[Story from a Song] "🎵 Northern Traveler" (The final episode of the wandering journey series after a year and a half) "Continuing the Journey: The Town Where Wishes to Stars and Snow Come True" [#FantasyPlaceNameFestival]
The title is way too long! (lol)
So, I will participate with this "Seisetsu-cho (Star-Snow Town)".
#UkuleleClub Soranoiro-san wrote the lyrics and even sang for my "No. 1 Ukulele Song" to participate in this project.
I would also be grateful if I could participate in the form of music production and a bonus story. 🍵.
I haven't been back to my apartment for over a year and a half now.
Basically, I've decided to only take buses. Where there are no buses, I continue my journey on foot.
I don't want to waste money on lodging, so if there's a station, I'll lie down in the waiting room.
If there's a roof, a bus stop is fine too.
Today, I'm in Aomori Prefecture. At "Matsuura Shokudo" in front of Noheji Station at the base of the Shimokita Peninsula."Matsuura Shokudo".
It's a sacred place for my beloved bus trips. Even Tagawa-san has visited many times since his days as a duo with Ebisu-san. I've finally made it here.
Tonight, I'm thinking about whether there might be a fishing inn near Oma where I can eat tuna.
No, I was thinking that. Just until a moment ago.
Just as my omurice arrived at Matsuura Shokudo and I was about to start eating.
I suddenly made eye contact with a girl sitting by the window drinking coffee.
She looked like a local student.
"Are you looking for a place to stay tonight?"
"My parents run a lodge in the forest. Would you like to go?"
"They say it's a town you can only go to in winter, but lucky travelers can stay even in summer."
"What town is it?"
"It's not on the map and cell phone signals don't reach it, but it's called "Seisetsu-cho (Star-Snow Town)". Even in summer, when travelers arrive, star-shaped ice falls like snow."
"If you catch it and write a wish on it before it melts, it's said to come true, or maybe not?"
"It's an old legend."
"Do I need a reservation?"
"That depends on whether you're a lucky traveler or not. Please wait in front of this diner until 17:53."
"If the pickup bus comes, you can come stay at the forest lodge."
"There's a conductor on the bonnet bus, so if you buy a ticket on board, your lodge reservation is also complete."
I decided to try going to that "Seisetsu-cho" place.
I don't know if the bus will come to pick me up, but that's also part of the fun of bus travel.
Wait, do I have to think of a wish...?
🎵 Northern Traveler
Lyrics/Vocals: Soranoiro-san
Composition/Arrangement: Misty
(Intro/Ending quote)
"When You Wish Upon a Star"
Composer: L. Harline
"Yuki no Hana"
Composer: Ryoki Matsumoto
Note: The video was replaced on the same day at 20:52.
Isn't it nice? "The Town Where You Wish Upon Stars and Snow".
It's perfect for the town that concludes my journey.
Shall I end this long journey there?
There's no need for a correct answer in life. Whether it's a mistake or the right answer? That doesn't matter.
I'll try doing things my own way once more.
Note: The "Matsuura Shokudo" written about in this story is a real diner.
It seems that after the elderly couple who owned it retired, locals revived it and operated it, but its current status is unknown.
I will end the story with this song.
This was the BGM for when things looked a bit dicey on my favorite bus trips with Tagawa-san, but I haven't heard it lately.
However, it was used the other day during a moment of hesitation for the new leader of the Bus Trip W team, Nana Takagi.
It felt very nostalgic, and I thought,
"Bus trips really need this song, don't they?"Since the "Wandering Journey Series" itself started with this song, I will conclude it with this song.
Because there was such a long gap, I don't even remember how many I wrote as they've been buried, but I will introduce just three stories.
The original song for ukulele is placed here.
See you again.
May good things happen to everyone.