Kanazawa

Um, but unfortunately, altitude does not count towards points in this race to Tokyo, which is what I'm doing, by the way.

If you haven't listened to previous episodes, um, uh, at work we're having a health challenge, walking challenge, counting steps, and the idea is to be the first person to walk from Kanazawa Station to Tokyo Station.

Each week we're gonna upload our, uh, step count, and management has produced a...

Well, I mean, Claude has produced a tracker, so see how that goes.

Um, I would like people to listen, of course, and maybe in the future, uh, people will listen, and they'll go back and they'll, they'll listen to the previous episodes and, and maybe, you know, my hope is they can just pop it on while doing their morning commute and to listen to somebody else's morning commute to take them away from their morning commute.

Because our morning commutes, for some people, it can be rather dull, sitting on a train, sitting in a car, walking through city, gray city streets.

Why not listen to my morning commute that is through beautiful Kanazawa? The history that I never mention, the scenery that I rarely mention, the animal life that I very occasionally mention, and the moon that I evidently mention too much.

Just f- just today.

Isn't that nice? I just hope it's the same at the weekend.

Saturday is a big day in the Kanazawa calendar.

Yep, very big, important day.

I will explain why.

There's another number of factors that I feel he should include.

Like, for example, the weight of the competitors, the leg length of the competitors.

If we are, what we're basically, the challenge is the first person to walk from Kanazawa Station to Tokyo Station, right? It's just shy of 300 kilometers, I think.

So I do probably 10 kilometers a day.

Before we get too far into talking about the game itself, we really need to talk about Miyamoto and kind of where he comes from, his origin, so to speak.

Miyamoto was born in Sonobi, Kyoto, and he graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts.

He originally sought out a career being a manga artist.

He wanted to draw comics.

Oh yeah.

Is that right?

Kanazawa.

Okay.

I have one more question before I will let you go.

Kanazawa vacancy is forthcoming in this year, isn't it?

It is in early, well, it'll be early 2027 now.

But yes, a new collection of photographs from the city of Kana or of certain scenarios within the city of Kanazawa, Japan.

And that should be out in January or February.

Looking forward to that, Mr. Stephen.

And I think that J01 is able to retain that essence In their work with the Cool Japan campaign, they created these videos that really showcased a lot of different beautiful sceneries and locations and culture and art of the country.

And then their last one, Hands in My Pocket, they were not just performing the same song again, they actually brought in elements of traditional Japanese instruments while performing against the backdrop of Kanazawa.

a city that really showcases the beauty of Japan.

So I just love how they're able to mix these styles together and still be uniquely a Japanese group.

It's for convenience usually.

So this was an Instagram video that was put out by the fire department in the city of Kanazawa or Kanazawa, and they were saying that, of course, in Japan, you take your shoes off at the door, basically everywhere you go if you're going to someone's house.

Um, and the polite thing to do is to rearrange people's shoes so that when they're leaving, they can put them on easily.

So you'd rearrange people's shoes so that they're facing outwards, so you could almost just walk out of the door and just step outwards without even looking down.

So we're going to go back to Japan.

Maybe we'll do Kanazawa or Hakone or something outside of Tokyo.

But we definitely still want a few more days in Tokyo as well.

And then we're going to add on that trip to Guam, I think in the middle.