JAPAN | Nagano. Tokyo to Nagano by shinkansen? Hakuba and the Snow Monkey Park - love it

[@ナイス猫-f7z]

I'm a Japanese living in Tokyo. Your video was very fun and so beautiful！ Nagano is a great place. But I've never been there. I want to go now. I traveled around Australia 32 years ago. I still remember it. I love Australia. I like Brisbane the most. Please come visit Japan again.

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you so much for your beautiful words. We hope you visit Nagano and see all its beauty and we also hope you comeback to visit Australia again, there is so much to see. We would love to see Kyoto and Osaka as they are number 1 on our list of places to visit.😊

[@zawkyan9366]

Very beautiful view ! Japan is full of greenery!

[@VikDanAustralia]

Nagano has beautiful countryside all around it.😊

[@kon2108-i7y]

今回も楽しいご夫婦の動画楽しみでした。日本は北から南まで、日本人もまだまだ知らない場所はあります。また日本を何度も訪れて下さい。美しい動画をありがとうございます🥰

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you 🥰❤️

[@kon2108-i7y]

@@VikDanAustralia ❤️❤️❤️

[@kickkatz8133]

Wow, animals in Nagano are so friendly, 🙈the monkeys either 🐱the kittens. Thank you for very relaxing and calming trip ❕

[@VikDanAustralia]

We were amazed how well behaved the monkeys were.😊❤️

[@traveltalesavo]

Nature is amazing, good job!!!!

[@VikDanAustralia]

It really is! thank you!

[@ZenaidaCaubanan-tk7ms]

Japan is a super nice country w its people too.

[@メロン王子-p4p]

善光寺に夜行くという発想が無かったので、新鮮に思いました。私は愛知県民ですがこのコメントを乗鞍高原で書いています。標高1500m前後で真夏でも30℃以下。今週は22℃くらい。白樺の森と白いお湯の公共温泉。観光客がそれほど多くないので連泊してのんびりするのに最適。

[@VikDanAustralia]

Sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing. We will definitely have a look at it. WOW! There are so many beautiful places in Japan.

[@VikDanAustralia]

We visited Zenkōji temple at daytime as well. It is an unbelievable experience!

[@pochi-c7r]

Nagano has the best water in japan from great mountains around there.

[@VikDanAustralia]

thank you! we noticed the water quality was so good.

[@air_notes]

Very interesting and informative! Well done! :)

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you😊, we loved visiting Japan.

[@ontheroad8573]

ゴミだけは必ずお持ち帰り下さいね‼️

[@2483coco]

The reason Japan maintains its attractive cityscape, with the exception of some downtown areas, is to protect it from dangerous thinkers. There are no garbage bins on roads, stations, shopping facilities, parks, etc. to prevent suspicious items (explosives with timed devices, sarin, etc.) from entering. If you want to throw away trash, please put it in the dust box at a convenience store or in the trash bin in your hotel room. Sometimes they are placed in train luggage racks

[@VikDanAustralia]

We heard about this terrible sarin gas attack in Tokyo way back 1995. After this horrific event the government got rid of most garbage bins throughout Japan. It’s amazing how clean Japan is and how the citizens keep it that way.

[@richykoby4887]

Hello from Nagano. Nice to know you two had a fun time. Been to Australia 7 times. Wide open dream country. Have a nice day.

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thanks for coming to Australia :) Would be great to see more Japanese people visiting Australia. We loved Nagano, it is really nice. You too have a great day! and thank you for your comment

[@Libertybell-z8x]

是非とも、上高地に来てください😊✋ 絶景と清流に癒され楽しんで頂けましたら幸いです😌✌️

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you! Kamikochi looks so beautiful! We would love to visit one day :)

[@アツ-o5y]

日本を楽しんでますね。 素晴らしい👍

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you! Yes, Japan is a great and beautiful country! :)

[@愛一喜]

I want to try Shinkansen!

[@victorrobinson9363]

Another fabulous travel presentation, great editing. A great promotion of what must be a wonderful country, so clean, no graffiti and everything looks modern and easy to understand and enjoy. Food places also look great.

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank so much, we really loved Japan❤️

[@kengo7868]

私の故郷である北信濃 このまま保存して欲しい。

[@ひやしそーめん]

夜の善光寺。初めてです。ありがとう。日本人です。

[@VikDanAustralia]

thank you! ❤️

[@masakok7605]

モロゾフのプリンは日本一ですよ。よくご存じですね！　私もファンです。長野は素晴らしいですよ。（私は東京在住ですが　時々車で長野に行きます）

[@kaius3351]

【40:29】　☺ Nagano is amazing ! 　🍊❤👍

[@VikDanAustralia]

❤️❤️ it was a beautiful moment! ❤️

[@黒嵜潤一郎]

When you had a chance to visit Zenkoji, you should have experienced the 'Okaidanmegiri', which is like you go underground inside of the temple and go through a dark corridor along to find a key at a corner. If you could touch the key, then they say you get reborn to something new. LOL. I got reborn several times in the past to find nothing new to me. Yet, that is a kind of the main event you have to do at Zenkoji. Good luck for your next chance.

[@VikDanAustralia]

We will get to Japan again and if we go through Nagano we’ll definitely visit the Temple and we’ll do what you recommend and see if some good fortune comes our way. 😊

[@sirmione905]

The music played at Hakuba Mountain is the theme song of the Japanese anime “Heidi, Girl of the Alps.” It’s a story of a Swiss girl named Heidi, and in its opening scene with this music, she is riding a swing in the Alps. When Japanese people hear this music, this scene comes to mind.

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you for the interesting information, we weren’t aware of the history of the music that we heard on Hakuba mountain, that’s really cool!👍❤️

[@cabin0844]

ラフ・シンプルな旅行者が多い中、ご夫婦共とてもオシャレですね。私もそうでありたいです

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you for the kind words! We think Japanese people are stylish and very delicate and adorable! 🌹❤️

[@チャンネル登録1000人目指し]

you are wonderful.

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you for your kind words❤️❤️❤️

[@damienrosario2471]

Awesome! Your content is really engaging! Also bullet trains look awesome too

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thanks Damien❤️, travelling on the Bullet is an amazing experience.

[@syok9301]

日本の国土の七割は森林です。 水も綺麗で水道水が飲めます。 そして何より安全で清潔です。

[@VikDanAustralia]

👍❤️

[@ますみ-o9b]

善光寺に夜行かれたのですね。 新鮮でした😊

[@VikDanAustralia]

We thought the Temple looked beautiful at night and peaceful.😊

[@huyukisusukino-x4v]

I love Aussie accent English. It's a bit like Londoner's. I used to go (from Tokyo) to Nagano every week to give some lectures on math & physics at a college there(I'm a mathematician) for 11 years, but I've never visited Zenkoji temple! Is it funny? Anyway please enjoy Nagano, it's one of the must places to visit in Japan!

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you for your kind words, we thought Nagano is a beautiful place. We are so happy we went there. ❤️

[@TUUKUU]

Much japanese mountaines are volcanoes. but there are different types.

[@aikokuhosyu]

途中、いた犬は秋田犬じゃなくて柴犬だと思います🐕

[@VikDanAustralia]

our apology. Shiba Inu dogs look so similar in appearance to Akita. Both dogs are beautiful though. ❤️

[@Dateichtech]

I think you could better to trip Northern Nagano area. For example Lake Nojiri, Shiva, Madarao, Myoukou highland. And you should better drop on Karuizawa. If you visit those place. Your trip was more attractive trip, I think. Thanks a lot nice video.😊

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thanks for your great advice we appreciate it. There are so many beautiful places in Japan, unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to visit them all. We will try and see more places when we return to Japan next time.😊

[@KY-ol7tr]

私の故郷に来てくれてありがとう！

[@VikDanAustralia]

❤️🌹👍

[@sakurair6500]

Translation Thank　you for visiting my home town.

[@VikDanAustralia]

@@sakurair6500 thank you for your hospitality! You live in a beautiful place!

[@brianchar-bow3273]

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. Japan's ancient adaptive behavior to survive in the harsh natural environment has given birth to a Japanese culture of behavior, in which people always think creatively and without giving up on reality. 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 80% 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 a single person. 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 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 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 this land. The Japanese people have lived in this land since ancient times, and based on their experience of the coexistence of heaven and hell, they believed that human beings are not the main actors in the natural world, but are only one member of the natural world and one of the objects that are kept alive by the natural environment. Therefore, with an attitude of humility, human beings thought that harmony with the natural world, other living creatures, and nature, as well as cooperative behavior and peaceful harmony among other human beings, were important. After all, They also believed that this was the wisest way of thinking for each individual human being born on this earth to live happily for the rest of his or her life. This particular environment gave birth to the Japanese spirit of harmony“WA”, ingenuity, improvement, and development orientation. The spirit of harmony“WA” in Japan, for example, was also present in the period when the samurai received imperial commands from the emperor and controlled the substantive affairs of state, only the administrative functions were transferred from the emperor to the samurai class (police and military organizations). During the 600 years of the samurai period, not a single incident occurred in which a samurai government destroyed the emperor's family and became king itself. The samurai maintained the emperor system as the emperor's servants despite the military regime.This is the reason why the lineage of the Emperors has continued for about 2,000 years until the present day. When Buddhism, which originated in India, was imported to Japan via China about 1,300 years ago, the Japanese did not start a religious war between Shinto, the traditional religion of Japan, and Buddhism, which was imported from a foreign country. The two religions coexisted and merged into one. This is the reason why there are many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples throughout Japan today, and why the Japanese take refuge in both. This peaceful harmony with nature and avoidance of conflict between humans is characteristic of the spirit of harmony“WA”, the traditional behavior of Japanese culture. And this environment, both heaven and hell, has traditionally rooted another behavioral trait: ingenuity and pragmatic “improvement and betterment”. It has given birth to a culture that makes the most of the abundance of nature, and instead of despairing and giving up in the face of harsh realities, it has developed a culture of wisdom in how to improve and overcome the situation as much as possible. Rather than using imported technology as-is, the culture of technology took root in Japan's special natural environment, thinking of ways to improve and enhance it for even more effective use, and developing new methods for greater perfection. Technological developments in various fields did not begin in modern times, such as "earthquake-resistant construction techniques" for high-rise buildings created 1,300 years ago, unique "wooden construction techniques" that do not use iron nails but use a combination of wood to hold them firmly in place, "sword smithing" that synthesizes multiple types of iron to form strong steel, and "fermented food processing techniques" to preserve foodstuffs. About 400 years ago, before the importation of Western technology, Edo was built on an undeveloped muddy land after the construction of a large river track, coastal reclamation, and other soil improvements. In addition, a habitable city was constructed by separating "the water supply system" from the distant source of clear water to the center of Edo. This is the foundation of Tokyo's current prosperity. They have a long history of taking on the challenges of nature and solving problems without giving up. Japan's harsh natural environment has taught the Japanese the attitude of not giving up, but rather observing reality and creating ways to improve it. 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.

[@VikDanAustralia]

thank you! so informative.

[@brianchar-bow3273]

@@VikDanAustralia Thanks for your prompt reply. I apologize for the length. Japan was transformed from a centralized state to a group of many countries based on land control by local lords around 600 years ago, a sort of confederation or United States system. The remnants of this system are historically connected to the roots of the 47 prefectures in Japan today. Every corner of Japan has its own history, its own culture, its own temperament, and its own spoken language. In this sense, Japan is not really a single country in terms of culture, and the countryside of Japan is not just a deserted rural region. Please continue to travel around Japan and discover different and interesting cultures.

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you! we will travel to Japan again. So many beautiful places and people are lovely.

[@brianchar-bow3273]

@@VikDanAustralia Thank you for your reply. Please continue to make many new discoveries that are not yet widely known. Japanese culture has been seen as a little strange and peculiar in the world. However, its underlying philosophy conceals the idea of "overcoming the negative catastrophes caused by nature and making positive use of nature's blessings to ensure a peaceful life for all people". We have caused the phenomenon of global warming due to scientific development and industrialization of our own making. Now, the weather conditions of the entire planet are drastically changing, and we have entered an era in which the climate and daily life on continents that were safe in the past are now subject to violent storms and climate changes never experienced in the past. It is precisely in this era of frequent natural disasters across the globe that we need to learn from the teachings of the Japanese culture, which has 14,000-years history of fighting and overcoming large-scale natural disasters. Today, unfortunately, the Japanese themselves have become so westernized that they are unaware of the importance of their own traditional wisdom.

[@lbun658]

Water in Japan is clean, but be careful near U.S. military bases as they are contaminated with PFOS and PFOA

[@lbun658]

PFAS contamination has been confirmed in nearly all U.S. military bases in Japan.You should confirm and then drink it.

[@tomo90125]

日本のあちこちに米軍基地はあるけど、そんな事実は聞いたことないよ。嘘はよくない。

[@lbun658]

@@tomo90125 アメリカ側は「横田基地内で、これまでに3件、PFASを含む泡消火剤の漏出があった」と日本側に情報を提供。さらにこの３件とは別に、泡消火剤が基地内に漏れ出たケースがほかにも4件あったことが、NHKがアメリカ空軍に対して行った情報公開請求で新たに発覚　日本国内の米軍基地周辺で検出（三沢基地22年1月PFAS流出）（横田基地10～12年PFAS3回流出）（横須賀基地22年6月基地の排水からPFAS検出）（厚木基地22年9月PFASが川に流出）（嘉手納基地16～23年周辺で高濃度のPFAS検出）これでも聞いたことない？

[@無名だよ-o9g]

@@tomo90125 pfas 米軍基地周辺汚染で検索しなかったの？ｗ

[@無名だよ-o9g]

@@tomo90125 PFOSとPFOAはPFASに含まれる特定の化学物質であり、PFASはそれらを含む広範な化合物群全体を指します。PFOAやPFOSを投与された動物において、肝臓がん、膵臓がん、精巣がんなどの発生率が上昇することが確認されています。

[@janvanspauwen7792]

that clapping hands in music is the most enoying possible, try to avoid rgat

[@ハマー-x7x]

日本🗾で一番美しい北陸新幹線🚄🎉 ３Ｄ曲線の先頭車両の運転席強化ガラスは　富山県砺波地域のガラス工場🧑‍🏭 青と金色ボディカラーは加賀百万石を象徴する金箔の 色🎉 ふつくしい🎌

[@VikDanAustralia]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of the Shinkansen train. We had such a great time travelling on this remarkable train.❤️😊