hey guys good morning and welcome to a
very exciting day in sendai today is the
tanabata festival which is the largest
festival in sendai and it's actually the
biggest tanabata festival in the entire
country tanapata has always been my
favorite japanese holiday it's got a
really cute story behind it and the
decorations are just really pretty and
colorful
and i've been dreaming about going to
this sendai tanabata festival for
like 20 years now ever since like back
in the day when i was living in morioka
i had heard about how massive the
tanabata celebrations are here in sendai
and yeah i've just always wanted to go
and finally it's gonna happen this year
i can't wait the weather is looking okay
it might rain a little bit but sendai
has like a covered shopping district and
i think that's where the festival will
be happening so even if it's raining a
little bit it should be okay so the
tanabata festival is based off of an
ancient chinese legend about the
princess orihime and her love interest
hikoboshi and the legend says that they
were so in love that they both neglected
their work duties and this angered the
god of the heavens and he forbid them
from seeing each other
except for one day of the year when they
were allowed to meet if they finished
all their duties and their work was all
properly done he would allow them to
meet tonight the night of tanabata so
it's kind of a cute romantic celebration
and here in japan people celebrate by
writing their wishes on pieces of paper
and tying them to a stick of bamboo
you will see all the decorations tonight
but it's super pretty let me show you
guys my yukata i ordered one online
i have problems finding yukata that fit
me because
they need to be a certain length or else
they look kind of funny and most girls
here in japan are a lot shorter than me
so it's hard to find a yukata long
enough but after lots of searching
online i found one that was like extra
large size and it looks quite long it
might be too long but it should be okay
let me show you
here it is it's black with red goldfish
on it it's super pretty
as you can see very long
but when you wear a yukata you fold the
middle part over
quite a bit so i think it'll be the
perfect length but i'm really happy with
it i really wanted a black yukata and
they're kind of hard to find most of the
colors are lighter like pinks and blues
and purples stuff like that but i
finally found one in my size i'm going
to attempt to put this on tonight it's
not easy wearing a yukata and well at
least so hopefully i'll be able to
figure it out
i also want to show you all the
accessories i bought to go with it
so normally if i have to put a yukata on
myself i have a pre-tied
ribbon that kind of just like sticks
into the back of my obi it's like a fake
obi
they're very common in japan because it
can be difficult to tie your ob really
nicely yourself unless you're a pro like
kimono wearer up until now i've always
just gotten those pre-tied obs that you
kind of just clip on and it's super easy
but this time i decided to go with a
different style of obi these are kind of
popular recently it's this crinkly
fabric
and by the looks of it it's a lot easier
to put this style of ob on yourself i
think you can kind of just tie it in a
regular bow and kind of like tuck in the
ends and it'll look okay
theoretically
so this is what i'm going to try to wear
with my yukata tonight i also got this
cute little hair piece to match i don't
know how i'm going to do my hair yet i'm
going to have to put it up in some kind
of updo
and then i'll clip this on this side
but japanese festival hair accessories
are just the cutest i love them so much
and it's fun to put together all the
little pieces of your outfit this i got
at one of the little roadside stations i
was on a road trip yesterday through
kanazawa
and where else did i go shirakawago
finally went to some really pretty
locations if you're part of my patreon
i'll have a little article up on there
of my itinerary highly recommend the
places i went to it was really gorgeous
but we stopped at a roadside station and
they had these handmade kinchaku these
little bags these are
a traditional bag that is often used
when you're wearing a yukata or a kimono
just to put in like your little things
like your wallet or something so that
you don't have to carry a regular purse
they had these handmade ones that were
made by the seniors in the area tuna
really wants to be a part of this video
show them how big you've gotten
you're massive now you a big boy
yeah
he's big he's fluffy
and he's way too energetic
and he won't let me film
right
why don't you play with your brother
today's festival adventure is sponsored
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it's perfect for today i really love the
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really fancy looking candies
everything's so cute and colorful sweet
potato bread these ones are really cute
these are wasabi pistachios and
cashews
oh what's this one wow apparently these
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hundred years and it's a soy sauce
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and we get this month
oh that's so cute it's a design from the
box
they've got kind of a savory sweet taste
they're not overpoweringly sweet
it would go really well with the tea
let's make some of this
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i really like kojicha it's got like a
toasted
flavor kinda like a toasted marshmallow
without the sweetness
i'm gonna eat this ojicha pudding before
chris gets here i love tea flavored
snacks starbucks japan comes out with a
lot of tea flavored cakes and stuff and
this reminds me of something that you
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it's like a creamy custard pudding
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someone has learned how to jump up on
the counter
and that's all he does now is jump up on
the counter and knock all the dishes off
isn't it
you look so guilty
tuna
you a bad boy
why are you such a brat why tomorrow
teach your brother
teach your brother how to be a good cat
come on
thank you
all right i managed to get my yukata on
it was a bit of a struggle got my hair
decoration in let's go meet victor and
james is here as well do you guys
remember james from the sakura video
he's gonna be joining us tonight and
then chris will meet up with us later
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center i got this brigadita oh cute
which is one of the new starter pokemon
for scarlet and violet and of course i
had to get those only brand new
questions yeah these are super nice
that's awesome
i didn't pick up fuye coco because
i'm not that much of a fan i'm sorry i
might get cancer
i haven't been back to the pokemon
center here in sendai since the last
time i filmed and i brought you guys
there because there was
nothing in stock and i just thought it
was kind of like a crappy pokemon center
but victory was pretty good this time so
maybe i should give them another chance
i just realized i don't know if i have
this on correctly
oh please be left over
so i did kung fu for four years and we
wore our ghee the opposite way that you
wear a yukata and it just like messed
with my brain and every time i put it on
i can't tell if i'm
doing it that way because it's the kung
fu way or the right you cut the way yeah
yours is right
i started to panic that would be super
embarrassing
we've made it to the main shopping
arcade and all the time about the
decorations are behind me
they're so gorgeous so actually normally
they would be all the way down to the
ground but because of covid they're kind
of like a special shortened version so
people aren't touching them this year
which is a bit of a shame but they still
look really beautiful
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all right so our first stop today is the
jeebi store because my friend nadine
told me that they sometimes do lucky
bags on tanabata so i hope they have
them this year that would be really fun
we've made it to the jubilee store now
to check if they have lucky bags
oh they've got really cute plants
i love those
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it's the 25th i think anniversary of
mononoke
so they've got lots of
goods for sale
it's my favorite ghibli movie
what are they these are so cute oh
they're vegetable totoro
we haven't found lucky bags i have a
feeling they're not doing them this year
but these vegetable totoro are
very tempting
these are the yukata that i was
considering getting for the festival but
i wasn't sure what the size would be
because they're one size so they're
probably a little small
the firework one's really pretty
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oh i love this
i need that tote bag
look it's a tanabata
cute
yeah
so there are only a few yeti this year
mostly games for children victor said
there's some chocolate bananas around
here somewhere maybe over there
have to hunt those down
so each store has put out their own
decorations so each row of tanabata
decorations belongs to the store that's
beside it it's cool seeing the different
themes
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so many people are coming up to sendai
just for this festival i've seen so many
tourists with like big suitcases at the
station and i just ran into two viewers
so far that have come up here just for
the festival so it was really cool so
behind me this blue display here we'll
go up close in a second this is actually
all hand folded origami cranes it's made
by all the students in the different
schools here in sendai and they put it
together into this big display every
year for tanabata
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it's starting to get dark here
it's still really lit up which is nice i
was kind of wondering if everything was
gonna go pitch black when the sun went
down but um we're gonna meet up with
jotaro now cause i ran into him on the
street so we're gonna have some dinner
and yeah just chill for a little bit
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they're taking down the decorations
already
so sad
happens so quickly
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uh
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that is way more i think it's tequila
in it than i was expecting
so far we've got chicken nuggets french
fries and some mysterious cheese cracker
chip thing this is definitely not french
food
uh the most french i think it's really
tough
so far it's pretty yummy
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none of our birthdays unfortunately
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this is
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all right guys i guess that's it for
tonight saying goodbye to everybody
bye-bye
hope you guys enjoyed watching the
festival even though it was a little
more toned down than it normally would
be outside of covid but i hope you guys
enjoyed it anyways thanks so much for
watching i'll see you again very soon