hey guys good morning from Tokyo I hope
you're in the mood for a bit of an
adventure today because I'm about to
head out to meet my friend Emma we're
gonna hop on a train over to the
neighboring prefecture of Ibaraki
today's gonna be a whole new experience
for me we can all experience it together
for the first time I don't know what to
expect but I've heard some really nice
things about the place so I'm really
looking forward to it so let's go find
Emma and hop on our train
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so our first stop today is craft hills
and we're going to do some pottery and
try make some tea cups because I would
like some Japanese tea cups we just
watched a tutorial it was long and very
detailed and I've forgotten most of it
hopefully this goes well
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so I have so much respect for anyone
that can make a proper dish
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what do you do in these
another cup I'm gonna pick the best too
yeah
so now we get to choose which color we
want them to finish our pottery in I
really like the double colored ones so I
think I will go for this black and white
one up top that looks really cool so two
months from now they're gonna send me
the final product in the mail so if you
guys want to see how amazing my teacups
turned out follow me on instagram i'll
post some pitches on there we've come
down the road to an actual pottery shop
where they sell pottery that's made by
proper artist there so beautiful I'm
gonna pick up two teacups to bring home
because it was drinking some green tea
the other day out of like a regular mug
and I was thinking that I would really
like some pretty Japanese pottery it
would just be a different experience if
I had proper pottery so I'm gonna see if
I can find a nice tea cup set to
purchase we are off to a festival now we
took a little break in our hotel but I'm
really excited to be going to this
festival because
one recently actually and it looks like
they have puns food stalls they're gonna
stop by some of the food stalls that's
some dinner and just check it out it
looks like there's lots going on there's
lots of people here
it's freshly deep fried mochi with nori
and there was not version of it I'm
assuming
oh it really thought
doo-doo-doo-doo the dried ones so you go
to the supermarket but fractions chewy
really soft lovely onion mochi I give
this an 8 out of 10
let's cut to the last for two days
Saturday and Sunday and 400,000 people
come here that is why there are so many
food stalls to feed all the people I
have this is the biggest festival I've
ever been to all these folks have been
transported down to the scuba via truck
all the way from Aomori City which is
located on the northern tip of Honshu
Island so master date scuba is a really
great way to see the massive colorful
floats of owl Mori's Nebuta festival but
a lot closer to tokyo
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we are back in our hotel room that was
exciting that's the most probably
intense and cool festival I've been to
in a long time
Suns I'm at city in Tokyo I would say it
was probably a little more intense just
because I was actually in the middle of
it carrying a float down the road and it
was kind of scary
but this was really neat to watch and
the floats were so beautiful so I'm so
glad we got to take part in that and I
found my favorite tea at the supermarket
I find that this is really difficult to
get your hands on nowadays it's called
Kidada man greedy Chuck do try it it's
an interesting blend of teas I don't
even know what's in it but it's
delicious and it's supposed to help you
lose weight so that's cool
I'm gonna have some watermelon for
dinner because I'm just so dehydrated
and I will see you in the morning good
night good morning guys welcome to day
two of our Ibaraki adventure we're in
the car right now and we're on our way
to meet up one of the three most
beautiful gardens in Japan it sounds
lovely we're gonna stop by a Khomeni
first and get some breakfast there are
so many drinks at this Chloe
it's quite impressive
that's good oh this is so bad
oh no this is a new one it's a soy latte
I have just the regular opportunity of
this brown oh so just gonna see you guys
and I love our cheaters so that was very
disappointing I'm not gonna I'm gonna
brought me this it's a daifuku with a
grape in the middle I've never seen this
before what is this this is amazing I
can't wait to try that it's really tasty
just clean and it's really chewy it's
like the chewy rice and that's my
favorite kind of rice all right we're
gonna try the grape dye thicker now I
just watched my eat hers and it was an
experience I've ever seen it's like
biting into a juicy plum be prepared to
like get covered in grape juice but it's
delicious
we're at chi-chuen garden it's
absolutely gorgeous
so far this garden was opened in 1842 by
the Tokugawa family I can't wait to show
you guys around this place is famous for
plum blossoms actually which
unfortunately aren't blooming at the
moment but if you do get a chance to
come here during plum season I can just
imagine how beautiful it would be you'll
also find lots of cedar trees inside
this garden which is quite rare for a
Japanese garden you don't see that very
often so I feel like it gives qaida an
original feel and makes it stand out
from all the other Japanese gardens that
I've seen so far there's also a bamboo
forest and so if you'd like to take some
pretty bamboo forest pictures and not
have it super crowded like the wanting
Kyoto this is a great place to do that I
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thought you should probably take a
second to explain to you guys what the
buzzing sound you're hearing throughout
this entire video is that is the noise
of a semi or a cicada you'll hear them
all throughout the warmer months in
Japan
they're super noisy but they're not
harmful at all so you don't need to
about them
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when the coal Boonta villa was built in
the late atto period it was originally
used by Lord Nagi Aki Tokugawa as a home
away from home where he could relax and
entertain guests the women's quarters
are found on the first floor and they're
filled with beautiful wall screens
depicting the four seasons wandering
through the rooms gives you an
interesting look into what life might
have been like during the final years of
the Edo period in Japan
local poets and artists would come to
relax at the villa to find inspiration I
discovered a room with doors covered in
kanji characters the rows consisted of
rhyming characters so that the poets
could find the right words to
incorporate into their next piece
you'll find all the staircases inside
the villa are very steep and narrow this
was to protect the Lord from attacks as
it made it difficult for enemies to
reach the upper floors where the Lord
would spend most of his time it's
rumored that both flights of stairs have
exactly 11 steps due to Lord Nadia Keyes
liking of the number 11 and this is
because it's the number of strokes it
takes to write the characters bushi or
warrior
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Wow a great view from up here if you
find yourself inside Cairo and garden
make sure to pay a visit to Col Boonta
villa as it only costs an extra 200 yen
to enter black swans are officially the
coolest animal I love the amount of koi
in this lake it's insane come up hoping
that you'll see the so we're finishing
off our wonderful day today by getting a
really lovely lunch at Colton cafe the
cafe super close to the garden you can
come down here frequently and you have a
beautiful view of the lake while you're
eating lunch it's just such a nice spot
to relax and finish off our Ibaraki trip
I got the garden plate which is made
with local Iraqi vegetables starving so
I'm gonna dig in and he says and I hope
you guys enjoyed hanging out at Ibaraki
with us we're actually off to Hokkaido
next so keep an eye out for that video
and I will see you guys again very soon
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