so we've got a short video today but
after doing the video about tokyo's
waterways this has become by far the
most requested piece of content of the
year
so i managed to manage to secure a boat
for today
and today's probably the last day of the
cherry blossoms too so
so i'm out of the kachidoki marina right
now this is the marina in tokyo that is
super shaky that i am registered to and
can do
my boat rentals from it seems
that gate is closed right now and today
i brought the shamisen girls along so
that we can make one of our yearly
shamisen under the cherry blossoms video
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this morning i was in shinjuku for a
separate shoot and we had rain but now
we have this absolutely beautiful
weather
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hmm
so i guess while we're here i should
introduce emmy hi
and emmy did my boat training for tokyo
because you need specific training to
use the tokyo waterway
yeah you know one of the questions that
i got a lot of is can you use a foreign
boat license to rent a boat in tokyo no
um you have to take a japanese license
in japan yeah yeah
you have to study for it
nerd facts we've got about 4.2 meters of
depth here and we've got a little cherry
blossoms up there and emmy is by far the
most knowledgeable person i know about
the tokyo waterways oh thank you i
actually i want to do an entire video
with you just where you take us through
and share all the secrets it should be
interesting so much i think so yeah
i have a lot of place to introduce you
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now we're off to tsukishima
and then we can see a little bit cherry
blossom and then we go out to the
sumitagawa and after that we are going
to go oyokoga that's my favorite
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so because of the tide
we had to start the shoot a little bit
early today
because if we don't we won't actually be
able to get out that's how low the
bridge is yet there are lower
but this is the area that we're gonna
film our video emmy
thank you so much for driving today it
is so much easier to make a video when i
don't have to focus on piloting the
captaining the boat i have the same
thing too
i can't shoot very good
so we've actually stored the girls
shamisens in here
and now it's time to get set up emmy and
i have these here
the girls life jackets
are hidden on the back of that fish
economy is all military today
oh
today
can you see that is cherry blossom on
the surface of the water yeah yeah flat
because the water tight goes up to there
a lot of people are surprised to find
out that these rivers can go up and down
as much as two meters in the tides so it
can change yeah quite a bit
all right
everybody ready girls ready
are we ready yeah and we can slowly go
down that way too that's fine all right
a quick snack break in the middle of
video to give some love to our sponsor
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actually you know the cyclical box
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that's huge
well the girls snack away in the
background i just want to give huge
gratitude to tokyo treat and sakurago
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have nothing but gratitude for you this
wraps up the sponsored segment and we're
going to jump back on the water now
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perfect
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yeah this is awesome
gathered so many people up on the bridge
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so we also have a bunch of kayakers in
the water here so we gotta be careful
not to squish them i've had this set up
like this the whole time and just
basically hoping it wouldn't fall over
we got lucky because it's a small canal
so emmy watched my video with the 360
camera and then really wanted a 360
camera and bought one
last week
i got my present was it was it worth it
yes
so we've basically gotten to the point
where we have
minutes until the tide potentially locks
us in the boat will still have clearance
to get through here
but if we get a wave we might end up
smacking things so we've gotta pass
through here
really carefully
like if i just keep standing like this i
will 100 be decapitated
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that means telling us that the sakura
trees along here are still babies so
while they're beautiful they don't have
that same over-the-water impact that the
ones in the river that we were just i
guess the canal that we were just in
have which like 35 40 year old sakura
trees see again stuff that i otherwise
wouldn't know like you can look at those
and you can know that they're baby
sakura trees but you wouldn't know that
the other ones were like 40 plus years
old you know that um this is lexus okay
and then this shape is like
like a boat
big boat like ship it does look like a
big boat there's a window there's a
circle window rounded one and they're
trying to be like a boat but when you
walk around nobody notice about it no
you wouldn't notice that from land you
have to see it
yeah from this side i can notice about
it the number of new apartment buildings
that is constantly being put up and i
mean giant apartment buildings that keep
going up in tokyo is insane they just
don't stop everywhere you look there's a
new massive apartment complex
there's two things is like the sailboat
from outside so that's the way the
carving and the color changes huh
yeah i see it but like how do you gather
all of this information yeah
from outside of it maybe sometimes you
can see oh that seems to be a sailboat
but if you get too close you can't find
out yeah it really looks like sales yeah
yeah
thank you so much emmy thank you yeah
100 want to come back and do
a video of emmy showing us the waterways
so if you guys are interested let us
know in the comments below we'll see you
again next time all right bye
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