Is this city? CHRIS: Uh.. yes. SHARLA: Town? I think it's Kawasaki-machi. CHRIS: Kawasaki.

We are on another Poke-lid hunt today.

I've got my friends Chris and Victor helping me out and we've started here..

..somewhere in the middle of Miyagi prefecture for our first stop and..

..we're gonna see how many we can find today in all of Miyagi prefecture.

We've got like 31 left to go [CHRIS makes noise of disbelief] and I think we might be able to do...

..15 today, if we hurry! So let's go find the first one!

So the map brought us to this...center.

SHARLA: I don't even know what they do here. (CHRIS: What a lovely looking building!) SHARLA: It's some kind of like city center.

I think that's the manhole there. Yeaah! CHRIS: Aah. VICTOR: That is correct.

SHARLA: Lapra's special. CHRIS: Oh, I love Lapras. It's one of the Pokémon I actually know.

SHARLA: Alrights let's get a picture of this and then I'm still collecting the stamps as well.

Oh, it's right here! It's outside.

Victor, you should get a little book and you can collect the stamps.

VICTOR: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

SHARLA: So they make a stamp of each of the manholes in Miyagi.

It's so sad because this is going away after a month it feels like such a waste of these cute little stamps.

CRHIS GASPS // SHARLA GIGGLES // CHRIS IN DEEP VOICE: Amazing!

SHARLA: Stop sounding so excited (?)

CHRIS STILL IN DEEP VOICE: Gotta catch 'em all! .. Pokémon!

SHARLA STILL GIGGLING: Go away :p

One stamp down, lot's to go.

Let's go.

VICTOR: Let's go.

SHARLA: So this is our route for today.

We're going to start here in the middle of Miyagi prefecture.

Work our way down to the bottom and end in Matsushima.

Hopefully if we have enough time.

All right, stamp number two has brought us to Zaō which I've been to lot's.

It's so pretty right now with the snow on the mountains aaand...

There's a shrine here but..

But it's so icy and slippery. I don't know if I want to be climbing the mountain to see the shrine.

Kaminoyu. It's a little onsen here.

They have a footbath here but no hot water in it.

VICTOR: The remains of it.

So sad!

These are really nice in the winter. I'm surprised they don't have it going.

Onagyo (?, the name of the place). So this is where... Oh yeah, here's the stamp.

Yaay(!)

Now the hunt for the actual manhole.

It should be around here somewhere.

The GPS pointed to right about here.

Might be buried under snow.

Seems to be a common pattern.

Victor found it! Yay!

VICTOR: Yah!

Good fun.

SHARLA: Woehooew!

Number two of the day. We're making good time.

I'm gonna take a peek at that little shrine that was up here.

The cool thing about this stamp rally is that it takes you to places that you normally wouldn't go.

I'v been to Zao many times but I've never been to this part of the town.

It's nice.

It's too bad the footbath wasn't going.

Yeah, looks like there's a little shrine down there. I'm not going to..

..head all the way in because we have lots of places to vist today.

And a very tight time schedule.

You can see the steam coming up from under the street.

Zao is an onsen town so there's lots of natural hotspring water running underneath us.

CHRIS: Next is very remote. It's a town.. (SHARLA: sixteen) ..that I don't know how to read. What's that?

SHARLA: Chikahara?

CHRIS: Maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's quite far. (music starts) Let's go.

SHARLA: So this is, um, a Michi no Eki. CHRIS: Is that up there? SHARLA: Yeah, which could be cool.

Yeah I think that's around here.

wait is it open

so deserted

i really hope the manhole is close to

the stamp area because i don't really

want to go exploring this area it's just

lots of snow

and mountains you see it oh yeah yay

victor's good at spotting them

[Music]

so the next manhole hunt has brought us

to a castle

in shiroishi apparently the stamp is

inside a museum which we've yet to

locate we found the castle though looks

really nice in the snow found it and i

also found these stamps for my other

stamp collection

the manhole itself is within the park

somewhere but the park's quite big so i

looked it up on twitter oh that's it

right there

and i found a picture of it right beside

the castle, so I knew it was by the castle

somewhere

this is a cute one

i'd say this has been the coolest

location that it's brought us to

so far discovered a new castle that i

didn't know existed and here's another

manhole

not pokemon related

all right our next stop is at another

michi nowaki so we're on the highway for

the next 20 minutes or so and i think

there's three okay lids in that area so

Poke's lid, is that what it's called?

Yeah, Poke lid. Pokefuta in Japanese.

It sounds better in Japanese

but after that we'll have a seven done

so

i think we're making good time it's

It's currently 1:45 pm. Since some of these stamps are inside of tourist centers and stuff...

.. I have a feeling they're gonna close around five, so...

..hopefully we can get a few more after that.

CHRIS: What'd you find? SHARLA: Just the regular michiyoaki(?) stuff.

SHARLA: Nice. CHRIS: Such force!

CHRIS: Meanwhile, Victor has found it. VICTOR: Too slow, too slow :p

Oh, that one's cute. There's a little sign here that tells you where the manhole is.

That's awesome. So it's right beside the... overpass!

The little bridge. I think I know where that is.

There's the overpass so it should be over there somewhere.

Should be up here.

VICTOR: Oh, there it is. CHRIS: Oh, already it's found.

SHARLA: Oh, what the hell. CHRIS: You walked just straight past it for the third time.

SHARLA: Yes, look at them. CHRIS: It's lickitung!

SHARLA: Nice, that's five, I think. CHRIS: Yaaaaay. Only 400 more to goooo, YEAAAH.

SHARLA: We found the next stamp! But we haven't found the manhole.

We kinda went over the parking lot and didn't see it..

..though we have a track record of just walking right past them. So who knows?

Nice!

So apparently this is the right location for the manhole but we can't find it.

Watch it just be under one of these cars in the parking lot. VICTOR: Oh, god...

Usually it's in front of the shop.

I thought maybe it would be over here infront of the shrine.

front of the shrine

hmm nope

nothing here either

victor's checking up there turns out the

manhole is nowhere near where we are

it's all the way over here at the

station

so i'll try to be my next but i got

strawberries so it was worth coming here

they cropped it

[Music]

cool it's a cute one so this area is

famous for sakura which is why they put

the sakura themed pokemon here

look at this

why didn't we come in the spring

why are we here in the winter

it looks great

maybe a walkway along beside it you take

this little like yeah

that's really cool rope car

it's awesome yeah look at

all these sakura lining the entire

river here

definitely have to come back so the next

manhole location actually brought us to

the area that has that rope car that we

were looking at on the sign

so it's up on a hill uh that has the

ruins of a castle

and yeah in the spring you can take a

rope car through the cherry blossoms

i will definitely have to come back here

and do that it looks really nice in the

spring we will do that it's not too far

from Sendai all right let's head inside

and get our stamp and then we'll search

for the manhole which we haven't seen

yet

[Music]

even the staff didn't know where the

manhole was

i think the larger map that i have

actually gives you the precise location

of each one so i'm gonna check that

oka ekimai

found it yeah you're so good at spotting

them

oh yeah

This is a nice little station. Yeah.

It's very

traditional

cool

I 'am so glad that these brought us to

these obscure locations because now I

know to come back here in the Spring.

Another sakura themed one.

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

The next one was super close by and the

stamp and the manhole are in the same

location which is always nice. So this is

another Michi no Eki this is

Kakuda Michi no Eki. It looks brand new

many nice Michi no Eki around here

so if you're new to Michi no Eki this is

where you can get the local foods of the

area

some handmade crafts some fresh produce

and now lots of them have Pokemon

manholes

There it is.

[Music]

this is probably the most remote

location of the day

[Laughter] Welcome to Marumori! In some forest. [Laughter]

nothing here but apparently they have a

stamp. Yeah they do I see it.

[Laughter] On my god. This is so cute.

Wooo!

Ahh! so cute

Nice. Oh is that Meowth. Aww Meowth's

riding on it too. That's cool. I almost got a full page! Getting there. It's getting dark though.

Almost got a full page!

Getting there. It's getting dark though.

I feel like this might be our last one.

I don't know

[Victor] How many were we able to do today?

[Sharla] Umm. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

[Sharla] eight, nine. [Victor] Nine, it's pretty good.[Sharla] Not bad.

[Sharla] yeah [Victor] yeah [Sharla] we made good time that's for

sure

so the manhole is just in this random

park down the road. Oh it's so cute

Ah I love it.

That might be the best one yet it

reminds me of Maro.

[Music]

Alright we made it to the next one just in time. It's going to close at 5:00 p.m.

and i think we've got 15 minutes but

it's actually a strawberry farm and shop

so we're gonna go get some more

strawberries Miyagi's

famous for their strawberries and it's

actually strawberry season right now in

the winter it's kind of weird it works

that way in japan but it works out well

for us

nice

Oh it's Chansey.

I bet it's because we're on the border

of Fukushima and Miyagi and the

[Sharla] Fukushima Pokemon is Chansey. [Victor] Oh really.

[Victor] I didn't know that. Nice. [Sharla] They have some really

cute ones in fukushima and they have um

parks like playgrounds that are Pokemon

like giant Pokemon you can find a lot of

[Victor] Oh crazy.

we need to go there