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Day 1 Friday 5-5-2017 Kannonzaki Park
So, my Friday started off at work. During the day, I check FMDF and see a new member @ Tokyo that wants to go hunt. I was already talking with Larbo about a hunt @ Oiso for the weekend. So, towards the end of the day, I throw it out there that I was going to hit Kannonzaki park after work. Then logged off computer and headed to the park. Because it is Golden week here in Japan, the park was packed. As I'm scouting an area off the trail I want to hunt, I get a phone call. Don't recognize that number! Hello? "Hello, this is Varelsee from FMDF, I am at the park." What? How the hell did you get here so dam fast? That's what I was thinking anyway. So, we get to talking and he tells me he would like to find old Japanese coins. I said, to many people on beach now so we can hit the woods and bunkers a little first. We had no luck at all in the sticks. After a while the beach emptied and we went down. This area is segmented into 3 beaches. I took him to the first beach and told him, "Go hunt by those rocks, I found old coins there 5 years ago." This beach produced only modern clad and some cool shells. I then take him over by beach 2 and 3. Beach 2 is active but has never produced for me like beach 3. So, I take him to beach 3 and tell him again, "I have pulled old coins from this spot here." I go about detecting and after 5 or 10 minutes Varelsee comes walking over with a big smile on his face. "Look my friend, I have found old coin." This makes me happy and verifies my finds here. We hunted till it got dark with plans to meet Larbo the next day at Oiso.
Day 2 Saturday 5-6-2017 Oiso, Japan
Sooooooo, I arrived at Oiso station at 0710 and went to find a place to smoke and call Larbo. I give him a call to discover he is at the beach with @ 1000 yen (about $9.00 U.S.) in his pocket already in modern clad money. He arrived at Oiso @ 0530. Early birds get the worm and all! So, he walks up to the station to meet me and wait on Varelsee. The wait was only about 15 minutes. Next was trying to figure out our options, Mountain, beach, or river hunt? We decide mountain first. Off we go! We find a trail head and up we go, and up, and up, and up! We finally make up to the top and there is a park there so we start to hunt. Not doing to hot until we hit some benches then the keys start popping out. Key after key after key. Larbo is a crack detectorist, meaning he is a on crack detecting. This guy does not stop. We lose him for a while. This happens throughout the day. HA! Next is going down the trail to find the temple. Well, these dam trails are goat trails not people trails. I’m sure one of us is going to bust our butts and its probably going to be me. But I see children and old folks in their 70’s hiking to this place. OK, buck up, I got this. Along the way we hit spots here and there with the usual 10 yen coin (found more than any other coin in Japan) being dug. Finally we get to the temple area. I’m beat! As usual, Larbo is up and runnin. Varelsee shortly follows and about 15 minutes later he walks over to me and shows me 2 late 1800’s Japanese sen coins. OK, I’m not tired anymore. He says, “I owe ya one, I found them right there.”
I go to the spot he shows me and my first hit was a late 1800’s sen. Well, I’ll be dam! Then on with the usual pull tab digging. We figure we got this area cleaned up pretty good so start to head down. Yay! No more up hill climbing! Well, hell, down hill on a goat trail aint no dam better. GRRRRRRRRRR! On the other side of the temple there are 3 trails, one going straight and 2 to either side of the temple. Well, you’d know I’d take the wrong turn. I hunted a bit and only found foil on this trail. So, being the oldest of the 3 of us said I was headed down the trail a bit. I stop at a good stopping spot and wait for the other 2. After a while Varelsee shows up and we wait on Crackdetector (new name)! He’s gone a while and finally shows up to show us his nice little hand full of square holed Japanese coins. YUP! He took the other trail. Which, obviously, was the right trail. Down more goat trail to the river and we hunt there for a while. All modern stuff, of course, and nothing to special. Think Varelsee found an IPOD. Last but not least was the beach. But lunch, with these 2 guys first. Of course we had to go to a Japanese restaurant and get us some traditional food. Love me some fish. Even raw its awesome. Alright, I like easy walking and digging. We get to the beach and my 3rd or 4th target is a silver ring. Now I’m really happy. Pulled another 100 yen coin and my day was done. Flat out beat and exhausted.
Big thanks to Larbo for picking such a unique place to hunt with a lot of history. Good call Brotha!
Big thanks to Varelsee for sharing the good spot and hunting with me for a couple days.
If you guys reed this, please share some photos of the day as I totally spaced even taking pictures.
Happy Hunting all! Wolf
LARBO's finds
So, my Friday started off at work. During the day, I check FMDF and see a new member @ Tokyo that wants to go hunt. I was already talking with Larbo about a hunt @ Oiso for the weekend. So, towards the end of the day, I throw it out there that I was going to hit Kannonzaki park after work. Then logged off computer and headed to the park. Because it is Golden week here in Japan, the park was packed. As I'm scouting an area off the trail I want to hunt, I get a phone call. Don't recognize that number! Hello? "Hello, this is Varelsee from FMDF, I am at the park." What? How the hell did you get here so dam fast? That's what I was thinking anyway. So, we get to talking and he tells me he would like to find old Japanese coins. I said, to many people on beach now so we can hit the woods and bunkers a little first. We had no luck at all in the sticks. After a while the beach emptied and we went down. This area is segmented into 3 beaches. I took him to the first beach and told him, "Go hunt by those rocks, I found old coins there 5 years ago." This beach produced only modern clad and some cool shells. I then take him over by beach 2 and 3. Beach 2 is active but has never produced for me like beach 3. So, I take him to beach 3 and tell him again, "I have pulled old coins from this spot here." I go about detecting and after 5 or 10 minutes Varelsee comes walking over with a big smile on his face. "Look my friend, I have found old coin." This makes me happy and verifies my finds here. We hunted till it got dark with plans to meet Larbo the next day at Oiso.
Day 2 Saturday 5-6-2017 Oiso, Japan
Sooooooo, I arrived at Oiso station at 0710 and went to find a place to smoke and call Larbo. I give him a call to discover he is at the beach with @ 1000 yen (about $9.00 U.S.) in his pocket already in modern clad money. He arrived at Oiso @ 0530. Early birds get the worm and all! So, he walks up to the station to meet me and wait on Varelsee. The wait was only about 15 minutes. Next was trying to figure out our options, Mountain, beach, or river hunt? We decide mountain first. Off we go! We find a trail head and up we go, and up, and up, and up! We finally make up to the top and there is a park there so we start to hunt. Not doing to hot until we hit some benches then the keys start popping out. Key after key after key. Larbo is a crack detectorist, meaning he is a on crack detecting. This guy does not stop. We lose him for a while. This happens throughout the day. HA! Next is going down the trail to find the temple. Well, these dam trails are goat trails not people trails. I’m sure one of us is going to bust our butts and its probably going to be me. But I see children and old folks in their 70’s hiking to this place. OK, buck up, I got this. Along the way we hit spots here and there with the usual 10 yen coin (found more than any other coin in Japan) being dug. Finally we get to the temple area. I’m beat! As usual, Larbo is up and runnin. Varelsee shortly follows and about 15 minutes later he walks over to me and shows me 2 late 1800’s Japanese sen coins. OK, I’m not tired anymore. He says, “I owe ya one, I found them right there.”
I go to the spot he shows me and my first hit was a late 1800’s sen. Well, I’ll be dam! Then on with the usual pull tab digging. We figure we got this area cleaned up pretty good so start to head down. Yay! No more up hill climbing! Well, hell, down hill on a goat trail aint no dam better. GRRRRRRRRRR! On the other side of the temple there are 3 trails, one going straight and 2 to either side of the temple. Well, you’d know I’d take the wrong turn. I hunted a bit and only found foil on this trail. So, being the oldest of the 3 of us said I was headed down the trail a bit. I stop at a good stopping spot and wait for the other 2. After a while Varelsee shows up and we wait on Crackdetector (new name)! He’s gone a while and finally shows up to show us his nice little hand full of square holed Japanese coins. YUP! He took the other trail. Which, obviously, was the right trail. Down more goat trail to the river and we hunt there for a while. All modern stuff, of course, and nothing to special. Think Varelsee found an IPOD. Last but not least was the beach. But lunch, with these 2 guys first. Of course we had to go to a Japanese restaurant and get us some traditional food. Love me some fish. Even raw its awesome. Alright, I like easy walking and digging. We get to the beach and my 3rd or 4th target is a silver ring. Now I’m really happy. Pulled another 100 yen coin and my day was done. Flat out beat and exhausted.
Big thanks to Larbo for picking such a unique place to hunt with a lot of history. Good call Brotha!
Big thanks to Varelsee for sharing the good spot and hunting with me for a couple days.
If you guys reed this, please share some photos of the day as I totally spaced even taking pictures.
Happy Hunting all! Wolf
LARBO's finds
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But on certain occasions, when bored out of my wits, when in places where there's no old coins, I've made sport of strictly chasing quarters for a few hours. And in cases like that, can rack up 50 or more. In fact, on two occasions getting 100+ quarters in a single hunt. WELL GEE: If a coin were worth $5.00 (the 500 yen), what's to stop you guys from doing the same thing ? 
