You just know some local 80 something Ojii-san/Obaa-chan walks these steps every day to keep fit

Truly an "Only in Japan" experience. The closest I could relate this to was hiking through the longest combined vehicle-railroad tunnel in North America, Alaska's tunnel from Portage to Whittier. A close second would be climbing the steps up to the top of the Great Wall of China or, to return to Japan, the 207 steps we had to climb earlier this year to reach the burial place of Ieyasu Tokugawa in Nikko. (FWIW, ironically I am planning to drive through the 2.5 miles long Whittier tunnel tomorrow with visiting family,). It was a treat seeing Leo tackle the steps which reminded that 3-year olds love step climbing for some reason. For him that was probably just as exciting as a ride at Disneyland. (We have a house with many steps and visiting kids Leo's age are always climbing them. I just counted, and there are 42 connected steps. Just going from the entry way to the top floor takes 28 steps. Leo has an open invitation to come here to climb. :).

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

I think for a kid Leo’s age, completing a challenge is so important and he did it! He looked so proud when I was surprised he did it all himself 😂

That staircase is straight out of horror game where it's endless until you finally decide to turn around and the exit is right in front of you

That is an incredible ‘movie set’ all by itself.

I love it that you are making memories with your family and showing us viewers. I had no idea something like this existed in Japan!😊

the things you stream for us... so much appreciation to you John. I would not even try hahahhaha

This is what I've been waiting for, I love your version of Doai station coverage.

love the 4k and ultrawide really helps to appreciate the views!

That place looks old and there’s so many steps that my knees wouldn’t liked that because there’s no escalators and elevators🤔Thank you for sharing this experience John🙂👍!!!

@MeetJohnnyNg

2 ай бұрын

Your knee will get stronger after few trips.

So spooky, like something from fallout 4 or metro exodus post apocalyptic video games

Imagine going to Platform 1 then realizing you had to go to Platform 2 🤣🚊😭

@Nelsea7190

2 ай бұрын

spoiler alert, you only have 7 minutes to get from platform 1 to 2 after making this mistake before potentially missing the train on platform 2.

When going down is the easiest part, going back up is literal workout for legs & stamina.

Looking forward to seeing this unique station in November. Thanks for the amazing video John.

Thanks for the tour John and family!

How unique! Thanks for sharing, John!

Very cool video. Watching it made me very tired and out of breath. Thanks for finding and showcasing some unique and out-of-the-way experiences in Japan.

😮 Great video John! 🚆👻

love your adventures John! Thank you

thank you so very much. this was so cool and fun. i would not want to be claustrophobic and try it that's for sure. you never fail to amaze with your live streams sorry i missed it live. that was a work out i am sure, it was really nice to see your family. take care aloha

What a gem of a video John. Fantastic....so cool...so interesting. ❤❤❤

Wow! It was like watching a movie. Such a cool setting and such a contrast from modern train stations.Thank you for taking us along.

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for joining me!

Super cool but also creepy. I fully expect to see some creepy shadows following along.

Great running into you at the Tokyo station. Just as friendly in person as in the videos. Have a great trip to Yokohama with your kid! 👍

This is so cool! I definitely get a studio Ghibli vibe when you’re walking through the hallway. Just added this to my list of places I want to go. Thank you

I Love your VLOGS Buddy! Keep IT UP! More VLOGS to Come! I Love JAPAN!

Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

Thanks for the tour John!

@onlyinjapanGO

Ай бұрын

Thank you ^_^ glad you enjoyed the tour, to the depths of the deepest station 🚉

Special kind of walk it was! Thank you John!

I saw this with another youtuber, but its always awesome to see.

Just got back from Japan, another gem I missed. Thanks for this, it will definitely be on my itinerary for my next visit.😃

In a way it reminds me of a bunker. Since it goes so far down underground. You definitely have to pace yourself for sure. You can't be late and make the train at the last minute.

Cool but look so eerie and scary! I wouldn’t want to go there alone. Appreciate you showing us such a station existed in Japan.

Great vid. This is definitely a cool family bonding experience. Leo gets to have fun exploring the tunnel. I'm guessing, you probably went to help Kanae & Leo up the stairs.😎🤙🤙

That's amazing 👏

On my trip from Niigata to Tokio i stopped here and spend the night at a ryokan. Off course i went down and up, it would have been a breeze if it wasn’t for my 15 kg backpack 😂. Then a walked for 1,5 hours to the next train station where my ryokan was located, long walk but nice scenery! Also there is beer stored in the white cabin, you skipped that part 😅

This looked so amazing through the video. Definitely on my bucket list whenever I come to visit Japan. On a side note, would not want to be in the tunnel during an earthquake but would not mind doing some paranormal research down there.

Hi John, this is the most unique adventure that you are taken us on. I am impressed by your energy and enthusiasm. I am even more amazed by the energy displayed by Kanai and Leo doing the climb. Well done! Many thanks for a really fun time!

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

At 3, he climbed it all himself, up and down! Maybe he could also do Mt Fuji? 😂 quite an adventure!

@raphaellim6123

2 ай бұрын

@@onlyinjapanGO Wow, well done, Leo!

Wow just amazing ❤

5:12 In the event of a fire/emergency that causes people to rush out, that pillar prevents the flow of people from creating a traffic jam at the bottleneck (the door you just went through) - it prevents a crowd of people from crushing one another. (^_^)

Now that’s a place to visit. I bet after this we’ll see more KZreadrs going there.

Cool!

Amazing tunnel! My utmost respect to those who dugged and built the statin. Thank you for sharing , sir.

Definitely one of the coolest stations I’ve ever seen! My poor knees would be screaming the next day.

486 steps stair on walking down and climbing up for good exercise. Didn't know the station still operates. Great video John

Its dope place John 👍

I thought Kyoto Fushimi Inari Shrine steps are hard enough for my old leg but Fushimi has a rest place with some drinks and sweets also in the end very beautiful view but this one no way I can do my own as so spooky to me, John you are brave man and bless your little boy and wife came down to meet you. I am Japanese but I never knew this place as I come from most end of west Japan and never been that prefacture. Thank you so much you show me this video. Best Wishes 🇯🇵

I think it’s very cool! I would definitely go there!

I saw this station on YT a year or two ago. And I am still impressed :3 I just love underground buildings like this (or even mines and natural caves). Also I do wonder how does it look like when the train arrives, because in another video I've seen (from tunnel in Norway), a freight train was creating even more mist before itself, because it compressed air to some extend - truly fascinating sight.

Wow, that's a lot of steps mysterious train station, no doubt it would be a good healthy work out.

I was there 3 weeks ago, really cool place...

Aloha 🤙 from Honolulu! Love exploring places like this. Keep going, but be careful. Don't fall

Props to Kanae who went all the way down and up carrying Leo most of the way! I hope John managed to help her a bit.

I've wanted to go here ever since I saw my first video about it. After that workout I hope you guys went to someplace nice. I would also love to take a ride on the Sunrise Express.

Nice adventure time

Strange how the train for one direction is on the surface and the other is so deep.

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

You can see it on Google maps! Between Tsuchitaru Station and Yubiso Station, is quite a trip! It’s divided and converges again here. It’s an unusual line for sure. The line going to Tokyo loops around once in a circle, maybe some switch backs if I remember. It’s been YEARS since I took the local Joetsu Line. The other train direction doesn’t do that. Stays underground the whole way. Odd, quite a story going back 100 years.

@gene9537

2 ай бұрын

@@onlyinjapanGO When you mentioned that the rout loops around, it makes me think of the loop bridge in Kawazu.

It's a very cool place if you're not alone 😅. The acoustics there might also be very interesting. I think that climbing Yamadera seems more intimidating though lol. Thanks for showing this place for us! 🙏

Kanae and Leo were so brave! And lucky you're fit, John. Otsukaresama deshita! 👏👏👏

Stair Master!!! I thought I seen an old video of Japan Olympic Judo team training on that exact train station?

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

Could be, it’s pretty intense up and down. I did it twice, woke up sore 😆

Thank you, John, for this fantastic visit. Please tell us the story behind this amazing place with your own words?.

Very COOL John, Amazing 😂😮

Wow! That is a very nice train station. I want to go there.

Rather impressive this.

that is really cool and now I want an indie horror game around this station lol

In the first person view, it looked like i was playing a resident evil game

Welcome to Gunma

Omgggggggggg this reminds me of that scene in Poltergeist where she’s running down the hall and it keeps getting longer and longer 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫!!! Man I got tired just watching I swear my legs feel heavy hahahahahha! Good job!

I made a video like this driving my truck in a huge gypsum mine underground. Passing the same thing over and over again, but fascinating to me. Interesting the effort put into constructing this. I wonder if more people go there for the experience rather to ride the train? You should have gone back down with Leo and Kanae for the family experience.

Morning John! I love it! It's an adventure! Of all thoughts? An earthquake? 😁😆😅

Wow.. unexpected and interesting! I wonder what the story is behind why it was built there and how it was done?

OMG!!!! 😮😮😮That is insane!!!! I think my fear of heights , bad knees and potential ghosts are enough to keep me from going there! Thanks for taking us John so we don’t have to!!!😂

Tks for this interesting video. Any recommendations of where else to visit on a drive from Tokyo to Doai?

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

Have you ever just opened Google Maps on your smartphone and had a look around? You’ll find a ton of things that even I don’t know to investigate. I do it in my free time, read the reviews and see the photos. MINAKAMI Onsen has a lot of wonderful hot spring inns, Takaragawa Onsen one of my favorites for 25 years. Be curious, it’s fun!

Oh wow! This is nuts! So cool! Starbucks would be worth it!!

I was wondering if you’d go there while in minakami. I walked down there early this year as it got dark and it was eerie. Walked back out into the night. It blew my mind that the cables running down the tunnel stairs were up in the wall where live bare cables. If someone were to touch them they’d die pretty quickly. You could reach them from the railings.

Those stairs look daunting

John Daub will make this station famous for tourists!

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

If you’re going to make the trip out here, I commend you! Try the white water rafting! It looked incredible in the stream at Minakami Station 2 days ago.

Only in Japan!!!

Good exercise, it almost defeated that abroad in Japan person 😆

Some one with a Fitbit needs to go down those stairs. I am sure that entire walk down the corridors and the stairs must be close to 1500 steps total. Leo is a trooper.

Wow John what an amazing adventure. Those monkeys were wild ones living in the prefecture

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

Wild and funny - they came out of no where and ran past me on all side! They looked at me, I looked back, had a moment and they were off 🐒

Doai is a cool station, visited there on my trip in 2020 just before travel closed down for a while 😒. There was no one else there, was an awesome experience, believe the cafe had only just opened then, as it had those typical good luck flower arrangements at the entrance. Definitely no clamping/camping then. Further towards Tokamachi is another interesting "mole" station, it's not as deep, but there you can only enter the platform when a train has arrived. You have to wait in a special waiting room due to the airpressure/wind created by the train 😁.

There is a fairly similar stairway to a deep underground platform on the Nihonkai Hisui Line at Tsutsuishi Station on the Sea of Japan coast. Just as spooky, too.

That was cool John very cool train station so many stairs so deep that was a great video I seen green stuff growing in the tunnel that was interesting also the water flowing down the tunnel

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

I didn’t expect this to be such an amazing experience! 😆 not Leo climbing 1000 steps! Impressive. Seeing the colors, temp change, water, different sounds and atmosphere was exhilarating. Not your every day stuff.

Should do the train ride to/from! Seen a few you-tubers drive there.

Hi, nice new video of Doai! Some hints to make the visit doable in a day from Tokyo without getting mad?

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

Hmm, possible but do not miss your train back! Hitchhiking may be an option, at least to the Shinkansen Station at Jomokogen or Echigo Yuzawa! I’d say take the Shinkansen to these stations then catch the local or rent a car and drive there. It’s not far. Nearly no traffic. Easy relaxing drive.

@axios101

2 ай бұрын

@@onlyinjapanGO thanks!

17:55 😂😂 OHH NOO

Glad there were other peeps there. Bet that's one creepy station after dark. 😨 Looks like a pretty decent workout climbing those steps though! 🥵

@onlyinjapanGO

2 ай бұрын

Sore the next morning 😂

@1ChilledDude

2 ай бұрын

@@onlyinjapanGO Oh I don't doubt it! 😄 How was Kanae? Did she walk all the way back carrying Leo-kun up those steps? 😕

That was a major feat just constructing that underground railway .... As now we have huge boring machines....

This whole construction is unbelievable. I'm a little disappointed that no ghosts showed up, but as we all know they're allergic to cameras. 👻 Anyways, tyvm for this interesting video. 👍✨

This one is perfect for Leg Day if tourists go there 👍

See how the bacteria grow around the flouro tubes? They love the UV :)

I'm glad you are going out of Tokyo more lol

is this like a casual workout spot for people in japan haha cos man, that'd be a great place to get your cardio in, esp since it's free to go up and down the stairs

Imagine if you twisted your ankle while ascending the stairs! I wonder how often JR sends maintenance crews to the station?

My husband’s knees would never make up these stairs lmao

Were those waiting rooms on the platform??? They looked well lit.

think there are rest booths at the lowest platform parallel to the line. its certainly a trek by train that im not sure i'd do. if im insane, then maybe but otherwise not so much.

There’s something like this in the DC Metro system (except NOWHERE NEAR as deep down, obviously) and I went through it once and got **severe** vertigo… I can’t imagine what someone going through this station would feel…

I was feeling out of breath watching you climb back up the steps.

I would love ❤ to visit the station when I have lots of free time.

One last thing: I was surprised that you had a strong phone signal down in the tunnel and on the platform.