it's seven o'clock in the morning and
I'm in central Tokyo running around the
park around the Emperor's house why I
thought was a very good idea if someone
looks out of their office window
sometime in the next half hour you might
be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a
twenty nine-year-old British guy having
a heart attack in the middle of the park
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a lot of people often ask me for ideas
and things to do around the Tokyo
Station area known as Maddon or Qi
because odds are if you're traveling
through Tokyo it's a district you'll
find yourself passing through at some
point or another in this video we're
gonna eat drink and shop our way around
and search of 10 things to do and to
assist me in my exploration I've
enlisted the help of a good friend and a
former Tokyo resident who claims to be
an expert on the local area here he
comes
take your experts surely some time today
morning good morning hey dude why are we
jogging realtor why is this a thing what
do you want about this is number one
place for jogging Tokyo the number one
jogging spot in Tokyo yes I do I look
like someone that needs to go jogging
well yeah definitely I mean I'm clearly
the your belly look at that and the
cycle need to work out at all seriously
I must admit though there are quite a
lot of jugglers round there why is it so
popular why is this the place to job
well I mean I believe this is one of the
nicest parks in royal kill and also
there's so many office around here so
before they go to work they jog first
and then they go to the office to where
enough I mean usually when I come to
take your business I never do any
exercise because I think where can I job
where can I get away by my jog way quite
go as a result that's what you got now
but now I've got no excuse there's
actually a part where you can jog and
workout history its discovery yes
discovery I deal with a pretty good
excuse though why I wouldn't work out
here and that is getting sweaty not
being able to shower anywhere there is
there's a place to getting a good shot
oh my god is it the place where we got
the shirts from
that's right thanks to the miracle of
Japanese convenience there's a gym next
to the path with lockers biked running
gear and showers so you needn't return
to your hotel or office drenched in
sweat after your early morning run the
Maddon or chief I can run place in
between take a station down the path you
can actually not only rent shoes and
t-shirts but also have a shower much
needed after running around the parks on
27 degrees Celsius today outside say I'm
pleasantly started walking freely whilst
Maddon or she may look like a futuristic
district of gleaming skyscrapers
underneath the old place is still firmly
rooted in tradition with old red brick
buildings dying around and even a horse
and carriage
transporting a big important around town
this is pretty cool
this is the this is a basa der of some
country when the ambassador of a country
arrives in Japan they get to go and meet
the Emperor and kind of sit down a chat
and get to choose whether they go by car
or by carriage and today this ambassador
has chose become my carriage as he words
to reap there what would you rather take
car or carriage obviously carrot
I feel really bad for like you to have
Chris running from silico good morning
so I've got some prison for him and here
they are ours careers so this is white
chocolate ice cream and there's a
Bailey's in it and he's you know Chris
is half alcoholic anyway so he'll love
this and there's a corn ice cream which
actually this is my favorite and these
are the actually best ice cream shops in
Tokyo area Tokyo Station area and Chris
mulatto oh here he comes
oh you go look at these I give you this
one it's got Bailey's in it
Bailey's yeah Bailey's not barely sign
it could work so is this actually
alcoholic it is actually you know he
said I don't know under 20 no our
twenties here how was that nice
why would you get caught ice cream but
you can have Bailey's ice cream
I was bromley they look good so they've
stuck these statues all around Tokyo
Station is the Rugby World Cup coming in
a few months suppose that's exactly what
people want to see
as amazing as Bailey's ice cream ears
unfortunately it's no substitute for a
real luncheon for that we head to
support terrorism the sushi restaurant
specializing in fresh fish from Hokkaido
how fresh is it though well they quite
literally flew it into Tokyo from
Zappo's morning doesn't get much fresher
than that beautiful it's a masterpiece
it's obviously becoming around Tokyo
Station there's probably more
restaurants around the Tokyo Station
area than just about anywhere else in
the world especially given Japan has got
I think Tokyo's got more restaurants
than any city in the world and given the
density of this area here pretty much we
love to eat boiled for choice I think
one of my biggest criticisms of people
coming through panels they always go to
the conveyor belt sushi truly and they
do that they tick sushi off their list
this job done that is not real sushi I
can assure you the fish here is so fresh
it was literally flown in my plane this
morning caught at like 5 a.m.
shipped to Sapporo flown to Tokyo and
just arrived brought rice it down no one
knows is that just a so you know it's
Chris happen to hear my what happened to
my hair there's a everywhere it's like
you know unbelievable he's made fun of
my way the cameraman told me that you
referred to me as an alcoholic area and
now my hair I'm looking through some
comments on a previous video with you
I've shown if robbers like Oh leave me
alone you're such a bully to him he's
the real bully but he's getting away
with murder
no no and nobody's calling him out on it
I'm just always me I'm the bad guy he's
the bad guy look it looks like a
low-class Bond villain we're having
fantastic sushi here with a disjoint
here like what fantastic sushi with a
destroyed hair exactly this is the
fashion this is the fashion of London I
didn't know that I never seen that in
London in London recently
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so in a couple of weeks I'm going back
home to the UK for the first time in
about a year whenever I go home my
friends and family always hate me
because I never have any souvenirs or
get change instead of time I usually run
through Neri to airport out of time so
this time I want to do it right I don't
actually get them something good so
their gifts appreciate having Naser as a
friend and family member yes so I'm
gonna hand over to you I want three to
four things in this shot I'm happy that
you trust me but let's see what you come
up with three to four things I know
definitely this is the be the first one
it's called as Sabah this shoot it shoot
me in sake Japanese are Cara and his
Harbor means a mackerel right so I mean
you need to drink this when you're
eating mackerel and that's the only
occasion you have to drink seems awfully
specific I don't know how many times my
friend and family think yes
what about like yours you have some
macro feels a little bit too elaborate
so interesting good if you having
mackerel but no next thing this is dumb
ah this is like cream cheese right but
with missile this is my favorite
actually cream cheese ever in my life
called cream cheese tastes like a
missile a bit missile flavor
I assume that's going in the no pilot I
mean or something that's a bit more just
Japanese not cream cheese miss so not
mackerel socket actually okay which is a
cup of tea that's the word all the
British people use in a windy actually
going to someone's house exactly what we
say exactly there's a cup of tea anyway
so look at this it's a it's a teapot so
you put some you know tea grass in here
he leave t3 sauce yeah any in there and
it's just put hot water in and wait for
a few minutes that's it it's really I'm
pleased to announce you finally found
something real true that actually would
go on my list so yes yes there you go
guess what this is
box of wood no it's not alright do to
you when you drink sake and in Japanese
people often drink with this one right
it's a square wooden
Sakia cause you put the sake in it yep
and drink out and this is for me but for
you this is it this one wrestlers and
the whistlers or like this so for the
people we work with Billy's there's a
hefty side all right done yeah okay this
is for you
Cheers I'm not buying them so people
always ask me the hidden spots places
that the people don't know about in
Tokyo this is one of them this is why
always coming for a drink cuz I did good
craft beer and you can sit outside which
is quite rare in Japan that is quite
some reason sitting outside hasn't
really been invented in Japan yet but
this is called pub Cardinal Madden or
chase a three minute walk just three
minutes from Tokyo Station him the few
blocks away
I'm impressed cuz real Troy doesn't
drink alcohol but he's actually drinking
beer that's not not alcoholic beer
that's real beer but I've got an
American Belgian style Pale Ale made in
the craft beers becoming big in Japan
recently it's taken a while to get here
I think Japan's lagged behind Europe in
America on this one but true they've
finally caught up and it's finally
kicking off yeah it's exciting time to
be in Japan since when did you start
drinking binge today now some people may
be tired of Japanese food after
traveling you know from Osaka killed to
Hiroshima or displaces then come back to
Tokyo before flying away back to
wherever you're from I guess you know
this kind of place with a western food
beer and it might be a help sir what's
good for ya
so I don't really know my way around
Tokyo Station that well but why do know
is I always seem to stumble across this
little garden this is the Mitsubishi
Museum garden square I never know how I
get here I just tend to be lost amongst
the skyscrapers in the hustle and bustle
of Tokyo then I stumble across it and it
is honestly like some sort of oasis in
the middle of the city Tokyo can often
feel like a concrete jungle which makes
finding parks and gardens feel like
stumbling across some sort of hidden
treasure
the Mitsubishi Ichigo car museum
courtyard is nestled off of one of
mananitas busiest shopping streets it's
here you can find restaurants coffee
shops bakeries are more importantly and
above all their peace and quiet
definitely worth a visit you find
yourself in the Madden or Chee area
really nice place to sit relax and
escape their traffic and chaos of Tokyo
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all right lunch like I said the seafood
bowl for lunch and the fugu for dinner
actually we are our luxury we are you
how luxury we are the t-shirt design
right there after a long day realtor and
I decided to take advantage of Madan
Ortiz towering skyscrapers to enjoy a
dinner of fugu Blowfish fugu is a
delicate fish requiring preparation by
highly skilled chefs and with over a
hundred years of experience you're in
good hands
a tsuki Yama daya the restaurant has its
origins in ITER Prefecture in Kyushu
which is one of the homes of Blowfish in
Japan realtor and I recently took a trip
to nearby Yamaguchi Prefecture to try
the dish firsthand but if you can't get
down to South Japan or you looking to
try the dish in Tokyo this qiyamah daya
know how to do the delicious dish
justice whether it served up his raw
sashimi and presented like a work of art
crisply battered and tempura were boiled
in a hot pot you're pretty spoiled for
choice so we got like deep fried deep
fried foo goo and especially near fugu
and we are waiting for the hotpot fugu
so figure itself is to be flavorless
it's more about the texture it's got
this kind of chewy texture to it it all
comes to a head
once it's dipped into the soy sauce
vinegar pondered that is what unlocks
it's brilliant because it's just bloated
Norris vinegar I kind of see Figures bit
an art form the way it's prepared the
way it's sliced up and presented one
thing I haven't dried down is the harry
hollien fugu nice crispy kind of you
what do you think hmm compared to you
know into raw fish get battered bit like
fish and chips that's right mmm
it's okay bro it's my favorite cuz I'm
from the UK Italy isn't it that's the
only thing you've got there good
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walking through the streets of the Tokyo
Station area at first may seem like
there's an absence of restaurants and
bars however you'll quickly discover
they're all concealed awake in the
towers surrounding the area perhaps the
trendiest of them all was the building
immediately in front of the station the
towering shimmery building which 197
meters it's one of the tallest buildings
of madan or chip whether you're looking
at grab a meal a drink or a good view
from the expansive Terrace on the
seventh floor it's an excellent place to
watch the Sun go down over the city and
the station's skyline is good but maybe
just just cut the Pacer especially
special job for a special boy I must
admit what I've learned today is all the
best bits of the Tokyo Station area
hidden away in the skyscrapers
surrounding the station each skyscraper
is like its own city by understand
you've got one last trick up your sleeve
one last place on our list today what is
it
ultimate dating spy and success 100%
guaranteed I think that's the most
awkward sentence I've heard you say all
week
so they have it guys our list of things
to do around the Tokyo Station area
hopefully the next time you find
yourself around here you'll have some
ideas on things to do me up drink shop
by doing anything you'd like to add any
closing comments we got ray well I mean
this ultimate and I'm getting spot the
ultimate dating yeah I've been like in
Tokyo I mean if you ain't proposed your
girlfriend here 100% success guaranteed
yes you heard it here first
hundred percent I know someone's gonna
watch this actually attempt it and then
they're gonna say all your fault but for
now the matter where you might be
watching from out there in the big wide
world as always guys thanks for watching
we'll see you next egg you to do it to
do it all over again
to do it all over again which is a cup
of tea that's the word or the British
people use