The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport

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[@Smirnaffskiy]

As a Russian, I'm surprised that farm standing against the government wasn't completely burnt down by a mysterious wildfire that absolutely no one knows how happened. That would be a terrible coincidence

[@d-fan]

HAI: shoehorns airplanes into videos about other things

[@barisgurel11]

Narita has also another weird thing in the middle of the airport: A temple. Toho-jinja is right in the middle of the airport, open for visits. It's at the tip of the runway 34R. Runway is also shorter than the other runway because of the temple.

[@AnimilesYT]

"It was in the middle of the ocean so there wasn't much room to make it bigger".

[@vasundhra4086]

"This video is sponsored by backblaze"

[@12kenbutsuri]

The history is much darker and deeper. I grew up in Yachimata, near by city of Narita. The original plan was to build an airport there, but there were protests so bad by farmers, people started dying, so they had to move the construction to Narita. There were farmer terrorists up to like 10 years ago trying to bomb the airport and airplanes (with people in) after the construction, and had to have security gaurds surrounding the airport for decades. The Japanese government still holds grudge against Yachimata after more than half century, no company in Yachimata is allowed to operate for the airport, and no direct tain is accessible to the airport.

[@willy_dot]

In Britain some where in between Leeds and Manchester, British man: "I live in between highways". Japanese man: "Hold my Sake" - lives in the middle of an international airport

[@keithmaxon9510]

You missed the best part of this story. When the new runway opened, I took a flight from LAX to Narita (not the best part) and upon taxi back to the terminal I saw a sign that said "Fuck Narita Airport" that he had posted. I believe it is still there. It is visible in your footage at

[@joepickford6219]

I never realised how prominent “Yo!” was in the Japanese language.

[@airwick4u]

In the end, an intl terminal was built at Haneda in 2010 so intl traffic is split between the two airports again

[@alexwolfeboy]

Really though, that could be a good gimmick for the airport. "Our food is so fresh, it's grown on property!" Imagine that, airport food that doesn't make you question your sanity for eating it.

[@quintenpoppinga9876]

“Known worldwide for being one of the places where those big metal things go nnneeaoowww” is the most informative thing ever said on hai/wendover

[@Just-To-Subscribe]

And the airport still opened quicker than the Berlin airport

[@stijn2472]

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[@Uphorics]

I literally live in Denver and didn't know about the new ice rink there LOL.

[@saadamansayyed]

Tokyo:

[@Chalky.]

It's kinda poetic having agriculture which is one of the earliest and important of Human needs begrudgingly co-existing with one of the pinnacles of Human invention.

[@pulkitmohta8964]

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[@ZetaPyro]

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[@chandrodoysaha4068]

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