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you know the world record for the most
snowman ever made in one place at one
time is something like twelve thousand
three hundred almost twelve thousand 400
snowmen
and that's actually
here in
sapporo i've never seen it back in 2003
it'd be quite the sight to see
but today
today we're going to be exploring the
streets of sapporo let's go
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it is just about one o'clock in the
morning right now and sapporo is
surprisingly filled with a lot of drunk
screaming people at one o'clock in the
morning finding a quiet back street was
a challenge of it so by the way another
interesting sapporo fact a lot of the
sidewalks like this are heated hear all
the screaming it's absolutely crazy but
that way they don't have to use salt and
whatnot as somebody who comes from
canada which only has two seasons winter
and construction which is almost
entirely caused by the damage of the
salt to the roads and sidewalks that's
that's a pretty cool system
roads are still really icy though
which is a ton of fun when trying
to walk so
yay for that
i actually tried to shoot this video
yesterday but the weather was just not
conducive to it
at all it wasn't so much the snow but
the incredible wind it was there was so
much wind
and here i am trying to figure out how
to get in i think
oh wow that is so soft okay
and i think the gate's locked anyway so
i don't think we're getting in to check
that out
i also love how the snow has picked up
just as i've gotten here one last type
of fun fact probably my favorite one by
the way is it this is one of japan's
newest cities that's something like only
about 150 years old it's laid out like a
grid it's very well planned instead of
street names everything's like north one
west five and all of that there's an
entire set of underground tunnels and
they doubled down on that organization
after world war ii when sapporo was
actually hit really hard like 300
bombers coming over dropping something
like nearly a thousand tons of bombs and
weaponry wiping out something like 25
of all of sapporo but they rebuilt and
here it is
and all of its snowy glorious beauty
there is so much i didn't expect snow
today there was no snow in the weather
forecast so i'm actually i'm really
happy that we've got this snow right now
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i'm all snow covered now i'm just going
to try
not to slip and fall i don't want to
drop and break the camera i haven't been
out to sapporo since something like
2019 that's actually the trip where i
had the opportunity to meet the people
from asahikawa who made my desk the very
first documentary that i ever made on
tokyo lens at the beginning of a whole
seven adventures i am so
grateful for that trip and actually in
that video i i misspoke a little bit i
meant to say that the the main part of
hokkaido has only really been inhabited
by modern japanese people for about 150
to 200 years but i skipped out on saying
that the modern japanese part which is a
very very important part because the inu
people that the natives of this land the
ones who actually named this city
sapporo actually comes from the ai new
language
they were obviously here long before
modern japanese people also i have no
plan
and almost went down i'm just so happy
to see giant snow banks and whatnot
everywhere we do not get snow in tokyo
more than maybe once or twice a year so
this
this is a treat
probably not super great for the camera
but really good for me but for now let's
go back to walking on some of the heated
sidewalks
so that we don't fall and break the
whole camp look at that you can already
see the water on the lens
but this is our first full adventure of
the year feels good to be kicking things
off usually at the end of the year if i
can't go back to canada which obviously
this year i couldn't i like to take a
little bit of time off so i took like a
week or two off and went up into nature
to do some winter camping which was just
spectacular did it in a hammock it was
it was it was very
very nice had a campfire it was a lot
warmer than you would think i
i think i'm going to be doing more
winter camping
and as soon as you get just a little bit
into the back streets
sapporo really starts to empty out at
night
except for the snow plows
we have snow plows
also since i can't seem to stop with the
subtle fun facts today this here covered
shopping arcade is called tanukikoji and
it's nearly a kilometer long it is it
goes on forever
it's a very long shopping arcade very
long
and i am very tempted to escape into it
for a second because the snow has picked
up just a little bit and that minus four
has quickly dropped to minus
seven i didn't even plan on making a
video while i was up here in sapporo i
came out here for the sole purpose of
doing one or two live streams for the
new tokyo lens explorer
live stream channel so if you're into
live streams i'll link those but being
out here started to feel like a little
bit of a waste not to make a video and
so if the mood strikes i'm gonna make a
video over the past year so i've seen a
lot of my creator friends here in japan
or in canada around the world
kind of struggle with the anxiety of
creation and i think like what do you
make how much do you make when do you
make it are people really gonna like all
of that stuff it's really been a
constant reminder to me to just enjoy
the process just love
what i'm doing and this this is the end
of the shotengai here which means this
should probably dump us out somewhere
behind
sapporo tower and so that's really the
goal for for this year it's been the
goal since the beginning is just to to
love doing what i do
and i'm just now realizing that the snow
has really let up a bit
and i want to get myself
a nice hot beverage
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oh my hand was freezing it just feels
really nice to hold
this beverage look at all the snow
i shouldn't still be this excited about
snow but i really
really am my first ever trip at tesapro
was back in 2005 it was one of the first
places that i ever visited in japan on
like my second day
and
i'll be honest that trip did not go well
it was like lost in translation of the
main character was mr bean
i was young i was dirt poor i had
something like a 10
a day budget for my entire trip and i
had saved for that trip for i think two
years with several part-time jobs and my
japanese was terrible i tried sleeping
in an abandoned building i messed up a
food order and ended up spending several
days worth of money end up spending the
night sleeping in an internet cafe i
also came across a japanese toilet for
the first time and literally had to use
a pay phone to call a friend in tokyo
because i had
no idea at all what was going on it may
seem really small to some people but
something as simple as just being able
to go into that 7-eleven and buy a hot
drink still makes me really happy
because when i first came to japan
that's something i would not have had
the option of doing also and there's a
ton of black ice here so i'm gonna try
not to fall and die
when i do these walks to the city
they're kind of my opportunity to
explore the city and find and see stuff
that i've never seen before more often
than not they take a lot longer than you
get to see like for example right now it
is 2 30 in the morning well
that was a red light
great job little buddy
and sapporo tower top of the tower isn't
even on i didn't realize that they
turned off the clock at night
also i found this little snowman so
that's a thing
it amazes me that people still fall for
the fake endings i thought for sure
we're gonna have a ton of bloopers in
this video of me falling i was hoping
that we wouldn't fall because i don't
have another i don't have a backup
camera that can do low-light performance
and if i dropped and destroyed this well
that that's the end of the videos for a
while and look
how quiet
odori park is
it is
also if you're wondering what norm why
didn't you come out for the the snow
festival
i got snow inside of my glove how did it
even get inside i did the snow festival
a few years back i will link that
video up above if you want to check it
out
but i need to wake up
in something like
three
or four hours to do a live stream so
i'm gonna head back to my hotel and do
actually you know what this hotel is
pretty cool i'm gonna give you guys like
a 15 second tour before we wrap up for
tonight let's go check it out i usually
don't show the hotel names because
they're old and crappy but this one is
new and nice this is the cross hotel
there's a nice onsen up there that i
didn't have a chance to go to look at
this oh foggy lens
spacious it was also super cheap like i
got this on a flash sale for like 45 50
bucks on the condition that i couldn't
choose the room type anyway it is super
late and i gotta get up in just a couple
hours so thank you guys so much and i'll
see you again real soon
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