(Laughing) Behind me is Dogo Onsen
Hello from Matsuyama,
I thought id give you a bit of a room tour of the room that im in
In the hotel Yamatoya Honten.
And the reason why I chose Yamatoya Honten
Is because its very close to the famous
Erm Dogo Onsen.
Which is really what ive come really to explore.
This room is kind of different
to any other room ive stayed in
Its probably a little bit more spacious
You can see the bed there, and its got a
Massage chair which is a real surprise
For me, I wasn't expecting
To see a massage chair, I might fall asleep there
Instead of there
Then we have a desk, typical japanese style
Except for, there is a lot fo space
I can put my bag there
The bathroom, very typical
Japanese
We have the toilet with the
Washlet with the instructions there.
And the shower
This is quite common in Japan
To have the erm
The Shampoo and the body wash
In a sort of thing like that
There is a typhoon approaching I dont think
Its hitting my area as such
But I know its going to rain
as a result of it being close by
So what I think im going to do today is, Im going to explore the city
Go to, probably, go to
Matsuyama castle
And then leave all the the onsen, the Dogo onsen And stuff like that
Which is just next door For tomorrow
Because if its raining, its the perfect thing to do
Its literally a two minute walk from here so.
So I think this is going to be quite interesting
Its tomato, it says tomato
I could actually read the katakana
Lets see what its like right
It smells sweet.
Its like a pastry look.
This is what it looks like
I'd much prefer it if it was strawberry.
It isn't bad, it tastes
Very tomatoey
So I got myself a one day pass. It was 600 yen
And you have to scratch off the year
The day and the month.
If you can see there.
And that will give you a whole day Of using the tram system
And the tram system seems to be quite extensive so its pretty cool.
I'm heading to the castle, Matsuyama castle
And apparently, I think I need to get like A cable car.
Or something to get there
Im currently in dogo onsen
And I have to make my way to O-kai-do,
And from there
Ill walk and figure out what I have to do.
So I got of at okaido station
And im going to make my way to the
To the castle
Just next to the station theres this
Indoor shopping area, like arcade thing
And it definitely is a great place To seek shelter if it is raining
And theres lots of food options from what I can see
Im going to head down here if its raining later tomorrow
Or maybe after the castle depending
I decided to go on the
chair lift thingy
You've got a choice, you can either
You can go on the cable car Or on the chair lift.
So I think im going to basically, well
well.. I am on the chair lift
Its not as if I have another choice, I cant jump off right now
But im probably going to get the cable car
On the way down
The chair lift is rather slow,
But at least its constant,
Theres one chair after the other
Whilst the cablecar is every ten minutes so.
Its quite an enjoyable
Ride actually!
I have to say that was quite a bit of fun
I thought it was going to be really scary
For some reason, But it wasn't at all
I felt like if I fell Id probablly
Break a leg but Thats about it.
If that makes any sense
So im now walking towards the castle
So I got this
Ice cream
For the way up
It was local orange
Flavour
And it has a really subtle like orange
flavour That I cant put my finger on
It tastes a little bit sherbety
I guess
But its really good and really refreshing
for the way up.
Oishi desu (delishious)
Ive made it into the castle
And I had to take my shoes of
As I expected but then
They gave me these green
Slippers to wear
Unlike kochi castle
This one is full of tourists
Its a lot bigger, a lot grander
But grander and bigger Doesn't necessarily mean better
So ill give you my verdict at the end
Even thought the castle seems to be A lot bigger
Some of the other castles ive been to
It was very quick to get to the top
Unlike kochi castle
You cant walk around the permitter outside
Its prohibited
So so far, I think
Kochi might be On of my favourite castles that ive ever been to
This one is ok The views
Its worth coming up just for the views.
The views of the city are amazing
So im actually right now weathering a Typhoon
Theres a typhoon on the way to Matsuyama Where I am right now
Lucky for me there is this really really long Indoor like covered area
Which is great, So ive headed down here so I can weather the storm
And its a three day pokemon event
So it seems that Dratini is one of the special pokemon
Ive been seeing loads of Larvatars in the last two days,
Of the event but so far
Ive seen a few dratini, Theres a, I dont know if you can see there
Theres a dratini, there's a chancy,
Squirtle etc.
I just came to check to see If there was anybody in that raid
But I think with this weather If you are going to have a chance
Of doing a raid in the rain in a typhoon
Its going to be at hatch
And that one had already been 6 or 7 minutes gone
So ill keep an eye out
And try to get some of them
That are indoors
I think ill have better luck
Oh my God, oh my God oh my God look, Look what just happened!
Look wha just happened right now!
I just got a shiny murkrow
Number 2, this is muy first one in Japan
So exciting
Im gonna give it a golden
raz
Should I do an AR photo?
Should I do an AR picture?
I dont have the AR plus on
I cant be bothered right nowI
Just want to catch it
Dont want to play around with it too much
1
2
Yes I know
Got you!
Yes!
So there were two people just walking Playing pokemon
And I just approached them a
And asked them weather they had
Any unown that I didn't have
I just showed them my poked
With the missing unown
And then I showed them tropius
I gave them the choice of either
Trading for a tropius, a corsoloa
Or a mr mime
And she really wanted the Tropius!
Tropius is so hot right now
Everybody wants Tropius
So the trade was done, I got my unown S
That I was missing, And she got her Tropisu
And we now have a new friend Thanks to Pokemon!
Behind me is Dogo Onsen
And the hotel that im staying in Is in the Dogo Onsen complex
And you can hear the drums Just makes it really atmospheric
Coming from the hot spring
From the onsen
Wow
And my hotel
Is that one there.
That brown building
So its really really close
And really handy
So im going to head, im going to have a bit of a break
And then im going to head to the Dogo Onse and check it out
Probably, obviously I won't be able to vlog
But ill let you know what I think anyway afterwards.
So Ok, ive just come from my room this is the
Entrance to the hotel
And im wearing Ukata
And ive grabbed a little basket
And inside of the basket theres
A little towel and some soap
Which is what im going to be taking to the Public bath
The onsen, Its not raining now so its a good thing
Apparently this
Of the day to do this
Let see how many people are in there!
There are like three different options I think
Price points,
I think im going to go for
The higher one or the middle one
So we'll see
Thats Dogo onsen behind me
As you can see, yea
So im sitting down here And ive been given some instructions
In English
It says in nice big text
That I can read
Ok, lets start here
Welcome to the Dogo hot spring If you have valuables please use coin lockers
Or changing rooms locker
Soap, shampoo, rinse are prepared (Im guessing provided)
In the bathroom
Available time here is one hour So I can stay no longer than one hour where I am right now
Please take Ukata to the bathroom, After taking a bath put on Ukata
And com back here
Please refrain from taking pictures in the bathroom (Obviously)
There is no restroom here so use the second floor
Within your usable time you can also use Kaminoyu
Ive come out of the onsen And you can see im really red, its really hot down there.
Ive been given a (it says) rice cake But it doesn't taste like a rice cake
Its kind of sweet Its nice
And behind me The street
Im on the first floor
They've also given me some tea Which I haven't figured out how to
Nice
So ive just come out from Dogo onsen And I have to say it was a great experience
Im really glad that I did it I went for the medium price tier thingy
It included a Ukata That they gave me there
To change into It also included like a small towel
The bath area that I went to was on the first floor
And that was sort of, it had shampoo and soap
So you didn't have to take you own either
I definitely recommend that if you come here To Matsuyama
That you put this at the top of your list
Not only is it beautiful to go in And not only is it a beautiful building
But its a really nice experience you know And after all the whole point
of coming to these countries is to experience the culture
And to experience what the locals do
I didn't feel at any point that it was a 'tourist trap'
Yes there were tourists But they were mainly like Japanese
Rather that western tourists I didn't actually see any western tourists in there
Everybody Was really friendly
They spoke to me, Tried to speak to me
Or spoke to me Its pretty good
Anyway I think this is probably Might be the end of the video
Im going to walk around And get something to eat
And a beer
And then head to bed so
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