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welcome to Tokyo Tuesday guys if you're
a regular viewer welcome back
right now I'm not actually in Tokyo once
again
in what seems to be a growing series on
this channel I'm about one hour away
from Tokyo in an area known as Chichibu
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we have come out into the mountains I
always seem to end up in the mountains
and I loved every minute of it and when
I say we I kind of want to explain a
little bit about what's going on today I
got invited out to this photography
group and they just find really neat
locations and they go out and do
photography so that's what we are doing
right now this is Jo Jo so today we're
gonna be the frozen waterfall and I
think it's something that's gonna be
available in winter so just fill us
that's quite the lens you've got there
yes yes your master lens gives my head
this is good like you don't need to go
to the gym you can judge oh I feel like
I owe you an apology or yeah we see I
was overly skeptical like 10 degrees
today there's there's not gonna be that
much ice but when I looked right in
front of us never questioned
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you are absolutely killing me with this
camera placement so this seems like it's
good of its time and take couple
pictures
the biggest challenge is just not
falling in the water it's just like it's
right there
it is really beautiful when you're right
up close yes I brought coffee but more
importantly than that I don't know if I
can really capture how nice this is and
share it with you guys the photos
definitely won't do it I kind of feel
like video isn't getting it either
you know what I've never been one for
giving up I'm not about to start now
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there are these moments that I keep
trying and failing to capture where one
of the icicles and something's on my
eyelash we're one of the icicles will
break up and fall down and just I miss
it every single time
there's no way to accurately capture
this hope even get any decent pictures
yet yes yes yes yes but as you say like
their eyes their eyes they say yeah yeah
there's much much more beautiful yeah
yeah camera all right so we're wrapping
up here and amazingly for as beautiful
as this is apparently it lights up at
night which obviously is even more
beautiful you can see the lights all
around there if you do choose to come
out here though a little bit of a pro
tip I would recommend coming out early
it's around noon now and the place has
started to get fairly crowded I love
more cheaper no you're doing fine so
where are we going next yeah
that's right there's a sign for the
shrine also worth noting that there are
like 10 buses in a day mind you if you
really want to enjoy the area of
Chichibu itself I highly recommend
coming out by car just keep in mind that
in the winter you might find yourself
with icy roads and it might be dangerous
it's actually at this point that I
realized that I didn't tell you where we
were before
it's called measles uchi not sadhana
also I'm really confused by this little
bench here in the stairwell that leads
to nowhere like it seems like a great
picnic table area but
there's no way to get there and we're
gonna do lunch in the eating now so I'm
gonna do this so this particular shrine
is called meet Samina shrine and
actually one of the things that I like
the most about this moment that I want
to share with you guys is just the fact
that it's a place here in Japan that
I've never been and I love having that
opportunity to explore something for the
very very first time you get a little
bit of excitement in your chest you
don't know what's up around the corner
like I literally have no idea what is
around this corner up here and I kind of
love that but you can see this trying
through the trees and it's beautiful
that let me show you
we've come to a bit of a fork in the
road splits off this way and this way
really wondering what's up there but
everybody else went this way and I don't
want to lose the group
interesting fact to share about shrines
and whatnot so they say that you
shouldn't actually walk directly through
the middle because because that's for
the deity but you should walk off to the
side as you're going into a shrine and
wow this is beautiful
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see this is what I'm talking about with
the excitement like I have no idea
what's up that hill I have no idea
what's gonna be going on as we go down
here this is an absolute first for me
there's something about this area that
kind of reminds me of Mount ikaw but
there's also something very unique about
this particular shrine and mountain
itself I've been out to the area of
Chichibu countless times in fact when I
used to do like driving in car stuff we
would come out to Chichibu we would
drive up into the mountains to get to
them but I've never been here in
particular look at that creepy
mysterious forest because the waters
frozen we have to purify ourselves in a
different way but one of the things I
love about this is the intricate detail
and design on this shrine let me show
you
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and I just called word that they're like
cooking something over here so what
they're doing right now is they're
prepping beans soy beans for what's
called a mom a Maki you see during this
time of Japan you may or may not know
they have little kids throw beans at
ogres or oneis representative like
getting rid of bad spirits and
everything like that and I feel like
that was a pretty terrible explanation
but I'm sure you get it
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the smell is really nice it's got a kind
of sweet smell almost like like peanut
butter freshly cooked peanut butter do
you Koo peanut butter maybe put peanut
butter on toast it smells nice
everywhere you land in this shrine it
keeps forking off in different
directions like it was a hiking trail up
here and everything this particular
shrine has 100% made it's my
recommendation list if you were coming
out here especially especially if you
are renting a car and you're looking for
adventure outside of Tokyo again this is
not that far from Tokyo we're like
roughly an hour by train or car so again
I'm gonna add this place linked down
below because I know I personally will
be coming back here at some point
so I just shared with everybody like my
new favorite app if you have portrait
mode on your phone and you want to have
a little more control over like the
depth of field in the background blur
there's this app called focus FOCS
and like everyone's downloading it and
having a ton of fun with it right now
because I really mean beige is possible
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and right back where we started the day
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you guys know I'm gonna be hanging out
down there with you for a while
this is officially gonna be added to our
like one hour from Tokyo series so I've
also created a playlist for that in case
you're not familiar with the other
videos check them out leave me some
comments on those and you guys know I
will see you again real soon