so because this temple is in celebration
and of support women in fertility and
not women in fertility hey guys welcome
to Tokyo creative play
I'm your host Emma and today I'm gonna
tell you about what I did recently
recently I went to Hiroshima if you guys
are mean to Russian before it's a little
bit further south in Japan and it's
beautiful it's actually one of my
favorite places in Japan and it been a
while since I've been there last I think
it's been about two years since my last
visit before when I went recently I
actually got to experience a side of
Hiroshima that I never experienced
before I got to go to areas where I'd
never seen it and that there weren't so
many people it was really relaxed and
just a completely new experience so I'm
gonna tell you guys what I did and we're
gonna enjoy it together I also made a
video on my own channel about the
experiences so if you want to check that
out it'll be in a link in the
description down below but let's get
started so one of the things that I did
on the trip is I went with a company
called soccer week or on a bicycle tour
now so Khoikhoi takes you around we went
like up a mountain and we went around
and saw some temples they take you
almost cycling to us so you don't have
to figure out where to go or anything
and they take you and show you things
that you wouldn't have seen before if
you hadn't been on the tour so a really
really good time with them the bicycles
themselves are electric bikes so they
actually give you a bit of a helping
hand I was worried because we were going
to be going like up a mountain on
bicycles I was like how am I gonna do
that I'm not very fit
the bicycles have an electric-powered
system so it helps you up the mountain
it was so good have you guys ever been
on electric bicycle I had the best time
and I really really want to buy one it's
so good
so we went halfway up a mountain and
then we got to climb the rest of the way
and when we got to the top it was like
the most beautiful view of Hiroshima
I've ever seen it was just really
natural was surrounded by trees and we
could just see basically the whole city
it was beautiful I had a really really
good time and it was really relaxed the
guides were super nice I made friends
with Kanna who was one of the girls on
the trip she was really cool so we
visited a couple of temples while we
were there that was super beautiful and
then we finished up the tour in the city
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and it was just a really relaxing nice -
it was a little bit of a physical
challenge but it was still super
relaxing with the electric bikes and I
had a really really good time another
thing that we got to do is we got to go
to Miyajima we had room is one of my
favorite places in all of Japan it's
beautiful beautiful island with lots of
deer roaming around is also a beautiful
shrine on the island but we didn't
really focus on that Island this time we
got to go and enjoy some Japanese
experiences with okay cool we went to
this beautiful traditional house with a
beautiful garden and we walked in and I
got to try so many things first of all I
got to put on a kimono I got to wear a
footie saw there which was so beautiful
actually one of the most beautiful
kimono I've worn while I've been in
Japan the colors were so vibrant and the
women were super nice one of them she's
worked really great English and was just
so easy to talk to oh that's kind of
weird if I say I want to be her friend
but I do but I also got to do shuttle
which is calligraphy I got to try a
calligraphy I wasn't like the best but
it was really fun they told me the kind
of techniques that I needed to to use
and I feel like I'm a little bit more
knowledgeable than I was before but yeah
and I got to keep my calligraphy after I
finished which was cool I could take it
home I also got to make I got to make
onigiri it was part of the
variance I got to learn how to shape and
make my own onigiri ball and put my own
fillings in it so I even had a vegetable
that was specific just to Hiroshima it
was really good really tasty so now I
have that technique I can take it home
and now I can make my own rice balls we
also got the opportunity to check out
she mother sweet son or she met a
fishery which had so many oysters
it's basically an oyster farm right next
to Miyajima I went out on a boat and got
to have a look at where they grow all of
the oysters they also took us really
really close to the shrine in miyajima
we got to go directly underneath
itsukushima and we got like the best
view and there was no one around us
because the tide was in usually Maori
gets super busy so when you go out to
see the shrine you can't really see it
without people getting in any of your
photos and everything but because the
water was up we just got it all to
ourselves it was awesome so after we
looked at the oyster farms we went back
and I got to try some oysters and they
were delicious and they were huge I was
not expecting them to be that big so we
got to have them cooked directly in
front of us super fresh and it was
amazing we got to look at the edge about
what we did it that's really good
the only thing is we didn't come in the
exact right season so if you come in
winter and you go with the early morning
you can actually go and see them
hoist up the oysters and actually gather
them and farm them but unfortunately we
went there in the exact right time so we
couldn't see that but if you guys go on
the tour you can so another thing that
we got to do is we went to Tama Huata
and we went to the kayakers cafe and
then we went on a sea kayak journey for
three hours and got to see some amazing
things there was so many fish I don't
know why but they were all just jumping
out of the air and we got to see some
beaches and then they took us to this
temple and this temple was kind of on
the edge of a cliff and I'd never seen
anything like it it was just it was so
high up and when you stood by the temple
you could look down and it was just all
these crashing waves it was amazing so
because this temple is in celebration
and of support of women infertility and
not women infertility because one of the
things that this temple is about is
pregnancy and the safety of birth and
everything like that a lot of the
symbols
and the wish the Boyd's that you write
on here usually a temple still have a
picture of something to do with the
temple and then you write your wish or
your your goal in the back and so here I
think they have is a pair of breasts to
symbolize like plenty of milk for the
babies and so there's a lot of breasts
but it was it was good exercise and we
got to go kayaking and I had a really
good chat with the the guide and it was
just nice to get back to the ocean smell
the ocean breeze and just have a really
relaxing good time also when we got to
the temple he brought like a little
picnic for us which was really cute and
I got to try some snacks that had never
tried before I got to try like a thing
called a banana omelet but it was kind
of like a fluffy cake with banana cream
and then also like a coconut thing that
I've never seen before in Japan I guess
they're just around Hiroshima so it was
a really good experience and a really
great time and help me get back in touch
with nature and the ocean is that too
hippie-ish to say I don't know but I had
a great time I was lucky enough to
actually get to kayak in the same boat
as the guide so I got a lot of
information a lot of facts and he was
super nice and super helpful he actually
talked to us about Tama Nevada and the
fact that Collier is kind of based about
that area hai-yah Miyazaki went to Tom
Manoa
and stayed at a house which we actually
got to see on the journey and the house
next to it is the house that they that
Ponyo lived in in the movie and that we
saw the area where he finds Ponyo and
everything it was really cool I had no
idea and so I was such a surprise when
we got to see it it was beautiful really
nice area the last place that we went to
was called ha corridor and it is a shop
that is famous for selling and making
the kimono calligraphy brushes and they
also do makeup brushes as well so the
shop is well-known and a lot of famous
poets have bought brushes from there so
I got the amazing opportunity to be able
to make my own calligraphy brush and I
had some guidance from a lady who was
clearly very famous and she had her face
on it like a poster on the wall and she
was quite old
was amazing and very intimidating so I
got to make a brush with her she was
clearly a master I think she's been
doing this for over 40 years so I felt
completely out of my depth but we ended
up making a really beautiful brush with
my name engraved on it and it was a
crazy experience I never thought I'd
have that experience we also had a tour
through the shop and we got shown all
the different kinds of hairs that they
used to make different kinds of brushes
and we got told that there's over 70
steps to making a brush which is one of
the few people that are still around
today that can make the brushes to such
an amazing caliber it was an honor to
get to work with her she was amazing she
was really cool and it was just so great
to make my own brush and now that I also
did the experience where I got to learn
how to do calligraphy and now I have my
own colleague with your brush I'm set
I'm gonna become a poet it's just what's
gonna happen so get ready tokidoki
travelers no more it's gonna be talking
a few Japanese poet yeah that was my
trip to Hiroshima I had such an amazing
time and I can't wait to go back so
thank you to attractive Japan for having
me and you guys what did you like the
best out of the trip what did what looks
like the most fun to you let me know in
the comments down below and also let me
know if you have somewhere that you want
me to go next anyway thanks for watching
and I'll see you guys soon bye
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