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i
am in ewok day right now you know let me
give you a peek at this hotel room
before i mess it up too much here is the
hotel room here
this place is called the horizon look
how fluffy that bed
is and that's the view
right on the ocean and if you get the
timing right you can actually see the
moon rise
right over the water there it's it's
quite a sight to see
i'm here working on a project for the
next couple of days and
i wanted to bring you guys along thing
that makes this hotel
really special though is the woman who
runs it
she she's an amazing soul
she was kind enough to give me a
personalized tour of the entire hotel
and it turns out she's a huge rugby fan
i also didn't think of how much the
ocean and sea life would change around
here due to the construction like if you
think about it has been
it has been 10 years of construction
and rebuilding in this area and it is
cold out right now it is
it's currently minus four degrees
celsius it's not that bad the canadian
in me is like
what are you doing complaining about my
okay i'm gonna i gotta focus
otherwise i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna
lose the drone
so the day just flew by it is already
i can't see my watch it's
it's after 6 p.m um i love these
lights here i actually want to put i
want to just fill the ceiling of my
office
with these lights i don't know why i'm
talking about the lights but i'm going
to get to the food
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just before six o'clock in the morning
and
i'm actually gonna head up to an
evacuation point
right behind the hotel in the hopes
of catching the sunshine sunshine the
sunrise in the hopes of catching the
sunrise
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so yesterday when i spoke to the woman
who runs the the hotel the horaikan she
told me of their experience coming up
here they set up fire
right here and watched the
sunrise here it's about 6 45
right now and judging from how the sky
looks
during this season chances are the sun's
actually gonna rise over the mountains
yeah there's another evacuation point
here
it seems like the sun's actually gonna
come up from right over there
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this area has been under construction
being completely rebuilt for the last
decade now so while it's one of the
older areas of japan all the roads and
the parking lots and everything are
brand new
it's an interesting site so all right
let's head down for a meeting
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her story of everything that happened
and how it played out
was just incredible
and she decided to stop telling the
story from this year
so i'm glad that i was able to kind of
capture it and immortalize it which
again is
is pretty much the point of all of this
but i am going to be late
so let's get going it's just before noon
and i'm out grabbing basically as many
shots of the area as i can i've got a
rough
shot list in my head but nothing formal
and then food i'm going to need food
because i'm perpetually hungry on this
trip i don't know why
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stopping at the unosato visitor center
to grab some food
no idea what's available and suddenly
it's sunny what
ah all right got my food options here
i will probably get everything because
i'm incredibly hungry
and for some reason when you step inside
they have a much bigger menu
so i guess i'll be eating much more
usually when i'm this close to the ocean
i'm gonna go for seafood but tonight's
dinner at the hotel is probably gonna be
seafood
so i think i'm going with tonkatsu
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literally not the first clue of how to
open that door okay
i got a couple more hours of sunlight so
i'm gonna gather as many shots as i can
i think i'm gonna go check out one of
the evacuation sites near here where the
high school evacuated
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also i didn't have a proper mount for my
camera so i
picked up some tape it
it works it works for now
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i'm quickly running out of daylight the
sun's actually about to go
down behind that mountain right there
but i was driving by
and found this
look at this torii gate i wanna i wanna
know the story behind this thing and
just down the road from that is this
area
right here there's a little shrine like
space up here
but it was these that caught my eye
these little
legend of zelda style vases just
just laying here
i don't know why i like that so much but
i do i do okay
all right i gotta get back on the road
seriously seriously running out of light
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all my sunlight is gone but i found this
shrine gate on my way back to the hotel
and i thought i'd come up
and take a peek at what's up this hill
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i really should be heading back so i can
start sorting out files
and do a touch of the edit just so i can
take a peek but
but i'm procrastinating
and agong
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for tonight's dinner i'm to have a
meeting with a local gentleman
who he's just the guy who knows
everybody out here i met him a couple
months back and he was kind enough to
help me out with a lot of introductions
and
a lot of communication and getting
things set up for me during this
project so we're gonna have dinner
tonight and touch base
but last time i came he took me to this
amazing
shrine that
he says is is meant to represent one of
the original
i you know i'm i feel like i'm almost
gonna have to do a separate piece on it
at some point because there's it's a
really
really cool space i think i think i
think we're gonna have to come back
again
i am not gonna lie these stairs
terrify me wow this is steep
oh my oh this was a poor choice
oh but look at that
this one isn't even thick like look at
these they're not even big enough
to fit my feet what in the world
oh i also forgot this was recording so
there we go that
that is gonna be the biggest file ever
on my way back
randomly found a panda yucky
truck that's don't know why
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looks like a panda sorry panda
i'm still just really happy that that
truck is there
before i forget of course
perfect
i probably shouldn't have eaten the
panda yaki
right before the dinner meeting it is am
i late
no i'm not late i have got to quickly
charge
everything gotta use these little
windows of time efficiently otherwise
it all piles up to the end of the night
and then i don't end up sleeping
don't ask me how but i went through
three drone batteries today
i also need to dump 128 gigabytes
of footage card is completely full
in light off to the bath
also i just realized i just walked in
here with a camera without a second
thought in the world
but i'm the only i'm the only guest
there's nobody else here
good morning it is eight o'clock and how
nice was that bath yesterday
oh i really i've come out to the center
of the city to gather up as many
shots as i can before i box off
one or maybe two more interviews and i
always find myself wondering if this
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now it's eight o'clock so i'm about to
get all packed up to check out and i was
like let me
let me show you one of the nice rooms
and this
this is quite the room it's got its own
bath and everything
right outside of the room it's even got
its own seating space here
hey a bit of a fun fact i'm
actually gonna drive two hours out to
morioka
just because there's more shinkansen and
i don't want to risk taking the last
train from this area
the gentleman at the ramen shop today
was telling me that the wind is so
strong today that it might actually stop
the trains because the trains here are
just like
more often than not one little car on a
raised platform and if the wind gets too
strong it just
they just they stop running so
now
a
my
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you