this is one of the best times of the
year in Japan everything from the cherry
blossoms to the summer festivals and
fireworks and everything in between like
Sanja mud city Oh best festival efforts
the scale and the energy and everything
of that festival hmm
I guess we're not doing any of that this
year
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but on the plus side it is a great time
to plan for the future so today we're
gonna do a Q&A filled with little
recommendations and tips and peeks and
everything like that I have pulled up a
bunch of questions from you guys here
we're just gonna kind of rapid-fire
through them and see if we can't have
some fun with it now the first one being
what is the best city view with a bar
there's so many good ones that I'm gonna
give you four let's start simple and
kind of work our way the first being
that who does building that I
recommended in Shibuya I just love the
view from there the lack of people was
at a bar and restaurant and everything
in there that's really good also in
Shibuya there is a place called legato I
believe the name of it is I haven't been
there for years but it is absolutely
gorgeous inside a nice view if you're a
fan of lost in translation I highly
recommend what is it the New York Bar
and Grill in the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku
does that that it like come on you could
sit and dine and drink in the same place
that Bill Murray did it out don't do I
need to say more and then the last one
is just a long-standing personal
favorite is the Epis garden it place
tower great for dinner great for lunch
you're gonna pay a lot more for dinner
though I got a lot of questions on where
to stay in Tokyo for some reason a lot
of my friends default to staying in the
shinjuku area I think it's wasteful I
highly recommend the in Ueno area when L
strikes the perfect balance of access
and variety you've got window park right
there it's got the pond gorgeous
sunrises a few minutes from there you
have the Mao go market with all these
shops and a street food in the back
street exploration a 15 or so minute
walk down the road and you're right
there in assets uh or 15 or so minutes
in the opposite direction and you're
right in Akihabara and it puts you
pretty much within 30 minutes of
anything from within Tokyo down to
Yokohama or you know wherever you want
it gives you all the train line access
and it's just it's a really good place
to stay I highly recommend in and around
the UN o area alright next one are you
planning to do a
about your camera gear or you're off
I've been thinking of doing a
walkthrough of all the camera gear just
like an office tour kind of show
everything that I have you know per poll
here we get enough interest baby we will
just have some fun with it
next question best day trip from Tokyo
okay you you're never gonna go wrong
with something like c'mon good it's a
gorgeous area filled with history and
just so much to see and do but but if
you were in Japan with a junior pass and
do not underestimate the power of the
junior pass it's one of the worst
mistakes that I see people make Kyoto
itself can be a day trip if you have the
junior pass wake up super early sleep on
the train get to Kyoto have a bit of
rest on the way home and have a full day
in Kyoto like I even went up to the
samurai battlefields of sekigahara
and back in a day in a recent podcast
episode with Chris you know Chris we
even talked about how Sendai itself can
be a day trip in fact I've done that
they trip twice in the last year but if
you do want to keep your day trips a
little bit closer yes come on cut is
great or I recommend West Tokyo Tokyo
itself is actually very wide and out on
the west side you have mountains and
everything like that you know what we're
just gonna leave a 1-hour from Tokyo
playlist right up there wanted a grab
prop for this next question so the next
question was where is the best place to
see the live shamisen
to places that you're pretty much
guaranteed to be able to see live
shamisen most not all most days of the
week would be to restaurants that are
actually in a sucks ah one is called
Kiko the proprietor is amazing and the
second one is called a yacht game they
both give pretty different experiences
overall but there's just something about
listening to the shamisen live that I
can't put into words if you're on a
budget
I recommend Kiko for lunch and boy okay
for dinner when is the next adventure
with Victor it was actually supposed to
be going on like this this month next
month
it's just last year we did this whole
road trip we did all this exploration
and invent
sure had so much fun and we had a really
big one planned for now-ish it's
obviously been pushed back I guess the
answer is as soon as we physically can
all right this would be a quick button
got a question on how and where to see
sumo and Japan super simple the sumo
Association website just google Japan
sumo has all of it in English there now
I'm looking at it right now it says like
tickets range from three thousand eight
hundred yen up to much much higher if
you want a box see a little bit of real
talk I've had the chance to try the box
seat and the nosebleeds I had to choose
between the two of them I'd I'd go with
the nosebleeds just because I'm more
comfortable to sit in a chair than it is
on the floor in one of those boxes for
hours at a time and the matches for
junior or smaller sumo are done in the
morning they're much more fast paced and
then the big matches are done in the
second half of the day a lot of people
just join the second half I like to do
the whole thing another one kind of on
shamisen but more than anything on noise
levels in Japanese apartments this one's
actually really good it's question I get
very commonly about do your neighbors
mind you playing shamisen in the
apartment because it's very very loud
and you can't actually play instruments
in every apartment in Japan there are
very specific types of instruments that
you can play in more often than not
either a soundproof or an instrument
apartment or a pet-friendly apartment
will be more forgiving for instruments
actually just cover this topic in a
podcast with Makayla down in Boca so if
it's a topic you're interested in I will
also link that down below for you okay
one last question well we'll go over
something simple I like this one how are
you like really how are you I'm doing
great I'm good thank you for us I'm
actually very good I don't think it
would be overstating it to say that I'm
quite possibly the best that I have ever
been I'm healthy I have an endless
supply of coffee I get to spend my days
editing and creating an
great community what else can a person
ask for really really what more could
someone ask for then to have an
incredible community of people and just
be able to actually working on a little
bit of a documentary right now with the
Yoshida brothers we spent forever
filming it I've got an insane insane
amount of footage I almost don't even
know where to begin but just having the
chance to edit that and it's a lot of
fun it's to mention all the other
projects and anyway I'm rambling now I'm
good thank you how are you really like
to you sitting there watching this right
now how are things for you good or bad
leave it in there it's use this as an
opportunity just to share a bit get to
know each other how are you doing but
that being said there are so many more
quiet I would like to keep going and
just answer a billion more questions but
what I think I'm gonna do is there are a
ton left so I'm gonna jump over to
Instagram in the next couple of days and
maybe answer a couple of those in some
stories and if you're interested in more
q and A's or if perhaps you're new to
the channel I will link a playlist of q
and A's at the end that I've tried to
have a lot of fun with also before I
started recording this video I was
trying to use this microphone here and
it was picking up like TVs I have no
idea
I don't you know what we'll just call it
the blooper section and jump into it
right now there we go okay so I went to
set all this stuff and I have a
microphone up here and it's I've got
like a light going on right here and
everything and if something about this
setup that's like like picking up I
don't know if it's a radio aids or TV
waves or like I can't hear it until I
checked the audio but you can probably
but I guess we're not doing any of that
busy yourself it's so sad it really is
it's just ah
it's amazing how much value is in one
year
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I'm so confused by this new places that
I can pretty much guarantee you'll be
able to see Chinese two places I can
pretty much guarantee you'll be able to
I can't I I'm like it's like seashells
seashells she sells I can't even do that
see shamisen best place to see fish
sitting
coffee break I have just unplug this
microphone this is the internal
microphone which gives you the entire
echo and everything like that and then
if I plug in this lav microphone this is
the audio you get but as soon as I go
back to this one so weird it's still
doing it and because a lot of question
most professional youtuber ever there we
go okay I remember what I was saying now
I'm gonna restart the in computer is not
even on either like the computer is off
all this will be a mystery forever
forever mysteries