Hokkaido Driving in Winter | Japan Rental Car Selection

oh [Music] [Music] hey everybody welcome to a live stream this is what i'm going to be talking about driving around um hokkaido in the winter i did this recently in a video i uploaded in kitami which is the very extreme north of hokkaido and i'm going to share with you that experience renting a car from toyota rent-a-car and then some of my experience driving around hokkaido in the snow it's kind of a different beast it's not the same in fact it was downright different than anywhere else i've ever driven before except perhaps in the united states in the northeast in the winter something like this if you're in canada this is probably something that's not new at all um how you doing everybody looking at the live chat uh i have a picture and picture here because i'm gonna show you some of the vtr the the video here starting from the rental so let's get right to it this is the uh car rental area and you can see there's two of them suzuran and um what's the other one yeah poplar and the weird thing with this is that um like they're right next to each other so i don't know why they need to have two of them this is the rental car that i got it was a small compact toyota um pretty cheap all right there's my car i'm about to take dollars a day jose airport this is a where i was picked up from the airport taken here got the car it is snowing i'm a little bit worried about driving in the winter it's about a 300 kilometer trip from here to kitame which is where i'm going to be going on this this trip because tonight they have an amazing yakiniku festival with about 2000 people in minus 30 degree weather celsius this is gonna be a lot of fun all right let's get on the road so the car had a navigation system on it and it's you could change it into english you see where there's a guide right there so some of the stuff was in japanese it just depends on the car um but almost all of them at from from toyota rent-a-car had english menu but you had to before you get into before you get into the um car and leave ask the people if they could set up the navigation in english and they'll do that they're they're pretty happy to do that because when they get they don't get a lot of um foreign rental car people actually i think maybe it's a little bit scary for people to get into a rent-a-car especially americans because we drive on the other side of the road but one of the great things with hokkaido is that it is really easy to drive there because there's not a lot of traffic um so there's not a lot of stress hold on let me get the camera a little bit down there we go yeah so it's not as it's not as stressful because there's not like traffic like you would have in tokyo which makes hokkaido really perfect for rent-a-car and almost a test necessity unless you have a japan rail pass and you kind of already know where you're going to be going um john looking cool thank you yeah this is something i wanted to do because in the latest upload the um world's coldest barbecue festival in kitami check it out if you haven't already i drive from chitose to kitami and it's about what 300 300 kilometers it took me about four hours to drive all the way over there and the drive was pretty nice i could relax quite a bit and i think it was because there just wasn't a lot of traffic and the view around me was just beautiful so i think after you get into the car and you drive for about i don't know like 10-15 minutes you get used to driving on the left side just your brain switches over and you know someone who's been driving on the right side that wasn't too much of an issue uh to move over and drive on the left after about 10 15 minutes of driving in it you just you kind of should study the rules a little bit in advance let me show you some more pictures now so after you get in the car this is what the scenery of north hokkaido looks like it's it's pretty it seems pretty uh snowy this is actually just leaving the rent-a-car right now the rent-a-car agency and turning and getting under the highway pretty easy uh and then the signs above this is pretty good to know the signs above are almost all in japanese and english so it makes it pretty easy to get around there's a blue the signs are blue and you can see right here the highway uh take this lane it's very international i might have sped this up i might have sped this up a little bit sorry it was a little loud there um so i'm i'm going at 500 of the normal speed so you can see what the highway looks like as soon as you get on um again there's like nobody there out there out there right it's so nice especially in winter especially on a weekday now chitose airport is very separate from sapporo the city so you're starting off from a point which is very easy um to leave to get onto the highway and if you look at a map of hokkaido you can see like this is such a perfect point for you to go either down south to hakodate or go to anywhere around hokkaido from chitose airport the rental car that i i typically get is toyota rent-a-car and the reason why i use toyota to rent a car is because um i've noticed like the other agencies they sometimes might have hidden fees or they might not be as clear so when you bring the car back there's like stuff that you didn't know about or they're more apt to ding you for anything that you didn't catch before toyota rent-a-car is more expensive but i've always found if you paid for like a reputable uh organization in japan you don't have any problems and if i compare it to i've only rented a car two three times in the united states um [Music] and each time was painful i don't know just like these charges kept coming up and you don't get that with toyota rent a car everything was pretty straight up right from the beginning and i think the other ones nippon rent-a-car is another one oryx is another one they're pretty clear about it but yeah i pick a company and i kind of stick with it um because you can accumulate points uh yeah this video was right before the um pandemic started in february so i thought also like when you're driving around in a car it's also much safer than public transportation and we didn't know what was happening with the pandemic at the time when i rented the car for this episode the diamond princess was in docked in yokohama um there were more cases in hokkaido than there were anywhere else so i was quite worried and renting a car although i was going to do it anyways did give me peace of mind but as someone who travels with a lot of photo equipment and if you have a family of you know like three or four or five or more running a car takes a lot of stress out of traveling because boarding a train with all the luggage getting off of the train of all the other people around can be quite stressful a car changes everything for you here let's take a look at the website here this is the toyota rent-a-car it's all in japanese hold on i'm gonna go over here and navigate can i change this i think you can change it to english you can alright cool so there's a menu that allows me to change it into english begin your journey in japan how cool is that i think in advance you can pick where you want to rent from where you want to rent from so i picked the i believe the suzuran or one of the places near hokkaido so they have their own page that makes it easy for you to see what's available and in summer which is the high season for hokkaido you have to book a car in advance and there's a premium also for rent to cars uh in the summer it goes up a little bit just because demand is so high wrx servers are the house how you doing it's nice to see you here uh let me get back into here scroll down um you can select the car of your choice that's what select means here all right let's let's push this i usually look in japanese okay it just seems it seems it's just maybe the prices are different i'm not sure i don't think so so there's economy there's economy plus and then they have kcar i'm just scrolling here so let's take a look at some of these i usually will pick um economy or suv they have an suv and it's smaller uh but you can pick this it's a little bit more let's take a look at some of the cars let's see if the car i selected is here i think there was an aqua that i showed before sometimes they don't have them available so let's pick the economy and see what they what they have here uh oh okay so it's showing in the tokyo area uh and nihonbashi is not not far from my neighborhood so it's a region code region region picking up where the local one is here um let's see let's just select the nihonbashi one in tokyo then and you can see the cars usually they'll tell you what's available select this location and yeah i did search for car hey tully and then 2 thank you oh wow this is expensive i think it just be because um it's last minute and they don't have anything available let's pick on the calendar um next thursday two thursdays from now and then we'll return it within a day search for car so you can see like searching is pretty easy wow this is pretty pricey actually um maybe it's the location i selected now i'm a gold member of toyota and if you're with i think what is the which car rental what one of the car rental hurts maybe you can transfer that over and you become a gold member and it's all 20 off from the price that you see actually these mini cars on my phone are cheaper they're like 5 000 it's half the price i don't know maybe it's more insurance or something um let's pick this here i'm going to select economy and you can see it asks you right up the top if you want an etc card and an etc card is fast pass it's like a card that allows you to go through the toll booths really quick it's very important to have one i think it's good to rent uh there are 300 yen per day i believe if you rent them from toyota rent-a-car which is not so bad because at the end you just pay it all right so you accumulate all of the toll charges on your etc card when you get to toyota rent a car they pay everything for you i mean everything is on the same bill which is great if it's a business expense because it's all out there uh craig porter have a day of rental on me craig that is awesome and you probably now will see a live stream from a rental car with kanai and i really soon because we gotta go to costco and we i can always go there by rent a car thank you craig i appreciate that that'll cover it too um it there's insurance stuff here and of course you're gonna get the insurance but it's all like there's no like special super insurance or pre like all these add-ons are not there it's pretty simple and i found this that if you don't have time to return the car right away um when you get the gas at toyota rent-a-car it's almost comparable to going to the gasoline station the gas station itself which i thought was really incredible so i stopped going to the gas station unless it was like right there i would just return the car as what as it was and the price that they quoted me was very similar to the same thing i would have paid myself and it took out all of the pain and that makes me want to go to toyota to rent a car again because i know like you just build relationships with people tigraha hof tig rahoff do you ever celebrate ohtani from otsu on angel's baseball team actually otani is from iwate prefecture not from hokkaido i think he just played there i'm not sure but i think he's from iwate and yeah we all celebrate him in this country and we do he's pretty big pretty big deal i think somebody tried to throw him a ball at him and that made news here brad dania's in the house and chan is here stuck in the trunk hopefully not you can get out and watch this i'm hired a car and drove around mount fuji and accidentally went through the toll oh very embarrassing yeah and i wish i knew about the etc cards definitely and the tolls are not cheap either were you in the back of the trunk and was there somebody else who had to pay though that i kind of want to know all right so back to the page here on um uh they'll tell you to rent a car there you can fill in your name and address and your driver's license information um your flight information i think this is this is all really set up for tourists so i'm gonna go i'm gonna jump back to the japanese one and see if the prices are different because i'm kind of curious about this now and then we're gonna look at some more footage and talk about my experience driving up in hokkaido once again um all right back to japanese toyota rent-a-car start over english day okay so let's pick uh next next tuesday from 8 a.m because that's when they mostly open and then we're going to uh return the car okay that's where we're picking it from oh i guess we can pick where where we're picking it from so let's pick chitose chitose airport kinsaka and right here boom suzuran which is one of the choices that i showed you before um wow okay and the time to return the car let's pick uh the next day at 8 pm so it's like a two-day rental let's search so this is the japanese site i want to see if the price is any different no it's not this is really expensive what's up with that seriously i would not pay these prices i would search around um okay so here's the regular cars and i'm going to show you the suv this is from hokkaido this is the um the vits is a pretty good economy car here in japan now economy usually means it's not a hybrid and you're gonna have to pay a little bit more for the gasoline i think um than you would with a economy plus usually the difference between the economy plus and the economy is the hybrid which means less gas and impact on the economy um the yaris was a decent drive and the roomy which is i believe like a boxy car with a really high roof they're great but the tires are so small and i found that um like taking curves too fast can result in you um tipping over so you might want to think about that but it's very comfortable for the family if you get one of these um like boxy cube cars that they have uh the economy plus again the corolla is in here the aqua is here i like driving the aqua aqua and kanai does too these prices are a little bit too high but i don't i don't know i guess a lot of people are are um or they're discouraging you from renting the car the standards are interesting the standards include the prius here which is on this price listed as like 200 a day oh no these are for two days okay so cut that in half so it's about a hundred dollars a day for the prius uh and that includes um i think the insurance is baked in there the economy plus would come out to about um 8 500 per day uh 85 and the economy would be about 65 so you can see it's a gradual inc increase and then there's a mark x which i've rented before and the mark x would come out to 150 a day or a little bit less than that but it's a pretty good ride it's a pretty good ride that's not a hybrid so you're going to pay more for gas then there's the um like super luxury which is 250 a day and the crown is in there which is a pretty good car uh let me go to the suvs because sometimes i i rent um all right here's the sp class one i'll rent where is it here oh they don't have them they have like these mini oh here they are i think just they're they're sold out the um rise is one that i've rented before that's the blue one right here that was really nice and kanai and i drove this once to nigata for the fireworks festival there last year and it was really good it's a smaller suv you're higher off the ground and it's a really good drive but it's about 25 dollars more a day i think than the uh normal cars but it was worth it to us because i don't know i just wanted something nice and oh you can get a sports car the sports car that they have here is the 86 which is not available the 86 is like a collaborative collaboration between a toyota and another car maker um i'm not sure which one here uh okay i'm gonna i'm gonna oh here oh here's more information on the 86 whoa i you can rent a sports car look at that mama oh next time i you know what maybe with with uh craig's um super chat we can i don't think is going to be happy if i rent this though because there's no place for liu in the back but the 86 is a pretty sweet car to rent um i've never done it though i'll have to one of these days yeah so you know i'm pretty comfortable with toyota rent-a-car but i would check around the thing is if you do try to look for budget rent-a-car place be keep in mind that those charges do come back in other ways just like everywhere else so the other thing with renting a car let me get back to the main screen here is that you want to have an international license and you can just watch this in the background here you want to have an international license and and getting that in advance um you know is is a necessity they won't accept your your american license so your the aaa or the audio uh club in your country usually will provide that that's needed with your regular license and your passport in order to rent a car here um if you are a resident if you're a resident of the airport this is a well i was picked up a second if you're a resident of japan you need to you can use an international driver's license for the first year after that you need to have a japanese driver's license and they actually check um a lot of the rent-a-car places will uh like they kind of know and if the police pull you over it might become a problem i know friends that have gotten away with this but because you can get the international drivers driver's license issued and they don't know that you're a resident of japan and all this other stuff but in japan legally you're supposed to get a japanese driver's license within a year i didn't drive until i got my japanese driver's license so um it wasn't a problem i didn't need the international driver's license but if you're renting a car here from abroad do keep that in mind everybody's pretty friendly though i've never heard of anybody having any issues with renting a car from agencies toyota rent-a-car again toyota uh the rental car companies usually have their own rental places i saw that honda had rental car companies too because they want to rent out their cars which means they probably sell more and then that's kind of a neat thing where the car companies themselves are doing the rental car business in japan uh let me talk a little bit about the experience driving in hokkaido in the winter now wow so i guess i'm i'm also humming in this but you can see there's some snow on the road and uh it is a little bit icy sometimes in hokkaido the roads are not plowed because there's so much distance between towns and cities it could take a long time between the roads are plowed now you can see in this shot here it's a much better situation and the snow had fallen uh it it actually on the other side of this tunnel will start to fall again sometimes i do cross the line and there's a beeper thing that'll tell you to do it you can change the navigation lady from um japanese to english as well which is helpful she'll tell you to stay away from the line which sometimes i do because i want to stay away from the snow in the middle all right this is a long tunnel and on the other side of the tunnel i saw this wait for it i guess you got to wait you really do have to wait for it as i cut through the tunnel i'll take some of your questions as well as well if if you do have them okay here's the other side of the tunnel now and you can see the snow is starting to come down and i'm more central this was after obi-hito i believe and go driving up now straight north and when the snow came down this the roads also became more more icy and so you do have to slow down and [Music] all right we should be back here sorry the the um macbook pro is not plugged in here i was freaking out we're back that's good all right so this is the drive where was i as i was freaking out because the the battery died it wasn't fully plugged in down there the this the roads do become quite icy and you can see in hokkaido the weather changes pretty quickly so you have to be ready for just about anything um especially in the winter but you know if the locals are driving it it's if the locals are driving then it's okay to be out there if you've never driven in the snow just take it really slow and a lot of people have asked me about snow tires you can tell toyota rent-a-car because you're renting in hokkaido where exactly where exactly you're going to be headed and they will and and they will uh make the decision whether or not to put snow tires on but it is an issue in some places and uh there are times where in the middle of the night it will snow super heavy and you'll wake up and your car is under um like three feet of snow like a meter of snow and not only do you have to dust it off if you don't have snow tires it's really hard to get out of the situation you can see i i passed through the snowy areas and now i'm just driving uh the sun came out and this it really does dry off the roads here there is they do salt it and they do maintain it but you can still see there's some some snow in the center um it is hard uh to predict the weather but oh boy i'm moving pretty fast this is i think this is 700 percent uh driving towards kitami the highways are pretty nice everything in japan because it is a very um i know it's it's how do i say it's a developed country so the highways system here is amazing chan writes in here when i was in iceland cars had studs on the tires do japanese have studs they do have snow tires but they do have snow tires but it's i don't think it's quite the same thing as stud tires all right here it is i got um they also have a lot of um service areas in japan so you don't have to go too far before you hit one of these there's always vending machines open 24 hours sometimes food vending machines and here i'd left the gopro on i forgot to turn it off and you're going to see me like you're going to see me jumping out of the car in a second yeah the service areas have really clean bathrooms um i've never had a dirty restroom at a service area again sometimes there's restaurants usually uh the restaurants will in really local areas they will close in the evening but usually there's like a food vending machine or something oh there i go i'm getting that getting out and forgotten to turn the camera off a lot of them have gasoline stations too but here this one is a small one this would be called a parking area or a pa on the map and the service areas or sa are a lot bigger and when i see them on the map sometimes i'll drive through a pa to get to an sa service area because i know that they're going to have better restaurants more services because that's what they do there some of them even have like amusement parks and things like this the big bigger ones so you if you do your research you can find some of the the best parking areas in japan some of them even have specialized cuisine which is pretty crazy and the parking or service areas what makes them special is that they're run by the local people so you'll find like festival-like food stands or food trucks they're serving local cuisines some of the restaurants from the town local towns will have a satellite there especially if they're famous selling the cuisine to drivers going by which helps to attract tourism to the town so you might actually get off uh on the next off ramp and go check out that that town so they they do do that at service areas in japan it's very smart um but i get to tell you the japanese surface areas are mary's are amazing um i think that that's in itself almost a reason to drive around did i ever come back look i'm still watching me in i'm there it was okay it loops back i was getting a um a drink from the vending machine is this in slow motion so this is a construction site so sometimes in hokkaido you have to go around so in local areas that are off the highway sometimes it's just one road so you have to uh pay attention and stop and let traffic come through or go through slower and if you see somebody you might have to go and reverse sometimes that's how that's happened but uh here's knight is starting to come on you can see the roads the highways going up to kitami from obihiro are are beautiful um they're well maintained uh and the speed limit i never really go over a hundred it might be 90 but hokkaido might be 110 but i typically will stay at or below the speed limit just because i'm in japan and i don't want to get a ticket what am i doing here i'm doing like 67 or what is it like 67 through the tunnel or something so uh yeah that's that's about it this is um a lot of tunnels in japan too do you have any questions i'm looking at the chat right now any questions about driving in hokkaido i think that if you do come to japan even if you have a rail pass i think it might be worth taking renting a car and driving for uh i don't know even for six hours you can rent a car for as little as three hours depending on the car or you can um rent it for six hours i do a six hour rental when kanai and i go to costco for example just for i'm looking at the chat right now just just for food runs and stuff like that a speeding ticket here is quite expensive i heard i don't know i've never gotten one and i don't know anybody who has some of the foreigners try to talk them talk their way out pretending like they don't know japanese but they the cops now have like uh translators translation machines now so you it's not that easy to get off like it was before so keep that in mind um hello hi a21 do you get speed ticket do you get speedy tickets up there in in western us i can't remember the last time i had two hands on the wheel really i actually drive uh 10 and two and just got into a habit of doing it um you know when i get on the highway a lot of people put their hands down on the base i still keep it at ten and two and i don't know why um i very rarely will will have one hand on the wheel i don't know i think because the driving test to get the license was so hardcore that i had to i really got used to just doing it the right way i don't know and you know you have to they put you through a grinder when you get your driver's license here and you never forget it's it's pretty harsh uh some good questions here how expensive is fuel um gasoline is expensive compared to it used to be because now in america the gasoline is really expensive and here's the thing okay the price of gasoline in japan um from like 15 years ago the increase is just marginal it really is not that much more but i saw in the united states it's so much more so i don't know i guess it's taxes or something but if you compare the prices of fuel from the u.s the gasoline price rises and in japan i think the us's had higher higher prices like faster inflation and which we pay by gas in japan by the leader so the prices to americans you who pay by the gallon um it used to be like one liter was the same price as one gallon but now that a gallon is so expensive in the u.s it's it's not as expensive so um driving in japan the gasoline is more expensive than the us but it isn't as bad as it used to be comparably to prices in the us right now a lot of the places are full service especially in tokyo but when you go out to the countryside a lot of the places are self-service unless you ask for service and then they'll fill your tank for you in most situations um so if you've never had and like i grew up in new jersey and we don't have self-service everything is full service in the entire state of new jersey so you so new jerseyites unless you've driven a lot out of state are going to be a little bit shocked having to do self-service and some countries might be the same way but you have to um i don't know get used to doing that and when i first had to do it i remember other drivers doing it for me and showing me in japanese it was pretty cool experience and um uh you can pay by credit card as well some of the gas stations like neos which is one of the chains here you can use your point card for tsutaya like a t-card and get points for getting gas which is pretty cool but they accept most major credit cards i didn't have any problem with american express visa mastercard anything like that but i'll tell you this japan is also a cash country and don't depend on plastic the entire time always have a few hundred dollars or like 30 or 40 000 yen on you just in case you get into a bind with your credit card it doesn't happen as much as it did about 10 years ago but it still could and you you want to have that cash you don't want to go searching for an atm in the countryside especially because they might not have one and sometimes the convenience stores are not so convenient in the middle of nowhere right so make sure you do have like a a couple hundred dollars on you and you can always change it back if you if you don't need it at the airport but it's always good to have can you rent an electric vehicle yes so um it is more pricey if you look now let me go back to the rent-a-car here i'll show you the um the electric cars i used to rent uh right here this is a prius i believe oh this is a mirage is a new one i would rent the prius quite often and okay back to the rental cars the most of the cars above economy are hybrids sometimes the difference between the economy and the economy plus is just being hybrid which means you pay less for gas which means that you're probably paying the same amount but i will usually pick the economy plus because canaanite can i loves this aqua which is i believe that's a hybrid too um or the standard the prius here is here it is right here the the prius is a hybrid um is a full ev car and it drives really smooth but the problem with the prius is that the window in the back is so um narrow it's hard to see back there and i don't i don't like it but it's a pretty nice drive it's a smooth drive except for that back window um i probably would never buy one though there are other better ev cars full full electric cars but that's one of them prius is a good one that they have i haven't rented from anybody except for no that's not true once i think we did nippon rent-a-car but almost all of them were exclusive to toyota rent-a-car uh the yaris is another suv-like car there it is this is a sweet looking car i don't know maybe i'll try this one out with with craig's donation there but in general though um you can pick the car and toyota rent-a-car has a pretty good selection of toyota only cars if you want to run other ones nippon rent-a-car or oryx are pretty good companies um there's some other ones too honda had their own rent-a-car which is honda only i just want a nice car that drives smooth and is safe and and the thing with toyota that i've liked is that i feel like they maintain the cars really well and it's usually almost a new car there's nothing older than like two or three years old and i think they just resell it back after it's done being a rental car or it's auctioned off but i've always had really good experiences and i want to be safe and i know that toyota's cars are well maintained and the people are pretty professional and i've had i've had staff there who could speak a little bit of english they even have magnets that you can get in fact when you get there i know sometimes we want to avoid trying to feel like being a tourist but if you're not used to driving in japan get one of these magnets that they have that say that you're a foreigner visiting japan it says like um international visitor or something it's all different it depends on the prefecture you can also get it at the city office at sometimes when you arrive at the airport you can ask them at the rental car ages they always have it at the airport it's a magnet that'll attach onto the back it allows other drivers to know that you ain't around here you ain't from around here so other people are more cautious but what i found and when i use it and i am from around here people are friendlier people like you more and they wave and they're curious and they talk to you and that's kind of a good thing so i encourage you to get that um uh for your car just for fun just just do it even if you live here in japan do it it's kind of cool and you can keep one if you're local and just put it on your car anytime and it just i don't know if you're a beginner driver there there are marks that you have to put on there can i had hers she still has hers maybe no no she she she was promoted last last month i believe she had to renew her license but i still think she should have those marks on if you're a senior citizen you need to have a special mark as well on your car so those are some of the things that you should you should be aware of good questions i let my japanese license expire i let my u.s license expire so now i have to get an international driver's license from japan when i go back to the us and rent a car on that that's going to be interesting the reverse culture shock i was really nervous to let my american driver's license expire but i was getting tired of being called in for jury duty even though i told them look i'm not in the country i'm not coming back anytime soon stop inviting me to your jury duty is it is it an invitation and you know my my father would let me know when i got called in and i would have to go online and often call them and say look please man so now i'm not i think kanai just came home yeah with leo so they were out he was sleeping that wasn't another reason why the livestream may or may not have started late they went for a walk uh if you have any questions you can leave them down below um the audio is out of sync i apologize for that i we had technical difficulties might be like a second i don't think it's as bad as it used to be i'm still working this out you know youtube studio streams there's more problems than there are with twitch and so i probably will will you'll see when i do twitch that it's in perfect sync so i'm not sure what's going on with youtube but um it's always going to get better and better and i appreciate just having the platform at all if you have any questions let me know in the comments below i'm happy to answer them about renting a car but please do take a look at the new video that's out uh the japanese the world's coldest barbecue festival in kitami hokkaido it's an awesome episode the drone shots you're gonna love it i matched up with the music pretty good i spent an extra week on it trying to to polish it up and and get people's names and and fix some things and we have even uh pretty good subtitles in there i don't know if we have indonesian subtitles but oh by the way if you'd like to subtitle these we on the discord server have a subtitle group and i could definitely use your help especially if you're japanese and wouldn't mind adding japanese subtitles or german or french or spanish especially we could really use your help it's all volunteers they've been doing that and chinese too we really helped really could use your help or just contact me through the website only in japan tv has a contact form or the discord server i appreciate that i do have a bunch of postcards left uh this is osaka and i also have a couple of daimyo packages so if you'd like to join the daimyo package group i will send it out we have taiyaki this month which are one of my favorite snacks from a famous maker and mango flavored kitkats and um japanese lego shinkansen train piece which is a series that i'm doing for daimyo supporters i believe there are two boxes left so if you're interested in joining i'm really happy to have the support thanks everybody i'm already working on the next main channel episode to edit and we'll be doing some more live streams as well hopefully from the road the state of emergency ends at the end of this month in in october and i'll be on the road again maybe even sooner than that because i've been invited to film but i've got a lot of location shoots planned for um december and we'll be getting out what i filmed already uh for the rest of september so see you next time everybody have a question on japan yeah check out the discord server thanks nightbot for that um check out the discord server uh i might be going uh for a um a fireside chat so if you go to the discord server i'll go into the fireside chat and continue this in a second party for the next like 10 15 minutes as well so see under

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Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, Hokkaido, driving, Driving in Japan, license, drive, rentacar, rental, costs, rules, laws, roads, snow, snow tires, insurance, how to rent a car in Japan, driving in Hokkaido, drive Hokkaido, Sapporo, highway

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Length: 42min 42sec (2562 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 17 2021