hey guys
happy new year and welcome to the first video of the year
It's been pretty chill around here
I hope you guys have all had a really good start to the year
i've just been kind of chilling at home
it's been so snowy in Sendai
that I don't really want to go out
because there's so much snow on the sidewalks
and I walk everywhere
it's a bit of a pain in the ass
but today is super sunny which is amazing
because my friend Cassie's coming out from Tokyo
i'm going to be showing her around the city
I thought I would invite you guys
because we haven't really gotten out to see
Sendai together at all yet
so I hope you enjoy seeing my new neighbourhood
here in japan
I don't know what we're going to get up to
we're just kind of going to go with the flow
see if we find some fun stuff to do
first we're going to grab some caffeine
i'm going to bring her to the new
Tully's tea shop that just opened at
sendai station because they have
an extensive menu of milk tea
which is just so delicious
if you're looking for a really good milk tea
I feel like Tully's cafe does the best ones
and they do soy milk if you don't like dairy
so let's go meet Cassie
grab a milk tea
and then we will be off on our adventures
I hope you enjoy the video
oooh
(gasps)
winter tea
so look at their selection of milk tea
it's so much better than usual
there's so much tea
they have peach and matcha smoothie
what's Russian tea?
I have no idea
intriguing
and then
yeah coffee
but we both like tea
so I'm going to get
I always get the French vanilla one
I might try the Chai
I might get this Winter tea
with soy
this Winter tea looks amazing
oh it's a fruit
fruit and there's honey
and yeah
good choice
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all right we got our one day pass for
the bus
and the chikatetsu subway
it only cost 920 yen
and we can use it all day long
so it's pretty cool if you want
to come up to sendai
and do like a little touristy day trip
you probably want to get one of these passes
so i put this in
cool and then it stamps it with a date
and then when you get on the bus you
have to show the date to the bus driver
that's how you use the bus
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we're going to a honey shop a honey shop
yeah and why are we going there because
it's runs my favorite band and i'm
not a crazy fan
cassie's a huge fan of monkey magic
they're a band that's based here in
sendai they're also canadian
and one of the members one or two of the
members two members the two brothers run
a honey shop here in sendai so
that's what we're attempting to get to
it's out in the middle of nowhere
literally middle okay so clock one four
four okay
there's so much snow out here
there's nothing left in sendai but we're
kind of out in the mountains now so
lots of snow piled up
i have exciting news so i've started
collecting photos of the pokemon
manholes that they have throughout japan
and i was looking on the website and
there was one out here in the middle of
nowhere in tomia so miyagi i feel like
has the most out of any prefecture
there's 35 different pokemon manholes
and yeah luckily there's one here in the
mountains of nowhere
on the outskirts of sendai so we're
gonna go hunting for that today
hopefully i can find it while i'm out
here because i probably won't be coming
back here again
another goal we have for today
adventures oh wow look at this oh it's
like an old town what's this i think is
this where we're going we're going
around it but it's really cool we'll go
in there later
i wonder what's going on in there it
looks like sake they make sake
warehouses
very cool
look at this little road that we have to
take to get to the honey shop
this is such a pretty little town
i'm glad we came out here i probably
wouldn't have come out here
there's no one here
oh there's cafes and everything
little shops
Eight Crowns
so this is the honey shop here it's in
this really cool old
building
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cassie got her fancy honey yay and now
we're gonna go look for the pokemon
manhole which is hopefully not covered
in snow and we can see it
why is there a postcard
oh what's that oh it's all the oh
so there's stamps manholes oh my god are
they stamps of like the manhole maybe
i think they are it's the tomio one what
okay so our day plan might have just
changed we might have to we might have
to do this spend the whole day
i'm not sure
this is so cool so they've got a little
booklet here
and in the locations with the manholes
you can also collect stamps i'm a sucker
for anything you collect love it
we'll definitely have to do this oh and
i guess if you get all the stamps you
can maybe win a lapras oh a little
lapras plushie
i'm probably gonna buy one anyway but
CASSIE: Awesome! (SHARLA: Yes)
SHARLA: That's cute.
SHARLA: This is so exciting.
SHARLA: It must be up there.
CASSIE: Let's see. SHARLA: Maybe up on the road.
CASSIE: Oh, up by like the parking lot. SHARLA: Yeah.
SHARLA: Right here.
SHARLA: It says it's like..
SHARLA & CASSIE: Here.
CASSIE: Over there maybe?
CASSIE: Oh, yes! There it is! SHARLA: Yaaay!
SHARLA: That's such a random spot.
CASSIE: You would never find that.
SHARLA: Oh, they went, they dug it out.
SHARLA: Look at the snow, yay.
SHARLA: Sweeet. CASSIE: How did we find that? That's intense.
SHARLA: I don't know, I'm so glad that I checked.
CASSIE: We're just like in a parking lot.
SHARLA: All right we're gonna hire a taxi to take us to the next manhole.
SHARLA: We came all the way out here. We can not get the other one.
CASSIE: We need to. SHARLA: That would just be a waste.
SHARLA: He was like what's your name. I'm like Sharla.
He's like Sowada-san (? nothing like Sharla).
I was like, yeah, sure, whatever. CASSIE: Sure, whatever.
SHARLA: That works.
CASSIE: You're gonna be like.. SHARLA: You're gonna be shocked when you come to get us.
CASSIE: The foreigner, who's like, that's not you!
SHARLA: Alright, we got a taxi and we're on our way to the next stamp.
SHARLA: We're gonna go to the manhole first.
SHARLA: Take a quick picture and then hop back in the taxi.
SHARLA: And he's gonna take us to the place to get the stamp because..
.. because it's actually a little far from the manhole.
SHARLA: It's an interesting system they've got going on here.
SHARLA: It's not overly convenient if you don't have a car.
SHARLA: All right we hopped out of the taxi to search, quickly search for the..
.. next manhole while the driver waits for us.
SHARLA: The gps said it's around here.
CASSIE: It's literally right here but I'm worried now because there's snow.
CASSIE: I found it! SHARLA: You found it? Yaaay.
SHARLA: Nice work.
SHARLA: I'm so glad that the snow melts around them.
CASSIE: I think they dug it out cause..
SHARLA: They're so cute.
SHARLA: My instagram's just gonna be pictures of the manholes.
pictures of the manholes
now we'll get him to take us to the
visitor center to
get the stamp
what a journey
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okay time to get a stamp
oh they have little origami to take
yeah
okay
hardcore
success
(Sharla): We made it! Where are we ?
(Friend): I don't know where we are
(Sharla): so far from Sendai down
(Friend): we are out in the boonies there's nothing around and we're here to find a manhole
(Sharla): oh it smells very good I'm getting really hungry
yeah so this is like
a farmer's market i think which is cool
so we can do things other than just get
our stamps but I guess let's figure out
where to get our stamp first
(Friend) : yeah maybe in here
hey!
(Sharla): yeah let's see what this farmers market has to offer
what could we eat here
oh ichigo daifuku yes
hell yeah
they've got all kinds of good stuff it's
(Friend): probably locally made too
(Sharla): Oh they got sakura
melon pan
purple potato pan
croissants look nice
oh yucky emo pie
SHARLA: Almost forgot about the manhole.
SHARLA: It's right out front! Yaaay.
SHARLA: It's really pretty.
SHARLA: We just looked up how to get back.
SHARLA: There is a bus from where we are to get us back into the city.
SHARLA: But it doesn't come very often so we're walking very fast.
CASSIE: On Icey roads. SHARLA: To the bus stop, right now.
SHARLA: In hopes that we'll make the next one.
CASSIE: Because if we miss it, it's two hours untill the next one.
SHARLA: TWO hours?! CASSIE: Yeah, this way. SHARLA: Where are we?
SHARLA: It is really pretty out here. CASSIE: It is.
SHARLA: Probably wouldn't have come out here otherwise so...
SHARLA: We made it. Barely. This bus is fancy!
CASSIE: (?) bus.
SHARLA: So apparently we're on this for an hour to get back to Sendai.
SHARLA: Where are we? We're going to eat our daikoku.
SHARLA: Relax a bit.
SHARLA: This looks so good.
CASSIE: That's good.
SHARLA: Arigato gozaimasu. (Thank you very much.)
SHARLA: We made it back to Sendai (CASSIE: Yaay) after the..
..longest bus ride.
SHARLA: We're so hungry
CASSIE: Yes!
SHARLA: We're going to find a café to eat at.
SHARLA: Scarf down some food and then we're back to hunting for Poké-lids.
SHARLA: That's what they're called. They have a name.
CASSIE: Poké-lids? SHARLA: Poké-lids.
SHARLA: We're going to try out a new café.
SHARLA: So they have a daily lunch special.
SHARLA: Can't decide between that or curry.
SHARLA: Are you going for curry? CASSIE: I think i'm going to go for that curry.
CASSIE: That curry on that photo (?) looks amazing. SHARLA: I know, it does.
CASSIE: I'll take apple.
CASSIE: It smells so good. SHARLA: Mhmm.
SHARLA: This smells amazing!
SHARLA: So the kintone (?) was a new year's dish.
SHARLA: I looked it up it's usally made from candied sweet potatoes and chestnuts.
CASSIE: Ooew.
SHARLA: I think they said they put some apple in theirs. This ought to be nice.
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that was a tasty lunch that was did you
enjoy it i did yeah i'm glad we went
there i've never tried that cafe before
carrot cake yeah carrot cake
it was very nice it had like a tofu
cream cheese it was good actually it
was very
it tasted like
cream cheese it was
very nice. I have to get the recipe from that
lady i need to befriend her and steal
her recipes challenge accepted we're on
our hunt for the next poke
lid
now it's actually the one that i spotted
yesterday that started my obsession
it's in the shopping the main shopping
area so i can show that to you guys it's
kind of like the
one big feature of sendai we have these
covered shopping streets which are
really nice
because it does rain and snow a lot here
and they're decorated like christmas
still so
go back in time a few weeks and enjoy
christmas again
this is probably the cutest one so it's
celebrating the tanabata matsuri which
is sendai's famous mat city
very cute
and now we have to figure out where the
heck to get our collectible stamp
somewhere
somewhere around
here don't know where
it's set in a mall
so
or like information center
let's see
apparently it's in this mall somewhere
that was weirdly easy to find awesome
i like how we get a practice
in case we mess it up well after five
you're out of luck
oh beautiful
beauty
a satisfying row of stamps
we've had a productive day
so this last one we're going to is
located at the sendai pokemon center
which i've never been to
i've been meaning to so
it's a good note to end the day on
apparently they have a stamp for our
stamp rally but we don't know if they
also have one of the manholes or not we
will see when we get there
all these limited ones oh yeah they're
Sendai.
Oh I love
[Music]. Nice they are here somewhere lapras. Lapras is original
I don’t think they have it
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You think there all out
They should be. You think there all in order
what number 1 something
Yeah there in order
apparently there's some like pokemon go
fifth anniversary celebration event
going on so it's so busy everyone's
playing pokemon go
All of these have been released today so cute
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it's so cute
So fluffy
it's a picture of all the plushies i
want that it's really cute
[Music] awww and there butts
A moleskin fancy
t-shirt is so cute
i love the art
this is so fun so they're little
magikarp and you put them in hot water
they dissolve into a soup
[Music]thats so cute
they have the golden one too
so we're wondering why they're so low on
stock of all the plushies and it's
because if you pre-ordered the new
pokemon game you get one plushie for
free so that's why everybody's here
getting their free plushie
slim pickings not much left
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sunday station is really pretty at
night
just missed the sunset
we're off to loft
now
the best store
so apparently loft sells merchandise of
the pokemon manholes in theory we'll see
what is it
oh you build a magikarp whoa
i would do this it's like a gundam
magikarp good magikarp
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I don’t know what this is but it sounds like
robot for your cat
oh it follows your pet around the house
so that you can like check on them
that is actually hilarious
look at the cat it's like what the [ __ ]
the video right here
A cat stalker
That’s pretty cool
[Music] that’s fun
Wonder what maro would think of that
Found them
so they've got stickers of all the
manholes that you can find across japan
they have buttons
and then there's like keychain oh
keychains keychains keychains and there
are surprise ones so you don't know
which one you're gonna get right yeah
that's never good oh and here's the
metal oh
coasters
Ooo coasters o so it’s with a mug cup
oh that's really cool though we were
saying they need to make these into
coasters and they did
i kind of like the gyarados one but
there's also a squirtle one i love the
gyarados one and my squirtle one
adorable
yeah they're postcards you don't know
which one they're gonna get oh my look
at all the yada they're all kaga yeah
i think they're probably the next most
we gotta go to kagawa
and that concludes our pokemon adventure
for today
cassie found a flapper's plushie i
didn't buy anything i was good you're
very good i was gonna get a pen
but i didn't hope you guys had fun i'm
going to
try and
find some more friends to complete the
stamp rally with before january 31st
it's a tight schedule
see if there's somebody that wants to
come with me but
i'm sure i can find someone and i'll see
you guys again for part two one day
bye for now bye
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