Tokyo’s Kagurazaka Eat, Shop & Alley Walk Adventure

hello everybody greetings from Edo bossy station EDA Bashi is where most people will start their adventures to go to Kagurazaka as you can see the adductor line the boy oh wait on line the tozai line they all come here the non-vocal line exit b4b and then you're here it's a very short walk to get to the main street Kagurazaka means like god music slope you're gonna see all three of those in this live stream the great thing about this place is that there's so many hidden alleys in this neighborhood there's so many little corners to this place it makes it a fascinating area to wander around it and I probably will be coming back in another livestream maybe with cannae it's a romantic place it's a place where you could spend half a day completely getting lost or just enjoying the cafe culture here let's go for a walk that's what we're here for I'm just gonna start by going through some alleys but if you do go around this way you'll see the giant dosa that I ate a few years ago that's that I think every youtuber has done that food challenge here's a map just to give you an overview of the area just Korakuen Park and Tokyo Dome so it's not that far away from Tokyo Dome we're right here yeah we're gonna go through this alley and then you can see it right here Kagurazaka Dodie Dodie means street so this road we're gonna walk up and after that we're gonna go into some of the alleys there and really explore this area you can see Soto Bodi the road here so Kagurazaka was was on the edge of a dough castle the moat so it's a place that was always had a very significant and aristocratic neighborhood for centuries and of course you can see a Starbucks right there don't don't get a Starbucks let's go to something a little bit better not that it's bad it's just that you know you're in cut good is that guy you want to go get something really good we're gonna start by going through these alleys here welcome everybody if this is your first live stream please do subscribe first I'm gonna get a quick water actually look at this American water Crystal Geyser ah alright got to get one of those right off the bat right who wants to push the button Crystal Geyser water in Japan follow these students turn around the check is that really a youtuber yes stay hydrated on a walking tour so I wanted to come and do this neighborhood because I'd to be honest I don't know a lot about it so I'm exploring it this is not my first time Vani means but it's been it's been a while it's been a while it's a really nice warm day for October I'm sorry for November November 1st November 2nd as you can see it's the alleys that really have the personality but we're gonna go take a look at the Main Street but I don't want you to stick to the main street by any means do not by no means I'm waving my finger stick to the Main Street because it's the alleys here that you have to explore there's a Sega world in the alley right there I mean it's like a super hidden Sega world and then there's a French cafe right there this is because of all the expats look at that the very ones we get to the to the Kagurazaka area you can see that the vending machines have to take on kind of a different color hide themselves a little bit they're camouflaged Edo Bosch she doesn't have the same reputation but Kagurazaka this is a place where you'll still find in Tokyo like traditional geisha houses with DOTA DOTA is a place root it's very exclusive the OTR where you'll be entertained and by geisha and you'll have Caixa Quixote which is the traditional Japanese cuisine you can find that here now at the end of this alley you can see that there's a lot of people walking down this street this is kind of it as that guys main avenue here we'll cross the street boom as I said this Kagurazaka means God music slope there's the slope right there and there's a really nice flower shop on the corner as well I'm at the entrance of the street you will see that it is a major intersection and a lot of the tourists will be coming from the universities there's lots of universities in this area Sofia University is not too far away all right let's climb this climb the slope see we could find hit some of these alleys explore live and if you're in Tokyo hey you could come and try to find me good luck I'm on the move there's a map in the description as well if you're interested in finding this place is you see something that you like you can go into the description click it by all means if this is your first live stream click Subscribe and make sure the belt notification Bell is on always so you don't want you to miss an episode ever now Kagurazaka the Kagurazaka has a very vibrant I think they call it little Paris so that it's a vibrant French community here you're gonna find some of the city's best French food in this neighborhood but it's that dedication to food in general which makes it a good place to eat some of the best restaurants in canto the area that Tokyo is in is right here in Kagurazaka is a sushi place for 70 yen a sushi there so 75 yen in sushi which is about 70 cents little sushi bar looks like some pretty good nigiri sushi right there comes with a miso soup for $8 sometimes they close this street which makes it really nice for walking walking around already I'm winded it's a slope it's a slope let's go across the street here all right sometimes in the road you're gonna find little historical markers Kagurazaka there's the kanji god music slope and then here's a little picture of what it used to look like as I told you at the beginning of this this was on the edge of Edo castle a couple hundred years ago this has always been a very vibrant area of the city and today looks like this I love the trees here kind of a blend of nature even though the chain restaurants look really good the entrance to the Royal host a little classier than most places a little classier than other royal hosts so we can find you're at a load of temples and shrines as well in this area we might get a chance to take a look at one but we're gonna get off of this Main Street in a little bit start to jump into some of the alleys that's what's really impressive with this place the alleys Alley hunting talking about Ali's not you know girls named Ali so in write that Ryan get something on me that's pigs right because you know what that gets her street food here they gets the street food here so we're gonna check that out I'm saving it for maybe another ten minutes in let's make a way around I think that they they serve raw ham and pork slightly creepy that they put babe with a helmet on there but I guess they're trying to say it's fresh it's one of my favorite movies babe I'm still a little bit upset that brave heartbeat babe in 1995 for the Academy Awards I thought babe is gonna pull it out Braveheart won both are awesome movies though all right we're at the top of the slope here you can see there's some more restaurants there's another sushi restaurant here we're getting deeper and deeper into cogito second so I think you're gonna see bakeries starting to pop up like the one right in front of us this is Cana a hotel bakery from Nikko and they have a branch here since 1873 so it looks like they got some good offerings okay some good offerings including the Royal bread which looks so buttery and they have some other their fine offerings like this Apple milf milf you al Apple milf you milfy cinnamon roll looks nice Japanese bakeries are pretty good it's usually a lot softer and Europeans who eat at Japanese bakeries or sometimes disappointed because it's just too soft all right we're gonna I'm gonna flip the camera to the right now and you're gonna see what I'm talking about with the alleys here a lot more narrow no cars going through here people can walk looks festive looks festive let's walk a little bit forward and then we're gonna come back here and and take a right that red sign up there says how good has that guy you're starting to learn kanji oh my you could smell the matcha green tea roasting it's that acidic you see it right there this is a green tea roaster they're roasting it on the street you can smell that acidic sweetness it stings the nose in a pleasant way it's it's like here in ningyocho have a tradition of making Japanese roasted matcha and it's amazing let's take a close look at this here's a roaster houjicha and the green teas being roasted and then slowly starts to filter into here where they'll sell it fresh ah man it looks really nice but the smell is smells a big part of it you cannot ignore this look at that he's got them in bags right here how much is a bag 100 grams is 540 yen but it goes up the list to a thousand what's the difference just quality looks like a really nice nice houjicha shop that's such a pleasant smell once again you cannot smell it through that through the screen so it's a reason for you to come here in person so there's a shrine on the right side here which is really nice look at that but if we turn this way there's another alley look at the alleys they're beautiful look at the trees down there loads and loads of restaurants these very stylish restaurants not many of them are right on the Main Street most of them are hidden in the alleys sugidama so that place looks like it has very good traditional Japanese food and it looks like like a Japanese bistro doesn't it if you can get a really affordable affordable Japanese lunch in here the lunch opens up on on monday to friday at 11:30 and then for lunch on the weekdays at 11:30 so i guess it's it's closing up right now lunch rush is over let's keep going they have a bakery up here called Paul or Powell here's more cafes cafe veloce is a chain in Japan but you know what they've really classed this up if they look like the McDonald's of cafes in Tokyo but this one to compete they've really made it look nice that's kind of freaky spicy tacos hotdog so they have put like Doritos on a hotdog I'm not sure if I would bite but it looks interesting some pretty nice sets David cumin ah you got it buddy you got it buddy power on snack and beer fund I will be partaking in that very shortly and here's their offerings here it looks great let's try John this place looks really good - check it out look at that tonkatsu breaded pork cutlet set and you would put like a sauce on top of it like a were Shishir sauce it's so good and here's some a different cut of that's he date tonkatsu oh man I love breaded pork cutlet very good shops not crowded at all I here it is this is a very famous Parisian bakery here in Japan and there this is one of the few places that Europeans did I go this is so wonderful I'm not sure it's what accent that is but it gets really rave reviews if you just do some window shopping you can see here it's pricey but the croissants are the real deal it's $2 for croissant 250 first scone here's a croissant amond well 350 67 yen about $3 to 50 cents for that the apple pie looks great look at that so they do a pretty good job with that here in Japan and it's hard crust and it's very hard to find this in Japanese bakeries the hard crusted bread hardly outside soft on the inside I'd me likey maybe back but can i and I have eaten in here a few times you can take a look here it's a very nice place very stylish great for date can I and I ate at that window a few years ago I should put that picture of her on Instagram she doesn't like it but it's one of my favorite pictures there's some confection shops there's a Japanese confection shop where they have looks like them a delicious looking dry dry yaki on there and then the one next door looks like a pretty nice and that that could be a chain look at that this is a Kagurazaka dorayaki maybe let's see we can try that I like teriyaki but the thing is the pancakes with these look different there's something special about the pancake maybe they've put some Kuti or chestnuts which you can see right there that's right now in season and if you're a patreon supporter I'm be sending chestnut KitKat's to all of our daimyo supporters chestnut kick cats just came out it's a pretty excited about that yeah tons of street food here let me see all right let's even get a try Aki there's some chestnut rice check it out how the dryer key is right here it's $2.00 after I acting in guys you like hey that's it this is so nice I get the same I said kogure is that gonna drag and then he got she got a scar oh nothing hate that the total pancake gear I'm not sure his name oh hi oh yes just a little different to me my eyes see something different he sees something different to this guy that reminds me of Austin Powers Goldmember hi folks I really need a coffee to go with this but I think we just can't eat it what do you think so this is it this is two thousand fifty cents a little pricey for dry lucky but it's a Kagurazaka dry icky only found here the best way to see what exactly is different is to taste it 1 billion yen I saw that folks I'm going to be driving towards 500 likes for this to eat more street food I'm not even hungry and I'm gonna eat more because I love you so pay that forward as I open the straw Aki with one hand all right here we go there it is it's it's being come out it's coming out ok it's very nice sticky a little bit sticky is the red bean paste in the middle smells nice the smell once I opened it the smell comes in it comes out and hits you out so let's try it huh yeah oh that's good that's really good the dry icky sometimes if you the cheaper ones the pancake part of it will be too dry it's dorayaki not meaning dry but don't I but this pancake is moist I like that it has an ingredient in it that's that's keeping the moisture in it and that that is really good so I love it you can see the red bean paste in there subbu on you have to be a big fan of red bean paste I think it grows on you the the more you eat it the more you like it it's a subtle sweetness a natural sweetness to it so if you're used to eating super sweet stuff you might not like it but it was on you that's just a different kind of a sweetness straight bird and what we have here looks like um Kanaka some nice-looking karaage there alright we'll be back we'll be back that's pretty good pretty good alright let's go back around and wrap down these alleys yeah wrap around the neighborhood we're just getting warmed up I get a feeling this is gonna last an hour some nice traditional shop selling handicrafts take a quick look see [Music] and giemo know that's in the middle of a crowd here back out reset hey Kyle Boggs here buy something good to eat and drink you got it we're just getting warmed up Kyle just getting warmed up there's another little mini cafe just a little looks like a little pop-up cafe easy to walk past this and not even notice it but smells like cheese really good sweet cheese all right so there you go there's Kagurazaka Daugherty now it's time to get off the Main Street which was a delicious experience mr. Columbo thanks to Jonathan mods for the great vibes John get something tasty you got it you got it [Music] if you continue to go up here take a look at the sign there's a subway for Kagurazaka actually so you can get here by subway directly i always come by e to boshy station just the way i kind of get around because there's five subway lines that connect with a debauchee including jr so it's just the most convenient oh I love that dry icky man and you find a good dry Aki place you go back again and again and again so we're gonna cross the street here I don't often go this far deep into Kagurazaka so let's just take a look a little bit more yeah but we get a lot of a lot of alleys to explore so we're gonna be back here because I got to come this way to go back home wait for the light it's a blue light Japanese lights are they call them blue I think if you've watched this you've noticed me saying that but in Japan is the tozai line yeah kogo does that goes on the tozai line subway line you know that the right it's red for stop yellow for slowdown and blue for go because colorblind people can see blue better than green however it's like a Bluegreen mix but in Japanese we call it oh it all out which is blue it's weird it's weird one can I said no the light is blue is it what are you talking about sico oh you mean green cuz in English you gotta say green but it's in Japanese we say blue really nice little teeny shop there's tons of them this is where things get to get really stylish up here after you go through the intersection the road gets a little bit narrower the buildings are a little bit less you start to hear some someone's blasting like kind of your European nish music maybe I don't know [Music] again for those joining us this is called like Little Italy iSight little Paris they call this street and you can see here's one place that's quite famous you can go in here and get a glass of of cheap wine I was told at gusto dolce vita and there you go there the prices right there shall we get one wine acha wine is three dollars shall we get one what do you think I was hoping for a coffee why wouldn't they I don't know nosh but I think I will get a wine so thank you for the super chats guys I do put it to good use [Music] where do we get the wine from oh and they got like snacks too check this out neo ki no cheeky I was called them but that's neo ki and uh Don Cheney this looks Italian very nice street food I can Gordo no I normally like on I am Dutch because even in Kedah scotch a cordon against mad [Music] that's a lot Wow [Music] hi Wow it's japanese-style they fill it to the room this is dangerous not just because they filled it to the rim but because it was like like it was to the rim and just about spill and they have to be you have to drink it like this I did not know that [Music] Kampai everybody its Chilean wine Becca Ortiz writes you get what you pay for which is probably a headache probably a headache but you know when in Kagurazaka wine might be the better option let's see what else they got here is I walk around with a drink which I probably shouldn't be doing but the stream must go on one pack for these um dongle check out the dongle here that looks like it's a sweet soy based sauce on top of them and they've been yeah keyed like grilled a little bit you can see the brown on top of them so there's some consistency to it there's an OD a seaweed on top of that dango and then there's some red bean paste on another one and there's a dango stuffed animal do you see that dango plushie I think they're famous for nothing but winning chopped it's a very nice shop I liked a little mascot all right shall we go down Ali hunting it's a little teeny a little teeny shop so this is more wine than I bargained for I thought it'd be like a thimble a thimble size we did not get a thimble size this restaurant is quite famous and I might try to bring Kenai here but the problem is duck is in the title and she does not like duck these little teeny stylists bistros are you're gonna find them all over Kagurazaka it's it's part of that French Connection great movie by the way even the second one cheat Hackman that you'll find all over the city look at that I mean it just doesn't this does not feel or seem like Japan to me these little shops like something that could be in a small French town but lamb duck Tokyo is a bistro that's been highly recommended to me you can see that they're cooking something special on the inside the chef's really going to town in there but I'll have to come back here with Kenai they have duck no I get she can eat the lamb I'll eat the duck it's a pretty stylish looking place it smells great hanging out by the door so the lunchtime is still so it's open now it opens at 2:00 and it opens it stays up until almost midnight you get a full duck Kenai he's not gonna like that full duck for 6,800 yen which is pretty reasonable and you can get a lamb rump for 1800 yen but I'll probably go for the rack let me be the shoulder I don't know it's hard to say look I still got a lot of wine how am I gonna drink this is anybody coming is anybody coming help me with the wine problem quite alleys here's another cafe again an alley I'm gonna pan around slowly and here's a small Italian bistro the buildings here are usually two stories two or three you're not allowed to build much bigger than that in the neighbourhood has some rules which i think is pretty good it's important to have rules I might have left some of that wine it's a lot of wine look at the trees all right let's go down the alley here it's gotten a lot quieter you can't got me jet caught me look how much I drank it's alright look at that this is one of the reasons why you walk around and get lost just get away from everything the guidebook tells you just start walking down streets and get lost it's pretty neat to see everyday life in Japan on this side of the street above above you can see all of the powerlines they don't put anything underground in Japan everything is above-ground because of the earthquakes so when there are earthquakes these shake back and forth and you that's the one thing that you can hear as the power lines are above you shaking that's what I remember with the big one in 2011 just the power lines were always swaying from all the aftershocks some more alleys here that kids trucking let's get out of the way get out of the way and there's the Main Street back there but we're gonna keep on going on the alley could see a slice of life I love how people believe the trees outside to no crows no crows right now today was trash day - alright let's go take a look at his park just gonna do a quick pan through here alright a lot of families today just kind of relaxing on the weekend here loads of trees in this neighborhood families fathers are home for the weekend mothers taking care of the family on a nice sunny day like today we'll be out here ruff why not give plants some wine they may grow faster really they'll grow happier they'll grow happier all right just a little bit minutes maybe a little bit too much I did not expect alright we'll come back and see if these trees will grow a little bit stronger denon and and okay that's all just a little bit I still got enough that's a different kind of stream Derek Derek jumper rights in here I love the stream watching while I'm break it work all right little tokyo action going on here alright let's go take a look back down on the main street yeah we're gonna go to some more alleys we'll go through some more alleys in this live stream we get in another thirty minutes to go he's looking at me alright let's go this way kid was let I was looking at him and I made a face and he just started to smile look at this little teeny shop right off of the Main Street in an alley looks like someone's garage sale some neat things here look at the basket on that bicycle it's interesting it's interesting just some random stuff how you doing look at that look at that they're making pastries back there there's no customers here oh this smells so good should I try to get something from here what God what are they God looks like they got um Oh like like meat and cheese and things like that looks really good it's fascinating not a person here 2010 guides what it's called toad eat Anka just just in the alley here pretty interesting all right I got to get rid of this wine this is more than I bargained getting for all right let's do this five four three two one who said that before you get what you pay for get what you pay for $3 oh that's a pretty neat little restaurant there let's take just check this out oh it's a hardcore man that was hardcore all right check it out it's got a little teeny window on it up here is the name of it what do you care can you guys see it the letters are too too small but I could see myself can I and I sitting there and having a really good meal but that's what I'm telling you what this this neighborhood it's filled with these little bistros that are in the neighborhood excuse me check out this little bakery as well from madurai out of park a cheese well cheesery let's see what they got on offer it smells like geez that's a good sign if it smells like cheese I've never seen a lot of these cheese's before it's like a real mix of cheeses oh man nice only in Kagurazaka only in cut good is out guys seriously all right let's get back to the main industry get some street food well why does it this what it's just here on the street food demands a cakey Woodman's cake what is Woodman's cake now I'm curious I got to find out what's Woodman's cake now there's a there's a gorilla in the street sitting on a chair I guess we're we've answered it right there woodsman cake is right there all right now I got to investigate a little bit woodsman's cake look what they've done they got me interested and now I walked backwards and I'm checking out this place I'm checking out this place here what is a woodsman's cake it looks like a roll cake what so let's men's cake it's a Kagurazaka roll can I just get one piece you can get one piece alright let's go ahead and say let me get some change oh it smells so good you have no idea how good it smells it's cake season I hurt my knee I haven't been running and are exercising so I'm getting amazingly out of shape I say amazingly because it's very unusual for me not to go running it's been almost a month now and I'm I'm afraid to eat these cakes but it's live stream we don't have to do it alright let's go in and see alright let's eat you guys ready for some adventure let's good let's just go and find out what's inside in here 22 monkey Wow oh this looks interesting could emo NUCCA a jaded sin against you etcö Montevideo I get that they want to support you I love supporting local businesses even if it's just like buying something small this is a chestnut cake little girl's not happy chestnut cake let's try this here get some chew how do I tell why American Jean Luc mini continued I don't know if I want to get boozing I'm gonna get myself in some trouble here to heís that stuff is like 8% alright let's let's let's open this up here it looks pretty good you can see I guess it's chocolate we'll find out it's a mole NACA hoodie means chestnut in Japanese chocolate kudi Monica let's try this can one hand it I believe and I can't see in Japan do you see this here they perforated it so it's very easy to open it all of the things in Japan have perforation or places where you can open it easily I love that about this country so it would be hard to do otherwise there we go I was able to open it up I don't want to drop it I've been known to drop it okay check it out so let me get that alright here we go so you could see that chocolate on here and it's in like some kind of a shell it's hard but it's shaped like a cootie it looks like a chestnut doesn't it interesting let's try it the perforated beer bottles no they're called cans you just I saw that alright let's give it a try the crew Dimona cupcake whoa that's what I'm talking about that is so rich chocolate cream inside this thing it's got some texture on the outside of it a little springy like a little mochi mochi going on in there oh my that was this was three dollars and fifty cents for this one little cake and it is so rich I'm gonna be tasting this for the rest of the day this is worth it mm-hmm there's a chestnut inside look you see that chestnut boom chocolatey rich creamy cakey chestnut that was awesome I highly liked it Woodman's cake I'm glad I went back Supermarket Little Mermaid I think this is a Danish a Danish bakery I mean this is up here you'll see where Kagurazaka station is yeah Kagurazaka station is up here show pain that is a French cafe right there does not look like Japan except for the vending machine on the left side well I was good I'm still tasting it all right let's go up a little bit a little bit more and then we're gonna work our way down through some more alleys this is once again Kagurazaka Street the Main Street going through here again it's look you could spend a good few hours here just kind of walking through what we call in Tokyo little Paris people are lining up for something what are they lining up for let's investigate all right looks like just some pretty good shabu shabu looks like some shabu shabu Chinese bar is at it fan fun let's find out only one way find out gotta go investigate oh wow alright so this is what everyone's here for it's a pastry shop desserts until their quota completely butchered it I'm not getting in line I hate lines but who likes lines but I'll tell you this it looks like it's very popular and they have very few seats and if you do come here this might be a place to put on your map alright I'm glad I checked it out oh they had some eclairs they had some eclairs oh no oh they had milk for you as well no both of my love handles are pulling me the wrong way my body's going this way my left handles are going the other way why gravity I'm gonna be grabbing something sweet for connect you can bet your life on it but don't do that I will don't have to bet anything all right right there you can see the station there's Kagurazaka station right in the middle of your screen that's the exit so if you do ride a bicycle you can go downhill all the way to where we started this live stream at a debauchee station that's all we're gonna do we're gonna walk back now towards I'll check it out just getting her hair done can I got a haircut and they cut it way too short and last night she's lying do you like my hair and of course the answer is yes of course the answer is it and then she didn't believe me to go are you sure I don't believe you and I said oh yes oh yes it's pretty short but she can't it's so short she can't tie it up when she dances now so it flops around for the next month so she's not too happy so nobody everyone if Kenai does a live stream with us tomorrow everyone complements her hair all right you heard it here first compliment her hair she looks beautiful all right saying that publicly get in trouble off a deep trouble why don't even say anything you open up a can of worms they all come out thankfully they travel very slow so I can maybe put that back in the can I don't know what that expression means did I should have picked something like frogs or grasshoppers or something that's hard to get back in the can worms don't understand that looks like ginger it's good it's like a organic fruit stand power on you know I'm live-streaming with the 11pro right now it's 11 Pro on a Cosmo mobile 3 we've got nothing but the best here when we go live streaming we pick the best of the best and we could thank Josh abroad for for pushing me a little bit to get this iPhone new iPhone because the color the HDR on it and and the wideness of it is so much better now we can't use that third lens on the other side I can't go super wide yet I can't go wider than this but we will be in the future oh look they got some sushi here you can pick up a you can pick up some sushi on the street and go to the park that's a great idea it's 20% off right now get some sushi go to the park get a glass of wine and enjoy alright you got it it's gone into the beer fund went from tick it went from tech to beer I like that I like that I was a hundred yen short store here that's not die so either so they probably have different stuff see what they got here so they got some Crocs some cheap sandals this could be useful get a dollar chair and you can sit anywhere you want even on the subway when the seats are full you'll have a place to sit if you have one of these little chairs look at that that looks that looks like a pretty good deal I like the fact that that chair has a back to it and no I'm not getting kunai plastic flowers oh oh I must not forget this I must not forget that let's it's across the street quickly before we get hit by a car I must not forget that this statue is cabochon do you guys know cabochon oh look he's got a little trick-or-treat bag Jake got straight smell my feet give me something good to ate master um he's Kolbo the little rascal it was a monk I believe back in the 1980s it's before my time but manga history people probably would know about this one they dressed him up just like the peeing boy in Hama lots of station they dressed him up in different clothes from now and then in right now he's got a Halloween costume on and it looks really really beautiful kawaii nay it's actually America I cook when you send a mascot oh sorry scar Wow good chakrasana need to come 103 days that's it for today San Francisco key take it ah the mat yeah put it there hi I see what I see as sister Mary Muskett Oh Connie I know Imam and okay Coco Jimmy so Chi stated hai toh kya karna mighty mo Kagurazaka kuru Toki I know kono michi they're not there actually she's a ginger deny my suger Saturday media mother I I have to very much thank you my sir Arya thought I might say that was nice so she's been to America and I have I'm very happy to meet somebody she went to America by boat 103 days it took crazy so I have postcards for Taylor Mac Taylor and Nick Nick in the USA so these guys are going to you Taylor that's yours cuz you've been on the poster club for a while and there you go off to places on the other side Kovich on is very popular I buy cabochon we are going to that shrine now that she recommend it because now that you you recommended it when a local recommends something you you should go right so let's go do this all right we're like getting close to the 1 hour mark as well it's a big shrine I've been there before I'm surprised that I didn't put this on the on my on my list of places to go but it's alright we're gonna go up here right now I'm hightailing it the last time I was here and this part was from Tokyo I like eight years ago and then I I didn't I don't often come up this way to the street but I came here for Tokyo I eight years ago to eat ramen there's a famous ramen shop on the top here too by the way for the last three days the reason why there wasn't a live stream was because I was filming for Tokyo I so the the one of the directors that I've worked with for over 10 years he called me up and said we know you're quite busy with only in Japan but would you like to be in an episode of Tokyo I again for an HK and I said sure because it's nice to take a break and when you're a reporter you don't have to really think about all the production stuff you just have to talk in front of the camera so it's kind of a nice little it was a job but it was also like a day off for me it took three days to film Wednesday Thursday Friday all right all very cool excuse me I'm still getting over a cold it's the last part of it mr. Columbo Jon and mods can we get longer than an hour today we absolutely can I've gone like three hours before alright there you go this is exit 1a of Kagurazaka station so you can see how far it is now because we've walked from eda Bashi to Kagurazaka stations not that far take you about 15 minutes to walk between the two of them here's a map just to get your bearings man so we're up here on the slope and we've walked all the way starting from I guess we started from here walked across now we've come all the way up the street there's that Park that we walked into it was called Sheetal Gani park really beautiful relaxing place and she said if we go straight and to the right there's a shrine so guess what I think this is what she was talking about acha Ginja akka ghee Jinja so let's go to akka engage in jail right now and pay our respects because we've been having a pretty good day so we got to go on the back side here let's do it Oh oh that looks good original set they call it with toast and jam so that's a pretty old little cafe right by the station check it out just let's take two steps in that looks like it's been here since the Showa era alright I'm not going in there I'm not going in there because that's yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna eat toast and jam in the basement the signals gonna die out the last days the World Cup today's the finals by the way and today's the finals I think it was like England and South Africa the Rugby World Cup finals alright so the nice lady who who spent a hundred and three days on a cruise ship and went to my home country and spent some time in New York and the Metropolitan Museum told me to come this way and I'm very happy because now we're gonna have a cultural experience together here's the Kagurazaka station exit 1b now so now you know where both of those exits are let's go back and do this it's another French cafe oh yeah scratchy panda thanks for bringing that up scratchy panda so my friend Dan from a channel called what's inside he just last night uploaded a video to his it what's inside Family Channel which I love because it's a little more casual and we just do fun stuff on that on that channel I think it's a second a third time have been on it but we Dan who he's such a great friend we love him so much he got two he got three tickets to the Rugby World Cup Japan versus South Africa just like on a whim because he had some free time he said what do you guys want to do is then I don't know there's a Rugby World Cup we can go to the fans O'Neill's no no let's go to the stadium so he bought three tickets and we went and he put that on his family Channel and I bet you one of the moderators I don't think you can you can share the link but what's inside family and if you go there the video is on the top and I thought was it was a lot of fun we had a ton of fun and wait until the end of the video because we do high-five with a hundred and fifty of the staff members we want to show some respect because we're inside of a shrine that's a torii gate the red torii gate and you want to show respect you don't want to be too loud so oh I'm gonna tone down my voice from here on out and just be very respectful okay it's a pretty big shrine I like this it branches off left and right so let's go here to the left my first reaction would be to go up and take a look here but I'm gonna fight that and go this way these are what people will write there any guy or wishes on these things I don't know if I should show them or not but you'll write something and you put it here and then it'll come true I hope it comes true for everybody it is a beautiful shrine look at it it's this looks pretty modern down here the base of it doesn't it very dark grey color not so it sticks out it'll stay clean like this for a while and above it is the shrine I've never seen anything like it very beautiful and here on the side is a little teeny shrine there's three small torii gates and because I'm filming we're not gonna go inside but I just I can show you a little bit of it it's pretty cute cute little shrine check it out I'm gonna be making my way back to the main street like we're well past one hour and I'm gonna eat some Street food but click that like button and encourage me more and he did I need your encouragement like I really do from here from this shrine you can see there's more slopes so Tokyo has a lot of Hills especially in this area this is Shinjuku Ward actually and there's a nice view going all the way towards Shinjuku the city part of it see the rooftops so doing a community like button if you want me to keep going I need some gasoline I could see the likes going up right now thanks everybody this is a great part of the city yeah Kanaya is is cooking something at her father's house tonight and I'm gonna go over there at 7:00 p.m. and we're gonna have dinner with their family so for the next couple of hours I'm gonna be going back home to edit videos and of course do a live stream it's nice it's autumn you can feel autumn this trees if you come to visit this in a couple of weeks all these trees are gonna be so beautiful they're gonna have a lot of color to it we call that coil coil in Japanese koi yo means the autumn colors are changing alright let's walk up a little bit [Music] when you walk in a shrine never walk down the center of it that's reserved for Kamisama or the gods always walk to the left or the right when you enter don't stay down the center kunai gets angry if I do for good reason wow this is a beautiful shrine next very new very clean yeah and then the back here is a cafe that would be really cool sit here with a coffee and then get that spirit with ya right I'm gonna try to do that this month too a lot of questions I've been coming in and I might do some I might stop and do some question and answer I didn't for patreon supporters twice a month but maybe maybe nicest to sit back and answer some of the questions because next year there's a lot of people who want to come to Japan and see the city for the Olympics as well so I have a lot of answers actually because I've been asking questions myself to people and we might do something like that in the next couple of weeks answer some of the questions that you have I think it's been about five months since the last Q&A our discord community too is growing so fast the reason I wanted to do the discord is because if you are traveling to Japan and you have questions on the road you can go in or discord community and the and the more members we have the more will be able to help each other out because everybody in there has a deep interest for Japan and knows as much about traveling around the country as I do because they've done it several times and I think it's when we help each other out and we make our trips so much more meaningful including I look at there's some cafes this way including meeting up so if you're a solo traveler discord might be a place where you can catch up with another support or another community member all right we've been down the street let's go let's go down this alley here instead so we're gonna cook we're gonna start from here and then make our way back down towards ya make our way back down towards EDA boshy station through the alleys and see what we can find yeah discord is free I know some we have we have some levels for patreon supporters which they get as a perk it's a smaller community but we have a general chat and lots of groups like Japanese language culture food as well categories inside of the discord server that are free anybody can go in there and talk and there are some some community rules because we want to keep it friendly in there but we've had no problems really and we have about 10 really amazing moderators that are helping to keep it keep things I was so beautiful look at these alleys there's that Chinese bar fan fun and a yakitori bar I love yakitori they wrote it in English too Rouge wine and yakitori you know I can get behind that idea that's a pretty good idea wine in yakitori leave the be at home open a bottle of wine again the vending machines here are typically darker in color to fit in with the neighborhood I like that so instead of it being white and bright it's brown with wood paneling around it excuse me this one fits in with this izakaya looks like a beautiful restaurant very traditional Japanese colors earth tones they got a taste shoku yeah I love taste yoku I love toshogu can i if you're watching we're coming back here this is a Oh Nico yes on this has a meat a butcher shop that has these look at that there's a it looks like a toll tonkatsu breaded pork cutlet on rice with miso soup and a nice little set that's wonderful beautifully done in inside of a very traditional looking restaurant 1,000 yen are less than ten dollars for that I think that is a bargain no saw Scott's ooh I love this they put some very like a sweet not sweet but a salty sois thick sauce it's got some sweetness to it on top of it I love sauce katsu chicken katsu dome pork pork saute dome there's a chicken saute dome looks all looks really good and then this one is a Buddha pork toshogu and a shrimp fry taste Shoku toshogu is a platter where everything is on one I love toshogu if you got a choice between McDonald's and toshogu you eat good taste I'll go all right you guys got that tasuku is the ultimate lunch I love it I would love to make that as a main channel episode as well it's a cute little poodle she's got a sweater on she was being given water from the hose beautiful alley all right we walked down here from the park so let's just go past the park now and keep going down the alley I think we're gonna discover something pretty nice don't know just got a feeling Kagurazaka is I think it's there's a boom going on for this area I think if it has to do a lot with the history going on here the connection with history it was an aristocratic neighborhood that in the 8o period because it was right outside of the the gates of edo castle and after that during the meiji era when more foreign influence came into the city of tokyo this became the French quarters and now it's considered little Paris because of the amount of French cafes and just actually cafes and bakeries and French food here it's amazing this also led to a boom in traditional restaurants and it's one of the places where you'll still find geisha houses and little teeny doggies and barbershops here's another four cheese place I showed you this before so we came back we came down here like 40 30 minutes ago I'm going back to the main street alright let's let's hightail it to towards the other shop and get some get something for the for the road back some street food or something you guys deserve a little bit of food man I would love a piece of cheese a little bit of wine i hammered that wine that looks really good to get that sign right here on the corner this is a sembei has a really sweet baking smell the smell of sweet soy sauce grilling really nice oh this is the dango shop I'm not I'm not a hankerin for dango there's a wine shop walk quickly the dangerous place dangerous you guys are dangerous that wine was dangerous memories of 30 minutes ago get out of here I do not want another glass of that to the brim to the rim bottle of wine dangerous dangerous dangerous more booze danger danger escape if you're just tuning in now 30 minutes ago they gave me a plastic pot plastic cup of wine they didn't just fill it they filled it to that point where the water is just over the rim of it but it's not spilling out my my mouth was like this like I cannot drink that how dare you do that to me and they said you cannot just pick it up you have to put your mouth to the lip two of the of the cup and sir like drinking it with and then after you drank it down maybe a centimeter you could pick it up and start to start to drink it just like I know it's a weekend and all that but I don't wanna get plastered I'm gonna walk home I want to be a responsible citizen of the city of Tokyo and not be one of those guys laying on the street wake up in the morning can i dragging me home you're a responsible husband how dare you she's in the bike lane good girl he's supposed to ride your bike on the left and the right of on the left and the right of the street not on the sidewalk because there been too many instances in Tokyo recently where bicycles have hit pedestrians and you just simply should not be riding your bicycle especially in a crowded place like this on the sidewalks that's why the city of Tokyo has been and III went over this in the video when I was going down the bridge people were riding on the shoulders but I told everybody many many times legally you have to be on the side of the road with the bicycle no in places that aren't crowded they let you go and even the Pope to police themselves well right on the on the sidewalks all right what you're not supposed to do but I'm telling you if you do rent a bicycle you might want to stick to the roads because it's just a simply faster and it's it's the right thing to do all right we've got some Christmas cards here let's just take a quick look do they have the sushi card didn't have this Japan has some pretty cool Christmas cards sometimes about maybe they do here's one this is my favorite Christmas card check it out it's Santa Claus at a sushi bar how cute is that I know it's a little bit early I know it's a little bit early but you want if you if you are in Tokyo and you want to buy that Christmas card I just showed you buy it now cuz they're not gonna they sell out every year by the middle of November oh my gosh do you see that egg no why you do this to me every time I walking home I thought I escaped and you put a beautiful egg in the middle of a bowl of rice with meat and egg and vegetables and be healthy how dare you how dare you not woody don't go at all this place high on my list now looks like it's it's a chicken restaurant so I've got a lot of chicken stuff this look this is an amazing oyakodon you are on my list right now I saved you and put you in this camera here I'll be back that was amazing looking now dare you how dare you do that at the end it's evil it's evil very very bad restaurant here's the Powell cafe you can see how high-class it is it's like I never if I go with if I go with can I - Powell or Paul I I always drop like $20 on bakery and a coffee you can't not because it's it's just so good alright we're going down we're going down the street that we went down about 45 minutes ago but I'm heading back now to to the station I'm on the on the prowl for some street food one more for the road that's the biggest piece of sushi in the world I think that's a normal-sized hand imagine can't even this is a maybe LeBron James can one fist it now the Sun is starting to set the good thing about doing a live stream for more than an hour is that you'll see over the course of the time the the light eating will start to change we're back here at the roasted green tea shop the smell that comes out onto the street is extraordinary for those that are joining us now all 1,000 strong it's extraordinary smell so what you need wait to see look this is called houjicha you see the houjicha is roasting the numfon kakari Mosca [Music] Hey look chart hey you're young hungry oh hi Donald whoa Saji McCarty was an antiquated no caffeine Julie stop oh she didn't got that high they divided them all Hey Subaru she was actually coined under an Italian idea oh are you got those neighbors what the key was it was a mess you guys get that guy was very nice to show us so he takes the green tea and it's roasted and it lowers the caffeine in it so you can drink it before you go to bed I know that so houjicha has um it's it's not that the taste is richer it's just that the smell is different it's better maybe so it's it's like a good night green tea houjicha so if you look at the degrees of green teenis the color chart hold you shiz at the end it's more of a brown because it's been roasted but the smell of it and when he put it in there he roasts it for about 4 to 5 minutes only and just it's a natural process it'll start to make its way out and come out of the funnel into the place and he packages it up and they sell a lot of it there's people that are just constantly buying them from that shop that might be something that you want to take back I think if it's packaged up it's ok especially if it's been roasted it's not raw vegetable but green tea has been dried so it's harder but a roasted tea I think that might be more I I don't tease a hard thing for customs and immigrations I don't I don't know how you how you deal with that coffee's been roasted look at this little bakery Kagurazaka Foods garden it's a pretty little stand have little snacks and jams some chestnuts very nice you can see the slope Kagurazaka means God slope and music we heard some music up there we seeing the slope now and we went to shrine so we saw some God some spirits it's a nice little cafe [Music] where's the street food my friend it smells like garlic here do you guys brush three times a day just a reminder brush after every meal I want you to stay happy and healthy wherever you are in the world alright we're just about back to eat of Oishi station so I think coming back it's a little bit faster you get a better idea of what this neighborhood is all about what it's like here I love it here this is a kimono shop these look like you used kimonos the price is too cheap that's $250 for the Obi a silk Obi is very very expensive so these look like it could be secondhand if you do want to look on the web site that's their website tangsuyuk JP they're gonna get some traffic but looks like women's kimonos which are in fashion now and in the fall when the weather's cooled down the humidity is gone kimonos just see more women wearing them on the streets especially the older ladies that like the style around town you do it in kimono I got some kimono purses check that out it's pretty that's a nice thing to have if you're I'm gonna buy a gift for somebody a Kimo no purse you can buy all sorts of things made from the kimono material make amazing gifts one of my favorite gifts that I received I used to teach English to children and one of the most amazing gifts that I got from a parent was that a handmade doll made from kimono check out these pictures yeah a handmade doll made from kimono material it was a doll of a rabbit and I I still have that it's back home in my parents house but it's it's a really precious look at these sake glasses as well it's a really precious thing gift that I received say about the construction look at that month Fujisaki glass how cool is that these things are a set of two is $80 about [Music] [Music] well they got over here let's see here could he call meaning chestnut oh it's dry Aki done didn't everybody loves dry up key and this could he inside of it still have chestnut I hate a lot of chestnut do it do I wait in line for one I guess so I don't see anything else I don't see anything else there's just ice cream and then there's this I don't this is taiyaki guys taiyaki ta iya ki and inside you can get all different kinds of ingredients they have premium cream they also have Satsuma emo which is a potato and then they have chestnut on which is a red bean paste I'm kind of in the hankering for a kiwami cold cold boot on that's that's more expensive but this might take a while looks like there's a really long line I don't know which one would you get they have custard like a premium cream up a creamy potato and they have a red bean paste which one do you like which one should I get we get the JC racing custard we've got some change here so I get to buy one looks like custard JC is the only one custard custard look at everybody's custard Leopold says potato potato and custard sue daughter how dare you double one for each love-handle at there's no way I can eat - and then the premium one it's a heart that's a hard one custard please Colette I gotta go to Colette because she said so politely his custard please you got to respect someone with manners I have very little manners sometimes and you got to remember to be manner full so in Japan what we do I'm gonna tell you something that we all do here in Japan all right this is a little local knowledge so it's 160 yen so I'm gonna give them 210 yen so I get back hold on I get back one coin so if I give them 210 yen they're gonna give me back 50 yen so I minimize the coins I receive this is what we do in Japan 160 yen get 210 you get back 50 yen coin she's making it right now I am getting custard it just seems like overwhelmingly it's a custard day that looks like uncle [Music] [Music] Casta to cream on Iona animus custody cream [Music] [Music] they had common Bell that's a strange flavor common Bell cheese what all right and they gave me a stamp card they said come back and when you fill this up you get a free one so we got to come back here more like I told you if you give 210 yen get rid of three coins you get one coin back so I got a 50 yen coin locals will do that and they're only charging 8 percent tax they're supposed to charge ten by the way but I'm not I'm not gonna hold them to it they do what they want to do they charge a prasit tax all the better than me I just saved 2% although I think the price is still gonna be 160 they have to eat the cost basically all right let's try this here this is taiyaki this is custard because like the Internet overwhelmingly said custard it is hot it is so hot the heat is piping out of the bag right now there's steam involved people and whenever there's Steve involved it's a good thing check that out in there okay good they got a something to hold it in your hand so you don't burn it I don't want to drop it on the street oh this is beautiful I like to crust around it you see that there's an overflow of crust so that's gonna be a little bit crunchy there she goes swimming down the street of Kagurazaka I love the paper too has a nice texture to it this is premium cream they wrote here so we still got some premium materials do you guys go ahead first your tail first what do you think head first your tail first a 10% for eating in tail tech fan - writes in tail so sue daughter writes in head head her tails unlike the flipping of fish heads or tails head okay here we go ahead first huh oh oh oh that's really good custard cream oh my a little bit of vanilla going on with that oh that's really good they did a good job of that so this is this shop right here you can sit outside and eat it as well again it's like a dollar fifty it cost nothing cost nothing I would our and a happens live stream all right I'm gonna take it out of the corner and I'm gonna show you the giant gills out that's what we're gonna end this live stream if you'd like to see that click the like button ask for likes one more time it's so good thank you thank you shop for your delicious creamy taiyaki I'm gonna come back after the live stream and get something for can I maybe that would mean cake would mean cake you know you shouldn't be walking around and eating but straight food is somewhat okay typically Japanese don't do it but I'm not gonna say not to do it just be really careful the reason why you don't eat and walk is it usually will it usually makes the places dirty that's why they don't do it if you're eating out away from an area away from the trash cans you'll get crumbs all over the place and it just creates a dirty area oh look at that just little vanilla beans in it you see that that I guess that's what the premium they were talking about that's vanilla beans in there oh man it's a really crunchy and mochi soft pancake batter with cream in it this is not healthy which is why it's so good oh okay right there on the road here is selling these different kind of kit kats that right there that brown one is houjicha that was the tea that was roasting the green to me that was roasting you can get that as a flavor for KitKat now it's like a really roasted green tea Kit Kat tastes interesting so that's available for a limited time [Music] I'm not taking you as AI chomp on this thing and talk with my mouth full don't do that don't intimidate what you see on YouTube almost burger what do you got these days monster burger this is a shrimp tempura shrimp burger whoa most burger you've outdone yourself that looks awesome a tempura shrimp burger by Moss burger price $4 very interesting all right I'm going now - I'm going now to a debauchee station via the via the big Joseph shop you guys ready for it I became really friendly with the manager but a lot of youtubers have gone in there and he's not as friendly anymore I heard he's still and I think he's still a nice guy but he doesn't do interviews anymore after the one that I did and he's and if you're a youtuber sometimes he tries to make you pay even if you finish it but always closed today [Music] [Music] so good all right I'm gonna tell you some inside stories now stories I should not be telling the Internet I'm gonna tell you anyways I came here in 2015 or 2016 and Tokyo monster Joe's a challenge it has I think it's like 4 million views on it this is the shot that this is the shop that I ate at it's Kagurazaka jumbo gyoza haunt hen it's a Chinese restaurant Chinese cuisine they have these menus here but on the bottom of the food challenges in there she is in the middle I remember walking by her the first time like 15 years ago and it was massive the first challenge that they have is the hundred Yosa this this also cost nine thousand six hundred yen or about ninety dollars the second food challenged here is the Jumbo gyoza this is the most popular it doesn't quite look like this but it's pretty close please remember if you do want to come and eat this you have to call the shop and reserve two days in advance excuse me so that means you have to come to the shop personally if your food Challenger please remember you have to come to the shop personally two days and events and pay for it and if you eat it all you get the cash returned to you all right they want the money upfront because I mean it takes a long time to prepare its massive though that's my that's my hand it's like it's it's still some distance away the next food challenge is this jumbo fried rice and it's about fifty five dollars for that it's pretty big again if you eat that you don't get your money back only for the gills I think and then that's the ROC ramen challenge you have to eat three bowls of it so the Jumbo goes is the only one you have to order in advance the other ones they could make in the shop please order first first dish per person when you share the gumbo gyoza with friends now I asked the owner why he does does it in the video I explain why that challenge exists this is a university town and it's sort of just this really Instagram evil thing that students can share with each other but of course the owner saw more into this and he created it into a food challenge if you eat it it's usually it's supposed to be free and I'm not sure again like you want to confirm when you pay for it to make sure that that's still the case but and reserve a time if you're a youtuber because you should not be filming when it's crowded because the owner wants to protect the an amenity and the nimma T of his clot is guests and he has a lot of repeaters and if they feel uncomfortable those stuff going to the shop so you have to think about him he does not need the business anymore he's been on YouTube like a like hundreds of times so he doesn't need you to come and he does it because he's a nice guy this this this area here I got sick and I believe part of the gyoza may have ended in amended up in this corner here the trees look is that with the yellow part of the tree is maybe I don't know the trees look like they survived it thankfully it's not a pleasant story but I thought I'd share some inside information that I shouldn't have shared it's pretty gross take fan two hits oof gross pretty gross you have a bob has a right it's called spew it's not good you see the koi the Japanese kawaii right there that's a they use that for earthquakes the reason why that that's there on that sign is because koi were used in the 8o period in moat as an early warning system of earthquakes because they could sense the earthquake before they could sense a disturbance and they would go crazy and that was this the early warning system for earthquakes and now they're still there on the signs now and when people see them the koi like that they know it's an earthquake warning so some some interesting information so koi are pretty valuable not just because they're pretty because they're they're early earthquake warning systems barometers earthquake barometers Jason exactly so there you go we're back to ito Bashi station I'm gonna go to the entrance to the Starbucks where we started so go and watch the playback of this it's pretty interesting I think Kagurazaka is definitely a place again here is a debauchee station five train lines subway lines including junior stop here for subway and junior and then Kagurazaka station is way down on the other side here up the street either or but this street and the alleys around it are so beautiful so many neat little cafes and it's a place where you can kind of see there's even more history that it didn't introduce to you you to things that you'll find but the more you wander the more you get off of the beaten track the more you're gonna discover how deep the culture of the Japanese culture goes at Japan it's not in Harajuku and Shibuya and in Shinjuku you have to come into the little neighborhoods like and set the guy deep into near your Kawasaki and up near Fukushima and Shiba Mata those areas have a lot more culture to it then where all the tourists are usually in the middle with how did you could stop that's a neat modern culture it's places like this that I like to go to even more because you can relax and you can get better food and there's less tourists and you can get I don't know people a little bit friendly around here to people a little bit friendlier like the lady who took a cruise around the world that showed us where the the shrine was you have a lot of experiences like that so click that like button leave a comment below in fact right now you can write in where you're from if you like - it's always fun to see in a live stream where you're watching from leave a comment below give me some ideas what would you like me to go to next shimokitazawa which is a town of live concerts and popular music and underground and underground bands and things like this that's how I own my list to go for Tokyo walking tours let me know what your thoughts are because I I listen to them and I like to take this camera with me and take you with me on the other side so I always appreciate the support guys other than that can I and I will be going tomorrow to Cal go away for a day trip outside of Tokyo and we're taking you with us in a live stream so definitely subscribe make sure the notification Bell is on always and join us tomorrow as we make a trip to site Thomas Cowell going to enjoy a quick afternoon away from the city of Tokyo together on a date yeah we're taking you with you with us because we we kind of already discussed this but we want to share with you a day trip from the city so the probably view at two live streams tomorrow one one in the morning and one after lunch okay have a good day have a good night wherever you are in the world I appreciate it I'm gonna go right now before I go back home to get something for Kenai so she loves me even more bye guys you

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 208,695

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, tokyo, shinjuku, kagurazaka, street food, eat, neighborhood, alley, restaurant, traditional, culture, wine, japanese, geisha, green tea, roasted, matcha, walking, parks for kids, date spot, romantic

Id: t0e25nt07xQ

Length: 105min 43sec (6343 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 02 2019