hey guys welcome back to TC play I'm
your host for today Sharla I'm here with
Sarah and Jordan and we are in a very
snowy towada aomori today to check out
the local site some of the pretty areas
eat all their amazing food and yeah
we're gonna be spending a whole day here
so I hope you guys enjoy the video
today's video is sponsored by tawada
travel thank you so much but shall we
get going let's go let's go
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so we are down here at oidase Gorge
which is a very famous spot here in
aomori and the stream that you can see
down below actually flows down from Lake
tawada and right now we're in like the
center of aomori prefecture but um yeah
what is this place famous for so here in
the summer it's hard to imagine now but
it's famous for the hiking because it's
really beautiful and so pretty yeah yeah
and then right now during the winter you
can actually see some icicles and Frozen
waterfalls it's a little early in the
season but if you come like at the
beginning of the starting though yeah
little baby icicles yeah I mean like do
you ever pull them off and lick them no
what no
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and then you pour some maple syrup and
you're like yeah I think it's like
massive troughs and then like fresh snow
in the trophy and syrup is poured into
it and you're like can we just get it
from the yard
in England when it snows we don't go to
work Oh Canada too like everything shuts
down well where I'm from because we
don't get that much snow so if it's
snowed this much like everything would
be
snow days so this is why you're so
excited about this I know I'm so excited
these are the Genki levels about the
snow the most
like
it's called My personhood all right
shall we go to our next spot yeah what's
next I mean we explore a bit around here
yeah let's walk around a bit yeah
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one of the most beautiful uh waterfalls
on the entire Trail and it is majestic I
think India Autumn time it's fantastic
summertime beautiful right now in the
winter time we've come pretty early so
it's not frozen over yet but if you come
here at the right time the entire thing
is frozen solid that's quite a good
sight to see I've seen it previously
it's very cool you can actually go all
the way up to the base of the falls and
check it out we look close but as you
can see
I'm not in hiking gear right now
is it I am I'm wearing Canadian Sorel
but your feet are freezing I'm wearing
Vans my feet
my feet my feet are so toasty so maybe I
got Nikes
right now hey I'm an approvaluation
I can't no no no oh just lick it on the
Rock so can I look at can I lick it on
the Rock
oh I'm not allowed to apparently I would
have been down for it sorry to
disappoint I was ready
that's good that's good
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so we've come to takasagoya for lunch
it's right on the lake so you have a
really great view out the window and
we're going to be having their famous
bada Yaki which Sarah is going to
explain to you yeah so it's a local dish
here in tawada and it's really the soul
food of the city and I'm going to show
you guys
so we've got thinly sliced cuts of beef
with onion and it's seasoned with a
really sweet sauce so it should be good
let's introduction
so I'm gonna give it a go it's best to
have it with a bit of rice in my opinion
oh I only got rice
so it look there's a few grains of rice
but it's really sweet and it kind of
like it's really chewy it's really soft
um it is also really affordable so it's
compared to like wagyu it's like around
I think around 10 to 15 in general
um depending on where you go but here
you can see you've got a whole spread of
things you've got a salad some miso soup
some little um side dishes it's quite
good yeah how are you finding it Jordan
I love body like you man I think this is
my second time having like bodyaki and
um in Japan and it is like everything I
want from a dish it's a healthy heaping
of meat a good amount of vegetables and
a big old bowl of rice a man is always
happy with a bigger bowl of rice and a
large amount of meat it's very flavorful
as well I think that's the most
important thing about the dish although
it looks very simple it's got really
good compact flavors there so you can
get the sweetness you get like the the
type of like pan cooking that it's
grilled with it's a nice like sort of uh
what's the word yeah the hot plate
sizzled style way of cooking it is
actually fantastic if you wanted more
flavor you guys get a little ponzo as
well you can add it to the dish but I'm
gonna eat it just how it is it's
flavored perfectly
thank you
and after eating your lunch and go
downstairs and have a really good
omiyage Shop with a selection of
souvenirs from the area so we might
check that out after our meal but yeah
we're gonna enjoy this and we'll see you
guys later
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apples but there's actually two more
things that are pretty famous in um what
one of them is
garlic I've actually found these garlic
semi which I'm definitely gonna buy and
try for myself but one other thing
that's famous in um what is actually
there they're scallops and you combine
some pretty interesting omiyage pretty
interesting souvenirs which is a
these dried scanners so I've actually
had these before and they actually eat
really really good they're actually like
little individual packages you can like
go out and share them with your friends
but let's see whatever Omega we can find
in this so um let's go let's go
that's sitting here by the fire oh yeah
shopping found a some interesting garlic
snacks oh it's like garlic Sunbeam even
right
it looks like corn crackers
really
oh
this is
like super famous in the region as well
so like I've not been able to stop I
can't stop
I thought it would be black I don't know
why it was matching yeah
it's like a bunch of black
well while you're doing that we won't
double it yeah I thought it's going to
be like individual big Sunday the little
individual like chips like chips
I'm not ready to go and breathe out oh
this is really cute
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this is like an apple
alcoholic drink
all right we are outside of tawada
shrine and we are drinking a very
popular winter drink here in Japan it's
amazake made from fermented rice and
sometimes it's slightly alcoholic but
it's it's really low alcohol content so
in general it's safe for children to
drink as well but sweet right yeah it's
quite sweet and I heard that you made it
yourself I yeah I made it how did that
go um so it was my friend's grandfather
around her New Year's and he was like do
you want to come into the kitchen he'll
be like throw up some amazake it's
awesome and I was very confused and
already Tipsy it'd be New Year's and
just sort of made a batch that I was
lucky together I could not make it again
I have no idea how he made it it's all a
blanket I was gonna ask you yeah
I'll ask him and I'll get the recipe for
you it's yeah it's fine I'll try and
make it I love it so much I always look
forward to Winter because they start
selling it here I think my favorite part
about it is that I have the chunks of
the rice in it yeah it's not just like a
blended drink
um so yeah if you enjoy chunky drinks
it's like a porridge
it's like a very good porridge yeah it
is yeah it makes sense yeah it's like a
sweet kind of like honey rice it tastes
like this honey in any way all right
well shall we eat School
so let's head inside toward that's right
so pretty covered in the snow
so excited to be here very cold though I
think it's like let's check how cold it
is it is currently minus four and I
don't know what that is in Fahrenheit
but
hey look Reindeer reindeer over there
too a gold one a special one this is
really fun because you walked down and
then you kind of like discover lots of
things along the path yeah they have a
good job decorating yeah and it's so
Christmas look at that tree swaying it's
so windy today
oh I'm so happy
I'm cold
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so that's Harold the the golden deer
he's not allowed to be lit up but that
dude over there
he's lit up that big boy
he's let us big boy big boy
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look at these beautiful stairs let's go
up
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enshrines the dragon deity and
apparently really quiet you're supposed
to be able to hear their breath
though
breath
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oh there's the dragon and it kind of
looks like the Dragon Ball Z character
thing children thank you Seth so these
two rocks are Evisu rock and daikoku
rock and they are known as shintai which
is when there is a spiritual being
inside of an object and they have these
names because apparently they have a
very striking resemblance to Gods with
the same names they were actually formed
by the eruption of the tawada volcano so
they're natural Arc pieces made out of
lava so this is the maiden statue known
as otome in Japanese it was built in
1953 to commemorate the 15th anniversary
of Lake tawada National Park and it's a
popular spot for women to come to pray
for luck in their love life apparently
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we're gonna come back here at night time
once it's pitch black for a special
event so we'll see you guys later
welcome to festivaluche it's a light up
of tawada shrine it looks so pretty so
let's go inside the next one
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to the illuminations see what else we
can find we're hitting some very
adventurous music down there so uh come
with us
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is actually around in autumn and winter
and they have different illuminations
right now the winter ones are kind of
suited to those snowy Vibes so
definitely if you're in the area check
both of them out and yeah and one more
thing they also have fireworks on the
weekends during winter so that would be
really awesome to see
so that wraps up our date enchilada I
hope you guys enjoyed joining us for the
day we had lots of fun it was very cold
but we went to so many cool places and
ate lots of yummy food let us know what
your favorite things did today was and
we'll also have another video coming out
in Toronto so keep an eye out for that
soon thanks so much for watching guys
and we'll see you again
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becoming a snowman my hair is better
than yours during the winter time it
keeps me warm sometimes
I don't know what happened there
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oh my God