- Hi my name is Clare and I went ham on my makeup today.
So my name is Clare and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
This is a miniseries
that I'm going to call the Japan bucket list.
And it's gonna take you through
a lot of the cool things that I did
while I was in Japan on honeymoon.
My husband and I just got back from honeymoon,
where we conveniently timed it
to coincide with the Rugby World Cup.
And aside from all of the rugby that we went to,
we did a number of very cool things,
and one of them was go-karting through the streets of Tokyo.
This adventure started before we left Ireland.
Firstly we had to apply for international driver's licenses.
They were cheap, I think they were 15 euros each.
They came within a week and they look so cheap and so fake,
that they totally look like
you could just make one yourself,
but you still have to have one if you want
to be able to do this.
When I was in Tokyo then, I booked the karting.
So what I did was I searched Street Karting,
I found the website, and then I clicked book.
And when I clicked book,
it actually took me through to Facebook Messenger,
which actually I thought was really efficient.
So we left in the morning to head over
to Shibuya Crossing to find this karting place.
We were having a little bit of trouble
with Alex's Google Maps,
it kept turning us around telling us to go back.
- [Alex] I'm walking.
- So we ended up just jumping into a taxi.
It was about 10 minutes I'd say from Shibuya,
but we did it on a Sunday as well.
So if you're doing it during the week,
maybe allow more time 'cause I know
Tokyo traffic can be insane.
When we arrived, we were asked to fill out a form
on a quite cool tablet.
Pretty standard when doing an activity like this,
sign your life away.
But what amused me about this particular form
was that you had to acknowledge
that it had nothing to do with Nintendo,
and nothing to do with Mario Kart.
Signed, me.
We also filled out that we were there on honeymoon
and we got a congratulations but that was it.
No other special treatment, it's fine, I'm not disappointed.
So then we picked our costumes
out of the available rack of onesies.
I was briefly torn between a unicorn rainbow onesie
and a Pikachu onesie.
Unicorn, or Pikachu, which?
I'm torn.
But I figured that I could be a unicorn
anywhere in the world at any time,
and really if you're going to go-kart
through the streets of Tokyo,
you should probably be Pikachu.
(upbeat pop music)
I rented a GoPro for this and unfortunately
the sound on it was shit.
Alex, do you think he's American?
- What?
- [Clare] Do you think he's American?
- Dunno.
- [Clare] He has a very American accent.
- I don't know.
- He has a very American accent.
We'll be limiting the amount of sound
I use from those clips.
I also got a discount.
I told them I was gonna make a video about this,
and they gave me a thousand Yen discount,
which is their blogger discount.
A thousand Yen by the way is around 10 euros.
They showed us really quickly how to drive,
it was quite simple.
You had a brake and an accelerator
in the same place as it would be in the car.
You had a gear box that went to neutral, reverse, or drive.
Very similar to an automatic car.
The biggest difference was the indicators
needed to be turned off by pressing them down
once you were finished using them.
Which a lot of people forgot constantly.
The format was that on the open road,
we were single file and given our gas.
And when we came to the stop sign,
or like a place where there was a lot of traffic,
we changed to two abreast in the lane.
Now what that means is the first person
would start by pulling into the left hand side of the lane,
and the second person in the line
would go into the right hand side,
and we fit perfectly then in the one lane of traffic.
It sounds complicated but it became
like second nature pretty quickly.
And then we did swapping.
Everybody started out where they started out,
and then at periodic intervals the first two people
would pull over, go a lot slower,
and allow everybody else to pass them out
and then join at the end.
I think your brain just turns off though,
and you can't process what's happening.
Like it's so dangerous,
but you just don't feel like you're in any danger.
If you could hear the video
you would hear me constantly talking to myself.
Oh no, scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary.
At one point a bus passed me when we were driving around
and I was like oh my god, like I could die.
But nobody did die, on the bright side.
They do thank you at the end for not dying,
and its like it's a joke, but like is it a joke?
It was such a surreal experience
to be driving through the streets of Tokyo,
especially Shibuya Crossing,
the big massive famous crossing.
We were also there on Halloween night,
that's a different video but it was crazy.
So to then arrive and go-kart across it
was a pretty cool experience.
So many people were taking pictures of us
as we drove around Tokyo.
Genuinely my face was sore from smiling.
I wonder where all of those pictures of me are.
If you took a picture of a small redhead
dressed like Pikachu go-karting
around the streets of Tokyo on November 2nd, tweet me.
They took a video of us driving back into the garage,
I suppose you would call it,
and they took loads of photos of us throughout the trip.
Every now and again they would call you by your character,
which I actually loved.
It was like "hey Pikachu, look over here"!
They took loads and loads of photos,
and they were all provided as part of the package,
which I thought was really amazing
because I know that you would
buy an experience in most places
and then they would charge you for the photographs.
They share a massive Google Drive with you
full of photographs and the video
totally included in the price.
The price was, for me and Alex with my blogger discount,
I think it was 15,000 without the camera
and then I think it was around 16,000 something.
So yeah, I would recommend going go-karting
through the streets of Tokyo.
It has nothing to do with Nintendo.
You cannot dress up like Nintendo characters
'cause it has nothing to do with Mario Kart.
Thank you so much for watching this video,
hope you liked it, let me know if you want
more of the cool things that I did in Japan.
And please subscribe.
Last but not least, I really like this hoodie.
So this is a prototype of a new hoodie I am making.
Okay, bye!