happy valentine's day
you should share share a little share just a little
on valentine's day in japan women give men chocolate not the other way around hi it's your american friend aming here i've been
living in asia since 2012 but there are still many things that i need to get used to they're probably
a lot less trivial than just valentine's day and don't feel bad because on what's called white day
march 14th men will give chocolate back to women but there are still many things that i need to
get used to over here in japan and it's really important this year because we're getting married
now there are some habits that i've just really held on to and some fears about food and of course
public bathing which has always been a big issue for me i guess i just feel embarrassed about it
i'm just not comfortable with it but that's gonna have to change because we're going to aomori japan
to visit an onsen a hot spring and i want to get more comfortable with it because after this
i'm not just a tourist anymore i'm living here for the long haul and we want to make it work
what are you doing
okay good morning we just woke up for real
and i want to give you a little tour of our beautiful japanese traditional hotel room
here we go
i didn't expect them to have this
koto in pajamas i only took one class in this in china one time it's called guzheng in chinese
so let's see if i remember
i didn't break it that's the important part you're gonna love this private onsen
okay
that's so freaking hot oh okay okay okay we're gonna put some
cold water in there later make it make it a little bit less shocking
normally japanese ryokan japanese traditional hotels don't have a massage chair in your room
you look very happy he looks really relaxed
really baby there's our little chairs cute patio set rirakuma flat screen right there
this is tobira the traditional japanese sliding door
it's just so pretty so obviously we weren't sleeping on that last night that you can't sleep
on a table we were sleeping on this is where all of that is kept basically a sleeping bag
kind of thing on the floor but with an extra cushion so if you like camping you're great
oh now now we're looking a little better i got my traditional japanese yukata and is this hauri
haori yeah yukata and haorian and you should wear your hair up when you wear kimono or yukata
because it just it's more traditional people don't wear long hair down when they have this
kind of yukata or kimono on are you ready to eat yes oh he's so excited look at him yeah oh yeah
good breakfast way to start the day what do we have here we have some salmon tofu we got an egg
chicken we've got fish
oh, nabe, japanese kind of tofu pudding we also have rice with umeboshi yeah that's supposed to
keep it from spoiling homemade bread with a strawberry mmm we're gonna eat this delicious meal
Here we go tget some soy sauce in there i usually skip breakfast in japan
don't skip this but perhaps what will be my favorite of all is this good breakfast
good breakfast it's all gone oh you got something on you it's a little bit too hot so let me cool
it down a little or it's going to be really uncomfortable let's throw in some colder water
oh my gosh oh my gosh
Oh, it's still too hot okay
time to time to go in yeah
ah my back it's facing that thing that's the hottest part
we're gonna melt it it's melting really fast
oh but that feels so good that's great the closer you sit to this
the hotter the water is going to be so if you're a person that likes a colder onsen
i recommend going away from this tommy what are you looking at just get down
going in once again
yeah you can do a private onsen it's just that you have to get the timing right
and you can't go out anytime you want like us but if you can find a place like this even better more
power to you it's about two hundred dollars a person which is very cheap because it goes up to
more like six seven hundred dollars yeah for the private ones it's it's pretty rare
can you give me a towel
thank you
my favorite is probably rotenbro because you can see nature outside if you do rotenburo so that's
really nice they tried to teach me how to do this in china i was so bad at this game people beat me
so easily like a kid could beat me though kids are really good at this too they go to school for this
i'm probably gonna lose oh i'm getting it okay
okay time to go we gotta go
go pack up this stuff it's time to move on tommy brought all this stuff for a one day trip one day
now he's got dry his hair you thought it would be colder yes it's not that cold
yeah just a lot of snow i'm from detroit michigan but i've never seen this much snow look at that
it's buried the house oh my gosh this is crazy i don't think i don't think i could walk outside
It's a little slippery here.
How am I gonna walk?
it reminds me of michigan we're always falling on our butts oh my gosh
oh thank you baby