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[Hamarepo Revival Commemorative Special Feature] Which river in Yokohama has the tastiest water?

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※ River water may contain bacteria and harmful chemicals, so please absolutely do not try this yourself.

One day in August. Hamarepo revives after three blank years. “Updating ‘I’m Curious’ is fine, but is there a feature you want to do first?” asks the leader for candidates.

“I like the articles, so I want to do it as a special feature,” says the pure-bred Hamakko.

The suggestion is adopted, and it’s decided to do the third installment of river water verification, but the leader, who is from Chiba Prefecture, still doesn’t know.

“How chaotic Yokohama’s rivers are…”

And the person who knows Yokohama’s rivers yet says “Let’s drink river water” is a human more chaotic than the rivers.

Seeing Yokohama’s river water on Google Maps and going crazy, the leader is dragged out with “We have no choice but to do it! We’ll do it!” and heads to collect river water.

As before, water was collected from four rivers.

“Sakagawa River”, “Ooka River”, “Katabira River”, “Tsurumi River”

Sakagawa River. Its appearance and smell are so clean that a smile naturally appears.

The leader is also smiling like this.

At first glance, they look like two people playing in the river, but the people they passed on site probably never imagined they were “going to drink river water.”

We’re also sorry to the taxi driver who took us to the Sakagawa River for having incomprehensible conversations in the back like “We have to do the river,” “It should be tasty because it’s upstream?”

We might have made them think, “I picked up some creepy people.”

At this pace, we proceed to collect water from the other rivers.

Shinkansen

The Shinkansen, or “bullet train,” is Japan’s iconic high-speed railway network, first launched in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics. It revolutionized rail travel with its speed, safety, and punctuality, becoming a powerful symbol of Japan’s post-war technological recovery and modernization. Today, it remains one of the world’s most advanced and extensive high-speed rail systems.