Today we're visiting the location
that forever changed the world's history.
Pearl Harbor.
A Japanese attacked here,
brought the United States to World War II.
And here you can also visit the battleship where the Japanese surrendered,
and the war is over.
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Filmed before the pandemic
When you come here to Pearl Harbor...
See? It's a big memorial.
You can walk all this here for free.
And there are free attractions and paid attractions.
If you just want to walk here,
there's a lot of information you can understand about the war,
you can understand what was going on at that time.
The main place everyone wants to see and it's also the hardest to get,
it's USS Arizona which is one of the ships
that sunk during the attack.
It is very impressive.
Look at this. The ship is still there in the ocean.
And this memorial was created on top of it
to honor everyone who died that day.
Even more impressive,
over 900 people are buried there inside the ship.
And a lot of other men who survived the attack that day
chose to be buried here after they passed.
Visiting USS Arizona is totally free but you need a ticket.
That's because you need to get that boat that will take you to the memorial.
We cannot just walk to the memorial.
So, of course, there are limited seats.
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There are a few ways you can get a ticket.
One is come here very early in the morning
as soon as they open at seven,
because they distribute 1,300 tickets every day.
The tickets have a time slot for your visit.
And during high season, they run out pretty fast.
That's what we did.
We got here 7:15 and got a ticket for 7:45
We're in the low season, so we're lucky.
And also it's kind of raining today,
so I guess not many people would choose to come here.
Another way is to book directly on their website.
You can schedule weeks in advance
or the day before your visit,
at seven in the morning, you go there,
because that's when they release the new tickets.
There's a 1-dollar convenience fee, but in my view, it's totally worth it.
We just didn't do it because we woke up today,
the day was like this, we couldn't go to the beach,
so we figured... let's go to Pearl Harbor.
It's so full of fish.
Another way you can come here is with a tour group.
Then you'll have a guide who will explain you the history and everything,
but it's gonna cost you at least $40.
Here's everyone who died that day
Before getting the boat that will take you to USS Arizona,
you watch a movie here that explains the circumstances
that led Japan to attack Pearl Harbor.
And between the movie, the boat there,
the time you spend there, and the trip back,
it's about 65 minutes.
There inside, you can photograph,
you can take videos, everything is allowed.
But out of respect, I chose not to vlog.
I didn't want to bring the camera
and just talk to the camera like this,
because it is a memorial.
It is a place that people go to reflect
about everything that happened on that day.
You think about the people that are still there inside the ship.
You see the oil that still comes out of the ship to this day.
So all this makes you think a lot.
A lot of people there even avoid talking.
They stay quiet or speak in a low tone of voice.
And I thought that that was more appropriate.
This was the situation here on December 7th, 1941.
This was the day of the attack.
All these ships were here,
they honored U.S. states
and also some U.S. cities like Detroit, Raleigh,...
By the way, you hear a lot of helicopters and planes
while I record this because this is still an active military base.
More than 40,000 men and women work here.
Oh, as a huge and unfortunate coincidence,
something that I learned here today,
U.S. radars detected a large amount of airplanes
coming towards Oahu,
they thought it was a U.S. fleet coming from California
that was also supposed to arrive that day.
This is one of the anchors of the ship, USS Arizona,
recovered from the ocean.
you cannot come here with bags unless they're totally clear like this or...
Where is yours, Gordon?
See? Like this.
They have a locker here where you can leave your bag,
but it's $5 per unit.
Here you can have a good idea of Pearl Harbor.
See? You arrive here at the Visitor Center.
There's the submarine you can visit right here.
When you come to the Arizona Memorial, you need to get the boat.
So the boat brings you here to USS Arizona, but it brings you back.
So you need to make your way back here to see the other attractions,
like USS Oklahoma Memorial, Battleship Missouri,
USS Utah, the Aviation Museum.
There are four sites to visit
and they recommend approximately two hours to see each.
You can decide if you want to spend the whole day here
or how long you want to stay.
There you get the tickets for USS Arizona Memorial.
And here you have to buy the tickets for the Submarine
and Battleship Missouri.
-There you go.
So you know where to get the shuttle? -Yes.
-Over there, right? -Oh, okay.
-Thank you.
-Have a good time. -Thank you.
We're going to see Battleship Missouri right now.
Do you know what's the most important thing about Battleship Missouri?
-No. -That's where the surrender happened.
-Oh, in Japan. -That's where the war...
-Yeah. That marks the end of the war.
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-Thank you. -Thank you.
Thank you.
We're about to visit USS Missouri.
This was one of the largest and most important
wartime vessels of all times.
Water
Wow.
Look at the size of this. It's huge!
When you come here, you can join a free tour in the outdoor area.
It lasts for about 35 minutes. That's what we'll do.
And then you can explore indoors on your own.
Woman: Welcome to the USS Missouri.
This is the exact location where the end of the war ceremony took place.
There's a picture here of that day.
And there's a mark over there showing the exact location
where the table for the signatures was located.
This is the exact location where the table in the picture was set.
Oh, there are signatures from representatives
from lots of countries here.
United States, China, UK.
They even had here the order of signing,
the deck plan for the Surrender Ceremony.
The first to sign had to be Japan,
then the United States,
and then China, UK, Soviet Union, Australia,
Canada, France, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
The original document of that day.
Now the signature didn't happen here. The ship was in Japan at the time.
Here's Tokyo Bay.
All the U.S. ships there,
including the Missouri, here.
End of World War II.
Kamikaze attack site.
Oh, they were able to register a picture of a kamikaze plane coming here
seconds before it hit this ship.
Luckily, the bomb that it carried fell in the ocean
and nobody here died.
This ship is so tall that it's equivalent to a 20-story building.
Look at the size of this next to me, as a comparison.
This is massive. It's huge.
When you think you reached the top,
no, all that still.
That part is closed. You can't go there.
This is the control room in the top deck.
Basically, inside a bunker, you see?
They only had these very narrow, small windows.
Steep stairs here.
It is really massive.
You can't even list everything.
A lot of small rooms here inside the ship
that you even get lost.
It's a legal office, computer center,
dental office.
-Pepsi, no Coca-Cola.
-No, they preferred Pepsi.
An entire menu of ice cream,
and then the main menu, just fast food.
Here's the kitchen,
the amount of food to be prepared at once here
It says there, "Don't miss the donut shop."
-Yeah, go get it. -[laughs]
So tiny.
So many people sleeping in the same room.
One, two, three beds.
This was the room of the executive officer of the ship.
After World War II, this ship here was also in the Korean War
and the Gulf War.
I thought it was interesting the way the guide explained here
the relationship between the United States and Japan,
she made it clear that today Japan is one of the most important allies
of the United States.
You can easily spend the whole day here in Pearl Harbor
if you buy the passport that includes all four attractions.
For us, this is it for today.
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Thank you so much. -Thank you.
Have a good day.
We were not sure if it would be worth it
renting a car for this day we'd visit Pearl Harbor.
So we ended up going and coming back by Uber.
And between Waikiki and Pearl Harbor,
it was $26, $27.
So, in total about $53,
it was still cheaper than renting a car,
unless you want to go somewhere else far for the rest of the day.
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What did you get? -Spicy tuna.
-Spicy what? -Spicy Tuna.
-Tuna. - Spicy poke bowl.
-Okay. -Spicy, spicy.
-Spicy, spicy.
Try it, let's see how spicy it is.
-Yeah, a little bit.
-A little bit spicy? -Yeah.
-Good? -Very good.
-Very good. [laughs]
Mine is salmon with shoyu.
And there are onions, there's macadamia,
and brown rice.
It looks good. It looks really good.
For lunch, we're going with something very Hawaiian.
A poke bowl.
We came to this place where you can create your own.
Mmm.
Delicious.
Mine is so good. Delicious.
Salmon, onions, rice,
macadamia, and shoyu.
You can eat either with chopsticks or with knife and fork,
like Gordon. [laughs]
If you like Japanese food, you're gonna love it,
because it is very similar in a way.
Poke is made with raw fish.
Now to finish with all the rice here and the nuts,
better go with the fork.
Delicious!
And what's more impressive, $15 for a small and a medium bowl.
That was in total.
Local food in Hawaii is the way to go.
Everywhere where the ship has been,
they went to Rio. -Yes
The ship even went to Rio, 1947.
Travelogue.
That's because after World War II,
they had five years of visits to foreign ports doing training exercises.
Until war hit again, Korea.
Now Battleship Missouri finally found a safe harbor