The Farmer That Lives in the Middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
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I sure hope Sam gets a chance to visit Narita airport with enough spare time to visit the farm
this dude and planes...
and he squeezed a Newark Int. Airport burn excellent
@@nadirkatana998 you seem desperate
As a Russian, I'm surprised that farm standing against the government wasn't completely burnt down by a mysterious wildfire that absolutely no one knows how happened. That would be a terrible coincidence
A wildfire inside a fucking airport seems pretty wild for sure lol
it a small farm... and the airport firefigher would be faster deal with them...
@@campkira you didn't get the point, did you?
As an Estonian, i can understand what you mean. But i say - Russia will be considered as country of Third World as long as they do not honor rights of simple people. It is about growing from kind of Nigeria or Ethiopia to normal European civilized society.
@Pouty MacPotatohead In Russia, point gets to you.
1:04 Takao Shito is the son of Toichi Shito...
the father of Takao Shito
bet no one saw that coming
Sam is the farmer now
Sam’s out here guarding the fields, making sure Ben and Adam don’t disturb his land. Truly a dedicated farmer now!
Update on this - the government has started evicting him with hundreds of police
Wow, I'm sure Sam wouldn't have much reason to come visit the area or something.
It's not like he needs to find some rural looking area in the middle of hustle and bustle to throw off, say, a couple of seekers or something.
The sign at 4:44 is only partially shown. The full sign reads "Narita Airport go to hell." It was the first thing I saw after I landed at Narita on my first trip there.
Someone should play hide and seek here
2:15
so you get normal crop yields if there is a slab of concrete over your field
and if there isn't you get INFINITE CROP YIELD
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@@thekuygerian why do I keep seeing you in new comments?
Download it and forget it they said
There was a video during this commercial?
@@thekuygerian Hunter Peterson
How about SponsorBlock extension instead?
3:52 I would instantly accept the money and forget about the farm
"It was in the middle of the ocean so there wasn't much room to make it bigger".
**Laughs in Dutch**
Funny thing, subsequent Japanese airports are built on reclaimed land, and I can't help but think that this debacle was one of the motivations why. It can be closer to the city center if we build it in the bay, and no one is currently farming on it cause it's not there yet.
@@AlRoderick Also Haneda Airport itself got a new runway via land reclamation in 2010.
@@Luxalpa And isn't domestic only anymore
@@AlRoderick Might piss off some fish though, you don't want to get them angry.
@tconlon251 Fun fact, all of those places are nicer to travel to than LaGuardia!
1:32 fun fact: the people who settled and farmed in ex-narita airport was not just poor people but were mostly a group known as the 'hikiagesha's, the Japanese settlers expelled from ex-Japanese colonies dirt-poor. Therefore, these people were extra stubborn when the government kicked them out of the land they were goven before
HAI: shoehorns airplanes into videos about other things
Takao Shito: shoehorns a farm into HAI videos about airplanes
also HAI: shoehorns a Les Mis reference into a video about an airport
Perfectly balanced
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@@AxxLAfriku lol
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"A lightly less noisy backyard".
4:59 except the fighting cats!
I never realised how prominent “Yo!” was in the Japanese language.
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tok tok tok tok tok tok
tok tok tok
toktoktoktoktok........
YOOOOOooOOOOO~!
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Funnily enough, in Kanto ( the area around Tokyo ), yo is often used at the end of sentences. If the show was about Kansai ( the area around Osaka ), it wouldn't work. It's an East West thing yo :D
Actually I do think that “Yo” as a greeting made its way into the Japanese lexicon
@@CODMarioWarfare Yo.
4:58 cat!
Narita has also another weird thing in the middle of the airport: A temple. Toho-jinja is right in the middle of the airport, open for visits. It's at the tip of the runway 34R. Runway is also shorter than the other runway because of the temple.
Anyone who wanna see that on maps,,,search this...
東峰神社-Toho Shrine
That's not really weird. Japan has temples and shrines all over the place. You can even find them inside high traffic areas, tourist destinations, train stations and even airports.
@@Milnoc not weird for Japan, but weird for airports.
Shrine, not a temple
I also found houses at Narita Airport on Google Earth, don't know their use or whether there are people living inside.
2:32 Yari Ashigaru are mobilizing
The history is much darker and deeper. I grew up in Yachimata, near by city of Narita. The original plan was to build an airport there, but there were protests so bad by farmers, people started dying, so they had to move the construction to Narita. There were farmer terrorists up to like 10 years ago trying to bomb the airport and airplanes (with people in) after the construction, and had to have security gaurds surrounding the airport for decades. The Japanese government still holds grudge against Yachimata after more than half century, no company in Yachimata is allowed to operate for the airport, and no direct tain is accessible to the airport.
@mPky1 that's the planet. Humans are naturally slavish: see every genocidal dictatorship ever, they get all the help and obedience they could ever want, and almost never get overthrown and instead fall apart from competition from other leaders. The average person is depressingly so
You guys are actually supporting FARMER TERRORISTS. Do you even hear yourselves?
Big Brain Time it was the farmers land so I’d support them defending their rights, but trying to bomb a F-ing airport is too much
@@ruruwardragons4710 They actually bought the farm after the airport plan came out
bro stop trying to defend these idiots. bombing an airport is too much, Big Brain Time is correct. STFU everyone
0:39 Chicago's O'hare
UPDATE AS OF JULY 2023:
“The Sanrizuka-Shibayama United Opposition League against Construction of the Airport strongly condemns the violent eviction that destroyed and robbed the farmland and buildings of our member Takao Shito, as well as the tower and signs owned by the League.
The Narita International Airport Corporation (NAA) and Chiba Prefectural Police’s riot unit have taken away with physical violence Mr. Shito’s habitat and land, which his family has cultivated since his grandparent’s generation for 100 years and yields a bountiful harvest. They have also destroyed the tower and signs that have shown farmers’ unyielding will to fight against the state brutality to construct airport for nearly 60 years. We will never forgive the NAA, the police and Chiba District Court, which legal-washed their criminal act.”
2:36 NICE.
In Britain some where in between Leeds and Manchester, British man: "I live in between highways". Japanese man: "Hold my Sake" - lives in the middle of an international airport
so underrated.
Yeh have you seen that house
it's on the m62 near to Huddersfield
*Motorways
A British person wouldn't call them highways.
If your backup isn't automated, its just a matter of time before you lose something that you care about.
In the end, an intl terminal was built at Haneda in 2010 so intl traffic is split between the two airports again
Haneda never stopped taking international flights. Just that the international flights permitted after Narita opened until Haneda started expanding into Tokyo Bay were limited to "scheduled charter" flights limited in distance to the longest domestic flight. So only covering Korea, and parts of north east China.
Yeah but still mostly domestic flights. Only huge airports have flights to Haneda, therefore I never used it. If I go domestic I prefer trains.
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 Think Haneda's international terminal focuses more on red-eye flights, to reduce competition with Narita, & also because the latter doesn't have 24/7 operation. My mother heard it was due to security concerns at Narita given the angry farmers there, and as a result Narita's authorities insist on having the airport closed during late night periods
Y'know what, screw it. It's midnight, and I want to learn why there's a farm in an airport.
0:53 "... you gamble if it arrives in one piece"
Brave of you to assume it will arrive at all...
0:50 for a second, I really began taking that seriously 😒
You missed the best part of this story. When the new runway opened, I took a flight from LAX to Narita (not the best part) and upon taxi back to the terminal I saw a sign that said "Fuck Narita Airport" that he had posted. I believe it is still there. It is visible in your footage at 4:43
Underneath it says 成田空港絶対反対！(Absolutely Against Narita Airport!), but the English message is more powerful
@@TaiyoN Well, is there a Japanese word equivalent of "Fuck"?
nah it says Down with Narita Airport
Where is it?
@@CSLucasEpic I think there is almost no curse word in Japanese.
1:06 "This is Takao Shito and Takao Shito is the son of Toshi Shito, the father of Takao Shito" ... Thanks for the clarification!
Why live at Tokyo Narita when you can live at the supreme Pyongyang Sunan International instead
Always love the digs at Newark Airport
Really though, that could be a good gimmick for the airport. "Our food is so fresh, it's grown on property!" Imagine that, airport food that doesn't make you question your sanity for eating it.
Well, eating food grown in between fuel burning airplanes can make you question your sanity
Airport food is generally good (though expensive). Airplane food on the other hand is a crime against humanity.
@@devanwilliams1127 is it really that bad? I never took the plane so I wouldn't know
Gamer du Québec You rarely get real food anymore, just a bag of pretzels since they banned peanuts. If a rare flight actually has a hot meal, I request a special one, kosher, low sodium or vegetarian as anything not mainstream usually tastes better.
@@tastx3142 Huh. I mean I like pretzels but I figured you'd have actual meals
Newark I'm weak 😭😭😭😭😭😭 jacked up my luggage too 😒
Tokyo: *farm*
Singapore: *slide*
Denver: *ice rink*
Newark: *casino for life of your luggage*
City of Newark: casino for your own life.
Singapore: _adds a spider web climbing park in 2019 with the addition of the Jewel shopping mall_
Bangkok:Golf Course
@@sexygeek8996 tbh it depends on where you are. I wouldn’t be near Valisburg but Ironbound is fine.
@@isaacmoraesdornelasdesouza4830 It was many years ago. It looked like an abandoned ghetto near the airport. I joked that we were about to get killed but it looked like the gangs already killed each other off.
The little airport where I learned to fly had a small farm between the two runways.
Every year the crop failed from growing next to nonstop airplane exhaust, so the FBO took the failed crop of beans as a tax loss every year.
Tokyo Narita’s biggest accomplishment is not being Newark Airport.
Great video, as always
“Known worldwide for being one of the places where those big metal things go nnneeaoowww” is the most informative thing ever said on hai/wendover
Yes, an accurate definition of an airport, perfect
3:07 money always wins
1:22 That flag has 50 stars but should only have 48 stars since Alaska and Hawaii weren't yet states during WWII. (Sorry for being that guy. I look forward to next year's corrections video.)
I mean he had one job count the friggin stars man.
@@thekuygerian The more replies to his comment we make, the more likely Sam will see the comment.
I'm usually on the lookout for anachronistic American flags, but I missed this one.
@@dimesonhiseyes9134, actually for those in the know you don't have to count the stars to see the difference between the two flags, if the stars are offset in the next row this is a 50 star current USA flag (star rows are 6,5,6,5,6,5,6,5,6 for 9 rows total) whereas the 48 star flag is six horizontal rows of 8 stars each (8,8,8,8,8,8 for 6 rows total) nor are the stars offset but form straight columns of 6 stars each. At a glance if stars offset it's 50 star flag; if not it's the 48 star flag. Sorry for being that guy (LOL).
47 because North Dakota
Fun twist on a story that many of us who have been flying out of Narita for decades know well. I remember how all cars and buses into the airport were boarded and inspected for bombs and terrorists. Up until the 1990s, the train platforms didn’t actually terminate directly below the airport... you had to take a bus to the terminal from the airport station because the builders were unable to secure all land rights.
At 1:04 - "This is Takao Shito, the son of Toichi Shito, the father of Takao Shito." Basically - "This is me, the son/daughter of my dad, who's my father", is how everyone should be introducing themselves. No confusion!
Edit- thanks to @colombus8myhw for correcting the spelling of his dad's name
He mispronounced it, it was Toichi Shito (pronounced like your toe is itchy. "Toe eechy")
@@columbus8myhw alright I'll correct it
Shito.
Wow.
"Thor, son of Odin, father of Thor!"
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 quite apt reel life example
Imagine declining 1,7 Million just to keep farming. What a waste, his family would've never had to work again
I literally live in Denver and didn't know about the new ice rink there LOL.
It’s not new but it’s by the Westin/Transit Center in the winter.
I lived in Denver about a year ago and also didn't know that
I frequent that airport and kinda forgot
They have a lot of things there, I think they had a petting zoo once
I literally don't live in Newark and did know about the casino @Uphorics
4:50 yo alitalia...
It's kinda poetic having agriculture which is one of the earliest and important of Human needs begrudgingly co-existing with one of the pinnacles of Human invention.
@RYG you belong in r/iamverysmart
hmmm yes that is interesting
@RYG what?
@RYG what do skyscraper farms and mars farming simulations have to do with this
@RYG Seriously, just go to
/r/iamverysmart
The Newark jab is at 0:48
I have been recieving noise complaints from this farmer guy that lives right in the middle of my airport. I keep ignoring them but when i do that the engines break from having rice inside if them.
The first thing I noticed about Tokyo Narita Airport was the delightful built-in sprinkler system in the toilets that washes your ass warm water too
0:15 Also, it's known as one of those places where the white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone.
The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
The sound you made at 0:18 sounded exactly like a Shy Guy
5:11
Ah Yes, I hate it when my laptop gets impaled by a stray spear. It sucks man.
It do suck
It do be like that doe
Well in Italy back then, the farm owner suddenly would go on a very long "vacation." The locals would simply say that the interested party "made an offer he couldn't refuse."
"Yo could you stop saying yo"
I hear Newark also has a pool filled with the tears of regret from passengers who spend overnight layovers there
Why is this channel called half as interesting when I have learned more here than at school?
Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!
full as interesting
Because school is a tenth as interesting.
TY 🙏
I still remember the day I first went to narita airport for my flight back home.
I was on the train to narita airport, when there was an announcement to be careful of terrorist and there was police of sort patrolling about. Alarmed, I went online hoping to find some kind of news, only to find out that the notice is always there due to narita's controversial history.
Regarding that sponsor message no, the worst thing is that you're putting all your data online unencrypted, making it vulnerable to hackers.
I bet Sam would pay $1.7 million to live in the middle of an airport lol
Jacorp : if I read your comment right, are we starting a crowd funding campaign to build Sam a one of a kind apartment in Newark airports baggage handling area? Complete with suitcase grabbing fishing rod?
Lmao
japanese airport do stop flying between midnight to 5 am... so if you sleep.. you sleeping around that time..
There's a farmer who lives in the middle of the M62 motorway in England. Not far away from the highest motorway in England as well
Imagine the kind pressure this guy is under from his family to never ever think about a career that isn't farming this tiny piece of land.
Imagine the sad state of mind this person must have. Basically you are devoting your life to hate. Like hate for the airport and be miserable. Sad
These farmers are actually disliked by the locals.
The majority of the locals have accepted the airport as their precious economic resource, while these farmers still fight against what’s been there for 40 years already.
Their farm is a serious obstacle to development plans of the airport, which slows down the local economy.
I don’t blame the locals for disliking these guys...
but they want *farm*
@@superoriginalhandle
Well, the locals think they can farm somewhere else, just not in the middle of the airport haha
The NRT northern runway only has 2/3's of its planned length usable due to a farmhouse cutting off part of it. Which reduces the amount of aircraft which can use the shorter then planned runway. There are also issues because of the bend in the main taxiway to that runway. Having to go around the farm means the taxiway bends into the safety area of the runway, which slows down traffic on both the runway and taxiway.
At least they stopped doing ID checks on everyone entering the airport a few years ago... (ID checks trying to prevent the protesters from getting into the terminals)
@@thekuygerian why do I keep seeing you in new comments?
@Joseph Stalin you serious?
1:04 was a very good fact! 😂😂
The dream of every aviation enthusiast.
SG21337 Plot Twist: The Shitos are actually avgeeks who wanted the airport to be built around them
to be a farmer?
@@Someone-cd7yi to live inside an airport like the farmer did....
@@nolongerusing7430 r/wooooosh
@@Someone-cd7yi fцск оff with this Reddit stuff
1:53 China: hold my bat soup
@@thekuygerian why do I keep seeing you in new comments
Wow that sponsor was just straight to the point
"Now guess what, it's sponsorship time"
No plane farm segway thingy
In fairness the sponsorship did refer to bamboo spears.
0:46 - 0:55 HEY!!!!!!!
The line about gambling with your luggage coming intact at Newark airport is 100% accurate
@mPky1 But I like gambling...
Do you think a farm in the middle of the airport is weird enough? Then take a look between the two runways of Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok,Thailand! THERE IS A FUCKING GOLF COURSE THERE! SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF TWO RUNWAYS!
The slide at Changi Airport Terminal 3 doesn’t actually take you to your gate but it’s more of a recreational slide for fun. It just takes you from level 1 in the public area to basement 3 of the public area and is accessible by the public and is not connected to any gate. :)
4:32 Cebu Pacific
*Coronavirus spreads and less people are traveling*
This farmer: "Finally, I can get some sleep"
Why doesn't he just make a deal to sell his produce inside the airport?
0:16 "Known worldwide for being one of those places where the big metal things go nnneeaoowww"
Singapore has a slide in Changi Airport Terminal 3, but it does not lead to a gate, it leads down to the underground carpark level, Basement 3 Carpark 3B
*Five households still live on Narita airport grounds. The son of one of the men who refused to leave still farms his land, assisted by 10 volunteers, some of which were former student protesters. He’s turned down an offer to leave worth over $1.6 million, and finds farming easier now with less air traffic disruptions due to Covid-19.*
sigma male grind
Yes, you should watch the video.
Haneda isn’t actually domestic only. It services regional flights as well. Like flights from Korea or Singapore for example...
You ought to have a look at the UK M62 motorway farm. Its a farm that creates an awkward split in the motorway because the farmer wouldn't allow his farm to be demolished, and so the motorway was built around it
Excellent!
Another Wendover productions vid.
The beginning of this video was like a family guy joke.
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0:18 Simply PRICELESS, Sam
Going to Narita really sucks. The few times I've been able to go to Haneda instead of Narita was a godsend. The 90min train ride from the airport after a 18+ hour flight has always annoyed me.
Nice
Congratulations for being the first comment
I haven’t been there in decades, but I recall tulip fields at Schiphol Airport.
Ahh, we’re back to airports where we belong
Z Shieh same guy
Back to our roots.
0:47 that's why you... or wait in one piece not stolen... nvm
Who has live the longest in an Airport?
Person with delayed flight:I have been here 2 days
Mehran Karimi Nasseri:Hold my beer
Takao Shito's Family: *Am i a joke to you?*
Tom Hanks: Teach me, senpai.
He doesn't live IN the airport. He lives right in the middle of the airfield. When people say "airport", they usually refer to the terminal building, which is not where this farmer lives.
@@pulkitmohta8964 he lives surrounded by the airfield
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 yes
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I was too young to remember my first layover in Narita.
imagine beign first
Yes.
I think it's you, good job
Narita airport is not too far from Narita Shinshoji temple, which is spectacular.
*I bet that guy has difficulties to get some Uber Eats delivered to his house!*
Dammit I’m in the airport. No, not the terminal. The taxiways.
What do you mean? He can literally get Uber Eats from any country in the world.
Uber Eats Express Air can deliver though!
I don't see the problem it's called a taxiway
@@thekuygerian they started it a long time ago in nyc
1:13 YOU FORGOT “the”
0:48 Newark takes another hit from pandemics and Sam
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