Exploring Hokkaido Japan’s Snowy Sapporo at Night

so it's cold out and it's officially christmas everyone mary wait a minute no it's not so today we are in hokkaido exploring this exact wall right here and trying to figure out what what is it what's it do what is its purpose what is its name i think his name is bob how about you welcome to sapporo hokkaido everybody today by very very popular request we have come all the way out to hokkaido and we are starting here in sapporo in odi park and those dudes are really loud and rambunctious and they're super happy to be in the snow and so are we because that's the whole purpose of coming out to hokkaido now if there was ever going to be any gear failure in a tokyo lens live stream something tells me that today today is going to be the day i want to start by saying thank you so much to silver kicking off the super testing i can't stay long for the stream but please get a sapporo classic on me 100 will do that so today we're gonna start by exploring the odori park area here today and i said today like twice because it's just that much fun that's how much fun we're gonna have today that i have to say it multiple times and we are going to start by going through odori park and then exploring some of the back streets of hokkaido and who knows we might even have the opportunity to slip and fall because i have nearly slipped and fogged like i don't know fell phil is the word we're looking for ladies and gentlemen like eight or nine times today at least it is slippery out indeed so i guess we should start by saying happy new year everybody welcome to 2022 a year that is going to be an adventure all in its own if you're wondering what that means trust me so do i and evachon keeping the super chat ball rolling saying for a beverage yeah i can tell you right now i'm gonna be stopping for a hot beverage along with tim for a warm beverage thank you so much tim 100 i uh i got stories about us getting up there tokyo lens epic snowball fight when honestly i would do it but there are just so many liability issues also the snow out here is not really packing snow so if you caught any of my instagram stories or if you are part of the patreon crew and got to see my behind the scenes solo camping out in the forest in the snow video then you'll know that i did some solo camping in the snow and actually to be honest that was packing snow that was the best condition snow you could ask for i'd be lying if i said i didn't build a fort because i built a fort and it was an amazing fort but this snow here is just very there's there's no packing ability to it whatsoever it is very fluffy snow so slices of japan in here how's it going slices thank you so much for keeping that super chat ball rolling sick happy new year norm please help yourself to a warm beverage on me thank you so much this is the continuation i guess one of the final runs of our one month traveling japan live stream adventure that we have been up to and there are still more live streams to come by the way this is just the next installment in that if you will we last month we hit up kyoto in osaka we went out to skoka and pepu we went up to sendai we streamed from chris's studio we had an eventful december and i wanted to make it up to sapporo in december but unfortunately there weirdly wasn't enough snow on any of the days that i was available so we kind of put it off until this well we'll just call this december this is december 2.0 with a new swing to it and pie pie pie piper aha it took me a second to read that one saying get a cup of soup for the road loving the snow we haven't gotten much of it and i miss it i i kind of missed it i'm i'm now that i've camped in it i'm good like i did days camping out in the snow so i'm good for now uh but this is 100 just for you guys these guys are all like gathered up getting a picture of themselves that is that is just lovely loving that on to chan who says a happy new year everyone i love that thank you so much jan and norm here's a modest contribution before i slip to bed almost midnight here well thank you so much for being a part of it chan as always super happy to have you here also hello yuka woo i have to i need to like absolutely keep my hands in my pockets i do have gloves but when i wear the gloves i can't scroll through and like check the comments and everything so whoo we got those got the lights i'm we're not making that because all those cars are going to come and they're going to squish me and you don't want to mess with the cars and the jaywalking in the snow a potential onsen visit after the cold weather can recommend the noboribetsu area thank you so much for that we're green we get to go and the noboribetsu area so the yoshida brothers who i apprentice with for my sugar and shamisen training are from hokkaido and they're originally from noboribetsu and so i have yet to actually make a dedicated trip out to noboribetsu so i think we're gonna have to do that at some point thank you very much mocha really appreciate that and cynthia keeping the super chat ball rolling here saying this is for very warm hokkaido ramen happy new year cynthia thank you so much for that i am literally just trying not to fall down as i slip through this here all right so into the comments section into the chat we go does anybody know why the streets are so empty look at that tornado yay does anybody know why the streets of sapporo are so empty can anyone take a guess can anyone take a gander drop it into the chat let me know if you haven't already don't forget to give that like button some love if you're new to the channel it would mean the world to me if you smashed the subscribe button my goal for this year is i would absolutely love to see this channel hit 50k within the year just little goals tiny little things you know and hanging out with otto who has been here for like every single stream just rocking it thank you so much otto i'm going to read this one out here saying for a trip to okinawa beach camp love your positivity thank you so much keeps us all sane thanks for the content mate lots of love from australia cheers bro well thank you so much for that and if you're new then you might not know that australia is no i'm going to want to make that light i want to make that light sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry don't kill me don't kill me okay there we go almost went down all right oh that was an adventure all on its own australia is by far one of my favorite places on earth i did a whole set of videos back uh in maybe 2019 where i took kiki two shamisen players that i work with out to brisbane and we had a spectacular time and i still still one of my favorite memories ever and red panda in here keeping that super chat ball rolling saying happy new year red panda thank you so much for that all right has anybody guessed i have not you know that whole excitement with crossing the road [Music] i have not seen if anybody's guessed where everybody is it's only there's water too windy not pleasant in the least not at all oh wind please stop okay so before we got this started i was hanging out on discord with my patreon crew and they were saying that right now the thing is like minus seven feels like minus 15 and i'm telling you right now as a canadian that is a minus 15 degree wind it is unpleasant in every single way and stephanie m in here keeping that super chap all rolling saying keep warm happy new year stephanie thank you so much for that and in the answer to the question because a few people did guess it right there are very few people out on the street here in sapporo because they're all underground that's right they're all under us see down there down there that's where they are they're all hiding they're like mold people no not mall people those are different people those people like shopping these ones are mole people hanging out in the tunnels of sapporo that is right this city one of my favorite things about it is the fact that it is connected by a series of underground tunnels that connect different stations in the basements and buildings and everything like that so you can navigate the main area of the city while staying warm and not having to go out in the freezing cold love it mole people so oh come on really all of them are gonna turn red all of them all at the same time how is that going to work huh are both the cars going to turn green is that what how is this going to work okay so this one's green but that's red i'm not i'm not buying it i'm not seeing how that adds up but we are where we are so we'll make the best of it oh boy i'm telling you honestly i uh look at the size of it okay so in case you're new to the hokkaido genre of life and you didn't already know this these polls are for the snowplows to let you know a how high the snow is and b that hey don't don't go past the pole or you're probably probably gonna break something like your vehicle so we're just gonna keep walking on down this way oh man ah did you see stephanie's super chat i believe i read stephanie's super chat out thank you very much for catching that it said keep warm happy new year yeah i got that one hundred percent oh and i almost went down again it's these little spaces here you can't really tell but they're super okay that one wasn't slippery at all way to make a liar out of me they're very very they're like ninja slippery it's called black ice if you're not from a country with snow it's it's not a racial thing it's just ice that you can't see at all which is why it's called black ice it just looks like the road and it is dangerous for feet it's dangerous for cars and and ebbing crescent in here saying hey norm have you ever been extreme camping i hear it's intense okay i'm not gonna lie i was like what's extreme camping that sounds like it and it was it was intense absolutely and that honestly thank you for brightening our day with that joke incredibly cheesy but it's the kind of joke that i just love so much and you know i'm gonna i'm gonna put my second hood up because it is just so cold all right be careful on the black ice that stuff is scary it really really is terrifying second hood oh my god yeah i'm in the hood it is something else and actually this isn't bad when i arrived in sapporo today it was just a white out you couldn't see anything at all it was just pure white just like the train from the airport into here was just nuts i was going to take a bullet train originally today into the sapporo area from tokyo so i would have more time to work on the train however i figured with the way that the snow has been in japan lately it's been kind of nuts and i didn't want the bullet train to end up getting delayed and us being behind and not be able to do our stream and there was just too much risk involved and so i opted for a flight out here which is considered like if i gone all the way out to narita and taking one of the discount airlines i probably could have got it for like about a hundred dollars less but from haunted uh the flight's a little more expensive but it means that we didn't have to miss our adventure so i did leave an extra day here just in case just in case something went wrong i did leave an extra day so there is a chance everybody that we might get to do a secondary stream who knows one of our morning lovely streams and viola h in here keeping the super chat ball rolling saying happy new year norm thanks for sharing hokkaido snow with us we'd love to have some of that in england actually england would be kind of nice with snow just gonna cover up some of the england i'm kidding i would actually love to get out to england within the next you know what we're just gonna say decade i would love to get out to england within the next decade it is on my list of places to go and that chick in florida saying was it the lights or did i see two sets of legs in the shadow that was the light it's literally i've only got the one set of legs a second set would be super helpful that way i wouldn't fall down but just quick turn around see ain't not nobody there sorry guys don't mean to disappoint but not that many people want to come up to freezing cold hokkaido with me and hang out in the snow oh do we have a snowplow oh is it going to be super slow is it a slow plow is that what he's going to call it i think we have a snowplow there we go but it's like the slowest snowplow ever oh man okay so did i miss anything okay we're gonna keep going gonna keep going and cookie ninja saying good morning good morning cookie ninja thank you so much for always being here for all of these means the world and sarah in here saying hey norm what are the perks of the top tier in patreon any plans for more merch well the actual top tier in patreon is a 10 tier which gives you access to everything i do extra videos every single month we've got the secret instagram where i live stream pretty much every single week we've got the discord that i hang out we get to chat we get to get to know each other and everything like that there's also the extra podcasts and the posts like the one that i put up this morning or the extra video that i'm going to be shooting tonight or maybe the extra live stream that i'll do while i'm here et cetera et cetera that's that's the the main one there's a higher up tier that that is a terrible sound that is awful is terrifying okay there is a higher up tier which has zero added benefit and i do not recommend it to anyone whatsoever everyone seems to think that it's a joke that doesn't have any it doesn't have any extra but it shouldn't even be there so but honestly for the price of a single super chat you could be hanging out with us on the discord and we can get to know each other a little bit better catch some of the behind the scenes videos i even have a couple videos extra ones up on the the five dollar tiers so if you're like hey i've always wanted to do something but i don't want to do a super chat come hang out this is your official invitation from me to come hang out on the patreon i would love to have you there i just like the fact that we get to know each other a little bit better so thank you so much and any plans for more merch in answer to that one i recently released my shamisen plushie which is uh you know what let's go this way let's just walk down these snowy streets i recently released my shamisen plushie which is going to be the the big merch for the next year or so it took 18 months to develop and is by it's linked in the description as well so if you want to check that out that was actually done i got like design approvals and everything from some of the biggest shamisen players in all of japan we got to like get together and work on this design for this shiny sand plushy together and it is just so amazing to me that it exists and honestly that snow plow does these like scrapes across the ground that just sound like this terrifying scream i'm kind of starting to love it so thank you so much for that jc in here with this super chat saying happy new year norm and chat might doze off in a while but we'll keep the stream on thanks for great content jc thank you so much for being here so happy to have you and wow that is an awesome name okay emma lien did i say it right emily and i'm not even gonna i'm not even gonna attempt the last name saying hello norm happy new year so happy i managed to get a live stream please get something to drink in this weather 100 percent will i'm gonna need a warm drink just to warm up my hands to be honest so and sweet archangel in here keeping that super chat ball rolling saying happy new year everyone sewer lid reveal please i'm not gonna lie i've been looking we're okay i got too focused on the super lid and yes we did go down [Laughter] ah that was honestly like those guys there are probably like uh noob snow noob i've even got like studded shoes and everything today i've got like the fancy studded boots and that should not have happened but that there that is the black ice and again it's it's it's not a racial thing it's just ice that you can't see so yeah did it at least look cool on the stream did we at least look good going down that's the real question let me know on a scale of one to ten how cool was the fall did it happen in slow motion did it happen in real time let us know let's head down one of these snowy back streets that hopefully has just a little more grip oh 11 out of 10 a thousand out of ten seven out of ten hannah come on and i almost went down again and cookie ninja saying i just realized i'm trying miso ramen for the first time and apparently it's made in sapporo i do not like the fact that there's a car coming up behind me while it is this slippery wow thank you taxi for not squishing me and amazingly amazingly i'm so used to falling in the snow that not a single injury not one thing hurts yet it might just be the adrenaline and the excitement of the stream but honestly i landed incredibly softly i went down it was like like a feather just floated down okay might not have been that slow but you know it is that slow this car they put all the budget in the design of this car into putting these crazy stickers on it so that you would imagine having to drive that through town i don't know if that would be a privilege or a punishment let me know in the chat what do you think if you're watching afterwards let me know in the comments is it a privilege or is it you know what it reminds me of the polka dot door the polka dot do you know that you know the polka dot door that's all the singing we'll be doing for today but if you know the polka dot door let me know in the comments section that is just bonkers okay i'm gonna scroll back because i missed one or two super chats in there and i don't want to miss them all right so all right sewer lid reveal sweet archangel 100 we will do a sewer lid reveal as soon as one of the sewer lids reveals themselves to us chan in here saying i recommend montbell climb climb a barrier gloves windproof and individual fingers can be exposed for pokey pokey needs i use them for oh yeah chan we gotta we gotta talk about that flying thing i absolutely we we have to have a discussion about that there's a weird wobble in the in the gimbal now the gimbal may have taken a little bit of damage cookie ninja saying i i've read that one i've read cookie ninjas i'm looping now and try zach in here saying thank you for your live streams december has been a tough month and your streams have been a huge highlight for a lonely month stay hydrated honestly try zach thank you so much for saying that it means a lot um that chick in florida saying the fall was a five you could have played you could have played it off it's zero degrees celsius in north florida wow really my car door has frozen shut stay warm okay did not ever imagine florida getting that cold but mind you it is north okay so you see this that is black ice right there you see that shiny stuff hidden underneath okay so i am trying to find a specific area that i have not been out to for many years that has lots of bars and all that fun stuff and honestly if i could remember the name of the place is it that way have we overshot we might have overshot it's okay we'll make our way back because the goal today is just to enjoy the snow so is there really a car coming up behind me right now really this is so inappropriate come on narrow street you got all the streets in the world and there's nobody out there and you gotta scare me me come on all right so uh moving on to sachi saying welcome to sapporo you beat me norm i'll be there next week glad there's not much snow yeah this honestly this counts as not much snow in sapporo the winter festival the the sapporo snow festival does look like it's going to be held this year which is super exciting but i wanted to choose my timing for this visit in a way that we'd be able to kind of avoid crowds a little bit more and get the city streets to ourselves as we often like to do in these streams so sachi thank you so much and dm cos saying can someone edit the stream later with the snowplow noise and that fall to make a low budget indie horror film honestly if anybody does that if anybody like takes the uh the plow noise and edits in the fall and we make like a little horror film and you tag me on like twitter or something i will 100 share that that is a ton of look at this can we just can we just go really basic for a second and say japan stuff in the snow is awesome look at that and it smells so good here oh it smells like fresh noodles and oh honestly i i can't that that's a terrible description it smells like fresh udon here just incredible love it love it love it love it love it love it love it love it and slices of japan in here with another super chat keeping that ball rolling slices thank you honestly so much for that i think i see a covered arcade up above let's see if we can't make our way out there and yuri olsen in here saying greetings from denmark keep your love your streams and content i read the next line first because i'm backwards today and keep up the good work thank you so much so there was a mention earlier about how the end of the year has been tough for some people so you don't even know where to stop there's no lines and we almost had a sewer lid there but it wasn't quite revealed and we're crossing the road so we'll go for the next one but as a content creator you really get to see so a lot of my content creator friends say that especially the end of the year basically from christmas clear through to the second week or so of january just do not look at the comments section on your channel just just don't even look don't even open the app and one of the reasons is that is a very tough time of the year for a lot of people and a lot of people will just hang out on youtube vent their stresses and their negativity and racism and everything in between into the comment section and it can be a really really rough time and it's one of the reasons why last year i actually made a dedicated video at the beginning of the year just asking everybody to just do something kind for someone and i think at the end of the video i asked everyone just if you haven't done so lately give your mom a call tell her that you love her and i think really it's one of the reasons why i wanted to produce so much content in december i think we did a video almost every single week throughout the month of december as well as what seven eight nine i don't even know how many streams we did a lot of streams and i just kind of wanted to give everybody a little bit of time to to escape and enjoy and feel that like the winter months are cold and difficult enough as is without having everything else that's going on in the world right now so i hope that you guys have been able to enjoy the content we've put out over the last month or so it's been an absolute blast to make and there's so much more exciting stuff to come as always so and beck's in here saying happy new year burn this cash for warmth i think i might do exactly that i don't know how you're not freezing cold you look like you are please stay here look at all the black i'm telling you if we're gonna go down anywhere it's it's here i'm you can look how shiny that is that's all the shiny oh i can feel us going down all right and wild zero saying hey norm happy new years on the topic of slippery traction what is your funniest experience drifting have you ever driven with alexi noriaro uh no alexi loriaro and i have not had the opportunity to to meet or talk yet i don't even think we we've ever been in the same place at the same time i did drifting and all of that long before i ever did content creation my i guess i wouldn't really call it a career my stint as a drift driver ended well over a decade ago probably closer to 11 maybe even 12 years ago and look at this you can see this it is very unpleasant with all the the wind and the snow and the anyway and funniest experience ever well there is there is a video up in the early days of tokyo lens on the tokyo lens channel where i talk about nearly dying i don't know if that that counts as a funny ooh is this hi guys is this the new that doesn't work at all does it is that the new tokyo lens office are in sapporo in the show 10 guy with all my gear on display so anyone just break in i think it might be what do we got here i always hope for like little like alleyways and whatnot and what's up dude why you crying and borealum in here with this crap again saying will the stream quality be up to 1080p in the future we've done a whole bunch of 1080p streams go back and catch them we did half of the month of december in 1080p where were you mate the uh 1080p streams that the world just isn't ready for them the technology isn't ready for them we opted as a group to go for the 720p streams because the 1080p ones while they do have higher quality they freeze the quality doesn't drop they just completely freeze up and then the stream dies and we had streams die out on us repeatedly throughout the month of december and so we uh have opted for all mobile streams for the foreseeable future to be in 720 just because the uh the stability of it to be honest the what is your new year's resolution 1080p damn it it's so good so cheesy but so good so yeah the any of my non-mobile streams will be in 1080p that's not a problem but the youtube app does not allow us to use the wide-angle lens or does not allow us to use 1080p and i think one of the reasons is it's just too much data for it to handle in fact it kind of messed things up last month because near the end of the month i didn't have any data left at all and i was kind of screwed i had to like temporarily purchase an e-sim for my second phone and stream off of that because japan while they do have quote unquote unlimited data plan no they don't the honest truth is unlimited mobile data in japan is not legal and it's not like it's an illegal thing it's not like they're going to go to jail or something like that what it means is that the the government caps it at about 30 gigabytes right now so you can't actually get like if you were to get cool de lemon if you were to get an unlimited data plan for your phone and uh look at the fine print it actually says a they're going to limit your data throughout the day during busy periods and b you'll be capped at 30. so unfortunately right now for this month for like streams and whatnot i have my mobile data plan as well as not one but two two wi-fi modules from ivideo just in case i use up one or in case one just completely dies out on us so and yeah 30 gigabytes is extremely low especially when you're literally trying to bring japan to the world through streams and whatnot so yeah that's a ton of fun all right i just need to make sure i haven't like dropped my other glove or anything and if you guys haven't given that like button some love yet please do give that like button some love let's see if we can't play that game gamify it see if we cannot get the likes to match the viewers on this stream and sounds like we have a yaki emo guy over here so let's go see if we can check him out it'll definitely be better than the yakimo guy on the stream of sharla which was just like a really loud whistle that was it just like this guy's jacket over here is so shiny can can we see the shininess of his jacket on the camera it looks shinier in person and this is a yaki imo itasha i've never actually seen it yaki imoitasha this is this is a new thing for me i feel like i want to get a shot of this because it's amazing that it's a yaki moitasha look at that that's it's a yakima tasha and bit of a wonder says all right let me tell one youtube walk to another just do your thing do the walks uh do the walks on the settings that you want i am impressed by the hard work that you put in on your channels thank you very much honestly it does take a bit of effort to come out to a place like this for the sole purpose of streaming and the setup and making the thumbnail and getting all the timing right and all of that and then you got to manage all the there's oh that guy almost went down but in the end i do it because it's something that i genuinely genuinely enjoy doing so i am so happy to be able to be wow i see why that guy was shaking so yeah that guy okay that's why you almost went down i almost went down little tiny baby steps stick with the baby steps all right this side of the street seems to be the less crowded side so we're going to go over here and so yeah bit of a wanderer honestly thank you so much for the kind words and for keeping the super chat ball rolling with that let's see if we can't find a nice did norm just miss a sewer lid probably um these don't really count at all neither do these i want to find like an actual most of them are just completely like completely buried like that one there there's no real chance of us actually being able to see it partial sewer lid route no we're not getting any of that it's not happening we got to keep looking for sewer lids sewer lids and a hot beverage are on the list of achievements for today's stream so and this those are all things that are on the list of our achievements norm is displaying proper project manager qualities just wish me luck project managers had some of those oh i don't i don't know which qualities those are but i appreciate you thank you so much those kind words do a lot when you're walking through the cold at this point it's not even the hands or the body or anything like that if i'm getting real personal with you guys i probably should have wore long underwear today my legs and buttocks are absolutely frozen and look at this cute little street look at that yeah what time is it there it is currently i can't see it it is 22-17 22-17 that is uh 10 17 p.m let's walk down this way because it's got more lights and it's got more snow and hanging out with otto's tossing in for some more boss burger you know what honestly i may just do moss burger tonight i think when all is said and done i'm gonna have to grab some moss burger grab myself a nice warm bath i have this habit whenever i go on these these trips of trying to get the cheapest accommodation physically possible because i i'm i'm cheap elaine chicken for you thank you so much i actually i ate and drank a ton right before this stream and we've only been at it for like what 40 minutes but i am already starving if you haven't already give that like button some love let's gamify it let's see if we can't smash 500 likes in the next two minutes 500 likes in the next two minutes that is the goal go go go go go and so i lately because we've been staying at so many more places i haven't just been doing the usual camping thing that i do i've been aiming for actual hotels where i can stay and leave my stuff can you imagine tent camping in sapporo just set myself up in odori park not happening and so i've been trying to play this game with myself of each time trying to find a place that's maybe only like 500 yen more expensive than the place i stayed at the time before but much nicer and i think i might have peaked this time there we go there's some there's some peaks april right there so i have you guys selfieing out here i have found myself a fairly nice hotel this time for i think like only 4 000 yen a night look at that ah very very sapporo sorry it's been so long since i've seen this scene like the last time honestly that i had a chance to to see this particular scene here was probably 2005. and if you've been out to sapporo you'll you'll know the the space but just so happy to be here give me a second to just be distracted [Music] [Music] cool so i found a hotel that is a relatively new you know let's walk this way why not and be only about four maybe 4 500 yen and is spacious and beautiful it is built to look new it is got a nice onset up on the 18th floor is by far the nicest place that i have stayed within this budget range and i'm very very excited about this accomplishment so let me go back through and catch up on some of the super chats that i kind of rolled over there as we got into this area and alexandra in there thank you so much as well as cassio saying holy [ __ ] i'm in sapporo near nakajima coin no way how's it going i have no idea where nakazimo koen is but i hope you're having a great time i'm gonna try not to fall down because i'm probably gonna fall down and easy in here saying maybe track yourself with the gps and then have a cool website that connects path or places with uh your youtube videos actually the color 12 has been doing an amazing job if you go back through some of the previous streams a lot of them in the comments section in the pinned comment i have the entire walking route which has been tracked by the color 12 for a lot of the streams on this channel shared there so if you're interested or you're like oh where was that place that he walked past you can find them in there so and oh my is this i'm butchering this i'm sorry i'm just gonna go wash air says can't wait for my champion plushie to arrive hope all is well thank you so much the semi said plushies just you know in in previous streams i'd be i'd be nervous to talk about the plushie because it always froze the stream but now that we're using the youtube app we're safe but thank you so much for picking up on the shamisen plushies means it honestly honestly does mean the absolute world to me so a huge thank you and hanging out with otto saying for a nice hot spring with emma and sarah for our aussie humor yeah i i don't i don't think the three of us will be heading into an onsen together anytime soon taxi that guy's gotta be cold come on but uh i i may invite them out on an adventure at some point we uh we got to go on an adventure this past year and it was a ton of fun and annette anderson in here saying warm coffee thank you so you can tell as we get out here you can see where the underground section of the city ends and where everything goes above ground because that is where all of the people are they're all here and if i'm not mistaken judging from the crowd around here i'd say this area is also the ever so lovely red light district with pink oh yeah there it is red light district right there that wow that looks nothing like it looks in real life that is terrifying on video that that is an absolutely terrifying pikachu she agrees and i almost went down again so we got that going for us and it said nakajima coin is 10 minutes away well that's cool man hi and is this a bomb is that what this is it looks like a bomb why would there be a bomb though it can't be a bomb is it on a tooth it's a bomb on a tooth it's a tooth bomb i am telling you it is not warm it is so weird to like go from the main area near the station where there was next to no people and suddenly just suddenly be around all these people it's a very it takes some adjusting to it does okay so our next step is to find ourselves a hot vending machine i guess a vending machine that serves hot drinks i feel like i've walked by here before not today but once upon a time in a galaxy far far away so that's a natural face and what is with all the weird statues seriously what what was the goal with this like somebody had to approve that honestly somebody was like you know what yes we will we will put this particular statue on the streets of sapporo i give that approval multiple people would have had to sign off on that i just just blows my mind the city probably paid forty thousand dollars i would not be surprised see now this guy knows what's going on high center of gravity zero chance of rolling your car was that sarcasm it just might have been oh boy all right i'm a little reluctant to go up into any of the actual like back streets in this area now that we know what the area is all about but anybody who why why what in the world why is my ankle cold i have leg warmers oh that's not cool oh my leg warmer untucked itself from my boot and now it's freezing cold like a magic oh man sapporo ramen looks so good right about now and it is just about what time is it i don't know we'll say 10 30 10 30 feels like an appropriate time we will say it's 10 30. you know what i really want i want hot chocolate because i'm an adult and this it's got hot chocolate do i have coins i never have coins so if i have coins that's a huge win for everybody in the stream i have okay so that didn't scare me at all didn't pee and so this there is that and it's sold out oh you rat bastard you mother okay all right i don't swear a lot on streams but when it comes to hot chocolate it's a bit of a trigger it's a bit of a trigger i'm not gonna lie we will uh we'll go across the street to those funky little vending machines over there and uh yes i did say funky we will see if they have hot chocolate that isn't sold out like a jerk all right train car not accepted no not for oh wow that's black ice that's we almost went down but you know the hot chocolate well it's not really hot chocolate either it's like hot cocoa which is like it's it's not the same it really isn't so we're gonna press that button just press the okay you want the money first eh payment in advance i see the game we're playing here sorry i can play that game i got the cash i got to get my seriously my ankle is so cold right now sorry okay all i've done all i've managed to do here is tuck my boot deep into my sock everything has gone terribly terribly wrong so this is milk cocoa it's not quite hot chocolate but it's also not quite not hot you don't screw we're just gonna we'll slip into a back alley and have a quick drink because that back alley just looks cool and this car is gonna squish me okay why is this suddenly the busiest road in all of sapporo honestly okay so many vending machines hanging out with otto saying any street musicians in the area to talk to i really wish there was unfortunately okay so sapro used to be really good for that we will head back down towards odi park and see if we can't find him in the shotengai area there the covered arcade because sapporo used to be one of the areas of japan that was absolutely amazing for that but japan has done everything in its power to try and kill its street musician culture and just get rid of as many of them as physically yeah see this can we can we just go like that all right and we'll put that there it will go like this that was not even close to being in the right position was it i got all the hoods i wasn't kidding when i said i was in multiple hoods i'm actually fine it just this is what helps keep the ears warm cause because this hat doesn't really do it thank you for bearing with me as i have a nice hot chocolate ah i'm an eskimo not quite i'll tell you this much right now i have to every time i get around an area where there's no people whatsoever i've got to kind of take off the mask and like hang it out of my pocket because the condensation on a cold day talking through it it's soaking wet just it's a terrible experience gonna get a rash but is my nose red so i went through a great amount of effort to make sure that my leg warmers were wrapped around and tucked well into the boots and somehow yeah it's darth it kind of it does have kind of a sith vibe to it doesn't it how cold is it in sapporo well we talked about that at the beginning of the stream it is currently about minus six degrees it's weirdly gotten warmer since starting the stream but the wind is a solid -15 and nobody enjoys that so ah almost gone through the whole thing hot chocolate it really is it's cocoa um and i'm pat hi i'm pat i'm norm for the hot chocolate by the way a little late but i love the wagyu diamond video the beef looked amazing thank you didn't realize that would be a controversial video but it was turns out a lot of people are offended by the idea of gold flakes comment section go here we go have a great time with that and sarah saying hi again norm hi i joined patreon today what i'm so excited to be a part i'm looking forward to getting to know you better depending on the tier don't forget to get into the discord and send me a message over on the secret instagram and then we get to chat and get to know each other a little better so cheers all right so that's gone and slices of japan keeping that super chat ball rolling i'm wondering how how wet it's it's it's moist it's it's a wet mask is what it is and danielle is saying thank you so much for going out in the cold to share with us it's been a week of heat stroke warnings here so seeing snow is amazing well that would be neat and illyria did i get that right did i say it right saying any recommendations of where to live in sapporo i'm supposed to be moving there in april to study subject to border you know let me turn this around so i can get this and then we can keep walking okay give me a second here i'm gonna put this on there we go and how dare you use the m word what was the m word was it ramen there's an m in ramen was that the word all right and i will come back to that uh living in sapporo question in just a second jethro keeping the super chat ball rolling saying never experience snow but i've been to tokyo around this time before the pandemic how different is the feeling in sapporo with regards to the cold sapporo is much much colder as you can see here you might get snow once to twice a year in tokyo but you'll almost never get anything like that and so sapporo is considerably look at that it's a steamy city it's considerably colder and gets much much snowier uh and going back to the super chat in response to asking about areas to live in sapporo i'm gonna come entirely clean with you and say that i oh give me a second there we go i do not know i don't know sapro well enough it has been some years since i i think the last time that i actually managed to come out to support was probably back in 2019 i think 2019 maybe january or so of 2019 there are some videos up on the moist the m word was moist there are uh at least one hokkaido video up on the tokyo lens main channel and the last time before that that i managed to come out here was back in like 2005 like a billion years ago so it has been some time i think we can make our way towards odori park and the shotengai and whatnot out there and see if we can't i honestly don't know where that particular covered arcade is but i i will do my best to find it i will not be able to find it who knows we might find it i doubt it but we'll try i'm gonna head down this way also if you haven't already let's hit 700 likes on this stream i give it two minutes new challenge points 700 likes if you haven't given the like button some love do it now go go go go and this place is called sluggers so it says grand slam and looks like baseball uh but you know what i'm gonna go for it and hope that we don't fall almost fell seriously we have almost seriously almost gone down like four or five times today and if i'm not mistaken it's like slugger's got that baseball vibe to it golf bar so you know as long as you're swinging something i think it counts oh this city is yeah well it is one of uh so i was saying 10 40 p.m there and the city is still so busy especially this particular area here this is the entertainment district of the city which means there the hens be a lot more people on the streets during the day time there's actually announcements playing over the land speakers saying standing on the street like this and trying to grab customers is not legal and you can and will be prosecuted but like if we look at these shops over here that paints a pretty good picture of what the what the nightlife is like out in sapporo so right now we are making our way towards oh wow we smashed 700 likes you guys killed that you guys absolutely can we get to 800 in the next two minutes can we it's only like 70 likes away can we do it can we smash 800 go go go go go so the park is gonna be down this way and there's a giant crab over there so that's a thing in case you didn't know that it was a thing now you know because it's a thing and i swear there's a shotengai or a covered arcade around here somewhere and i just do not remember where it's been far too long since i've come out to sapporo wow that taxi just went for it he did not care whatsoever what's his license plate there we go so if you want to screenshot that and i haven't actually managed to do any jaywalking today that you could call the cops on me for but if you are looking to nitpick at something that taxi almost took out some pedestrians so i am just trying not to fall we killed 800 that is amazing hanging out with otto again man jeez i'm off gotta get sleep so i can sleep in for my day off tomorrow nice thanks to the stream norm love them laters peace i will see you later on there's the hokkaido gift shop so if you're ever looking for one specific gift from hokkaido more than likely some kind of crab that's your shop right there and that taxi is the taxi that you would take to get to the hokkaido gift shop because he's the hokkaido gift shop taxi who has absolutely nothing to do with anything whatsoever i honestly i already want another beverage not gonna lie already once i'm i want food i wish that there was more street food in sapporo i do see a little bit of a covered arcade over here so let's head towards that and miss mullen 74 in here keeping the super chat ball rolling saying hi norm have a coffee on us from margie that i say is it or is it margie and colin in liverpool uk thank you so much to both of you for that i 100 who will be getting myself another nice warm beverage and hopefully if we are lucky along the way we will find a better sewer lid than this one because that that just doesn't count because we're still on the hunt for that sewer lid reveal but they've all just been covered it's been quite the experience to be honest all this snow who would have thought that it would cover sewer lids and if we can should we be so lucky we might jump in snow bank no should we be so lucky we will uh grab ourselves some food somewhere probably right there at the mega donkey that's down the road because they have all the street food that's also not true so don't believe everything you hear online ladies and gentlemen mega donkey does not sell street food these are real facts from a real place and that place is sapuro japan and my name is george and today i'm introducing this city which is japan's second newest city behind beppu which was founded in 1998. this one soon after in 1999 it really wasn't none of this is true by the way but sapporo if you didn't already know he's actually one of japan look at all of this damn it saporo is one of japan's newer cities which is why everything is organized in a grid structure like this here minami iii that's south three all like look at this look at the look at the street signs here south one west two the whole city's organized but there's no street names it's just grid there's there's your position on the grid and so it was developed rather than most japanese cities which are very very cow path this city here was actually i i don't i don't want to say well planned out but it was it was planned out and this is a depressing sight i'm not gonna lie this is sad uh focus in there saying have a beverage on me norm you've earned it cheers from barcelona thank you so much for that and yeah much more of a grid like new york city and oh back in the day you know what it wouldn't be a tokyo land stream if we didn't jaywalk at least once so here we go we're jay walking just so you have a reason to call the cops on me yeah all right and so this shotengai here used to be an amazing place to find street musicians one of the first times that i ever came to sapporo uh if you ever walk if you ever watch back on i have a whole series of my videos from my very first trip ever to japan up on tokyo lens and it's like me 15 years ago looking all weird and goofy and dumb like look japan with like a sony handycam and it is the most cringe embarrassing stuff ever but i wanted to get it out there because i had something like 18 hours of footage and i was like you know what we need to do something with this and we're the very first videos one of the very first places that i ever went was here in sapporo and so this shotengai for example used to have street musicians just playing like i i guess in the streets is what you would say and it was lovely but again as we talked about a little bit earlier japan has been kind of trying to kill that street musician culture it's somewhat unfortunate but japan is a very bureaucratic nation and they want everything to be you know prim and proper and processed and everything like that and tony in here keeping the super chat ball rolling saying greetings from sweden thank you so much for that but i don't think we should be hanging out in the showtime shotengai too too long because the whole goal here was to enjoy the snow tonight and so let's get back out into the snow which definitely looks amazing in crisp 720p god it's gotta look so bad honestly i can't wait for technology just to catch up with the world so that we can actually do streams in better quality more consistently on youtube oh anyway now that that depressing little rant is over we're heading down towards old lady park which is down this way and i 100 look at this make delivery they're gonna deliver you some empty boxes because this place is shut the down what in the it's not 24 hour back that is definitely not a i wonder if he has winter tires see so okay so you'll notice in stark contrast to the area of the town that we were in before as soon as we get into this area of sapporo it quiets out and if you were here for the beginning of the stream you'll know that the reason that it down there they're thins us they're hiding underground in the land of the mole people here in sapporo but also it's really impressive how many of the streets and walkways and everything here are heated just so that you don't have to worry about slipping on the snow especially as you get closer to the station oh and that was just me almost dropping the gimbal and guys we are just a few likes away from the likes matching the number of viewers so if you haven't already smash that like button let's see if we can't cross 900 likes within the next two minutes that is our new reach goal go for it smash the like button give it some love go go go and this is just me doing my absolute best to stay warm out here because i'm this section of the city feels colder than the other section 100 and i'm also kind of disappointed that that shotengai was so drab and dead and sad and didn't have any street musicians or street food it had none of the street stuff no street dancers nothing but going back to that topic which i in my lovely lovely distracted inability to speak didn't finish look at this look at this see see look at all this like underground craziness multi-level bicycle parking this is nuts anyway the uh oh wow damn we crossed 900 i blinked and we were there also hello kitty because hello kitty and so yeah if you go back to my videos on tokyo lens about my first visit yes we're going back to that topic from 15 years ago you can see like break dancers and street musicians and all of that in the streets of sapporo and it's absolutely spectacular and i love it and i genuinely genuinely miss that part of the culture i really really do look at all this snow underground is great should we check out some i feel like we should check out some of the underground at least just a little bit right do all this talking about the underground we don't even take a look at it there should be an entrance to it down this way somewhere so let's walk that way and see if we can't find it and then honestly honestly hungary is my middle name right now and so where are we is there there might be an entrance here okay there's definitely an entrance you know what forget it we'll go down this way there is an entrance down here i know it i know where it is definitely getting hungry a lot of people have been voting ramen drop in the chat what you think i should get while here in sapporo also what time of day do you vote our next stream to be at because as i said i came out to sapporo with the distinct goal of having a little bit of extra time in case the weather stopped us japan has been hit with some crazy snow lately and that is a lie minus three my butt i know what -3 feels like and this is not a liar where's your thermometer indoors and so this stream oh hannah in here hey hannah how's it going hope your night is going well glad to have made your stream looks like a winter wonderland there i've never seen snow so this gives me crazy wanderlust really you've never said well there it is there it is there's the snow here never seen snow there there's snow and now my i just this is the glove i hold the gimbal with what have i done that is that is just that's that's ice this this is snow that that snow now my gimbal is gonna okay you know what just go for it that that's that's what it is and we have an among us character over here for some reason i don't think it's actually an among this character i was gonna jaywalk and then i was like bus that's what death looks like right there jay walking in the snow with that thing coming towards you there's no chance of something that heavy stopping so this is uh this is what happens when among us meets the teletubbies and they have a murdered terror child this is the murder terror child super sus i don't want to get near it it's actually do i dare can you oh my god that feels so wrong okay we're gonna keep going moving on moving on i'm pretty sure there's an entrance over here so what was the most popular vote so far for the time of the next stream night streams are always nice but i'm thinking we'll either do a morning stream or a daytime stream i'd like to see the area in the light would you prefer one of our early morning streams or would you prefer something like a midday or evening stream keeping in mind time zones in japan and all of that let us know god it was very sus ah i do love the colors though it's one thing that i'll never stop loving you much my early in the morning death is okay thank you morning midday morning lunch afternoon looks like everybody wants everything 949 likes i think we could cross a thousand likes in the stream if we just give it a good old like blast right now give that like button some love leave me something in the chat looks like morning is the popular bet i might do a little bit of a midday stream as well for the patreon crew if you guys are interested in hanging no i didn't think about that it makes perfect sense but i didn't think about it so i'm like hey guys let's check out the underground you know what i didn't think about what time the underground closes but the underground is closed this one is called pole town so that that's a that's a great name why are these people stopping with me you don't need to walk with me and this is a platform for you to visit this tree but it's locked off it's locked off so you're not allowed to it's a terrace it's a whole terrace just to visit that tree but you're not allowed to visit the tree probably because they haven't why is it called pole town can we just talk about that for a second the fact that it's called pole town it just sounds so wrong north pole no and like this random assortment of benches like let's just sit back to back with each other we're just gonna hang out right here in this random assortment of benches sapporo is an amazingly well-planned city i feel like they planned out the city very well they put it in a beautiful grid format they got it rolling and then they were like okay so what do we do with it now should should we make a place called pole town and and put some really weird 40 000 statues that look like somebody put a cigarette out on a turtle okay let's let's do that and we'll make a random terrace with a single tree that nobody can access because that's that that that's what people want right also we have an incredible nightlife uh so why don't we completely terrorize it by getting rid of all of the street musicians that provide value and bring people into the shotengai and then we'll close off pole town our underground question mark from as early as what 10 pm or so what it honestly who's behind these economic decisions here they're just like oh yeah you know full place full of shops and restaurants and everything like that it's freezing cold let's close that up nice and early don't want people having access to all of that nope most of the shops probably closed at 7 p.m anyway you can tell you can tell that as much as i love this country i do have some frustration with some of the off economic just i'm no economist by the way but seriously leave pole town open after 10 p.m and allow the street musicians to make some money in the streets come on allow them to do it like you got a nice fancy 50 70 000 bus stop here that's completely open on one side in a snowy and windy town and then you've got this shotengai which could be doing really well if people were allowed to use it or shops were open past 7pm this is seriously this pole town is at this point just haunting us it's stalking us now oh i wish we could go down to to pole town but we can't they don't want us we're not invited to pole town paultown has rejected us it's time discrimination more than anything time discrimination is a thing and i know otto has already left but otto there's a moss burger over there what happens in pole town i'll tell you what happens in pole town stays in pole town it's gonna end up becoming like a t-shirt at some point i can see it i can see the pole town 10 a.m to 8 p.m that [ __ ] thing closes at 8 00 p.m are you kidding me who honestly who was the city planner who made that decision who's just like now we don't want people spit like honestly no we don't want people spending money after 8 p.m that is ludicrous let's force them out into the cold and ensure that no money is spent underground after 8 pm by the way this is the access to a lot of the train entrances as well i'm sure that they have separate entrances and little locked off areas but come on okay that is my rant on that we are 10 likes away from hitting a thousand so if 10 of you could just make my day by giving that like button some love i would appreciate you i really would i've got to find some ramen because everyone's been saying ramen is the food for today so in my previous town shops close at 4 pm i've always started to be incredibly ludicrous at areas like akihabara for example a lot of shops don't open until 11 o'clock in the morning and then close at like 6 or 7 p.m bunkers one of the most incredibly popular well-trafficked electronic and anime districts in the entire world and shops are open from 11 to 7. it's just weird even the uh there's not a ton of overnight traffic and whatnot as well for a lot of stuff uh just because trains don't run 24 hours and we have smashed the 1000 like mark and paul anthony in there with a little super chat sticker thank you so much for that i feel there was a ramen shop right around the corner here that i was really keen on going to and dm cousin uh maybe there are street performers but they stop at eight and then uh store them underground for the night that guys this particular entrance to pole town isn't locked i'm sure it's just a station entrance i'm sure of it but we gotta go check out boldtown all right i'm so happy that we get okay to check out you're just near ramen alley there's an alley for ramen if there's an alley for ron that feels like something we gotta do so there are secret entrances to pole town ha so these are the the station entrances right here and then there we go happy happy pole town happy happy happy happy and there it is that is the sapporo underground right there look at all that ramen alley is the spot i'm gonna have to honestly i'm gonna have to go check out ramen alley the shopping area is closed the underground walkway seems like it's still open to a certain degree but a lot of the entrances and exits to it are closed which just creates a ton of confusion my bag totally got stuck on that door all right and mocha in here saying the ramen alley should close should be close by uh three toma mina me five okay i'm gonna try and find that nothing like a pole town i imagine to be all right guys let's see if we can't find this i ramen alley okay all right i'm gonna slip past these cars here and hope that none of them squish us get a good look at their license plates just in case we almost we almost went down again seems to be a theme for the day gotta be in osaka to enjoy stuff open late actually osaka is also kind of crap for it to be honest fukuoka has always kind of been my go-to for late night stuff mind you i've also just always had a slight prejudice against osaka because it doesn't have the back streets i want it's okay it's all right ramen haruka is pretty good if it's open i feel like we're getting close to this [Music] diamond alley all i can smell in this area is food and perfume it's quite the mix to be honest so hopefully we'll wander our way into the right alley and end up getting some good food okay you guys did not lead me astray there it is right there happiness is an audi covered in snow there you go there's your inspirational quote for 2022 happiness is an audi covered in snow happiness it's ramen yokocho that was incredibly dumb all right let's see if any of these places are actually open because it's japan and it's night so they save the economy look at that we got one place open two places open closed closed closed closed closed closed closed jeez japan you are doing a great job here i'm so proud of you look at all the hard work look at this everybody working their butts off late at night to close their shutters and ensure that nobody gets a meal after 10 p.m and this this is peak ludicrous crap right here because honestly when people go drinking in japan the one thing they want more than anything after drinking is namin so you are in a drinking area one of the peak drinking areas in the country and there's a ramen area right here that's [ __ ] closed that is spectacular work japan it's incredible that you've made it this far like honestly if you were to go to like fukuoka or something like that there are places open two three four o'clock in the morning just ramen stands because they know that people want ramen and even in tokyo there are little like ramen carts that get set up throughout the city at like one o'clock in the morning midnight stuff like that because people finish up their drinks and want to go grab ramen what is this place it's a god hot dog and rocks i don't know what god hot dog and rocks is but that is it norm are you hangry no i'm just honestly when you have something that you love this if you have a family member that you love incredibly and you know they're capable of great things and they're just not applying themselves you'll be disappointed and frustrated and i feel like japan has in some ways become that family member because honestly it is not that late right now and yes there is enough place open that i'll be able to go and get myself a good bowl of ramen but at the same time like there's a lot more that could be being done here and it's not even 50 50. like the majority of all shops here are closed so with that being said i'm gonna step off to the side let's see if we can't find ourselves another hot vending machine another vending machine with hot drinks you've been hanging out with chris too much no i uh i am plenty capable of having things to criticize all on my own ooh i see vending machines down there and this is very loud and it has nothing at all to do with the current state of things japan has just kind of always been this way uh there's a great deal of inconsistency uh across the the cities and their approaches and things and whatnot and oh no i just realized i don't have any other coins oh that sucks that sucks that guy just headbutted the other dude in the face so if you didn't catch that go back into the live replay and watch the dude in gray totally head butt another dude right in the face it's a real thing and it happened and i don't have any coins oh i have this coin i have a single goju endama but because because i'm absolutely determined to give some love to this here i'm in yokocho i'm gonna go in there i'm gonna find a shop to sit down and get a bowl of ramen whether they are closed or i will open the shutter i will shove the money at them and i was like give me the ramen man it's really crowded in there why is it so crowded get a beer and let off some of that frustration looking forward to another year of great adventures let's see what do we got here this place looks okay very mollusky very flashy uh the other place was super popular because it was butter ramen which is really popular here in hokkaido honestly this one lined up outside seems like it's gonna have to be the place this also looks really good what is what have we got going on here look at that again very flashy but i feel like that's going to be the place we end up eating today so i'm going to step out here wait for the crowds to clear just a little i'm gonna say our next stream will most likely be a morning stream potentially with a little less announcement than we had today so if you haven't already make sure you give that subscribe button some love and turn on all notifications so you do not miss any of the impromptu streams this is the continuation of a month of streams that we have done across the country everywhere from kyoto and osaka to fukuoka and beppu all the way up to sendai and and super super excited to say it is not our last one yet robert dockery in here saying happy new year my friend may your travels be easy with exciting adventures around every corner robert thank you so much for that robert also take a peek at your messages my friend i recently sent you a message i hope that you enjoy it i'm really glad to see that you're doing well thank you so much for that and anzu is saying i'll be looking forward to going to japan next week i'll be going to japan next week and look forward to the winter next week how thank you for your videos and streams keeps me excited don't forget to stay warm thank you very very much to all of you who contributed to this stream and made this possible super excited thank you very much again if you want more streams or more time to hang out more time to get to know each other this is your official invitation to come out and hang out over on patreon also when the stream wraps up don't forget to leave me something in the comments where is the next area of japan you would like to see on a live stream also what was your favorite part of this stream leave it in the comment section below looks like there might also be some restaurants in there that i can go check out again i hope the rest of your day night week whatever it is is absolutely beautiful i'm gonna grab myself some ramen and i will see you guys again real soon leave me something in the comments guys

Channel: Tokyo Lens Explore

Views: 25,417

Keywords: Japan, Japanese, Livestream, Japan live, Tokyo Lens, Tokyo Lens Explore, Norm Tokyo Lens, Exploring Japan, Walking Japan, Walk Japan, Japan Walk, Japan views, Hokkaido, Hokkaido Japan, Hokkaido Winter, Sapporo, Sapporo Japan, Sapporo Winter, Japan snow, Japan winter, Winter Japan, Japan in the Winter, Hokkaido snow, Sapporo Snow, Sapporo Hokkaido, Sapporo walk, Exploring Sapporo, Exploring Hokkaido, Walking Sapporo, Walking Hokkaido

Id: 5xJ3kRLMIek

Length: 93min 47sec (5627 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 04 2022