Joanna Lumley's Japan
Season 1 Episode 1 of 3
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
Joanna Lumley's Japan airs on U&Yesterday HD at 12:00 AM, Saturday 8 February. (Subtitles.)
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Joanna Lumley
Presenter
Doug Bryson
Editor
Erica Jenkin
Producer