One of my favourite about Japan is
how much attention Japanese people put on the seasons changing
and fall has finally arrived!
So we're gonna celebrate by going to Hitachi Seaside Park
which is a park in Ibaraki, to see the kochia flowers
Because they're apparently in full bloom now, so they should be very beautiful!
Are you excited?
Yes!
Is kochia your favourite flower?
It might be!
We're in Tokyo Station now and we're gonna
go ahead and by your tickets and jump on the bus to get to the park!
It's about two hours away from Tokyo,
but there's a direct bus there, so it's easy!
[JPN] To Kaihin-Koen Iriguchi St.
[JPN] One? Two tickets!
Two tickets towards Kaihin-Koen Irigkuchi, which is where the park is located
Round trip
3800YEN for two people
Going on an adventure!
This bus has a nice feature of free wi-fi up to twelve hours,
so you can go to park and back again four times and keep using the internet
for useless things even...
Hitachi Seaside Park!
Oh, hey Kris!
Spotted our first patch of flowers!
This one's really small...
This park has about 300 hectares so there's a lot more flowers to come
So we've found the main attraction of the park at this time of the year
which is mid-October
These are the kochia flowers!
They are blooming right now!
They're in full bloom right now,
they're so red and fluffy and
I just wanna....
In Frozen,
the little gnomes that get up and start walking...
they look like they're about to get up and start...
start singing!
Cool thing about this park is that throughout the year you have
different types of flowers blooming in different times,
so every time you visit, it's gonna
look slightly different!
We made for the ideal time, cuz they're all so red and fully bloomed!
There's one late bloomer!
This park is located on the east coast of Japan, so this over there
is the Pacific Ocean!
it's pretty cool!
Time after time you get met with the situation where you find that Japanese people
really know how to celebrate things,
individual things
things that in America I would've never thought about!
For example,
I've never ever went to see the kochia blossom in the States
I don't even know when they blossom!
and here I am!
So awesome to be taught to appreciate things like this
WOW, Kasia is really appreciating these fruits!
She doesn't even know I'm filming her!
It's completely unstaged!
I kinda thought we're going to be in and out of the park pretty fast
but we've already been here for over two hours and
the ONLY thing we've seen so far are these kochia
we just keep taking pictures
and looking at everything from different angles
and the sunshine is
completely different than 5 minutes ago
and this is only one part of about 300 hectares
[IN PL] Nice pumpkins!
When you live in the city,
especially a hectic city like Tokyo,
you're kind of detached from nature
so it is especially nice seeing Japanese people being able to take the time to appreciate
nature the way they do
It's really kinda innocent and serene when you see all these people just
calmly taking pictures of flowers
not being in a hurry
people of all ages and genders
there's a lot of dogs too a lot of dogs too,
a lot of dogs, a lot of dressed up dogs
So pretty!
It's like I'm on a jungle adventure!
I was just going to get some cheesecake and now I'm on this like...
Indiana Jones adventure!
There's going to be a cannon ball rolling at me soon or sth!
this place is so nice, when they told us that we'd have like 5 hours in the park
I was expecting to be super bored
but we're almost out of time and we've seen maybe 1/5 of the park?
Dang!
The birds, and then there's water in the background...
and the sun is like, ideal today
so it's like a cool day
but the sun keeps your back warm
Man, that's a good place to practice with camera!
I always love getting away from the city,
so these types of trips are my favourite,
you can listen to nothing
I think I've never enjoyed flower-viewing as much as today
Kris wasn't too thrilled about the flower concept at first
and now he can't stop filming!
To check out more videos from Ibaraki Prefecture, which is located
right next to Tokyo but has a completely different climate,
check out IbakiraTV!
which is linked in the description!
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