good morning everybody welcome to tokyo
creative play i'm your host emma today
i'm here with jordan and makoto-chan
we're here in hashimoto
do you know what today i feel like uh
climbing a mountain you know i feel like
climbing a mountain climbing a mountain
i don't want to climb a mountain man i'm
tired i feel that i want to climb but i
don't want to use my own leg if only
there was a way to climb a mountain
without the use of my legs well jordan
there is we're getting on a train that
climbs a mountain baby can't wait for it
a special sightseeing train tenku
that's where we're gonna head we're
gonna head to the koyasan area get on
the train and see some sights along the
way very excited shall we let's shall
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so we've been climbing the mountain in
the trains very fun very nice very
beautiful we're actually going uh
443 meters above sea level jeez yeah
that high on a train we're going again
oh
you can do a train take me above sea
level
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we're in switzerland oh
mom mama mia we're in switzerland
that's not it that's not swiss that's
not swiss oh
but this train is yay
from the designs the design is awesome
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so
so we're here in the mountains of
wakayama in a pretty special town it's
said that one in three people in the
city
are monks yeah this area is called
and we're in a cemetery right now uh
it's like the most beautiful cemetery
i've ever been to it's so so gorgeous
it's amazing but uh we're here to see
something special something very special
yeah it's the uh the sweating
yeah uh apparently it takes on all of
the uh
the sins the bad things the wrongdoings
people have done and it's just sweating
a lot because of that it's like i've
taken on so much space it's just like oh
god
yeah
it's a moist stone apparently the back
is always damp so that's why there's
also a really interesting well that i
want to check out well the scary one the
scary well so let's go over here and
check it out so apparently uh if you
look into the well and you don't see
your reflection you will die within
three years do you want to look in the
well i'm i i kind of don't want to look
at it i'd rather not know but i'm going
to look in the world i think we have to
i'm going to find out if i'm going to
die the next three years i'm hoping i
don't i have plans but it's like so
aggressive
usually so aggressive like oh if you
don't see it you'll have bad luck or
something it's like no you're you're
gonna die
oh
i see me okay i'm gonna live you're
gonna live oh wow it's very deep lean
very forward oh god
there i am hi
i live to to eat ramen another day i'm
gonna live boys yay
oh my gosh
you're really stressed i don't want to
die man okay we're about to go up this
uh set of stairs and there are 43 steps
we have to go up all of them because
if we don't we die
42 is like
me so
death so we have to get to the 43rd step
to get past death so
let's do this
what if i
you could do it i could overcome death
we did it we overcame death we're okay
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let me show you guys my room look at
where i'm staying we all get our private
room
and uh it's very sweet it's very
traditional but they have a massive
kotatsu in the middle
so if you guys want to find me
i'm just oh
i'm just going to be here
so i'll see you guys later when it's
time for dinner again oh
oh my god so we spent the day wandering
around in koyasan a place famous for uh
japanese buddhism it's actually got a
history that goes about over 1200 years
and a lot of temples that we've got to
check out today yeah
but now we have finally come to um
which is a temple hotel kind of thing
it's really like old traditional and
beautiful but right now we're just about
to have some shojin diori which is uh
like a
monk meal
traditional monk meals oatmeal it's uh
typically or always vegetarian or vegan
i think it's vegan i think it's vegan
yeah monks i think typically don't
consume animal products so it's all
really fresh seasonal vegetables and uh
just really really good i've had it
before but this is this is on youtube
i've never had it before this is my
first time it looks
fantastic
so good they also have these big old
beans that uh jordan was eyeing before
emma she wants us to open the blue one
are you ready it's so good it's like
really beautiful okay
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good morning everybody good morning good
morning jordan i just sleep really well
actually fantastically
we had to get up at 5am
it was well i got up at 5am i think yeah
i was over five dude
my eyes opened at five it was five i was
like man it is early but it was worth it
because we got to see um
like the the morning prayers in the
buddhist temple here which was
amazing yeah i've never seen anything
like it it felt really like unique
you know we got it kind of involved we
got to go through and pray and
and
i don't know how to describe i don't
know the words for what they did there's
like a a ritual they do as they're
praying and i'm sitting in my chair i'm
in the front woman comes up she's like
come join us and i was like
what
me but obviously my first time doing
what i'm doing so i'm just like sort of
copying the people in front of me but
like
everyone's like super friendly if you
don't understand something they're
really willing to help you out like
there's a part of like tea and i was
like
do i do i drink did i drink this i was
like
it was like it's forgotten i was like
thank you don't drink it
don't drink the tea but it was it was
really beautiful and then afterwards we
got to go and have tea and and sweets
with with the monks it's really about
community i felt really connected to
everybody and really like
i don't know like a part of something it
felt really really nice it's pretty good
it was fun yeah so we've had breakfast
it's a bit of a chilly morning but we've
got to get out of here we're here going
to osaka osaka to do some knife making
you see my earrings i'm wearing today oh
we're my little knife earrings yes for
the knife making very excited for it but
yeah it's a little bit of a long journey
today so let's get started and go make
some knives let's go
okay now we've come to sakai city in
osaka sakai is actually famous for its
knives of 90 professional chefs in japan
using sakai knives and we're going to be
making our own kitchen knives so excited
to slice and dice tonight are you ready
for this spice the spicy knives the
spicy that place
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that is so hard like eighty percent of
like your foot pressing down is nothing
yeah and the last twenty percent is
everything it's so hard remember ever
slowly
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it's like paddling about the moment yeah
it's already
cricket or something
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we gotta take our gloves off or they'll
catch fire
it was scarier than the other one
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so
super nice we can get the shapes one is
already from uh from kansai there was
some kanto i'm gonna go for the the
canceling one i'm going for kanto
wrapping the team's
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oh
so good
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it
is it's what i imagine churning butter
feels like but it's sharp butter
bit of mustard
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scariest one yet i don't know why this
one just scares me
get out of here
what
maybe i should get talking
all right
bro
tokidoki make knife
what do you guys think of your knife so
far
a little blunt but she'll get there big
fan
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up to where you got it
this is a forbidden chocolate oh is that
your username yeah
that's my username
it looks so good
um did i mention i really used to eat
dead as a kid
this is like ideal this is like michelin
star dirt
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there we go
like this
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thank you for tuning in i can't believe
we got to finish the day by making our
own knives how was it
it was awesome i've never actually made
my own knife before so i i don't know
i'm excited to cut vegetables at home i
want people to come over and like be
like oh nice knife and it'll be like
thanksgiving
but yeah we did so much today so if you
guys want to see any more info about the
places we went to go see please check it
out in the links in the description down
below but yeah thank you so much for
watching and we'll see you in the next
video
bye
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