![]() If you’re ready to have his moves imprinted on your mind, feel free to check out a few of the commercials he appears in below. ▼ Every one features some seriously enthusiastic dance moves…and some bare skin. During her investigations, she discovered that this man had appeared in five commercials for the Conchiglie Road Station since 2018, with a new one appearing every year. ![]() “The male dancer is from paid video material selected by the production company, so we at Conchiglie have no information about him at all.” However, according to the PR rep she spoke to, they also had no idea who he was, saying: Never one to let a dead end stop her from her investigations, Haruka decided to direct her questions further up the ladder, by calling up the company that manages the roadside station. ▼ Haruka didn’t hold back with her questioning, pointing out all the ads that surrounded them. Haruka: “So even though he’s on all these exclusive products around the store…you don’t know who they are?” Haruka: “Do you really not know? What do you mean by that?”Ĭlerk: “I literally have no idea who he is.” Haruka couldn’t believe that a totally unknown person would be given a life-sized panel and so much attention at such a big Road Station like this - in Japan, that would only happen for a tie-up with a famous celebrity. Haruka: “Is the male dancer I’m seeing all over this roadside station a dancer from Akkeshi?”Ĭlerk: “I’m sorry, but we don’t even know who this person is.” So she strode up to the clerk at the counter, where she had this conversation: Ever since she was young, Haruka has always wanted to get to the bottom of things, and she wasn’t going to let this man’s backstory allude her anymore. Of course, she thought he was handsome, but her growing obsession with him was more to do with her reporter’s curiosity. His dancing in the commercial was so lively and intense that even now, when she closes her eyes, she can see his body writhing vividly. Haruka figured he was probably a well-known face to locals, but as she lives on the mainland, this was her first time seeing him. ▼ Now she had him dancing on an endless loop, and this time he was baring even more skin. Haruka exited the bathroom and headed over to the souvenir area, and - yep, you guessed it - there was the mystery man yet again, but this time he was on a screen, placed between rows of oyster soy sauce bottles, dancing up a storm in what appeared to be a commercial for the roadside station. Her curiosity piqued, she stopped off at the bathroom to think about it all, and lo and behold… There was a lot of information about the water inside the bottle, but again, no mention of this guy’s name, nor his connection to it all. She decided to head over to the fridge to clear her head with a bottle of water, but… ![]() There he was again, and now it was as if he was taunting Haruka, challenging her to discover his identity. However, upon entering, she became even more confused. This roadside station is famous for oysters, which are a specialty of the area, but what was this mystery man’s connection to it all? Haruka’s inquisitive reporter side couldn’t let it go, so she stepped through the sliding automatic doors to see if she could get to the bottom of the mystery. The only thing she could make out was the sign he was holding in his hand, which was shaped like an oyster and simply said the Conchiglie Road Station had won a satisfaction ranking for 12 continuous years. She looked around the panel for a mention of his name, but couldn’t find one anywhere. She’d never seen this man before, and even more, she had no idea why he was there. “If he had a life-sized cutout dedicated to him, this man must be famous”, Haruka thought, and so she stepped in for a closer look. That’s right - Haruka had found a life-sized panel of a man who appeared to be dancing in an unzipped hoodie. The sight that confounded Haruka was waiting for her at the Akkeshi Gourmet Park Conchiglie Road Station in Akkeshi, a town in the eastern part of Hokkaido, and this is what it looked like. It wasn’t a wasp larvae bento - been there, done that too. No, it wasn’t a brewery at a temple - she’s seen that before. On a recent trip to Hokkaido, however, Haruka came across a sight she’d never seen before, and it baffled her. Our Japanese-language reporter Haruka Takagi loves to travel around Japan as it opens her eyes to new sights, and her mouth to new ice creams. The mystery deepens once you enter this store.
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