- Hey guys, it's Micaela
- Hi, I'm not Micaela.
- She's not.
- I'm Rachel
- Don't be fooled by the red hair, she's an imposter.
Don't shoot me, she's the copy and then the guys like-
- Every show ever.
- Copy right, every clone show ever.
- Over the past few days Rachel
has been staying here with me in Fukuoka City.
(cheering)
We've been kind of keeping it a secret until now.
- It's my first time ever coming to Fukuoka, ever.
I've been hearing about it so much.
Everyone I've ever talked to who has been to Fukuoka
I've asked them about it and they're like,
"Oh Fukuoka is great" and Jun and I are trying
to figure out where we want to move, cause we have no idea
like with YouTube and stuff we could really move anywhere
in Japan we want, it's just a really difficult decision.
So since I've been hearing so much,
I decided to come down here and scout out Fukuoka
to see if I should bring the Jun.
- So Rachel has been here for a few days already now,
the first day you came and we went and got pancakes.
- Oh my God that was the first thing we did,
it was breakfast.
I've already had breakfast at six a.m.,
but it's time for second breakfast.
- [Micaela] Second breakfast!
- At eleven, this is breakfast time.
- [Micaela] Sounds good.
- [Rachel] Yes.
- [Micaela] I took Rachel to bibliotheque in Vioro
it's in the basement first floor of Vioro
and it is my favorite place to grab pancakes,
they have like these nice fluffy buttermilk pancakes.
They're very thick and they serve berry sauce,
whip cream, cream cheese and ice cream, I think.
Rachel went with the eggs benedict pancakes
and she had her egg fried cause she doesn't like runny eggs
and I got my ultimate favorite which is berry cream cheese.
Ooohh, a lot of pancakes are hit and miss in Japan
because they can feel like spongy or dry
but these ones are just thick, they're moist,
they're tasty and I like the way that they're decorated
and I really like the atmosphere of the place
and then, we went shopping in Tenjin.
- Yes.
- Yes, Rachel told me that she really liked recycle shops
so we headed to Daimyo to check out some
of the recycle shops in that area.
I like it, I like the navy blue.
I think that would look so cute.
(upbeat music)
In Daimyo there are a lot of select shops,
a lot of boutique shops.
Some of the recycle shops are a little more expensive,
they're not very, but there was one shop
that you really liked.
- Yeah, that one wasn't even a recycle store, right?
No, it was just a normal one.
- [Micaela] It's a select shop.
- [Rachel] I liked the style of the clothes they have there,
it was all quite unique and it was like,
cute but still kind of like um-
- [Micaela] Elegantly?
- [Rachel] Matureish?
You know so
- [Micaela] That was a really cool store.
- [Rachel] Yeah.
- And I didn't find the prices there
to be too expensive either.
- No, no.
- [Micaela] Aside from shopping, we also went
to some of my other favorite spots in Fukuoka City.
- Oh it's so big, I love it.
- [Micaela] Yeah, it's really pretty hey?
We went to Canal City and we checked out a little bit
of a fountain show, we checked out some shops there
and then we went to Ohori Park, which is one of
my favorite parks in the city but
by then it was getting kind of dark.
- [Rachel] Yeah, it was like around dinner time.
Both of those places were really beautiful,
I'm a super huge nature person.
I swear it looked like there was a marathon
but just so many people in the city go there to exercise
that there would be dozens of people jogging past you,
like every thirty seconds.
It was a big park so you really
get the feel of being back in nature.
- I love it there too, so I'm glad you liked it.
The next day, unfortunately, was really rainy
so we didn't really do much.
We hung around Hakata Station and Tokyu Hands
and then we went to the VR Zone arcade,
which was kind of interesting.
The first thing we're gonna do is try Mario Cart.
- They're really nice, they said they'll like hold
the camera for us and film.
- Yeah so we can like, see our reactions and stuff.
Yeah, we did Mario Cart and it was intense,
it was so funny you can't really tell looking at the clips
because we just look like a couple of dorks,
we look like a couple of dorks with goggles
but they had these hand sensors they put on our arms
so when we're driving and stuff we can see our hands
or like if we're waving to each other in the virtual world
we can see our hands and then you use your hands
to grab items in the game and then throw them
so it looks really really funny like to people
who are watching from the outside
but in the game it was intense.
- [Rachel] It feels really realistic,
one of the items was a hammer too, so you grab the hammer
and you get a couple uses and you're trying to steer
and then while you're steering you're hitting people
with the hammer but then I'm sure people watching you
are just watching you go like ahh, it looks really dumb.
Ah man it was so much fun.
Did you hit people with the hammer?
- [Micaela] I didn't, I was trying at the end but then like,
- Your guy, you knocked me out so you finished in third.
- [Micaela] Yeah, I threw a turtle at you at the end.
- You're such a jerk
- [Micaela] Sorry.
Yesterday Tatsu had some free time so we hopped in the car
and headed out to Saga Prefecture to check out
the flowers blooming at Mifuneyama Rakuen,
which is a very famous flower mountain.
- [Rachel] Flower mountain.
- [Micaela] It's flower mountain.
Rachel is here to visit us and this is somewhere
that Tatsu really, really wanted to take her
so Tatsu's been planning this whole trip.
Thank you, it's so pretty though.
- It's really nice.
- It's nice to get out into the mountains
after spending two days in the city.
(calm music)
But we didn't shoot so much there as much as we did
like a photo shoot.
- [Rachel] Yeah, we were having too much fun
taking a lot of pictures so the camera kind of got,
we started off filming but by the end we were just like,
let's take pictures here!
- [Micaela] Let's jump in the vines!
So we're shooting Rachel in the flowers,
she's being a very gracious model.
Now she's doing a great job and Tatsu's getting
som really great photos too.
Well except for that one.
Oh my God, she's like consuming those,
she's like a flower dinosaur.
- Am I a flower dinosaur?
- [Micaela] One thing I think is really interesting
this time is that having Rachel here I didn't take
her to a lot of Japanese food restaurants
but one of the interesting things about Fukuoka City
that I think makes it so easy to live in as a foreigner
is the variety of foreign food available here.
(speaking Japanese)
(Mexican music playing)
- [Micaela] I love this.
(laughing)
- Oh it doesn't fit.
That's something, when you move somewhere else,
you're eventually going to miss some of your home food
and it might even be weird food that you never even
ate much at home but you're gonna get cravings
so eventually you want something from home
and that's why I really wanted to try out the foreign foods
here because if we do move here I want to make sure
that I have food that I can get that I like really
really love when I'm in that super intense crave
for Tai food or Mexican food or like an American burger.
I specifically wanted to explore all of those foods
that I'm definitely gonna want at some point.
- Yeah, yeah, so that brings us back to today.
Today is actually the nicest day out of the four days
that she's been here, it's finally sunny!
- Now I'm super intrigued by how beautiful the city is
in the sunlight with all the trees and everything
and now I'm hooked and I'm like I have to come back
and explore more of this in good weather.
So maybe it's perfect that it ended up this way
because it's forcing me to come back
because I need to see more now.
- Yeah, so now we're heading out to Itoshima
which is one of the most popular areas in
Fukuoka Prefecture, it is one of my favorite places
to spend the warmer days because it's all ocean side,
there's tons of really cool cafes and when the weather's
great you can just go down to the beach,
you can go swimming, there's water sports,
there's music festivals, there's all these really cool
things happening out in Itoshima
that I think Rachel will absolutely love.
- [Rachel] I'm so excited to see this place.
I want to come back and swing here.
- We are living our best life in Itoshima today.
- Swinging on the trees we are in front of the ocean.
- It's actually like the best spot to swing,
if you're gonna swing anywhere.
- [Rachel] It's a really good swing,
it's a little crooked though.
- But you're supposed to do it this way though,
so it like drops off so if you do it facing the ocean
you feel like you're going really really high.
- Oh dang.
- You should try it, go try it.
- [Tatsu] What if we disappeared?
- [Micaela] Should we go hide?
Did she notice we're gone?
She doesn't even notice we're gone.
Okay, she doesn't care, we tried to hide from Rachel
and she like turned around and noticed we were gone
and she didn't even care.
(laughing)
Dammit!
- I think this is my favorite part of the trip.
- [Micaela] It's a lot of fun right?
- Yeah it's way better facing that way,
you know the way you're supposed to face.
- [Micaela] Yeah, when you're facing the ocean
it's really, it's really nice.
It feels like you're going so high.
So we are at Current which is one of the most popular
restaurant's here in Itoshima City on the coast
and it is a beautiful day, we've got a beautiful
sea side view and we just ordered lunch
and I'm really excited to like see what comes out
cause the menu changes um depending on the season,
depending on what ingredients are available
so you never really know what you're gonna get
until you get it but it's always good.
Right now, our Fukuoka amaou strawberries are in season
so it's kind of not so surprising
that they've included strawberry with the ham.
I just love when foods are presented
with tons of bright colors.
Tatsu got pasta, Rachel got pork with mustard
and they put this cute little like flower on top
and I got the Itoshima pork with the balsamic soy sauce,
I'm not gonna be able to eat all this,
Tatsu wants some of it so I'm going
to be sharing this with Tatsu.
It's pretty much tradition, like an unsaid tradition,
that if you come here you have to take an Instagram
photo in front of these angel wings.
Just cause it's something everyone does.
- [Rachel] Are we getting food?
- [Micaela] Yeah, let's go to Al Pacino.
Heaven is a banana waffle.
So we're gonna eat this, then we're gonna head back,
we're gonna send her to airport, we're gonna ship her away
and be done with her but I'm gonna miss her a lot.
- I'm going away, that's not true, she's like thank God.
- No I am, cheers, dessert cheers.
- Yeah, Woo.
- Alright.