9 Days in Japan | Visiting Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka in 2024

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store we'll try it out and see how it is here we have it I'm not going to lie it's pretty tasty also very juicy and it comes in convenience store like this right here was like $1 us the equivalent you really can't beat that you're a bodybuilder got to go to Tokyo [Music] a all right first bite trying the truth little first raw fish we had in Japan that very good fish very good quality n out of 10 [Music] all right so we just pulled up in Kyoto this is one of our first hotels we got three beds there's two actual beds and there's one pull out honestly very very good having three beds in one room it's not really common to get that the space is very cozy yet definitely tight um you can see all of our luggage just piled in the entryway speee what is this it's B bles [Music] yo fore speech [Music] fore [Music] this looks so I iy [Music] buttered sea scallop I don't know how to describe it how many you got bro I have probably yo you want me to film you eting that oh Savory flaky tender good I so [Music] good yeah um for [Music] speech for foreign speech speech [Music] speech so so we just stopped by kyodo some of the card shops and a bit of nostalgia bought four packs of these Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards Yu-Gi-Oh is a big part of my childhood and these are way too expensive in the states they run about like seven or8 dollar per pack and in Japan these are like the equivalent of1 usar so got four packs I'm going to open two of them on camera and then two of them I'll give away either my hands got bigger or these cards are smaller or both I don't remember them being the small I feel like these are smaller right right deck reveal one two three four and five I'll be honest dude I have never seen any of these cards before my life and I do not know how to read the instructions so one two three four final one yo this card looks nice yo I'm pretty sure this is a good card the video is not doing this Justice [Music] right now on a bullet train today we are going to be seeing some deer how are we feeling guys you [Music] guys we're at this place I don't even know the name but look at the meats so good there's just like poison type Japanese sauce that you diit in BL me here we go what she what she girl what's up guys we're currently in Nara Andy just picked up a strawberry you first Bight that's so good that's so good man [Music] really [Music] [Music] all right so so we're at Nara just at the local Mochi joint and we just got one of these fresh Mochis they were just hand pounded pce test first bite that's so good it's got bits and pieces of I think red bean in here the outside coated with some type of is it peanut I don't I don't actually know but it's really really good um each one of these is 180 Yen so delicious what does that mean he's just chilling there guarding the Goods how do one oh I [Music] got [Music] [Applause] [Music] where guys this area is a little saturated we need to find the more remote regions [Music] for [Music] [Music] you let's see if we can win [Music] something [Music] some y you can just see the fish [Music] [Music] do you watch that video ja about no about why you can't a c I don't want that ion be able to see coming live from too Japan it's been a couple of days haven't really picked up the camera much just trying to be present but wanted to give everyone an update that it's currently January 1st 2024 and unexpectedly an earthquake pretty massive one I think it was like around 7. on the scale it hit the west coast of Japan and sounds like tsunamis have been hitting the coast and there's been a lot of damage on the west coast so thoughts and prayers go to everyone who was impacted by that who's currently living in the area figuring things out um everything's still relatively fresh right now so just try to get more information whenever it comes but it's kind of just a real really real thing that's happening here um she when to go to a for country you never know what's going to happen things like this kind of come out of nowhere but everyone's safe everyone traveling with me is safe and yeah just can't wait to get back to the us and we'll talk to you guys soon [Music] was good really rich shrimp and SE [Music] Bass [Music] she you learn this on there thank you so much for an amazing meal thank you so [Music] much [Applause] [Music] a okay so we just checked out the hotel we have all of our luggages here made the mistake of bringing too much um but honestly it's a lot of gifts for friends so they'll thank me later but we're on our way to the train station and then to the next hotel for for okay so we somehow made it to shabuya station this is where we will proceed with going on foot all right so we just pulled up to Hotel fukua in uh it's around 15 minutes from shabuya station such a nice venue it's such a cute little spot that's like around 10 minutes outside of them so we're going to get some food now before these boys head out let's go quick stop to family Mark getting our first meal of the day getting this discounted spami and the boys are getting some fried chicken from the family Mark oh okay thank you so we're just walking to get some lunch and immediately we found this restaurant that looked pretty special and it's because they have puffer fish live puffer fish in the fish tank absolutely wild if you guys don't know um they're toxic and poisonous so they need to be prepared a specific way otherwise you could get really really ill you get paralyzed you can get paralyzed you get paralyzed we will not be eating those but we are going to get a final lunch with the guys they want to get beef Rice Bowl as if we haven't had that already 20 times this trip but it's going to be good we're going to the OG spot see you [Music] [Music] there the beef marinated to Perfection it's a little bit sweet a little bit Savory and very tender [Music] all right so couple hours later we just went back to the hotel boys picked up their luggage we're now on our way to shabuya station so these guys can make their flight and I'm off to do some more exploring the city do some solo traveling so we'll see how it goes had three things on my bucket list today number one make a custom Japanese ring number two eat at a a local restaurant by myself and number three do a 7-Eleven Food review okay so one out of three items has already been complete or in the making just made a custom Japanese ring we're going to check it out in 30 minutes once it's [Music] ready just got the new ring made super stoked about it looks really cool about to head to the Mega Market to pick up some more gifts so come along all right so we're right now outside of donkey h this is quite literally one of the most overwhelming stores you'll ever be to in your life got to pick up some gifts hopefully we survive let's [Music] go seven layers here seven different levels we're right now going up to level two all right so we got two hair mask and some hair gel all right nothing at floor four moving on to floor five okay so we now made it to floor 6 this is like the entire anime like cartoon [Music] section super cool thing is there are so many of these paper 3D cartoons that you can build and you can assemble it yourself at home okay so we got a bunch of gifts if you spend over 5,500 Yen then you can get all of your purchases taxfree [Music] okay so we just pulled up to the skuk KATU place and the weight was over 3 hours long in order just to get food so had to change plans not planning on waiting 3 hours I had the time but I'm just lazy and just don't want to wait out in the cold [Music] okay so that was absolutely epic just randomly stumbled upon a local standing sushi bar where you basically had to stand while eating um it was like a bar counter and then you had to speak in Japanese to the chef in order to first of all just get his attention to order food and then to actually order the dishes so I think I had around four different uh types of salmon had three chutle a couple tuna and then overall is a great appetizer okay so we're currently at 711 and we got an absolute salute haul for you guys so you guys don't know it's 7-Eleven Family Mart all these convenience stores they have a bunch of different just on the-shelf types of foods it's like Robin noodles they have prepackaged foods and foods that have already been cooked so here's what I got I'm going to try all this on camera with you guys tonight for my dinner so we have the grilled chicken this is the grilled chicken yakatori ramen number one I have no idea what I ordered here Ramen number two again I have no idea what I ordered but two already boiled eggs two chips which I'll bring back to the room so and then last but not least we have these thick cut salt and Nori or seaweed flavored ones essentially Selter water that's lemon flavored lemon vitamin shot Water the really cool thing about these places is that they also provide free water free utensils all that stuff so you can literally just eat it in the store um I'm currently in the store right now there's like this little sitting area by myself oh my God exploded everywhere okay so the ramen may have exploded everywhere was not expecting the water to shoot out like that but uh gravity's like that so I should have known [Music] unsweetened lemon seltzer water really good overall I think you know I came down to Japan for the first time visiting with two very close friends so I think the experience is better when you have someone that you're really close with just because you have that person that you can rely on and and you know it's it's more fun when you have companions to travel with with that being said the latter half of this day I was obviously by myself my friends left as you saw earlier so got to experience what it was like to in some sense travel and explore Japan by myself and honestly I think it's definitely very doable Japan's super super safe especially in like Tokyo in the more populated areas everyone is super friendly willing to help you if you're able to communicate with them whether that's through English or Japanese and generally everyone's been super friendly it's been a really really fun and just a great cultural experience from that perspective you should do your research right so you should have a plan as to where you want to go uh what potential spots you want to eat at I think it's super important as well to also think about you know where you'll want to route and where you need to route in order to hit those destinations so for my group we pre-planned everything on Google Maps and we used Google translate and Google Maps for traveling to different cities for knowing where to go for figuring out the train stations Google Maps is such a lifesaver and that it literally breaks down which platforms which exits which Rail lines you need to take in order to get to your destination it also really helps when you have an eim card you everyone should get one it's super easy to do I personally use the ubigi one it's I believe ui.com you're able to purchase an international SIM card literally do it while you're in the states or your home country and then turn it on when you reach that International that foreign country and you have data and you have service right from the get-go you don't need to talk to anyone you don't need to set this up in person it's very very handsfree and it's a very easy experience this first bowl of noodle I give it a I give a 7 out of 10 pretty solid but obviously I've had like some of the best ramen in Japan so you can't really compare like look at that that is so Orange it's so so good okay so we're on our way home now it's currently sprinkling just a little bit we are like two blocks away from home which will be this hotel that we'll be staying at for just one night and then we're off to the train station in the morning so cannot wait to just sit down for a bit we've been pretty much out the entire day trying to maximize the entire day the time we have left here so really excited to just chill out for a bit and then start packing I got to figure out how to pack all this stuff help okay so there's two floors the sink a shared bathroom and we have returned to our humble abode so this room here is a double twin includes a small desk and basic ameni so it has a small TV nothing to Lavish air conditioning unit but in total for one night it cost only $63 which is pretty insane given that I'm literally just 15 minutes away from shabuya station okay what's going on everyone coming live from the hotel now we just took a shower it was fantastic I'm just listening to a podcast right now and then starting to pack all of these gear and gifts that I got for friends and family it's a lot of stuff but I think we actually packed it quite quite well the last couple of things are to snack on the remaining food from 7-Eleven that we didn't get a chance to try so chili flavored potato chips oo R the bag chip size looks pretty good looks very thin try it out they kind of remind me of like sweet heat Barbe in the states it's very similar to that thick cut wavy chips TR out oh wow smells like Ruffles you can just see the seasoning all over the chips the specks of green tastes like a normal Ruffles chip but then maybe you sprinkle in like some Nori seaweed on top it's actually quite nice it works really well together up I get this one like a eight out of 10 I think it's better than the sweet heat one this custom handmade silver ring that I had so this is 3 mm absolutely beautiful I got it in a shiny finish and they put these handmade Kinks or knots in it such a cool design I'm going to call it quit tonight thank you so much for joining me in this journey hope you found this video entertaining informative um I typically don't do these type of Vlog style content just because I don't know I prefer making videos that are informative rather than entertaining but let me know in the comments if you enjoy this if you have any questions and uh yeah thanks so much for tuning in Happy New Year oh

Channel: Max Mao

Views: 33,311

Keywords: japan, kyoto, osaka, tokyo, shibuya, shimokitazawa, travel

Id: OE91EGEnbtY

Length: 39min 10sec (2350 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2024