Hey guys, good morning and welcome to... I don't know where we are, Kawasaki..
Is this city? CHRIS: Uh.. yes. SHARLA: Town? I think it's Kawasaki-machi. CHRIS: Kawasaki.
We are on another Poke-lid hunt today.
I've got my friends Chris and Victor helping me out and we've started here..
..somewhere in the middle of Miyagi prefecture for our first stop and..
..we're gonna see how many we can find today in all of Miyagi prefecture.
We've got like 31 left to go [CHRIS makes noise of disbelief] and I think we might be able to do...
..15 today, if we hurry! So let's go find the first one!
So the map brought us to this...center.
SHARLA: I don't even know what they do here. (CHRIS: What a lovely looking building!) SHARLA: It's some kind of like city center.
I think that's the manhole there. Yeaah! CHRIS: Aah. VICTOR: That is correct.
SHARLA: Lapra's special. CHRIS: Oh, I love Lapras. It's one of the Pokémon I actually know.
SHARLA: Alrights let's get a picture of this and then I'm still collecting the stamps as well.
Oh, it's right here! It's outside.
Victor, you should get a little book and you can collect the stamps.
VICTOR: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
SHARLA: So they make a stamp of each of the manholes in Miyagi.
It's so sad because this is going away after a month it feels like such a waste of these cute little stamps.
CRHIS GASPS // SHARLA GIGGLES // CHRIS IN DEEP VOICE: Amazing!
SHARLA: Stop sounding so excited (?)
CHRIS STILL IN DEEP VOICE: Gotta catch 'em all! .. Pokémon!
SHARLA STILL GIGGLING: Go away :p
One stamp down, lot's to go.
Let's go.
VICTOR: Let's go.
SHARLA: So this is our route for today.
We're going to start here in the middle of Miyagi prefecture.
Work our way down to the bottom and end in Matsushima.
Hopefully if we have enough time.
All right, stamp number two has brought us to Zaō which I've been to lot's.
It's so pretty right now with the snow on the mountains aaand...
There's a shrine here but..
But it's so icy and slippery. I don't know if I want to be climbing the mountain to see the shrine.
Kaminoyu. It's a little onsen here.
They have a footbath here but no hot water in it.
VICTOR: The remains of it.
So sad!
These are really nice in the winter. I'm surprised they don't have it going.
Onagyo (?, the name of the place). So this is where... Oh yeah, here's the stamp.
Yaay(!)
Now the hunt for the actual manhole.
It should be around here somewhere.
The GPS pointed to right about here.
Might be buried under snow.
Seems to be a common pattern.
Victor found it! Yay!
VICTOR: Yah!
Good fun.
SHARLA: Woehooew!
Number two of the day. We're making good time.
I'm gonna take a peek at that little shrine that was up here.
The cool thing about this stamp rally is that it takes you to places that you normally wouldn't go.
I'v been to Zao many times but I've never been to this part of the town.
It's nice.
It's too bad the footbath wasn't going.
Yeah, looks like there's a little shrine down there. I'm not going to..
..head all the way in because we have lots of places to vist today.
And a very tight time schedule.
You can see the steam coming up from under the street.
Zao is an onsen town so there's lots of natural hotspring water running underneath us.
CHRIS: Next is very remote. It's a town.. (SHARLA: sixteen) ..that I don't know how to read. What's that?
SHARLA: Chikahara?
CHRIS: Maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's quite far. (music starts) Let's go.
SHARLA: So this is, um, a Michi no Eki. CHRIS: Is that up there? SHARLA: Yeah, which could be cool.
Yeah I think that's around here.
wait is it open
so deserted
i really hope the manhole is close to
the stamp area because i don't really
want to go exploring this area it's just
lots of snow
and mountains you see it oh yeah yay
victor's good at spotting them
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so the next manhole hunt has brought us
to a castle
in shiroishi apparently the stamp is
inside a museum which we've yet to
locate we found the castle though looks
really nice in the snow found it and i
also found these stamps for my other
stamp collection
the manhole itself is within the park
somewhere but the park's quite big so i
looked it up on twitter oh that's it
right there
and i found a picture of it right beside
the castle, so I knew it was by the castle
somewhere
this is a cute one
i'd say this has been the coolest
location that it's brought us to
so far discovered a new castle that i
didn't know existed and here's another
manhole
not pokemon related
all right our next stop is at another
michi nowaki so we're on the highway for
the next 20 minutes or so and i think
there's three okay lids in that area so
Poke's lid, is that what it's called?
Yeah, Poke lid. Pokefuta in Japanese.
It sounds better in Japanese
but after that we'll have a seven done
so
i think we're making good time it's
It's currently 1:45 pm. Since some of these stamps are inside of tourist centers and stuff...
.. I have a feeling they're gonna close around five, so...
..hopefully we can get a few more after that.
CHRIS: What'd you find? SHARLA: Just the regular michiyoaki(?) stuff.
SHARLA: Nice. CHRIS: Such force!
CHRIS: Meanwhile, Victor has found it. VICTOR: Too slow, too slow :p
Oh, that one's cute. There's a little sign here that tells you where the manhole is.
That's awesome. So it's right beside the... overpass!
The little bridge. I think I know where that is.
There's the overpass so it should be over there somewhere.
Should be up here.
VICTOR: Oh, there it is. CHRIS: Oh, already it's found.
SHARLA: Oh, what the hell. CHRIS: You walked just straight past it for the third time.
SHARLA: Yes, look at them. CHRIS: It's lickitung!
SHARLA: Nice, that's five, I think. CHRIS: Yaaaaay. Only 400 more to goooo, YEAAAH.
SHARLA: We found the next stamp! But we haven't found the manhole.
We kinda went over the parking lot and didn't see it..
..though we have a track record of just walking right past them. So who knows?
Nice!
So apparently this is the right location for the manhole but we can't find it.
Watch it just be under one of these cars in the parking lot. VICTOR: Oh, god...
Usually it's in front of the shop.
I thought maybe it would be over here infront of the shrine.
front of the shrine
hmm nope
nothing here either
victor's checking up there turns out the
manhole is nowhere near where we are
it's all the way over here at the
station
so i'll try to be my next but i got
strawberries so it was worth coming here
they cropped it
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cool it's a cute one so this area is
famous for sakura which is why they put
the sakura themed pokemon here
look at this
why didn't we come in the spring
why are we here in the winter
it looks great
maybe a walkway along beside it you take
this little like yeah
that's really cool rope car
it's awesome yeah look at
all these sakura lining the entire
river here
definitely have to come back so the next
manhole location actually brought us to
the area that has that rope car that we
were looking at on the sign
so it's up on a hill uh that has the
ruins of a castle
and yeah in the spring you can take a
rope car through the cherry blossoms
i will definitely have to come back here
and do that it looks really nice in the
spring we will do that it's not too far
from Sendai all right let's head inside
and get our stamp and then we'll search
for the manhole which we haven't seen
yet
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even the staff didn't know where the
manhole was
i think the larger map that i have
actually gives you the precise location
of each one so i'm gonna check that
oka ekimai
found it yeah you're so good at spotting
them
oh yeah
This is a nice little station. Yeah.
It's very
traditional
cool
I 'am so glad that these brought us to
these obscure locations because now I
know to come back here in the Spring.
Another sakura themed one.
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The next one was super close by and the
stamp and the manhole are in the same
location which is always nice. So this is
another Michi no Eki this is
Kakuda Michi no Eki. It looks brand new
many nice Michi no Eki around here
so if you're new to Michi no Eki this is
where you can get the local foods of the
area
some handmade crafts some fresh produce
and now lots of them have Pokemon
manholes
There it is.
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this is probably the most remote
location of the day
[Laughter] Welcome to Marumori! In some forest. [Laughter]
nothing here but apparently they have a
stamp. Yeah they do I see it.
[Laughter] On my god. This is so cute.
Wooo!
Ahh! so cute
Nice. Oh is that Meowth. Aww Meowth's
riding on it too. That's cool. I almost got a full page! Getting there. It's getting dark though.
Almost got a full page!
Getting there. It's getting dark though.
I feel like this might be our last one.
I don't know
[Victor] How many were we able to do today?
[Sharla] Umm. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
[Sharla] eight, nine. [Victor] Nine, it's pretty good.[Sharla] Not bad.
[Sharla] yeah [Victor] yeah [Sharla] we made good time that's for
sure
so the manhole is just in this random
park down the road. Oh it's so cute
Ah I love it.
That might be the best one yet it
reminds me of Maro.
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Alright we made it to the next one just in time. It's going to close at 5:00 p.m.
and i think we've got 15 minutes but
it's actually a strawberry farm and shop
so we're gonna go get some more
strawberries Miyagi's
famous for their strawberries and it's
actually strawberry season right now in
the winter it's kind of weird it works
that way in japan but it works out well
for us
nice
Oh it's Chansey.
I bet it's because we're on the border
of Fukushima and Miyagi and the
[Sharla] Fukushima Pokemon is Chansey. [Victor] Oh really.
[Victor] I didn't know that. Nice. [Sharla] They have some really
cute ones in fukushima and they have um
parks like playgrounds that are Pokemon
like giant Pokemon you can find a lot of
[Victor] Oh crazy.
we need to go there
[Sharla] find any strawberries [Chris] strawberry heaven
[Sharla] oh there's tons wow they're huge
[Chris] 1800 yen you get like a bucket worth. [Sharla] Wow, that's alot.
[Chris] It's pretty incredible. [Sharla] What do you want to get
[Chris] Strawberries. lots of strawberries.
Oooh, those cakes look nice.
[Sharla] So many nice things here. Are you getting some too? [Victor] I had to do it. I had to do it. It smells way too good. [Sharla] [Laughter] I know.
[Sharla] It smells so good in here.
[Sharla] Oh the Migaki-Ichigo cider.
[Chris] Ehh. Strawberry Cider.
[Sharla] Doburoku. [Chris] Ehh. Doburoku. [Sharla] Strawberry flavor. It's like sake.
probably quite nice actually strawberry
cider
i might get one
sakura cola
cute
Gyū tan ew
what the hell cow tongue cider that's
horrible we just realized that the
manholes are poke stops in the game and
victory still plays luckily
so
we're going to find the manhole which is
not here like it's like right over there yeah
by looking at pokemon go you thought it
was in front of the kombini okay
it's getting dark we gotta get there
before the sun sets
yeah i think it's right in front of the
station yeah
we're gonna have to cross the road yeah
there we go
oh yeah there it is that's so cool this
it's so handy
this might be the last one of the day
because it's getting really dark
we did it
that's cute
all right to be continued when the sun
comes up i'll see you guys again in
another video thanks so much for
watching thank you to victor
joining us i will link his instagram
down below he has some very beautiful
pictures of japan so you should go check
him out thank you to chris for driving
us no problem at all and i'll see you
guys again soon bye for now bye
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