). Cross-country brother because sometimes he lives here in Newfoundland with me, and sometimes he lives in BC with my mother.

[@darkalligraph]

Japan is a very nice place

[@dylan2478]

Yes, especially the nature, JUST the nature

[@darkalligraph]

@@dylan2478 Yes, it was very beautiful although I did like the temples too..

[@dylan2478]

DarKalligraph oh of course! The tempels too, i dream of going there one day, but first norway

[@darkalligraph]

@@dylan2478 i see

[@yodorob]

Even though I've never been anywhere in Japan or East Asia, and I've just read about those parts, I love Hokkaido. It's quite similar in climate and many other physical aspects to New England, Upstate New York, and adjacent portions of Canada (e.g. Montreal, where I live). It's way less crowded than the rest of Japan, and the original ethnic stock (Ainu) is much different from much of the rest of Japan. Don't get me wrong, I love Japanese culture as a whole and I love the rest of Japan, but Hokkaido is something else.

[@nickames3808]

Watch The Ground!!! You know.Cats Bury THINGS

[@mrhappy623]

I love how they're playing the Spider-man 2 pizza song in the Dutch theme park.

[@pitmezzari2873]

It's an actual Neapolitan tune.

[@mrhappy623]

Pit Mezzari yeah I know, but that’s the only thing i can think of when i hear it lol.

[@chriswall27]

Howdy fella. Dutch East India Company would have been one of the earliest traders so that's probably why the Netherlands theme park lol. Anyone schmoking there? 😁

[@jameskazd9951]

doubt it, japan is super harsh on drugs, and crime generally

[@H.Saionji]

Omg you were in Sapporo!!

[@SeiyaBK]

I’m from the Kansai Region, and this is a very accurate interpretation 😂

[@chavandposh]

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[@franciszekwrona8625]

CAT ISLAND!!!!

[@youknowwho8726]

Hi!From Greece or Hellas!:)

[@dylan2478]

Master Fotis OMG A GREEK, how is life there?

[@youknowwho8726]

What do you mean?Very good😀Where are you from?

[@dylan2478]

Master Fotis im A belgian, but i always had A crush on greece and sweden I want to go there Some day

[@RogersMgmtGroup]

Looks like this video is sponsored by Bic Camera based on where he was standing

[@AGkittie]

I’ve always wanted to be in a cats mouth. LOL

[@christianingmarkjlsvik7872]

I wonder how many cat islands there are in the world...

[@KobeanHistory]

There must be a good few, Japan alone already has at least 3

[@defaultmesh]

ibx toy -cat- *human*

[@DominoLarry]

I live in Amsterdam and there is so many Asian tourists here - why don't they just go to this place in Japan?

[@frostermos]

Why does he have his shirt over his hands?

[@Terje1337]

oh man, you missed the american city, which is super japanese, and Chatan right next to it that is super american.

[@ESPmrBrough]

cats

[@walker_andrej]

And yet Baltics have largely different languages. Great video though!

[@Aprill264]

OwO, we hebben Japan gekoloniseerd

[@WhateverNameIsStillAvailable]

De Japan is van ons (zoals "De Congo is van ons")!

[@dylan2478]

Uncle Ruckus Hawaï was ook bijna van België

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Random German butting in to congratulate you on this!

[@JaxTheCartographer]

Yeah the japanese imperialism was going good for japanese people.. chinese people.. filipinos.. not so much the japanese government was very horrific.

[@zippy3596]

I really would enjoy a rant about your thoughts on what nationality or ethnicity is

[@KootFloris]

Japan looks horrible. So much nature gone, so much city portrayed as civilization, but it ends up as less of places to feel alive. Nature seems like just park. But the Dutch theme park, wow, very well done. Being Dutch I see they've taken our highlights and put them smartly together. It only lacks trees and aliveness.

[@idkhowbutdiscosarechemical]

Actually, most of Japan is nature because it's very mountainous, so people didn't build cities there, only in the flat spaces in between. This is why so many people live in so few cities in Japan and why the cities are so densely populated. However, as with most countries on earth, there is a lot of land that has become more urban and its nature has been destroyed.

[@tanmay_misra4]

hi

[@dylan2478]

Hi

[@WizardToby]

Wow. Nagasaki looks like a European city. Maybe that's how they rebuilt it after the Americans bombed Nagasaki in World War 2

[@ibx2cat]

That isn't Nagasaki, just near it haha

[@akihitoserection3621]

Ibxtoycat, it might be because of your camera, but you don't really look healthy. Take care of yourself and get some sleep!

[@YeCannyDaeThat]

Pretty sure it's the camera. Looks fine to me.

[@WhateverNameIsStillAvailable]

Nah, he looks normal. He just has a skin condition.

[@miyamotoobliteratesgeneric5235]

Akihito's Erection generic comment.

[@Maaaaaaaate1]

Geographyeet