Setouchi Ambience

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Heavy rain is forecast for the Setouchi region over the weekend. The next video is where to shoot...

In May 2025, there are many days when it rains in the Setouchi region. As of May 14th, when I was writing this article, it has been raining almost every day since May began. It's truly a blessing for someone like me who makes videos of rain sounds. Well, the latest move at this point...
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Shoes that don't let footsteps on rainy days

I have been going to various places on rainy days and filming YouTube videos. Every time I work on filming, I want to deliver as high-quality rain sounds as possible to the viewers, but one thing I always had trouble with when filming was my footsteps. I somehow...
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It doesn't rain much in Kagawa prefecture. Here's a video I took with this in mind.

Kagawa Prefecture is famous for being a prefecture that does not rain in Japan. It is said that Kagawa Prefecture, the smallest area in Japan has the largest number of reservoirs in Japan, so there is an anecdote that farmers have built reservoirs because Kagawa Prefecture is quickly running out of water. Kagawa Prefecture Zen was one of Japan's leading monks...
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We use Windy's paid weather forecast site.

My YouTube channel is mainly "rain," so I check the weather forecast every day without any problems. Until 2024, I used the Yahoo Weather app, which is free and easy to use even within Japan, but it is high in the long term weather forecast for the following week or the following week...
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I came across a famous cherry blossom spot by chance. The day of the filming was a stormy weather with thunder, which was unusual for the Setouchi region.

I take the JR Shikoku train to Takamatsu City to do my main job. As the cherry blossom trees in Kagawa Prefecture were in full bloom, I suddenly saw trees in full bloom from the train window. The location is a cherry blossom viewing area around a pond called Niimiyaike, about halfway between Hataoka Station and Onimu Station...
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Walking in the Rain in Kobe, Japan | Late Night | Relaxing Rain Sounds ASMR | Kobe Sannomiya of Rain | 4K HDR
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A hidden oasis where the city meets the gentle sound of rain.At night in local cities such as Takamatsu City, where I live, there are few lights to illuminate the entire city, making it impossible to capture beautiful images of cherry blossoms as video even when they are in bloom.
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I'm back in Takamatsu city.

After finishing my filming in Kobe, I returned to Takamatsu City. Filming ended early in the morning around 4am, and I was unsure whether to take the Shinkansen flight that departs at 6am, or take the jumbo ferry that sails from Kobe Port at 8:15am. Reserved seats can be filled with the Shinkansen reservation app "EX", which can be used late at night...
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Cherry blossoms at night in Shin-Kobe

Filming of the next video ended around 3:30am on March 28th, 2025. The cherry blossoms in Shin-Kobe, just a little north of Sannomiya, the central city of Kobe, seemed to be in half of the flower.
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I'm heading to Kobe.

In this season when cherry blossoms bloom in western Japan, heavy rain has been forecast for the first time in a while.