in this video I'm gonna take you inside
of a Japanese matcha hotel in Kyoto so
today I'm in Kyoto and I'm saying a
real-deal killer style house with over
100 years of history also known as a
kill matcha
this particular one is called kiraku
Kyoto Nisha rokkaku watches a
traditional wooden town house is built
using interlocking wooden parts and were
popular with Kyoto merchants before
World War 2 since Kyoto was saved from
air raids during the war many of the
matches are still around to this day but
once torn down these matches will
probably never be rebuilt so walking
inside you truly feel like you're a part
of history so there are six different
types of kill matcha but this one is a
Sony Chi which means it has a high
second floor ceiling especially when
compared to the sushi unique IKEA matcha
with low ceilings oh yeah having a
garden in the back is another
characteristic of the much in the garden
and allows for more sunlight and air
circulation in the house but it also
creates a seamless blend between nature
and living space and it looks like
there's a futon set up for us already
Wow
like this is really low foot so just if
you're tall I think you have to watch
your head hit it but that's just because
it's like old-school machi right
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when you first arrive you'll be warmly
welcomed with the tea ceremony I'm not
crazy about much as some of you already
know but having freshly with matcha is
really quite on a whole new level it's
kind of like a lemon citrusy taste you
can see it's kind of like a gelatinous
when it should like prepare your palate
for the tea pretty much
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she just taught me how to do this and I
think I'm gonna do it that they couldn't
say put your left hand on the bottom
turn it once run it twice kind of pray a
little bit
thank you my supposed to slip Wow I'm
learning a lot today you might know what
to do ordering what why okay so what a
lot of you guys don't know because
you're probably gonna watch this after
the fact today is the final episode for
Game of Thrones and I really want to
watch it so I'm gonna connect my laptop
to the TV and we're gonna watch it yes
so that's what we're gonna do today for
about an hour let's just check the speed
of the Wi-Fi here 12 megabits per second
that's not the fastest in the world but
I think this should be fast enough for
us to be able to stream Game of Thrones
today alright time to set up the laptop
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all right so the PC is connected and
made a stream I guess I'll see you guys
a little bit
hey Mike how you doing I sleep better is
to have really nice bathtub outside
don't you gonna turn it on first
oh there's a bug inside ow
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hey it was very fine dice little eyes
and this helps a lot
yeah I'm really happy now there's a lot
of restaurant around this area right all
right I'll leave you alone oh my god
what arrived boy this looks so good
anyways I think much I'm just gonna
chill with my co tonight so I'll see you
guys tomorrow
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all right so I'm ready to start my day
we're about to have a big breakfast I
think it's coming on around 8:30 my
co-sleeping upstairs so I'll have to
wake her up in a second
but I'm still thinking about Game of
Thrones and how it ended up I don't know
if I liked it I don't want to spoil
anything for you guys if you still
haven't watched it by now but anyways
let me know what you guys thought of the
ending
yeah I guess it is what it is time to
start our day like Oh time to wake up
breakfast is coming wake up so I think
we'll get might go a little bit more
time to get ready I usually go to sleep
a lot earlier than Mike oh and I usually
get up a lot earlier than r2 so so I
guess we just let her sleep sometimes I
don't understand her
and here comes our Keisuke breakfast
good morning everyone so breakfast has
been served
I'm trying to just relook at my seat I'm
actually not used to sitting on the
floor very much probably some of you
aren't as well but I guess you just kind
of get used to it living in Japan
eventually but maybe not me so far but
this is not right
that's Mike goes hand right there she's
pretty much she doesn't really want to
be on camera today so when you said this
much a hotel you have the option to
include breakfast or not this is a very
traditional breakfast all these like
little dishes are called Chi Seki and
what it means is it just has a little
bunch of little like almost like little
appetizers that all go together to make
one whole entire set meal so look at all
this goodness I mean I don't want to go
through and bore you with all of the
different stuff but I think like my
favorites this is like a um cockade um
go which is kind of like a sweet gelatin
sauce and there's a drink on inside so
you can see right there that is that inc
on in on cookie sauce it's really
delicious it's almost like Chawan mushi
like the consistency just a little more
liquidy and this thing I don't really
know what it is until I take a bite but
basically it's fried it's like tempura
style so I'm probably gonna like it
let's taste it it has a seed in the
middle there's almost like some sort of
root that they like put it and put up
that's nice that's like I don't think
I've ever had that before the one thing
about these kind of sticky meals is like
it's very seasonal so a lot of the stuff
that they haven't here it really depends
on the time of year if you stay in one
of these places then definitely I would
recommend it at least trying the
breakfast once oh and I was talking to
the hotel also a little bit earlier they
actually said that everyone had checked
out the last afternoon and like people
are coming today but if we wanted to can
actually see the other rooms there are
actually three other watches in the
complex all connected to this one so
let's check out the other three the
first one has a DOMA style entrance
which back in the day meant straight up
dirt
you can see now though it's been
modernized pretty large futon mattresses
here and then what's nice is over there
it looks like you have an N gamma which
is a very like traditional Japanese kind
of like balcony you kind of a sit on the
balcony like you're painting your feet
over and two beds in the bedroom the
second one has a very open entrance
which I love you can see that there's
two bedrooms up here well there's like a
full queen-size bed and then you also
have another private tatami room here so
this one seems pretty similar to the
first one yeah as you can see like since
there's four different rooms in this
complex if you have a big family then it
makes kind of a lot of sense to just
like book all three are all four of the
rooms and then you can actually stay
together and if you've never stayed in a
much in like this then you might as well
like just try it once right so we were
just in Kobe yesterday and these long
trips are kind of hard because I never
know what to do with my laundry this
morning he just left
so what I found out is that this much
yet has a washing machine and dryer and
there you go problem solved
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