| Summary: | Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley travels across Japan from the icy Siberian seas of the North to the subtropical islands of the South. Her journey starts in the sub-zero temperatures of Hokkaido, home to some of Japan's most beautiful and endangered wild animals. Winding her way south, Joanna visits the metropolitan sprawl that is Tokyo, the ancient capital Kyoto with its stunning temples, and the city of Nagasaki with its tragic past. Her epic journey comes to an end on the idyllic beaches of Kohama, one of Japan's most remote pacific islands and home to a ‘girl band' with an average age of 84. In this first episode, Joanna begins a 2,000-mile journey across Japan in Hokkaido, where she meets one of the most important animals in Japanese culture, the red-crowned crane. She arrives in Sapporo during the middle of the annual Snow Festival and meets members of the local indigenous community, before travelling into the Fukushima exclusion zone and taking a bullet train from Nagano to Tokyo.
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