Name: A Day in my Life in Northern Japan ❄️ Koriyama, Fukushima
Uploaded: 2026-04-01T18:30:05.000Z
Duration: 13 min 57 s

There's nobody out here in the lobby but my group,

大廳裡除了我們這群人之外，就沒有別人了，

and we're about to go see the swans, hopefully, at Lake Inouashiro.

我們正準備要去 Lake Inouashiro 看天鵝，希望看得到。

but if there isn't, there's actually some other really pretty stuff to see there.

但如果沒有的話，其實那裡還有其他很漂亮的東西可以看。

The waves crashing on the shoreline make some really pretty ice formations, so we're going to trek out to the coast of the lake to see that.

海浪拍打著海岸形成的冰塊，非常漂亮，所以我們要走到湖邊去看看。

But I'm hoping for swans, so let's hope we find some swans.

不過我還是希望看到天鵝，所以我們一起祈禱能找到天鵝吧。

I have a feeling that swans don't like this kind of weather, but we might get lucky.

我感覺天鵝不太喜歡這種天氣，但我們也許會很幸運。

We can hear something, but we can't tell what it is.

我們好像聽到什麼聲音，但聽不出來是什麼。

The sun isn't up at all yet, so the only light we have are the street lights here.

太陽根本還沒出來，所以我們現在唯一的光源就是路燈。

It's very cloudy, so I can't see a pretty sunrise or anything.

天氣很陰，所以我看不到漂亮的日出什麼的。

But it's quite bright now, so you can see the gorgeous backdrop behind me.

但現在很亮了，所以可以看到我身後美麗的背景。

I do see one white thing out in the lake, but I'm not sure if it's a swan.

我在湖裡看到一個白色的東西，但不確定是不是天鵝。

Let's just pretend it's a swan so we can say we saw one.

我們就假裝是天鵝好了，這樣我們就可以說我們看到了。

Okay, so now that the sun is up, let me tell you a little bit about where we are.

好的，現在太陽出來了，讓我來稍微介紹一下我們現在在哪裡。

We're at Inouashiro Lake, which is the largest lake in the Tohoku area, Northern Japan area.

我們在 Inouashiro Lake，這裡是東北地區、日本北部地區最大的湖。

我還有一位來自郡山市的客人。

I'm Yos, and I work for Koriyama City Hall.

我是 Yos，我在郡山市政府工作。

所以我聽說這裡可以看到天鵝。

Yeah, they come over from Siberia every summer or every winter.

對啊，牠們每年夏天或冬天都會從西伯利亞飛過來。

There's a few places where they tend to show up,

so. You never know whether they're going to be here.

所以，你永遠不知道牠們會不會在這裡。

We haven't had any luck today yet, but maybe one will show up.

我們今天還沒看到，但也許會有一隻出現。

So what happens in this lake in the summer?

那這個湖在夏天會發生什麼事呢？

Actually, right at this spot, I've been swimming a couple of times,

其實，就在這個地方，我遊過幾次了，

and there's places where you can go jet skiing or wakeboarding.

這裡還有可以玩水上摩托車或滑水的地方。

Because in general, Japanese people don't swim in lakes.

因為一般來說，日本人不太會在湖裡游泳。

And I always miss the lake swimming from Canada,

而且我總是懷念加拿大那邊的湖水，

so. Yeah, but generally, in this area, there's some beautiful lake like this, so.

所以，嗯，不過一般來說，這個地區有像這樣美麗的湖，所以。

If you've got this, you're definitely going to swim here, right?

如果你有這個，你一定會想在這裡游泳，對吧？

I'm going to have to come back here in the summer,

but the snowy background is just gorgeous today.

Yeah, so Lake Inouashiro, it's a really big part of the Japan heritage of the region.

對啊，所以 Lake Inouashiro，它是這個地區日本文化遺產中非常重要的一部分。

It's a program by the Japanese government.

It's kind of like UNESCO's World Heritage, but it's not about heritage sites, but more about historical stories.

它有點像聯合國教科文組織的世界遺產，但它不是關於遺址，而是關於歷史故事。

And the story for Koriyama is that Koriyama used to be this really tiny little town of a few thousand people because they couldn't really do agriculture because they lacked a water source.

郡山市的故事是，郡山市以前是一個只有幾千人的小鎮，因為缺乏水源，所以無法發展農業。

It was a really big government program where they drew water through a big canal from Lake Inouashiro to Koriyama,

這是一個非常龐大的政府計畫，他們透過一條大運河從 Lake Inouashiro 將水引到郡山市，

and that caused the city to just expand really rapidly.

So we have completed our first goal of finding swans.

所以我們完成了尋找天鵝的第一個目標。

Goal number two is to see the Shibuki Gōri.

第二個目標是看到 Shibuki Gōri。

So Shibuki Gōri is a natural phenomenon here.

所以 Shibuki Gōri 是這裡的一種自然現象。

The wind usually comes from the west side here, and it blows over the lake.

風通常從這裡的西邊吹來，吹過湖面。

And what happens is that the water is blown onto the tree branches,

and it kind of freezes onto those tree branches, and it forms these beautiful, big natural ice sculptures.

然後就會結冰在樹枝上，形成這些美麗、巨大的天然冰雕。

Okay, so we're going to head over to the other side of the lake to find some Shibuki Gōri.

好的，那我們要去湖的另一邊找一些 Shibuki Gōri。

So we are trekking through the woods on the way to the Shibuki Gōri area.

所以我們正走在樹林裡，前往 Shibuki Gōri 的區域。