Let’s look at my good friend’s toy museum from Ultraman and the original transformers! Pokémon and Licca-chan! Where is this? Japanese Retro Toy Museum 古趣・北乃博物館 MAP: goo.gl/maps/ZUPWR5UAJVBGKeKD8 #japanesetoys #hokkaido #onlyinjapan
That gentleman probably lives for the museum, I imagine his kids and grandchildren are "Papa its time to retire" you can tell how proud he is of his museum. thumbs up!
If you have time, please come back again and make a longer version, it's so extremely interesting to see all these retro toys in more detail. Also, interview the owner a bit, I'd like to hear his story. Also it's sad to see those toys in the baskets on the floor, if I live in the area, maybe I'd offer to restore/fix them for him...
OH MY GOD! that feeling when i used to cycle far away to my friend's house just play with his toy collection.. really miss those times.. thanks for showing us this heaven, love from Indonesia.
He has a fabulous job indeed collecting toys of all sorts and making a Toy Museum Retro stuffs also included respect. Some collect stamps from all over the world but no museum for it. Nice place indeed.
I LOVE the kerokeropi 🐸 My bff who passed away LOVED Duraemon. I actually have a kerokeropi collection that's slowly growing 😁 Isn't it kinda sad that all of our toys from our childhood is worth money and memories ❤️ LOVE THIS EPISODE! Tell him that his museum is AWESOME!!🌺🤙💗 I'd like to see BOTH characters when you go back with Kanae 😘
I lived in Misawa in the early 1960s. We played with little colorful tin round beetle toys with two wheels. You would wind them by rolling them in the floor then let them go. We also played with a pull string toy that had suction cups and would walk up the walls. So much fun. The last toy was a squeeze toy that had a spider on one end and an air bulb on the other. Squeeze the bulb and the spider would jump.
That stream was awesome! I want to go to the toy museum... to see if I can find a DIT MAN action figure.. I'm figuring it's a classic Subaru affiliated toy powered by their then futuristic direct injection turbo boxer 4.......... 😁
@@MartyDittmar Lol I figure Subaru too! I could get lost in there for hours! I was thinking the origin of Dit Man is the dot from Morse code and if your lactose intolerant, you can guess what your power is! 🤣💨👍
His toy collection (museum) is awesome and huge. I hope I could go there someday and spend a day with the toys. I want to see my favorites --- the Supermagnetic Robo VOLTES V, Mazinger Z, Daimos, Aphrodite A (the first female Super Robot) and Sailor Moon. Thanks for sharing!!!
If you paused on 9:19, I think it's Daimos on the lower right corner of the frame. I am not 100% sure, though. Middle right on 9:23 also looks like Daimos in truck mode. 13:38 I see two boxes of SOC Combattra. If there are Daimos and Voltes, they should be nearby.
If this is really a museum I'm so impressed. Props to the owner for letting toys just out in the open for people to inspect closer instead of having it all behind glass. Can't do that in the US that's for sure lol
Its because Japanese people and kids have well manners and very disciplined. If other country, this kind of shop/museum will be nightmare for the owner.
Japanese are great people, it would be beneath them to steal. They have respect for themselves and especially for such an honorable man. It would be taboo in their culture. Just like when the tsunami struck...they all came together with respect for each other. Alot of countries and cultures should learn from them.
John I understand that you are very busy and maybe that's why you couldn't spend longer in the Toy Museum. Personally speaking I think you could have done a 4 hour live stream and people would still watch it! 👍 Thank for doing an amazing deed to promote the Toy Museum. What might seem a small thing like signs in English at the station and outside the museum would help with increased visitors? Three visitors a day is not enough. Maybe Narita san could help as he knows English? Thank for a nostalgic trip through time John. You were kinda right about the parasol being Ghibli. It looked like Heidi which was made by the Ghibli artists/Founders! Enjoy Sapporo and I'm sure you will have a great time with Kanae. Take care Levi 😀 Catford 😺 London UK ✌️ 🙏
Yes good idea 💡 Gerry on the regular channel would be cool 😎 . Although I guess maybe you can't have it too long as maybe not everything should be shown or you wouldn't get anyone visiting in person! 👍 Take care Levi 😀
I love Ultraman!! I like to relax and watch the old show from the 60’s. I’m only 30, but you can’t beat the quality of the hand built sets and costumes. Masked Rider was an equally awesome show!
The streams that show local life in Japan with Japanese people are awesome! I won't say Shibuya isn't real Japan...but these experiences are the best! Keep it up John
Loved the toy museum.. You should plan documentary on your friend.. These are moments when everyone should appreciate the simple memories of someone's kindness. How important to remember how it shapes your life
What a great little toy museum, it’s obviously a labour of love for him. I hope you will interview him and do a main episode, I’m sure he will have great stories to tell, particularly the one where he picks up a hitchhiker 😂 Thanks for showing us around John 👍🏻
John, it is so interesting to see these little towns and the things that help define them, like your friend with the toy museum and the hostel that looks like a reason to visit. You make everything look so interesting that it make me think "what is the most boring place in Japan" might not exist.
There are a lot fun facts. For example, if those Takara Micromen (10:26) did not exist, there would not be Transformers nor GIJoe line, not as we know them today. Interestingly, Takara actually based those Micromen on the classic GIJoe dolls (the taller ones). Speaking of Takara, (16:46) note that some Transformers boxes have the old Takara logo, the one with Dakko-chan. I guess it is obvious why they don't use that logo anymore. Also, that paper parasol shown near the end of the tour (20:51), that's Heidi anime. And with the Chogokin robots, I know like all of them. That's (5:07) a beaten-up GodSigma right there. I am 44, living in Indonesia almost all my life. I have only been in Japan once (and it's only last year), yet I am familiar with 85% of the things in that museum. It is amazing how Japanese toys and culture gets into my life in Indonesia since the '70s, all the way to early 2000's. I could spend like a month or so in there. Certainly I shall stop by if I ever find myself in the area. John, if you read this, please do come back to that place for more thorough coverage (and less camera movement).
You probably already know this, but the Henshin Cyborg came out before the Microman line, The Henshin Cyborg were the same scale as GI Joe. Then they came out with a smaller version of the Cyborgs, the Microman. About a decade later, GI Joe started their own line of smaller figures that were the same size and with similar points of articulation as the Microman.
Microman was brought to the US in the late 70s as the Micronauts. I didn't find out about Microman until the 90s from a man similar to the owner of this museum.
Mindblowing! I've been looking for this amazing video since it first came out. Didn't see it in the channel's playlist for 3 years! Brilliant content as always 😊
Mind boggling collections. 50 years of sweat and labour to amass. Hope there will be continuity after the owner. Amazing how the place is kept spick and span. No security set-up it seems. Great trust in visitors' integrity.
I used to collect Glico candy toys, and collect Ultraman Monster trading cards when we were stationed overseas in Japan when I was an Army Brat kid. Back then, Japan still made things. I had colorful plastic baskets, displays, and multicolored plastic magnifying glasses for my Butterfly and Japanese Beetle collections. Toy shops sold butterfly nets, kites, flying airplanes, bug collecting supplies, monster collectibles, and masks. I had a fun collection of masks too. I also miss the candy so much. Wow! The white caramel sweetened condensed milk candy shaped like the cartoon ghost character Obake no Q. Oh yeah! i collected Obake no Q Taro, and Keroyon the Frog toys as well.
Totally enjoyed all your videos from Noributsu. Need to consider the trip, especially to the toy museum. Enjoy your time with your "Better Half". (LOL)
Ah yes the Bandai 89 Gojira and the 18” Baltan from ULTRAMAN was one of several purchases when I was in Japan many moons ago. Awesome toy collection made my day, thank you for the cool video 🖖
I loved this livestream! Natsukashii! I used to eat those Glico caramels for the toys. Love Peko Chan and Doraemon! Does he have any Kikaider, Hakaider, Zaboga, Rainbow Man, Diamond Eye, Mazinger Z, Inazuman? These were popular in Hawaii along with Kamen Rider and Ultraman. Actually Kikaider was super popular in Hawaii but not so much in Japan. Kikaider toys are worth A TON of money now. I wonder if he has any Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet? Or Astroboy? Astroboy is one of my faves. You must showcase this man's museum in an Only In Japan episode! In April, I'm headed to the Ishinomaki Manga Museum, which us dedicated to the artist Shotaro Ishinomori who wrote the manga for Kamen Rider, Kikaider, Robocon, and others! Thank you for sharing this man's museum with us!
These toys bring back memories. I grew up in the 50s watching Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi. I wonder how much these toys are worth today in American currency. 😁
Will he accept donations to his awesome collection? Also awesome service by the guesthouse owner who brought out your suitcase knowing you are rushing and on your way over!! This is why I love japan so much.
I really want to go to that museum some day. If I ever happen to be in that area or even remotely close to it, I'm making every effort I can to go. The owner wouldn't happen to have some way to donate to him would he? I love the efforts folks like him go through to share their hobbies with the world. Particularly when it's in line with my own lol.
Great stream, your friend Wakaki san must have some really interesting stories about putting together each collection like all the transformers, the hardest ones to get, the seller that wouldn't sell until the right deal was made etc. I'm sure you could make a lot more than one long video. Space them out. Really enjoyed this one.
A documentary is indeed a good idea for places like these... The fact that the two people next to you looked when you said "It's time to say goodbye" was too funny lol
I can spend and camp outside there for days and weeks hehehe...it's a like paradise of my dreams... pretty much I can say that collection is your good ole friend secret to his longevity and good cheerful aura...still YOUNG AT HEART.
