It's a rainy day in Japan, which, aesthetically speaking, awesome.
And we're headed up to Sendai today. We're not sure what we're going to do today, but it'll still be a blast adventure, I'm sure of it.
We'll see you guys in Sendai.
Sendai!
Wow that's really good!
where are we headed right now? Lauryn?
We're heading to Matsushima Bay.
Alright!
Lauryn: Your knees are hurting!?!
But we're here in Matsushima.
It's, you know, much more remote, much more quiet.
These small stations.
Inaka desu ne.
So we're going to go to Matsushima Bay and check out the beautiful sights,
sounds, and tastes.
Come with us. Take my hand.
(Sounds of disgust)
Not a lot of tourists actually make their way out here just because it's like
a 15 minute walk and it's kind of not close to the big cities.
Yeah, only 25 minute train ride from Sendai. So it's beautiful
Lauryn: It's already worth it to be here.
It's so different than, like, Tokyo, just like anywhere in the city.
Worth it to go out in the countryside. What's it called in Japanese?
The INAKA
So we pulled up to this restaurant and it's very oishisou, as they say.
And Sendai specializes in gyutan which is cow...beef tongue.
So here's my food.
Looks pretty Oippi.
Lauryn just got hers.
Comes with Dessert! a little mochi with matcha.
welcome to Bret Tree Reacts.
Bret: Mmm. That's good.
Lauryn: Hot!
Sorry that was hard to swallow.
That was really good.
Sam: Oh he liked it !
Lauryn, sweetie, what are you about to do?
Lauryn: Red Bean...
Sam: My face when I'm about to "red bean"
It's not bad.
It's just I need to get over the thought that it's like refried beans.
So we just finished up our amazing meal. *Japanese*
Speak of the devil! ordered these delicious looking mochi sticks.
and we got two strawberry and one chocolate one.
And they look SUPERB.
Here we go. First bite!
Very good, very rich!
Chocolate is their number one.
so pretty close from the wonderful restaurant we were just at is
Dodaido Zuiganji Temple. It's the first temple that we're going to stop at with a view of this beautiful bay.
Let's go check it out!
So pretty. The views are pretty. It's so quiet.
There's a lot of temples when you go it is very busy.
Lots of tourists.
I mean, they're so cool. But this is like it feels like what it should be at a temple it's very serene and peaceful.
Now we're headed to Fukuurajima is the name.
And there's a really long bridge that leads to one of the islands covered in pine trees.
And you can actually walk around the island.
it looks like, from what I can see, one of the biggest ones
HEy NeRd!
(In Japanese): Hey everyone! We made some new friends!
We love you!
We love you too!
Oh, so we were like, walking along this bridge, right?
Cuz the lighting is just gorg. We were taking some pictures, and this Japanese girl
who's about our age came up and was like,
Hey, let me take your picture for the group Picture. We started talking to them and they're just so nice.
They're all from Tokyo, they're our age.
And yeah, we took pictures with them. Insert picture:
and it's just so fun and cool.
Lauryn: It's so cool to connect to people, especially since, again, they're our age.
Around the world!
WOAH
So now we're headed to Zuiganji Temple.
It's another one of the beautiful sites here in Matsushima.
It's going to be awesome.
these caves, not all of them, but some of them were carved by Buddhists who are striving to empty their minds
and they carved them with spoons.
So these little sculptures that you see were all carved by hand.
It's closed...One thing about traveling in Japan is using Google Maps sometimes it's not very reliable
with times and directions. So the times on Google Maps were not correct.
If you do come, just come early. It's the Sure fire way to make sure that you can get in
to see what you want to see.
So we're back in Sendai.
So now we're going to go to the hotel, get our stuff situated and then hit some shops.
Tokyu Hands, Loft
Tokyu Hands!
1 day? 24 hours.
1 year?
8760 hours!
We're going to see some Christmas lights
and eat at Mos Burger
I'm very hungry.
We're here at Mister Donut. Got our donuts right here.
So this is Bret's.
a nice, cute jigglypuff. It's like a sprinkled...yah.
SAM'S
This one's the most amazing for sure.
The snowman Pikachu. Very cute. Very cool.
And then we got three of these Bad boys.
Looks pretty good. It's like a chocolate cake mochi donut.
Bret?
Is there stuff inside of that one? Let's see it.
what you've got to know about Mr. Donut, is that they have two
types of cream fillings, the normal custard, which is that,
you know, typical pudding kind of a substance.
But then *chuckle*
This is what sets them apart.
they have what's called angel cream
and it's this cream that's in this donut and it's more of like a light
fluffy cream filling way better than the custard, I think
Bret's had both?
but I like it way better than custard. It's it's not as heavy when I eat like custard
donuts I feel really gross after.
Evening. I'm right here outside of Sendai station, wrapping up a great night.
A great day. Sendai is awesome. It was so fun to go to Matsushima as well
and have that countryside experience
Tomorrow's a bit of a crazy day.
We're going to Yamagata.
So we'll get a little bit of footage, but probably not as much
we made it. We're in YAMAGATA
This is me and Lauryn's creations.
Hey, guys, this is my cousin.
Oh, my name is Atsushi.
He's so epic. Cool guy.
You know, the Christians have apocalypse, the Norse have Ragnarok, we have Audrey Day.
today's the day that we pick up Audrey from the airport to once again terrorize Japan