Shikoku Trip - Day One
Tokyo - Ehime
Welcome to Ehime (Matsuyama)
Hi!!
Look who it is! It's Sherry and Norm
Welcome to Ehime guys!
It's my first time here
It's my first time off of the main island of Honshu
which is pretty freakin exciting
I've never been to Hokkaido
I've never been to Shikoku, which is where we are now
And I've never been to Kyushu
So it's pretty sweet to be off the main island
and to be seeing something different in Japan
after living here for 10 years and only traveling around Honshu
I hope you guys enjoy the trip!
Norm is driving. Thank you Norm! Don't kill us!
And Sherry is the one that put this whole trip together
So thank you Sherry!
You're welcome, thanks for coming!
She has a lovely channel, so go check her out if you haven't checked out her channel yet!
I will link her down below
OMG there's a Kabuto!
We'll like pull over the car just to catch Pokemon
BEST TRIP EVER
We need to get to the hotel
Hey, you know what? Priorities alright.
I'm glad we're on the same page
They said that it's 28C today... but that's a lie
It's most definitely at least 40
And this is the train we're riding... When are we riding the train?
Uh, tomorrow!
Tomorrow. I'm so excited, I love train rides!
It's gonna be pretty awesome
It will be
Ooo this place is so nice
So this is where we're staying tonight? Or the whole time?
Tonight
That's so pretty! Is this for your feet?
I think so!
That's so nice
Oooo look at the butterfly!
Oh it's so pretty!
You guys have different butterflies here, I've never seen that one in Tokyo
Really?
Yeah
So this is Dogo Onsen
Sherry told me that it's the only onsen in Japan that allows tattoos!
So Ehime is famous for oranges
There are orange souvenirs everywhere and I can't wait to buy them for my friends
What is the cat? Aww they're cookies
Even the cats are orange!
Lots of their drinks you can change the milk to soy milk
That's awesome! Omg there's so many drinks
This is amazing, this is the best matcha latte I've ever had
Starbucks eat your heart out
It's so delicious!
It's like icecream
Yeah it's really thick and creamy
And soy milk!
Next we headed to Yamatoya Honten Hotel
to view an art exhibit my Ninagawa Mika
She gave amazing artistic makeovers to traditional Japanese hotel rooms
The result is pretty amazing
I think you guys are really gonna love this
Wow, pretty!
Go ahead
Is it okay?
Oh look at the tatami! It's not showing up on camera but it's dark blue
It's so pretty
These rooms are available to stay in
Music by KiKi Shamisen Girls
Before photo of the room
I want to live here
You can stay in this room, right?
Yes, you can rent this room
So this room is designed by Ninagawa Mika
She's a photographer and also a movie director
Oh okay! So she designed this room
and we're gonna go see one other hotel room
but Sherry says you'd never wanna stay there
So there's something like, weird about it
Weird... well you'll see!
We'll see...
Wow
There's one more door!
There's two, which one
This one? This one?
Yep
Omg
Whoa it's beautiful!
Omg I love it!
Look at this room! I wanna live here!
I love how Sherry's like "Oh you wouldn't wanna stay in the next room..."
And I'm like "Yes! I want my house to look like this!"
Look at the TV! Look at it! And the phone
We all got our orange drinks and popsicles
YAY EHIME!
Norm's failing at Ehime-ing
I know! Everybody got orange, and I'm here with chocolate mint...
I'll leave
Not acceptable
Bye!
That's a beautiful house
Yeah that's so nice
I love these kind of houses
Japanese house
Our friends are getting ready for their shamisen performance tonight
And we're just setting up a little table here for selling CDs and DVDs
Sherry's workin hard
Me and Norm actually filmed the footage for this one!
That was a good day
Yeah it was a good day
There gonna give me a copy later
Oh that's nice, you have a little stand
Yeah just for one
"sasuga" - should have expected that
KiKi Shamisen Girls
That was so much fun! Thank you to everyone that joined us for the Periscope live!
There were like 100 of you over there, so thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed it!
We're heading back to the hotel now for dinner
I'm not sure what we're having yet
Are you hungry?
So hungry.
I'm hungry, we're getting hungry
We had lots of lunch but we're hungry already
Lots of lunch, a little bit to drink, and now we're hungry
It's hard not to walk through people's pictures
I know right! It's like a maze
We're taking one of these tomorrow they said!
The rickshaw
Rickshaw, how do you say rickshaw in Japanese?
jinrikisha
Check out the awesome bamboo grove!
OMG BEST BAMBOO EVER
Isn't that awesome?
Can you hear the bugs guys?
Semi, most likely
Cicada
Look at this guys, they made a super fancy vegan version for me
Ooo it looks so yummy
What's in here?
Ooo udon and some mushrooms
green onion
And this one looks like... rice?
But, I don't know
Can you cook rice with just a little candle?
We will see
Some fruits
And I think this is konnyaku, it looks like squid but I'm pretty sure it's konnyaku
Not sure what those ones are, I think that's cucumber
This one is udon
Thank you
And this one is white rice
Oh my rice is cooking! Wow
The food here is SO GOOD
It's really delicious
One of my favourites was actually, this!
Which I'm pretty sure is cucumber, but I'm still not sure
The konnyaku inside...
Lemme see if I can get it to focus
The konnyaku in the middle is really really squishy
Can't really show you guys, but it's so soft! And it's really juicy!
Are you enjoying my food explanation?
I'm doing everything I can to not reach over and just eat it
NO It's MY konnyaku
Norm didn't get any
I didn't get any konnyaku
Maybe you should be vegan Norm
Stop trying to convert me Sharla.
And then they have this yellow sauce to put on it, I'm not sure what it is
Or if that's even what you're supposed to put it on
It kinda tastes like mustard, and it's really good
They just brought me some veggie tempura
Hey HEY that's my favourite! That's my favourite!
These two here are almost like a dessert
They're like a really sweet... this one's plum! Let's see what this one is
Also plum? ... maybe
Man these are good. These are so good.
After dinner performance
YAY they brought us mikan juice
Ehime style
Thank you!
It's good!
Really? Are you gonna put this in, really?
Yeah. It's gonna be the thumbnail!
So this is where I'm staying tonight
Two futon all to myself
And there's a tea set!
That's always like my favourite part of the ryokan
I'm obsessed with ryokan now, I've only stayed in 3
in total, but I'm really enjoying them
Cute little teapot
Air conditioner, mini fridge
TV...
I think there's some yukata in here? Yeah!
Yukata and like toothbrush and stuff
This is some more futon
They give you so many futon
You could cover the whole floor in futon and have a sleepover with all your friends
And this is the washroom
Basic hotel style washroom
And that's it!
Cheers! Kanpai!
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