This is a long ambient video of rain at a Japanese shrine. The camera stays with the grounds while rain falls on trees, gravel, puddles, and the shrine buildings.
There is no music and no narration. You hear rain on leaves, water collecting on the ground, and the quiet of a shrine during a shower. It is meant for background listening or slow watching — work, rest, or simply sitting with the sound of rain.
This driving POV video starts in central Itoigawa and heads toward the Nou mountain area. The route moves from the coast inland, so the scenery changes from the Sea of Japan to hills and mountain roads.
It is a simple travel record of the drive, without background music. The interest is in the contrast: the bright coastal views around Itoigawa, then the narrower roads and greener slopes as the car climbs toward Nou.
This video was filmed at Uramoto Station on the Nihonkai Hisui Line in Itoigawa, Niigata. It shows a quiet coastal local railway in summer, including trains toward Naoetsu and toward Tomari.
Echigo Tokimeki Railway is a third-sector railway company based in Joetsu, Niigata. It took over local passenger service in March 2015, when the Hokuriku Shinkansen opened between Nagano and Kanazawa. The conventional lines that ran roughly parallel to the new shinkansen were transferred from JR.
The company operates two lines:
The Nihonkai Hisui Line follows the old Hokuriku Main Line route. Trains here are often short diesel cars, and many stations are unstaffed. The scenery is a mix of sea, tunnels, fishing villages, and mountains.
Uramoto Station (浦本駅) is in Mawaki, Itoigawa City. It opened on January 28, 1950, as a station on the Japanese National Railways Hokuriku Main Line. In 2015 it became part of Echigo Tokimeki Railway.
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From the platforms you can look toward the Sea of Japan and a small fishing-town landscape of dark-tiled roofs. National Route 8 runs nearby, and the old railway alignment along the coast is now used in part as a cycling and walking path. Trains are infrequent, so the station feels more like a coastal lookout than a busy transit point.
The video captures that atmosphere: a local train arriving, the sea nearby, and the slow pace of a small station on the Japan Sea coast.
This video follows Prefectural Route 95 from central Joetsu City in Niigata toward Sekida Pass. It is filmed as a driving POV, with real road sound and no added music.
Along the way, drone footage shows rice terraces in Itakura, the Hikorigahara Plateau, and the mountain landscape around Sekida Pass. The drive moves from the city into higher, quieter countryside. The combination of the car’s point of view and the aerial shots gives a clear sense of summer in inland Joetsu.
Recorded in Hashidate, Itoigawa, Niigata, this video captures late summer through sound as much as image. You hear Hyalessa and Meimuna cicadas together with the flow of the Omi River.
The scene is quiet and local rather than touristic. It shows a late-summer landscape in Itoigawa where the river and the cicada chorus overlap. Like the other ambient videos, it has no added music and is suited for slow watching or background listening.
This ambient video was recorded with a fixed camera at Takanomine Plateau in Yamatogawa Forest Park, Itoigawa. The soundtrack is a summer chorus of large brown cicadas, Meimuna cicadas, and wild birds.
There is no music added. The recording is meant to be used as background sound for work, study, or rest. It gives a clear sense of a Japanese mountain forest in summer, when cicadas fill the air and birds call from the trees.
Summer skies change quickly, and this video captures that movement in time-lapse. Different types of summer clouds drift across the frame while the audio stays simple and natural: waves and cicadas.
There is no narration and no background music. The focus is on the sky, the light, and the seasonal sound of midsummer. It works well as a short atmospheric piece for a travel or nature blog, or as a quiet clip to watch while relaxing.
A mountain driving video starting from Omi, Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture (37°01’15.8″N 137°47’34.4″E), ascending the narrow Prefectural Road 155 over Daira Pass, and descending to the historic Agero Village (36°58’21.0″N 137°41’12.7″E). Drone aerial shots around Daira Pass capture the rugged terrain and deep mountain landscape. Enjoy the immersive road sounds and authentic driving perspective. No background music.
Hashidate
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Daira Pass
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Asao Mountain Observation Forest Park
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Agero Itoigawa
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