15 TIPS FOR TRAVEL IN JAPAN

morning coffee check good weather Oh check sense of self-worth check oh wow don't know I'm so grumpy all the time oh let's have a look through some new YouTube comments half of the things you're saying is wrong you sound stupid arrogant and ignorant learn something about the country then make those videos people argue to not make sense people like me don't make sense I didn't know that still but take a lot more than that to ruin my day you look like Johnny Depp oh that's not bad wait a minute you look like Johnny Depp fused with Frankie Muniz welcome to ask abroad where for the next few weeks I'll be answering questions sent in by viewers about anything it will be just like a TV show only not as good incredibly last week alone viewers sent it over a thousand questions and so to try and bring a sense of order to the crazy amount of questions it makes sense to theme each of these Q&A videos around a particular topic the topic of this video will be about travel and there'll be 15 questions most of which will be about travel with some random ones thrown in as well as comment of the week and most annoying question of the week before we dive in at the end of a previous video I invited Sony to make contact if they were interested in hiring any new marketing directors or executives or anything like that and surprisingly there has actually been one promising lead and it was a comment on a video it says yes I'm Nigerian prince of Sony please give me your credit card information so we can hire you now I didn't know Sony was ruled by a Nigerian prince come to think of it I didn't even know Nigeria had a royal family but I have sent my credit card information over so now the ball is in your court Sony okay so John says we're off to Japan from the UK in three weeks what's one of the first musty things when we hit Tokyo there are three things you should do number one get a sense of how insanely big Tokyo is by going up Tokyo Tower it makes even London look genuinely small and the view from Tokyo Tower is probably the best in all of Tokyo in my opinion as its right immersed in the center of Tokyo and you have a great 360 view number to go and relax in some onsen some hot springs in an actual onsen theme park in or divert it's called or whether onsen and to get there you need to take the monorail over the Rainbow Bridge which admittedly sounds like something out Mario Cart but the way the onsen is a really great place to relax and experience Japanese bathing culture I always take friends there and they love it and it's a really great way to overcome jet lag as one and number three and assuming it's the evening go to Shinjuku which is the entertainment district in Tokyo and visit a neighborhood called golden going it's a small neighborhood crammed with hundreds of bars tucked away down some narrow streets and each bars really small like a dozen people and it has this really cool futuristic dystopian feel to it feels like Blade Runner although the last time I was there I went into this rock bar and in the corner there was this really disturbed interpretation of the owner which I am still having nightmares about but it's a really great place to meet people eat and drink a reasonable price and feel like you're in Blade Runner hopefully there's something there that should appeal have a great trip to Japan what's been your favorite thing to do alone in Japan drive around the countryside listening to 80s music but if you can do it get a car and just drive off and get lost somewhere in the countryside it's just the most amazing thing and the scenery is incredible and if you can have some eighties music as well then you're on the right track what cities or places do you recommend to visit in Japan in a one to two weeks schedule if it's your first time in Japan then I guess it's a given that there are settings you should see and do and for that the three places I recommend seeing are Tokyo Kyoto and Hiroshima and those are all three places you can see easily in one week if you have two weeks I'll actually recommend spending longer in each city rather than going off and traveling more because you can spend weeks in any of those cities and still be discovering things use that extra time to immerse yourself more in those places have you had any experiences in Japan so far where you've felt intimidated on a level of fear of being harmed never ever not once in three years the only place you might feel intimidated is in areas of Tokyo like Kabukicho or Roppongi where you get people on the streets that try to lure you into bars drug your drinks and then charge you half a billion yen for a beer if you ever get approached by anyone offering you free drinks or special deals I've just ignore them and walk on no matter how the system making thing other than that though Japan is remarkably safe I talked about this a bit more in a previous video so if you have time check that out but otherwise no never mr. pig says will you eat me yes if you are roasted accordingly would you fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses a horse sized duck one target one baseball bat job done Lillie Devin's says if you made babies with a Japanese woman what would you call it Joffrey go yourself has anyone really been far even has decided to use even go want to do look more like you have no idea how much frustration this question has caused me I read this question when I was really tired and I couldn't work out if it made sense or not or if I was going mad and the subsequent timer resources that I've dedicated to try and unearth an answer to this question have been substantially disproportionate to the importance of the actual question a question that isn't even there go yourself what would you say is the most memorable place you've been to in Japan it's actually a bridge in Osaka and it's quite a famous spot the bridge is called Ebisu bridge and it's in the heart of Osaka in a place called dotombori and and the reason it's my most memorable places whenever I go there and I've been there about four or five times I always meet many cool people many strangers maybe I'm a bit biased as I did have quite a cool romantic kind of encounter there a few years ago which I might write about but if you get the chance definitely visit Osaka if not for the people or the atmosphere certainly for the food which is amazing it Osaka is known as the kitchen of Japan and the food is fantastic what are some of the best but underrated or off-the-beaten-path places you visited in Japan there is one whole region in Japan that seems to be off the beaten path for most tourists and it's a terrible shame as it's a beautiful place and it's got a very exciting like mystical feel to it still and that is tour Haku the northern region of Honshu having lived there for three years I've been very blessed to explore and see a lot of it but there's so much to see in Dhoom there's lakes gorges Cat Island ski slopes Fox villages if you ever do any extended traveling in Japan or have five days to spare I would recommend hiring a car and just driving around it seeing what you can find I recently traveled around part of it with my friends Rachael and Ian and Sharla and there'll be a video of that trip coming out next month so keep an eye out for that but yeah I really highly recommend tall have you been to a cinema in Japan what are some of the kinds of movies shown there cinemas in Japan show just awful film where apparently having a good plot or like characters isn't important films like Terminator Genisys and Mission Impossible rogue nation terrible it's terrible but the most frustrating thing is they do often show films about three months off they've come out elsewhere so bear that in mind if you are going to the cinema in Japan is Japanese transport as convenient and reliable as it claims to be yeah Japan's public transport is so reliable everything runs with militant like efficiency in recent years Japan's got some low-cost carriers such as peach which are really good for flying around the country at low price and buses as well or another way wheeler Express is quite a good one and they're easy to get around with if you're in a major city and you're going to be traveling a lot by train which you probably are I would recommend getting one of these this is a sweeter card and you just tap it on top of the machines when you pass through train stations and it's a lot easier than playing around with tickets all day you can usually get them at any station by using the Machine and have it in English as well so it's quite foreigner friendly Japan is very very good when it comes to public transport and its reputation is well-earned what's your favorite place in Japan I guess there are two places number one Osaka in general as I've already explained there number two there's a spot on a mountain overlooking the volcano Mount Chaco which is the tallest volcano in Tokyo and I often just go there and sit and relax because on one side I have the Sea of Japan and on the other I have this amazing volcano and all these mountains and stuff and if you are wondering what it looks like it's the opening to one of the weight-loss videos so I can go there when I'm stressed and just forget about everything and just stare at this amazing 2200 metre volcano you for some reason I find you insincere didn't even give a reason in your opinion what would be the top three places to visit in Japan number one would be Toho COO region in general just due to its beautiful scenery good food and you can just get lost in it and have this real sense of discovery and there's lots of hot springs as well number two Osaka just because it's the most funnest brilliant asbestos city in Japan the atmosphere the people the food it's all the best parts of Japan rolled into one that's number two and number three the Inland Sea of Japan between Shikoku and Han Xu and the best way to see it is by bicycle now I'm not crazy there's actually a chain of islands that you can cycle across there's a hundred kilometer cycle route that goes across a chain of islands in the inland sea it goes from automating on to to in a bar in Shikoku you can do it in one day and you can rent bikes for about a thousand yen so it's very convenient as well and I did it in August with a friend and it was just really beautiful scenery or the rice fields mountains fishing ports to go through it's called the Shimon army code or and I've put the details in the description box below but ten out of ten do it it is amazing and a lot more fun and rewarding than climbing Mount Fuji my opinion even if I did get my old sunstroke by choosing to wear a bandana instead of a hat on a day when it was 36 degrees learn from my stupid stupid mistakes but those are the three places I recommend seeing over all in Japan right now and here until the last day of September got any tips for things to do in Tokyo oh by the way a few months ago I asked you where I could do the Wanko soba challenge you blow the apply there it was in Morioka so I took a day trip there many thanks for that 75 Bowls first off well done on those 75 bowls of noodles I'm not bitter about being beaten again so get up at 6 a.m. and then just walk around Tokyo for the next 12 hours try and do it with a clear mind won't try and notice everything around you as much as you can almost in a meditative state and every hour try and take five really good pictures by the end of the day you'll have seen an insane amount of Tokyo and you'll have 60 pictures to help you recall the journey and then profit from the whole thing by writing an article about your journey using all the pictures and give it a bold slightly pretentious name something like a moment of Tokyo No Tokio moment yes good luck Benjamin I believe in you and finally Joelle says how come in some videos in the same video there's parts where you're shaved and not shaved is there two of you I have no idea what you're on about make continuities of the utmost importance to the abroad in Japan channel and on a final note come to Japan now why the yen is utterly worthless your money will go a lot further I hope you've learned something useful from this video and don't forget to hit the like button because it's the only way I know you actually like this stuff as for the next Oscar board video the topic will be everyday life in Japan and I'll be looking at questions that been scented as well as questions below this video say feel free to leave a question thanks again for watching I'm off now to learn how to be sincere except I'm not

Channel: Abroad in Japan

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Keywords: Tourism (Interest), Japan (Country), Travel (TV Genre), Japanese Language (Interest), Japanese (Ethnicity), British People (Ethnicity), Adventure, Culture, ญี่ปุ่น, เที่ยวญี่ปุ่น, คนอังกฤษ, ท่องเที่ยวญี่ปุ่น, วัฒนธรรม

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Length: 12min 24sec (744 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2015