So. Cute.
We've arrived in Yahiko.
Station is super cute.
We've decided we want to go
HERE.
And see if the deer is happy.
So here in Yahiko they have this famous thing called 'Pandayaki'
Obviously they also sell Sofutokurīmu or Ice-Cream.
We're gonna go and try it!
Millie: "And they also have anko, custard, cheese and chocolate."
I have got my little Pandayaki
with edamame
and I'm going to eat it!
Oh my god, friends.
This is the cutest.
THE CUTEST.
It was a long train ride here
So I am ready to eat my panda.
~Panda Panda Panda~
That is the inside of my Panda.
We just took a picture
To go on the wall!
So literally our picture is gonna go here
you guys have to come and see it.
So if you're in Yahiko you need to go there and eat some Pandayaki
The people in there are so nice.
Guys, they gave us free tea. This is the best.
The countryside is the best!
And the Pandayaki is a really kind of refreshing,
interesting taste - at least the edamame one is.
And I'm sure the other ones are delicious too
cause like...I'm gonna get run over. I gotta stop vlogging.
We discovered a foot bath
And it's holding us all up because it's so much fun.
Rachel: "It feels really nice."
~Halloween~
Okay, we are here to eat lunch now
Unfortunately
It's, um...
It's a set lunch
So I can't eat anything...
Everyone has donated their edamame
I have a great little spread here!
Thank you guuuuyyysss~
We've come to Yahiko jinja
to see deer.
That is a power spot
those are small children.
OHMYGOD
LOOK...look...
Oh they're so cute...they look like little cats curled up.
On the ground, kind of.
*overwhelmed from cuteness*
We found the deer.
We also saw an archery competition
which was pretty exciting
I've actually never seen that before.
They had really big bows.
Ya.hi.ko. in the rain.
Cute.
~Vlog-ception~
Only the Queen can sit there.
Kasia: "That's what they call me."
Here we see a vlogger in their natural habitat.
Beautiful.
This is a Japanese toilet.
In Japan.
This is the bathroom.
This is the FREE STUFF!
So you guys think Japan is high-tech.
This is the actual truth.
*Sensual, obsolete music*
If I gave you a cassette, what would you do?
Millie: "I think I would press a button"
"to open it"
Millie reacts to...cassette players!
Millie: "I'm scared that I broke it."
I'm so old.
"21 year old Millie tries to figure out a cassette player."
Millie: "I've seen them before!"
*gasp* You did it!
Here we have a very nice window seat
Where we can look at the rain
And contemplate cassette players and other old
obsolete technology.
We all fell asleep.
Because that was a tiring ride to Yahiko this morning.
Now we're gonna go get dessert
at dinner time.
Vending machine, vending machine, vending machine.
"Meimei got the prettiest ice-cream."
Isn't it the prettiest.
Oh my god.
It's Tsukimi season in Japan
so there's lots of bunny themed stuff
which is pretty adorable if you ask me.
So the Shrine is lit up at night
apparently
and we're going to have a quick little look.
We just had a delicious dessert at the cafe here
it was probably the best matcha ice-cream I've ever tasted
it was so, so good
it was heaven.
Shrine. At. Night.
The light of our cameras will lead us through.
This darkness.
Okay guys, our beds are made
It's time to go to sleep - goodnight.
Goodmorning! Day 2 in Yahiko!
We're about it eat breakfast and I'm really excited because I want to drink coffee and eat food~
~YAY~
We're basically staying at the most gorgeous place I've ever, ever stayed in.
It is so quaint and beautiful
And lovely!
We were late to breakfast but they still let us eat breakfast.
They're the nicest, I totally recommend this place.
I don't think I've ever had a more luxurious
hotel
slash, ryōkan
experience
ever.
Here's a peek at another part of this hotel
this is an onsen
~Where you can bathe all your worries away!~
Just what we all need, right?
This is where you put our belongings
while you're in the onsen
because obviously you go into the onsen NAKED.
So what you do is you wash yourself over there
before you get in.
and then you just bathe.
The alkaline in the water is supposed to help with your skin to make it beautiful!
Today we're just going to hang out in Yahiko
and then head back to -
well, I'm gonna head back to Tokyo
everyone's gonna go their separate ways I guess.
But it is raining!
and I know the plan was to go to a park
so I don't know what's gonna happen.
Magical things.
Mao's still vlogging.
We really need to go, and she's like...vlogging...
I've never been hugely into small towns
But this one...
is absolutely the quaintest most adorable cute little thing ever.
and I think it would make a really great tourist experience actually.
If you want to go to a small town in Japan
this one is adoraable
the people here are so nice
and so willing to help and
everything.
I think our taxi is here, so gotta go!
So we've come to an old wooden school in the middle of Yahiko.
This is very different from a regular Japanese school.
There are tatami mat classrooms
They have whiteboards though.
I don't know if they would have had them back then!
Okay, someone from the Meiji jidai (Meiji era) really likes SpongeBob
Or I suppose they came up with SpongeBob!
△ Illuminati confirmed △
Okay, Rachel told me there's a ring toss
I need to find the ring toss
I need to be like a Meiji era student
and throw a ring.
A wild Millie appears!
Oh this is different.
From what I'm used to.
Pretty intense stuff here.
The first floor of this building is set up as a hands on learning experience
To show everybody what it was like in the olden days
when stuff was vintage and cool.
Aren't you guys glad we have modern technology?
Thumbs up if you remember these!
Thumbs up...ooo! Look at that old thing!
Alright, time to challenge this ring toss!
Alright, no one said I was good at sports.
YES.
~ONE!~
ONNNEEEE
Yeeeeeahh.
Stuff.
From the past.
Slightly broken.
"I'm learning about the world."
Here we see New Zealand
right at the very bottom where no one will find it
just in case there's a war.
The second floor is actually a community center
so they use this for multiple things, really.
It's a really great insight into how
people lived back then
and the kind of things that they did and learnt
and yeah!
~Education for the win!~
Stay in school.
Okay
It's really rainy
I'm afraid I might slip.
Going up here.
Oh wow.
Possibly this is the old haunted house we're visiting today.
Oh my god, a frog!
OH MY GOD, A FROG.
It's so well like, camouflaged!
Rachel: "Yeah, I literally can not see him."
"He stopped jumping, but..."
I am so glad I didn't step on that froggie.
I haven't found any ghosts yet, but I'm still looking.
Bye-bye school.
Going to get some lunch.
Everybody's got their lunch
So unfortunately, there are no vegetarian options
which is something you need to kind of expect and prepare for when you're traveling in Japan
or living here
but it's okay
just bring something from home!
So basically everything here is adorable
the people are really nice
and I totally recommend it if you can eat the food definitely
I have an umbrella all thanks to the lovely, sweet kind owner of this restaurant.
Oh my god.
When people do like, something kind for me, it really like, hits me in the heart.
Especially when like, they absolutely didn't have to
Basically
this town
everyone here has been so kind
and so nice
and so wonderful.
This is probably one of the most gorgeous settings for a shrine
and one of the most gorgeous shrines I've ever seen
the mountains in the back just make the shrine look absolutely heavenly.
It's so beautiful here.
Okay, so I went and prayed here
and I also bought a little token
just because I haven't been having the best luck
and a little bit of luck would help me out a lot.
and I got one for Duncan as well.
I'm not really religious at all or superstitious or anything like that
but I don't know, I don't want to pass up some luck.
Me and Rachel are going to check out the park before we head back
This is the best little town ever.
Ooooh!
and we're just trying to figure out how to get into the park
we're right next to the park but
not quite sure how to get in.
Oh! But that fence doesn't go the whole way across!
So that must be it.
TADA
We'll go through there and end up in another world!
DUUUUUUN
Rachel: "I'm for it!"
But can I take Duncan with me?
Rachel: "Okay."
Yeah, we better go pick up our husbands.
OoOo.
Echoooo
We gotta sing something.
~And the rocket's red glare!~
Rachel: "Thanks - you're very patriotic."
~The bombs bursting in air!~
I went blue after coming out of the tunnel - I look blue now.
Good job camera.
We found a quaint little red bridge.
This is the power spot.
That Rachel made.
Rachel's filming a spider.
She looks gleeful.
This Yahiko journey has been amazing
it's been great to explore
but i has been raining all day
and I'm starting to feel a little bit damp
so we're gonna head back to the station
head back to Tokyo
head back to my cats!
And my husband
and yeah!
Bye-bye Yahiko.
As you might have noticed
I went on this trip with a bunch of other awesome YouTubers
I'll link them all in the description box below
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hopefully, I'll see you in my next video!
Bye!
You guys, I have bag envy....
And there's my little Cinnamon!
Hi Cinnamon!
Hi!
Does it smell like Yahiko Cinnamon?
Hi Latte!
Duncan: "It's the smell of young boys!"
Duncan: "I like how he refuses to get off!"
Yeah, like once he's on, he's on for a long time I think.
BOO
I hope that when I play this footage back, there's a ghost behind me.