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Season 16 · Episode 30
Life in a Kagoshima Gold Mine
0.030mOctober 10, 2025
A gold mine in Kagoshima has 190 staff, from teens to veterans in their 60s, who work to extract gold used in jewelry and electronics. Spend three days with people toiling above and belowground.
Episodes
- Episode 1Multinational food store Living in Japan
- Episode 2A Niigata Drive-Through Restaurant in Winter
- Episode 3Seiya Nagasaki Daihodojo Hospital cake shop
- Episode 4Close! Moving a huge hospital.
- Episode 5A Supermarket in Snowy Iwate
- Episode 6Oku-Noto-Suzu Seaside public bath
- Episode 7Winter Sendai at midnight Nikuman Stand
- Episode 8Tokyo Botanical Garden My only winter
- Episode 9Kawasaki Taishu Shokudo Diary
- Episode 10The Lure of Token Games at an Amusement Arcade
- Episode 11Gifu-Nishiyanagigase “Shutter Town” Blues
- Episode 12Toast at “Japanese Izakaya” in Seoul, Korea
- Episode 13At a 24-Hour Ramen Restaurant in Fukuoka
- Episode 14Spring running bread moving sales car
- Episode 15Journeys Up and Down a Steep Road in Tokyo
- Episode 16Student Life in a Multicultural Dorm
- Episode 17At a Prefab Soba Restaurant in Aomori
- Episode 18Bonsai Village: Growing a Small Universe in a Pot
- Episode 19Yamagata At a small zoo
- Episode 20Lion Statue Donations at Shinjuku Station
- Episode 21Chiba 100 Years hardware store
- Episode 22Nagoya Shinkansen platform Kishimen store
- Episode 23The "Last" Newsstand Near Shibuya Station
- Episode 24Staring at Shohei Ohtani Los Angeles and Iwate
- Episode 25A 10-yen Pool in Midsummer Ehime
- Episode 26Giant cosmetics store
- Episode 27Nagasaki at the bus terminal in August
- Episode 28Karaoke Izakaya
- Episode 29Rolling Along on Kochi's Streetcars
- Episode 30Life in a Kagoshima Gold Mine
- Episode 31Dining Alone at a Shinbashi Yakiniku Restaurant
- Episode 32A Modern Shared Home in Kobe
- Episode 33Episode 33
- Episode 34Coming "Home" to a Maid Cafe in Akihabara
- Episode 35At a Tokyo Bookstore That Never Sleeps
- Episode 36Episode 36