The Childhood of Satoshi Tajiri (Pokémon Creator) | Following Satoshi Tajiri EP 1 

"The son of a Nissan salesman and a housewife, Tajiri was raised in a Tokyo suburb in the late '60s, before the city crept outward. "As a child, I wanted to be an entomologist. Insects fascinated me. Every new insect was a wonderful mystery. And as I searched for more, I would find more. If I put my hand in a river, I would get a crayfish. Put a stick underwater and make a hole, look for bubbles and there were more creatures." In Pokemon the pocket monsters--many in the shape of caterpillars, moths and crabs--can be found anywhere: tall grass, caves, forests, rivers.
Tajiri preserved the world of his childhood in Pokemon. In the late '70s, the rice fields gave way to shopping centers, and the ponds were paved over to make way for apartment buildings, highways and train lines. "A fish pond would become an arcade center," he says. Pokemon, he says, is a way for children of a new generation to have a chance to collect insects and other creatures the way he did. For example, the Pokemon named Poliwhirl has a belly decorated with a little whirl--Tajiri's memory of the transparent skin of a tadpole with its coiled innards visible beneath. "Everything I did as a kid is kind of rolled into one thing," says Tajiri. "Pokemon."" - Beware of the Pokemania, TIME Magazine, 1999.
I go on a tour of various locations in Machida, Tokyo to discover secrets of the past, of how Pokémon came to be. Let's retrace the footsteps of Satoshi Tajiri and visit his childhood together!
0:00 - 0:05 Intro
0:05 - 0:25 Tokiwa City (Viridian City)
0:26 - 2:01 Satoshi's childhood home
Source: • 推理：ポケモン作者田尻智さんが住んだ町田市の...
2:02 - 4:03 Satoshi's elementary school
Source: • ポケモン作者田尻智さんが通った町田第六小学校
4:04 - 5:09 Stroll around town
Source: • 田尻智さん（ポケモン作者）が川遊びした恩田川
5:10 - 8:47 Woodlands where Satoshi caught bugs
Source: • ポケモンの里：たぬき山に来ました
8:48 - 9:17 Satoshi's highschool
Source: • ポケモン作者田尻聡さんの中学校帰途コース
9:18 - 9:48 Gamecenter where Satoshi became addicted to Space Invaders
Source: • ポケモン作者の田尻智さんはこの辺りのゲーセン...
Source: • 町田のゲーセンに通ったのがポケモン作者＝田尻智さん
9:49 - 10:48 University where Satoshi earned his technical degree in computer science
Source: Kenji Hatakeyama, Masakazu Kubo "Pokemon Story" Nikkei BP, December 10, 2000. ISBN 978-4822241995. OCLC675697843.