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During a fan bus tour organized by Hello! Project idol group Angerme, participants were informed that Day 1 dinner would begin at 4:15 PM and Day 2 breakfast at 6:00 AM the next morning, and the early schedule set off a wave of chatter. On the 5ch livestream-style thread, alongside real-time updates from the tour route, posters expressed bewilderment over a lunch break at the Futaba Service Area and a hotel located an hour’s walk from the nearest convenience store. From the evening onward, participants’ photos of the dinner buffet poured in one after another, sparking lively discussion over dishes like seafood rice bowls, oversized rice portions, and matcha jelly.
What people said
Angerme Bus Tour Day 1
Meal time schedule
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Guess dinner's early because there's a qualifier round beforehand
Lol, a nerve-wracking obstacle course race
Lunch break at Futaba SA
Heard the convenience store closest to the hotel is an hour's walk away, so stocking up on late-night snacks too
Lol, the hotel's out in the mountains
A 60-minute walk lmaooo
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Check out this amazing Nagano scenery!!
#AngeAndTheSmileTrip
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Ground's too muddy for a campfire
Got a feeling it'll get switched to a candlelight ceremony in the gym instead
Dinner buffet #AngeAndTheSmileTrip
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For a 2,500 yen lunch buffet, that's not bad I guess
Konjac rice?
That's a wild choice
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Why's seafood rice bowl the main dish out here in the mountains
Taking that much rice is such a waste
There's soba in the second photo in Re: #132, so soba is being served too
Seafood rice bowl looks great
Angerme's bus tour food is a total win this time
Re: #133
Looks tasty, but I've never seen a seafood rice bowl cut into cubes like that
Landlocked-prefecture style?
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The matcha jelly and shiratama dumplings look delicious
The way that rice is piled up is so sloppy
Lol that rice portion is way too huge
Mr. ○koshi
#AngeAndTheSmileTrip
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There's a gorgeous girl in the background who looks like a Hello! Project member
Guess she doesn't do the 'Momochi tie' hairstyle anymore (a signature twin-ponytail style named after idol Sayumi Michishige's nickname)
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Look, Fuu-chan's favorite food is right there
This sure feels like Angerme ( *｀ω´)
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This looks like a Tsubaki Factory event, not Angerme's
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This one's actually plated pretty normally
Though there's a ton of pasta
That's an insane amount of food
Buried in carbs
Background and Key Points
“Bus tours” are day-trip or overnight excursions that Hello! Project groups regularly hold for fans, and since sightseeing, meals, and group-specific activities (in this thread, apparently an obstacle course race and something resembling a campfire event) all get packed into a single day, it isn’t unusual for meal times to be set unusually early in the morning or evening. The thread’s “buzz” was less about complaints and more about surprise at just how early the 4:15 PM dinner start was — there wasn’t much outright criticism of the tour itself. One easy point of confusion: the photos in the replies, including those from “Takao Yamakoshi” and the shots of seafood rice bowls and konjac rice, aren’t official announcements from the tour organizers — they’re posts from individual fans on X (formerly Twitter) that thread users reposted. Some replies also disagree over whether the people pictured are from Angerme or Tsubaki Factory, suggesting even the posters themselves weren’t entirely sure what was happening on site.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Angerme bus tour participants stir after being told today’s dinner starts at 4:15 PM and tomorrow’s breakfast at 6 AM wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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