Japan Akita to Aomori Snowy Beautiful Trip by Special Express Train || Resort Shirakami

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

Having a bit of a stressful day - sit down here to watch this with a cup of tea. Ahhhhhhhhh! Instant relax.😁

[@KitKinetic286]

you can tell they put in effort to design both the interior and exterior of the train...it's more than just a ride for them, it's an experience...and that makes all the difference...

[@ChrisH-1952]

Your videos are always interesting and they are the only way I shall ever see Japan. Thanks to your excellent English captions we can learn a lot about the country and transport system. We also learn that apart from travel you love snow and food. 😁

[@themechanic9226]

Those seats remind me of the Partridge Family bus. 😄

[@JBM425]

Come on, get happy! 🎶😁

[@chrisdean6700]

I can't get over how orderly & precise the Japanese are! Their trains are an exquisite work of engineering and I would love a chance to ride them!

[@Stache987]

The biggest advantage Japan's trains have is the freight trains do not get right of way, unlike American trains, if Amtrak owns the track, it's mostly on time, but if they travel on another companies track, freight has priority.

[@ruthiemay423]

Very surprised to see the Mondrian print textiles. Cool retro... ❤🧡💛💖 They were very popular back in the 1960s.

[@southie256]

i love pineapple juice and japan has the best train system far more than i realized.

[@trancis_]

What incredible scenery, especially where there is snow and ocean in the same picture! I definitely want to try riding this train someday!

[@pixibelle3282]

Come to Western Australia if you want to see the desert meeting the ocean.

[@sugarcoder]

Train rides are so much fun, who else agrees? I miss traveling by train in Japan. Also, I first heard about Aomori in the animes, Those Snow White Notes and Kiyo in Kyoto. :D

[@ETBrenner]

Thank you! I especially liked all the time you gave to showing us the scenery! I feel that some train vloggers spend so much of their video's running time on all the details of the train facilities and food that the scenery gets shortchanged. Whenever I've ridden trains myself, I spend almost the whole ride glued to the window - the scenery is my favorite part of the ride.

[@rauleli]

Resort Hybrid? Not familiar with that kind of trains, but sounds cool!! I can listen an engine in some parts of the video and i can see the electric lines and no engine sound in other sections! Perhaps I saw it before, but never pay attention until now, hehehe

[@billhunnicutt3883]

I rode the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto with my dad when I was a child. This brings back some wonderful memories! Thank you.

[@tomburns7544]

Thank you again for another interesting and relaxing video, Kuga! You are the best!!!

[@reighguevarra114]

the view is spectaculaaaaaarrrr! I hope to ride trains in japan sooon!

[@englishatheart]

Trains and beautiful scenery, two of my favorite things. 🥰

[@richardc488]

Thank you Mr Kuga, wonderful video

[@rechnin6680]

Come ride the trains in Britain, you will appreciate the trains in Japan even more afterward!

[@davemcdonald511]

Thank you for another great video! I always enjoy a snowy train tour 🌨🚂🙏🏻

[@ewengillies9826]

My gosh those clouds looked so ominous in many places. Just gitta love the snow scenes and you give such fantastic coverage of them. Beautifully appointed train so refreshing to see it. Thanks for tge journey as always. Bushyboy Oz.

[@mayhemacres725]

Those seats definitely bring to mind The Partridge Family and their colorful bus. Definitely some 70s vides there. Thanks for sharing your travels with us again!

[@markclayton626]

Fabulous video, thank you for making and sharing. 🙏❤️

[@sdingeswho]

I love the sea-coast views! The surf was really up, that day 🌊! And the seat-covers are great 😁 - warm ‘70s colors, and irregularly-divided rectangles 🙂. Reminds me of Piet Mondrian, if he had gone in for coach-design 😆!

[@CrazySquirrelProductions]

これを私の感謝のしるしとして受け入れてください。静かなひとときを楽しめるコーヒーやビールで十分だと思います。久我ありがとうございます。:-) The train was really pretty and the scenary as well!

[@kugastravel5180]

Thanks, GW AMES FILMS!🤝

[@jimgomez5396]

Thanks for the English subtitles! An thanks for a beautiful ride!

[@Bammer2001]

4:32 Looks like the train moves slow for a very good purpose: the views! 😍

[@VerhoevenSimon]

Thank you for the beautiful ridealong

[@ИринаСуровцева-з2я]

Мне очень нравится смотреть ваше видео. Спасибо.🚂

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

Winter Wonderland is awesome.

[@bryanlorang417]

Thanks as always for sharing these journeys.

[@fw9127]

Always love your Japan train videos !

[@dahowu]

I will travel again to aomori. It's so beautiful there. :)

[@davidlferrara9352]

Always look forward to your videos Kuga. Thank you for sharing.

[@aloneaditya30]

Amazing video thank for showing us such a wonderful trip 😁 keep it up ! Stay safe and Stay Healthy

[@mariamatus9114]

I am jealous! JK - the Aomori shoreline scenery is breathtaking. Thanks for sharing!

[@cameroncoffey972]

What a beautiful trip. I love your channel!

[@kugastravel5180]

Wow, thanks Cameron!🤝

[@Dodger0103]

Once again I can’t get over how Japan uses the English language in both signs and verbal information I take it as a compliment and thank them. If I ever win the jackpot on the lottery, I love to travel around Japan on your public transportation My other reason to visit would be, to attend the High School Bands performing, the best school bands in the world,my favourite is the Kyoto Tachibana high school. I live in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 I have touched base with Japan, when I flew to Australia with ANA via Tokyo airport

[@DoriKei]

Arigato, Kuga san. Love your videos. Hope to go to Japan again one day.

[@alanw7134]

Outstanding visuals, especially the end scene of the two snow covered trains waiting side by side at the station. Thank you!

[@TRUMPmyOSHI]

When you ride a regular train in the US like those in NYC, you may find terrible things. But in terms of long distance, the Acela and Brightline are nice, which are like Shinkansen.

[@punnipaduangdara6743]

Thanks Kuga San, enjoy watching your video as always.

[@dskadd32]

When the snow is on the ground, there are so many beautiful train trips. Thank you.

[@sweetlips1938]

Kuga, If you travel on long distance trains, take one to Fukuoka, I was stationed there in the early 60s and would love to see what it looks like today. BTW I really enjoy your videos.

[@ArielCruzPizarro]

Thank you very much Kuga, I love your videos and also public transport as a topic. I am very happy that you dedicate yourself to enjoy, to travel, to relax and to know the beautiful things of Japan, in addition to sharing them with us. A huge hug from Chile and obviously, Like button, I already subscribed a long time ago hahaha, I hope you can continue growing and fulfill all your long-awaited travel dreams!

[@ohnoflicks]

Such a great graphic design on that train. Unlike our Amtrak 😀

[@nscalestation]

Terrific video, Thanks for sharing !

[@freddidavis7102]

Gorgeous scenery 🤩

[@thaismagalhaes5928]

I really wish I could visit Japan one day.

[@MaakMind]

Oh, the snow is beautiful, the weather is cool.

[@chrissonnenschein6634]

You will have travelled right past on of Tōhoku’s largest/oldest Ginkgo Tree on this journey, but to view it would need to be going other direction.

[@adityabiyani387]

wow great

[@helenel4126]

What a beautiful train. Alas, ours in the US are not as clean and attractive.

[@Humberto-F7]

Thanks for the ride !!! 🇺🇾

[@annedugan3161]

This was great! Thank you for all your hard work and sharing this trip

[@marthaanthis3980]

Love it!

[@dcrom]

Gorgeous work, again! But I don't know what Matcha is.... (Google here I come!)

[@H44rold]

Incredible landscapes ! The speed of this train is really low sometimes :o

[@asan1050]

Thanks!

[@redlanternhomesteadcathym105]

thank you for your videos, they are incredibly relaxing.

[@loofeelin5024]

Thank you sharing suchca great video. May I know how do I purchase the train ticket ? Thank You

[@p.herrmann4538]

oddly train... the wooden floor looks like its from the 60s, that colorful pattern looks like from the 80s the train itself looks like 90s ...they cant decide wich decade :D

[@whiskeysk]

I get a very typical feeling of Japan from designs like this.

[@andreaantonini6533]

Kuga san, what period of the year was this video shot? I'm going to Tohoku in early December, and I am not sure whether or not it will be a good time to take Resort Shirakami. Does the train make prolonged stops in scenic places? Would you suggest breaking the trip with an overnight stay somewhere along the route?

[@danabrichtova265]

N I C E THANKS ❤️

[@chrismoss5169]

Cool seats 💺

[@jpmasters-aus]

A couple of questions. I notice that part of the track is electified and others aren’t, and it sounded like the train is deisel electric - does it switch between being powered by the above electric power and deisel electric? Also with the switch back - do the passengers actually change the directions of the seats themselves?

[@Daneelro]

Locations with timestamps: 00:00 Akita 01:51 leaving Akita 02:13 0.8 km before Kami-Iijima 02:20 1.8 km before Okubo 02:28 2.4 km past Oiwake [out of sequence] 02:39 Toyokawa River bridge 0.8 km after Okubo 02:52 1.7 km before Higashi-Noshiro 03:00 Higashi-Noshiro 03:32 0.7 km past Noshiro 03:44 0.5 km before Higashi-Hachimori 04:07 4.8 km past Iwadate 04:27 5.2 km past Iwadate 04:46 3.6 before Omagoshi 04:51 1.2 km before Mutsu-Iwasaki 04:56 1.4 km before Juniko [out of sequence] 05:14 0.8 km past Mutsu-Iwasaki 05:23 1.7 km past Mutsu-Iwasaki 05:31 0.4 km past Fukaura 05:45 1.5 km past Fukaura 05:54 0.8 km before Hiroto 06:03 1.8 km past Fukaura [out of sequence] 06:26 Oirase River bridge 0.4 km before Oirase 06:44 0.4 km past Oirase 07:05 0.8 km before Koshimizu 07:16 0.5 km before Fujisaki 07:33 Naijoshi 07:48 2.2 km past Tsurugasaka 08:16 1.4 km before Tsugaru-Shinjo (Aomori Belt Highway overpass) 08:44 Tsugaru-Shinjo, Shinjo River bridge 09:16 Shin-Aomori 09:30 triangle 1 km before Aomori 10:00 Aomori

[@DenisNorden]

I'm liking the pastel Mondrian-inspired seat fabric. And I remain insanely jealous of your fully-functioning rail network. ^.^

[@peters1127]

Wow $39.00 for a 5-hour ride with beautiful scenery, That is the bargain of the year.

[@020untitled]

From spring back to snow…

[@SeventhSwell]

So pretty! Wish I could have been on that trip. Thanks for the video.

[@lorenakral4182]

i love your videos keep it up. I would love to ride the train again. I did 45 years ago and it was fun. Chicago to New Orleans.

[@Virtual__Diva]

what a lovely ride. I really enjoyed the snowy scenery, and I too like to eat ice cream in winter! いつものように頑張ってくれてありがとうくがさん。アルゼンチンからの手紙！

[@tandenny8481]

When the snow is on the ground..was winter in japan now?

[@cherylsemrau7100]

Wow. Beautiful. What was that colourful train to the right? Come to Canada.

[@gootz3182]

Your videos are amazing! Keep it up!

[@davidford2169]

You need to come to the 🇬🇧 one day,the birth of trains...but you may be disappointed 🤣.but from London to Scotland on a sleeper it would be wonderful for you.👍

[@englishatheart]

One of the reasons I dream of visiting and living in England one day. I love rain, Classic Minis, castles, and trains. My ideal place.

[@gwillis01]

Hello people and hello Kuga

[@elcasho]

How do they keep the tracks clear of snow?

[@charlemagnewong9967]

JR company have a snow shovel train will clear the rail corridor, for platforms in shinkansen and some large scale local train station they will have a defrost thermostat locate at the side of the tracks and upper to with warm water sprays .

[@mkrampitz1966]

I love the ocean scenery. And yes I love matcha. I wife just made shortbread cookies with matcha. Very yummy.

[@Bammer2001]

2:08 That's a lot of legroom!

[@fliegendespferd17]

間茶は尾市いいですね！ Was that right? I just learning japanese. 😊

[@davidmoser3535]

Go Kuga

[@jillsmith3937]

In my town the trains are nasty trash everywhere but hey got to love them

[@juriygor]

👍👍👍👌

[@ВладимирТайдонов-я6л]

Is it May? Snow in May? Is it normal for Japan?

[@sotsora8000]

It's January 17. He puts the date in the beginning of videos.

[@JPTravelStaysandRides]

💞😄👍

[@iatsd]

Fun fact: Iwate has the most natural coastline in Japan. Only 56% of the coast along Iwate is covered in concrete.... :/

[@SebastienFortin07]

Just one question, here. Why aren’t your videos going from older to newer ones? You post a video filmed in January, another one from May, then you go back to January, fast forward to March. Why?

[@interproservice]

What do you mean reserved? You mean a seat need a reservation? Because you always say all seats are reserved but most of time all of them are empty....

[@bloom6081]

I think they mean in order to get a seat, you *must* reserve it, and you can't just sit wherever, not that every single seat has actually been reserved.

[@Archiemonty]

So next video is of the resort?

[@Tuckermen]

The lounge car was unstaffed on my trip in October 2023. And even though there were vacant seats on the preferred side of the train, staff refused to let me sit there. Overall very disappointed with the whole experience. Very different to yours. Be aware, take some food/beverage with you prior to boarding.

[@moonlee9898]

Northeast is still quite underdeveloped in the scale of Japan. This train is not very tempting itself.

[@curiousnomadic]

If I smash the like button, I might break it.

[@Kathiewinkle]

Read Adolf Hungrywolf books about trains. Thanks from London Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

[@ABCantonese]

Too bad Japan's trains are narrow gauge. If this is what they do with narrow gauge trains, imagine the potential with standard gauge trains

[@davemcdonald511]

Thank you for another great video! I always enjoy a snowy train tour 🌨🚂🙏🏻