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it is a
beautiful day here in the heart of tokyo
and we're on a row boat
it's not too often that you get to hang
out on a row boat in the middle of tokyo
let's enjoy it for a minute
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so starting today for the next couple of
days it is going to be peak
cherry blossom season here in tokyo and
i promise to bring you guys along so
it's actually a little crowded out here
which is something i didn't expect it's
a weekday morning
and i came out here at 9 30 but it was
too crowded so they gave me a ticket and
told me to come on back but
still run a boat
i'm testing out a new camera today how
does the audio sound
it's a tiny tiny kid like when i say
tiny i literally mean
it's this big it's a little camera i
can't remember the last time i've
actually
used a rowboat and it's much harder to
actually row
than i remember
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and now i'm stuck on a wall
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and since so many places around the city
are either at
or near full bloom the goal for today is
very simple we're just going to explore
the city
and enjoy the sakura it's such a
beautiful day for him
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so
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all right for as beautiful as the area
around the imperial palace is
it is far too crowded to enjoy right now
so let's head into the city
all right so this area here is hybia
park
and it actually has a few half decent
cherry blossom spots too
let's take a walk
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so with all the birds in the background
this should serve as a pretty decent mic
test so hibia park tends to be a lot
less
crowded as a whole if you compare it to
a place like
chidorigasuchi or ueno park
let's see what else we can find
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i came across a shrine over here
look how incredibly steep those stairs
are
that is something else oh my lord and it
says no training which is kind of funny
because these
stairs are apparently famous for some
samurai who
actually went up and down these on a
horse
and i guess they don't want anybody else
trying to do it on a horse
let alone wow okay there's another
staircase
off to the side which i'm assuming is a
slightly easier path
up but we uh
we are doing this
wow wow when you get on the stairs it's
actually kind of intimidating they
actually feel like you're just climbing
a wall
like i'm not particularly afraid of
heights but this
feels really high okay
there we go
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nice here though i honestly could not
have predicted it being this crowded
though this
a lot of people climb those stairs i
kind of feel ridiculous for making such
a big deal out of it
and it looks like that other staircase
leads to here
so you don't have to come up the crazy
stairs if you don't want to
it's recommended though oh even that is
a lot of stairs wow
and you can even grab food up here this
is incredible there's a very good chance
that this
may be my new favorite shrine in tokyo
there's just so much here
there's actually a really nice cherry
blossom place that i want to take you
guys to
but first we have to make our way down
these stairs see what i mean though it
feels like a wall
admittedly it is a bit easier going down
don't know why going downstairs is
usually harder
but
we made it oh happened we broke the
rules we ran sorry
sorry so sorry
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well i shot way too much footage at the
both place so i gotta actually swing by
home once
and dump the footage before we can head
out again
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so from tokyo tower out to here has been
nothing
but hills but but on the plus side
when i swung home i had a new pair of
pants waiting for me so i have new pants
yay
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how many times have i dropped this thing
today still not a scratch that's good
there it is people love to gather here
about the fence to take pictures
based on how things were over the
imperial palace area i thought for sure
we would be at like full bloom here
but it looks like we might actually
still have a couple more days so
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so i just stopped for a few minutes to
have a chat with the gentleman walking
up there and he was telling me that
because of the wind that comes along the
river this area tends to be a little
colder so these ones
open up more slowly he also mentioned
that since
the imperial palace is wide open it gets
a lot more sunshine whereas
there's buildings on each side of this
which create more shadows and
temperature and anyway let's keep going
it's a lovely sound i absolutely
love that view look at that just don't
get tired of that do you
and i love that even after over 10 years
in japan i get excited for this
every single year also would you believe
the majority of this video has been shot
either on this tiny little camera
right here or my iphone actually let me
show you this camera
this thing is amazing this might be my
new look at this look how small it is
this is the insta 360
go 2 and it comes with this little case
right here
that is just the absolute best thing in
the world it just magnetizes to
everything like a vast majority of this
video
has just been shot with me having the
camera right there and i just push it
and it records or even better yet
almost dropped it the case here opens up
like this and you can use it as a little
stand or you can hook it onto something
and and it's got this clip mount that
i've been using for my hat where i just
pop it in like that
and off we go and the camera itself is
waterproof which is a good thing because
when i was doing the row boating there
was water splashing
all over the place it got pretty wet and
it was okay
case actually charges it and serves as a
remote
my only pet peeve with it is that it's
only got mine has about 27 gigabytes of
space
and that that that filled up real quick
i
need to be more picky about my shots i
just i shoot everything
and you can screw it onto a pole like
that that's how i was getting all those
like shots through the sakura and
everything
i love it like even like this i can just
hold it right in the case and walk and
talk i love it and then when i'm done i
can just pop it right on my
just like that and we're good to go
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look at this area though that guy back
there was one who told me about the
sakura
in this area i'm starting to get really
thirsty so
let's see if we can't find ourselves a
vending machine
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it's been a really nice day i'm actually
just glad that i have a couple more days
to enjoy the cherry blossoms and if by
any chance you're like oh i wish this
was longer so so do i
we're definitely going to come out and
do some cherry blossom live streams
let's do
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i had to it out to ueno park tonight
just to shoot the sakura because i did
not
want to miss this insta360 emailed me
today and told me that they're going to
be doing a special campaign or discount
on the 1r
and the 1x2 and and i'm gonna be
announcing
the winner of the one x two from the
giveaway from
the video i don't know which side all
the promotion and discount information
will be linked below and honestly i
still can't believe
where did i put it that i managed to
shoot an entire
video on this little camera right here
what did you think would you use this
how would you use it i feel like i could
have used it much more creatively like
for example that scene with the vending
machine
when i got home and i looked at that i
was like why did i not put that
inside the vending machine and push the
button and then have the drink fall
right
i could have i might have got it stuck
in the vending machine i could have done
that who knows maybe i'll even take one
of the most creative suggestions and
work it into a video
let's have some fun with it let me know
what you would do in fact if we get
enough interest i might even be able to
convince insta360 to let me give one of
these
away as well insta360 if you're watching
we we would love that
we would love it
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