Kasamatsu… It’s not really an urban area, but it’s not exactly rural either.

It feels like a very ordinary average Japanese suburb, doesn’t it…?

In Tokyo, it’s about Hachioji.

In Saitama, it’s about Kawagoe.

In Kanagawa, about Hiratsuka.

The area is small and the municipality is a town, so it doesn’t really feel that way.

According to Wikipedia, a population density of 2,125 people/km2 is a fairly populated scale, isn’t it?

To be serious, about as far as Tanashi.

Hiratsuka is below average, so in Sagamihara.

Because it’s within the Nagoya area.

There is a big river.

The countryside in the mountains of Kasamatsu.

It is adjacent to Gifu City, and since Meitetsu limited express trains stop at Kasamatsu Station, it takes less than 30 minutes to Nagoya, so despite its tranquil residential area feel, it seems quite livable.

Because it’s almost on the border of Aichi Prefecture, it’s Gifu Prefecture.

It’s right in the middle of the Nobi Plain, and it doesn’t feel like a mountain or forest at all.

Yesterday’s Kinkasan was a different town.

I feel like the app gives off an image of a rural place like Penguin Village.

“The single-reed is much smaller in scale compared to the central area, so there’s not much description of rural life.”

It’s become so urban that a boombox is unnecessary.

Oh, it turned out to be closer than I thought!? I’m a resident of Gifu Prefecture.

What is the access like from the Kanto region, everyone from the neighboring prefectures?

Kasamatsu Chiisa

It felt like there were people talking, but the town was left behind in development, giving off an atmosphere reminiscent of the early Showa period.

For the time being, the Mino side and the Hida side are in different areas of Gifu Prefecture, right? Gifu.

I was watching a program that felt like nostalgic footage from NHK.

In the middle of Kasamatsu Racecourse, there were fields, and farmers were seen working even during the race.

The Oguri family itself has no money for food, so they don’t often go to the neighboring town and instead live in a way that involves searching for food in the nearby mountains, which may create that image of a rural area.

Well, it’s the feel of an ordinary residential area in the countryside.

I was casually walking a horse every day, but…

Isn’t Hida almost Nagano?

A small town about the size of Oguri’s chest.

Even if the city itself isn’t that rural.

The area around the racetrack is such that unless you are trying to go there, you wouldn’t usually stop by…

The app Kasamatsu clearly hasn’t put that much thought into its story.

It feels like a rural area with rice fields and mountains everywhere.

The Hida side has also been held by Nagano at one point.

The places that appear large are mostly mountains.

The land-related issues at Kasamatsu Racecourse have become quite complicated…

Gifu is so different that you would think you’ve arrived in another prefecture after crossing the mountains.

There is a significant gap between the rural areas that people living in the city imagine and the rural areas that people living in the countryside imagine.

Gifu has incredibly beautiful scenery when it’s sunny.

For now, it’s not a level where I can’t live without a car.

Buses come once an hour.

I remember that as soon as I crossed the prefectural border for work, the road surface became terrible.

Which area are you referring to in Hokkaido?

Well, the department store in Kasamatsu is in the city within Oguri, so isn’t it just that Oguri, before entering the Kasamatsu training center, came out from the true rural area where Kasamatsu Ondo is popular?

If Hiratsuka is called the countryside, what does that make my hometown Odawara…?

In episode 3, a place that looks like Colorful Town appears, and it was no good.

Isn’t the image in the thread cute?

I heard that Gifu is a really rural area compared to Tokyo.

Isn’t it nice to be in the countryside with levees, no buildings, and no big corporations?

Is it Yokkaichi in Mie Prefecture?

No, it’s Suzuka.

There’s no place that isn’t rural compared to Tokyo.

The income of the people living in Kasamatsu is probably low as it is.

Could it be that this area along the Kiso River or around the Shin-Sakai River, which seems like there’s nothing there, is Oguri’s hometown?

It is a city that resembles a template for a riverside regional city.

If you say that everything else is countryside except for the buildings, large companies, government offices, large facilities, and landmarks, then it is countryside.

About 99% of Japan is rural, right?

It feels like a residential area along the Kiso River, so it’s not in the mountains.

It’s a truly featureless residential area without skyscrapers or apartment buildings, but also not abundant in fields or rice paddies.

There aren’t any big buildings, but there’s a colorful town, so to me, it’s a city.

Someone who doesn’t even live in Oguri Cap’s area is denying its appeal?

Even if you’re from a local area, you’re treated like a country bumpkin.

When I heard you came from Niigata, I thought you were from the countryside.

The image that each person has of the countryside is too different, so the conversation doesn’t connect.

Stop pretending to be an idiot by saying extreme things just because you want attention…

It’s a relatively accessible town as a bedroom community of Nagoya.

How about Tomakomai?

I think Spe-chan’s home is in the countryside.

I thought it was about halfway between Osaka and Nagoya.

It was originally Nara, you know.

If you go down the Kiso River from Kasamatsu for quite a while, there is a shrine dedicated to the people of Satsuma.

Is it around Kakumigahara?

Are there really that many people who don’t like success stories from the countryside?

The friends from Tomakomai will be from Kisarazu, Kitakyushu, and Maizuru.

In the countryside, it’s only natural that there will be a difference in image perception among people, leading to miscommunication.

Does that mean a bedroom community like Ōi in Tokyo?

A case where locals self-deprecatingly refer to their rural area.

There is too much difference in the image between depopulated villages and local cities.

I’m glad I didn’t have to say Misaki, as they do in Kanagawa.

It’s true that Kasamatsu isn’t that rural.

If you’re imagining a level of a bedroom community like those around Tokyo when you hear “bedtown,” I’d like to say that’s different.

The mountains include Kinkasan, and the river is the Kiso River, and it’s true that in the rural suburbs, you have to go to Aeon for shopping.

There are differences in prosperity even among bed towns, with Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya each thriving to varying degrees.

The image that people from other prefectures have of Gifu is probably Takayama in Hida.

I really don’t think Kasamatsu is in Hachioji.

I will go as far as Ome and beyond.

I only know that the security is bad…

Gifu Prefecture is Mino + Hida, you know.

I guess it would be good to think of it like the area around Funabashi Racecourse 30 years ago.

If we’re talking about the Tobu Tojo Line, it’s Morinomiya Park rather than Kawagoe for Kasamatsu.

Why did the industrial areas like Fukuyama and Oita’s racetracks go under, while Kasamatsu and Saga have survived?

Well, you know.

I want you to take a look at it with Street View or something.

Kasukabe has a population of 20,000, while Kawagoe has a population of 350,000…

I mostly live in Kasamatsu, but the countryside is still countryside.

It’s just that it’s not like a village…

It might be that they think it’s about the same as Hachioji because it’s rural enough to have mountains.

Seriously, the population and level of development are totally different.

It’s correct that you can finally compare at the level in Aume.

I’m a citizen of neighboring Gifu, but I mostly just pass through.

I’ve only been to the racetrack a couple of times.

There was cider with Oguri and Roman labels at a nearby roadside station.

In Gifu, while areas like Kakamigahara, which is home to Nihon Ichi Software, are urban, are they not? Is it disrespectful to Kaori Mizuhashi’s shoes?

Kasamatsu is good.

You can casually stop by on the way back from Kanazuen and enjoy local horse racing.

It doesn’t seem like it’s anywhere near undeveloped areas like the big cities of Funabashi or Kawasaki.

So why is that Oguri so naive about the world…?

I thought you had come out from Hokkaido, but you really seem like a local kid.

Kawagoe is quite close to Ikebukuro.

In terms of the streetscape, I think it has a rural feel that could aim for the lower middle range.

Because it has a suitable location, overall it’s about average.

Is Ume Musume’s Oguri from Kasamatsu?

It seems that the local feel of this week has increased the local anime factor.

Regardless of whether it’s civilized or not, my impression when I went to Chukyo was that Meitetsu was quite inconvenient to use.

It seems tough without a car.

The issue of Yukinobijin’s local rural area has never been addressed, yet only Kasamatsu is being singled out.

A horse escaped from Kasamatsu Racecourse before.

It has become local news.

What is this place called 9th district that feels so tight, Kasamatsu?

Toyohashi, the loser heroine near Kasamatsu, is probably rural too.

Some kids say that Funabashi, just two stations from Nakayama, now feels like a distant utopia, so they don’t understand the perspective of the countryside.

They can run from the training center to Kamakura, you know…

Kawagoe Station Front

Kasamatsu Station Front

A huge freshwater fish aquarium is.

Since Kawagoe is a tourist destination, it feels somewhat different.

At Aqua Toto Gifu, there are also a pirarucu and river otters.

Everyone come!

You can sometimes see baby otters.

It’s just a matter of how many people gather in the Kanto region; I’m not saying it with any unpleasant intent, so I hope you don’t misunderstand that.

I realized while reading this thread that people living in urban areas centered around Tokyo have a significantly different perception of ruralness compared to other regions.

When trying to go from Nagoya Station, it’s much easier to get to Kasamatsu Racecourse than Nagoya Racecourse.

Kasamatsu is an urban area.

I think it’s much more urban than the hometown I imagined with Oguri’s character, Kasamatsu.

It feels more like a country bumpkin than Space-chan.

There are normally things like ions, right?

By the way, the Ion Mall Colorful Town (Rainbow Town) that appeared in episode 3 is in Yanagitsuz, not Kasamatsu.

There is a really rural area in Gifu, but it feels like there could be someone like Takuto-chan there.

There is a theory that Oguri was intentionally kept away from facilities with food and drinks by his mother because of the expenses for food.

How poor can you be, Oguri, to not know Sugakiya even though you’re from the area?

How is Dad doing?

New questions started to arise one after another.

The scenery now is quite different from that time.

It seems that Oguri couldn’t really walk until around the age of 7, and probably hasn’t had much experience going outside.

Maybe I just became able to run more recently.

Ooi sounds impressive when you say it’s in Shinagawa Ward, but when it comes to access, it doesn’t feel that urban.

It feels like Spacha-chan, despite being from a really good lineage, has been turned into a country girl due to the convenience of the anime…

When it comes to Colorful Town, is it that song…

Starting from the third episode, it suddenly became a topic about the local area.

Kasamatsu City is a business opportunity.

Compared to urban areas, Nakayama is also rural.

Saga horse racing looks like a rural area at first glance.

It’s an anime that feels familiar because the area around Kasamatsu is a running course.

First of all, Gifu is…

Buying at Kasamatsu and going to Kanazuen is the trend in Gifu.

The fact that Spe is a country girl is in the context of an idol narrative.

I think the reaction is that Gifu has this many malls.

Maybe everyone is imagining Shirakawa-go.

In January, there is a marathon at Kasamatsu Racecourse, and there’s also a race in the second half where cosplay participation is allowed, which has been quite exciting for a while now.

Hida Takayama and Gifu were originally separate countries.

Actually, there’s not much interaction…

I think the story is about a rural area where horses were raised by humans without getting accustomed to them.

…No, if anything, this feels more like an episode of a sheltered young lady…