Weekly Fascination Fun

I did it! I finally finished walking around the Yamanote Line! It took 3 attempts, totaling 15 hours and over 75,000 steps, but I did it! In this video, you'll see the newest station on the Yamanote Line, Takanawa Gateway. Fun Fact: The Chuo Shinkansen, which is scheduled to open in 2027, will connect Tokyo and Nagoya with a maglev train. The Nagoya to Shin-Osaka section is scheduled to open in 2037. Support this channel: To purchase the background music, To See You, visit Bandcamp: https://tracygreenwood.bandcamp.com/album/one-more-time

Follow Weekly Fascination on social media: X: https://twitter.com/WFascination Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wfascination Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyfascination Japanese is a difficult language. Very few foreigners achieve a high level of fluency, even after many years of study. Enjoy this light-hearted look at Japanese words that are often mispronounced. As promised, a link to Dogen's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dogen/videos Thank you, Japaclip, for the awesome clip art: https://japaclip.com/en/terms-en/ Song: Trust No One Music by: CreatorMix.com

Spoiler alert - it took 3 days. The Nippon Railway Company opened the train line that became present-day Yamanote Line on March 1, 1885. It ran between Shinagawa Station in the south and Akabane Station in the north. The top part of the loop between Ikebukuro and Tabata (a distance of 3.3 km) opened on 1 April 1903, and both lines were merged to become the Yamanote Line on 12 October 1909. Station numbering was introduced on JR East stations in the Tokyo area from 20 August 2016. I don’t really like that system because I’d rather learn the train stations. It feels like they’re giving people training wheels. The Yamanote Line stations use the prefix "JY". Tokyo station is JY01, so let’s start there and walk our way up. Here are the songs I used for this video: Song: End Them All Music by: CreatorMix.com Song: Moody Blues Artist: Owl Nest Music by: CreatorMix.com Video: https://youtu.be/V98XscBgFRw Song: Alone Tonight Music by: CreatorMix.com Song: Break It Music by: CreatorMix.com A very special thank you to CreatorMix. I always find the perfect song for my videos in their library.

This elevator, installed by Mitsubishi Elevator, reaches a top speed of 750 meters per minute. The observation deck, Sky Garden, is on the 69th floor. Construction of Landmark Tower started on March 20, 1990. It officially opened on July 16, 1993 and cost ¥270 Billion. That’s about $2.1~2.2 Billion dollars (give or take $100Mil). Landmark Tower is located on Minato Mirai 21 waterfront in Yokohama, Japan. This is the perfect spot for tourists or locals to see a view of the city. I recommend going at night. It's more romantic. This should be on your top 10 list of things to do in Yokohama. It's also great for traveling with kids in Japan if you're looking for fun things to do in Japan. UPDATE: The winner has been selected. Congratulations! Giveaway Official Rules: Subscribing is NOT required to be entered for the giveaway.

This escalator holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s shortest escalator, coming in at 83.4 cm, or 2.7 feet. It's a grand total of 5 steps. It was installed by Hitachi. It only takes a few seconds to ride, and it's 100% free. This escalator is in the basement of More's department store near Kawasaki JR and Keikyu stations. Kawasaki is just a few stops from Tokyo, Japan. You don't even have to take the bullet train.

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