One day, I casually watched NHK's evening news at home.
It just so happened that day's special feature was a live broadcast from Yakake Town, Okayama Prefecture.
The reporter said he would make original local soda, but suddenly he was curious and looked up Yakake Town on Google Maps... and was surprised.
There was a post town that retained the Edo period's townscape
■ Rain forecasts and choice of confusion
The filming took place the day after watching the TV broadcast.
The weather forecast says that rain will be heavier in Okayama prefecture than in Kagawa prefecture.
So I decided to get in my car at 5am and head towards Okayama.
However, I was only thinking about whether to set my destination to Yakake Town or Ojigatake (Kojima).
If the prince is Mt. Mt., there will definitely be fog.
On the other hand, Yakake Town has the charm of being a "post town in the rain."
On the way to the Seto Ohashi Bridge, the Yoshima parking area and checked the flow of the clouds using the Yahoo Weather app.
And I had a gut feeling.
"Heavy rain will come to Yakake Town."
I decided to cut off my doubts and head to Yakake Town.
■ Baptism in the downpour and small accidents
However, there was an incident here .
As I drove, it started to rain down as predicted.
Just before getting off the Tamashima Interchange, it rained so hard that the car's vision sensor malfunctioned.
After getting off the highway, I relied on Google Maps navigation, but the rain was so loud I couldn't hear the sound from the navigation system.
As a result, we passed the intersection where we had to turn, and ended up taking a little detour.
At this point, I lost about 10 minutes .
To be honest, at this time I was feeling anxious about not being able to make it in time.
■ Arrived at Yakake Inn. And then filming begins
Somehow we arrived at the post town area in Yakake Town.
The car is the Sanyo Road Yakage Inn . It was still quite raining, so I hurriedly prepared the equipment while holding an umbrella.
I didn't have the time to calmly shoot the footage either.
this video was taken in the end .
■ The post town oozes in the rain and the thoughts of filming
I always think that when I go to the site there are so many unexpected things.
The intensity of the rain, the movement of people, the light, unexpected events...
It's hard to do the filming that you imagined beforehand.
However, I think that even with these coincidences, this time the footage of Yakake Town showed "the real appearance of a rainy post town."
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