JAPAN | #2 Nagano. Tokyo to Nagano by shinkansen? Hakuba and the Snow Monkey Park - love it

#japan #nagano #hakuba #snowmonkey

16 days in Japan.
Tokyo. Nagano. Matsumoto. Hakone. Kawaguchiko.
Second video of our trip - 27th to 29th April 2024.

0:00
0:05 a Shinkansen to Nagano
02:25 arrived in Nagano
03:26 hotel Chisun Grand
05:43 Nagano department store
07:53 Zenkoji Temple at night
10:39 Morning. Day 4
11:20 a bus to Hakuba
15:40 Hakuba Iwatake Gondola Lift
17:36 Hakuba Mountain Harbor
21:04 Hakuba Hitotoki-no-Mori
25:35 dinner at Nagano station
26:50 Morning. Day 5
28:45 Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park
33:57 lunch at Nagano station
35:14 Zenkoji Temple at daytime

[zawkyan]

Very beautiful view !
Japan is full of greenery!

[ZenaidaCaubanan-tkms]

Japan is a super nice country w its people too.

[らすべがす-fz]

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.

[coco]

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

[air_notes]

Very interesting and informative! Well done! :)

[kickkatz]

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

[richykoby]

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.

[Libertybell-zx]

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😌✌️

[sirmione]

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.

[keisukekubota]

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

[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.

[damienrosario]

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

[syok]

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。

[brianchar-bow]

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.

[huyukisusukino-xv]

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!

[lmusicclipjp]

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.😊

[TUUKUU]

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

[lbun]

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

[ハマー-xx]

日本🗾で一番美しい北陸新幹線🚄🎉

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🎌