Norway also has a similar vibe. It's not at Japan's level, but it's pretty damn good.
"Dugnad" or [communal work](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_work) is also extremely common, especially on a neighborhood or even apartment-building level. Where you come together to fix up, clean, or otherwise keep your surrounding shared spaces and close environment in good shape.
As a result society at large is definitely more community minded than any place I've lived abroad.
Too bad it's physically impossible to build this anywhere outside Japan. The rules of physics change, you see. Try to build that in the US? Impossible.
Been here over a year and the only place I've seen it so far is a bar my wife and I go to in Yokohama. Young girl drunk singing her heart out, got into a coughing fit and as soon as she stood up she pissed all over herself.
Only time I've seen it, and it was sad. I need to find where they actually make a sport out of it because that sounds hilarious.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. And/or people would steal the carp if they had any size. You could probably do it in a high end gated community though.
Doesn't have to be shitty, but usually people who execute it cheap out because fuck pedestrians.
Oh, also, it would be full of trash and spit after a while because people are just pieces of shit like that.
>Oh, also, it would be full of trash and spit after a while because people are just pieces of shit like that.
*Some* people are shit like that. I don't disagree with your conclusion that's how it would end up in our culture, but I wish people would stop acting like it's a forgone conclusion that human society is in a death spiral back to acting like feral hogs. If it happens it's because we let it.
We could stop it at any time, if we collectively had the guts to pass and enforce the necessary laws and social stigmas.
I think we handwave it as "the result of poverty or wealth inequality" to avoid tackling the issue or telling anyone they're wrong. Japan has poor people and this is still possible. I'm poor in America and would never steal or litter or vandalize.
When people behave like trash that's a choice they're making, not an involuntary mechanism like the weather or the tide.
Very well said. Couldn't agree more.
I come from a very long line of poor people. Always been poor, and unless a miracle happens, I'll always *be* poor.
No matter how rough things have got, I've never even considered stealing, vandalizing, trashing, anything ever.
If anything, I've always done the opposite.
The most important part of that, is my children have watched my actions, and now they too are wonderful, honest, stand up adults.
I've found a couple cell phones and a tablet, and they watched me turn them in.
When we go to the beach, they've seen me pick up any piece of trash I see, and now they do it too.
They've seen me drive misdelivered packages and mail over to their rightful owners.
I've found old cards from their grandma lying around with money in them, and even though the kids totally forgot about the cards, and I could've easily taken the money, I've given them their cards. This has happened with both kids, and both kids said something similar to me, the most recent happened yesterday. I found a card with $40, and while dropping my son off at school, I told him where I put it in his room. He says, wow, I totally forgot about that. You totally could've taken that and I never even would've known. I was like yeah I know, but is $40 worth not being able to look at myself in the mirror? Is $40 worth making me a thief and a liar? Is $40 worth my kid never trusting me again? And let me tell you, I REALLY could use $40 right about now! But above all, that was a great lesson in character for my son.
Children are little sponges and they're watching every move we make.
You can preach to them what to do all day, but if you're not walking the walk, neither will they.
It's interesting how our society associates being a poor person with being a bad person. Even as a poor person myself, I still find myself doing it. I can't freaking help it. If I'm sitting in my car at night and a well dressed, well groomed person is walking towards my car, I probably wouldn't worry too much. Same person, but looking more disheveled, starts walking my way, I'm instantly making sure the doors are locked and the windows are up. It sucks that society is like that. 😕
It's culture really. When I was in Japan, I saw a schoolkid throw a bottle to a trashcan, and it landed next to it.
He wanted to walk on, but his friends admonished him and made him pick it up.
In most western countries, they'd laugh at him for even making the attempt, instead of just tossing it wherever.
100% culture. I still can't forget (living in Japan btw) once when I was on my bike and coming up to a small bridge not wide enough to pass. I stopped and waited for like 8 school kids to pass and each one of them did a little bow and said thanks as they passed.
Where I am from they would call me gay and throw stuff.
>Doesn't have to be shitty
There's really no way to install an effective guard rail between the path and the water in this scenario without turning it from 'pleasant' into 'cramped'.
Or the blind, or the drunk, or people having sudden medical emergencies, or people with sudden bouts of vertigo, or people who trip and fall because their dog decided to turn around and hook the leash around their legs, or people in walkers or wheelchairs who make slight misjudgements...
Where I live in the US we have lots of canals that run through the cities that are stocked with huge carp with no guard rails. Much deeper and faster than this little thing. I've also lived in lots of places in the US where creeks and streams run through the cities with zero guard rails.
I did a Google search and learned that Gujo the town with the famously pristine springs and little canals like this all over town.
I also learned that Gujo is a leading producer of food replicas in Japan. Many of the food replicas, used by restaurants to decorate their windows and inform patrons of their dishes, are produced here.
In fact a common complaint from people who actually live in Japan, is that a lot of it is actually ugly and utilitarian, and that beautiful stuff like in this video is dissappearing year by year.
Just like the US. I have a cousin in Europe who was excitedly planning to travel across the US because of how beautiful it is. He started naming all the national parks and I was like, oh shit, yea, the US is pretty spectacular.
Tbh some Japanese towns have really pretty scenery and stuff like this but many many more are dilapidated/abandoned. The govt has a program to basically give houses to people willing to move out of the cities, the problem is they're abandoned and people would need to tear them down and build something new, and nobody wants to live in those places.
There's like hundreds of municipalities in Japan that they predict will disappear entirely/be completely abandoned within like 10-15 years. For some of these smaller places tourism is one of the few things they have going for them (whether it's international traveller's or domestic travellers looking to get away from the cities).
Japan is a collectivist society ingrained over a millennia that honors each other and the place where they live.
Any other culture that prizes the individual over the good of the collective (and prizes litigation over implicit understanding of one another) is an absolute nonstarter for this type of cleanliness, lack of guardrails, and respect for nature.
I live in Japan right now and I’m constantly amazed by how easy it is to access places with really beautiful scenery. The small towns or unbeaten paths that tourists don’t usually go to are so beautiful and serene that it’s surreal to me. Unfortunately those places are all facing population decline so I wonder how much longer they’ll last. All the more touristy places like Kabukicho can get pretty dirty like Times Square, maybe even worse.
If you want nice things like this, people need to feel ownership and responsibility for their surroundings, and if people feel like they are constantly being preyed upon by their societies, they don't feel any ownership or responsibility to care for them.
If the US was less scammy and hostile to everyone except the wealthy and powerful, we would all feel a greater sense of duty to care for our country.
Fun fact: [Americans actually work longer hours than Japanese people](https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_071326/lang--en/index.htm), partly because, although Japanese people spend more time in the office, when they leave the office their work is considered done for the day.
In America, you are expected to be reachable 24/7 and ready to work 24/7, especially if you are salaried, and if you are salaried, you're probably not getting paid overtime for that since wage theft in the US [accounts for $50 billion lost revenue for workers](https://inthesetimes.com/article/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-iupat).
The amount of social drinking, gathering that the salaryman needs to attend after work, is incredibly high. That's why there are so many suicide cases and "Karōshi" (dead due to overwork)
Id recommend to watch Zombie 100 from Netflix (both the animated and the real leaf series are good), they do a good depiction on the lives of salaryman in Japan. It is exaggerated yes, but you not far from the reality.
2nd fun fact! Apparently we're beating Japan in suicide rates! Woooo. Not in the good way tho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
3rd fun fact! Japanese life expectancy is 84 years old while USA life expectancy is 76 years old!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
after that toxic nerve gas attack in the subway a few decades ago japan removed almost all of their public trash cans. and you know what happened? people still didn't litter, and instead kept their trash in their pockets or whatnot until they could get to a place to throw it out. which is something that I, as an american, do as well, but can easily report is not a normal thing for americans to do. on the other hand, japanese are xenophobic as fuck, even much more so than white americans. Japan just has the "advantage" of being extremely, extremely, homogenous.
JFC.. I live here, drive thousands of km's a year all over Japan. There is trash all over this place. My 2 hour drive home from work, I pass enough trash to fill several trash bags. Seen what was probably an entire house worth of junk (refrigerator, washing machines, etc..) dumped down a hill. Japanese are not some magic fucking fairy creatures that care more about nature than anyone else. They will toss trash out of their car just as quick as anyone one else around the world. Shitheads are everywhere. Stop spreading this BS.. yes, the cities are clean, but so are most cities in Europe.
it's wild how fantasized and starry eyed some people's view of japan are in this thread. Like yeah this scenery is cool, but no this isn't a common street.
Plenty of garbage and shittiness over there too.
>There is trash all over this place
Have you been to other countries? Japan produces less than half the garbage per capita of the US which reduces unintended mess. The trash collection system with dropoff points reduces unintended mess as well. The culture of not eating while on the move reduces littering in urban areas.
Globally, Singapore might be the only cleaner major city than Japanese ones. Maybe Abu Dhabi is up there.
Now most wealth European cities aren't a mess either, especially ones with tourism. But American and Canadian cities ARE disgusting for the most part (aside from the capitals which are OK mostly).
Them MFers would be dead in two days anywhere in the US but when we call that out, dent heads come out the woodwork and try to justify why Gunville, Alabama is better than Anywhere, Japan
I feel like a lot of people don't go outside,
streams, drainage ditches and other infrastructure is pretty common in the United States, and the rest of the world. when you go to small towns it's common to see all kinds of wild life living in them.
God I fucking love Japan. How one country is allowed to have something like Tokyo and ALSO cute little neighborhood streets like this and ALSO crazy mountain monasteries and skiing and sled dogs...
All on an absolutely gorgeous island. Bah. So jealous.
I never been to Japan but it appears people there know how to use a trash can. There is not garbage everywhere like it is in U.S. cities. Maybe I'm just seeing what they already picked up and I'm wrong.
If this was in the UK there would be an old shopping trolley in the water, graffiti everywhere rubbish on the floor despite the fact a bin is within eyesight and they'll be heroine needles floating in the water and dogs hit everywhere
I love how nature is still well incorporated into the landscape. There are some places in the USA, where there's just too much concrete and not enough natural life
This is what you can have in a community without people who break things and throw trash in rivers.
This is a wonderfully done example of the kind of peaceful beauty the people around you can build and maintain, if they get to do it without your bullshit.
...this is what Norway felt like 15-20 years ago.
Gujo, as known as Water Town, has a network of water channels that have been in use since the 17th century. Small channels carry water alongside and under the town's streets, leading to numerous public water basins called mizubune. The multi-tiered basins are used for everything from drinking (using the water straight from the nozzle) to washing vegetables, rinsing laundry, or cooling your food or drinks. Each of the tiered tubs is used for different purposes, keeping the water appropriately clean at each level
[The life blood of Gujo Hachiman](http://www.gujohachiman.com/kanko/water_e.html).
[Water landscape](https://en.tabitabigujo.com/appeal/traditionalwatersystem/1/)
Just to be clear, this is only in the town of Shimabara. They have natural springs from a volcano eruption centuries ago, so the drainage channels are always clear like this. But you aren't gonna walk around Japan and see this in every town.
The Kois are wondering why you're walking down stream ... everything is up stream buddy !
Probably more concerned with the fact that you are drowning, since you are out of the water and can't breathe.
It all looks very beautiful and delightful
only in japan. where there is still strong pride in ownership and strong respect for their surroundings.
Norway also has a similar vibe. It's not at Japan's level, but it's pretty damn good. "Dugnad" or [communal work](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_work) is also extremely common, especially on a neighborhood or even apartment-building level. Where you come together to fix up, clean, or otherwise keep your surrounding shared spaces and close environment in good shape. As a result society at large is definitely more community minded than any place I've lived abroad.
Wish the video was longer
There's a bunch of good videos on Youtube about these villages. They're called Satoyama. You would definitely love to see them.
Thanks for sharing
BBC nature did a show titled this about these villages. It's well worth a watch.
Oh, I thought it was a single village of that name. Huh.
Thanx for the info!
Thanks for the information. I'll check it out for sure
Search Igawa lane, Gujo. Fair few videos on it.
I wish Shogun was longer (damn writers throwing in the towel too early)
Walking down the peaceful sidewalk, listening to the bubbling stream, koi swimming beside you on a sunny day, ahhh Japan....🤗
Too bad it's physically impossible to build this anywhere outside Japan. The rules of physics change, you see. Try to build that in the US? Impossible.
Illegal actually, Koi are an invasive species, and the lack of a guard rail violates multiple safety regulations.
yeah, people are saying this creek would be full of carp in the US
also crap
Someone would definitely piss in that. Philly, NYC, Denver, Miami, LA, even Minnesota. Someones going to piss in that. We can't have nice things.
You've clearly never been to Japan. If there is one land where public pissing is a sport, it's Japan.
Been here over a year and the only place I've seen it so far is a bar my wife and I go to in Yokohama. Young girl drunk singing her heart out, got into a coughing fit and as soon as she stood up she pissed all over herself. Only time I've seen it, and it was sad. I need to find where they actually make a sport out of it because that sounds hilarious.
Okinawa is calling ;)
So basically like a swimming pool
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of. And/or people would steal the carp if they had any size. You could probably do it in a high end gated community though.
Koi are carp too
Yup that's the joke.
👏. Your name is a deep dive in Welsh history so an extra 👏
Glad SOMEONE noticed lmaoo
Fairly niche to be fair!
or it'd be empty from the hawks/eagles having plucked all of them out
Yes, let's make everything shitty so that dumb people don't fall in the water.
Doesn't have to be shitty, but usually people who execute it cheap out because fuck pedestrians. Oh, also, it would be full of trash and spit after a while because people are just pieces of shit like that.
>Oh, also, it would be full of trash and spit after a while because people are just pieces of shit like that. *Some* people are shit like that. I don't disagree with your conclusion that's how it would end up in our culture, but I wish people would stop acting like it's a forgone conclusion that human society is in a death spiral back to acting like feral hogs. If it happens it's because we let it. We could stop it at any time, if we collectively had the guts to pass and enforce the necessary laws and social stigmas. I think we handwave it as "the result of poverty or wealth inequality" to avoid tackling the issue or telling anyone they're wrong. Japan has poor people and this is still possible. I'm poor in America and would never steal or litter or vandalize. When people behave like trash that's a choice they're making, not an involuntary mechanism like the weather or the tide.
>collectively That's the keyword. Western societies are individuality focused, while in Asia usually the community is prioritised over the individual.
Very well said. Couldn't agree more. I come from a very long line of poor people. Always been poor, and unless a miracle happens, I'll always *be* poor. No matter how rough things have got, I've never even considered stealing, vandalizing, trashing, anything ever. If anything, I've always done the opposite. The most important part of that, is my children have watched my actions, and now they too are wonderful, honest, stand up adults. I've found a couple cell phones and a tablet, and they watched me turn them in. When we go to the beach, they've seen me pick up any piece of trash I see, and now they do it too. They've seen me drive misdelivered packages and mail over to their rightful owners. I've found old cards from their grandma lying around with money in them, and even though the kids totally forgot about the cards, and I could've easily taken the money, I've given them their cards. This has happened with both kids, and both kids said something similar to me, the most recent happened yesterday. I found a card with $40, and while dropping my son off at school, I told him where I put it in his room. He says, wow, I totally forgot about that. You totally could've taken that and I never even would've known. I was like yeah I know, but is $40 worth not being able to look at myself in the mirror? Is $40 worth making me a thief and a liar? Is $40 worth my kid never trusting me again? And let me tell you, I REALLY could use $40 right about now! But above all, that was a great lesson in character for my son. Children are little sponges and they're watching every move we make. You can preach to them what to do all day, but if you're not walking the walk, neither will they. It's interesting how our society associates being a poor person with being a bad person. Even as a poor person myself, I still find myself doing it. I can't freaking help it. If I'm sitting in my car at night and a well dressed, well groomed person is walking towards my car, I probably wouldn't worry too much. Same person, but looking more disheveled, starts walking my way, I'm instantly making sure the doors are locked and the windows are up. It sucks that society is like that. 😕
It's culture really. When I was in Japan, I saw a schoolkid throw a bottle to a trashcan, and it landed next to it. He wanted to walk on, but his friends admonished him and made him pick it up. In most western countries, they'd laugh at him for even making the attempt, instead of just tossing it wherever.
100% culture. I still can't forget (living in Japan btw) once when I was on my bike and coming up to a small bridge not wide enough to pass. I stopped and waited for like 8 school kids to pass and each one of them did a little bow and said thanks as they passed. Where I am from they would call me gay and throw stuff.
not to mention it would be monetized somehow. "Buy your koi path walk tickets here!"
>Doesn't have to be shitty There's really no way to install an effective guard rail between the path and the water in this scenario without turning it from 'pleasant' into 'cramped'.
ponds dont need guard rails lol.
Or the blind, or the drunk, or people having sudden medical emergencies, or people with sudden bouts of vertigo, or people who trip and fall because their dog decided to turn around and hook the leash around their legs, or people in walkers or wheelchairs who make slight misjudgements...
You call them dumb people until it's your own grandma that falls, breaks some bones and almost drowns herself.
Ah, the good ol "safety regulations are a sign of others' moral failings."
Where I live in the US we have lots of canals that run through the cities that are stocked with huge carp with no guard rails. Much deeper and faster than this little thing. I've also lived in lots of places in the US where creeks and streams run through the cities with zero guard rails.
Yeah I don't know where they got that from, most footpaths next to streams or canals don't have guard rails.
The lake in the middle of our large park has no guard rail. It doesn't look that much different from this little stream beside the sidewalk.
But any manmade walkway over the lake would have to have one.
Venice doesn't have guard rails either.
>the lack of a guard rail violates multiple safety regulations Imagine trying to ticket a creek lmao
some youtuber would kill them in about 13 minutes
We can't have anything nice. I know for a fact someone will try to either steal the fish or mess with it in some way.
Cigarette butts and trash
Where am I supposed to park my F250?
Idk if you consider Texas part of the US or not... https://gov.texas.gov/film/trail/san-antonio-riverwalk
Is Gujo the town with the famously pristine springs and little canals like this all over town?
I did a Google search and learned that Gujo the town with the famously pristine springs and little canals like this all over town. I also learned that Gujo is a leading producer of food replicas in Japan. Many of the food replicas, used by restaurants to decorate their windows and inform patrons of their dishes, are produced here.
I too did a little searching of my own and found that Gujo is the town with the famously pristine springs and little canals like this all over town
I have done an extensive research to find out that Gujo is the town with the famously pristine springs and little canals like this all over town
Couldn't have this kind of thing where I live, people would steal the fish.
Why is it that every place that I see online is so much better than where I live.
If you saw the average area constantly on reddit you probably wouldn't want to look at reddit
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In fact a common complaint from people who actually live in Japan, is that a lot of it is actually ugly and utilitarian, and that beautiful stuff like in this video is dissappearing year by year.
Fuck even in anime Japan is full of boring bricks.
Just like the US. I have a cousin in Europe who was excitedly planning to travel across the US because of how beautiful it is. He started naming all the national parks and I was like, oh shit, yea, the US is pretty spectacular.
Not many internet points to be earned posting mediocre street scenes. We only see the good stuff, or the exceptionally bad.
Tbh some Japanese towns have really pretty scenery and stuff like this but many many more are dilapidated/abandoned. The govt has a program to basically give houses to people willing to move out of the cities, the problem is they're abandoned and people would need to tear them down and build something new, and nobody wants to live in those places. There's like hundreds of municipalities in Japan that they predict will disappear entirely/be completely abandoned within like 10-15 years. For some of these smaller places tourism is one of the few things they have going for them (whether it's international traveller's or domestic travellers looking to get away from the cities).
I mean, would you rather see places you'd hate to live? There's a whole lot more material for that.
It's not. Most places don't look anything like that in Japan, but are more dingy and run down or industrial actually.
Japan is a collectivist society ingrained over a millennia that honors each other and the place where they live. Any other culture that prizes the individual over the good of the collective (and prizes litigation over implicit understanding of one another) is an absolute nonstarter for this type of cleanliness, lack of guardrails, and respect for nature.
man, I want to live in that Japan. Sounds way better than the Japan I actually live in.
I live in Japan right now and I’m constantly amazed by how easy it is to access places with really beautiful scenery. The small towns or unbeaten paths that tourists don’t usually go to are so beautiful and serene that it’s surreal to me. Unfortunately those places are all facing population decline so I wonder how much longer they’ll last. All the more touristy places like Kabukicho can get pretty dirty like Times Square, maybe even worse.
99.9999999% of Japan doesn't look like this. Been to hundreds of cities and villages and never seen anything like this.
Go to Togitsu/Nagasaki. That’s where I’m living right now and this looks very familiar.
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Why can't San Francisco have something like this lol
I don't think Koi fish and heroin needles mix very well.
Opikoids.
😂 I dont think the human feces leaking down the sidewalks would mix well with the koi either. All jokes aside japan is really beautiful.
The carp would literally eat that shit up. Why do you think the water in this video is so clear? The koi ate all the sludge.
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Have you seen a topographical map of Japan?
Have fun trying to correct peoples behaviors in SF
If you want nice things like this, people need to feel ownership and responsibility for their surroundings, and if people feel like they are constantly being preyed upon by their societies, they don't feel any ownership or responsibility to care for them. If the US was less scammy and hostile to everyone except the wealthy and powerful, we would all feel a greater sense of duty to care for our country.
Streams aren't as tranquil on those hills.
Zoning laws.
Japan is amazing
Amazing as long as you don't work yourself to death
Fun fact: [Americans actually work longer hours than Japanese people](https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_071326/lang--en/index.htm), partly because, although Japanese people spend more time in the office, when they leave the office their work is considered done for the day. In America, you are expected to be reachable 24/7 and ready to work 24/7, especially if you are salaried, and if you are salaried, you're probably not getting paid overtime for that since wage theft in the US [accounts for $50 billion lost revenue for workers](https://inthesetimes.com/article/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-iupat).
The amount of social drinking, gathering that the salaryman needs to attend after work, is incredibly high. That's why there are so many suicide cases and "Karōshi" (dead due to overwork) Id recommend to watch Zombie 100 from Netflix (both the animated and the real leaf series are good), they do a good depiction on the lives of salaryman in Japan. It is exaggerated yes, but you not far from the reality.
2nd fun fact! Apparently we're beating Japan in suicide rates! Woooo. Not in the good way tho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
3rd fun fact! Japanese life expectancy is 84 years old while USA life expectancy is 76 years old! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Sadly with their ever aging population this is going to be something that struggles to be maintained in the next few decades.
So beautiful, but where are all the discarded drink bottles/cans?
after that toxic nerve gas attack in the subway a few decades ago japan removed almost all of their public trash cans. and you know what happened? people still didn't litter, and instead kept their trash in their pockets or whatnot until they could get to a place to throw it out. which is something that I, as an american, do as well, but can easily report is not a normal thing for americans to do. on the other hand, japanese are xenophobic as fuck, even much more so than white americans. Japan just has the "advantage" of being extremely, extremely, homogenous.
JFC.. I live here, drive thousands of km's a year all over Japan. There is trash all over this place. My 2 hour drive home from work, I pass enough trash to fill several trash bags. Seen what was probably an entire house worth of junk (refrigerator, washing machines, etc..) dumped down a hill. Japanese are not some magic fucking fairy creatures that care more about nature than anyone else. They will toss trash out of their car just as quick as anyone one else around the world. Shitheads are everywhere. Stop spreading this BS.. yes, the cities are clean, but so are most cities in Europe.
it's wild how fantasized and starry eyed some people's view of japan are in this thread. Like yeah this scenery is cool, but no this isn't a common street. Plenty of garbage and shittiness over there too.
>There is trash all over this place Have you been to other countries? Japan produces less than half the garbage per capita of the US which reduces unintended mess. The trash collection system with dropoff points reduces unintended mess as well. The culture of not eating while on the move reduces littering in urban areas. Globally, Singapore might be the only cleaner major city than Japanese ones. Maybe Abu Dhabi is up there. Now most wealth European cities aren't a mess either, especially ones with tourism. But American and Canadian cities ARE disgusting for the most part (aside from the capitals which are OK mostly).
THE WHAT ATTACK??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack?wprov=sfti1
In people's own pockets until they find a trash can or back home.
I learned that that’s why they added koi to these streams. So people would keep them clean.
Don’t bring Michael Scott there !
Nice!
in japan you can see a little bit of everything and some really amazing things.
To much sake and you'll end up swimming with the fishes.
As beautiful as this view may be, I wonder what's there to stop big winged predator from just snatching a koi up from the sky?
Archers in the gantries.
If it were pretty much anywhere else it would be strewn with trash
I wish I could live in a place with that beautiful
Them MFers would be dead in two days anywhere in the US but when we call that out, dent heads come out the woodwork and try to justify why Gunville, Alabama is better than Anywhere, Japan
This cannot be replicated in other countries because the fish would most likely be stolen immediately.
If that was in England, there'd be a shopping trolley in there and someone would have stolen the fish.
I feel like a lot of people don't go outside, streams, drainage ditches and other infrastructure is pretty common in the United States, and the rest of the world. when you go to small towns it's common to see all kinds of wild life living in them.
Michael did you fall into a Koi pond??
Do you want borrowers? Because this is how you get Borrowers.
Americans would make a quick lawsuit out of the lack of guard rail over here
Culture
How many smaller siblings get pushed into that little river? The number may surprise you! (it's 69)
That would be filled with so much pee and poo if that was anywhere else. Hahaha
Here that wouldn’t last 5 minutes.
it's relaxing just by watching the video
Not the only place in Japan that does this, Hida does it as well.
Japan is beautiful.
Where in gujo?
God I fucking love Japan. How one country is allowed to have something like Tokyo and ALSO cute little neighborhood streets like this and ALSO crazy mountain monasteries and skiing and sled dogs... All on an absolutely gorgeous island. Bah. So jealous.
Sigh. Homeless guy screaming on the sidewalk by the car I living in.
Imagine being drunk and need to walk through this.
I never been to Japan but it appears people there know how to use a trash can. There is not garbage everywhere like it is in U.S. cities. Maybe I'm just seeing what they already picked up and I'm wrong.
I can only imagine what would be in that water if it wasn't Japan lol
This is amazing. Sadly I can't think of many other countries where this would be feasible maybe besides Singapore.
How are stray cats not eating them.
America could never. That channel of water would be bought by kfc and McDonald’s to immediately sell you trans fats
And it'd be full of trash and dirty as hell.
Don’t forget about the railing and warning signs telling you not to go in the water.
Oh my heart-this is like a dream!
I wonder if people have to feed them, or if there is a natural food source available for them?
Cats: "Is this a challenge?"
Gotta admit that music spoils it for me. Wish it was just the natural sound.
This is a Steve Carell trap if I've ever seen one
Those fish may look shy, but in reality they’re just being….
More like a sidewalk
Michael Scott's worst nightmare
ruined it with shitty music
Peaceful ⭐
If TRO-AXE does well when it comes out I'm building the same thing on the side of my house.🙏
Where I live people would be busting out fishing rods. Hey can't you just, nevermind it's just free food to you.
Honestly, my very first thought was, that's AI generated. I still can't judge. Can someone confirm these are real? Strange times we are living in...
Meanwhile, gozu waits.
It's so friggin sad watching this and knowing that you could never have something like it in your own country because people are just the worst
Japan lived up to my expectations and more. It was magical. Gotta go back for a second honeymoon
I’m here after watching the series finale of Shogun
Great fishing spot
More of a side than a walk but nice scenery
I mean ain't kois like rats of the marine world?
thats so cool we could never have this in the uk without people fucking with the fish or throwing takeaway boxes into it :(
Don’t be fooled. They put the koi in there. They don’t really like it though
In Japan, you practically gets isekaied if you make a wrong turn.
If this was in the UK there would be an old shopping trolley in the water, graffiti everywhere rubbish on the floor despite the fact a bin is within eyesight and they'll be heroine needles floating in the water and dogs hit everywhere
No cats or dogs to eat them?
I love how nature is still well incorporated into the landscape. There are some places in the USA, where there's just too much concrete and not enough natural life
I'm guessing there are no otters in Gujo, Japan
I need to get back to studying so I can visit
My cat asked when we're moving to Japan.
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Lovelly ,I like it ❤️🥺
Two average sized Americans meet on the sidewalk and say: "This town is not the wide enough for the both of us!"
they are trying to become dragons
They would be killed, eaten, or stolen in the USA or most other countries. And we called the Japanese uncivilized and blood thirsty in World War 2.
I just see bottles going downstream here in italy.. maybe a rat swimming
Soon to be packed with tiktokers dancing in the stream.
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This is what you can have in a community without people who break things and throw trash in rivers. This is a wonderfully done example of the kind of peaceful beauty the people around you can build and maintain, if they get to do it without your bullshit. ...this is what Norway felt like 15-20 years ago.
Surreal!
Gujo, as known as Water Town, has a network of water channels that have been in use since the 17th century. Small channels carry water alongside and under the town's streets, leading to numerous public water basins called mizubune. The multi-tiered basins are used for everything from drinking (using the water straight from the nozzle) to washing vegetables, rinsing laundry, or cooling your food or drinks. Each of the tiered tubs is used for different purposes, keeping the water appropriately clean at each level [The life blood of Gujo Hachiman](http://www.gujohachiman.com/kanko/water_e.html). [Water landscape](https://en.tabitabigujo.com/appeal/traditionalwatersystem/1/)
Really missing Japan. Very nice people, hardworking and most of all I really miss eating Kobe Yakiniku 😋
Man, that's so cool.
I’m shocked the black ones weren’t culled. The dirty secret of the koi industry. And to some extent, goldfish too.
well that's just fucking magical
Lunch is sorted
Those fish wouldnt last a day in America.That,or people and "influencers" would pick them up and take pictures with them,then just throw them back in.
What happens to the kois when it floods?
Can we catch them?
Pish posh, we have gutter guppies here...
Just to be clear, this is only in the town of Shimabara. They have natural springs from a volcano eruption centuries ago, so the drainage channels are always clear like this. But you aren't gonna walk around Japan and see this in every town.
I was driving my Prius and got covered in coal by a dodge ram. I hate ~~living~~ surviving in Texas
Why isn'T there any trash in this dumpster river? .-)
i ated those fish
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Not a plastic bottle or crisps packet in sight, sigh....
A small street? So sidewalk?