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- Season 5 For the Sake of the Classmates We Lost
- Season 5 Young Thunder: School Taiko Team
- Season 5 Pearl Wedding: 30 Years' Worth of Thanks
- Season 5 Back to Grandma's Land: Chiemi's Story
- Season 5 A Life of Service: The Station Barber of Obama
- Season 5 One of Us
- Season 5 One Big Happy Family
- Season 5 Uniting the People of the Sea: Kumejima, Okinawa
- Season 5 Hang in There!
- Season 5 Finding Yourself on the Open Road
Hometown Stories - Season 5 Episode 6 A Life of Service: The Station Barber of Obama
0.00 30 minutes On the JR Obama Line, a local railway that links Fukui Prefecture with Kyoto, stands Kato Station. Although unstaffed since 1973, the sleepy station building still contains a small barber's shop. The owners are Hisao Tsukamoto (72) and his wife Asako (68). Seeing the station as an important spot for local people to get together, in between haircuts this industrious couple not only sells tickets, but also makes the time to clean the building and its surroundings. We follow this duo as they come to grips with old age and illness while striving to maintain their barber's shop in an empty station.
