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tokyo has one of the best public
transportation systems
in the world i'll be somewhat daunting
at first glance but
it is amazing you can walk pretty much
20 minutes in any direction and boom
there's a train station there
less if you use buses and it's all
connected to the rest of the country
through the high-speed bullet trains
really is something else it makes life
in japan incredibly convenient and
accessible
and i haven't used any of it in months
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in fact i think i've only taken one
train since february
i don't miss it there are better ways to
get around the city more fun ways more
interesting ways healthier ways
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tokyo is a lot smaller than most people
think
especially central tokyo you can easily
walk from
end to end i came out to dyogoku this
morning to watch the sumo training and
always enjoy swinging through this
little park
beautiful spot isn't it but things in
japan are changing and it looks like i
might end up taking
public transportation again pretty soon
you know what
like look at this right here but japan's
talking about opening up the borders
again for tourism the job offers have
started to come in and
i've turned down most of them so far
don't get me wrong i do miss
doing jobs in fact i was supposed to be
doing a photo tour
across japan with moment this year and
but i've also just really enjoyed having
the freedom in my schedule to go out and
shoot all the things that i
like and want to share with you guys as
well bridge
especially as a lot of the places i want
to share right now are empty
there's nobody there a lot of them are
out of tokyo
most of them are out of tokyo in fact i
think this is the first
non-live stream video i've done in tokyo
in something like
three months three months
is it time to move out of tokyo
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things just feel safer outside of the
city right now
i want more details on japan opening
back up let me pull that article back up
so it says
april-ish talk of a health tracking app
potentially limiting the scope of areas
tourists can visit
after entering japan how could they even
enforce that
so it's pretty vague on the details
understandably so you know
early days and all that you would think
that by this point we would all be
pretty much used to living with a
question mark hanging over
basically any future plans but more
realistically it doesn't really
get any easier does it luckily there are
no rules saying that you have to have
perfectly adapted
to all the change that's happened like i
honestly think it's okay to struggle
there's been a lot of challenge a lot of
sadness
and incredible amount of loss throughout
almost too much to even
even process and honestly if you've
gotten this far with both your health
and your sanity intact you've pretty
much proven that you have the mental
strength to
survive it's a big deal you should be
proud of yourself
it should be a huge confidence boost
i know i always worried about whether or
not i'd be able to survive if all the
sponsored jobs and shamisen performances
suddenly disappeared and
the shamisen performances especially are
a huge part of what was making all of
this
possible but we're still here in some
ways potentially doing better than
we've ever done really making the best
out of it i guess
it's lemonade out of lemons and all that
honest question what do you think i'd
like to open up the comment section for
a bit of
discussion respectful discussion there's
going to be people who are
super relieved that japan's opening
they're going to be people who feel that
it's
far too early like are we ready i guess
i guess that's the big question but also
beautiful day today terrible
terrible day to wear a sweater it was
freezing cold this morning but it's been
nothing but rain lately so
i'm glad i'm glad to have the sunshine
now i've spent the better part of
probably 40 minutes in this park
so peaceful here it's just the sound of
the birds a little bit of
construction every now and then but for
the most part it's it's quiet
there's nobody there's nobody here
what a what a beautiful day this is
probably one of the things i miss the
most about living on this side of tokyo
is just knowing where all the little
hidden nooks and crannies are that i can
hide out without people i
i miss that also this sweater is a tokyo
lens sweater i've actually secretly had
merch for about a year just hasn't been
publicly available for purchase or
anything i think it goes back as far as
the hokkaido hotels video or my trip
down to fukuoka it's been an easter egg
embedded and hidden do you recognize
this logo on my back
seriously watch almost any video from
over the past year you'll see that mark
in
it it's all limited edition so it's
going to be disappearing and i'll leave
it for the christmas season in case you
have a significant other
who watches the videos but i can tell
you right now
it's comfortable at least the sweaters
are comfortable
new designs might come out next year but
for now i like the i like the explore
always content i just like it
and you get bonus points and a potential
bonus gift if i ever run into you in
tokyo and you're wearing it so
there's that and there are obviously
colors
other than pink anyway i can't even
remember the last time that i just did a
vlog like this like this
this is just oh my god
every blooper that has happened in this
video has happened
i'll see you in the comments
this this is what it's like been been
like been like
trying to record it in this spot
i was recording a scene up in the
building there and one of the legs just
fell off the gorillapod that
lucky i didn't lose the camera i also
dropped my phone this morning
and cracked the screen that'll that'll
serve me right for
talking about getting a new phone in the
live stream
what a day what a day i just
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