I'll admit that Ibaraki Prefecture is the least attractive prefecture of all prefectures even though I'm a resident😆 As Chris says, we don't have a thing that is "this is our selling point!". I remember when the nuclear accident in Tokai-mura happened, people living nearby were ordered to stay at home and my co-workers couldn't come to work. I was poor in knowledge at the time, so I didn't know what was going on, but I felt tension in the air. That is why Tokai-mura has the only exhibition hall on nuclear energy in Japan, called the Nuclear Science Museum. It is quite interesting to learn about nuclear power through games and other activities. I don't think this will be a selling point though😅

Ive been staying in Ibaraki for the last 2 weeks and stayed earlier for 2 weeks in July and I absolutely love it here. Senbako, Fukuroda-taki and the surrounding forests and mountains, Ooarai, Ajigaura and a lot of other places are absolutey beautiful.

Hi guys, thank you for reading out my post(half of it lol). Edo wonderland is a samurai village with mini theatres, and a castle and a shed load of audience participation. They were all massively friendly and as we were the last to leave, they arranged us a cab, and put on an impromptu show in the car park whilst we waited. It’s innocent, but no Pete it ain’t kiddy. I’d say more family friendly. I shall share a couple of pics on your FaceBook page if that’s ok

Hitachi sea side park is in Ibaraki, filled with beautiful nemophila flowers, its a nice side trip outside of Tokyo

11:59 Pete's talking about Pablo Escobar. The Escobar Phone 2 was a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold sold by Escobar Inc with gold foil on to make it look different, “sold” at $399. The reason is because only KZfaqrs got theirs. The company was founded by Pablo's brother Roberto, they do various scams such as this to make money.

My mom grew up in Ibaraki, after her family left Tokyo during the war. I went there for the first time in 2019, didn't think it was ugly. My cousin took me and my daughter to make pottery there.

As a Gunma resident (an unpopular region that frequently gets memed), I was taken aback by how "unkept" the Ibaraki region is. I went there a couple of times to visit the Hitachi Seaside Park. On my way there, I noticed weeds growing tall on the side of the road. I was on the main road just after exiting the toll. I came from a Third World country and was surprised at how similar the view is to where I came from. I am not even kidding. And I can't think of anything unique to say about Ibaraki. 花貫渓谷 Hananuki Gorge and Mt. Tsukuba is the unique location that comes to mind. In Gunma, we have Initial D (anime), A Place Further Than The Universe (anime), beautiful onsens like Takagarawa Onsen, Kusatsu Onsen, Shima Onsen (the location of Spirited Away), Watarase Keikoku Railway, and very popular mountains like Mt. Tanigawa (谷川岳) (for hiking), Mt. Haruna, and Mt. Akagi. We're trapped between three mountains, which I think is very cool. And Gunma-chan is one of the popular mascot characters (yuruchara ゆるキャラ). Gunma still has a good prefecture "branding' to live with. Gunma is pretty much an off-brand of Nagano with lesser mountains. Gunma is memed as an Inaka (Rural), but it's not as bad as other hardcore Inaka prefecture like Saga. I've seen far worse Inaka in Tohoku, where you can see rusted infrastructure such as pedestrian bridges and rail stations. Weeds on the road exist in Gunma roads, but you'll have to look for them deep in Gunma's "untouched" inaka areas. You won't find them on major tourist routes like Nakanojo and Minakami. Our neighbouring Prefectures, Nagano, Niigata, and Tochigi (Nikko esp), completely overshadow Gunma. It has become a transit point before seeing the more unique prefectures.

I never knew you used to do podcasts just stumbled upon this by youtube recommendation. I always look forward to trash taste podcast now i have one more podcast to look forward to ❤

Love that Pete looks like he walked out of an audition to paly the new James Bond

There's actually a really fascinating documentary on KZfaq about the "Chicano" LA Mexican gang culture that some Japanese people form communities to engage with the fashion and lifestyle

Last time I listened to the podcast I heard sirens and looked out the window to see two great big firetrucks and a police car parked outside the house blocking the view from the livingroom window. Turns out the butchers next door had caught fire! Fortunately no one was hurt and the butchers was even open again the next day, so obviously the situation looked worse than it actually was. Luckily today I got through the podcast without any sirens going off anywhere :)

Congrats on 50k subscribers in just 3 months! Keep growing! 🎉🎉

another perfect podcast with my precious pete and cretin chris ;) im saving the audiobook for my long-haul flight to New Zealand ! yet again another week with the tattoo talk hehe ! love it ! will I be a gangsta when I visit japan with my visible tattoos of remy from rattatioulie and a bird and flowers.

Rode through Ibaraki Prefecture after staying in Hitachinaka (APA Hotel), on a couple rental bikes for the last day of our tour around Japan. We woke up to rain and it rained almost all the way back to Odaiba! Ibaraki seemed to be quite industrial and a definite 'working-class' region. It does have the Hitachi Seaside Park though.

I never click the notification bell, but I always get shown all the content by all my subbed channels.

As a fan of AKB48, their now defunct Team 8 was in conjunction with Toyota and had 47 members - one for each prefecture. They always made fun of the Ibaraki rep named Okabe Rin and the fact that Ibaraki ALWAYS gets last place - eventually it became a part of her identity as an idol.

I still want to go to Ibaraki for Mito and Oorai but mostly because of Girls Und Panzer unapologetically. Supposedly the show helped the seaside town recover after the tsunami

Dear Ridiculous Handsome Pete, the guy with the shorts asking those questions has the full interviews up. The shorts are meant to be a preview of the longer video.

Thanks a million for answering my question guys! :D

After more than five long years of not being able to go to Japan due to Covid etc., I finally made it back this autumn, and I went to Nikko, which was on my list of places that I really want to visit for a long time. I had fairly high expectations, but it was even more impressing than I thought. Really beautiful temple/shrine complex. Places like Iroha-zaka (Initial D) or Kegon--no-taki aren't far a way either. I hope I'll be back again soon 🇯🇵

My wife is from Saitama, apparently stopping at stop signs is optional there, because no one does it. She had a real problem adjusting to driving in Canada

I would have thought Saitama qualifies for the title. Ibaraki has Hitachi Park and Kairakuen (one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan).

Be kind now Chris, I thought the Oil Barrel Bath Tub was a cute throwback to "Classic 1950's Early 80's Era Japan" !

I like that Japanese youtuber, I don't think he is as flippant as Pete makes him seem. Sure if you are watching little clipped up bits. But its not like ye get too deep here lads!

Loving this show

Ibaraki is where the Movie/Manga Kamikaze Girls "Shimotsuma Story: Yankī Girl and Lolita Girl" takes place. Ibaraki Unite!

Oarai in Ibaraki is gorgeous and famous for surfing!

Been using KZfaq my whole life, since age eight or something. Recently I have had zero issues with subscriptions showing up, and I usually add videos to my watch later when I see ones that look interesting.

Chris, Please Deliver some "Ghengis Kahn" to my work here in Central California. I'm quite hungry !

Chris you are in Japan. Your greatest advantage over other people is that you can actually go outside and film in Japan daily. Anyone could sit behind a computer and talk. Why waste the greatest advantage you have by sitting behind a desk? The real star of your channel is Japan, you are the narrator and sidekick introducing us to it.

21:28, it's different from state to state. Some states full on put a tick on your driving license if you do that and some states just don't bother even with people blowing through stop signs and stoplights.

The Hitachi Seaside park and Kairaku - en park are in Ibaraki, from the photos they look nice.

...and that story about nuclear facility incident was the last nail to Ibaraki tourism business coffin 🤣

Ibaraki has some really nice nice beaches. Yeah; the Tokai-mura incident was tragic. There was something about five yen coins that irradiated them for a few klicks from the site.

We've been to Nikko - Edo Wonderland and Lord Tokugawa's tomb! We loved Nikko! And Edo Wonderland was amazing! I finally achieved my "samurai" / "shinengumi" dreams! XD

12:08 - Escobar. Missed opportunity to label a product "The Cartelephone" 😅

they need to make a pepe lore video on that los zetas story

"How'ya mate" - elision is the word for it! Are there any common or surprising examples you've encountered in Japenese of it?

Subscribing isn't redundant, it's just that it's several levels to it now. Subscribe is like admitting you like something, but the notification bell is the thing that decides of you get notified about new videoes or not. It's not as bad as facebook, though. For more than a decade, facebook has NOT shown updates from pages you follow in your feed. Instead they ask the creators to PAY for the privilege of getting their updates shown to their subscribers. Yes. You heard me. On facebook creators have to PAY to be seen. While youtube has ad revenue and pays the creators.

In Ibaraki theres hitachi seaside park!

I remember seeing that video about Ibaraki and thinking that I would like to go there. So something about the video worked

If im not mistaken isn’t the Hitachi Seaside Park in Ibaraki? Shame if not highlighted enough in the tourism sector.

there is a video by the youtuber wendigoon on the story of the nuclear incident and what they tried to do to save the man.

Honestly I don't trust this annual survey, but it may also reflect different values of what people consider beautiful. When prefectures like Iwate end up mid-tier but Tokyo ends up (near) top I scratch my head. Even celebrated prefectures in Japan have some butt ugly areas, e.g. Ishikawa and Kanazawa, the traditional part is lovely but that drag along Route 8 is horrid with the Hokuriku Expressway literally stomping it's way through the city. It's just a matter of what sits in the memory, e.g. if your memory of Mie is Yokkaichi, you may not think it was the most beautiful place, but if your memory of Mie is of the wonderful Ago Bay area in Shima City, then you'll probably respond positively. Ibaraki in the south is indeed industrial, but further north it has its charms. Ultimately, it depends on what you see as beautiful, it's subjective.

i live in ibaraki it ain't ugly!! its quite nice

I can only imagine that man actually going to Mexico 💀🤣

Lol, I was sent to Kamisu city Ibaraki on my first two years of my life in Japan. As much as it's the least popular, least attractive and the most inaka place in Japan, but... no regrets, it was an experience of my life! Haven't been back since I moved out tho. HAHAHA!

Will there be a video of the car once Pete gets it?

Is Pete wearing pajamas under his Jacket?

Finally some good food (content)

The second largest lake in Japan is in Ibaraki. It's one of the few places you can catch American catfish. There is also a Premium outlet near the big budda.

Nikko is nice if you want to kill some time on the way from Tokyo to Sendai; at least that's what I did. It felt kinda like the required touristy stuff to do, and I figured it was about time since I had skipped it so far on previous trips. Wasn't a bad half day... laugh at funny animal wood carvings, see some old shogun sealed up better than Fukushima Daiichi, marvel at a vending machine selling only bottled green tea and its accompanying 12 (!!!) trashcans... there's uglier places you could go. Like Ibaraki, apparently.

You know, I've been meaning to ask the kids over at TC with the kinds of things they tend to focus on when they do their travel stuff, why should I travel thousands of kilometers and spent thousands of dollars, even in a technically favourable economy, to do, what I could ostensibly do, at home... I mean, if we divide the generalised idea that, it's another culture and whatever... because I mean, isn't that the point of collapse for a lot of people, where the dream just seems that little bit out of reach? I know the things are not 'gimmicks' but the slight difference between an experience in say Australia and Japan likewise makes a lot of the things seem largely artificial, like the only thing that makes them 'gooder' is the artifice of "Japan" and I mean, that seems silly that they can't see that... I dunno. Same complex with the Ibaraki thing maybe... it seems artificial... I don't know.

Though I can't find much argument about Ibaraki ranked the lowest, the other prefecture rankings on the 2023 list is pretty bad. Kochi for example is ranked 32 and i would rate it was one of the most underrated prefectures. Just no one wants to drive and experience the unadvertised parts of Japan.

0:20 he’s bought a shirt that doesn’t fit. 😂

notification bell does fuck all. for a single channel you can only get 3 notifications per 24 hour period, but across all channels that your account has notifications on for, you can only get a total of a dozen notifications per day. so all these people telling you to enable notifications, expecting them to get pushed through, are wrong. if you enable notifications for every channel you are subbed to, you will not get the vast majority of notifications. so, how does one stay informed of recent videos? same as always, check your subscription feed and scroll through until you are caught up from the previous time you checked it. pretty simple really.

Wowee

Tell natsuki to put the merch up online

Has chris ever done a video in Nagoya ?

As if you can’t charge £30 for those plastic tats. A quick signing from Pete, Nat or Chris would ensure these quickly became collectors items for all the nutters that hit the all notifications bell.

Oh god, yes, I think I've seen that Japan street interviewer Pete mentioned in my recommendations as well, and just the thumbnails and titles already look 100% like he's asking sketchy questions to rile things up for views. 🙄

I don't know why people don't understand the difference between subscriptions and recommendations, not even actual professional youtubers. Maybe they need to make subscriptions the default page?

Notifications just go in my junk mail.

I love how this podcast is just an outlet for complaining about the weird requests from Chris's sponsors.

I think the person you were on about is Pablo Escobar, the most notorious cartel leader

Zeetas is wild 🤣

Escobar phones was the brand think it was someone that was part of it very weird

But… Ibaraki has the nattos and the watermelons tho…

Can’t Chris Broad add more picture or video content to the podcast?

Isn’t there a Chicano subculture in Japan, maybe tattooed forehead guy was part of that?

I've also unfollowed and blocked work people by accident....completely unintentional of course

What kind of care did Perky Pete buy?

I am willing the bet Japan's ugliest area still looks better then the best in USA lol. Honestly we are boring in USA, everywhere looks the freaking same. except for a few cities, all suburbs and royal area's are basically exact copy pastes of each other, it's no wonder geo guesser have such difficulty figuring out where a photo is in USA without licensee plates and signs saying what state it is, we all look the same boring blueprint everywhere. Only thing that may change slightly is the nature if you go out in a rural area.

I watched your video on Ibaraki... and a couple of others... (???) I mean, they largely seem to gloss over Ibaraki and Mito but I mean, is it just a place of little note to people and so, not relevant? I mean, ugliest is... least attractive? My gut feeling is there are a lot of pros but I mean, also, that secondary city to every capital city is usually like the inbred cousin... like, Newcastle or Woolongong relative to Sydney... for instance... I mean, you like them but not that much?

Dear God, A Cartel Yakuza, really ?!

Pete really made “Takashi from Japan” sound like a creep lol his videos aren’t all about weird topics like that those are just his most popular videos because viewers are creeps lol and he does have longer videos, it’s not all shorts/reels

Mixed race sex worker in iburaki now thats an anime title

Pete seems to be somewhat melancholy these days.

It bothers me that you’re not pronouncing it right

Last two posts: "Nuisance youtubers are awful, innit" This post: "So I've been watching this one nuisance youtuber who presses people for interviews on uncomfortable subjects and bothers them HEY LET'S TALK ABOUT JAPAN AND NUCLEAR DISASTERS That's not insensitive at all to bring up"

It was a good video btb, 706k views so, I mean, not exactly your shabbiest dust off... by any means.

Surely the "ugliest" place in Japan is pretty close to wherever you are ??? (only joking 🙂)

Why do you have that stupid 'American style' preview in the beginning? Don't ruin your channel and your image and who you are.

the ugliest place is wherever you are Chris :P