Why These Remote Islands are Technically Part of Tokyo
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I'm glad there are no international airports on any of those islands. Imagine thinking you've scored a cheap ticket to Tokyo, only to arrive on an island in the middle of nowhere.
If I told you there’s now gatcha machines spitting plane tickets to random places you never thought you’d want to visit ? You’d have that, but unwillingly played by everyone going to “Tokyo”
I believe Ryanair are investigating the possibilities...
Hahaha this kind of cheap-low cost airlines-trick
If Ryanair flew to Japan, they would call Sapporo "Tokyo North" and pretend it was normal.
@@auxiliarypowerunit I feel a little awkward now, because you seemingly took my comment seriously and did me the courtesy of making a serious reply. As people familiar with Ryanair will know, while the European low - cost carrier (based out of Dublin, Ireland) are famous for their 'dirt - cheap' fares, they are notorious for their 'no - frills' policy, and what might be called 'hidden extras', except that there's little 'hidden' about them, given that they almost make a virtue of the policy. A ticketing model that might be described as "We can take you there for €20. Of course you can look elsewhere, but if you do you'll find our price has gone up to €30..!" Electronic - only boarding passes; pay - by - weight carry - on luggage; NO complimentary food or drinks etc... As a matter of fact, it wasn't that long ago that 'love him or hate him, you can't ignore him' CEO Michael O'Leary suggested charging for the use of toilets on board! (There was more to it than a simple bladder levy, and was most probably in part, a publicity stunt; but no - he wasn't joking!) It is against this "Squeeze... Squeeze Hard! background that Ryanair have a reputation for flying into airports that might not necessarily be those that immediately - or even upon some consideration - come to mind with reference to one's destination city. For example, while Ireland's 'national' carrier, the unfortunately named Aer Lingus, flies into (London) Heathrow, Ryanair flies to Stansted, 3 times as far away, and with significantly more tenuous connections. Stansted isn't even a great example, since Ryanair are amongst some quite respectable company in using that airport, Heathrow and Stansted being just two of, I believe, 7 official 'London' airports now! Again though, if one takes Paris, I don't believe Ryanair use Orly _OR_ Charles de Gaulle, favouring... ah... favouring... ->?!?
Fun fact, “Hahajima to Chichijima” more or less means mom island and dad island.
Ok that's just wholesome
Next to them are also Anijima, Ototojima, Anejima, and Imotojima, which basically mean "older brother", "younger brother", "older sister", and "younger sister".
A whole happy family of islands.
"Fun fact, “Hahajima to Chichijima” more or less means mom island and dad island."
If they're parents, where are the offspring and how do they reproduce?
@@Soul-Burn you could say they were happy accidents :)
@@greeceuranusputin since names are pretty much ideas, the people naming the islands are basically the way they reproduce
The “history of japan” reference got me rolling
What reference?
@@rachelcookie321 At 0:47, This is a reference to a very good video by bill wurtz called "history of Japan", he has a very unique way of describing things and editing.
@@EternalOhm oh, I’m pretty sure I’ve watched that video. It was cool.
"We can't declare a winner in the mayor's race until we hear from Hahajima."
"He is ahead by 1K votes, Hahajima only have 50 votes total!!"
"I don't care, we wait..."
haha that was a funny movie
@@Geo.StoryMaps Which movie is it
@@OrangeC7 czcams.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/video.html
@@Geo.StoryMaps Oh I've heard of that one but I never watched it before. Now I should really see it
@@Geo.StoryMaps I wonder why people doesn't talk about this movies a lot
When you fly from Guam to Narita you get off the plane in Chiba-ken and take the train into Tokyo. If you plane has an emergency and it lands on halfway island, you're suddenly already in Tokyo.
Well an emergency landing at Ogasawara wouldn't be pretty as the only aviation facilities is a heliport and an area to service flying boats. But fly into Haneda, much easier than going through Narita, as long as you get in outside of rush hour.
@@Teampegleg I'm talking about Iwo Island (IWO/RJAW). Guam has no flights to HND.
@@AxxLAfriku I finally did it. I out-pizza'd the Hut. It was the greatest mistake of my life. After years of perfecting my recipe, I made my way down to the local hut, fresh-baked pizza pie in hand. "Try this," I told the kid working the counter. He did, and he had to agree that it was better than anything Pizza Hut had to offer. Soon, the entire store, customers included, was feasting on my delicious pie. The manager walked over, grabbed a slice, and took a bite. I look at him, anticipation rising. This was the boss, the local fief lord of the Hut. His approval meant more to me than all the rest combined. He took a bite and nodded. "I'll be damned," he said, "you really did it. You out-pizza'd the Hut. Shame." Shame? What did he mean by tha- the manager pulled a gun out from behind his apron and shot the nearest customer in the head. "We have a Code Jalapeño," he said into his wrist as he executed the remaining customers. "I repeat, we have a Code Jalapeño." The ground was slick with blood. The kid working the counter choked out his dying breath as the manager turned to me. "You just had to do it motherfucker. You just had to out-pizza the Hut." He shoved the gun in my face. I was too scared to fight, too scared to run. The manager pulled the trigger. A click. The gun was empty. I threw a chair at the manager and scrambled out of the Pizza Hut, not even bothering to see if my missile hit its mark. I was closely pursued by the manager, who had gotten his hands on a deadly sharp pizza cutter. I suspected in his hands it would cut more than pizza. Somehow, I was able to get into my car and speed off, the manager cursing my existence as I left him behind. I took a deep breath. The manager was clearly psychotic. Yes, that was it, just a crazy man with a gun. It had to be. My phone rang. Sister. I picked it. "They're dead, she sobbed. They're all dead. M-mom, dad, Chris, Bill. Dead. They killed them all." I could barely understand her, so great were her sobs. "What do you mean? Where are you?" I asked urgently. "How is this possi-" a single gunshot sounded through my phone's speakers. Silence. Then, I heard a man's voice. "No one out-pizzas the Hut." He hung up. I drove down the empty county road, mind blank. I had nothing. They killed my family. I was alone. At that moment I knew what I had to do. They took everything from me. Well then, I would take everything from them. Pizza Hut was so terrified of being out-pizza'd, they forgot there's one thing worse than a man with a recipe: A man with nothing to lose. I'll give them a limited time offer they won't be able to refuse: two bullets for the price of one. With a free side order of pain.
@@legalwaterdrinker3286 Uh, the ancient art of Backspamming. I never thought I would life to see a grand master perform it.
@@legalwaterdrinker3286 nice copy and paste 😐😐😐
The godly intro...
The pronunciations were actually pretty good.
Except at 4:44 when they misspell and mispronounce Hachijo Subprefecture.
But not bad overall. I'd give it 8/10
He nailed it
Really? He was the first person I have heard mispronounce Edo. I wouldn't have thought that that was even possible.
@@iron_pickaxe:
Then, I give him 5/7, a perfect score.
and the godly joke on 2:50
Since you specifically mentioned it, I found it my duty as a Japanese speaker to count the mispronounced words.
I counted 8 unique Japanese words mispronounced: Tokyo, todofuken, Bonin, Edo, Oshima, Miyake, Hachijo (also misspelled), and Okinotorishima. There are more if you want to be really technical, but overall I'd say you did better than most people on CZcams.
Tokyo is always a freebie on the mispronunciation bingo card since everyone outside of Japan doesn't pronounce 東京 correctly. 🤭
@@ChrysusTVAnd where I am from we write it "Tokio". Whether that's better or worse I've no idea.
I agree with Adam (アダム is actually Adam in Japanese) - you did much better than most foreigners who have not lived here. The only one that made me cringe was Edo (the E should be like in "bed", not "bead"). The sound in "bead" is also a Japanese vowel, but written with "i" (which you said more like the "i" in "pin", but somehow that doesn't bother me as much when I hear it). So how you pronounced Edo would actually be "ido", which means well (a hole with water in it).
Challenges even for foreigners who live here are R and long/short vowels. What is written in the roman alphabet as R is actually a cross between a European R (not American) and L, with perhaps even a bit of D mixed in. When followed by a Y it gets even harder (like a bigger southern island chain - the Ryuukyuu Islands), but I don't think you had any RY in your video. Secondly, syllable timing is very important in Japanese, and double vowels are two syllables. Romanization systems don't agree on how to write a long O (and other vowels, but O is the most common one) - writing them as "oo" would cause many Westerners to mispronounce them like "u", "oh" looks funny in the middle of words (but is done in some cases, like names on baseball jerseys), and "ō" is hard to type on a computer. So most of the time people don't bother, which turns into pronunciation confusion. If I were to write the long ones as "ō", some of the words Adam mentioned would be: Tōkyō, Todōfuken, Ōshima, and Hachijō.
@@ChrysusTV At least Sam didn't try to stick an "i" in the middle of it - people who say it like "to-ki-yo" make me cringe.
@@catriamflockentanz It's wrong (although "Tokio" is essentially how most people outside of Japan pronounce "Tokyo" for whatever reason, even though there is no "i" in there at all). Also the syllable length is wrong (Tokyo should really be written as Tōkyō or toukyou), but that's getting a bit nit-picky. But at least Tokio is a more or less phonetically correct representation of the mispronunciation, I guess, lol.
Thanks for the disclaimer specifying that HAI does not support ancient totalitarian feudal systems. Really put everybody at ease
They're also the islands that inspired the islands you can travel to by ferry from the Kanto Pokémon region
It's actually the other way around. The people designing real life were big fans of Pokemon.
The "History of Japan" reference... I am so happy I got it.
Not sure how this was not mentioned, but even Iwo Jima (Io-to) is part of the Ogasawara Islands and is therefore technically part of Tokyo. Which means that a bloody battle in WWII did technically take place within Tokyo.
Okay, this is less than interesting and more of a tragic one so maybe that’s why it didn’t fit the theme of the video.
I was wondering if Iwo Jima was part of these islands.
I would say this is half as interesting.
if the Allies got Iwojima, it's more or less they broke in the front door of the mainland anyway
What’s Iwo Jima?
@@rachelcookie321 Iwo Jima is an island in the pacific off the coast of Japan that an extremely bloody battle was fought between the USA and Japan in WWII
After the initial warning, the mispronunciation problem was only Half as Severe as I expected.
Japanese is pretty easy to pronounce compared to most languages in the world.
which makes the game... half... as interesting
waka waka
*badum tss*
@@jokerofmorocco The only thing I remember him mispronouncing was "Aoi", which he pronounced as "oi"
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 The one I most noticed was pronouncing 江戸 (Edo) like 井戸 (ido).
Hamburg also has an island like that called Neuwerk. It lies in the sound of the Elbe and is 120 km away from the city center but formally is a subdivision of Hamburg's central district.
Also the island Helgoland (English: Heligoland) belongs to the county Pinneberg, a similar distance away.
Respect for the Atlanta Reign profile picture. 🤩
You can actually travel to them by Helicopter too, not just ferries. One of the few weird public transit options inside of Tokyo, a crazy city for how good its transit is.
Doesn’t Dubai also have Uber Chopper?
Wow, other cities are struggling to implement metros and Tokyo has an entire helicopter system. Way to outdo the competition.
@@aycc-nbh7289 Yup, oh the things one can do with petrodollars.
Nice and all, and Dubai can be quite a stunning metropolis, but it certainly doesn't deserve to be even mentioned in the same breath as Tokyo.
A small correction or clarification: "ku" (区, wards of cities) are not just in Tokyo, but also in 20 other large cities. The 23 "special wards" of Tokyo are administered differently from the rest because they aren't subordinate to a city (市, "shi"), but the same word "ku" is used for both.
Here for this pendantry
Another strike for the corrections video.
i didnt understand anything but you sound smart
@@milosm9280 It's easier to know stuff when you're actually there - I live in a ward that is not in Tokyo, so that was easy. (But I had to look up the number of cities that have wards: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wards_of_Japan)
My neighborhood in the town I live in here in Saga Prefecture is also ku (区). I live in Onsen ー区 (1st District). Since we dont have Chou. Great explainings.😄✌️🗾
There's a similar situation to this arrangement in Hawaii. All of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (except Midway Atoll which is its own territory) are officially part of the City and County of Honolulu. The northwesternmost of these islands, Kure Atoll, is over 2,200 km away from Honolulu itself. Granted, these islands are uninhabited, but they are still directly administered by Honolulu.
In the 1990’s at least they were also part of the local area phone dialing system for Honolulu. A phone call to them was a local call from Honolulu.
Some researchers etc live on some of them. I think also to make sure if someone lands on an island and say were to let go a cat someone would know in time.
Yes, Animator, the flag of Tokyo is really neat
Cool, I will occasionally tell acquaintances about this in social/workplace settings
Good idea. Yesterday my colleagues were talking about islands from an administration point of view and I was just sitting there awkwardly. ):
Like you've told everyone at least thrice that Zumba was invented by three non-related men all called Alberto?
@@lonestarr1490 Thank you Mr Starr I will add this one into my repertoire
Hands down the best intro I’ve ever seen on this channel, and up there for CZcams. I haven’t laughed that hard at the first 20 seconds of a (60 second+) video in a long time
The islands of Kythira and Antikythira in Greece belong to Attica administratively, even though Antikythira is closer to Crete than it is to the Greek mainland, let alone Attica. Of course the distances are much smaller than those in Japan, just thought it would be another interesting example to share.
I'm sure you meant to write that it's another HALF as interesting example. ;-)
Do the residents of Antikythira dislike the residents of Kythira?
When residents of either island become upset with the government, do they shout "Attica! Attica!"?
@@timothyodonnell8591 touché!
@@texanfournownow that’s why CZcams comments were invented! xD
@@texanfournow Antikythira and Kythira have to be kept separate, otherwise they annihilate each other and they both vanish.
To, Do, Fu, and Ken may have different names, but constitutionally these are all prefectures of the same rank. It would be like how Massachusetts is officially known as Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but is still just a State like Delaware or Oregon.
True. But Tokyo is the exception. It is the only "To", and it has no "main city" like the other prefectures. Every single one of Tokyo's 23 wards basically functions as their own cities. This is different from other prefectures, who all have an official "main city".
In fact there was recently a referendum in osaka to make Osaka a "to" that would function in the same way administratively as Tokyo does. The referendun didn't pass.
@@AlohaBiatch Guess it's legally similar to the Phillippines' capital Manila, which I think is defined as a grouping of multiple cities instead of 1 city alone
that nod towards bill wurtz at 0:47, respecting the yt classics!
2:04 okay, that joke was seriously on point.
As Sam has said, Tokyo is the only prefecture rich enough to actually adminster these islands. Without Tokyo's revenues propping up these island municipalities (whose main income is tourism), these islands would have become uninhabited long ago.
As for why Tokyo is the only one rich enough, that's down to Japan's declining and aging population combined with pretty much everyone moving to Tokyo to live and work. So the other prefectures are simply too depopulated and poor to afford maintaining these islands.
This was way easier to understand 😅
I find it interesting that these Japanese islands in another reality could be a crown dependency of the UK
Or American territory after our victory in WWII. We kept the Northern Marianas after all.
They would more likely be an overseas territory than a crown dependency. Like Bermuda and that stuff.
Or a part of Northern Marianas now or the Philippines lol since the Spaniards in the Philippines first found them and named them Arzobispo islands before
@@prion42 neat
Yeah, can you imagine if Britain just owned some random, sparsely populated island in the Pacific Ocean? That'd be an unusual extremity.
Same thing happens to Bornholm. Although it's 150 km southeast of Denmark (and you need to go through Sweden to get there), it's technically a part of Copenhagen.
What about that big hunk of land in east Asia that's actually just a "renegade province" of the tiny island of Taiwan?
Actually some of Japan's islands e.g. _Ishigaki_ are nearer to Taiwan/ROC than to Japan's mainland
Being Japanese, I'd say he did a pretty good job at pronouncing the words.
Fire Red and Leaf Greens Sevii Islands make much more sense now.
Indeed, especially as Kanto is the RL region that Tokyo is in :p
Some years ago when I searched for cheap hotels in Tokyo, the first one to pop up was on one of those islands. It seemed to be a nice resort but it would take my whole vacation just to get there. lol
I went to one of those islands for a long weekend in summer 2012 when I was living in Tokyo. Great time camping on the island. It had 1 restaurant, and 1 convivence store but no ATM. An elementary school but no high school. Kids needed to boat to another one of the islands to go to high school. Tough life!
Bro this video’s production value and level of editing is on another level. Props to you!
that bill wurtz reference was refreshing
Can we go on the Japanese land? No. Why? 🎶🎵 The sun is a deadly laser. 🎶🎵
Eh, you did fine pronunciation-wise. Not Japanese-speaker level perhaps but nothing egregious. Luckily, Japanese is actually one of the easiest to pronounce languages, especially since there are only like 20 phonemes you need to know. English has double that amount and famously the orthography doesn't correspond very well with the phonology. Japanese, on the other hand, is close to perfect when it comes to matching phonology and orthography, ESPECIALLY in romaji. The only ones better I know of are some Polynesian languages which have a similarly low amount of phonemes. And maybe like Korean, which has a lot more but hangul was intentionally and artificially crafted to fit the language like a glove.
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
the “history of japan” part made me smile
Love this channel!
@E V E L Y________[🍑] stop it. These spam comments are annoying.
One of my favourite channels just made a reference to one of my favourite videos of all time. Today I am happy.
0:47 this reference was amazing, made me chuckle. Thank you
0:47 LOL!
Kudos to anyone who got the reference!
This literally reminds me of the island Neuwerk, which is technically a borough of Hamburg with 30 inhabitants in the north sea, despite being about 120 km away from the main city of Hamburg. So at least we're not alone with having some weird boroughs far away from the main city
Now I can go to one of those remote island and claim that I've been to cool and high-tech Tokyo!!! Yay!
I wonder if the locals of the islands refer to moving to work in Tokyo as "上京" since, you know... They already live in Tokyo?
“The same way we think of London…”
Also not a city! A region, with two ceremonial counties, two cities, and 31 other boroughs.
Love that bill wurtz - history of japan appearance. Just shows how much that particular video makes its presence in the world.
Such an underrated referenc
In the interest of increasing Sam's CZcams algorithm score, I will nitpick about his description of ku. Ku ( ward in English) is used outside of Tokyo also. I live in Kanagawa-ken, Kawasaki-shi, Takatsu-ku. Although it is pretty small (a couple of hundred thousand people) compared to the 23 special wards ( what most people think of as the city of Tokyo) in Tokyo which have populations in the millions.
To be more pedantic, Tokyo's wards referred to as 特別区 (special wards) because they function like their own cities.
Their population is never in the millions however. Out of the 23 special wards the one with the highest population is setagaya ward with about 900k people. Chiyoda ward the least populous has only 58000 people.
You can see a full list of their population here
ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%8C%BA%E9%83%A8
0:31 "places are typically in one general place, and not several very far away places"
*stares in gerrymandering*
It's like how the State of Hawai'i includes the random, far-flung, mostly uninhabited islands as part of Honolulu, which is a combined city-county.
This channel always chooses topics that have been covered hundreds of times but I still watch the videos
I think Wendover Productions should hire this guy, he'd be a good addition to their team.
*fu and Ken just sounds like a night out in Glasgow, Scotland 🏴 to me haha 😂
Todo means everyone/thing in Spanish
@@readjordan2257 I know too funny haha 😂
I so accustomed to shorts that it's a ¾ interesting video for me
Somebody should make a video about the farthest a capitol city is spread out between two points.
Oh man. That “History of…” reference took me back.
Speaking about islands, I found it interesting that Japan's westernmost point is only about 100km away from Taiwan.
3:07 The names mean father island and mother island, respectively. Quite funny
This is one of my favorite topics! Outer islands are so weird like this. Ever heard of the island south of New Zealand that belongs to Tasmania?
Thank you for covering it, Sam!
A bot copied your comment and its currently the top comment :(
@@RuhanMajithia well, such a pity. Perhapse we can spam the replies and make a difference? I am not sure, oh well.
@@RuhanMajithia alright, I talked to them on Discord and got them to change it. Thanks m8! Cheers!
The first step of the Tasmanian Empire.
Best episode ever. The intro was so funny
There's a similar situation in Canada, with Sable Island being part of Halifax, NS, even though it's ~300 km away.
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Robinson Crusoe island are technically part of Valparaíso
They are part of the region, but not at municipality nor provincial level; while with the Juan Fernandez archipelago (where Robinson Crusoe island is part of) is part of the Province of Valparaiso. And then we have the Desventuradas Islands, that are part of the Juan Fernandez Island.
So, we have a commune, Juan Fernandez, that is two archipelagos (Juan Fernandez and Desventuradas) separated by 800 km, and part of a province that is 700 km of distance. And then a commune and province (Rapa Nui) that also manages another island 391 km apart (Sala y Gomez) and is over 3600 km apart from its region.
And with Rapa Nui, probably one of the few cases of a sub-national administrative body (the Region of Valparaiso) that is present in two different continents (South America and Oceania)
I know. But the region is called Valparaíso. That’s the trick
There's an island named after Robinson Crusoe? That's more interesting.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Robinson Crusoe, and Alejandro (Alexander) Selkirk island, from whose survival story Daniel Defoe wrote his book.
the humor in this video is next level
I think Cape Town has a further outpost than Tokyo. Prince Edward and Marion Islands are both in the Cape Town magisterial district and are considered as in the ward of the port - so while the municipality doesn't really do anything on or for the islands (but then again its not clear municipalities deliver services to anybody) the islands more than 2000km (or 1200 miles for people who walk to make it to somebodies door or are yanks) are considered part of a ward in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality.
There is a similar situation in Canada. There is an island far out in the Atlantic called Sable Island that is legally part of Halifax.
10/10 video would highly recommend
I'm already subscribed to nebula but for some reason I still watch hai videos on CZcams
this channel won’t get old
If I got a dollar every time an educational CZcamsr advertised Nebula I would be rich
The CSNY joke killt me
Quality content as always
The Only in Japan CZcams channels have great videos on these islands including blogging the ferry ride and travel around the island.
If they have no airport access, what do you do in a medical emergency? You can't be flown out to Tokyo by an emergency jet but need to wait a week until the ferry comes...
Helicopters exist
In case of a real emergency the Japanese Navy will schedule a training flight. Either:
a) With a helicopter from its base on Iwojima (the famous Battle of Iwojima one. About which Clint Eastwood made TWO movies)
b) With an Osprey from the mainland (the Bell Boing V-22 Osprey - not the bird)
@@Liamo457 A helicopter that flies 1000 kilometers?
@@michaelrenper796 Thanks!
@@FlorianHWave My father in law, he passed away this year, retired on Chichijima. Sadly, I only had a chance to visit once, back in 2008.
Another perfect nebula segue
That’s so cool that you supported Joseph like that!
That CSNY joke literally had me laughing out loud. Thank you.
Granted, my knowledge of Japanese is limited to the handful of words I half-understood from watching an anime duck or an anime kettle play games semi-adequately, but I think most of the pronunciations are at least passable. The only one I'd say is wrong is that for "Edo" (3:44) -- the 'e' is closer to the 'ai' in "air" than the 'ee' in "bee".
Nobody cares
@@rubiconnn I'll be honest, I didn't ask. But that's cool.
@@rubiconnn Your comment is more unoriginal than your personality
@@twotothehalf3725 his entire comment history on this channel is just "LoL wEeB" so let's not humour him lmao
He also pronounced e in Miyake as "ee" or at least it's how I heard it. Hachijō was also wrong.
Ah yes, Chicago is my favorite American prefecture
Great video.
17.1% of this video is sponsors that's TV territory right there, thank god for SponsorBlock
Sort of stole my thunder with that intro.
1:53 is an underrated moment. Never have I found "to do f*cking" as funny as this.
I have heard of the islands of Tokyo, but I did not know _why_ they were a part of Tokyo! Thanks for the video!
Also, before 2:55, I didn't realize just _how_ much you like talking about small islands!
Extra bit of trivia which wasn't mentioned here: the Ogasawara Subprefecture, one of Tokyo's island subprefectures, also includes the island of Iwo Jima, which is probably best known as the site of a famous battle during World War II. In other words, the United States Army _technically_ invaded Tokyo in early-1945, and the famous picture of US soldiers raising their flag was _technically_ taken in Tokyo!
Point of order, there is currently no SCHEDULED air service to the islands. There are a few airports that support charter flights and a network of bush pilots (think Alaska). In fact, there's a manga by Kenji Tsuruta (better known for "Spirit of Wonder") about a bush pilot on one of the islands called "Wandering Island", (or Bōken Erekitetou "Electric Island" in Japanese) and her search for a previously uncharted (and possibly movable or intermediately existing) island.
LOL Bill Wurtz
Sounds like a very nice topic for extremities
I can see where the next episode of Extremities is going
These are the islands that the Seveii Islands are based on in Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green
The background footage at 5:13 looks eerily familiar, as if I've maybe seen something very similar... Maybe in a certain videogame.
I loved the "bill wurtz - history of..." moment 🤙🏽
Bold to play the pronunciation game right after calling a “pilgrimage” a “pyramid”
"places are typically in one general place and not several very far away places"
*(laughs in Metropolitan France)*
coming up next season on extremities
🎶 Japan should take the islands 🎵🎶
...which they were planning on doing anyway
Last time i checked the only option to pay nebula was a credit card. Since those aren't as commonly used in germany, as they are in the usa, i wasn't able to get the subscription, even though would really love to. Hope they'll change it, or already did
Kind of like how isla de desecheo is apart of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico even though it’s about 25 miles off the coast from the city.
Oh! That is where the last Samurai went after the battlefield!!!
0:35
Wichita, Kansas: *sweats*
Australia but smol? Missed chance to show a Jerboa!
That nod to bill wurtz tho. Love u Sam ❤️
and in Portugal, the Savage islands belong to Funchal, 250 km away
The Bonin islands are about one thousand miles away from the island of Guam, my home, so that's cool to know
The similar situation is in Russia. The city of Baikonur in Kazakhstan is leased by Russia to maintain the cosmodrome. So the city works entirely within russian jurisdiction, the people are russian sitizens. But legally Baikonur counts as a district of Moscow, which it is 2113 km apart from