bye morrow gonna be a good boy
are you gonna be a good boy
i think that's a no
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hey guys good morning i'm going oh god
everywhere going on a little road trip
today uh chris and ian
there he is
are in the car with me
and we're just getting off the highway
now and we're heading to
matsushima bay which is really pretty
and the last time i was there was
god years ago i've been with you before
a long time ago with rachel and june
yeah like
six seven eight hundred years ago a lot
of years um so yeah i'm really happy to
see it again it's very close to sendai
which is cool we've only been driving
for like 20 minutes and we're almost
there already the weather is so good
it's really warm and clear but it's not
insanely hot like it has been recently
so that is a relief and we're actually
going to meet natsuki who is there
waiting for us now so here's sendai city
down here and matsushima is right there
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check out this police station
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ohio
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it was really rainy for a few months and
then insanely humid and hot for a while
there this is the first like nice
weather day in a long time
crime crime again
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uh two times it's a cycle seven years
seven years ago oh a long time oh wow i
can't believe how good the weather is
it's not humid that's the key
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foreign
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feels a lot different to the last time i
was here i definitely have more shops
looks really nice though there's lots of
nice cafes it doesn't feel overly like
touristy in a cheesy way it's definitely
a really popular tourist
destination for both japanese people and
foreigners and now i'm going to take you
guys to look at some of the temples in
the area if we have time later we might
go on a boat but we've got limited
sunlight left unfortunately so we'll see
how it goes oh wow please look at the
dancing cat that cat has been there for
eight years
oh
it up
what's going
on i like this place
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i don't think it plays already twain
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again
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dancing cats
is famous for all the little islands
that you can see out in the distance and
there's a red bridge there if you cross
that you can actually go over to one of
the islands so hopefully we're going to
do that because that's always fun
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so like we're like somewhere in japan
and
it's really good
there's things stuff for my face
oh
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there's some cool caves over there that
you can see
yeah the only crappy thing about
matsushima is everything closes really
early
like this garden we were trying to get
into sea closed at 3 p.m
unfortunately we thought we had until 4
but looks like it closes even earlier
than we thought and lots of the shops
close at 4 as well for some reason
but there are lots of nice things you
can see that aren't shops
and don't have closing times you can
still walk around this area and there's
some really neat caves
oh do they not let you walk down here
oh i think that but it gets clear like
places
i guess people were touching stuff it
says here that it's too dangerous so
you're not allowed
in there anymore i used to be able to go
right up to them and look inside
you know what happened falling rocks
maybe there's been lots of rain so it
could have been a landslide issue
this cave looks like a skull
i don't really see it
go i'll i'll cover you
sami
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um
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me
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this
is date a famous samurai the founder of
sendai city you'll see him on
anything sendai related
oh yeah
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oh i get some
i've had dr pepper in years
it's like
coca-cola
fruit flavor is it yeah fruit flavor i
always thought it was like spicy
whoa
aquarius and dr pepper over 20 fruit
flavors 23 flavors that's weird i never
thought of it as fruit
apparently have you heard of that it's
an american mr what pip p-i-b-b
no never heard of it
really yeah
and something should be like it actually
tastes like cherry coke
mmm yeah yeah it's pretty accurate you
could probably just label this cherry
coke and i wouldn't know the difference
there's lots of little shops like this
that are selling yakitate freshly baked
sembe
oh
oh he's gonna cook them now
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oh
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these are the only two places i've seen
them but i'm sure there's cities all
over japan that do it
now we're getting zunda
shake which is actually famous in sendai
i guess it's all of miyagi prefecture
soybean milkshakes
you're so thick
oh that's good
this might be the best one i've had yet
if you come up to the sendai area
get yourself a soybean milkshake it's
the local specialty alongside gyutan
beef tongue two things you'll see
everywhere too about everything's closed
we should have come here at like
9am really
yeah completely lost there's a really
nice castle here that you can go up top
and see a view of matsushima
it's closed but we got the tembe we got
the zunda shake
um we saw the little dancing cat temple
that was crazy that the cat was still
that was probably the same cat that you
played with eight years ago
seven years like it had been dragged
through some dirt or something
never mind apparently that little bridge
i wanted to take you guys on is still
open until five o'clock and then after
five it shuts but it's still open and
you can still go on it and you don't
have to pay it's 4 30 now should we wait
i don't know it's really weird
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oh so this is where you get on the boat
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we are
here and this is the bridge that you can
cross
and you can explore this whole island
it's really cool
so don't miss out on this if you come to
matsushima so it's still open so we have
to pay
so it's two dollars
per person
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my generosity knows no bounds
look at that
generous
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you can walk around like the entire
island
we've got a little map here in english
it's pretty cool
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we've crossed the bridge
we're almost on the island the sun is
going to set really soon and i think
it's going to be super pretty so
we're lucky hopefully the timing will
work for our way back but let's explore
the island a little bit first i want to
show it to you guys
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sunset
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20
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next sound
oh i
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look at this cool forest i guess you can
go up here
it look kind of looks like a staircase
but the main path is this way so
we'll stick to the main path
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so there's lots of little viewpoints
like this along the way on the island
great places to view the sunset
but
chris is getting bitten by mosquitoes so
we're leaving
hopefully we'll stay on the bridge at
least so we can get some sunset photos
there
we were chased off the island by a very
angry bug
couldn't tell what it was but
it might have been a hornet or something
so
okay take our chances we ran really fast
we're back on the bridge
it's looking really pretty
they're these cute little birds in japan
that look like seagulls
but they're called umi nickel
and they sound like cats
i wonder if it's the same one from
earlier
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what's the coin
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kawaii
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bye
look at this so the shop is closed
because it's past 5 p.m but there's just
like an opening now that we can go
through and not have to pay
so if you come here after 5 p.m
you can get in through the gap for free
see you soon bye
have a safe trip
i'm safety
safety driver
back to sendai that was a little less
eventful than originally planned
we've learned yeah it was nice but we've
learned to come to matsushima a lot
earlier next time
but yeah it was pretty and the weather
was great
and you can use some footage on my video
with ryotaro
this is what it looks like normally when
you come before four or five and you can
actually go see things i don't know why
matsushima closes so early it's really
weird i think
the idea is you come here for the for a
night to matsushima one of the many nice
hotels so yeah come here do stuff till
three and then at three o'clock
everybody checks it that makes sense
they go in the onset and they have a bit
of dinner you know so i guess the place
kind of dies out after yeah yeah three
years i kind of get it but yeah it's a
ghost town by like four o'clock it's
dead yeah so maybe instead of coming for
a day trip do book one of the onsen
hotels and you can enjoy it the way that
it's designed to be enjoyed but it's
still a really nice place and if you
come in the morning you could do a day
trip here and it would be good but hope
you guys enjoyed the video and i'll see
you again very soon
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