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good morning so i'm living out of a very
tiny hotel room here in tokyo for the
next couple of days
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it's a quarantine
i just came back into japan from having
to spend some time overseas not by
choice by any means and this quarantine
hotel is very strict and and a bit of a
mess so let's get changed and get this
place tidied up a bit
so i can show you around
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and there we go i think we're all
cleaned up and i guess this counts as
the official room tour because this
this is the entire thing this is the
whole room on the plus side it's got
plenty of mirrors which kind of make it
feel better the view isn't super
terrible so i'll show you that in a
minute and there's storage space under
the bed which kind of opens up some
space
don't be confused this is not a door the
bathroom is a fairly standard tiny
japanese hotel
bathroom there is a tv which has apple
play which doesn't work so yay thanks
for that and it's also worth mentioning
that
these hotels are up a hotel which are
famously known for their incredibly
racist literature that's usually
in the but i have searched and searched
and searched and magically
the racist literature seems to have been
removed from the government subsidized
quarantine hotel and the view isn't
super terrible you got kind of half of
the sky tree over there the area of
asakusa where i used to live is down
there
and you can see the river down there
we're in diogoku right now which is
tokyo's sumo town we deliver to your
meals outside of your room
please wearing a mask and careful
absent-mindedly locked yourself out of
your room with the key left inside and
that is the announcement saying that
breakfast has been delivered
let's see what we've got this morning
food has been interesting to say the
least
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think someone's practicing the trumpet
who
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water
okay wonderful
so it's it's about the same as yesterday
let me give you a peek so this is what
the meals look like all the meals are
free and don't let the camera quality
fool you they are not really anything to
write home about they come cold and
there's no microwave in here and they're
incredibly incredibly dry i'm pretty
sure they're all several days old but
again at least at least it's food and
what is this egg
it just look
it doesn't even droop over it's so solid
it's a ufo that's what it is in some
ways i almost prefer yesterday's
basically bread only breakfast but
there's there's a tomato so
it tastes like fish
what
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i wasn't expecting i wasn't i don't mind
fish
but when you're expecting tomato and you
get
okay
bottle of water
oh
no i want to try something they say that
we can order ubereats in here
but the manual for the stay here and it
is a manual that they gave us says that
any deliveries made won't actually be
handed off to the room until the next
morning how would that work with there's
no way that works with food that does it
it's only it's only one way to find out
and that's that's exactly what we're
gonna do all right order place i also
don't want to just completely waste this
i'm telling you i'm not touching that
egg
but i do like daikon radish so
daikon is edible
the rice
it's just so dry
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let's make some coffee
seems like a totally fine space to have
this
very safe
and
at least once a day i get to
have them call me and check in so here
we go
confirm your whereabouts from the health
monitoring center for overseas engines
make sure your face and background are
clearly visible this call will
automatically disconnect
in 30 seconds
thank you for your cooperation they take
this stuff pretty seriously like you
have to wake up early in the morning and
take your temperature report your health
condition before 8 am and then they call
you at least once throughout the day to
to make sure that you are where you're
supposed to be and remember earlier when
i said that this place is really strict
so even when we go pick up our food we
have to have our masks on and whatnot
last night at about one o'clock in the
morning there was a group of two or
three people standing out in the hallway
with no masks
talking away
and i was like wow
it went on for a while it was probably
good probably a good 15-20 minutes and
then a fairly large group of staff and
enforcement showed up and was like why
why are you out of your rooms do you not
realize it outlines clearly in this
document that you were not to be out of
your room and i was like oh they're in
trouble and then a few minutes later i
kind of tuned out tried to go to sleep
and then a few minutes later i heard
like pleading and crying and it didn't
sound like they got taken back to their
rooms so
it's almost frightening in some ways
going through the airport was quite an
experience of itself there i don't know
how many stations i went to but i was
assigned a number
and you go from station to station to
station in total from the time that i
got off the airplane
to the time that i actually left the
airport itself was about four to five
hours i've had a couple friends who like
myself for emergency reasons during the
pandemic have had to exit and then
re-enter the country and they've said
that they don't wish that on nobody that
it's an experience that they hope that
nobody else has to happen
i i get why and as for why i even had to
leave the country in the first place
it's not something that i ever wanted to
do during the pandemic but unfortunately
i suffered a fairly heavy non-coveted
related family loss and needed to head
back and spend time helping out family
and taking care of
all of that it's also the reason why i
haven't uploaded it's probably been the
longest break that i've ever taken
on youtube so far but it seems like the
water is done boiling so let's let's
make some coffee
individually plastic wrapped cups
japan and plastic man
i will be all right by the way
loss is something that we all just
kind of need to go through
and taking the time and going back and
seeing family
was
while unfortunate in the circumstances i
think very much what i needed so
one of the downsides being that i had to
kind of
throw away
one or potentially two videos that just
the overall
theme and atmosphere just didn't just it
they're they're gone they're gone but
that is very hot coffee but there will
be no shortage of adventures this year
and if anything recent events have just
kind of
pushed me to really make the best of
what we got live life to the fullest as
if as if i wasn't already but you can
actually kind of see the top of the sky
right now
all right so it is 10 50 right now
i just got a call from the uber driver
saying that he's delivering stuff
downstairs let's see how long it takes
to actually
deliver
i
okay
so they called me seems like they're
just gonna deliver that makes sense i
shouldn't be this surprised but japanese
as you probably already know love to
follow the rules so i have expected him
to actually hold on to it until tomorrow
morning
10 after 11 so it took a little while
got myself some karage
and simply because
it was the restaurant with the shortest
wait time
i got myself
some taco rice
with avocado
this is gonna be like the first half
decent meal i've had in
three or four days i was so exhausted on
the way back that i slept through both
meals and the snack
so i woke up hungry and then spent five
hours in an airport and then came to
this
you know i know it's such a small and
stupid thing but this right here
with my meal and getting to create again
this this is my happiest moment since
landing in japan like two three days ago
my
quarantine is only going to be three
days in a hotel and then tomorrow here's
the crazy part tomorrow they take me
from the hotel which is 20 minutes from
my house all the way back to nutty to
airport
yeah they take me back to nadita airport
where i have to arrange
a special non-public transportation form
of getting home like a hired car or
there are now also special trains and
buses that will take you from narita
airport
into the city just for those who are
coming in for the sake of quarantine but
once you get in you're not allowed to
walk and you're not allowed to take
public transportation so i have to hire
a car to take me from the station
to my house also come to think about it
this is probably the first hot meal i've
had in easily five to six days
so
the temperature of my meal is never
something that i've given any form of
thought to before hot meal cold meal
never really cared
but when you haven't had a hot meal in a
couple days it just goes that that's
something to be grateful for a hot meal
is something to appreciate
all right so full confession i may have
taken a four or
five five hour nap i took a five hour
nap because i'm an adult and that's the
kind of thing that i'm i'm allowed to do
also fun fact about this view over here
this is one of my favorite views in
japan for kind of a weird reason i used
to live down this way in asakusa and i
had almost the same view as this for my
balcony you've got the mountains out
there skytree over there and up here is
the north you see in japan weather tends
to move from the west to the east and so
the clouds that you get going across
here tend to be some of the most
interesting and beautiful clouds in the
summer you get these giant summer storm
clouds and lightning all through here i
absolutely love it it has always been
one of my favorite views in japan and
despite me calling down before my nap
and asking them not to deliver me lunch
it seems they delivered me a lunch and
they
don't accept
it back once it's been delivered
so let's
see what my 5 p.m lunch is
it looks like we're going to have some
kind of fried cutlet or koroke here a
bit of mashed potato let's find out
which it is
i'm nervous because there was a little
bit of an incident with yesterday's
dinner i was super excited to get it it
looked spectacular
yeah i was that that was distracting
and it ended in absolute disaster
all right after three
fairly subpar
meals so far this one i can't even see
it so
hopes are high
actually that's the best meal so far
that is not bad
it's so bad
how is it so bad
oh
the entire thing is stale
it is this is the worst food i think
i've ever this is the definitely the
worst meal so far it feels like it's
been sitting in this container for three
days to a week this
tastes awful something tells me eating
this cardboard here would taste
as good or better
than this because this is
god-awful
i give up i give up on this meal
it tastes like the rice has been washed
with soap or something this is so
i went to bed hungry last i couldn't eat
it i tried i really tried but
let's let's see how this works out
not gonna lie
not much better what are they doing with
this food
it's definitely not meant to be cold and
it's starting to get really dark in here
but i don't want to turn on the ceiling
light because everything turns so orange
and gross and like
i prefer it without the orange so
although it's a little moody
let's turn that off see just
i like it a bit better
20 pages 10 sheets in total for this
manual by the way and then has entire
pages used for things like this just
requesting you to separate your trash
instructions and information for that
but when i came into the country i had
to sign this pledge and it seems like
it's updated every couple weeks and it's
riddled with spelling errors by the way
so if the japanese government sees this
you might want to work on that
it is yeah the whole pledge seems kind
of fine it's basically i'll link it down
below so you can read through it if you
want to there's this little section at
the end of the pledge that says if you
violate any of this you agree that your
name and nationality may be published
and your residence status could be
revoked and you could potentially be
deported it's a scary pledge to sign i
don't plan on violating it so i'm almost
definitely gonna be okay but still
it's it's far from covering you know
what let's
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done work for the day might even relax
take a bath watch a movie but it's
actually one really important thing you
see when i left japan i did so in a huge
hurry and a huge rush and i needed some
help and there were a couple friends who
really stepped up
at the last minute and came all the way
out to tokyo to help me out and make
make it possible for me to make it back
home you you know who you are and i have
all the gratitude in the world for you i
feel so lucky so lucky to have such
amazing friends just thank you
i've already thanked you but i want to
put this in this video so that when i
look back at this video in five to ten
years i can remember this in kind of the
same way
that i do now and somebody's still
playing trumpet
literally all day and look at how
complicated
it's not actually that complicated it's
fairly simple the water goes over here
temperatures here shower and whatnot the
hello shower
and
one of the things that i bring back
from
canada is colgate you can get aqua fresh
in japan but finding stuff like colgate
is weirdly difficult especially like the
spearmint anyway anyway you know what i
do not want to finish this video in the
bathroom thank you guys
so much for joining and i will see you
again
real soon
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i should mention that i also got a lot
of dms from you guys asking if
everything was okay and where i've been
i had done a little bit of a live stream
on the tokyo lens explorer channel kind
of explaining what was going on but that
was the only announcement that i gave
then i went radio silent so i haven't
really opened or replied to any dms in
the past maybe three weeks
so thanks for your patience and love
glad to be back and looking forward to
doing some more recordings
look at this egg
how
can't believe they expect people to eat
this that is
is terrible
that is just