Have you ever wanted to travel around Japan but the JR tickets the shinkansen
or the JR Rail Pass is just a little too expensive, keep watching we
might just have a good answer for you
we're traveling overnight from Tokyo to Hiroshima on a Willer Express bus. So
the cool thing about Willer Express is that you can buy different types of
tickets and then travel all over Japan so we bought a three trip 10,000 yen bus
ticket which means that we can do three separate trips all over Japan no matter
what the distance and so it's about a hundred dollars
so this 13 hour bus journey is only going to cost what? About $35 which
is great value compared to the Shinkansen which is hugely expensive and it's
pretty comfortable. Foot rest,
hook for your bag, beverage holder and the piece de resistance for extra privacy
pretty cool right?
The Willer Express was awesome! So good, super comfortable
that little hood thing to sleep- amazing I reckon I got about 10 or 11 hours
sleep on that 13 hour bus ride. He did. How did you do? Ahh maybe 5 or 6? But I still feel pretty good, like pretty fresh.
That is pretty good for a nice big pink overnight bus watch out
for the pink buses get them if you want to save some money awesome
and we talked on the bus and we're going to make this like a money-saving vlog
day so we're now going to eat all three meals today from convenience stores but
first we're going to find some Wi-Fi to see if our Airbnb will let us in because it's
only 8:30am in the morning
so we can't you check into out Airbnb yet so we are going to find some breakfast
we've laid down the ground rules for our challenge we're going to hit up a
Lawson store, a 7 Eleven and a Family Mart for each of the three meals today and we
each have 1300 yen to spend which makes that $12USD for the whole
day and we can spread it out however we like I want to go and get some brekkie. First stop
was the 7-eleven I got an iced coffee for 100 yen and a chicken onigiri
which is a rice ball for a 130 yen, I didn't want to go too crazy
I'm going to hoard my money a bit so I can afford snacks too. My turn! I don't have
any money, Sheena's got all the money.
I just love these onigiri because they're so ingenious they have
instructions on how to open them up so you've got one two and three you just
follow the numbering. Rip number one open, then you pull off number two sleeve, number three sleeve
it's so cool, it's so cool it's so Japanese they're so clever.
So an onigiri is a rice ball it's got a piece of nori or seaweed
wrapped around it and this one's filled with chicken and mayonnaise and I think
a black pepper actually black pepper mayonnaise hmm they're just so
good, really simple but really filling. That's delicious. Right let's see if my
overspending was worth it it does look super good look at that look at the
mayonnaise in there yes. I might just go in with my hands
there's so much mayonnaise that's how I like to start my days filled with
mayonnaise there's a little bit of chilli and chicken heaps of mayo I'm
pretty happy with my 298 yen overspend. We just had word from our Airbnb that
we can actually ditch our bags there now which is awesome so I might put the
camera away because we're going to catch a bus and you know we're just dropping
our bags at an Airbnb that's not very exciting so we'll pick this up somewhere
much more interesting. See you soon! Bags dropped off it's so good to get rid of
your bags. I'm super looking forward to exploring Hiroshima, a totally new city
for me Sheena was here 10 years ago- 12 years ago. 20 years ago. 20 years ago?
What were you like 2? She was 15 I think so it was around 18 years ago, Let's go and explore.
We've had a wander around downtown Hiroshima and it's really beautiful it's
really chilled out and relaxed and there's some great shops but I am starving
I don't think I had enough for breakfast so we're going to go and find either a
Lawsons or a Family Mart for lunch
This is so exciting there's so much cool stuff in here. Look at these rolls they're filled with
like cutlets, breaded pork, this one's filled with noodles, I can't tell you how exciting this stuff is.
There's pikelets, there's burgers ah there's all sorts. Look at this sandwich
it's got fruit in it. What's the white stuff? Must be like cream!
we've made an executive decision to up the daily budget by 200 yen so that
makes it $5 a meal with three meals a day. We were going to be a little
bit hungry, particularly me. I think this makes more sense.
So at all the convenience stores it's super handy because they will heat up
your meal for you so we now have hot food, sitting by the river another really
interesting point is the pricing here in Japan there's always two prices so this
is the tax-free price and this is the price you pay so always look at the
higher one because that's what you're going to pay any shop ,clothes shops, food
shops. Ahhh this looks like the best lunch- rice covered with fried chicken smothered in
mayonnaise and maybe some sort of sweet sauce and I'm going to chuck some
togarashi over it. Togarashi is a Japanese seasoning and it's
made up of chili and sesame seeds and citrus rind - dried citrus rind
it's really tasty, How much was yours? Ahh 460 yen so I sort of spent five
bucks pretty much but I think it was worth it because there's a heap of food here.
I'm very happy, it's so tasty it's like the ultimate comfort food. Fried chicken, sauce, rice- perfecto!
it's always fun in Japan because we
never know what we're buying because we can't read Japanese so I don't know
if this is fish or chicken so let's just dive right in and see I think it
might be fish feels kind of fishy mmm just a deep-fried like breaded
deep-fried piece of fish really tasty- it's gone soggy from being in the microwave
I don't actually mind that I think it's a bit of fun to have some soggy
microwaved food sometimes just sometimes this bit here I think this might be another
piece of fish what the heck mmm it's a fish cake yum with a really really light
batter on it I think some seaweed through the batter hmm that's really
nice, pickled veg some rice, this beautiful Japanese rice that real
starchy sticky- it's such a treat that you can walk into a convenience
store buy this type of food sit by the river- pretty healthy- really good
price- you can eat so well in Japan for not too much money. It's the best! We are going to head
back to our Airbnb so we can actually get in, we could only drop our bags last
time so it's been quite a long time since we brushed our teeth and things like that
after that big long bus ride so we might go home for a bit of a break I
guess we'll pick this up at the next exciting convenience store location
dinnertime see you then. It's dinner time, oh yeam dinner
dinner, dinner, we're going to go to our local convenience store and pick
something up
so we said we were going to go to the Family Mart originally but the Daily
Convenience Store is actually just around the corner so we're going to pop
in there and we have found that the more obscure, smaller convenience stores are
actually a lot cheaper than the big boys so like the 7-Elevens, Lawson and Family Mart
so let's go and see what they have.
We got a whole meal for three dollars- ice cream and also some kimchi because
there wasn't much salad available. You would not believe it I've ended up with
change have you got change too? I've got over 200 yen change. I've got 250 yen so
that extra 200 we gave ourselves didn't even need it- it's amazing. You can eat
really cheap in Japan uh-huh and like we thought that Daily
was way cheaper than the 7-eleven or the Family Mart would have been or the
Lawson's and we've ended up with this beautiful rice, big piece of salmon
meat patty some sort of probably potato fritter deep fried thing, some vegetables
some egg, some seaweed salad unbelievable! kimchi and we've got ice creams to
finish. You got two ice creams. I got two ice creams! What a greedy guts. Just because I had
extra money and I still didn't even spend all my money. We could have gotten drinks but
it's crazy. It's looks real good too! So today we've
spent under the initial was it 1300, yeah so we have the 1300 yen each to spend.
We spent less than. So let's just say $12. $12 each. Three meals a day! And we've not
been hungry we could have eaten a little bit more to be honest but not
much more that's just because we're greedy guts
unbelievable we're going to dig in because this looks
super tasty- correction I could have done with a little bit more food Sheena hasn't even been able to
finish. I'm really full for some reason. She's given me her
dinner unheard of! That never happens! So for $12 she had more than enough food!
But I'm still going to have my ice cream.
It's ice cream time. Look at my one. It looks like some sort of wafer that
has got ice cream in the middle and chocolate like an ice cream sandwich
I got this one which is just I think so it's basically soda ice cream which
sounds awesome to me really plain and black chocolate double ice cream. I think I'm going to start
with this one I'll put this one back in the freezer for a treat later on
let's check these out I still can't believe how well we've done today for so
little money first the bus absolute bargain great way to get around Japan
if you want to get around on a budget and I hope this video sort of helped you
realize that yes Japan is expensive but it doesn't have to be ridiculously
expensive you can make it affordable if you want to do it that way and it is an
incredible country it is a must visit you have to put it on your travel
bucket list if it's not already on there. It is mind-blowing
and it has great ice creams whoa I thought it was going to be vanilla ice cream
with chocolate on top but it's just chocolate, Oooo it's an ice bar, it's kind of icy
Yum that's really good. Mine is very good it's basically like an ice cream sandwich-
wafer, chocolate, vanilla ice cream it
looks like a waffle. I know. It's so good. That is so cool ! We hope you found this video
useful thank you so much for watching we hope we've inspired you to eat and
explore like a traveler, not a tourist, see you next time , sayonara!