in october i went on the first vacation
i've been on with my family in
years my dad worked super hard all the
time so normally it would be either my
brother mom and me
or just me and my mom and even those
vacations became pretty sparse
it's been over 10 years since we've all
had a family vacation and all of a
sudden we have a week to be squished
together in a foreign country
so how'd this one go
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day one we arrived at the tokyo airport
after a nice and easy
11-hour flight and got off the plane
like wow i can't believe you finally
made it we've been planning and looking
forward to this trip for almost a year
and it's finally happening how do we get
out of here we walked around the airport
for two hours trying to figure out what
we had to do
which train we had to get we lost dad
for like half an hour in the sea of
asians
i'd already expected the worst and
thought he was dead but no worries turns
out he wasn't taken out by the japanese
mafia my mom had to get train tickets
and he had to take care of the luggage
so he split up and planned to meet at a
ticket counter but little did we know
there were two of them on opposite ends
of the floor
and as the stereotype goes they looked
exactly the same so my parents were just
grumbling and waiting for each other to
show up at the opposite ticket stand
with no method of communication because
we didn't have wi-fi yet after figuring
that out and getting to the tokyo
station we had to use the subway to get
to our hotel none of us grew up in the
city
and using the subway was new to us so we
had to look at the train station map to
see what to do
and is this the windows 98
pipe screen saver what is this props to
people who use the metro daily
or even just know how to figure that
stuff out because that's like a whole
bill gates secret code
and the consequence of making a mistake
is paying to be plopped in an area you
never wanted to be at in the first place
we didn't even know how to start reading
the map so my dad resorted to the only
logical option
do you speak english do you speak
english konichiwa
uh please uh help
a good 90 of the time we were lost and
not knowing where to go so my dad would
keep
walking up to random japanese people and
trying to communicate with them
in english even though we were in a
country that doesn't speak english
and when they obviously wouldn't
understand he would just try to say it
all again
but slower like that was gonna make a
difference but we found a guy named paul
who helped us out
thank you paul konichiwa japan is super
different from the states i didn't
really know what to expect but my mom
and i were super hyped after
experiencing and learning about the
culture
dad and jax not so much but they like
the food so here's what happened
first morning woke up early to do a
tokyo bus tour this time after our best
friend paul taught us the ropes we were
experts at navigating the subway
we got on the wrong train we stopped at
a cafe for breakfast and it was at that
point where i realized i wasn't going to
be able to use the image translation app
i downloaded to try and make
communication easier while
we were there it would have been super
awesome to just hover the camera over
the japanese symbols and have the phone
immediately be like hey this is what
this says but it wasn't working the way
i thought it would
i don't speak japanese but i'm pretty
sure they weren't selling a surprised
egg
topped with the first time the first
time in fabric this wife
i don't think that's a thing who married
an egg and why is she so surprised the
tour was fun we went to a forest with
some shrines saw some sumo wrestlers
went up the tokyo tower
pretty cool asian stuff second day we
walked on japan's big famous crosswalk
that looks like the bee movies traffic
system press staff for the dog that
waited nine years for his dead owner to
return from the train station
i love you hachiko went to a hedgehog
cafe got on the wrong train
mega spend way too much money at the
pokemon center one nothing at a big
arcade and then collapsed into bed
i should probably slow things down a bit
so you can really take in day whatever
wrong train
rice triangles tiny banana snack my
brother said it tasted weird walking
tour oh god my legs hurt more noodles
went to sleep
we had another bus tour around kyoto and
one of the stops was this thousand
golden statues temple that was really
cool and we learned about a bunch of
gods
one of which i a pokemon master already
recognized since it was the inspiration
behind
thundurus
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another one of the stops on the bus tour
was this temple called kiyomizu-dera
and there's a whole backstory to this
place where some people would do this
thing called taking the plunge which was
seen as a bold and desperate
extreme wish-making act so it's simple
what you do is
jump off the 43-foot temple balcony and
not die
that's literally it i'm not joking in
the edo period people believe that if
they put their lives in the hands of
canon the god of mercy you'd be granted
a wish
given you don't die because he doesn't
give wishes to corpses
during that time 200 people jumped and
85
of them survived which i'd say is
actually a pretty good ratio one woman
apparently even jumped twice
hey my my wish didn't come true
well i guess i jump again well i don't
let you do that anymore
which i think is fair i guess anyway
that wasn't even where i was going with
that place there's this little shrine
area at the foot of the temple with
three waterfalls each representing
either
longer life wisdom or love and if you
drink from one of them it's believed
that you'd be granted that particular
category in life but you only get one
drink
thirsty hoe so i go up there with my
long cup on a stick you get and was
watching what everyone else was doing
they would get the water in the cup
wash one hand at a time then pour some
water into one hand to drink from and
let the rest drip into the pool below
anyway cutting to the chase
basically you're in the presence of some
pretty intense wisdom right now
also there wasn't any place to dry your
hands afterwards so i got wisdom water
all over my pants
after that we saw the thousand red gates
you're allowed to walk under them but
apparently it takes like three hours to
get through them all and we didn't have
that time so we walked under like
10 and called it a day after waking up
with some french toast that was lightly
dusted with a pound of sugar my mom and
i went to the studio ghibli museum
i can't express how incredible that
place was
i would recommend it to anyone who has
an appreciation for ghibli
or animation or art or anything
i'd show you how mesmerizing it is in
there but there's no filming or photos
allowed inside
so no spoilers here i'm a child of the
law but i did snag this picture of the
kids play area because i thought it was
adorable
and sometimes you just gotta break the
rules when it's important okay we went
to a conveyor belt sushi place and mom
had never been to one before so she got
overwhelmed and just immediately grabbed
like five random things
i've been to one once before but my
skills aren't anywhere near coordinated
so when i tried to put the wasabi bowl
back
i ended up clogging a bunch of plates
and ruining a section of the sushi
harmony
and just being really obnoxious and i
felt really bad
the next day we almost got on the wrong
train
the wisdom juice is kicking in we went
to this famous sega arcade with eight
floors
that was immensely intimidating you know
how you go to an arcade and there's
always some
asian kid who's an absolute god at a
game and there's a little crowd watching
because it's so mesmerizing and we're
all pathetic
this is their hive this is the
enlightenment mountain they climb for 80
years and consume
nothing but tears of tigers car racing
combat games even the children were
getting spit out the womb playing like
monks look at this guy
i don't know what game this is or the
objective here but the aura around him
is screaming
live here and never come back rat we
were also introduced to this dance game
i've never seen before called dance rush
stardom it's like ddr but with less
arrows and 100 more late 90s melbourne
shuffling my brother and i tried to play
it and it felt like the whole country
was like
oh god why are they here they look asian
but they're white as crackers but we got
a good kick out of it so you know what
don't don't need you all yourself then
we left and got on the wrong train for
the last night we went to this robot
show and let me tell you this place is
insane so the main attractions of the
place are these giant flashy robots and
stuff
but i gotta talk about these drinks and
light bulbs they were selling they were
crazy with all their blinking colors and
such it was like a little rave in a cup
like dude who comes up with this stuff
benjamin franklin
wishes he did i'll tell you that you got
to choose from like
four drink choices but most of them were
alcohol so i got this peach juice
instead
i'm legally allowed to drink now but i'm
not the biggest fan and who knows how
outrageous the drink would have looked
if i was a bit tipsy anyway
definitely one of the most insane things
i saw for sure
the top of the list of the entire show
nothing compares to the live life
japan was so much fun and it's become
one of my favorite memories with my
family but the thing is
when i started this script i wanted to
briefly mention what we did so i could
talk about how much trouble i had
getting back home
because that was a whole situation of
classic jaden i thought you would enjoy
but here i am on page four of the script
and i haven't been able to jump on
anything i don't like breaking stories
into different parts
but we're not animating a 20 minute
video i'd rather put my hands in the
life of canon
twice so yeah see you in a few weeks
with
that hey thanks for watching so a bunch
has happened since the last video
youtube rewind was posted so that's cool
and i was in it so that's cool too
and then it became the most disliked
video on youtube right now
very cool i threw in a bunch of memes in
my part because i speculated youtube
wasn't gonna do it themselves
and not to throw shade but i was right
and people have been enjoying them
a lot like my god it blew up people
found the majority of them but i thought
i'd tell you the real answers
so everyone got this up to pewdiepie
thing and the smash letter and the logan
ksi fight but i also had a book that
said sociopaths 101 on it that was too
small for people to see this little
bonsai tree was a little tribute to the
famous forest in japan at the beginning
of the year that
someone did an oopsie in and next to it
is a little squirrel because shout out
to my buddy idubbbz for his squirrel
series this year
i just liked it a lot everyone thought
this was a reference to felix's
lasagna but when i made it it was the
somebody touch of my spaghett meme
because that and uganda knuckles were
the january memes of 2018
but it can be on you too i don't
care things have been crazy because of
rewind so thanks for enjoying
my part i wasn't expecting this response
at all
i was just messing around and stuff but
hey i'm not complaining
this whole ride has been super fun to be
a part of you guys are hilarious
and the memes from this have made me
laugh so much and i feel overly
appreciated that's all for now thanks
for watching thanks for the memes in a
year we get to see if i'm not allowed to
be in rewind again because of this
and if so it was worth