Shawn (00:01): Hey, everybody. Welcome back to English All Over the Place, a podcast produced by the Office of English Education at IUHW Narita. Each episode, we focus on different topics that we think are interesting and hope the students feel so too. As always, after every episode, uh, feel free to complete our survey, uh, test your comprehension by trying out our learning materials and, uh, send us any questions or suggestions for the show. I'm your host, Shawn De Haven along with...
Barney (00:31): I am Barney and, um, yeah, you, if you're listening to this, most of you probably know our emails. So, um, either send your question through, are you laughing at me?
Shawn (00:43): Well, I figured we'd put a link on the site, so I don't think we have to worry about emails.
Barney (00:47): Should we start over?
Shawn (00:47): No, it's fine. This is live guys. So Barney, you suggested with all the students now on campus, and many living in the area now, um, to do a show about the best of Narita, especially for those who are new to the area, right?
Barney (01:05): Yeah. I, um, you and I have both been, um, student life advisors and, um, I have told I, my group of students, you know, kind of the ins and outs of Narita and they always seem, those living on campus around campus or spending extra time around campus, always seemed appreciative of it. So I thought, why not? Uh, why not help as many people out as we can.
Shawn (01:28): All right. I was wondering how many times you could say the word campus and one more time. You're like, it's like six times in a sentence, but it's okay. Um, let's see here. So I thought we do maybe the top five Narita attractions or places to go, things to do, et cetera. So starting with number five. [inaudible] insert drum roll here, I suppose. Uh, what is your number five?
Barney (01:53): Yeah, boy, a drum roll for number five. That's pretty good.
Shawn (01:56): Yeah, we are so psyched about these top five.
Barney (01:59): The absolute best.
Shawn (02:01): We were going to do the top 17, but I said no,
Barney (02:05): Some websites or videos. Yeah.
Shawn (02:10): Why not twenty?
Barney (02:10): We don't have enough time. We have to get over the 17, the 10 minute barriers so that we can get funding on commercials.
Shawn (02:17): So what is your number five?
Barney (02:18): Number five. Yeah, this is, um, sadly a little known place, even though, um, they have to change two branches, two stores, two shops, and one of them is right by campus. Um, Houei coffee, Houei Coffee is my number five. Um, it is, um, right, right by campus. If you just take a right at the, um, that blue and white convenience store that isn't Family Mart and --
Shawn (02:47): What are you talking about?
Barney (02:50): And go down the road there. It's on the right hand side, they have a black sign with white letters, it's hard to see. I think that's why it's so, so little visited.
Shawn (02:59): So the black sign with the black letters was not a good idea.
Barney (03:02): I guess they compromised. They thought, well, at least, you know, black and gray, black and white, maybe, maybe black and dark red,
Shawn (03:10): Black and dark purple.
Barney (03:13): They also have another store right by Narita-san. Um, but yeah, for my money, um, it is some of the best coffee you can get, uh, not just in Narita, but
Shawn (03:25): It's good that you brought this up because I don't drink coffee at all.
Barney (03:28): Right.
Shawn (03:29): And of course I know a lot of students do and teachers certainly do as well. So I would not have had this in my top five. So the place is called
Barney (03:38): Houei Coffee. Um, they, it's actually cool. This store actually has, um, their own coffee tree that they are growing and they harvest beans from it. I mean, not a huge amount, just one treatment, but, uh, I haven't checked lately if they have the ultra premium, you know, insiders,
Shawn (03:57): Here's our cup for winter. This one cup costs five thousand yen.
Barney (04:03): I was going to say juman but um, yeah, one, one thing that's disappointing and doesn't make any sense is, um, they got on me one time for bringing in outside food. Um, they don't have, they have snacks, you know, like as in, um, um, uh, shortbread cookies, right? Walkers, but one pack of cookie is two cookies, right. That's not very satisfying. And I thought if, if I have something like chocolates, you know, it's not making a big mess. Is that a big deal?
Shawn (04:36): Apparently, it is.
Barney (04:38): It is. And even the next time I went in, there was a sign on the register in English, "No outside food".
Shawn (04:45): Wow. You're making a difference. You're making a difference. Was the English correct?
Barney (04:50): Yeah, it was. Yeah.
Shawn (04:51): Well then you got to compliment them and take your business elsewhere. "You guys, your English was correct. Goodbye."
Barney (04:59): Very nice. I didn't make a mess. Yeah.
Shawn (05:03): So, Houei Coffee, just don't bring your own chocolates.
Barney (05:07): Yeah, gosh.
Barney (05:08): That was an interesting twist. I did not expect that. Um, my number five here, I guess my number five would probably be Boso no mura.
Barney (05:19): That's five. Wow. What's your number one?
Shawn (05:23): Saizeriya. Um, my number, well, I mean, it's very hard to rank these things, so they're very close, uh, Boso no mura, um, if you haven't been, uh, it's a nice place. You might need to, uh, take a bus or get a ride there cause it's not anywhere close to a train station.
Barney (05:40): Right.
Shawn (05:40): But it's a nice place where there's lots of nature. Um, there's like, um, a small street. That's like a rec-- like a re-creation of like an old Japanese style village kind of thing. And they have, I think they have craft workshops there too. Um, you can like paint your own daruma or stuff like that.
Barney (06:00): Yep.
Shawn (06:01): There's a little stream that you can take a boat on. Um...
Barney (06:05): Really?
Shawn (06:05): Yeah. It's very small though. If you didn't notice it, don't worry about it. Um, you can play on some taiko. Yeah. The kids love that. Yeah. Um, it's really nice. If the weather's nice, uh, it's great. Um, and they have events there and I think cherry blossom viewing other things too. It was quite nice. And, you know, Narita, is actually quite a large city.
Barney (06:30): Right.
Shawn (06:32): And it's included,
Barney (06:33): I was going to say, I hate to burst your bubble,
Shawn (06:35): Uh oh, it's not in Narita?
Barney (06:35): but it's not technically in Narita City.
Shawn (06:39): Oh no!
Barney (06:40): But if I know I ran across this as well. Um, my wife and I were watching that, um, uh, Tokoro George's show and, and, and they had, uh, the golden microphone outside of Keisei Narita station.
Shawn (06:53): Ah, I remember that!
Barney (06:54): And I said, I said, if I pick that up, I would take them to Boso no mura and she's like, I'm so sorry. It's not in Narita City.
Shawn (07:01): Wow. And I just said that Narita is so large,
Barney (07:04): But it feels like it because one area of Narita, you know, you're driving and driving and driving and you're still in Narita. Yeah.
Shawn (07:11): My wife said, "We're still in Narita." "Are you serious? This is still Narita?"
Barney (07:15): Boso no mura is not nearly that far
Shawn (07:17): "I saw a sign for Ibaraki. How's it this still Narita?" Okay. Well, I'm going to count it...
Barney (07:23): let's call it Narita because, because you and I both thought,
Shawn (07:26): Oh, and there's also, um, I found out that there's, um, old tombs there.
Barney (07:31): Wow. Really?
Shawn (07:32): Ko-. Uh, was it, ah, what did they call those tombs from? Uh, uh, was it maybe Yayoi or Jomon jidai and I can't remember.
Barney (07:39): Yes. Yes.
Shawn (07:40): They do have these bumps in the ground and the word is escaping me here.
Barney (07:46): Yeah, me too. I studied it for my conspiracy theory thing.
Shawn (07:50): Yeah. I had to stop the thing here to make sure we had to look it up -- kofun, kofun, these tombs, uh, from, uh, ancient Japan and as you're driving through to the parking lot or back from the parking lot. And you see these bumps and that's what they are, so,
Barney (08:07): Wow.
Shawn (08:08): Maybe there's like some lost treasure in there.
Barney (08:11): Right.
Shawn (08:11): No, I don't know.
Barney (08:12): There is a kofun on Mars.
Shawn (08:14): Okay. Let's save that for the conspiracies episode. Okay. What is your number four?
Barney (08:23): Yeah. Okay. Number four is...
Shawn (08:26): Hopefully it's in Narita,
Barney (08:27): Definitely in Narita, um, uh, general category, um, supermarkets.
Shawn (08:30): General category. I love this. This is like Jeopardy, the game show. I'll take supermarkets for 100 Alex. Yeah. Okay. So what supermarkets are good in Narita
Barney (08:40): Yeah. Um, they don't have kind of the, be all and end all of supermarkets. Um,
Shawn (08:46): What is the be and end all?
Barney (08:48): That would be like the best, most ideal supermarket you could come up with. Um, you kind of have to pick and choose. So, um, for a lot of things I like to go to Yaoko. Um, there's one, not too far from campus, you can, especially if you live in the dorm, um, just hanging left, uh, at that, uh, koban.
Shawn (09:06): At the kofun?
Barney (09:07): Koban.
Barney (09:08): Don't go to the kofun. That's -- you passed it. Um, yeah, they, uh, they have a lot of good things there. Uh, kind of just general things that you need go there. Um, if you need produce, um, vegetables then, uh, in BonBelta, don't go to Maretsu. They'll, they'll gouge you, they're way too expensive. Um, but there is a small kind of produce shop there. Um, and that's actually very good. Of course, Lopia has good produce. Um,
Shawn (09:35): And they have that little store also across from Lopia on the first floor, right?
Barney (09:40): Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wakaba,. uh, so I, um, what Waku waku hiroba
Shawn (09:44): Yeah,
Barney (09:48): I always say wakawaka.
Shawn (09:48): Waka waka!
Barney (09:48): Yeah, that one is good too. Yes. The nice thing about Yaoko, um, getting back to them is, um, they do, they also have a local, um, farmers area, so I can get things like spaghetti squash and Swiss chard and stuff like that, that you would really not find, um, most places there. Um, and I, I told this to my, um, previous, uh, student life students, um, cause I noticed some of them like to work out, um, if you can't make it to Costco to get their deal on protein, um, Kawachi every Wednesday protein powder is, uh, 30% off. So if you're really, if you really picky, if there's a protein powder that you really want and you, even, if you could go to Costco and then go through on a Wednesday, um, otherwise you can just go to Costco and get a year supply.
Shawn (10:39): Should you take it all at once?
Barney (10:41): Yeah, No, no. And I, I won't say a joke that I had lined up with that, but, but no. Okay.
Shawn (10:50): You won't leave the bathroom for like weeks or that kind of joke or? No. Okay.
Barney (10:56): I'll tell you when we're done recording.
Shawn (10:57): Okay. We'll get that on the bonus footage of the podcast.
Barney (11:02): Only for big members.
Shawn (11:04): Yes, yes. We're on Patreon. Um, number four, let's see, my number four would probably be, Hm, Sakura no yama kouen.
Barney (11:17): Oh yeah, boy, man, I can't wait to hear your three, three, two, and one because you're hitting it out of the park.
Shawn (11:23): You might be disappointed because it's it's it's, you know, um, but Sakura no yama koen, uh, if you don't know, is, um, well this could be also number three or four. It doesn't really matter, but, um, it's a park right at the end of one of the runways of Narita airport. And, uh, depending on the time of the day, you can see planes, either landing and coming right over the park or taking off and going right over the park as well.
Barney (11:51): That's awesome.
Shawn (11:51): They also have an excellent, um, uh, gift shop in there with a lot of very specific merchandise for people that love airplanes and flights and things like that. For those, um, I dunno, airplane otaku it's it's heaven and it's, it's very nice park to play around for the kids and things like that. And, and I've taken tons of pictures of airplanes, really nice pictures. Um, there are less flights now because of COVID and they're used to be, but it's still a fun outing. And if you're concerned about being close to people, it's out in the open air, so it's, it's relatively safe. Yeah, that was my number four. Okay. Number three....
Barney (12:36): Coming at you, everybody. Um, the countryside. Oh, so along the lines of how big Narita is, um, it's true. If you are headed in the right direction, even from campus here, let me just go a kilometer or less. And you're already in the countryside. Um, very close to campus actually is the largest tree in Eastern Japan. Yeah. Um, there is a temple of course. And, um, there's also a kindergarten kind of attached to this temple. Kusonoki, uh, kindergarten right behind that kindergarten is this temple it's really not far from campus at all largest tree in Eastern Japan.
Shawn (13:20): Can you find Totoro nearby?
Barney (13:23): I didn't have enough time to search but possible.
Shawn (13:26): Whaaat?
Barney (13:26): And if you go in a different direction, you'll soon end up, uh, in the rice fields and still Narita, but the rice field's very nice. Um, yeah, we don't get to see a whole lot of stars where we are, but if you go toward that area in the evening, be safe, everybody travel with more than one person. Um, you can see a good starry night, especially in the winter.
Shawn (13:46): All right. All right. What number, are we already on three? That was number three for you. Number three for me. Well, um, I guess I'll say the nature as well, actually. Uh, so I mean, it could have been one, two or three. Sure, sure. Um, because it's just, well, maybe this is my number one, but I mean, it doesn't matter. Um, I like the area where I live because, um, it's a suburb, but you can walk five minutes away and there's rice fields and a forest. You walk the other direction, there's a river. And if you walk down that river, um, toward, uh, Aeon Mall, (Yeah), the big one, right. Uh, there's uh, trees that blossom cherry blossoms in the summer, in the spring, excuse me. And, uh, it's just really nice. And, uh, I really appreciated it during the, the, the height of the COVID shut down because you could walk around outside and not get too close to people. And, uh, still have your sanity. I mean, if I lived, I used to live in Tokyo. If I lived in Tokyo, there would not have been any place for my kids to play at that day.
Barney (15:01): Oh yeah.
Shawn (15:02): So definitely nature is a plus in Narita. It might be a little bit boring, but it's, you know, for some people, but it's a nice change and it's free.
Barney (15:14): Yes. Good call. Yeah.
Shawn (15:16): All right. We are zooming through the top five here. Number two.
Barney (15:20): Yes. Alright. Um, a lot of people kind of lament that Narita has a lot of chain restaurants, but, um, yeah.
Shawn (15:29): Yes, I love those.
Barney (15:29): Or celebrate, um, they don't have an Arby's though, but they do have a Burger King. Um, but other restaurants I really appreciate. Um, so my favorites, I'll tell you some of my favorites, uh, I guess I'll start closest to campus. Um, Anton is just, just across the way, uh, by Your Elm. Um, near there kind of in the other direction is a Cafe Vivo. They make fresh pasta there. Um, it's very, very good. They're doing takeout. Um, so it might be worth it. They have good salads, um, a little bit further away, uh, actually, uh, behind campus then is ah, Legame. They have a wood fired oven. So if you like that kind of pizza, I really recommend it. Um, sometimes you might need a reservation. Their lunch is actually very, very good too. They've got good sandwiches. Um, and then a little bit further away is a ramen shop. I like it. Dotechin it's actually Dotechin number one. Yeah. They have at least three, two is in Ibaraki and three I've, I've had been going to three longer than I knew about one Three is in a Yachio city, Katsutadai area—
Shawn (16:41): And the sequels are still as good as the first one?
Barney (16:43): Yeah. Actually the third one might be better than the first. Yeah.
Shawn (16:47): Wow, it's like a Toy Story.
Barney (16:47): Cause they have, yeah. Yeah. They have, although I like toy story two best. They have a really spicy, um, uh, miso ramen at number three. You have to be careful, um, to ask them to tone it down, although you guys are young. Um, so keeping that in mind when I went to number two or number one, another joke that I'll save for later, um, uh, I asked them to tone down the spiciness and they're like, you know, it's really actually not that spicy as like, Oh yeah, says you. And then, um, it wasn't very spicy at all. So I had to heep up the ramen on there,
Shawn (17:22): So it was different for different restaurants.
Barney (17:23): Yeah. Interesting. Um, and then again, not far from Sakura no yama, there is a Michi no eki, um, where you, uh, they have a restaurant called Fuwari. Um, and it used to be buffet-style, but it has since reopened as just plate, they serve everything on a plate and it is all fresh produce from the area. Um, and just,
Shawn (17:50): There's still dirt on it, right?
Barney (17:53): Marvelous.
Shawn (17:53): Very fresh.
Barney (17:54): There... everything is fantastic. And on top of that, they have this Curry that they make with adding, um, fresh cream too, which is also fantastic. Um, so I, I debated about sharing that one because the more people that go the harder it is for me to go,
Shawn (18:13): Oh, everybody go there, everybody go!
Barney (18:15): But it's worth it.
Shawn (18:17): Order the curry with the cream so he doesn't, he can't get it.
Barney (18:19): It's far enough that not everybody can go to. That's my number two
Shawn (18:23): Road trip. Okay. Number two, number two for me, I guess, would be, Narita-san.
Barney (18:33): Okay.
Shawn (18:34): Uh, because of course it's, it's a very famous temple, over a thousand years. You know it's crazy around new years. I don't know what it's going to be like this year, this next year, but we'll see. Um, it's a great, let me just say, is it temple or shrine? I forget temple?
Barney (18:52): It is a Buddhist temple.
Shawn (18:53): Shinshouji. Okay. Yes. Okay. So temple, I always forget. Um, it doesn't really matter to me. I'm a Christian, so
Barney (19:01): People still take their kids there for shichi-go-san, even though that's not a Buddhist temple. Yeah.
Shawn (19:05): Things are fluid. Yeah.
Barney (19:07): Um, that's a good way to put it.
Shawn (19:09): Uh, you, so you go in there and of course it's great, you know, you... suisenbako and your throwing your coins and stuff like that. But also if you go farther in there's the, the little forest and I didn't go in there for like a year or a half or two years when I first moved there and I went in there like, Oh my gosh, there's so much more. And it's, it's a huge, uh, temple. The grounds are just huge. Yeah. Uh, there's, there's a nice a pond there with like a pavilion that you can sit on really nice. It's great. Around fall. Great for pictures. And it's cooler in the forest too, when you're on a hot day, you walk down in there and it'll drop a few degrees and there's a little waterfall and things like that. And of course it seems, you know, it's kind of silly and, uh, I dunno, beta, um, you can say in Japanese to pick this as like number one or number two, but you know, it is Narita, you know? And, uh, and I also do enjoy the airport, but not as much lately. Uh, I used to love going to the airport even when I didn't have plans, but I'm leaving that off the list for now. Cause it's pretty obvious. Um, so that's my number two.
Barney (20:22): Yeah. I, um, boy, I had, I had, I wish I had chosen a different number one now.
Shawn (20:31): Coco's
Barney (20:31): But yeah. Um, if I can just piggyback on that, um, I doubt that they'll do it this year, but um, in the fall they have a, uh, shamisen festival and just lots of different people just when you two or three or four, five shammies and masters up there playing off of each other for the same thing as a person who loves Phish, you know, I can really get into that. That was just,
Shawn (20:59): As a person who loves, Oh, Phish, the band!
Barney (21:02): The band Phish.
Shawn (21:02): Okay. I was like, what does fish have to do with shamisen? I don't, if anything, it's unagi, isn't it? I did not get the connection. There's a popular band in the United States called Phish. It's spelled P H I S H.
Barney (21:18): Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they, yeah, because they, they, their music is, um, they, they, they jam, right. They, they get off on, they get away from how their song goes and they improv, um, yeah, boy, man, when I saw those shamisen masters, boy, chills. Yeah. That's one great thing about Narita-san.
Shawn (21:40): I have not seen it yet. I would like to.
Barney (21:42): Yeah.
Shawn (21:42): But just the timing was wrong.
Barney (21:44): Yeah.
Shawn (21:46): I did go to the one where all the mascots, the yuru kyara came out in front of and took their picture. That was adorable.
Barney (21:52): Yeah. They also have, um, setsubun, the sumo rikishi.
Shawn (21:56): Yes. And a Kabuki yakusha come.
Barney (22:01): Really, I didn't know that.
Shawn (22:01): Ichi-ah, cause that's his like his, Ichino-
Barney (22:04): Yeah.
Shawn (22:05): - I forget his name, but, um.
Barney (22:07): And uh, if it's your year, you can donate X amount of fixed money and get up there. So year, year of the sheep, whatnot. Um, but also kind of piggybacking on that, uh, there's, there's a temple actually near to campus. Um, Sogoreido, where they throw lots of candy and things like that. So it's actually a little bit more fun and more low key, but, um, yeah, if you, if you, if you went to see Baruto or a Hakuho or
Shawn (22:38): I do want to go, but it's just so crowded, my wife has always said, no, there's no way we're going nearby there. You know, it's just too much-
Barney (22:45): At least one time.
Shawn (22:46): Yeah. And I kind of want to go there, before COVID I wanted to go there on the new year's time to see just how crazy it is.
Barney (22:52): One of my very, very early dates. Um, you know, I arrived in Japan in September and then my, um, um, at the time girlfriend, now wife, we, uh, I was even living, still living in Noborito and she's like, why don't you come down 'cause the trains are running all night? Um, so new year's Eve, we spent the whole night, um, walking around Narita-san during the nighttime. Yeah. Again in that fabulous forest.
Shawn (23:18): Sounds great.
Barney (23:19): Yeah.
Shawn (23:19): Okay. Number one,
Barney (23:22): Number one.
Shawn (23:22): Oh boy.
Barney (23:24): Sorry. Um, so kind of keeping on the theme of nature, I chose, um, Sagatagaike park.
Shawn (23:33): Ah, the park with along slide.
Barney (23:35): The long roller slide. Yeah. And ah,
Shawn (23:37): Bring something to sit on.
Barney (23:38): Yeah. Right. You can borrow them, uh, those plastic slides from the office. Um, yeah. And, um, the roller slide and they have a neat, um, uh, fountain that, uh, it's, it's called the dragon fountain. That kind of winds its way down the hill. But-
Shawn (24:00): Fountain?
Barney (24:00): I guess it's a fountain.
Shawn (24:03): You mean the slide?
Barney (24:03): Izumi...ah, no no. It's um, it's water that the kids can play in.
Shawn (24:07): Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Barney (24:08): And, um, but, but kind of the reason why I chose this as number one and useful for you guys listening out there, um, if you can find your way there, it's easy to reserve, um, not a camp site, I mean, you can camp there, but you can barbecue there. So reserve that area, have your friends there be socially distant.
Shawn (24:28): Ooh. A date spot perhaps.
Barney (24:31): Yeah. Or do that there's um, and uh, have yourself a good old fashioned barbecue with I'm talking about steaks and hamburgers and hotdogs and um, yeah. It's really great.
Shawn (24:44): Yeah. That would be in my, uh, maybe number eight in my top 10 it's it's very nice. Um, boy, if you go down that slide without anything. Oh man. Your, your butt gets so hot from the friction.
Barney (24:59): My britches are burning. I know.
Shawn (25:00): Uh, yeah. I remember seeing my son go down it and like stopping halfway through and like causing a traffic jam. No, no, not because he was burning just because he was slower. Go faster, go faster. There's people behind you. But they're very nice about that too. The other kids are nice.
Barney (25:14): Yeah, yeah. They understand.
Shawn (25:16): My number one is, in keeping with Narita-san, Omotesando.
Barney (25:22): Yeah.
Shawn (25:24): The street, the long street in front of Narita-san with all the shops and restaurants, especially unagi. Um, I just love that place, walking down it on Sundays with all the people and you buy a little food here, you buy a little food there. You know, my son is like the dango over here and my other son likes to senbei at this place and the potato chips, the sweet potato chips, um, fresh of course. Um, and of course it's just very pleasant and sometimes they have, of course they have the Gion Matsuri there too. And my kids loved that. This was canceled last year. Yeah. I wonder why.
Barney (26:05): Rightfully so.
Shawn (26:05): Um, yeah, but it's just a very pleasant long walk down the hill and then maybe back up if you're parked up at top and also, and this is a different thing here, um, you want to see the clock in front of the train station when it strikes the hour, because there's a cool, like, um, karakuri, a little animated, like robot that comes out and does a kabuki dance and things like that. It's very cool. But I love Omotesando. I didn't want to move to Narita at first. Cause all I knew was like Aeon. I knew that side of, I didn't know Narita-san and I didn't know Omotesando. And then when I went- came there, I'm like, Oh this is nice. I could live with this. And sometimes we drive down it on our way home.
Barney (26:54): Yeah, right. Yeah.
Shawn (26:55): It's a shortcut out of and it's just nice, the view coming down and you see Narita-san in the distance. So that would be my number one.
Barney (27:03): Yeah. That's a great choice.
Shawn (27:05): And, and we, and of course, Narita...around the area, there's also some great things. So, um, besides Boso no mura, um, but also I would also recommend maybe going to Sakura, the windmill when the tulips are blooming, although it's not quite as exciting as you think a windmill would be. I don't know. Um, also I love Sawara in Katori.
Barney (27:33): Yes.
Shawn (27:34): Um, if you can take a train there, uh, hopefully they'll have the festival next year. I don't know. We'll know, but even just walking around, it's a little city with canals,
Barney (27:43): Right.
Shawn (27:43): And a little bit similar to Kurashiki, but on a smaller scale.
Barney (27:47): Right.
Shawn (27:48): And it's very pleasant, very pleasant.
Barney (27:51): And um, yeah. The nice thing about Sawara, even though it's far away, you can take the Narita line and get there,
Shawn (27:57): But there aren't that many trains each hour, so map it carefully. Yeah.
Barney (28:02): Um, yeah, the history is so interesting about Sawara, how, um, the wealthy people were, um, you know, using the river, Tone river too, and then that canal to get their items while they were staying away from the city. And that's why that one hall there or that bank, I think it, former bank is designed by the same person who designed Tokyo station.
Shawn (28:25): Yeah. There are some wonderful older buildings around the canals too. So if you love architecture, if you love Showa earlier periods, uh, go there, look at these buildings. So that was, uh, those were our top five.
Barney (28:40): for sure.
Shawn (28:41): for Narita and slightly outside of Narita. Um, we'd love to hear what you think is cool about Narita. Feel free to email us. Um, of course again, we have those learning materials. Right, right. Um, and we'd love to see, uh, if you're listening, uh, fill out the, uh, uh, survey. We want it, we want your feedback and we want you to try the other things. So, uh, anything else to add? I think we're...
Barney (29:08): I think we nailed it this time.
Barney (29:10): All right. This time, what are you saying? Last time we didn't nail it? Okay. Well until next time I hope you enjoyed this episode. I know we did. And I hope you are enjoying Narita.
Barney (29:24): Yes. Welcome.
Shawn (29:25): All right. Until next time. Bye.
Barney (29:28): Thanks for listening.