Tokushima

You would see raw eggs as well, just not the soft-boiled eggs that we know of.

There are certain ramen styles that use raw eggs on top, like Tokushima.

For example, Tokushima ramen, it's a heavy pork bone-based ramen, and also Saga in Kyushu.

So...

Tokushima ramen, yeah, definitely with the raw egg.

And it's like the pork sukiyaki of ramen, isn't it?

Yes, you know very well.

Not your typical pork chashu.

So, um, obviously one of the better matches of the tournament and just like, Hey, you know, these are the, these are the two guys that are holding it down.

Um, and then we go to the 21st at, uh, Tokujin Tomoni arena or Tokush, formerly Tokushima city gymnasium, apparently, um, from 854 fans so this is one of their bigger sort of outside

stops but i think actually real quick i think we're missing a show i think we're missing the show where um where kaito and inamura drew

Oh, okay.

And I think we agreed that was probably the game at Soyuz Stadium where it finished Akita 4-0.

Tokushima won an absolute thrashing for Tokushima that I don't think anybody saw coming.

And all five of the goals in this game came in the first half.

So I'll recap the game very quickly, James, then get your thoughts.

early on Takato Nonomura flashed in a header from Yoshihiro Nakano's cross to give Akita the lead but Tokushima soon leveled things up at 1-1 the Lion King Daiki Watari sent Lucas Barcelos clean through and he brilliantly lobbed Akita keeper Genki Yamada so 1-1 for a while but then Akita blew Tokushima away with a quick goal rush and To restore the lead at 2-1, Nakano played in Shota Suzuki, who fired low into the bottom corner.

The third goal for Akite was an absolutely sensational long-range pile driver from Hidenori Takahashi.

The ball would probably still be travelling now if it wasn't for the and before half time it was 4-1 and game over Suzuki scoring his second goal of the match heading in off the underside of the crossbar at close range so no further goals in the second half it finished Akita 4 Tokushima 1 and we owe Martin Spivey an apology I think James because we I was watching the Yokohama FC game against the Iraqi on TV.

And then I checked the scores at halftime and I saw that this game was 4-1.

Kioni Angela Aki.

Is your Alive Guy birthday of the day from Tano in Tokushima, the prefecture, which is on a little island.

It's a rural Japan.

Okay.

They plan to team up to take their performances to the next level to appeal to international audiences.

One of our dream would be really one day that we would be able to dance, uh, in Tokushima, obviously, because it's the, it's, it's where Awaodori is born, and, uh, it's a very important festival, yeah, for us.

Kenny is hopeful that Awaodori can help create a world where people can be united and become better friends.

Egashira Ayano, NHK World.

Yeah.

When I was in like Tokushima, Takamatsu, these aren't like massive cities or anything, but to get from the hotel to the train station and then to go to like Don Quixote.

And then I wanted to go to like a book off and then I wanted to go to like this ramen restaurant.

And then I look at, at the end of the day, I've done like 25,000 steps.

Shikoku.

Yeah.

I can go to Takamatsu, Tokushima, Kochi, and Matsuyama.

The four major cities there, the four prefectures.

So if you want to have something...

Even when we do the Tokushima dyed stuff...

they charge us by weight.

It's like however heavy the garment is, that's how much dye it's going to take to dye it.

There's um Tadami in Fukushima which is so isolated I still haven't been there.

The second place is Iya Valley in Tokushima home to Scarecrow Village and the third most remote place historically is Shirakawa-go the place with the straw buildings, um the straw houses which is actually a lot-is a lot more accessible these days thankfully With the advent of massive tunnels that go 20 kilometers long.

You know what? If i was actually gonna really escape I'd probably go to the Sanriku coastline on the coast line of Iwate on the Pacific Coast Because if you look at a map of it right you can see there are hundreds if not thousands of little inlets and valleys and tucked away places In stark contrast to the west side of Japan which is like one straight stretch of land that you can cycle down and I have done many times [laughs] too many times.

Uh the Sanriku coastline you can't really cycle down easily 'cause i-i there's so many inlets and things um and you could just like find a little fishing village that's been hidden away by time and that's-that's where you'd hide.