hello there guys welcome back to my channel Travelwonderfun
hello ! my wonderful people how are you yes as the title of this video says we are in
Japan!!!
one of the most incredible cities (Tokyo) in the whole world because of it blends of traditional culture
and cutting high edge technology so in this video I want to show you our first impressions we literally
arrived few minutes ago to our hotel after nearly 24 hours traveling very very very tiring trip
but we are finally here and I want to show you the first impressions of what we think we are
currently in asakusa one of the most traditional parts of Tokyo because we have here the oldest
Temple from old Japan which is the temple Senso Ji which dates back to the year 628 A.D.
so a very old Temple and as you can see even though it's night time there's a lot of people
coming here to see all the incredible things that this Temple has to offer so let's have
a look together . so in here pretty much everyone comes you put 100 YEN I'm going to be showing
you what it's like the people needs to put 100 YEN then take this metal thing in which they need
to shake it and then after they shake it they take the stick from the inside as you you can
see some people is doing it and then the number that appears you need to see it and then you from
one of this little drawers you take it and it's going to give you a message if the message
is good you keep it with you if the message is bad you need to put it on that part over
there so that the good lock and good energies of the palace will put it away so as you can see it
says here only if you had a bad fortune put it over here so let's see what else this Temple has
to offer so let me show you in this part over here we got the part in which people comes and
they you know take the whole smoke that comes from there and this is meant to purify yourself
so when you come here make sure you smell it and you take all the good energy of this so this is
one of the attractions luckily there not so many people doing it right now so I'm about to purify
myself so like this we're going to draw all the good energy to us so make sure you do
it when you come here to the Senso ji Temple and if we go behind we got this line in which a lot
of people is actually queing right now in that they go over there and they pay their tributes
and they make their praying as well and we're going to see what it's like so as I was saying
people here comes and line up over here to pay their tributes and make a prayer you need to
leave some coins it's preferably so that the luck will be always with you. apart from
the sacred smoke we got also here the sacred Fountain and as you can see there is a little
bit of water coming out of the mouth of the Dragon so it is said that this water is meant
to purify yourself so whoever drink it purify themselves so I just took a little bit of water
and I'm going to be purified right behind me we got more Dragon Fountains that are meant to purify
yourselves so this is meant to be sacred water coming from the SENSO JI Temple so let's try
it so like this we are purified so make sure you come and purify yourselves at the SENSO JI temple in
Tokyo.
so after exploring the beautiful Temple of asakusa senso ji Temple we got very very hungry so
it was time to try something here in Japan so this is going to be our first meal here so far my
Impressions is that it's so modern so clean and so beautiful with a lot of traditional architecture
as the sensor ji we just saw and well we came to this place in which we have like the grill
here and they cook the food in front of us we needed to do like a way list outside and
yeah it's been you know pretty nice experience what do you guys think so far of Japan we love
it amazing we love it so these are my friends that I came with here to Japan she's Ioana
and Christian and they are both singles so make sure you follow them okay so looking forward to
try the food here and as I was saying at the beginning of this video it was nearly 24 hours
since we started this journey so we are really tired so as soon as we arrived to the hotel
we had a little rest and it was already night time but to give you an idea we left around 6AM
in the morning from London we did 12 hours flight uh until China Shanghai and then we
did a three hour layover to come to Tokyo it's been very tiring I got to say that the flight
was really good like we took this company that we never tried before it's called Air China and the
flight was really good to give you an idea it was only $600 we paid £490GBP and it was really good
really good experience uh with this Airline and yes looking forward to show you more experiences
here in Japan I'm going to be showing you later what it's like our hotel as well and yeah in the
meantime we are so hungry and we are waiting for the food we got a little bit scared because we
saw people that were cooking by themselves but the woman said she's going to come and cook for
us so yes so our DRINKS have arrived and it seems like some of the food have arrived as
well in the meantime let's see what it's like they're going to start preparing it so some octopus
have a right our table and as you can see it's just starting to grill we need to start making
it shortly and our drinks have arrived as well we've got here this drink which is typical from
here from Japan specifically in Tokyo which is called hoppy and it's mixed with a distilled drink
from here alcohol which is called shoshu and it's meant to replace the beer um I have tried now
but I got to say I prefer the beer it's not bad but I prefer
the beer and I go here the saporo beer that I just
ordered very refreshing and in the meantime waiting for the rest of our food and seeing
this lovely octopus to grill so after octopus we receive now the noodles the seafood noodles
so we're going to try looks yummy yummy so this one has Prawns octopus some vegetables as well and
they put some sort of brown sauce which appar is typical over here and some spices as well
so let's try so I got to say that the noodle is so delicious I really really like it it's a different
Style to what I've tried in the past the food is really good over here we're waiting for some more
actually so good so for the next dish we go here the okonomiyaki which is a typical Japanese teppan
Japanese pancake which consists of wheat flavour butter and it can be with Seafood meat cabbage so let's
try I actually never tried okonomiyaki before so let's see what it's like so let's try the
okonomiyaki which is a typical dish from here in Japan so let's see what it's like let me take a
little Bit please forgive me I'm not an expert with a chopstick I'm trying my best so don't judge me
guys I like the flavor something different I can feel the Cabbage I can feed the prawns really good
even a little bit of octopus they say this is a pancake but it does not look and taste like
a pancake at all but it's really really good guys you got to try it okonomiyaki if you come
to Japan something totally different this is meant to be a portion for one person I'm so full already
after the noodles I tried from my friend and I think we still got even more food really good
so that was our experience guys eating at this restaurant located here in asakusa uh the name
of the restaurant is called okoge they were very funny because when I asked them what's
the name of the restaurant they gave me this Card which obviously says the name of the restaurant
but I'm like okay I don't know how to read this so that was funny I got to say that the food
was really good and in my opinion it was was not expensive at all so we paid for all of that around
9,000 Yen so yeah leave you the conversion here in US Dollars anyway but I got to say for three
people including drinks uh all the food that we ate and they make over there for you on the grill
it's really good price so and now we are walking on the street here of asakusa got to say it's very
very interesting cuz you got the full traditional a Japan experience obviously with the senso ji
look we even got some ninjas here outside called ninja here I don't know what he say but he's
a ninja uh yeah lots of people still eating at this time roughly around 10:00pm really really cool
and obviously if you come during the night time you got to come on the morning time as well as
it gives you a different perspective of what it looks like the Senso ji Temple so last night we were
really really tired and literally after our dinner we went to don quijote as you saw it and then we
went literally to sleep uh this morning I was like okay before we do what we're going to do today I
have to come to Senso ji Temple to see what it looks like during the morning and even though I come first
thing in the morning it's already a good amount of people over here the people shaking over there
with the checking their fortune that we did last night here the sacred smoke which is just starting
to come out , the Fountain time a lot of people try the water I can see that there is more than
last night and obviously the main senso ji G Temple over here let's see there is even people cleaning
yeah very beautiful from the morning it's a very beautiful day today in Japan so we just enter to
the main part of the Senso ji Temple and we can see that already there is a good amount of people here
paying tribute to this amazing Buddhist temple that takes back to 628 a.d and it's really
really really beautiful look at the paintings on the ceilings so interesting and here people leave
the coins pretty much like how we did last night and they pray as well and it's that the whole
surroundings of this incredible asakusa Temple are extremely beautiful everywhere you walk into you
see incredible architecture traditional Japanese architecture as I said before they back to 628 a.d
so long long time ago and look how it perfects it maintains so beautiful guys so it's important to
note that this Temple is dedicated pretty much to the Goddess of Mercy which is called Kannon so it
is said that whoever pays tributes to this Goddess will have taken away all the pain and conflicts
in the light but look at this pound over here wow so so incredible guys you got to come to senso ji
and to Asakusa so guys look at this there was only a few people when I arrived around quarter to 8 in the
morning and now it's half past 8 and look so many so many people arriving and I can see much more
just heading this way so my advice to you if you want to come to the Senso ji Temple and take nice
pictures videos come very early in the morning I wanted to come even earlier but I was extremely
tired because of the obviously the whole 24 hours trip we had yesterday so come in the morning guys
and wow look at this guys to take a picture over here by the main entrance of this part
going towards the senso ji Temple we got a big queue of people just waiting to take a picture over there
we took a picture last night and we didn't have to queue nothing so if you want to do it during
the daytime you have might have need to queue but if you come very early as I said before you don't
and I want to also show you in this video of first impressions of Tokyo my hotel which is
called APA Tawaramachi Ekimae and it's literally about 10 minutes walk to the senso ji temple one of the
most important landmarks of all Tokyo and why I chose this one is because the quality price in my
opinion was very good and I'm going to show you my room in just one moment but remember
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to show you what it's like the hotel so as I say it's located in the heart of asakusa and
I will tell you how much I paid very shortly so quite modern on the inside looks pretty beautiful
some people leaves the Luggage here lets just wait just wait for the elevator so I am on the floor
number 14 and I'm about to show you my room here in asakusa so there and you can tell
me whether it's worth it or not how much I pay for staying in Japan so as you can see go here
the corridor something very important to know is that we got uh Spa which is has like hot spring
which is like a Jacuzzi sort of we might say we go here like a microwave area vending
machines obviously and yeah let me show you where it's like the bending machine for drinks
so we go here the bending machine for drinks so we have 5 million of them all over Tokyo so one
of them is located got ice machine and microwave so that's pretty convenient guys so this is my
room 1404 let me show you what it's like with the key inside so obviously it's not made as I
just use it last night but yeah this is my bed over here got a window over there TV desk there
is not a lot of space to put the luggage so one but for me one luggage is enough let just move
it a little bit over here so the desk can control here all the air conditioning the lights as well
uh yeah you go here I think this is like a little place to put the clothes like some hangers let me
show you the toilet you got the typical Japanese toilet in which you control the water pressure
you know like to clean yourself and small bath over here so the price that I paid for this was
80,000 Yen Japanese Yen for one week I'll leave you here the conversion but that's roughly around
450 £ so it's not bad at all so yes so my first impressions of Tokyo are really
really good I'm enjoying so far a lot even though I'm tired but yeah it will be on the
next video guys we're going to be showing you a lot a lot of Tokyo and a lot of Japan so
make sure you subscribe and I will be seeing you in the next video guys travelwonderfun