good morning guys it is a chilly morning
here in Tokyo and I am currently in
Shibuya now I've been told by a friend
but there is a glasses store here called
teens and apparently at this glasses
store you can get a pair of glasses made
for half the price that it would cost
you to get them made back in Australia
and also apparently they can do them in
a week now I got these glasses here at a
place called OPM in Australia they cost
me about two hundred dollars or maybe
two hundred and fifty dollars and it
took one month for them to be made so
I'm in Japan for a couple of weeks so if
I go get some glasses done today then
hopefully they'll be ready in a week's
time I'm hoping to get something
somewhat similar to the ones that I'm
wearing but I'm basically just getting
them as a backup pair because I was
thinking to myself if I dropped these
glasses or if I lost them or if I
stepped on them I would have no way to
get around Tokyo because I wouldn't be
able to see but these are my only
glasses so I figure if I can get some
cheap ones made here while I'm in Tokyo
why not so this place are jeans
there's a lot of different glasses
stores in Japan are they're soft there's
Megan a super there's jeans there's a
whole bunch of them but I'm trying this
one because I know someone that's been
there before and they said that they
have a really good selection this is
only a 5 minute walk from Shibuya
station so it's basically just along the
Main Street you go past Shibuya 109
I'm getting out of breath I'm talking
too much and by the way you might not
recognize me in all of this I've turned
into gudetama the lazy egg because it is
so cold I just I have to rug up every
square inch of my body so
and level the random music all over
Tokyo okay see you in the store
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place your face in the circle
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is it gonna pick some glasses homie what
what is it done has the government just
stolen my identity
Oh era oh boy I can't tell it oh it's
look at his man and woman and it says
era
I guess look I could be anything right
now I could be good at Hana
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yes so I'm faced with the dilemma of
these are 120,000 yen but I really
really liked them and these are only
5,000 yen and I think they're a little
bit too big for my face but that's a
huge amount of money to save like
they're over twice the price and I do
still like pink ones the pink ones are
cute but they're also 120,000 yen so I
think I'm thinking I'll go with these
like they're cheap and I'm also really
happy with the glasses I have so these
will just be a good backup pair okay
guys
craziest thing just happened so I went
to pay for the glasses they only cost
10,000 yen which is a hundred US dollars
which is 130 Australian dollars they
would have been a lot cheaper than that
but I opted for the blue light filter
which added an extra five thousand yen
there were three different types of blue
light filter there was like the the
lowest level the medium of the highest
the lowest one is for everyday use the
medium one was for heavy use of the
computer and the darkest color was for
like nighttime use on the computer I
just opted for the standard one because
I didn't want it to change the color of
the lenses but anyway so that added 5000
years so if I hadn't done that if I
hadn't gone for the blue light filter it
would have only cost 5,000 yen for a
brand new pair of glasses now the crazy
thing was here was me expecting that I
would have to come back in one week and
he said to me he handed me a little
receipt and he said come back in 30
minutes you need 30 minutes but 3-0
sun-joo puddin desu desu ooh honpo deska
haiquan bonus isn't that insane I can't
believe it so I just have to kill time
for 30 minutes come back and I will have
my brand new glasses I can't believe it
I'm so excited also interestingly enough
they put me in this funny machine to
test my eyesight I've never seen that
before I literally looked in it and as
I'm sitting there looking it's doing a
reading of my eyes and you know how
normally they give you different lenses
and they go is it you know a or B which
is better
a or be clearer less clear clear or less
clear and all that sort of thing and it
goes on and on and on they just set me
in this machine and it just it just
figured out what my prescription was and
I printed it out and it was exactly the
same as the prescription that I have
back home I don't know what Japanese
witchcraft that is but I was very very
impressed I'll be back in 30 minutes
with my brand new glasses and I'm so
excited okay and I've just picked them
up that was exactly 30 minutes and I'm
wearing them and they are wonderful
they're actually a little bit more crisp
than the glasses I was wearing maybe
because I've beaten those up a little
bit I've bumped them and scratched them
and they were not so clean so these ones
are absolutely perfect
I actually I don't know if they suit me
better than the others necessarily but I
do I really really like them I like the
style obviously they're much more round
than my old ones and they're also bigger
but I don't mind how big they are
because it means that I've got a really
good field of vision there's no frame
sort of obscuring my vision or anything
I'm so happy I can't believe that that
was a 30-minute turnaround a hundred
dollars later it would have been fifty
dollars later if I hadn't gone for the
blue light filter so that's it guys that
is my I guess you could say review of
Jin's glasses I'm really happy I'm very
impressed I would definitely go back
there again they weren't a huge amount
of styles that I was very interested in
though that's the only thing I was only
interested in the round ones but if you
have a different tasting glasses to what
I have I reckon that you'd have a lot of
luck finding glasses that you like so
the one week turnaround thing is
apparently multifocal the other thing I
forgot to mention was that I got these
tax free so if you take your passport
with you at the time they'll stamp your
passport and then you get a discount I
think it's about 10% so that's why I got
them for 10,000 yen but if you don't
have your passport with you you might
end up paying a bit more I was toying
between these and a couple of different
styles but these were the cheapest and
I'm really
see sir I could have paid a hundred and
prepaid 12,000 yen for a different style
that I decided to go with these but
these are equally as nice and they were
half the price at the others so if
you're coming to Japan and you're in
need of a new pair of glasses you can
bring your prescription with you
otherwise you can just sit in their
fancy machine and it'll just figure it
out for you so that's it guys thank you
so much for watching and we'll see you
next time
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