Japanese Student Shares Love for Vladivostok
The video spread on social media
A Japanese man named Shugo, who moved from the city of Osaka to Vladivostok, has told how he fell in love with the Far Eastern capital. He has lived there for almost a year and admitted that the local atmosphere simply struck him.
“The center is somewhat reminiscent of St. Petersburg, especially when you walk along the old streets. The winter stands out especially. When I first saw the frozen sea, I just stopped and stared for a long time. You don«t see that in Japan,” the foreigner said.
Shugo also likes that Vladivostok has a palpable Asian influence and many Chinese establishments, in one of which he tried the famous guobao rou (or gobazhou) — a dish of thin slices of pork in a crispy starch batter with a sweet-and-sour sauce.
“There are simply a sea of Japanese cars on the streets; here I truly fell in love with JDM culture and started going to car meetups,” the man admitted.
He stressed that Vladivostok is a place where Russia and Asia intersect, and it would be hard to find such a unique atmosphere anywhere else.
Shugo«s video received dozens of positive comments — Vladivostok residents thanked him for such a review of the city, while people familiar with Japanese culture wrote back nice things about the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Earlier we wrote that former Vladivostok mayor Vitaly Verkeenko, who emigrated to Japan, built the Scandinavian-style Hirugano Lapland resort hotel in Gifu Prefecture. The villa was erected on the Hirugano Plateau. Information about its readiness to receive its first guests appeared on the hotel«s website.
