hello welcome to Nara Japan one of Japan's most famous cities it's famous for its deer So today
we're just going to explore the city this is my first time here so let's see how it is always
smash like button and subscribe and let's go I just arrived from this train station over here
these are my first impressions of this area looks pretty cool so there's a shopping street over here
there's a convenience store and this is a main road let me show you the main road real quick
pretty big and I'm not BT from the distance there's a mountain over there
a lot of trees Greenery it seems like it's uphill slope Let's see we have Nara Park information so
this place is famous for its deer Nara is famous for its deer there's a gigantic deer park which
we will go pretty soon so just stay tuned I just want to give you a feel of the area
sonara is a smaller City I was looking up online they have around a population of like 360
000 people so it's definitely a smaller city than Osaka where I just spent
let me show you that there's a gigantic water fountain over
here you see they even have a picture of a deer as
well it looks like they're cleaning up a water fountain it's kind of cool to see
okay so let's walk towards the park so we could walk towards the park straight but I
think we want to see the shopping street because that's more interesting right guys I love nature
don't get me wrong but you guys probably want to see how the shopping she is if you ever do
get an opportunity to go to Nara I'm pretty sure you'll end up at this train station over there
okay let's go see what they offer at this shopping Street
soaks and field pancakes they look like pancakes and it's filled with like maybe
bean paste or something that's cool even the pancake has a deer imprint of it
one pancake 750 Yen I will just walk and hopefully you can get like a decent overview of the area
because the thing is if I stop at every shop then I'm sure this video could be like 45
minutes long an hour and I know some of you guys don't like that let me know what kind
of like video do you want you want longer form videos or shorter just let me know tax-free shop
because if you're a foreigner that you can get tax free if you're just visiting
did you see like the taxes just to show you real quick like normally it's 188 with taxes 206.
it doesn't really matter if you like only buy like a little bit of stuff but if you buy a lot then
you know the taxes add up and believe it or not Japan does have like a lot of reasonable prices
so as I said the city doesn't really have that high of a population but the reason
you see a lot of people is that many of the people just visit the city because
of the deer because it's famous and also there's a park over here it's not so far
from Osaka and Osaka is a gigantic City also it's not so far from Kyoto too I think it's
45 minutes to Kyoto too so it's kind of like in between Kyoto and Osaka I'll pull up the
map on the screen just to show you guys where exactly geographically it's located in Japan
I love these little shopping Alleyways and you can see everything is deer themed here too
welcome to Nara oh there's a marathon apparently is she with a deer McDonald's
and instead of Ronald McDonald they have the deer instead
that's funny so if you celebrate Christmas this is probably a great place to go to just uh
show your friends like hey I've met some deers and stuff because these deers you could pet them
play with them feed them but you have to like feed them special food I also heard this place
does have a lot of shrines too in the city if we find any I'll show you it's over here
the angelical Nara Christ Church [Music]
that's a church that looks really interesting look at that [Music] it's like a temple doesn't it
something I just want to show you that in Japan they have a lot of food on display
it looks like real food but it isn't I watched a whole documentary about this
like that it really takes a lot of time just to make all this food you see like we even
have like fake eyes and like just the syrup and everything it's pretty cool because some
places they would have real food on display then at the end of the day they might throw
it out because it's just been outside for the whole day so it's cool just to see the
difference we have a gift shop over here looks like let's see what they're selling
I'm not quite sure what these are guys if you're a Japanese let me know they look to me just straight
off the bat looks like it's like something pickled maybe see there's something like pickled-ish
so we're gonna walk around the shopping street just a little bit and then I think
we're gonna head towards the left and go towards this Lake there's a lake over here
oh it's kind of it's getting colder right now it was just sunny but funny thing is
when I started recording it became Gray sorry guys wish it was sunny
okay let's go towards our left
wow you can see the trees are changing colors because the fall
and give you an overview of this area
okay yeah watch out seems like a little interesting snack place
what do we have it's like some bread and like flavored it with different stuff
look at these guys
I think we came here earlier we see the guy like smashing this paste and then making it kind of
looks like Mochi yeah they're smashing it and then form into these kind of things over here
seems like a hot seller so one box of those are for 900 Yen I wish they would sell one
individually because then I could try it out Family Mart all right I'll check out this vending
machine they have vending machines here in Japan that sell cigarettes where you're from have you
ever seen this like one pack of cigarettes is like 530 Japanese Yen 580 so they have different prices
which is kind of interesting if you're a kid or something if you're a kid or I don't know
a kid or something what else could you be like an animal you just probably buy a pack of cigarettes
they also I've seen they sell alcohol and other stuff in these vending machines as well
it looks like a little Shrine here let me show you real quick
oh there's stairs leading up to this one part which is such a small thing
the lake which I heard is really nice
and I have to watch out for the cars and everyone so they even have a lot
of deers here too that you could buy give to your family let them know you went to Nara
this is reminding me of a movie Bambi because we see so many deers look at this that's cool
it's electric deer moving
look at this mascot over here it's hilarious I seen him like a couple times in the station
hey what is this mascot the deer it's like half human half deer we'll probably see it later on
in the video looks like all these shops are closed too so Japan as you know just opened up to tourism
about a month ago so you're probably looking at shops that was open before the pandemic but since
the pandemic a lot of these businesses obviously lost money and some other vending machines
I hope I'm giving a good tour for you guys please smash the
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this on a Tuesday
because I heard that certain days in the week like Thursday or Friday
there's not as many people but also a lot of the stores are closed too
I love fall or Autumn just to see the different colors of trees changed it oh there we go there's
a lake we found the lake it's massive Lake over here we have a whole crowd of people
check it out guys
oh there's a Starbucks here too looks like there's a hotel and connected to it is a Starbucks
oh let's see should we walk around the lake um I'm trying to because I
think upwards is towards the park so uh I guess we could walk around it a little bit
actually I just found they might have a temple or a shrine up let me see kofukuji
Temple okay I just walked up the stairs wow that building looks amazing right
they have this dragon I love dragons over here should I do too
his mouth is leaking out water
you'd smell a lot of incense too
the architecture on this on these buildings are so beautiful
I love just investigating a place I've never been here before
just to see different types of buildings they have this guy's pushing two dogs hilarious
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quotes of that on our left it's like a giant Temple or something I'm not
quite sure what that is it could be an older government building
because when I was in Kyoto last time I visited Japan they had like some older buildings that were
government buildings that could be I'm not really sure because I think throughout Japanese history
I believe it was the 8th Century it could be wrong that this used to be Japan's capital and
Japan over the years has changed its capital obviously right now Tokyo is this capital
for this building over here looks so beautiful and it's massive as well hello
hey let me get up close to show you more of this architecture of this building
show you guys how it is foreign
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wow check that out guys
yeah it'd be a lot better for sunny right now just so I can show you more of the
stuff like you see more of the details on the architecture seems like they're having a class
field trip over here where to go where to go I think the park is over here straight ahead
actually you know what let's go towards our left for a little bit explore more of this
area real quick uh there we go there's the deer guys and after this video we're gonna
see a couple of deers but after this video stay tuned and make a whole video about the deers
there's a wild one
and a lot of them they either don't have horns or they cut off the horns
look at that amazing okay it looks like there's another Temple place over here
I shouldn't be calling the temples because maybe some are some aren't oh there's other
deers look check that out kind of reminds me if I'm like at a farm or something
wow I got the little fondling
here are the kids looks like they're doing homework or something wow
they're on a class field trip but they still gotta do their
homework and school work isn't that amazing
I was about to go to the park but I decided to go to Family Mart and get a drink and then I saw over
here it looks like they're making these fresh I'm just going to show you the machine real quick this
is making the mochi balls fresh so I'm going to get one and uh yeah let's try it out [Music] okay
are you guys
thank you thank you
rice cake okay thank you look at this she's putting the peanut powder all around her so it's
made from my this is made from bean paste and then also rice glutinous rice tastes really squishy too
all right time to try it out guys
yeah
it's nice warm gooey let's show you the bean paste there's some bean paste inside
is Peanut powder it's kind of sweet try it again
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oh yeah this is really good I wish we put something else inside of it like from
that bead paste but actually the bean paste does go well with a look how squishy it is
I'm sure you give it to you right now
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well that was really good it was nice and fresh couldn't resist so I'm gonna finish
the video up here guys so I'm headed towards the park it's gonna be a whole separate video
so if you're watching this video and you want to see the whole Deer Park the whole deer situation
inara make sure you watch the other one so as always please smash the like button and
subscribe if you haven't already really appreciate it for the bottom of my heart
and yeah so to the park we go if you want to see more videos around
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