# #183 アンタモットマエ！

- Show: 紅しょうがは好きズキ！
- Published: 2026-10-12
- Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1681528378_81698b6bd0f5.html
- Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/RKL4075241584.mp3
- Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary.

The day after a six-hour relay marathon in the pouring rain in Okayama — organized by Tomato Bank — the hosts headed to Washuzan Highland (鷲羽山ハイランド) in Tamano City, where an outward-facing roller coaster and an unexpected Brazil collaboration event put the group through their paces. The back half of the episode is given over to listener messages on the theme of everyone's favorite small signs of autumn.

## What this episode answers

### What kind of event was the Tomato Bank relay marathon, and what were conditions like on the day?

Teams of 4 to 10 people ran as many laps of a roughly 1.1 km loop as possible over six hours, swapping runners freely whenever someone needed a rest; despite the all-day rain and thin crowds, the team's mood stayed relaxed, with one member even ducking into a convenience store mid-event.

### What is the outward-facing roller coaster at Washuzan Highland?

On a standard coaster frame holding around eight cars, the seats are mounted facing outward with no shell around them, leaving riders' legs dangling freely; despite one rider's seatbelt barely fastening, the restraints held firm and the verdict was 'not scary at all,' with good views from the hilltop even in the rain.

### What happened at the Brazil collaboration event inside the park?

A Brazilian MC, dancers, and a live band first had the entire audience stand and dance for four minutes, then ran a bingo game calling numbers 1 through 30 in a format where almost everyone wins (prizes: a notebook or a toy), before calling women and then men to the front to dance — the men's single-file Gangnam Style became the highlight, producing the line: 'If my boyfriend had been in that line, I think I'd break up with him.'

### How did the trip to Tamano unfold, and what was Keilin Hotel like?

After the marathon, Kaniemi-chan (カニエミちゃん) drove up from Osaka to collect the group, and about an hour later they arrived in Tamano City for dinner before checking into Keilin Hotel (軽林ホテル), a stylish spot that impressed everyone with its bicycle-tire light fixtures and cute merchandise.

### What kinds of listener messages arrived for the 'favorite small signs of autumn' theme?

Listeners sent in a wide range of autumn signals: following a street scent to discover the rarer gin-mokusei (silver osmanthus) instead of the familiar golden variety; stubbornly wearing short sleeves past the point their mother demanded a switch and suffering through a cold school day rather than admit defeat; finding bur-weed seeds clinging to clothes after coming home (first sighting this year: October 5); the chaos of sports-day rehearsal now experienced from the teacher's side; and Calbee's Osatsu Snack, available late August through February.

## Article

## Opening: The "Cultural Festival Gap" at a Fashion College Fair

The episode kicks off with the hosts recounting a visit to the school fair of a fashion vocational college near their local station. Compared to their own middle-school culture festivals, the decorations and food stalls — tapioca drinks, churros, and more — were on a completely different level, and they remembered thinking at the time that college students looked incredibly cool. The one saving grace, they noted, was that they had already wrapped up their own school festival before going, so they could take in the gap without feeling too crushed by it.

## The Tomato Bank Relay Marathon in Okayama (Rain and All)

The episode's main story begins with the hosts joining a relay marathon organized by Tomato Bank in Okayama. The format: teams of 4 to 10 people try to run as many laps of a roughly 1.1 km loop as possible within six hours, with runners free to swap in and out at any time. Despite that flexibility, one host observed it feels harder than a regular full marathon precisely because there is no finish line — just an endless accumulation of laps. It rained all day, which kept costumed participants to a minimum, but the team's mood remained relaxed throughout; one member even took a break to pop into a convenience store. A Tomato Bank staff team also entered the race, prompting a joking concern: "What if Tomato Bank wins?"

## On to Tamano City and Keilin Hotel

Once the marathon was over, Kaniemi-chan drove up from Osaka to collect the group, and about an hour later everyone arrived in Tamano City. After dinner in town they checked into Keilin Hotel, a stylish accommodation that caught everyone off guard with its bicycle-tire light fixtures and assortment of cute goods throughout the space. "I can't believe a place like this exists," was the general reaction.

## Washuzan Highland: The Outward-Facing Coaster and the Brazil Event

The following day brought a visit to Washuzan Highland, a hillside amusement park the hosts had visited about five years earlier for a shoot, best remembered for its steep slopes and staircases. The standout ride is its outward-facing roller coaster: rather than sitting inside a conventional car, riders are mounted on the outside of the frame — roughly eight seats in total, all oriented outward — with no shell around them and legs dangling freely in the air. Kaniemi-chan's seatbelt only just managed to close, which gave her a fright, but the restraints held solidly and her final verdict was "not scary at all." There was one briefly tense moment near the top where the car swayed slightly. The rain did nothing to spoil the view from the hilltop.

Inside the park, a Brazil collaboration event was in full swing. A Brazilian MC, a group of dancers, and a live band took the stage and immediately ordered the entire audience to stand and spend four minutes doing Brazilian-style dancing. A bingo game followed without warning: the MC called numbers 1 through 30 in a format designed so that essentially everyone wins, with a notebook or a toy as the prize. The event then summoned women to the front for a dance segment, followed by men, who lined up in a single file in the centre of the space and performed Gangnam Style. That sequence became the undisputed high point of the visit, generating the quote: "If my boyfriend had been in that line, I think I'd break up with him." The hosts reasoned that the rain-thinned crowd and the resulting physical closeness between stage and audience were what made the atmosphere so unexpectedly electric.

## Listener Theme Corner: Favorite Small Signs of Autumn

The second half of the episode featured listener messages on the theme "your favorite small sign of autumn."

- **Gin-mokusei (silver osmanthus)**: The white-flowered variety whose scent is subtler than the more common kin-mokusei (golden osmanthus). One listener described following a fragrance through the streets only to discover it was the rarer silver variety — a find they described as feeling genuinely lucky.
- **Defying Mum's long-sleeve order**: One listener recalled stubbornly wearing short sleeves for as long as possible after their mother issued the seasonal switch command — then shivering through a cold school day but refusing to admit it, just to deny their mother the satisfaction of being right. The hosts' verdict: "Annoying, but a great story."
- **Bur-weed seeds on clothes**: The tiny clinging seeds that appear on your clothes in autumn after coming home. The listener logged their first sighting of the year on October 5 and was baffled about where they'd picked them up, since they hadn't walked through any long grass.
- **Sports-day rehearsal**: As a student, the annual rehearsal chaos was always the signal that autumn had truly arrived. The listener is now a kindergarten teacher — the job has added an exhausting post-rehearsal debrief — but the same seasonal trigger still fires right on cue.
- **Calbee Osatsu Snack**: The sweet-potato-flavoured snack available from late August through February each year. Spotting it on the shelves means autumn is here. The hosts pushed back, ruling it "a big autumn, not a small one," but laughed and conceded that a snack capable of making that kind of impression deserves its own special category.

## Takeaways

- The Tomato Bank six-hour relay marathon in Okayama ran through all-day rain, but the team kept a relaxed, unhurried mood from start to finish.
- The Brazil collaboration event at Washuzan Highland escalated from compulsory group dancing to a bingo game to men performing Gangnam Style in a single-file line — an experience made more intense by the rain-thinned crowd closing the distance between stage and audience.
- The 'favorite small signs of autumn' segment drew a variety of everyday seasonal triggers — silver osmanthus, bur-weed seeds, defying Mum's long-sleeve orders — while Calbee's Osatsu Snack was officially ruled too large to qualify as a small sign.