Exploring Yokosuka US Naval Base in Japan - Adam Koralik
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- It's Adam Koralik here and today we're traveling to the US Naval Base in Yokosuka Japan! The episode is a bit of a love letter to Shenmue fans. This continues our three week adventure, and the eleventh of TWELVE episodes. This episode will have a focus on exploring the US base as much as a civilian really can, and what it's like to be back in the US, while still being in Japan.
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Just noticed this was a donation, thanks dude!
Thank you for taking the time to film this video. I was there from 86 to 89 and I wish I did a better job of preserving those memories with photos and video. My parents had a video camera but I never thought to film the high school or my friends. I see some things are exactly the same and other things are completely different. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Lived there in the early 90s, good times
Thanks for this video! I was a Navy brat living there in 1984. Got my first drivers license there. Got my first job there lifeguarding at the outdoor pool. So many memories at the bowling alley. Went to Kinnick HS there, but not the new building you saw…we were in the old torpedo factory which was in the same spot. Benny Decker theater. I lived in officers housing just inside the gate and up the mountain. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Did you met hide from x-Japan????
I think the contrast of you showing us around Yokosuka , happy as a clam and Sunshine hating himself is so funny😂😂😂
They didn't just leave it up. The base still belongs to Japan. If we are ever kicked out, everything nailed down goes back to Japan. I served on the USS Kittyhawk 2000 - 2003. Lived in Yokohama 15 years after.
I am amazed that he walked by and place called “Green Hill” and didn’t say anything
Very fascinating to see the base. Thanks for sharing this!
I was station there in 1977 1979 on uss oklahoma city had great time also on uss midway a few years later.
Thank you for your service!
Knox 77-79. Loved it. I even drove a NEX Taxi in my off time.
An awesome tour of somewhere most people never get to see - really felt like I was there!
my husband and I are being stationed here soon so it was great seeing amore recent look at it :) so thank you enjoyed seeing it!
Happy to help and thank you for your service!
NEX means Navy Exchange. It's the Navy store that basically provides everything. I was there in the early 90s. All I remember is Popeyes bar. Place has changed a lot since I been there.
Popeyes!!
Thanks for doing this. I was stationed here from 2005-2008 and miss it a lot.
cant wait to see the base for real in a few months
Hi Adam, great video! I spent five years stationed at SRF in Yokosuka from 2015-2020 and am trying to get orders back, best five years of my life hands down. There are some really awesome live jazz clubs out in town too. There are also some really cool (and probably haunted) tunnels in use by COMDESRON that were used during WWII.
One note on the Filipino restaurants off base: a large proportion of US Navy sailors (or spouses) are Filipino / Filipina; you'll find a HUGE Filipino aisle in the commissary and balikbayan boxes next to the post office.
very cool I lived there for two and a half years back in the 80's. My ex husband was a Marine stationed there and our oldest son was born there. I'm amazed at how much it has changed and yet still the same. This video made my day.
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching.
Wow. Seeing the Green Hill arcade again. Talk about bringing back memories. Thanks for the tour. Looks like some things have changed, but not really all that much.
And that On yasii is going to get attacked the next time I'm there.
I grew up on Yokosuka base early to mid 90’s. It’s so fun to see how much it has changed. The middle school didn’t exist when I was there. I also was a kid/teenager that explored off base unsupervised with other American kids that attended those schools. It was such a special privilege and responsibility to have (not sure if kids today still have that privilege. I wouldn’t be surprised if that privilege was revoked because unsupervised American kids can possibly be a bad thing 😅). Even though I had lived on an American base for so many years in Japan, moving back to the States was a little bit of a culture shock. I may have been born in a different country besides Japan, I’m still American and I love America but if I had a choice and the money, I’d still prefer to go back to Japan. Even over my birth country. I understand life on an American base is different from life in Japan but that’s how much I’ve come to adore that country. It’s a part of me. ❤ Thank you for this video!
I lived here in 1969 & 1970 i attended Sullivans Middle school which had Grades 6,7,8. The school was located in the middle of the base west of Thew Gym. Yo Hi was in Yokohama at that time. My Brother went to High School with Mark Hamill AKA Luke Skywalker I met him once while on an Ocean liner in Yokohama seeing off his Girlfriend girlfriend at the time, whom was the daughter of the Navy Commander my Dad relieved change of command
I appreciate your editing and respecting the more restricted areas of the base. My son was born in that Naval Hospital BTW.
Absolutely! Hope it was nice seeing it.
I followed your original channel YEARS ago after you visited my hometown of Pontypridd. I’m moving to Yokohama (not Yokosuka but close enough) in a year and so started doing some research - and here you are 😂
Yes sir!
Today we join Adam as he goes to Yokosuka, Japan to explore the US Naval Base where he shows off how American it looks and feels while also showing of the Japanese side of the city as well. Meanwhile the Sunny Human Man climbs Mountains to go Video Game hunting. Later the to of them along with a Maple flavoured human living in Japan, go and get the MEAT SWEATS. Adam also finds a controller for an Irish gentleman, and gives him bonus Japanese candy..
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Thanks for the tour Adam. Looking forward to the finale of this grand adventure.
Thank You very very cool tour🤟🤟🤟
Thanks for sharing. Basically you going to the Honch and base gave me nostalgia. Miss being stationed there! And also we do have a Panda Express here on Okinawa without being on base!
News to me!
I was stationed there from 89-91 on the USS Midway (CV-41). Nice to see the base again. Lots of changes.
I liked the alternating between the two "adventures"!
I'm glad! Next time I hope Sunshine has a real phone.
Interesting video. I was there 77-79 on the USS Knox. In my off time I drove NEX on base taxies when the bars got old. In 1978 when building the Commissary, a bulldozer pulled a 500 pound bomb out of the ground like a carrot. The serial number traced it back to WW2 and was part of a group that was dropped on the Dry Dock, this one going into the mud. It was still alive. Ordnance Disposal took it. I really enjoyed my time in Yoko. Visited 13 Countries of my 27 from Yoko. 75-95 FCC(SW)
Haven't been back there in over two years, I see a lot still hasn't changed.
FWIW the 'sailors' bit *did* make it into the anime just ask my wife about me freaking out 'he said the thing!' haha. (well 'sailors' wasn't in the line but it was otherwise the same) also that 'all you can eat in an hour' place sounded amazing though for sure.
Fooooood, yah.
The sailors walking around are on duty. They're looking after the American heavy areas and keeping sailors under control....to the best of their abilities.
Are you talking about the Sailors off base? This time of day there’s no Shore Patrol. Those Sailors are either heading out in town to eat or are heading home.
The air raid siren is a relic from WWII; the base shipyard still uses it to signal the start of the day, lunch break and close of business. Stationed in Yoko for 12 years. (USN, retired).
didnt know you've been to australia. Singapore is a great visit if you're ever down. loved seeing the giant godzilla slide
It’d be fun for Adam to post/draw his famous hike route up the mountain.
My husband is getting stationed there soon, so I'm trying to prepare for the big move, and this really helped! Thank you!
My pleasure!
Let me know how it goes! My husband has a job opportunity there at the base. We are thinking of relocating our entire family!
You could have taken a base taxi to the other side to check out the Chili's and Navy Lodge.
15:15 I remember the Grand Opening of that Taco Bell! 20+ Years ago now, Crazy how time flies! I Miss Yokosuka…
I was stationed in Yokosuka from 91-95; good times
Stationed there from 99-02
A few of the bars located in the Honch would allow Sailors to bring their own beer (if you knew the bar tenders well enough).
We would buy cases of beer at the Navy Commissary and bring them to the bar (the bartender's held the case behind the bar for you, then they would just give you a drink from your box of beer whenever you needed another). At the time beer was around 700 yen, so BYOB was a much more affordable way to drink.
Often times you wouldn't finish all the beer you brought to the bar, so the bar would just inherit any of the beers you didnt drink....lol
A write of passage in the Honch for a Sailor was to take a shot of Habu Sake at Popeye's, and walk down to the Chu-Hi station (not a official name) for a freshly made Chu-Hi.
Good times
My dream is to visit the Honch and taste the infamous Habu Sake.
I appreciate you thanking me for my service.
I came also from westmont dupage county and join the service station in Yokosuka
20:30 That's the Mikasa, the last remaining Pre-Dreadnought battleship on earth, definetly worth a look!
I love this video. I was stationed here December 2000 to October 2003. Walking all over that base in summer was brutal because of the humidity. There was a Taco Bell on base. I never chose McDonalds over Taco Bell.
Glad I could make you nostalgic!
That road your on in 1975 to 1978 was called Honcho 1 and the next street was Honcho 2 where they had bars and places that me and friends in the US Navy would party all night and be sick at morning muster!
Wow the tiger on that jacket you show looks very close to the one on Ryo's jacket on Shenmue. I know because I have that tattooed on my arm. Now I think I see where the tiger comes from.
Lived on base. Hasn’t changed much in 40 years!
Adam, in the Best Buy on the base, are the DVD/Blu-Ray players all region/region-free or are they region locked for Japan?
It's not a Best Buy exactly, but it's supplied by them. All the electronics are American.
It’s not supplied by Best Buy at all. The contracts are handled by NEXCOM with the product companies (Sony, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) to provide those items for sale.
be sure to thank them for their service
I was in Yokosuka 2 weeks ago (First time in japan) and tried hunting down a shenmue guide but couldn't find any. On dobuita street I asked and 2 older ladies even looked up and down for it in the dobuita tourist center (They looked for it really hard and I felt bad and thanked them anyways though), the military surplus store didn't have any either.
Maybe I should've looked harder in the tourist office by the train station and asked there too. I'm kicking myself, but I hope to return to Japan very soon! I'm really liking your Flying & Eating channel btw!
Thanks for watching! Yeah, the guides are kind of hidden away.
Thank you for your service. And thank you for thanking us for our service. Thank you. 🥴
I lived here when I was 6-9. Went to the Sullivan's Elementary School. Just curious, why couldn't you get up to the Navy Lodge and those areas at the top of the base?
Didn't have a car or the time to walk.
@@AdamEatsTheWorld ah I get that. It can take a while to walk all around, especially from 1 side of the base to the other and back. I rode my bike everywhere on base when I lived there
Dude, anywhere you touch and step on there is Japan. Think about Japan as the landlord, and US as the tenant.
Not really how it works, Japan is the one paying US for “protection”
Okinawa used to be part of the u s in the seventies
havent been here since 1995. I was stationed here on the Independence
Thank you for your service!
You forget the famicom AV have nes controller port on it !!!
...Did it?
@@AdamEatsTheWorld it totally does, works with everything but the zapper. Unless you mod the console
@@thebasspwns i got in 2020 i was so impress with the image quality ,i got a converter to put nes game on it too uts really the best !!!
23:24 Very cool pose from that kid
Adam Showcasing 🇯🇵: "Hi, so here's 🇺🇸"!
its basically like a military base except its in japan. no wonder I see some of my friends stationed there. if i showed my military ID from the states i wonder if they will let me in. because it looks the same from what i see at home. lol . all they have to do is scan your ID.
they have onbase taxi and bus that goes around the base. atleast that wasback in the 80's
Didn't notice anything like that, but I'm also a civilian.
Lotus is absolutely delicious!
22:56 I’m in the USA… I’m in Japan… I’m at the combination USA and Japan!
5:24 What is this, a Chrysler Building and an Empire State Building for ANTS?!
Well, we now know that having a big package does not apply to Adam. Lol
Cool video! Would love to visit there one day as an Aussie. Btw, contrary to common belief, I believe that the land on which US military bases overseas are situated, while under US military control, is the sovereign territory of the host country--as is the case with embassies/consulates.
Depends on the situation, but generally yes.
@@AdamEatsTheWorld What are some examples of US bases in other countries that are considered US sovereign territory?
They have a free station bus that takes you anywhere on the base for free
Thank you! We actually lived there once. Are you from Chicago?
I am!
@@AdamEatsTheWorld Wow live in Chicago suburbs for a while.
Check out my latest video, I show some Chicago suburbs sites.
I will!
Do they switch driving side of the road once entering the American side? Answer at 12:00
They don't have to switch sides. Remember, Japanese civilians work on the base and all the cars are Japanese. All Americans have to get a new license to drive. The train system was so good many of us never felt the need to drive. Really miss Japan.
How hard is to enter on a regular basis as a US citizen?? Nice video btw
You have to have someone eligible to be there vouch for you and sign paperwork to that extent. If you have that, as a US citizen it's pretty easy. Provided you aren't a criminal or anything.
But if you're just a nice guy on the street curious about the base, you can't go beyond that little room at the beginning.
@@AdamEatsTheWorld Thanks!
Fun fact Mark Hmill went to Kinnick High School
I saw that Indian restaurant when I was in Japan last month. I wanted to try it but I had to eat at that burger place you ate at in a previous video that had presidential burgers. I had to try the Trump burger for how sickening big it was 😂
The word you are looking for is "SAILOR TOWN".....
Words, yes?
22:31 Monkey Island is SaruJima in Japanese which literally translates to Monkey Island
This one was kind of cool, wish it had your mystery friend in it instead of you though.
I see Goddess hotel is still there 😂
They let you film the gate without yelling at you?
Sure seems like it.
blue street
If I were to be stationed in Japan I would eat a chicken bowl every single day
Go all the way to Japan just to eat in Americatown
Guessing you didn't notice the other like, 11 episodes made during this trip.
@@AdamEatsTheWorld It was a Simpsons reference. "I'll miss your KFC and your sparkling whale free seas." I was razzing you. I already know that you're not really an Americatown enthusiast per se.
station 2006-2009
Why the hell did i read this as ' Exploring Yugoslavia's Navy base in Japan' 🤦♀️
its like saying you have a gf in Canada
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mcdonalds is from san diego
I think you mean San Bernadino, and not...exactly. The original McDonald's brothers location was there but famously kind of stolen and moved to Chicago in the 1950s.
I don't think that a military base counts as American soil.
Then um... you're wrong?
Adam is correct. It's complicated, but essentially it is US property.
@@JeraldOsborn It's not what it says on the internet. For example down there travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/records-and-authentications/requesting-a-vital-record-as-a-u-s--citizen/faqs.html#:~:text=Is%20a%20U.S.%20military%20base,territory%20of%20the%20host%20country.
@@AdamEatsTheWorld Seems that in such cases there is an agreement that the base is controlled by the military but it remains territory of the home country unlike for example with embassies.
@@FranzBinder20 In the case of Cuba Guantanamo base perhaps doesn't apply what the rule says, otherwise the Cuban dictatorship would have kicked out the US operation since long ago. Same as was with Hong Kong, the UK shouldn't have honored their pact with the current communist regime which didn't represent the will of the people that live in the former British territory.
Why the Chinese force could not united with the US troops to occupy the Yokosuka and Japan 1945 after the WW2
Because the Chinese didn't have a navy or a force to speak of. They were in the middle of a feudal civil war when the Japanese invaded.
@@AdamEatsTheWorld If the Japs killed the NewYork city 1941 like Nanking 1937 , what will the US troops did in Tokyo 1945
@@AdamEatsTheWorld I think it's very luck for the Japanese people that their JAP troops did not kill the NewYork city in 1941 like Nanking 1937 , otherwise , Tokyo must be killed by the US troops in 1945 . But for the Chinese people who live inside the city of Nanking , it's not fairness , what do you think about it .
I think the actions taken were the correct ones. Senseless revenge wouldn't fix anything, it simply perpetuates the violence. The Americans were correct to step in and stop the fighting. I recognize the Chinese never got to feel their personal justice, but they need to understand...they won as best they could.
remove the carnists part everything else was amazing,, liked your dark side of humour leaving the base,, LIBERTY OUT OF ME
...Carnists?
ill never in a million years ever eat indian food, especially not whilst in japan
Curious, why?
You stated only US Military can go on base: Untrue. Family members, US civilians as well as Japanese civilians (Master Labor Contractors) and there is also a contingent of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces on this base. It is also NOT US territory - the base is still Japan.....unlike our Embassy which IS sovereign US territory.
Dude, you're taking that too literally. I went on to the base myself. My point was only US military and their associates are eligible. Meaning, a random Joe with no reason or connection to it could just waltz onto the base.
As for the sovereign nature of it, that's not exactly true either. The territory is spoils of war logic, as opposed to say Korean bases where we're invited. Yes, politically speaking, if the Japanese wanted to reclaim it, they could. But, clearly, they don't. So until such time, US soil it is and US soil it remains.
@@AdamEatsTheWorldThat’s factually incorrect; Japan retains sovereignty of the land. Case in point, if a Sailor gets in trouble out in town and is being chased by the Japanese Police, they can’t take sanctuary on the base (as they could in the US given state police don’t have jurisdiction). The only time they (the Sailor) would be “safe” is if they get onboard one of the ships there (the only true US territory there).
You really should learn about the place you are showing.
Thanks champ.
ya losing my at carnism idiocy
Been drinking?
How many times can you say "america"? 🙄
As many as needed, that's what freedom of speech is!
Anthony Pizza is a real place and they have many locations in the Denver area. I also think you can use post office and they wouldn’t ask for your ID.
Interesting about Denver.
Unfortunately, you HAVE to have an address there for them to ship anything. We found that out the hard way.