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TAR 20 Ep 11 "It's a Great Place to Become Millionaires" Japan
NoluckBoston:
I am guessing with Sushi Bingo, you get the Letter, but have to identify the type and match it up. No numbers.
TarJunkie999:
:lol: Here's a picture of an empty studio at NHK in Shubuya area of Tokyo. Lights look similar to "rubber chicken" game show studio lights. (but then again, all TV studios may look the same). ;)
Maybe they fly into Tokyo, do the game show first, then take Shinkansen to Kyoto/Osaka area. Or maybe not. :duno:
Prophet:
AFTER TRAVELING FIVE CONTINENTS, 22 CITIES AND NEARLY 40,000 MILES, “THE AMAZING RACE” CONCLUDES IN A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE ON SUNDAY, MAY 6
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“It’s a Great Place to Become Millionaires” – The final four Teams battle for the $1 million prize in a grueling two-hour season finale that starts in Japan, where Racers call upon their track skills for an exhausting Japanese game show, and concludes in Hawaii, where Teams hit the waves to put their rescue mission skills to the test, on THE AMAZING RACE, Sunday, May 6 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Phil Keoghan is host.
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--- Quote from: TarJunkie999 on April 30, 2012, 03:54:37 PM --- :lol: Here's a picture of an empty studio at NHK in Shubuya area of Tokyo. Lights look similar to "rubber chicken" game show studio lights. (but then again, all TV studios may look the same). ;)
Maybe they fly into Tokyo, do the game show first, then take Shinkansen to Kyoto/Osaka area. Or maybe not. :duno:
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Tarjunkie999,
Your hypothesis is reasonable and that may be what teams did in leg 11, but it's 250 miles from Tokyo to Osaka so I have big questions that the TV game show was filmed in Tokyo.
You inspired me to do additional research. Osaka is a huge metropolitan area (some include Kyoto and Kobe in it; I do) with a 17 million population, not as large as Tokyo but larger than the New York metro area. It turns out that there are 5 headquarters and/ or studios of TV networks (not stations but networks covering much of Japan) in the city of Osaka:
Television Osaka - 1-2-18, Otemae, Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
MBS Studio in USJ - Universal Studios Japan, 1-33, Sakurajima Nichome, Konohana-ku, Osaka-shi
Asai Broadcasting Corp. - 1-30, Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, (Hotarumachi)
Kansai Telecasting Corp. -1-7, Ogimachi Nichome, Kita-ku, Osaka
Yomiuri Telecasting Corp. - 2-33, Shiromi Nichome, Chūō-ku, Osaka-shi
I believe that the game show was filmed in one of the above.
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--- Quote from: supah3ro on April 30, 2012, 08:04:38 AM ---um.... is it just me or is the Japanese game show host the EXACT same host from the TAR15 Leg 1 RB?!?! im pretty surw its him hahaha
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Maybe, but I have a possible alternate hypothesis. Remember Amazing Race Asia 3 episode ROADBLOCK (in the ice bar) "Who is cold and calculating?" there is some probability that this sushi exercise could be similar, with the letters teams earn allowing them to name the next city.
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