- - Good morning, everyone.
It is a sunny day in Fukuoka City, and I'm here
with a very special guest. - -Hi!
- - Long time no see, yeah? - - Yeah.
- - Welcome back to Fukuoka.
- - Thank you, my second time here.
- - Yeah, no, last time Sharla came
we didn't shoot anything,
but I'm really excited that she's back today,
because we're gonna do a little bit of sightseeing
around the prefecture.
- - [Sharla] Yeah.
- - [Micaela] Gonna show her some of my favorite places,
and if you, like, watch my videos,
you already know I'm taking her to my favorite (cuts off)
- - [Sharla] (laughs)I know all the places you're going
because I see them on your Instagram.
- - I have no originality.
- - It's always the same tour.
I'm so looking forward to it, though.
- - I take everybody on a standard tour
and she's going on it,
but first today, we're gonna head to Kitakyushu
and we're gonna check out some stuff up there.
Kitakyushu and Fukuoka are kind of interesting
'cause they're in the same prefecture
but they're very, very different,
and you'll see why later today.
- - Looking forward to it.
Coffee.
- - Yay!
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- - [Micaela] And it's quite a long drive.
It's about an hour and a half to our first stop.
I thought this was a good time to ask Sharla some questions.
I tweeted, I was trying to get some good
Would You Rather questions.
I wanted to play Would You Rather, Japan Edition,
with Sharla,
and I asked for some questions,
and not many people contributed.
- - (laughs)
- -They only responded to my questions,
but I will ask them to Sharla anyway.
Would you rather eat natto every day
for the rest of your life--
- - Whatever the other option is.
- - Or never eat mochi again?
- - Never eat mochi again.
- - Really?
- - Yeah, I can't handle the natto.
- - (speaking foreign language)
- - I can't do it.
- - Really? - - Yes.
- - You don't like natto?
- - No, not at all.
Like I can't even eat a little bit of it,
so eating it everyday would just be like
the worst way to spend my life.
- - I wouldn't mind eating natto every day.
I wouldn't love it, but I think I could probably like--
- - Would you ever eat it, like, voluntarily?
- - Yeah. - -Really?
- - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not every day, but, like, I have in the past.
I think you can probably jazz it up with different
ways of eating it. - Yeah.
- Everyday, I think if I had to eat it everyday
I would get creative with how was eating it.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Would you rather be (speaking in foreign language)
every time you opened your mouth,
or only communicate is single
English words and awkward games of charades?
- God, well I feel like we're already
(speaking in foreign language) every time we open
our mouths so I'm kinda used to it.
So I'll go with the first one,
it would be horrible to speak English.
Yeah.
- Yeah, I think the awkwardness of the second one
is what makes it a deal breaker for me.
- Yeah.
- I don't like awkward conversations.
- Yeah.
- Would you rather put umeboshi on your eyeballs,
or walk in shoes filled with ikura?
- That sounds kinda cool, I choose the ikura shoes.
(laughing)
It's be squishy and nice.
- Ugh.
- (continues laughing)
- You're sick.
Would you rather be forced to use a fax machine
or a work computer still running Windows XP?
- (laughing) I don't mind Windows XP.
It was decent, Windows XP.
- Windows XP
- I hate fax machines.
- I know, fax machines are dumb.
- I hate them. - Phase them out (mumbles)
- Please.
- Would you rather never be able to try new drinks
and snacks at conbinis, or never be able
to eat kaiten zushi again?
I feel like this one, you'd-
- -I'd prefer drinks and stuff from combini.
- -Yeah. - -So.
- -I think it's easier to be
be vegan that way. - -I wouldn't be able to
give that up.
(both laughing)
- -I did zushi, there's not very many
things that I eat there anyways.
- -Yeah. I have always said that kaiten zushi
is the McDonald's of sushi.
- - So like, if you wanna get a burger, get a good burger.
- - If you want to get sushi, get good sushi.
- - Yeah, exactly.
- - Kaiten zushi always feels really cheap,
and, like, not fresh to me.
- -Yeah, I used to not care.
I used to think it was amazing.
- -Yeah, I mean the price, I guess, is really good.
- -When you're a student.
- - Yeah.
Would you rather only use chopsticks
for the rest of your life or only use fork
only use a fork for the rest of your life?
- - I'd like chopsticks
Lots of things are easier to eat with chopsticks,
like salad, I love-
- - Salad is surprisingly good, that's true.
Chopsticks are surprisingly versatile,
and you can do a lot with them.
- - The only thing that would be hard would be a dessert,
like a pudding or something,
but other than that,
it's pretty easy to eat anything with chopsticks.
- - Pudding I just shove it in my mouth
- -(laughing)
- - Just drink it.
- -[Micaela] So we are now at the border
between Fukuoka and Yamaguchi prefecture.
There she goes.
- - [Sharla] Got one leg in each prefecture.
- - [Micaela] (laughing)
She's doing it.
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- -[Micaela] We are in Shiminoseki.
We've crossed the bridge over to Honshu,
and Sharla and I- - - [Sharla] It's so weird,
- -[Micaela] Are checking out-
- -[Sharla] on a new island.
- - [Micaela] Yeah, we left Kyushu-
- -[Sharla] It was so quick.
- - [Micaela] I was like, "I'm gonna take
Sharla around Kyushu!" and then we left.
- - (laughing)
- - [Micaela] So... - -[Sharla] It's nice though.
I'm glad we came here - -[Micaela] Yeah.
We're gonna walk around the Karato Ichiba area.
This has one of the biggest fish markets.
I can't even say the biggest fish market in Kyushu,
'cause it's on Honshu, but
- -[Sharla] Yeah, in the area. - -[Micaela] The biggest
fish market close to Fukuoka.
This is a great day-trip out of Fukuoka,
if you're looking for something to do
when you're spending a long time in Fukuoka
and you want to make a day-trip out of the city.
I really like this.
So, It'll be fun to look around with Sharla.
So, I've picked a few sushi to try here
that look really, really good,
and we're probably gonna sit outside and have them,
and then we're gonna head over to the other side of
Karato Ichiba, and see if there's anything else
interesting to try so that
Sharla can have something to eat too.
(laughing)
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- -[Micaela] What did we find?
- -Thank you.
Gelato!
- -[Micaela] What flavors did you get?
- - Raspberry and blood orange.
Oh, it smells so good.
- -Would you rather have a salaryman falling asleep
on your shoulder once a day on the train,
or eat level ten Coco Curry once a week?
- -Every day, for the rest of my life?
I think I would trade myself to eat spicy food.
- -Really? I would let him sleep.
It's nice to feel needed.
- -Ooh, no!
- -Would you rather visit a maid cafe with a bunch of
creepy anime fans, or a snake cafe and have to hold
several snakes at all times?
- -Snakes!
I love snakes, sounds great!
- -Does he mean, like, at all times forever though?
- -I would hold them forever. - -I'm always holding snakes?
- -Snakes forever, sign me up.
- -That makes sense.
- -(laughing)
- -I think, I mean, I don't mind holding snakes,
but I don't know if I want to hold several at all times.
That part's very vague. - -I think it just means
while you're at the cafe.
It's like a one time deal.
- -So I could leave the cafe, put the snakes down.
- -Yeah.
- -Yeah, then I'll hold the snakes.
- -(laughing)
- -Okay, would you rather perform as an idol,
or work at a maid cafe?
- -Oh god.
I'm gonna say work in a maid cafe.
I'm really bad at dancing, and there'd probably be less
dancing in the maid cafe.
- - I feel like there's more of a definitive on and off time
if you're working at a maid cafe,
whereas like, if you're an idol
your whole life has to live by the idol code.
- -Yeah, I couldn't handle that.
- -I don't want
to live by the idol code. - -Maid cafe.
I feel like working at a maid cafe could be really fun.
- -It could be fun.
- -Yeah.
- -And I assuming if it's a job
it's something that you could eventually quit.
But then, being an idol, you'd probably have people
following you around forever
even after you tried to quit.
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- -[Sharla] Alright.
- -[Micaela] Alright, so Danica, from Twitter,
she wants to know, would you rather only know
Hokkaido Ben and be in Fukuoka,
or only know Hakata Ben and be in Sapporo?
- -I have no idea what Hokkaido Ben sounds like.
- -[Micaela] Me neither, actually.
- -I've never heard it, but I would assume
that people in Hokkaido are used to tourists
since it's such a touristy place,
they'd probably be used to hearing Hakata Ben.
So, I'll go with that one,
speaking Hakata Ben in Hokkaido.
- -Yeah, I think if you spoke Hokkaido Ben
in Fukuoka you'd be made fun of.
- -(laughing)
- -People would be like, "What're you doing?"
But, I know that in other places across Japan,
like in Tokyo, they think that girls speaking Hakato Ben
is actually really cute.
- - Oh really?
- - It's like, attractive.
- - Okay.
- - So, I think I would rather have a Hakata Ben accent.
- -Yeah.
- - I don't, I don't actually,
when I speak Japanese, I don't, but I wish I did.
Would you forever only have squat toilet
for the rest of your life or forever have full,
crowded train as only existing mean of transportation
wherever in the country, even on inaka?
- - Oh, that sounds horrible!
Both of them!
- -(laughing) - -No!
- -I don't like squat toilets.
- -I hate them, but I think I'd rather
learn how to use it and get used to that.
I learn to drive, or bicycle either.
I think your only mode of transportation is crowded trains.
- -Okay.
I hate crowded trains.
I hate feeling people pressed against me.
I don't like things in my personal space,
but I also really hate squat toilets.
- -This is a good one.
- - If Rachel were here, Rachel likes squat-
- - She loves squat toilets.
- - Rachel likes squat toilets - - She would choose a toilet.
- - This is such a weird time to shout out Rachel.
Rachel, sorry, but she did make a video
about squat toilets.
- - I think I'd have to choose the toilets though.
- - I think Rachel would choose the toilets,
but I would choose, I don't know, I hate both.
I would think I would just die.
Like I would just- - - Just kill myself.
I would just jump off a bridge.
I can't live with either.
That's a tough one, you got me.
You win.
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- -[Micaela] Okay, so while we're here,
it turns out Rachel had a bunch of ideas.
She had like a burst of inspirations last night.
- - I saw her on Twitter last night.
- -And she has a ton of Would You Rather questions.
- -Alright.
- -So, would your rather always wear clothes that
are revealing enough to make every Japanese woman
you talk to ask (speaking foreign language)
or always wear clothes that are so baggy that
they permanently drag on the floor no matter what you do?
- -I'm gonna go with dragging on the floor.
I can't stand it when people ask me if I'm cold.
- -When you eat ramen would you rather always wear,
and very noticeably splash all over, a bib,
or always bring and use your own fork?
- -Oh god!
(laughing) The bib.
- -The bib. - -Yeah.
- -The bib sounds awful.
- -What would you do? (lauging)
- -I don't know, the fork?
- -Eating ramen with a fork would be horrible.
- -It'd look silly either way.
I would choose the fork. - -Really?
- -Sharla would choose the bib.
- -(laughing)
- On public transportation, would you rather always
be next to a guy who won't stop snorting and swallowing
massive loogies or a gaggle of excited school girls
whose squeals cause you physical pain.
- -School girls, yeah definitely.
- -I feel like you can always wear
headphones or something to
shut them out. - -Exactly.
- -But you could with either, I guess.
- -I don't want the snorting salary man.
(laughing)
- - Yeah that sounds pretty awful.
I think I would agree with you there. (laughing)
Alright, thank you Rachel, for your
contributions to this video.
She's really good at it.
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- -[Micaela] So I brought Sharla to this tapioca stand,
it opened up recently, it's pretty nice,
and it's optimized for Instagram,
as things usually are these days.
They have these really cool seats looking out over the ocean
and just as we got here,
the sun came out, and the color is starting
to come through. (talking over each other)
The ocean blues are starting to come out.
It's warm, it's comfy,
it's like the perfect time to come here.
So we're super lucky.
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- -So for the final stop of the day,
I've brought Sharla to Canal City,
to see the fountain show,
to check out the mall.
This is Sharla's second time here,
'cause we did visit last year, but first time filming it.
- -We didn't see a fountain show.
- -Oh no we didn't see fountain show last time.
- - Yeah, I was only here for like ten minutes.
It was really rushed, so decided to be back.
- -Yeah!
- -[Micaela] So Sharla's found the cat shop, (laughing)
and she's looking at all the cat products.
And I swear to God, the past two days I've taken her
all over Fukuoka, and this is the happiest I've seen her.
- -(laughing)
- -At the cat shop, looking at cat plates.
- -[Micaela] Are you having the time of your life right now?
- - I'm having the time of my life.
I don't know what to get though.
- -[Sharla] It's really cute. - -[Micaela] So cute!
- -It's been a pretty hectic two days of Fukuoka, and-
- -We've seen it all.
- -We've traveled around, - -We've been everywhere.
quite a bit-
- - It's been a nice assortment of things though.
I feel like we got the chill beach vibe,
and we saw lots of really cool souvenir shops
that I'm very impressed with,
because usually I'm kind underwhelmed by souvenir stuff,
but stuff was really original and fun.
- -Yeah, you did actually buy a lot of stuff.
- -I did! - -You bought the sakura wine,
and you bought the cat tee, - -Yeah!
- -and then you bought the-
- -Cat dishes. - Yeah!
Alright well thank you so much,
it was really good having you here.
- -Yay, thanks for having me.
- -And, thanks for watching, guys.
If you have more Japan-related Would You Rather questions,
put them in the comments, because I was like-
- Yeah, we'll reply to them, I had fun doing those.
- I wanna know.
Thinking of them was like a huge challenge,
but I want to get a good list, so we can all play together,
and if you want to answer any of the ones
that I asked in the video, please write a comment below.
- -Yeah, go through them and answer them.
I'd like to see your replies.
- -Alright guys, thank you so much.
- -Bye for now!
- -[Micaela] Bye!
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