Okay, I'm at the airport.
I love you.
I'm heading to Tokyo today,
I've never been before,
but it's gonna be an adventure,
and I'm looking forward to it.
Last summer I decided to take a trip to Tokyo and Seoul
with my friends Brad,
and Micaela.
We learned a lot about the culture,
and about each other.
I guess that happens when you travel.
This was a trip I will never forget.
That's right, I'm heading to Japan in July
because I want to.
Arrived in Tokyo.
Navigating through Narita airport was easy enough,
despite the fact that I've actually never been
and that I don't speak Japanese.
After a short stop to book my Narita express train ticket,
I was on my way to Shibuya.
(train breaking)
I'd actually been to Asia a few times before,
but never to Japan.
The culture and food have always interested me,
and with friends who'd already be there,
I realized that now was the time to take the trip.
My round trip economy class ticket cost 1,500 dollars,
not bad considering that I booked this trip
just a few weeks before departing.
Tokyo is very hot in July,
and the humidity was almost unbearable at times.
Thankfully, most areas, including this train,
had air conditioning.
I'd seen Shibuya crossing in photos
but I actually didn't realize how iconic it was
until I left, and obviously for me,
it would become memorable for many other reasons.
(music playing)
You wore that on the plane?
- [Brad] I did!
Okay, where are we going?
- [Brad] To the hotel.
Where's the hotel?
Micaela had booked us rooms at Hotel Unizo,
just a few minutes away from Shibuya crossing.
I'm at the hotel, so tired.
Looks like this.
Where's the light?
That's not the light.
Oh!
And then everything turns on.
There we go, there we go.
Why is this toilet growling at me?
I don't, okay, do not splash water.
Why would you splash toilet water?
Okay, we're gonna play with that later.
So it's pretty hot outside,
it's pretty hot inside, 28 degrees.
Can I just bring that down?
I think I did it,
and I didn't even need it to be in English.
Okay, I've showered, I feel like a real person again.
How are you doing?
I feel like a starving person.
(laughs)
So, we're gonna look for a place.
We have to wait in line.
It's a musical chairs system.
(upbeat music)
Let's do it.
Make it two. Two.
Andrew makes tea, one scoop.
One scoop.
So much deliciousness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dip the whole thing.
So we're going for round two, going for round two.
We did pretty good.
By this point, I was pretty tired from a long flight,
a big meal, and a time difference, but I also knew we had
to make the most of our limited time in Tokyo,
and being in Shibuya, there was no shortage of things to do.
I'm like, fresh off a plane.
I know! If I were fresh off a plane, I'd wanna
probably take a nap right now.
Yeah, that's more like it.
We ended up at one of Shibuya's many arcades,
which contain Purikura photo booths.
Let's do it.
Okay, we're in the photo booth.
Create your beauty.
As you can guess, they're usually aimed at Japanese girls.
(laughs)
- [Brad] It's so short!
I was making a weird face.
- [Andrew] Oh my God! (laughing)
Look at you!
We're walking to a club, bar thing that was recommended.
We should just start saying like, Shibuya, like Shibuya
in your face. That could be the song.
Shibu-yeah!
Shibu-yeah! Shibu-yeah!
Clubbing in Shibu-yeah.
Not a lot going on.
There's a lot going on.
Of course we found out later that the reason
why no one was dancing was because of a law
that prohibited dancing at certain types of clubs.
So we took the dancing outside.
(EDM music)
But that didn't really work out either.
So I'm in the lobby with Mr. Brad Go, and his guitar.
We randomly made some British friends,
and I need to do something about this hair.
Let's go down to the vending machines.
Let's do it,
let's go. Let's get a beer.
Alright, here we go.
Here we go!
Here we go, here we go!
(Brad playing guitar)
♪ I thought I saw a man brought to life ♪
(mumbling)
♪ To cry ♪
Someone help me out, name a song.
- [Girl] Play Wonderwall.
Oh no!
(girl laughing)
He loves it, he loves it.
♪ Today is gonna be the day ♪
♪ that he's gonna bring it back to you ♪
(mumbling)
Alright, where are we now?
Uh, we're-- Yoyogi Park.
We're at like the south-- We're going to Yoyogi.
We're going to Yoyogi.
Let's go see what kind of music we can make.
Your English accent is better than Brad's.
So, Lizzie has my guitar, she's like prepping
to play some song that we've probably never heard of.
It was totally random, just hanging out in Tokyo,
and I think this is what traveling is about.
Meeting new people you never expected,
and whatever, just hanging out.
(Lizzie playing guitar)
Uh, uh, Yeah!
Check it, check it, check it out.
("Gee" by SNSD)
Good times.
Indeed, indeed.
We're gonna remember this.
Yeah, especially because we have it documented.
By this point, I'm pretty sure I'd been awake
for more than 24 hours, but we decided,
at 4AM, to go for karaoke.
Wait, what time do you guys need to get back to your hotel?
Okay. Like, at 5.
♪ Wanna feel the heat with somebody ♪
♪ Yeah I wanna dance with somebody ♪
♪ With somebody who loves me ♪
That's the time.
That's the sun.
These are the peeps.
Macky D's.
If my first night in Tokyo was any indication,
I had a feeling I wasn't gonna get much sleep on this trip.
Next week on Gunnarolla.
Japan Day 2, Micaela's here.
Can't wait to see her!
I got that power, power, power.
We're trying to get into the apartment,
it's double locked.
(speaking Japanese)
They're waiting for some kind of K-pop idol.
(cheering)
(speaking Japanese)
Brad! Where are you going?
(shouting in Japanese)
Gunnarolla,
that's England,
and then Gunnarolla is Australian.
- [Andrew] Wouldn't it be like Gunnaroller?
Gunaroller?
- [Both] Gunnarolla.