On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 16
Yokosuka - Machida - Hachioji - Kasugabe and "National Route16" connects the Kanto suburbs. The townscape where there are only large shopping malls and chain stores is attracting attention as "a landscape that symbolizes modern Japan". It took three days to run on the 250km ring road. Listen carefully to what people you meet on the road are happy. A young man who does not want to leave his comfortable hometown, and a homeless man walks silently on the way late at night. What is the happiness of Nippon seen from the 16th Line?
Aired: Jun 13, 2014 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Wrestlers on the Road02: A 260-Person "Sharehouse"03: The Fierce Battle! Entrepreneur Contest.04: Japan's Northernmost Bus Stop05: Okinawa: The Barbershop that Never Sleeps06: Fukushima: From a Super Market in Early Spring07: Printing Handheld Memories08: The Voyage of Life on a Giant Ferry09: A 24/7 Discount Store10: One Tower, Many Lives11: Youth "HelloWork" - A Job Agency12: Ueno Park, Under the Cherry Trees in Full Bloom13: An All-Night Eatery14: Self Storage: Secrets and Memories15: Mt. Osore: Between Life and Death16: On the Road: “Happiness Theory” on Route 1617: The 24-Hour Supermarket: Just Another Day18: Shonan, Reasons to Gaze at the Sea19: At a Gas Station in a Downpour20: What Dreams I Have at the Fishing Pond Late at Night21: A 24/7 Animal Hospital: When a Pet Needs a Vet22: Kabukicho Nail Salon: Behind the Scenes of a Woman's Dressing Room23: At a Train Station in Fukushima24: “On the Shore with a View of the Atomic Bomb Dome25: General Hospital Store: Where Shopping Meets Healing26: Haneda Airport: From Summer to Autumn27: Deep Asakusa, Midnight Coffee Shop28: The Ameyoko International Food Market29: What to Hit: Boxing Gym in a Mixed-Use Building30: Koenji, What to Expect at the Public Baths31: Dreams Along the Yamanote Line32: Kisarazu, Wangan, Big Lunch Box Store Blues33: Wandering Shakebai34: Osaka Minami, Midnight Underground Tenement35: Shinjuku Ni-Chome: A Taste of Mother's Home Late at Night
