- Feels unreal here.
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- Bye car.
That's right, this is happening.
We have the entire family
and rather than going to a beach for spring break,
we are going on a special trip for the next eight days.
We're going to Tokyo, Japan.
This is the beginning, it's early in the morning
and we're gonna be traveling for the
next like 24 hours or something.
Here we go, it's a travel day.
Starts here in Salt Lake.
It's gonna end in beautiful Narita, Japan.
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- Hi.
- [Daniel] Ready to go to Japan?
What's your favorite part about the Portland airport?
- Its carpet.
- [Daniel] The carpet.
It's pretty good looking.
- Fantastic.
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- [Daniel] What did you bring with you?
- Ellie.
- [Daniel] Ellie the Elephant has to come to Japan.
Oh and your phone to take pictures.
Let me see what's on your phone.
Oh look, it's Lady Gaga jumping off of the building.
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I can't believe is happening right now.
We are getting on the plane to go to Tokyo.
Just our family to Tokyo for a week.
This is so cool.
Look at them all getting on there.
There's Leslie.
Are you ready to go to Tokyo?
- I am so ready.
- [Daniel] You ever been to Tokyo?
- No, never.
- Don't know what we're getting ourselves into.
We don't speak Japanese or anything, but here we go.
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Welcome to Japan, we made it.
It's two in the afternoon which is like four, but look.
Welcome to Japan.
London, you survive?
You okay?
No?
We are trying to figure out how to get to our hotel.
We were going to take the train,
but the line is too long to get tickets
and London's really tired.
So we are going to take a taxi,
but then the taxi line was only for people going to Tokyo.
So they sent us to the Narita Taxi line,
but they only had little cars
and they said that we had to take the van.
But then the van is a time schedule thing
and we don't wanna wait for that.
So we're going with Uber.
We're waiting for Uber right now.
Lincoln's got a cool backpack setup.
He's got his Beam Pennyboard underneath it
and then he can lay down and roll.
Claire's still got Teddy the teddy bear over here.
How are you feeling Claire?
- Tired.
- [Daniel] First thoughts about Tokyo.
- It's hot here.
- [Daniel] It's hot.
What are your thoughts about Tokyo?
- I'm glad it's not humid.
Really glad about that.
- [Daniel] Yeah, doesn't feel very humid.
- And people are super nice.
- People are really nice and there's cherry blossoms.
We already saw some at the airport.
So heading to the hotel.
Hopefully we can make it there.
We'll see what else happens today.
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So apparently today's probably one of the last days
the cherry blossoms will be going
and then they'll be coming off pretty soon.
So we just barely made it.
So that's good, even though we're jet lagged.
- [Driver] You guys are lucky.
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- [Daniel] This is our hotel beds.
This is our pajamas they gave us.
There's the view out the window.
A bunch of construction guys right down there.
I don't know why but my nose is bleeding on the end.
I'm sorry if this entire vlog I've had a red dot on my nose
kinda like Rudolph.
But the plan is we're gonna go go sleep.
I kinda messed up on the rooms.
I wanted a place that's close
to the airport that we could sleep
and just get some good rest in.
I didn't realize I booked a smoking room.
Who does smoking these days?
In America there aren't very many
hotels that have smoking rooms.
Good morning.
It's not really morning, I guess it is.
It's like three, four in the morning.
How'd you sleep Claire.
She's happier.
Look outside, totally dark.
But in the distance there's a Mcdonalds.
You guys ready?
- Different.
- [Daniel] Oh look how nice you look.
Look at Mama, Easter Sunday looking fancy.
- Thought I'd wear pink, little bit of pink.
- It's Saturday.
- [Daniel] It is not Saturday,
it's Saturday in America.
It's Easter Sunday here.
Nobody's here.
Hope we can get out.
Oh there's somebody out there.
Okay, we're going, we're getting outta here.
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There's nobody out here.
Let's go this way, come on.
Cross the street, let's go.
It's so quiet in Japan.
Do you hear how quiet it is?
The first thing of the day is to go find breakfast.
So we found a Mcdonalds at the train station
that's open 24 hours a day.
This is pretty cool, there's not very many people out
at this late at night.
There's the police driving by checking in on us.
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There should be enough seats for us, there's 111 of them.
- How are we gonna talk to the people in there?
- [Daniel] Just say everything in Japanese.
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One curious thing about Mcdonalds,
people are just here sleeping.
Is this what you do?
Do you go to Mcdonalds to sleep in the middle of the night
if you don't have an apartment?
Check it out.
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These are the pancakes.
Do you see how tiny these are?
Leslie got a big water for breakfast.
- I did, it's ginormous.
- [Daniel] It's like a shot of water.
I got a double cheeseburger and fries.
Oh you're eating my fries?
How are they Lincoln?
- They're good, the fries.
- Oh you're eating my fries?
Alright, food is gone.
I still don't understand why there's
so many people that are asleep in here.
It's kinda weird.
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I don't really get it.
It's kinda strange.
So the sun comes up in about 30 minutes,
so we're gonna go somewhere and watch the sunrise.
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We're walking around the city right now.
- We're jumping.
- London's jumping, she's so happy.
Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna go
to the temple place and check it out.
The city is very quiet.
This town's quiet even when there's people out.
It's pretty quiet during the daytime.
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Oh there's 7 Eleven.
Do we need anything at 7 Eleven?
Do they have Slurpies?
Let's just go see if they have Slurpies.
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There she goes.
She has been wanting, for some reason wanting to do this.
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Wow London, that was cool.
- That guy is freaky.
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- I can confirm, there are no Slurpies at 7 Eleven Japan.
- [London] Dad.
- [Daniel] What?
Oh wow.
- Why's there a monkey?
- [Daniel] This monkey is for if you rub his head
three times, two, three, then you have good health.
Yeah, rub it.
Then you're the one that's sick.
Did you rub it London?
- Nope.
- [Daniel] Oh no, you need good health.
- I did.
- [Daniel] Oh good.
- Pocari Sweat.
- [Daniel] It's our favorite drink.
- That is so bizarre.
- [Daniel] It's like Gatorade.
This is my favorite street in Japan
that I've ever been to.
It's not that far from the airport if you ever had a layover
you can take the Narita Express Train here.
It takes 10 minutes
and you just walk down this street.
We're getting close to the temple right now.
You can kinda see the top of it over here.
It's a Buddhist temple.
Everybody's asleep so we're trying to be respectful
and quiet.
'Cause Japan it is all about the respect here.
What do you think so far about Japan Leslie?
- I love that we're up so early
because I'm sure it feels peaceful during the day
but it feels just so pretty and unique.
I think it's a great place to visit.
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- We're at the temple right now.
There are some people that had been praying and bowing
so I turned the camera off.
But we're trying to be respectful.
It's so peaceful and beautiful here.
I love that people come here on
Sunday at five in the morning.
This big balloon thing.
- It's like it's dragons.
- I can't believe all these trees
like that's able to stay like that.
- [Daniel] Yeah, how long have they been here?
There's hurricanes and typhoons that come through here.
- It feels unreal here.
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- Wow, we just went to the Buddhist Temple,
the shrine and there were monks in there
and they were making their chants
and they had fire and smoke
and everybody was dressed up and kneeling.
It was pretty amazing and definitely
it's not something that I wanted to film.
You could feel the spiritual side of things
and that people were putting out their calls
in the morning.
It's something special to be here.
If you're ever in Japan, come to one of these temples
early in the morning and I guarantee
you'll feel peace and happiness.
The souls of all those that have passed on.
It's a very respectful place.
Right here,
these are cherry trees, but we just missed it by a few days.
All of these were probably blossoming right here.
It is so beautiful here.
That's just the roots right?
Look how deep they are.
Go stand by it Lincoln so we can see how tall these are.
(coughing)
Didn't you rub the monkey's head three times?
- Yes.
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- [Daniel] What?
This is unreal.
Oh my gosh, this is like fake.
Guys, I've never been anywhere more beautiful.
- What if the cherry blossoms were up on this?
- [Daniel] The sun's rising right now.
You can see the sun coming up.
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- I named two cats.
One is named Dandelion and one is named Oreo.
The black and white is Oreo.
- [Daniel] I would think the black and white
one would be Oreo.
- [London] The yellow and white one is Dandelion.
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- So we've pretty much finished up our trip here.
We wandered all through the forest,
through a few different temples.
There's a giant pagoda behind us right now.
This was cool.
Alright thoughts.
How'd you guys like it here?
- I thought pretty.
- I thought it was one of the most peaceful
and beautiful places I've ever been to.
- [Daniel] Nice, I agree with you.
Good, that's what I was hoping.
That's why I wanted to come on this trip.
- It really was.
- [Daniel] This was the main place I wanted to take you
the whole time I was like let's go to Japan.
- It doesn't really feel real.
- [Daniel] You're supposed to drink this water.
I'm not sure why it says hot dog.
So yes, I've seen this, I've seen this at temples before
where people drink out of the mountain spring
and it brings them health and long life or something.
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We'll leave Lincoln out the drinking,
the community drinking well since he's sick.
But yeah, either we all are gonna be totally blessed
with fortune and health or we're all
gonna have diarrhea all night.
It's one or the other.
And this concludes our trip to the temple.
Alright, we have a good idea;
we went to the 7 Eleven earlier
and they had a bunch of treats.
So we decided we don't have much to do
for the next four or five hours til we check
out of our hotel other than get donuts at 10 o'clock,
but we are gonna go to the 7 Eleven
and buy a bunch of unique Japanese treats
and I think we'll just make a full on video of
us taste testing it.
But for the rest of today we are gonna go to
our new hotel which is much different than here.
It's at Disneyland.
I'm just gonna conclude this video
from all of the travel from Utah to here
'cause it's basically been a full day
even though we slept because we got here
and we were tired and we went and did stuff.
I hope you like day one.
We've got Disneyland coming up,
we have some really fun things going on.
But we're gonna show you all the things we can about
Tokyo.
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