Name: Japanese Highway SA Stop | Kamisato (Saitama)
Uploaded: 2021-12-17T17:45:30.000Z
Duration: 18 min 36 s
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Alright, there's the sign committee sato one km.

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Alright, so we've got about 30 seconds to go before we can pull to the left into a service area which is pretty exciting.

This is Saitama and I'm on the way to Nagano which is a 370 km, what is that like 280 miles or something basically.

And I'm gonna be taking a break here at ca Misato I guess I could signal right now going at a cruising speed of 80 km/h, which is I think below the speed limit here.

Alright, let's see here, cars to the left and here it is.

There's a Starbucks right right straight ahead and let's park in the front row.

Ah They got to and I will show you this beautiful service area Now there's a big difference between a service area and a parking area.

Oh, this is a great spot, how you doing everybody Welcome to commit sato.

This is uh, service area in Saitama Prefecture.

Today I'm going to be crossing through Nagano city, my final destination, the mountains to film for one day and then come back tomorrow.

Um, ca Misato kind of breaks up the trip.

I, I've stopped here usually when I'm driving in this direction one because they do have a Starbucks which is, which is you know, pretty good coffee and they have more restaurants and some of the other service areas now on japanese highways there's service areas and there's parking areas.

I grew up not that far from the New Jersey turnpike and on the New Jersey turnpike and new york thruway they were called um rest stops and here and here in Japan they're called parking areas and service areas.

And parking area is basically a place that you can go in there and you park your car.

Usually there's vending machines, a toilet, maybe a convenience store but usually there's nobody there, it's just for parking.

Service areas are services where you can get restaurants, gasoline, coffee, gift shop.

Usually there's some, you tie some stands where you can get some um street food um and it's a lot bigger.

It's it's, I don't know if you really want to take a break from the road parking area is if you want to rest arise service areas if you want to hang out for a while.

Some of the service areas are pretty intense though.

There's some service areas that are that look like ancient adobe like they have their own feeling to them.

Some of the newer ones, this is an older one, it doesn't make it any worse.

But it's not as interesting as some of the some of the ones that I'm gonna be taking you into over the course of the next year or so.

Um, let me just take you inside here and I will discuss it a little bit more.

I'm gonna actually rotate you because you're going onto a gimbal.

So that means you're going to go for a little bit of a spin here.

Hey joe Michaels here, konichiwa, how you doing and patty, highland.

I'm actually going to get a coffee and put that to good use.

I'll show you the car that I'm driving as well, make sure the parking brake is on, this is on the road towards Niigata.

What what you see here is basically a place where you can park the trucks are in the back.

Usually there's pretty good cellphone reception because there's a cellphone tower over there.

There's a gasoline stand or a gas station right there and they assume maybe a shell.

There's a lot of loads of vending machines and I'm going to take you there last, but let's go just quickly inside.

Usually there's a post office to at least a post box and you got that right in front of us here.

Michael is pretty excited about the site thomas.

Now, each parking service area usually has some kind of specialty to it.

Now you can see there's a restaurant here and there's partitions here that I guess, you know because we live in the pan, we're in the pandemic age.

And cheese cookie, wow, there's a lot of gifts here.

This is, you don't shop here, check it out.

Um you don With all these really delicious looking topics here.

You just get it from the vending machine.

But that's just plain with dipping sauce.

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