Good morning from beautiful Asahikawa's Asahiyama Zoo which is
the No.1 zoo in Japan, I say at least to me
It is because unlike the Ueno Zoo which is most popular,
Asahiyama is a more natural place or at least that's what it's famous for
Here's the panphlet for the Asahiyama Zoo
They're celebrating their 50th aniversary opened in 1967
and the first 20 years of the zoo were not very successful
The zoo was a big failure in fact I think it was
in the 1990's in an orangutan died from disease
and they closed the park down
and then it was in 1997 that they started renovating and changed
the way that the zoo worked
they made more natural habitats
made the zoo
better ,a lot better
and I'll explain more about that
as we continue with this livestream tour of the Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa
this is the northernmost city in Hokkaido
and if you've following my hitchhiking tour for the last five weeks, of this far away my goal, quite exited about that
so when I knew that I was going to be in Asahikawa
and just really close to the zoo I had to come today and livestream this
so I'm going to be showing you some of the animals around here
I'll start off by showing you a map of the area
and take you on a tour of this really cool zoo
I've been walking for about 30 minutes trying to find places to take you
before starting the livestream it's quite exiting
here is a veiw from Zoo
It's on the top of a mountain
and in the distance you can see some of the white caps still on the mountains
it's a warm day today but
overall in April Hokkaido is pretty chilly
so this is naturally a beautiful natural basis, in fact
I'm going to be camping in central Asahikawa tonight
next to the train station
because there's a campground
next to the station. An actual campground
three minutes away from the exit of the station
which anybody can camp in for free
that's Asahikawa that's their image as one of the most natural cities in Japan
here's a map of the animal exibit in this area of the park
It's a big park there's the main gate
that's we come in
you pass the aviary
there's a penguin aquarium which is very famous
we're going to take a look at that in about 20 minutes
there's also a polar bear aquatic park
which is quite famous
then a lot of native animals to Hokkaido
there's the Orangutan, chimpanzee forest and the monkey forest
I'm attracted to the monkeys, the orangutans here's the primates because
they're like part of our family as humans right
so, we're going to see them first
you can get a look at their enclosure
there's a lot of green in the park
not just for the animals but for the humans, so
I'm pretty relaxed
really fresh air
that's a big difference between here and Ueno
for those living in Japan there's also a map in Japanese
I do like here the open-air stage
and we'll have a quick look around that
It's pretty exiting!
alright, let's look
first and
I'm going to take you first over right here
so let me tell you what these primates are here
"Capibara"
Capibara from northern South America
and their cage is a lot more natural than the bear Park
that you saw a few days ago on the Only in Japan, GO channel
these guys aren't quite active
maybe because it's really really hot here
It's in the sunny day, it's approximately 20 degrees Celsius
which is pretty hot for Northern Hokkaido
if you look up you'll see these guys climbing
they're entertainers
Do it, do it! That's awesome
Yes, I wish I had that kind of ability
these guys are in a really nice job
and I guess you'd call it an entrance
but unlike a lot of zoos that I've seen that it's very very clean and
there's no smell at all very natural
this is your keeper that comes out every now and then I've seen
Let's walk on over to another primate
you can see the one I don't know by calling it a cage as much as a jungly gym
so those joining in this the Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa City, Japan's northernmost city
a long way from Tokyo
like the posing for photo
you see them, there they are
this is the new area
These are native of
Central Africa
all right, group hug
If you have to look around to find them, you can see up there on the platform
there's a guy chilling up there
I'm only here because the Kickstarter campaign was so successful that I made a stretch goal
to continue the trip through Hokkaido
I didn't want ot travel in the middle of the Japanese holiday
this is the middle of Golden Week which runs from about April 20th to May 6th, so
may set May 8th is Monday
so that's when it ends technically but the 7th
These are the Gibbon
so they have a little tourism
Encasement I guess like a little glass peeking
so they're really lookig out at us
see to the glass room here
wow there's a deer in the
maybe they're not here right now. sometimes the take a break and go inside
I'm going to tell you a little bit more about the concept of this zoo
when we go down to the penguin exhibit
but one thing that I like about this they don't force the animals
to do anything that they don't want to do
basically there's name of the concept whick I'll introduce you to
and that concept is what has made this - a world famous park
you can see in this little window they hang out in the window
mom up there
everybody wants to get a photo
either stupid this tube of playing up there
this is awesome
don't fall how do they not falling
we should do that in elementary school
on the jungle on the monkey bars we call them
we wrestle and try to get the other kid to fall off of the monkey bars
so this is the same thing, this is like elementary school for me back again but
I don't know if we want them to fall, do we, that's pretty high
It's a real battle
None of the other people are watching this, this is where the action is
look at
look is doing a groin shot right now
they fight dirty
wow, wow, we got a winner
wait not be going to give up that easy
this is kind of fun to watch
down there on the ground
you can see our little deer
so they put some of the animalas together that
are natural in the Gibbon, the monkey's habitat
to make it seem more real
so the animals are interacting with other animals
this cage
pretty interesting
now about five minutes ago they were over here
you see this in the globe
It's pretty much
a monkey it's pretty much a jungle gym for the orangutans
they have another cage here and how do they get from this cage to this to this cage you asked
over here how do they get there well
If you look up
the two are connected
by a bar
and the orangutan but potentially could fall
they could potentially fall onto the crowd below
I don't think that's happened though
I don't think they've ever fallen behind
they have the freedom to go from one cage to the next
via this bar in the sky
so a kind of cool that way
they're over there resting
the way it's gotten quite hot here in the sun
they're over there
there they are
I guess they're doing laundry or something
I don't know by they do what they want to do
and that's what we'll come back here later
so the animals here they do what they want to do
they do it when they want to do it
and it ceates happier animals and a happier experience for the humans
so the orangutan which they sort of put on a show in their monkey bar thing in a jungle gym
so we'll come I'm going to head now over to the most famous exhibit the penguins
there's a walk through that you can walk through the penguin's habitat
there's usually a small line and I was thinking maybe I would explain a little bit more about this park to you in line
Here is a bird habitat
they were walking blocking paths
they put in a lot of trees, a lot of local
this is not inside cage here
but if you see here
they've let a lot of the natural stuff and in their habitat and
they didn't make they made the poles look more natural by painting them dark
so it looks more like forest in here this is the Hokkaido animal house
I'm an owl
that's a pretty big owl actually
Alright let's go to the Penguins
one reason I think that the signal is pretty good is up there you see a ton of cell phone towers
making sure theat every single tourist has really good reception
so there's a shortcut
this is the shortcut to the other side and I walked through here before
but what I liked about this is why I'm coming through this way is because
you can see the natural habitat for the humans
this is really in a mountain and they didn't change the environment of it too much
and here from this point you get a really good view of the entire park
this is the middle of, well, the start of the Japanese spring holiday and
usually there aren't that many people I'd say
this is pretty heavy for the zoo
In the center is another owl cage
It's a beautiful park and the air coming through is really good
It's all that air coming this way from the mountains in the distance
that's the biggest diffence to me
If I compare this to Ueno Zoo
Ueno Zoo you get all the city air
It doesn't feel like a natural habitat for the animals
although it's very nice zoo, it's just not same
this zoo is a reason why
the only reason it doesn't have more people than Ueno
because Ueno Zoo is in the center of Tokyo
That's the only reason. This one is not as not as big
all right. Let's go down to the penguins
Okay, right there is a wolf museum
These are snow owls
so the birdcage that we were looking at before snow owls
Yeah just one of them but he doesn't really seem to want to get attention that's okay
looking away
guess snow owl are made famous from Harry Potter movies
all right, come on a beautiful day, this is today
this is the, fierce animals house
I like when they chose that word instead of you know
tame or lame. They picked fierce
So,
Here stand more house
some Hokkaido bears and these Hokkaido bears are pretty massive
unlike the bear museum and nobody bets to the habitat here is much much better
I can smell the wood chips. the freshness they smell like fresh-cut wood chips
no flash ot startle the bear like that
they put in some really fun lookout points for the humans
and then I'm inside of enclosure
underground on the water level
all right, let's go
I'm making my way to the Penguins
so if you're
hanging in there for that it's coming
we're still in Japan
psychedelic flying to you keep you distance from tiger flight
makes sence
I guess apparently they have a problem
gas or something
that's good let's go take a quick look at the Tigers
I love to sleep it together
Tigers in love
are going to sleep in together
why don't they go in the shade why are they in the sun
Sun bathing
there's a brief history of the Amur tigers
in Japanese
the male tiger does not take care of the children
therefore Kirill is in next room alone
so they separate the male from the female and the babies
because I guess the male doesn't take care of the children, that's what it says old animals are pride of our Zoo
so these animals are quite old going back to I don't know
1996 they are born that's over 21 years old
known is the name of the male
and there's another male named Zaria and Zaria was born in 2010
that's a child
their child was born in last year
Sohn and Naja
and Kiril (Cardio)
I'm sorry that's the male symbol and that's the female symbol
Kiril did it with Zaria and then they made these two offspring
that's a little bit about the Tigers
Did you have pretty names
I'm sorry to like this park a lot more
Down here is the Penguins
this is what I wanted to do and it is sort of a short line
we sort of march your way in
like everything in Japan everything is very very orderly
and the people
you got a singly file line real slowly don't stop
go through the penguin exhibit
here it is from the outside
penguin exhibit!
a couple of variety
We have "Iwatobi" penguin
King Penguin which you all know from the Discovery Channel and National Geographic
and the "Gentoo" penguin and Humbolt penguin
and there they are
they're just sunning themselves you know
chilling! let's face it, it's a cold winter up here
six month of winters is Hokkaido's winters are six months long
spring, summer, fall, two months each maybe
see that crowd of people after the penguin tough but
thankfully I have the DJI Ozmo extension pole
I can go above them
I'lll be taking you there right now
I don't need to use the extension pole
they're right there
wow he's got natural not a hair
just a hair
morning exercises
you can inside the house
if you can't see them because the exposure
they got like their own little house inside you see
inside the house
there's a bunch of just ant like hanging out like a little ice bar
the dudes going in for the ice bar maybe but
It's funny you see different species of penguins all living together in
one penguin house
we have a couple here cme too
they're really making a lot of noise I see you
whoa he came out of nowhere
I wonder somebody's super chats then they'll jump in the water
hey come
Jump, jump
doesn't look like he's going to jump but
a bunch of
A bunch of penguins just came out of little bar area in the back
Somebody said it's nice weather today
he's going in a chaw how you doing
so cute
all right he's walking on the edge
all it takes is one push he's in and
here's the criminal is going to do it
Do it! Push on it
He's right on the edge
I know you want to do it
your penguins it's fine
all right
looks like they're really nice penguin to each other
respectful it took leave
Somebody go now to the walkthrough of the penguins
This is a post office in the center of the park
so if you want to buy stamps
I'm sending postcards isn't really a Japanese thing
I found that in a lot of tourist destinations you don't see postcard stands you don't see people sending postcards to the friends
so it's hard to find them but
right in the middle is a post office
That's pretty cool
so you can buy stamps and stuff
take a look, same coaching to die thanks to email
If you send anything from here you get this stamp
that's cool you know
that's pretty cool
all right, it's time to line up for the
got to find take a shortcut to the woods,
breaking the row
there's a lady holding a sign saying, this is the end of the line
About ten minutes' waiting? Yes!
so from this point it takes ten minutes to walk into the cage
Normally on some busy days, it could take after 30 minutes
so this is the Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, one of the most famous zoos in the world
because it puts the animals in the natural habitat
here's the flyer for the Asahiyama Zoo
or the map
Zoo, in Japanese "Doubutsuen"
"Doubutsu" means animal, "En" means park
park up animals
all right, so
this said a little bit the history the park open
see here
animals that enter their sleeping area so
animals that enter the sleeping area at 4:15 pm so it tells you
If you get her too late in the day you might miss some of the animals
animals that enter the sleeping at 4:30. so it tells you the schedule of the animals
and there habitat here
so you know you pretty much know the scared daily routine
that's pretty cool
It's 820 Yen to get in for adults
which is pretty reasonable if you want to make a day out of it
that's if you compare with Tokyo Disneyland
this is a bargain
this is a real bargain
Now while we're waiting I wanted to tell you a little bit more about the Zoo
so I have prepared
some quotes that I found in news articles
so the concept that made the zoo famous
I guess it was around the 1990s that an orangutan got sick in the 80s and 90s and the zoo wasn't very good
It was failing
so it was 1997 they renovated this and
they started the concept called here and
I quote behavioral enrichment
and behavial enrichment means that they don't change the pattern of the animals
meaning a penguins are going to swim when he wants to swim right?
a bear is going to eat when he wants to eat
a lion is going to you know do the deed when he wants to do the deed
they're not going to make them do it for tourists
so that concept of naturalness was something that
this zoo introduced and the made it world famous
Are we getting into the exhibit? let me
cookie
I'm one of those people who makes scary sounds and dark places to scare kids
we're experiencing very bad connections I don't think about this
Wow, I'm now, we're now walking under the water habitat of the Penguins
now we're going upstairs into another exhibit
I apologize for the bad connection
all right the connections getting a little bit better maybe as you get up
they're with me
alright should be getting a little bit better
It is a long line but it's moving pretty good
People are moving at a normal pace
here we are we're inside now
thanks for hanging in there with me
I think the signals got a little bit better as well
it is a little bit crowded here
everybody wants to see a penguin
and
everybody is lined up very nice and orderly
It's just enough crying kids to make this experience a lot you know real
Wow
a lot dealer I guess
Oh so this was the inside where the Penguins were before you can see here
people are lining up again
if you're claustrophobic you might not llike the penguin net area
sort of hot and smells of humans
Okay I see a bunch of penguins now
I just give it a second
the congestion is that there's a lot of people who want to take a lot of photos
a lot of people want to take a lot of photos and everyone's lined up to do it
and I could jump the line bu that would create chaos
which might be a good idea
I smell a fea I think the penguin smell beter than this area right now
it's not that bad
that's close
in the middle of this area
I'd like to be in the middle rather than in line but
this is the back of a head
that's a cannon mixed up. Come on
Okay, so I'm now still waiting in line to go and see the Penguins
maybe people are properly lined up
but that guy could move a little bit maybe
It's not doing anything
we're waiting for
mine hasn't moved at all
we're getting closer
I'm not going to spend a lot of time there
I just want to get a quick look at the penguin
want people or humans really stink
all right, the heck with the line
I've been looking at they're just standing there
the frozen
let's me fun
there's speaker to record
better get the glare away I'm sorry
pretty nice this is where they were hanging out when I showed you the outside of the penguin containment unit
a couple of guys now down here you can get into the water
this is where I walked
I walked through before but right now there's no penguins in the water
before when you couldn't see the live stream I was walking through, here
so humans can walk right through the habitat at the Penguins underwater which is pretty cool
but there aren't any penguins right now
walking
all right, let's get out of here
that's not cool! It's a picture of a penguin gettinng eating but eaten by a sea lion
why would this show now it's a penguin fighting
over the loss of a child
I guess it's good they're raising awareness on
penguin cruelty by other animals it's good thing
all right
kids ae more attracted to the little fishies and they are the penguins
mammy they're de mama
all right, so penguin done
On the other side is the sea lion exhibit
that also include polar bears
also known in Japan as white bears for the white fur
that's nice to be outside I don't like waiting in line
anybody
in Japan people don't mind lines I think
they in line means that something happening something good
That's something good that's what people are lining up so line, I don't think it's so bad in Japan
that's how you know things something is popular people are waiting in the front
it must be something good
especially for Ramen
which a cycle is very famous for I'm going to have
I'm gong to be making an episode for only in Japan an edited episode
an edited episode on a live stream
on eating Ramen here in a cycle there
their Ramen is different than other places
and the only way to know what's different is to watch the episode which wil be coming up after I get back to Tokyo
Okay, so
the sea lion exhibit you can see how massive they are
how fat they are
the Zukin, "Azarashi", a Big Mama
250 centimeter-long, weights over 400 kilograms
like to see this thing take on a sumo wrestler
wow this thing looks like a big, big black cucumber
"Minami Zoh Azarashi"- Southern elephant seals
5 meters long, 2,400 kilograms
Whoa, thats just an animal
so they're animals that's a real animal
you can see just how beautifuk this park is!
Temperature is he 19.4 degrees Celsius
the wind picked up so it's got a little cooler, thanks to that
Let's go down underneath these clothes
you can see some of
these massive, massive sea lions that eat penguins
this guy found the ball
this really is the natural habitat
I've been to the Galapagos Island in 2003
before I did the hitchhiking trip I did a world trip around the world for nine months backpacking
one of the places I stopped in 2003, this is January 2003 was Galapagos
when I came into approach I saw a boat just like this one just filled with science
so this really is you know one of the natural habitats
I've been keeping a boat
they love to hang out in like human contain human areas in the city
the torpede or seelion
so hot I'd love to go swimming
you mind if I jump in with the guy
that's really cool
all right, so there's a place
I'm getting a little bit hungry
I'm interested to see what kind of food they have here
this is just the Penguins and the birds and the monkeys we've seen
The park is just massive
On the other end, there's a place in an open theater in the middle of a forest
he's appealing to humans
Look at me
I'm a sealion
where you go now
where'd you go
I had no idea he was going to take off that quickly
so apparently everyone's waiting in line now for lunch
putting massive line
let's go take a look and see what's on the menu
Of course, you buy everything with a ticket at the vending machine
OK
look like good fair
the heavy
Doubutsu (animal) pancake, so there's animal faces on the pancakes
they have a "Karaage", but here in Hokkaido they call "Zangi"
so "Karaage" is "Zangi" in Hokkaido
fried potatos or French fries
Frankfurt
plain or American dog
This is an American dog
battered and deep fried
I'm going to explain in English
This is the "Mochi"
Menchi-Katsu
this is a battered and deep fried wreck hamburger
and Hokkaido "Korokke"
with Hokkaido potatoes and meat, yum, yum
down here we have
this is the Zangi curry rice
deep fried chicken like "Karaage" in curry rice and of course on top is, it is a half boiled egg
Curry rice looks good
I don't know I think 700 Yen for the Zangi and egg looks good
If you want something
simpler there's Soba, Udon and Ramen
Looks good
and Hokkaido soft cream
I just don't want to wait in the line
I don't wait in the line
I'm sorry
I always want to jump up on Tellez shoulders please loos like come on Gavine please
OK, I hope you're enjoying this tour live from Asahikawa
Japan's northernmost city
population about 300,000 people
It's Hokkaido's third largest city
Asahikawa
Sapporo being No.1
Hakodate No.2 and Asahikawa is No.3
the great attraction to the city is probably the zoo, the ramen
and
I wanted there's a lot more end and glass they do a lot of glass work here
but I want to say the prison is an attraction
because in the Only in Japan, mascot epidose that I did a couple years ago
I've been there a couple years ago
I focused on the prison mascot a little bit
Katakuri-Kun or Katakuri-Chan and a prison mascot
because I'm going to go there later today
behind the prison they have a flower blooms called Katakuri
and they made the hat of the mascot by the Katakuri flower
so that because, what's this one? Azarashi-kan (seal)
maybe I'll pick that out later
I'm going to take you to the open area up and then that's all in the live feed
but as I was saying
the prison has a mascot and they also sell goods
like coffee cups and stickers and things like this
so I think I'm going to go and check out the Asahikawa prison
you know temporarily
that it be fun actually I think I got a sticker from the Asahikawa prison
hold on second
here is, here is. Here's a prison mascot
Asahikawa Katakuri-Kun
and the flower he's in the prison guard uniform
He's kind of flower on his head
which is right now in bloom
so I want to go and film the flowers
and I don't know if I make it a longer episode on Asahikawa prison
what do I do, I need to shot to the flower so that could be b-roll for a later episode
so I was thinking I'm always thinking about the next episode
and what I could film to insert later on in a date
because Japan has four seasons
so unlike India where my mom is from where we have like two, Rainy and Dry
Japan has four, Spring, Winter in no particular order
Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall - that's the order
so on the way toward open area I found a heating
heating is giraffe and als really good for beer
here's the Kirin exhibit, giraffe exhibit
it's pretty nice and looks like
I mean if this was Africa Kilimnajaro would be right there
I'm not at this live students is going to be on forever
because I keep finding really cool place like this
so hippopotamus or hippo, in Japanese is Kaba
Kaba - Kaba-Kan (hippo house)
"Kan" meaning like house or museum I guess like meeting house
you know what I'm going to just take a quick look in the hippo museum
because I like hippos I was in Africa in 2001
in the South Africa
Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana and
I see it in as far large in Botswana
No it was in Zambia
and a hippo was in the pool, it had fallen into the pool in Zambia
so I was going to go for a swim but there was a hippo in the pool
so I freaked out and booked the other way
there's my last encounter with a hippo
Oh it smells like a hippo
it's not as bad as this
Whoa, whoa,
Hippo just a jump I didn't do it again you know
you know, if I go over there I bet you the hippo comes over here. That's how it works
This is the Hippo-Kan
looks like somebody did something to that window
that's here he comes
whoa
that's a big hippo, hungry hippo
look at us
how to piss off a hipp
all right
that was worth it to come in here take a look at the hippo
here comes another one out of the back
Oh no that's just a waterfall I thought there were more of them coming
Oh, he's coming towards me
whoa
whoa ah
"Omoshiro-katta" (was funny, interesting)
that was pretty cool
get out of here
so it's hard for little kids to see the hippo
so all fathers are getting their kids and putting them on the shoulder
so they can get a high view of looking down at the hippos, that's pretty nice
I'm going out through the entrance because the exits just too crowded
that was cool
hippos are cool
it's not just because of the game hungry hippo which is a big hit when I was kid. It's because hippos are cool
up there's the ring I promise to get back to the orangutan jungle gym
those have been watching for the last 50 minutes I promise to go back up there
I'm walking in the opposite directionn so I don't know if we're going to get a chance to the orangutans again or better
they're pretty cool, good performers they like to keep things interesting
It's a really lovely day
the area the zoo is sort of a walking zone get trying to get from one side to the other
that's not the most interesting
but I want to go to te theatre just take to have a look at it
before there's the orangutan stuff upthere
OK, this is nice
So they've you can bring your own food to the zoo
this is another thing that I like you don't have to buy their overpriced stuff
You can bring food and picnic in a day like this
This is the place I'd want to be
look at how nice this is
Wow, so it's a natural habitat for the animals and also for the humans
pretty nice, very very very nice
I'm a likingness Asahiyama Zoo better mark G
so I've got my little map here
pamphlet
It's got all the info that you ever wanted to know
No, it doesn't, it's not very thorough
But just it's all the info that you wanted to know if you wanted a map to what it is
and I just walked the boring area towards the Hokkaido Raccoondogs
and this here is the camp picnic area and the stage is down there
I don't see how you get there
It's look like it's off limits they might be redoing it or something
maybe it's this way
this is if you are a kid that's you know age three I think you'd love to see goats
this is the children's area it's called
so if you're watching this and you got kids
This would be where you would like to hang out because the kids can go in with the these aminals which are domesticated they won't eat your kids
For some parents that might not be what you want
the kids to go play with Lions
all right, Japanese lesson
Pony, it's a pony
Goat is "Yagi"
these are sheeps
Sheep is "Hitsuji"
Anyone want to go see some sheeps
bet you everybody from New Zealand watching is going to be extremely excited by the beautiful luxurious coat of this
Wonderful sheep
it played a pig here we could recreate the movie bear
Does anyone remember the secret code of the sheep
baa Ram ewe
baa Ram ewe - you are breed a creepy true baa Ram ewe
apparently I have not gotten the sheep's attention with the secret code
It must maybe you got the seitan Japanese not In KIwi or Australian movies
all right
you got sheep in Hokkaido
OK, it's nice to see domesticated animals
those of you from far - off places of the world might never have seen a goat before
and if you haven't seen a goat before
I think that's what it looks like
there are areas of the world where people are watching the stream where they don't have goats
I'm serious, so goats
looks like a happy fellow and he's got, again
The goats can get out of the enclosure climb up here and literally walk to the other side
Potentially out and running away to the lion cage where it will become food
after watching the movie Jurassic Park I know that goats are particularly popular with dinosaurs
peacocks
that's a crow
anyone knows what sound is a peacock makes
Wao look at the mane on the thing you see. He's spreading it out
Here we got more, beautiful
Turn this way peacock
Wao it's massive
Here we go
look at how beautiful that is
we got one coming our way
It's nice to challenge out on a chunk of Chinese cabbage
"Hakusai" (Chinese cabbage)
It's what ou use with the Japanese "Nabe" (a hot-pot dish)
pick up Nabe
Go through some of the super chat literaly Chan loving both the channels
"Ganbatte!, Ganbarimasu"
Christopher, Zoom
Thank you Christopher, Andrea
Andrea, Quinlan
just a little something from missing the deadline on Kickstarter. Oh did you all right you wrote about that sorry about that Andrea
Thank you for the luck, I'm going to need it almost there
and Chris on the dot I love Japan
Thank you for the super chat guys much appreciated
all right I'm going to. Oh here we go, OK, here's the open-air arena
doesn't look like they're just showing anything at the moment or also be really crowded
I'm starting to really sweat it's up to 21 degrees now
It's going to go about five minutes on this livestream
tour of Asahiyama Zoo
which is one of the world's famous Zoos
because of their behavioral
what's the term I'm going to get right four facts have it right here with me
They call behavioral enrichment
so Asahiyama Zoo became famous in 1997
for changing the full way that they do Zoo by using the philosophy of behavioral enrichment
which helps not ust the animals it helps humans
like they know human behavior and so
like they know human behavior and so they know how humans like that picnic
I don't that's true but it is a beautiful picnic area
I really is a "Yama", mountain,
hiking it's a lot of walking
so if you got kids you might want to have a stroller
You have adults get tired quickly might want a stroller for them
get push around
I'm walking around with a self stick attached to a DJ AZMO up mobile
I'm not afraid or embarrassed but be pushed around a stroller
that is crazy, say unlive, stuff
I go back this way, this way
this is the part where I get tired and just start talking with everybody
great thing about hitchhiking last month last five weeks, I've made so many amazing friends
and if you check out the Instagram, the Only in Japan Instagram page, Only in Japan TV is the name
You'll see some of the amazing people that have met on the trip
and I get phone calls from them they're worried about me
A couple day ago, the two really nice people pick me up in Hakuba
They called me up just to see how I was doing
I like that I'm going to call them I'm going to Wakkanai
I'm going to call a lot of them back and just said that I made my goal
so then they kick kind, it's the reason why I'm in a psychology people picked me up and brought me here
I didn't take a train, bus or an airplane to this spot from Kagoshima
I've come here by hitchhike power
some screaming animals
where is it coming from
all right, I'm back here with the orangutan cage
I promised ou to go check them out before I ended the feed
this is my favorite exhibit
Probably one of the most unique vending machines I found
that's a vending machine
Let's go back up to the monkey house
This is what we started the live stream in 70 minutes ago
and I have to leave the Zoo shortly
because I have to go to the Asahikawa prison
where tehy going to be I'm going to try to get some shots of the flowers behind the prison in the gift shop
You know when you go to the prison you want to always visit the gift shop
Oh come on ring chains aren't in there globe jungle gym
but they're over there on the other side
there's an orangutan Kong, a museum for orangutan inside
that's a shame before I started the live stream there were
he's like hiding behind
Mama's right there, see mama
there's a lot of kids, a lot of families here
I can see why it's a very family - friendly place
there's the jungle gym
again they could go from one page to the next via this wire
and when they do that and if they were to fall they would landon top of all the people
that would not be that no be fun
We're back to the playful monkeys or debone
This is my favorite cage
It just looks fun
I guess you could technically they can go up there to the monkeys
and then they can climb up over into this area
whoa, whoa
He just jumped
Do it again, a visa to that we're fighting before
I wish I was a teenager again
I never could do that in physical education there was these rope
He had to climb ot the roof of the auditorium and I could never do it
I only survived as a monkey
little baby
Clement like mama
OK, he's coming this way
Wow, did you see that?
hard core part core, wait a second
hard core part core
hope you enjoyed this really really long tour of Asahiyama Zoo, one of the world's best
one of the world's top zoos, it's probably the most renowned zoo in Japan
celebrating a 50th anniversary this year
This park opened in 1967 and it's 2017, so 50 years of celebrated history
Twenty five of those years not so celebrated since it was a faillure of this zoo in the beginning
Now it's a huge success and turnaround story
and now has just about as many visitors as Unno Zoo in cnetral Tokyo
and yet they're in Asahikawa the northernmost city in Hokkaido, one of the toughest places to get to
If there's no Shinkansen, no bullet train
one thing that they do have this zoo
and really good run which I'm going to go any right now going back to the city
once again in Japan lines are very orderly to see the snake exhibit
and I'll pass on that I don't need to see this snake exhibit
somewhere I'm cards
and other exhibits and the Tigers
and down here was the fierce animal exhibits that you saw the Tigers
done bad tour got to see a lot
It's a pretty famil-friendly place and
this being the center
this the middle of the Japanese spring holiday called Golden Week
from April 28th to about May 7th this year
It's a lot of people
I bet you if you come here in the summer
It's like this or if you come in the off-season, you probably have the park to your self which is pretty cool
"Tancho" is that ostrich?
that's the birds with the puffy necks
It does help to know Japanese but most of the signs are in English and Korean and Chinese as well
so they know that a lot of visitors to Hokkaido are from Taiwan, from China, from Korea, from neighboring countries
and increasing them out from the West, but still not a lot of people from the West are here in Hokkaido
loads of carrots but not a lot of tourists from the West yet in Hokkaido
In fact I've been mistaking a lot of the Chinese tourists are from Taiwan here
one reason I know that Noboribetsu in the town that at the a couple of days ago, they have a Japan-Taiwan community hall
so there is some sort of friendship going on between the two countries
What a beautiful day!
I need ramen
beautiful day.
It's a lot more fun to do this livestream than because I think feel by myself if you weren't here with me
hope the cherry blossoms have not started in Asahikawa
you can see up there
There are some blossom just starting to blossom
so I've gotten in front of the cherry blossoms appear Hokkaido
All right I'm back at the entrance of the park
Park, there you go
That's the tour
of the Asahikawa, Asahiyama Zoo
I keep saying "Asahikawa", "Kawa" down below and "Yama" up above
I don't see any other things I can really show you other than then
How natural this park is!
It's up on the top of a mountain
how they've created
different like cages or areas where they can get from one to the next
and one time what made the Zoo so famous is
unlike some of the animal places that we visited in previous Only in Japan, GO on the other channel
With the bears were not in the best situation
there they're doing pretty good here
and makes me happy to see
If you do come to Japan this area, this is one of those places that you can't miss in Hokkaido
If you come to Hikkaido, this is one the places that you can't miss the Zoo here
because I'm turing the camera around it's just stunning
To be up here on top of a mountain watching the animals
It's really nice
beautiful up here
from the station it's 30 minute ride on the bus and then
440 Yen or about $4 for the bus ride, and 30 minutes to get here
The zoo itself is 840 Yen for adults and half for children I think
so it's very affordable trip
who's calling that guy
manhole!
Nothing interesting
It should make better manhole covers here
That's the entrance down there
You can see as we come into this Asahiyama Park Zoo
Loads of strollers very accessible if you're in a wheelchair
Everyone's here having lunch I enjoyed this, I enjyed the Park
I'm going to film a little bit for the DVD here
and then I'm going down to get some ramen and have a really nice lunch in the city
Those following the hitchhiking trip that I'm on I'll be here
I've gotten a lot of messages over the last few days of what my shedule is
I'll be in a Asahikawa for today and tomorrow
and then I'll travell to Wakkanai for two days to end the trip
and I might go to Rebun which is one of the islands near Wakkanai
and I always wanted to go to
but never had the time and that I might as well go now. It's a little bit cold for Rebun
Summer and Fall is better but I'll see if I can go
and I'm going to jump into the sea on a live feed like this
That's maybe tow days from now, two or three days I'll be jumping into the very cold Cape Soya
so icebergs I heard in the water between Russian and here
That's what it's what I'm going to do
Thank you everybody so for the next 20 seconds I'm just going to walk around the park
Say goodbye, see on the road