This video is sponsored by the Aizuwakamatsu Tourism Board
It is determined. First on the list. Do K-Pop stans deserve
rights?
Now. No.
So it is day two in Aizuwakamatsu. Today was
starting off the day with a Naginatta experience. So
Naginatta is a kind of weapon that was used back in the day
typically by kind of like female samurai. So it's usually
done by females which is quite interesting.
Definitely never done this before. The oldest lady over
there. She's so cute. Their faces were really really
concentrated and like you just tell it they've been doing this
for years and they know it inside and out. It's really
cool.
We've just arrived at a restaurant for lunch and it's
called Matsuya
I'm hoping that's correct. They skewer all kinds of
different things. Most of them is vegetables and they just
kind of sit them over the fire. Looks delicious.
Do you see that stretch? Hot damn!
Wow, it's really snowing.
I hate snow. Why do you hate snow? Just cold and my feet get
wet.
But it's beautiful. Oh look at the snow.
So we've come to a place called Ochijuku...
Ochijiku? Ochijuku? Ah whatever.
And they've got a snow festival here. Yuki Matsuri, and perfect
conditions for a yuki matsuri. Oh Snow on my eyelash! Is that
like good luck or something?
Oh it's so cool.
So basically the whole street is just lined with a bunch of
different shops selling all kinds of souvenirs. And
everyone's making little snow castles and snowmen on the side
and there's a bunch of samples and you can buy some mochi.
which I'm strongly considering. This is so nice. The Australian
in me is like dying. This is so cool!
Do you wanna be a snowman?
This was probably a bad idea in retrospect but
I'm glad I did it.
I don't know what is happening behind this fence. There's
trees and at the end of every little stick
there's a little mochi ball stuck to it and now they're
like throwing mochi and like mandarins in the air. It's kind
of like the setsubun festival I went to where they throw beans
but this one they're throwing mochi. This is heaven.
Why can't I get inside? I need to get inside so I can
get a mochi.
So they're having a
competition to see who can cut the wood the fastest and one of
the other youtubers who's here with
me got chosen to go up.
Holy crap.
Oh my Gosh.
My mind is blown. This is already like the best Japanese
hotel I think I've ever been to. Wow. Wow. OK.
Wow. Oh my gosh.
That's the cutest display I've ever seen.
Oishii!
That's so good. Really really good. This hotel has completely
blown away any expectation I had about it. They told me that
it was gonna be really good but I didn't expect them to have
all of this. Not only does it look beautiful. And the food
that we had is just so incredible. They also have
their own mochi tsuki which is unheard of. This hotel is like a
n experience in and of in itself. It's not just a
place to stay. You get to experience all kinds of things.
And the mochi is great, of course.
And that concludes my three day trip to Aizuwakamatsu. I hope
that you enjoyed this video and that you're feeling nice and
relaxed while watching me bathe in an onsen. This trip was so
incredible and it was one of those pinch yourself kind of
moments where I was looking around at everything
and thinking, "How did I get here and who is paying for all
of this?" Because it was such an incredible experience. So
thank you to the Aizuwakamatsu Tourism Board for sponsoring
this video. The links for all of the places I went to today
including the hotel that has this incredible onsen will all
be in the description of this video.
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