there's one thing that Japan does right
and that's festivals so much amazing
street food to eat the decorations color
the streets and people are always in
good spirits Tanabata also known as the
star festival is a day marked on July
7th but celebrated for much longer as we
are now in the month of August it
celebrates the meeting of the deities
Orihime and hikoboshi she's a love story
where these two lovers are only allowed
to meet on that particular day on this
day everyone makes a wish in hopes of
that wish would come true today we are
in a sega where the ton about the
festival originally began in 1954
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a shopping street is filled with paper
mache art that hangs from the roof of
the outdoor pearl shopping center south
of the station each creation was
handmade by locals and was such a sight
to witness I think your handmade I
believe and this is a ton of us a
festival friend of ours last month so
I'm not sure why they're celebrating it
this one crazy
Wow
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we should get them and this like hockey
Goudy are you getting one house near
Tokyo do you cocoon goatee is basically
shaved flavored ice it's a popular
delicacy in Japan during the summertime
and one of my favorites to eat
especially on a hot day
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oh my god
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this is going on my Instagram oh my god
where do you think Kelly why why Japan
what is this
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okay so we just gotta have it the hot
bun with am like sweating you getting
some mango ice cream flash drink right
now lady so bad
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sweet potatoes ooh
it all looks so good the sweet potatoes
actually looked really delicious
um with a purpose you did for money in
it okay he's moving he's moving he's not
very good at staying still
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so that was the ton of us effective all
it was really really cool there's so
much street food we probably should've
just ate through there guys I haven't
done a vlog in so long it feels really
weird so I'm always doing like these
like proper videos that have a lot of
like information in the background and I
don't know highly recommend this place
to come just for shopping and like
tourist type of stuff sorry I can't hold
my camera I need to get more muscle
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they're like louder than the cards and
it takes like a couple years for them to
like hibernate and then they come out
and what do they the female females die
in like three weeks the male's dying
like two weeks so it takes them a while
to come out kinda like each generation
comes out in their own time but yeah it
just like they're really loud and
annoying but like it just reminds me of
like Japan summer I just I enjoy it I'm
a weirdo I'm such a weirdo look at these
cute little boutiques I love it
so cute we headed to my favorite Sookie
Minh restaurant in Nakano I don't come
out here that much so it was a must
Sookie man is basically ramen with the
soup on the side you guys are looking
for a place to eat in naka no this place
is like right off the main like streets
here so so good guys and after a long
day of walking
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