The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As Debreadtion

2026-01-22 Β· 3 places on the map Β· episode transcript

  1. ShinjukuOne-offJapan

    The busiest railway station is Shinjuku. In 2022, the average number of daily passengers was 2,704,703, which is the equivalent of every adult in Uruguay passing through the station every day.

    mentioned at 00:23:13 Β· See it on the map β†’

  2. Gotoku-ji TempleOne-offJapan

    Okay. Anyway, there you go. Olga, when you went to Tokyo, did you go to the Gotokuji Temple? Which has got all those sort of cats that wave their arms. Do you know those ones that you see in Chinese restaurants?

    mentioned at 00:26:04 Β· See it on the map β†’

  3. Irpin RiverOne-offUkraine

    This was done at the start of the war in Ukraine. It was the Ukrainian army. They blew up a dam which turned the whole of this Irpan River basin into a massive expanse of bogs and marshes. It turned the area into what…

    mentioned at 00:34:05 Β· See it on the map β†’

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