An unusual documentary series that delves into human dramas through chance encounters with ordinary people at selected spots. Filmed over 72 hours in a single location, the show captures glimpses into people's lives as they open up and share their stories. Japanese Broadcast Version
Tokyo jingu gaien fireworks festival for one million people
Tokyo, yamaya, backpackers in tokyo
Tokyo station express bus terminal
Blood donation room at shinjuku east exit
Taxi: honest conversation in tokyo
Honest conversations with a taxi, sapporo version
Yokohama chinatown, youth graffiti
Roppongi hitotsubo office
Ashigara service area, tomei expressway
Saitama: the muslim next door
Osaka medical center, patients' consultation room
Nishi-ginza lottery ticket office
Home ranking in shinsaibashi, osaka
Merry christmas at a convenience store
Ueno ameyoko manga cafe
New year's eve: operation garbage collection
Resort job: winter's tale
Nagoya: great success! recycle shop
Efukuoka jinjo yatai street
Ferry on a journey
Adatara service area on tohoku expressway
Shin-okubo: grocery store without borders
Sapporo susukino 24h giri meshiya
Fukuoka hakata: a giant cruise ship arrives
Close contact: the sleepless flower shop in kabukicho
Farewell shibuya, kamaboko station building
Osaka kushikatsu elegy
Yokosuka air base, operation matchmaking
Departure from new chitose airport
In the city of closed factories
Enthusiastic singing! hitori karaoke
Kyoto engiri shrine
The endless battle for nighttime emergency medical services
Net live broadcasting people
Familyless life theater
The youth of ”underground idols
Dreams bloom at kochi racecourse
In front of a giant manbow
From the last shelter
Mount fuji climbing port
Rain or shine: a laundromat tale
The happiness theory of healthland
Nishinari, osaka - locker blues for rent
Midsummer grave visit dialogue with foreigners
Fly! epsilon
Yoshimoto: summer training camp at the critical moment
Sweat and tears in a 24-hour gym
Grab what? giant game center
Powder room: a woman's honne
In search of hiroshima taro
Hitchhiking in the seto inland sea
Called by the dunes
Shinjuku giant travel counter
Postmarked 24-hour mammoth post office
Riding the ‘engimusubi’ (match-making) train
Walking in a giant bookstore, a forest of printed matter
Local wrestling, 3-day traveling tour
Huge share house for 260 people
The fierce battle! entrepreneur contest.
At the northernmost bus stop
Okinawa: the barbershop that never sleeps
Fukushima: from a super market in early spring
Close encounters! street corner photo printing machine
Life route of a huge ferry
Consumption tax increase! 24 hour discount store
At the foot of the skytree
Youth hello work youth
Ueno park, under the cherry trees in full bloom
Midnight public restaurant in the big city
Trunk rooms: another secret room
Osorezan: place of the dead
On the road: “happiness theory” on route 16
Tropical nightless city, 24-hour supermarket
Shonan, reasons to gaze at the sea
At a gas station in a drenching downpour
What dreams i have at the fishing pond late at night
Veterinary hospital in the city that never sleeps
Kabukicho nail salon: behind the scenes of a woman's dressing room
Summer: the closest station to the nuclear power plant
“on the shore with a view of the atomic bomb dome
A small convenience store in a large hospital
Haneda airport: from summer to autumn
Deep asakusa, midnight coffee shop
Ueno ameyoko, multinational underground market
What to hit: boxing gym in a mixed-use building
Koenji, what to expect at the public baths
A walking trip around yamanote line - ”happiness theory“ in the center of tokyo
Kisarazu, wangan, big lunch box store blues
Wandering shakebai
Osaka minami, midnight underground tenement
Shinjuku ni-chome: a taste of mother's home late at night
Birth rush! japan's best obstetrics and gynecology
Farewell! bowling alley in the center of tokyo
Nagoya, underground streets, lost and found on a holy night
Student dormitories in the northern land
Happiness seized at money shops
Handyman, running in the city
Akabane oden restaurant elegy
Kobe, january, see you at pai-yama
Akita: in front of a vending machine in the midwinter
Driving school, each journey
Tanning salon: the reason for the wheat color
Capsule hotel wonderland
Taxi honest conversation - fukushima iwaki version
A building exclusively for cosplay: their dream castle
Life begins with a used car
Following the cherry blossoms upstream: a three-day trip along the tama river
Yakushima: people gathering at giant trees
Candy store: children's small universe
Kebab shop, roppongi, crossroads of gentiles
Mt. takao, why wander into the mountains of the city?
Container karaoke in a seaside town
Dreams to be drawn at a video rental store on a major holiday weekend
American drive-in of okinawa and reminiscence
Uwasa's cat and shopping street
“hanacaba” life theater
Kurume, fukuoka: the story of tonkotsu ramen
Dance hall for men and women in downtown tokyo
Rocking on the streetcar
Oasis hotel in the rice paddies
New york: laundromat theater
Dalian, china - at a japanese foods supermarket
In a cemetery looking up at the great buddha
Summer comic! japan's “best” convenience store.
Summer's end: on the streets in front of the diet
Long-established hotel: till we meet again
Traveling fisherman: a life of squid fishing
Deep tokyo: in a corner of little manila
Street corner dubbing shop: reviving images
Cheap airlines: at the airport that never sleeps
Kabukicho midnight dispensing pharmacy
Welcome to the world's largest labyrinth of old books
Fortune teller's house: crossroads of fate
At akihabara's secret workshop
Yokohama all night tonkatsu
Tokyo kappabashi: food tool district
Sapporo: bus terminal on holy night
The first dream at tokyo tower
At a bench in tenjinbashisuji shopping arcade, osaka
Tokyo in the middle of winter, the name is ”hanako“
Winter, tsugaru at the 100 yen onsen
In love with valentine shrine
72 hours japan-korea comparison sp
Drawn to showa songs
Daitokai: dog and cat shelter in the big city
Farewell! our funabashi auto
Akita: in front of a vending machine in midwinter, a regretful farewell
Donburi mei monogatari in the north
Carrying a stamp in a foreign country
Gunma, isesaki, at the usual food court
The severely travelled highway 439
Volcanic island: ferry rides back and forth
Asakusa: adult roller coaster
Kyoto: kamo river delta in youth
Trapped in the magic of go
Hiroshima: on the street corner waiting for the president
Nagoya: welcome to retro cafe
Assault! secret internet auctions
Brazil: prayer-filled secret sanctuary
Women's prisons: the real faces of these women
Nagasaki: obon at the fireworks store with a flamboyant flair
Fukui: unattended ice shop in midsummer
Big city, in a park boiled by monsters
Hiratsuka multinational butcher shop
Shikoku: at a small station by the sea only
Twilight golf outing
Dreaming giant art materials store
Tent village in the sky in the northern alps
Midnight nursery school in nakasu, fukuoka
Village chief election: the traveling ballot box
Roppongi halloween: confessions of a mask
From okinawa to the world and back
Narita airport immigration checkpoint on christmas eve
Why omiya? the café is waiting
The sounds of miyazaki's street piano
Beppu: a century of hot springs
At a park in yokosuka with a view of warships
Cheap underwear: searching for warmth
Wishing upon golden kushikatsu
A walking path where you can see giraffes
Welcome to chungking mansions, hong kong
The fateful seven-way intersection
Spring at a bag store on the street corner
A small funeral in the city
Live camera at the summit of mount kongō
Yoru no mori: sakura tunnel
Fabric, buttons, and me
I tried zen temple training
The secret marriage counseling room
Let's meet at the mosque in shibuya, tokyo
Enticed by the gentle movement of jellyfish
Solo truck journey: blown by the wind
The closed room in the sky: the rooftop ferris wheel
Kitakyushu kokura ‘100 yen bar’ blues
Giant housing complex: hello and goodbye at a secondhand shop
The elderly care facility with a view of the sea
The never-sleeping restaurant in the mountains
Summer koshien: another youth
Midsummer akita: longing for baba's ice cream
Whewhen men polish their shoes
The base town adult rock festival
Born to be wild: motorcyclists' road to happiness
Life without a smartphone
Kyoto's too quiet library
Spain's canary islands: tuna fishermen's short vacation
“see you again at the english conversation school
Guest house: a 3,000 yen per night oasis
Muscle stiffness
“one more copy tonight: 24-hour print shop
Ogasawara islands: weekly delivery service
Bento tales from a northern fishing town
Shinjuku hanazono shrine: dreams come true at night
The never-sleeping bakery: a gift for christmas eve
Tsugaru strait new year's eve ferry
Legendary game center: adults' battles
Cool! downtown asakusa batting center
Shibuya: spring flowers and bartering
A park where dreams take wing
Metropolitan rat patrol
Searching for spring in tohoku: traveling along national route 45
Street corner legal consultation office
Traveling beauty salon
Running library to the island and mountains
Spring japan sea: waiting for firefly squid”
Osaka, nishinari: 24-hour family restaurant
The joys and sorrows of 1-yen pachinko
The women on the cosmetics floor
People gathering at akita's ‘hot spring of life’
Backflip class: jump toward tomorrow!
The japan derby grand parade
Transporting lives: the relocation of a large hospital
Goodbye! my beloved department store
Tokyo bay midsummer sea fishing park
Kanmon strait undersea tunnel
Coast guard academy
Surviving the summer with fresh juice
From the remittance office with love
To shibuya, the ‘holy land of amura
Hakodate's hamburgers of happiness
Tokyo station: meet me at the "silver bell"
Farewell to tsukiji market: at the usual standing soba noodle shop
3,333 steps: beyond japan's longest stone staircase
Shiga/kusatsu giant parking area
New town home center: diy enthusiasts
Hiroshima workwear store
Shinjuku music studio: why we formed a band
Sendai: seeking connections at the ‘seating lounge
Narita airport's low-cost carrier (lcc) terminal
Winter camping ground with a view of mount fuji
Winter in tokyo: taiyaki elegy
Bartering in dotonbori, osaka
Asahikawa lottery ticket sales office: dreams seen in a blizzard
A realtor in fukuoka: opening the door to new lives
Close-up! giant job fair
Osaka ferry: a one-minute journey through life
Close-up! ‘the rental do-nothing person
Nagasaki goto islands farewell ferry
Takadanobaba, the student district: at the rotary where youth once gathered
Tree burial: to you under the cherry blossoms
The giant cargo terminal that never sleeps
Shibuya post office: the ‘heisei era’ at the corner of the street
People who live for ‘saba-ge
Fasting: beyond hunger
Tokyo, asagaya: by the goldfish pond
Shinjuku wig specialty store
Walking through kobe's bargain shoe store
Climbing gym: look up and climb
Okinawa driving school: dreams beyond a driver's license
Farewell tokyo! relocation consultation center
At a coin car wash after the rainy season
Visiting nurses walk the streets
Kumamoto/aso: a once-in-a-decade motorcycle photo shoot
The blood donation bus travels across the northern lands
Tokyo nagatacho shared office
The end of summer: a walk around osaka castle park
China, yunnan province: a city park where you can see seagulls
Fukuoka: 24 hours of laughter and tears at the dentist
The story of a liquor store in ginza
Small wedding story
Nagano: viewing the spectacular skyline
Amusement facility at twilight in amagasaki
400 km sprint! okinawa survival run
Aomori's shimokita peninsula ‘wakeari yokocho’
Akihabaraː infatuated with electronics
Miyazaki: in pursuit of the mysterious giant fish!
Namié, fukushima: year-end at the local supermarket
Kobe: the street piano from that day
Tokyo's downtown 24-hour yakiniku restaurant
Yankee intern: we're wearing suits starting today
Small food cart cafe: a thousand and one nights
Tokyo's inokashira park: drawn to the pond
Workout! the giant sports gym that never sleeps
Wishing upon a star: the tanabata festival in the city
Ishikawa nagisa driveway: memories on the sandy beach
Tokyo taxi drivers: the paths of their lives in the city
Tokyo's sumida river: a quiet summer without fireworks
Why i play an instrument
Toshimaen: in front of japan's oldest carousel
Garden supply store: flowers, greenery, and happiness
Kabukicho: farewell to the cabaret of humanity
Kitchen equipment for restaurants: the summer of restaurant owners
Kawasaki animal park on the hill
Sapporo sandwich shop: 24-hour operations continue
Outlet furniture store: when i change my lifestyle
At the pet cemetery where animals rest in peace
A small dry cleaner in a bedroom community
Cycling journey: racing along the shimanami kaido
Winter sweet potato shop: beyond the warmth
Kitakyushu: a market with 100 years of humanity
Umihotaru parking area: year-end viewpoint
The old year and the new year in a multinational housing complex
In a small bento shop in namie, fukushima
Document 1day: yokohama under emergency declaration
Life stories at a hospital convenience store
Osaka express bus terminal: springtime departures
Uniform store: brand-new white coats
Amami: riding the sea taxi
Ginza snack rhapsody
Noto peninsula: cherry blossoms at an unmanned station
In the big city, in front of the jizo statue
Why i came to the blood donation center
Taking a break at a coffee bean stand in kyoto
Stationery store: this letter to you
Giant tropical fish store: a life with small lives
Midsummer tokyo: the phantom marathon course
Miyagi, kesennuma: fishermen's ‘convenience store’
Fireworks shop: lighting up a quiet summer
The truth behind the ultra-cheap food store
At the end of summer, in the station underground bicycle parking lot
Listening at an earphone specialty store in akihabara
Drone training ground: take flight into the sky
Hair and makeup salon: i shape eyebrows
Big city: 24-hour cheap bento shop
Giant skateboard park—the ride is smooth
Tokyo, koganei: at the neighborhood water pumping station
Large secondhand clothing store: finding my own style
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Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Ikebana shop, miyagi, in the spring when i think of you
Episode 8
Print sticker machine: their spring
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Nature's treasure hunt on a niigata beach
Vegetable vending machine in nerima, tokyo
Episode 16
At the seaside station where a handkerchief flutters
Episode 18
Episode 19
Doronko park" children running in the rain
Midsummer osaka shaved ice memories
Episode 22
Udon vending machine on route 9 in the san-in region
Episode 24
Episode 25
Episode 26
Episode 27
Gunma-brazil presidential election
Fukui: invitation to neko-ji temple
Episode 30
Year-end special 2022 viewer vote #1
Year-end special 2022 viewer vote no. 2
Art university seinen graffiti
Osaka: in an apartment building from the showa era
At a small okonomiyaki restaurant in kobe
Minami-boso: at a quiet pier
Amami-oshima: listening to fm radio
Fukushima - at a mountain lodge in the dead of winter
Fukuoka express bus terminal, fukuoka, running through the new year
Winter stories of ramen stalls in nagoya
Qualification examination preparatory school: my path forward
Winter at hokkaido village convenience store
Episode 11
Akihabara doll store
Okayama 24-hour drive-in
Iwate, at a small newspaper company
Yamaguchi, hofu tenmangu shrine
Harajuku, 100 yen store, in spring
Seto inland sea, sakura island
Osaka post office, in spring
Aomori, hachinohe, at a shrine where a sea lion dances
Okinawa all night bento lunch
At the rooftop garden of a large hospital
Nishinomiya's "manbow tunnel" under the tracks
Kiso road in early summer
Saraba, nombe yokocho (farewell, drinking alley)
Episode 25
National udon vending machine trip - gunma
See you at osaka korea town
At an insect specialty store in midsummer
Fuji rock on the long-awaited summer day
Part-time high school koshien
Shimane, kizumihirasaka, on the border of the other world
Fukuoka at the bar in front of the boat race track
Kabukicho, shinjuku, at the hair salon that never sleeps.
Nagano, at the mountain pass looking up at the hawks
Hyogo good-bye lift of memories
24-hour chinese restaurant in tokyo suburbs
Hokkaido, rebun island, at the youth hostel at the end of the world
Episode 99
“rental room” life story
The bench by lake biwa
Nature's bounty at an okayama community garden
Ueno: a discount women's clothing store
Ehime, imabari at a sauna that has been in existence since the showa era
At shinjuku's 24-hour drugstore
Kerosene delivery service in snowy sapporo
Fukushima: an ice cream shop in winter
Spinning on at a 24-hour osaka laundromat
National route 4, drive-in never sleeps
A 24-hour discount supermarket in osaka
Kagoshima airport, in the spring of departure
A look at anime people in ikebukuro in spring
A midnight soba shop in akita
Fresh starts at a yokohama electronics store
Asakusa underground
Racecourse in the northern territories
China cancer hospital, rental kitchen in the back alley
Life voyages on a sea of japan ferry
Gifu nagara river, watching the current
A low-priced gas station in wakayama
Paris, france - at a manga cafe on a street corner
Lives inside a huge "danchi" housing complex
Beyond the books at a kanazawa library
A local penny candy shop in tokyo
A midsummer service area on awaji island
Nagano inadani direct market
Obon in tottori, at a seaside cemetery.
Why i wear glasses
A mobile "warabi mochi" cart in fukuoka
Meteorological shrine wishing for a sunny day
An everyday family diner in tokyo
At a huge thrift store in saitama
A martial arts gym in tokyo
A winding road through the kii mountains
Multinational food store living in japan
A niigata drive-through restaurant in winter
Seiya nagasaki daihodojo hospital cake shop
Close! moving a huge hospital.
A supermarket in snowy iwate
Oku-noto-suzu seaside public bath
Winter sendai at midnight nikuman stand
Tokyo botanical garden my only winter
Kawasaki taishu shokudo diary
The lure of token games at an amusement arcade
Gifu-nishiyanagigase “shutter town” blues
Toast at “japanese izakaya” in seoul, korea
Hakata 24hours ramen shop
Spring running bread moving sales car
Nozokizaka on the steep slope of tokyo
Multi-national student dormitory in the days of youth
Tsugaru prefabricated soba shop
Bonsai a small universe in a pot
Yamagata at a small zoo
Shinjuku ekimae lion statue donation box
Chiba 100 years hardware store
Nagoya shinkansen platform kishimen store
The “last” newspaper stand in front of shibuya station
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Episode 29
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