hey guys good morning from the middle of
a really beautiful
rice field how pretty is it the rice is
almost ready to be harvested so the
color
is just amazing i'm waiting here because
some friends are about to come pick me
up
for a road trip we're going on a road
trip across northern japan for the next
four days
i will be vlogging every day so this is
the first of those videos
and i'm really looking forward to
showing you guys some cool spots in
northern japan and hopefully encouraging
you
to come up here on your next trip to
japan it always seems to be the last
spot on
everybody's travel list while they're in
japan and i find that so sad because the
north is so beautiful
there's so much to see here so i really
hope you guys enjoy the vlogs from the
trip
so norm is going to be our driver for
the next four days yoroshiku
oh it kind of reminds me of back in
shikoku that was so fun
that was a fun trip and victor's joining
us as well
yay i'll link everybody down below so if
you're not familiar with their channels
you can check them out there
and we're gonna go pick up some more
friends now
oh look who it is
why hello fancy beating you here
what are you eating what is that so the
area we're in right now tono is famous
for wasabi
so we're gonna try their wasabi dango
well i wanted the wasabi ice cream
yes they're sold all sold out but dango
is better
wasabi
all right we're just diving right in
tastes like sushi
it really tastes like it's like a piece
of margarita
i wouldn't go that far but i like it
i love wasabi though it's not too spicy
it definitely has a little kick it's
mostly sweet
what do you think it's actually
surprisingly sweet
this is actually really good i would get
spicier as you go
wants 10 8 7.6
oh my god oh it's getting spicy now
so chris has been here before to make
videos so what do you recommend for food
because i'm starving
yeah so this area we're coming up to now
it's called tono tono
is famous for one dish and one dish
alone that dish is
genghis khan lamb mutton barbecue
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you can barbecue some mixed vegetables
there's some stuff other than lamb
but it's mostly lamb as you can see
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in the news recently because they're
doing the rugby stuff there
some rugby games coming up so a lot of
people are talking about it so
we're going to go check it out and see
what's going on
we're not gonna be watching rugby though
just gonna be doing some sightseeing
so we just made it to kamaishi we're
just passing the station
now and we're heading to the daikon it's
a giant statue holding a fish that's
supposed to bring good luck to
fisherman out at sea and you can go
inside the statue
and enter the fish apparently
we gotta go in the fish right that's
gotta happen but you said it closes soon
it looks like you're closing that's
early it's only
3 30. we're gonna find out we'll let you
know
when it closes we're almost there it's
about 10 minute drive from here
google maps brought us to like this
restricted zone
yeah that's where we're trying to get to
we're in a hurry because apparently it
closes at 4.
and it's 3 32 at the moment
how many times have we turned around
what is wrong with google maps
took us to another dead end it looked
promising
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it's open till five it says
this is pretty cool
i'm glad it's not stairs
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oh my god
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they're selling all different kinds of
omikuji in here these are kind of fun
because they're lucky dip
you don't know which one you're going to
get dave has bought an omikuji
what would you get what's it say
it's a secret slash i can't
is kind of like good like it's not
amazing
but it's not bad about sickness
it's like not as bad as you're thinking
it is that could be about me
the splinter
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we tried to dig it out we got half of it
it's not as bad as you think it is don't
worry
you're not gonna die overall yeah it's
pretty good it's a decent one
and now we make the journey to the fish
oh god does that say 160 stairs to go
wow it's getting really narrow
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that was nice that was actually a lot
more interesting than i was expecting it
yeah i thought it was just going to be
the statue but
inside there were lots of other statues
though and the view from the fish was
great
did not disappoint for a good view yeah
you could see all of kamehameha city and
out into the ocean
it was beautiful where are we going next
next we
are hitting the road again and we're
heading out to jodo gahama which is kind
of far isn't it
jodokohama is actually kind of close to
where i live
if you go out to the coast it's a really
beautiful beach and we're going to head
out there and stay in a ryokan a
japanese hotel for the night
and then hopefully we're gonna get up
early in the morning and
go see the sunrise
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so the the dinner here is a buffet style
and i think breakfast is the same
as well they had lots of stuff to choose
from these look really good
these are like sweet potatoes covered in
a sesame glaze
they look pretty sweet from the
hotel room very sweet they're kind of
like dessert
all right we're going to dig in and then
i'll give you guys a tour of my room
afterwards
all right i'll finish dinner let me give
you guys a little tour of my room and
then i'm going to head to sleep
i decided i'm not going to get up for
sunrise because apparently we'd have to
wake up at like
4 a.m and that's not my thing i'm so
glad that this room has its own
shower some rooms in yokan won't have a
shower and you have to go down
to the public bathing area and shower
together with everyone else and
i'm not a fan of that so pretty stoked
that i have my own shower i was kind of
worried
standard sink and shampoo hair dryer
toothbrush etc i've got my own washroom
in here as well
so don't have to share that with anyone
and the bedroom is
in this room here and it's really
spacious they gave me a really big room
don't really need all this space to
myself but i won't complain
tatami flooring typical yokan
room i wonder what the view of the
window is like i guess we'll
see in the morning it's possible that
there's a nice
view of the ocean and the beach out
there but
we'll check tomorrow morning so while
you're out of your room having dinner or
breakfast the hotel staff will come in
here and either
set up or put away your futon for you so
they set this up for me while i was out
for dinner
it looks so comfy i love futon i really
like staying at japanese style hotels
because i find the futon beds
super comfy and they'll usually have a
floor table
like this where you can sit and have
some tea
they always give you some complimentary
snacks to eat with your tea
and there'll be a little tea set and a
cuddle all right guys i'm gonna head to
bed i'm gonna say goodnight to you here
i really hope you enjoyed the first day
of our four day road trip i'll see you
back again here very soon for day two
we're heading all the way up to
hachinohe city tomorrow we're gonna take
the route up along the coastline stop at
some really nice spots so it should be
super beautiful
so look forward to that and i'll see you
again very soon bye for now
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