Kaba (Hippo) Amphibious Bus

Jul 19, 2026 5:28 AM

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The KABA is a unique amphibious bus ("Hippo Bus") operating in Japan, offering combined land and water tours in two locations: Mount Fuji (Lake Yamanaka) and Tokyo (Odaiba). It drives directly from the road into the water, giving a 30-to-40-minute scenic cruise.

In Halifax we have the Harbour Hopper. It’s a tour bus but very similar.

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I'M AT THE BUS STOP!
I'M AT THE SEA PORT!
I'M AT THE COMBINATION BUS STOP AND SEA PORT!

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The one at the end with the "Hafencity Riverbus" print is not in JP, its in Hamburg, Germany btw

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AmphibiBus?

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They have the duck tours in Boston with similar ones, repurposed from the army

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I usually don't complain about subtitles, but boy, they are annoying as hell here

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Oh god.. low contrast word-by-word? Eww..

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No where near as bad as the original voice over which I removed

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v

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Thank you, good sir or madam, I was contemplating posting that same gif, but you saved me the trouble of finding it.

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No problem v

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*chef‘s kiss*

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Look. If I win the lottery I won't tell anyone, but their be signs.

I'ma pull a Lydon Johnson (Obscure reference I know.) and drive my amphibious car into the water.

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It's a small thing, but I got a water proof watch as a kid and got to watch as people freak out as I washed my hands.

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I did that too. I remember purposely making sure their eyes were pointed my way before I got it wet. At times submerging it lol. I really haven’t grown up much since then and that was over 50 years ago.

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They ran these for several decades in DC. I think they called them a duck or similar. I can't remember...

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Those were DUKWs, World War Ii-era amphibious transports. They had them in Seattle last time I was there too.

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The Seattle “Ride the Ducks” tours closed down several years ago, don’t recall exactly why but I believe it was due to safety reasons

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Just looked it up, “safety reasons” is one way to put it: one of the vehicles lost control when driving on the highway (later found to be due to lack of proper maintenance) and collided head-on with a charter bus, killing 5 and injuring several more. The company never financially recovered.

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Still...this was like 20-30 years ago...or longer...so this is nothing all that new or unique really...and certainly nothing unique to Japan...

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