7 things to Know for Japan Trip in April 2024 Update

Hello friends I hope you're doing well today it's April 7th today and finally CH Blossom is fully blooming so I went to the shuku Central Park and I saw lots of people on the ground and enjoying the CH blossoms it's been a lots of chilly and kind of rainy days this uh this spring but finally there are some blue sky today today I'd like to go over about the T bom thing a little bit and also I like to go over these topics end of this April it will be exactly one year after all the restriction about the border control was lifted so the all the number of the to are coming back to Japan and all the kind of price race of related to kind of jail passing everything has kind of settled and just like any other part of the world things price are going up but all those the things are sort of settled and there no big big kind of news that you have to worry about or you have to act quickly or something so I like to go about these topics that related to Travelers who are bu in Japan soon so when I made a video about CH Blom the forast was saying it's actually will be earlier than the last year the 2023 but it turned out that it's 15 days later than last year which is like a record rate seven years ago that last time CH Blom became full bloom in April usually it happens in late March so I also went to C around 25th thinking maybe a little bit early but uh I can see some early CH Blossom when it was dead there was nothing and it was even raining so so if you are in Tokyo right now very lucky usually uh CH Blossom is completely finished by now and you see lots greens instead of the pink but now J Blom is fully blooming and you might think that all the other areas like to HW area will be much later but they expecting it won't be that late and it will be happening within April and it even can be early but again the forast was 15 days or more long this year so I can't expect how it to be for car M hu area if you're coming after you still can see the jelly bom from now it's I think it's not open yet honestly this year hasn't been really a great spring like for weather wise even winter I was going to film lots of snow footage in Hot Springs and kind of local trains but I had to change the plan because the there wasn't snow like even the local kind Mountain areas senior people are saying like they haven't seen this something like this no snow and it's actually very convenient for heavy snow area people but actually something lacking the atmosphere of the winter of Japan so I went to saporo in January and I could see the snow but I turn it turned out to be that too much snowstorm and things were closed so I couldn't do much but if you are interested in the sa please watch the sa video too and the second thing I'd like to go by is Japanese Y is record cheap one1 us is about 15502 Yen which is used to be 1 or something last year on this time and we are saying wow is very cheap to make it easier to understand for you let's say for you to purchase a th000 Yen Japanese Yen cash how much it cost so a th000 yen is uh about the cost that you can purchase a maybe very cheap dinner or kind of also lunch even without considering the Japanese yent G price things are a littleit cheaper in Japan now because the things didn't rise that much it did but not that much and U for example if you go to supermarket you can buy the pet bottle drink for like 80 Yen or something so for a th000 Yen you can purchase like a 10 bottle of the 10 bot of the drinks also the if you got to make Donal the let's say the bigmk bigmk is a uh I think it's a common all over the world and the price of the bigm ma set with Coke and french fries medium size in Japan is 830 Yen so the size might be a little bit smaller but uh with so is the price you can purchase the set of the big Mark and you get some change so let's see Burger King barg King is also the set is about 800 890 Yen and if you get application and get coupon actually you can get much cheaper for 730 or something but let's say 890 Yen but still you get change if you have a th000 Yen so let's see how much it did cost for so last year to get a th000 Japanese Yen you needed $760 but this year you only need $660 so you pay $6 60 cents and you can get the full size of the W set of the baring and you still get the change and so same for Australian dollars Canadian dollars Singapore dollars or British pound it's all against all those currencies Japan devaluated so it's now much easier to come to Japan so if you're planning to come to Japan this year next year it's your choice maybe you can change some cash to Japanese now and keep Japan in cash or it might get even cheaper I hope not because I can never go to foreign country anymore and the next topic is uh aab HS the there's a team lable bord opened in February in aab die H project highend building complex with some shopping streets and mainly people talk about team borderless and also there's a observation deck on the thir third floor and it was a free but unfortunately that observation deck is closing April 17th so April 17th will be the last day that you can go up to the building and after that it you cannot enter there anymore it will be only for the tenants of the building of the office building and some people who use that restaurant so basically regular tourist of visitors cannot even take the elev to go upstairs so a nearby observation deck is Tokyo Tower and uh ring his Tokyo City and I think that sometime I talked about Tokyo L here Sky Deck but Sky Deck is there was some accident is closed right now so we don't know when it's going to open again so sky was my favorite point because just like Sky Shia Sky you can go to the rooftop and it was actually to my personal opinion it was much better view than Shia sky and Shia sky is so busy but this one is not so it was my recommendation but unfortunately someone so let's hope it will open again next topic is about illegal taxi so illegal taxi is something I get question time to time and I'm asked like uh they can pay so either I can bring someone to drive someone to other places or if I know someone who can drive and in Japan that is considered to be illegal and recently sometimes I see the news that drivers are arrested so Travelers won't be arrested so that is something kind of big thing that that you don't have to worry about but by you using the those services that driver can be arrested because it's clearly illegal and how you can recognize is the number plate of the car that has a license is green so it's a dark green plate with white letters and the regular car in Japan has a white plate and green letters when you try to get on the car and the number plate is white that it might be illegal so recently it became the news is so Taiwan group booked a driver service on the kind of traval agency site in Taiwan and Driver drove them from hakon hotel to Hana airport and they PID like 40,000 for the whole group and it sounds very convenient he was stopped by police at Hana airport and it became news because he escaped just leaving his driver's license at and he was found when he went to the police office to issue the new driver's license and uh in the night airport I was talked by Canadian traveler that he cannot find this guy that have a driver's service and uh I didn't wasn't thinking anything and I took him to the place that the driver was waiting but somehow driver guy kind of hid from me finding that I'm Japanese so uh and then I real oh that's true like maybe this is something you know not approved but or getting license and I of course I pretended didn't see anything in YouTube something everyone many different kind of people see and it's really depends on your kind of understanding and perception but I have to say that it is illegal activities and you might want to uh use uh regular licensed to service which can be very expensive in Japan that's why I usually only talk about public transportation and also the Japanese government is working on improving this situation and they might move to approve like a uber grab or control R share service but at this point we don't know how it will turn out how that turn out and what kind of system of Regulation it will be when there's update I'd like to talk about it in this channel too and something important for the April update is end of this month is the start of the golden week and golden week is a Japanese long day that are contining to early May and it's a good season to travel so many many people travel something very important that the Jr Central issue this year is for the first time there won't be any non-reserved seat on noomi train noomi is one of the service on tokaido shans connecting from Tokyo to kyto and father there are three types noomi hiar Kama and the fastest one noomi is the most frequently learning one so most Japanese people take it unless you really want to slow travel so that one is have won't be have the non-reserved seat so that one won't have non- reserved seat so you have to make a reservation from April 26 to May 6 there won't be any non-reserved seat and all seat is for reservation only for noomi service of too shansen there's no change for other sh and service if you see the reservation situation so today April 7 so you already can see up to May 7th which is one month later for the beginning of the golden week and end of the gold week the shink and tend to be very busy and you rarely can find seats morning SL when you find one seat it can be kind of middle seat so usually you might want to avoid so if you see the middle days of the golden week actually you see lots of empty seats actually it looks less busy than regular time because there's no business moving that time when you are in Tokyo it might be actually not a bad season to travel around because things are not busy because people out of Tokyo of course lots of people come to Tokyo too but uh office area there are no people walking so some businesses in the office area might be closing but you can travel in the less crowded area but if you go to like a them park or try spot you might want to be ready for the busy time and uh I checked the Tokyo Disney Resort and for Disneyland April 27th to May 4th most of the dates are set as the most expensive date which means they're expecting lots of customers and for Universal Studios April 29th May 3rd and hor are set as a peak season so recently I went to Universal student in Osa by myself and made a video about the Universal Studio so something I was curious was Universal Studio is who is a one star and five star onear and five star the deie and what is this difference and it's not necessarily they like the character of The Universal Studio or something it's more about if they knew something about it or not so so I was kind of feeling intimidated to make about it but uh thanks to like by coincidence there was a kind of sponsor things from the clook so I could make the video so even if you purchase from where from the clook or any other site official site for the same price actually you can purchase ticket and uh you can still use all the kind of I made in the video and I think this will be a very kind of good video to watch before you go so if you have time or if you are waiting the Universal Studio please consider watching that video too and something recently you see a lot on the news is over tourism of kyotto and you might have he the news that in the some Street in gon District are closing and let me go a little bit about it I was wondering because they are making so many hotels and um some lots of news are saying like too many tourists and lots of kind of some negative news and new opening news and what's going on and because as a tourist I'm also visitor from Tokyo so I feel like I'm not welcomed by K right so and of course whole industry of Tourism is want more tourists and want tourist just like now and uh but I did see some posters like warning before I was thinking there a little too many warning sign and kind of a little too much but unfortunately with my eyes I saw some kind of difficult cases that in Kyoto someone touched to the two Lady of the kimono that to on the shoulder like this and I was very surprised but she he wanted to take their picture two Japanese lady wearing kimono uh and uh those lady looks very kind of surprised and kind of looks a b embarrassed but uh they're very nice so kind of try to smile and uh just standing in of the camera but the worst was that that test person suddenly just left without even say thank you someone who watching this Channel or trying to watch this video like this is never T like that and but there are a really really small amount of The Travelers like that because of that the restriction and lots of warning keep increasing and something happened in gu probably because of that and originally the All Passes were open some places had no pictures or no photography but you could just walk on anywhere in Koto but uh those are private pass there's a regular public Street and some private pass that private path is something local community uh paying kind of yearly fee and maintaining the street so we see in Tokyo too in kind of residential area but those passes are kind of they have to close what I saw in the news is they really didn't want to do this because you know they want to open for tourist and everyone but because of the some uh activities maybe they had to close and from this month April they start to close the little pass in gon District little by little so it's going to increase little by little to different areas maybe you have to give up try not to obsessed with following kind of micos was those kind of ladies wearing kimono because there are lots of other things to see in Kyoto again I know I again I don't want to talk about so much because anyone who watch my channel is not like that probably hopefully I'm not making this video to warn you just that is the situation so I don't want you to feel intimidated or not welcomed by Kyoto or Japan for example I went to um kind of there's a little street called Ponto Gate Hotel I stayed and uh there there's a little kind of takak shop and I want to film that how you can make Tako Yaki and that St was self made Tako Yaki that and the store person really Tred to help me so the stop was very nice they try to involve all the kind of to from different countries show them the how I make takoyaki so it was actually really fun moment for in basically very nice and they really trying to help you you don't have to feel like you're not welcome or something so that's what I want to say and uh uh of course kyota is a big city so there are lots of different kind of people but basically there are lots of lots of nice people in kyotto you don't have to feel intimidated about going to kyotto the Japanese government want to bring people to other parts of Japan so that's something also good to consider if you have been to kyotto or if you like more smaller places but then should you avoid kyotto because of that is but no is like kyotto so it's difficult to say go somewhere else instead of Kyoto something I myself face at the trouble is I couldn't find a Coin Locker for the suitcase and when I leave for Tokyo I wanted to walk on a little bit around kotto station so I was looking for the coin Locker to store my suitcase and there are so many so many coin Lockers in the Hao exit which in the south side of kyotto station and everyone storing kind of stranded kind of with big suitcases don't know what to do kind of little kind of clock and you can either storage luggage or ship luggage there there but U there's a long line and uh person of the office person immediately put kind of normal luggage sign it might be very important to plan your luggage either bring to your hotel first and start sing after that or maybe send from the previous hotel in other location to the hotel in kyotto previous night or you can also choose a hotel that has a delivery service to the hotel during luggage I talked about several times but it's a very important topic so I'd like to go over once again with kind of this month or next month video and something you might have noticed is this one the chrisan from Australia DW this cute illustration for me and thank you so much so I was a bit sick that time and uh he didn't know that but he sent me this so I used to wear the kind of Kushi kind of okin Closs looks like Aloha and talk with the Punk so he draw this uh illustration thank you so much so I'm really happy and proud to have this and let me see if I can make the same form now hello friends hell friends and uh chrisan also made a Emoji for my channel membership chrisan kindly offer to make Emoji too so I asked something he's from Australia's Queenland so uh let's mix something kind of Australia and Japan mix and he made this one pugging something it's so cute and so amazing and thank you so much so and he also made this one mix of the Pug and maniki Ne is inviting cat like inviting the fortune to your room it's the maniki Pug like that you can use as Emoji thank you so much again CHR and maybe event I try to use in other places too so I'm really appreciating this situation that I have the YouTube channel because two years ago or three years ago I could imagine I have a YouTube channel and I can interact with people like this I'm trying to do every new things related to YouTube so uh membership was one of the things that I kind of made it and uh I haven't talked about it but uh thank you for everyone who joined the membership and I also tried to live stream that is from saporo and I did two live stream I know it was a little disaster in the snowstorm but um and it was a great experience so maybe I'd like to try some more live stream in the future and maybe May update I can do live from here and also something I tried is a sponsorship video and you might have different opinions but uh it was a really great experience to do and U as a experience I wanted to know how it works and it was really learning and of course everyone on the cluk North America was very nice and I appreciate everyone who watched the video and some people even kind of cheered me up congratulate on the sponsorship and I try to be careful I don't introduce anything un beneficial to viewers like you know something really expensive for no reason but I like to keep trying new things if there are opportunities uh and I also went to the J West project to ISO in sign Legion and this is a new train actually debuted yesterday April 6th and this is a new train connecting okama and ISO and it's uh I got an opportunity that I can film there and I can interview to the J West person and it was really really great experience it was so far away it was uh really interesting experience like I saw like uh some Japanese YouTubers some of them very famous I usually don't watch YouTube so much but uh even I knew some of the kind of train YouTubers so it was really great to see how they filming actually and uh it was really motivating because everyone is so serious there's a reason those channels so big and finally I said uh about uh my pun Kenny I said I might post about him traving but uh I got a sick end of the December and I couldn't take him out so but there's a hotel that I can on on that morning but um they said they don't need a cancellation fee because I know how hard my health situation is so it was a very nice hotel and I'd like to go back to that hotel so I'd like to finally go back there in April or May so finally for my P fans I can show you more of the kiney that was April update and thank you so much for watching for me speaking English is so difficult and this is like a fifth stake of the me yesterday and it's Sun finally probably this one will be okay then sun setting so sorry that it's getting a littleit dark um thank you for watching have a great trip to Japan have a good week until the next video

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Length: 23min 16sec (1396 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 08 2024