hello everybody good morning welcome to
tokyo creative play i'm your host emma
and today i'm here with jordan what up
guys how are you we are in kyoto and we
just stayed at this amazing hotel this
is legit like one of the best hotels
i kind of love this hotel so good
we stayed here last night so uh we've
already had a little bit of time here
already and my favorite thing so far has
been the food like we had an amazing
like vegan course menu with like bar and
all of this stuff the vegetables the
vegetable bowl thing around it the dashi
was like 100 made from vegetables it was
like a true vegan experience there's so
many special things about this hotel i
mean the food yeah we just had breakfast
that's like a whole other story it's
amazing so this hotel is called good
nature station and there's so many like
environmentally friendly things about it
as well there's so much to say about
this place there's like a shop
downstairs as well like a marketplace
you can get lots of organic products
that you can't find in a lot of places
and vegan things and a little health
conscious i have an ice cream thing and
a cake store oh my gosh this is
certainly like little special cakes
there's just so much to do here it's
crazy and like it's like in the center
of kyoto right where everything's
happening so it's really really nice to
stay here definitely coming back
the rooms were super nice as well there
was uh you know they're spacious there's
a lot of like wood everywhere it feels
very natural very nice very homey one of
the key things the hotel goes for is
like sustainability so there's no
plastic in the room there's no plastic
in stores if you if you get your
toothbrush for example there's no
plastic amenities in the room you'd have
to go downstairs and ask them for a
toothbrush and you think i'm gonna get a
plastic toothbrush
no
bamboo
yeah this place has so much going on you
know this marketplace is the hotel but
also they have their own brand as well
they have like cosmetics and food like
it's
it's nuts this place is crazy
unfortunately and unfortunately we we
gotta go we've got to continue the day
we're gonna explore more and enjoy
whatever kyoto has to offer so shall we
leave let's go in this three video
series myself jordan alex and hachi
decided to adventure around kansai we
use trains cable cars and ropeways to
discover what secrets kansai has to
offer we headed for the world heritage
site hiezan indiakuji temple a temple
based in the mountains 848 metres above
sea level you can get there from kyoto
city by taking the train cable car and
then a ropeway for just a few minutes at
a time
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good stuff please
coffee please damn you guys demanding
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we've done it we've made it to the top
of
yay yay sunshine it's nice there's a
little bit of koyal happening a little
bit of autumn leaves you can see these
the cities from the top yeah but yeah
we're doing a little bit of hiking
excited for the hiking hiking it's very
nice
you're a hiker uh i could be get your
hiking shoes on i do have shoes on
that's possible
let's hike yay
okay we've just arrived at hiezan and
yokoji temple which is on the border of
shigeru and kyoto prefecture the
izanayakuji temple is actually the name
of 150 different temples and related
buildings this actually covers 1
700 hectares so it's a it's a big temple
with a lot to see and we're going to go
and see it i don't know if we're going
to see all of it it's huge
so much so
it's almost 2 000 hectares definitely
not the temple was actually built to
protect kyoto during a time of a great
strife was actually built on the border
for that region there was problems
during the towards like the southwest so
they built the temple to actually
protect kyoto which is then the capital
at the time so there was actually named
after the period was built in that's why
it's the enyakuchi temple nice well
let's go in and explore a little bit
let's go look it out
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so as i said the temple is very big of 1
700 hectares we've actually covered the
east part of the temple it's actually
also
a bit just the left of it a west area a
river section and also one that's right
at the bottom of the mountain opposite
the kpop it's so big there's there's so
much to see around here also it's uh
it's autumn right now you know there's
there's koryo everywhere so it's just
beautiful it's really really nice and
relaxing and peaceful to walk around
after this we're heading to uji we are
indeed get some
matcha yeah uj's so famous for matcha
i've i've had some before it's so good
have you i haven't never have ah guys in
senpai show me the waves
show me the way
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we're here in sejudiji haunted to try
some of these uh delicious matcha sweets
uh let's see what we can find shall we
yeah i think there's a parfait that i
was looking at that looked really really
good there's so much to choose from
honestly
i feel like it's a different kind of
flavor to other kinds of matcha it's
very very earthy and rich and i'm a big
fan but yeah uji matcha is like one of
the most famous matcha
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they're here
that sounds so obvious
they're here
what'd you get i got the uh uja parfait
there's so much going on in it i can't
wait what did you get i got uh matcha
zenzai
i'm very excited i'm very excited
there's so much going on in this i feel
like i gotta describe each thing i also
put a uh
a very thick green tea syrup over the
top of it i'm gonna dig in here we go
the smell is so intense it's very
very much a yi do you guys like matcha i
used to not like it and then it really
grew on me
really just so good
how was it like i already know wow
it's just so incredibly matchy and so oh
my gosh
it's like sweet creamy and then it's
just like
much i feel like when i breathe out
through my nose it's so it's warm
okay that's the ice cream what is this i
don't know if i'm gonna take a bite or
eat the whole thing whole thing whole
thing whole thing whole thing
what is it
chocolate
it's already it's good beans nice
white bean
that's so good how's yours i'm a fan of
azuki
and this comes with like this incredible
like toasted uzuki on top it's just
fantastic the fuji monsters are so
this one's more like
it's a straight simple matcha you get to
understand what the matter is and also
it has like a few complex layers to it
it's called the azuki that added
sweetness
matcha and also has this big old chunk
of uh roasted mochi
which i'm saving to the end because it's
my favorite beer i've got the red bean
in it too for like hey here's a little
bit of a different flavor and then i eat
the red bean i'm like i want more much
at least
like the red bean is like a palette
cleanser for the matcha you know what i
mean like the azuki is a really good
powder cleanser like eating down the
mattress really good man
how about matcha get a little zucchini
in there refresh
cleanse that palette
right back to the match
it is really good that we can eat like
fuji matcha
city of course but i think we should
learn a little bit more about the
history
a little bit more about matcha
but let's finish these first
then we're gonna head to a museum
stay tuned
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so we just checked out the museum
section of chasner and i've had a pretty
good time learning a lot about tea
yeah well it did contain some tea
secrets so we're not allowed to show you
the footage i'm very sorry but uh we did
learn a lot about the history and
everything so if you're in the area
please check out chazana it was very
cool but we have drunk a lot of tea
today we went up a mountain oh my gosh
yes it's been a good day man i had fun
the mountain was i loved the mountain
i'm not gonna lie i loved it too that
might have been my best bit today we've
experienced a lot today but if you've
been interested in any of the places
that we've visited please check them out
in the links in the description down
below but yeah this place also is really
easy to get to if you're going to kyoto
for a holiday i know kyoto is really
popular to go to so just yeah easy
trains easy travel it's really good time
but yeah thanks for hanging out with me
as well always fun times fun times yeah
and we'll see you in the next video
later
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what are you doing back here
there we go
no the language of my people
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