Tokyo’s Living Night Museum Walk & Tour | Asakusa

hey everybody so I am right now in Asakusa this is one of the cultural hearts if not the cultural heart of Tokyo it's a really vibrant place that people like to visit when they come here to Tokyo it's on everybody's list whether it's top five top three top one you got to come to Asakusa and I got something like a secret that I have to tell you everybody when you come here do not come here when all the tourists come which is like in the middle of the day between 9 a.m. and about 5 p.m. it's just full with people on bus tours everybody is coming here to take pictures and where I am right now is completely full of tourists and basically the later that it gets in the night the the better it gets for taking a picture and just enjoying the area you can see right there's calming on Iman this is the main gate to Sensoji shrine so sorry Sensoji temple hey there and you cut that so this is the main gate to Sensoji temple and you can see this actually this has some history behind it it's it's absolutely huge when they have the Sanja Matsuri in May they retract it and half of it gets covered half of it gets pushed up and you can see he Shoji temple in his company he personally donated this which is kind of amazing it must have cost a lot of money and that's why you see on the bottom of this Matsushita much just not electronics so it's nice to see private businesses sponsoring or supporting the temple and once again this is a temple this is not a shrine it's it's sort of hard to figure out what the difference is between the temple and historize Sensoji is a temple and meiji jingu is a shrine alright so as you can see after I guess it's about five or six o'clock all of these these shops they shut down the gates and they closed but one of the most unique aspects of it is the art that you see on it they painted the gates and the further that you get away from sense a community Monda which is the main gate there the more colorful that the artwork gets you can see right here this is the first shop that we're gonna take a look at it's a really beautiful painting on the side of the gates it's like a winter scene of Sensoji the snow is falling and down here at the base you can see all of these people this could be hot sumo day which is when people come for New Year's to pray and it's just completely crowded with people going up there to pray that's the site of Sensoji which is just right up there it's just literally right up here hey Rodge Rodge misses tokyo so we're gonna bring it to you tonight again here you can see other pictures this is Japanese archery and that art form of writing horses that it's really amazing that the samurai could do this that's represented here in Asakusa onion and in the paintings that you see on the on the sides of the gates here and you can't see this different that during the day that's something I want to stress like you can't see this stuff during the day it's at night when everybody has gone home that you start to see some of the magic of this area across from there is is this mural and you can see there's a woman in it in a kimono and a nice natural scene it's hard for me it's if this was a little bit abstract but it's it's hard to make out exactly what's they're doing I think they're picking fruits this looks like kaki which is a Japanese permit persimmon it's a really good and they're picking it and making a hoshigaki which is a dried dried persimmon it's so naturally sweet that's in the autumn and we're gonna keep walking down this street a little bit but before we come back we're gonna loop around and I want to show you a little bit of the side streets in the end if you stick with me in this live stream I'm gonna take you all the way to the end and that's and you can see right in the middle of the screen that's where Sensoji temple is so let's go let's go take off on the side street here and when you get off of the main fairway which is called naka me say Dodie it gets really really mm kind of neat I was almost at spooky but if you were to come down here at 11:00 p.m. it's a lot different than 7:40 which is what time it is right now but it's pretty quiet every now and then you'll see like a cat's cut scoot by but - traditionally like they have shops here selling as well and this is where they have a metal there's a toilet back here public toilet so if you're looking for something you can come off it's hard to pick it up because of the exposure but they have Mellon pond they've ice cream they have all sorts of sweets and snacks on this street that is cheaper then what's on the Main Street right here alright so let's go back to the Main Street and once again right away you can see that there's even more murals that are so interesting it's like a slice of life here in Asakusa once again we passed this one but this one shows the Sanja Matsuri do you see this here you can see them carrying the OU mikoshi which is the portable shrine which is part of this Sanja Matsuri which is one of the rowdiest if not it is absolutely the rowdiest festival that they have in Japan this is when you know the people with mmm tattoos I don't want to say it they're out here with their shirts off on top of the portable shrines taking all of the power that comes from being in like a really massive Japanese festival alright and here you go here's some more yeah you can be Evan can say it Evan can say it but I can't and there you go there's some geisha really nice to just kind of lazing around getting ready to entertain you can see right there they have a coat oh I believe that's a Colt Oh which is a a traditional Japanese or is it a shamisen I'm not sure I know that that couldn't be yeah but it looks like they're entertaining on the side street behind me you can see coming out Iman and now we're gonna take a left and just I want to take you down on this side you can see down these streets on these side alleys lots of really traditional restaurants small family-run restaurants everything from you have Dumbo de and you have yakiniku you have yakitori shops you have all sorts of sushi shops all sorts of food this one is a cushy Aki I believe which is yeah you can see here looks really good I don't every everything just I believe everything here has an English menu so if you're you're kind of feeling intimidated about going in you know what just go in and if the owners you know says no English then you go to someplace else that's that's how I kind of manage it but if you don't go in you might be missing a really amazing experience because it can be a little intimidating oh yeah this is dry Aki I think the shop is closed this is off of the main street it looks like that they're closed yeah but you can buy dorayaki in here this looks like a traditional snack you see that who is that guy to just walk by I think that's Peter I look like Peter should I get a dry Aki yeah why not all right I'll come back here I want to take you to Sensoji really quickly all right so you can see there's some vending machines some shops stay open which is smart because there's still a lot of life to Asakusa after night and for those of you of watching some people well they say don't say Asakusa say ah Saxa and if you know what it doesn't it doesn't really matter if you're saying it in English there's another way to pronounce it people say it in English they say Asakusa there's no right or wrong way it's about being understood even Tokyo the city calls it asakusa on the subway announcements next stop also cute that's what they say so people who are telling me say a Saxa you can say that too you know whatever it sounds the same to me in English this one shop is still open most of them have kind of uniform hours this is one of the best places to come for Silva near shopping because it seemed to have everything here all right so we're almost at some Sergey temple this is a side street if you've been to Japan before you probably have been to this intersection and you can see there's a Tokyo Skytree in the center of your screen and if you look on the left side you'll see something pretty interesting up there on the roof do you see that [Music] hahaha slay creepy somewhat spooky 100% absolutely cool just sitting there on the roof and what a view it is very big feet so the best time to come to this area of Asakusa the best time to walk around is probably after 8:30 maybe even 9 or 10 p.m. because that's when this area really gets super quiet this is the time where you don't have a lot of people around no more tour buses you have the whole place to yourself and you can see the streets have a lot of personality it's not just because of the murals it's just because you can start to hear the city's natural sounds and you can't do that when you have like lots of tour buses now this street is so stunning at night you guys are watching this right it's absolutely beautiful this is a very old in traditional streets where they had a lot of like I guess you I don't to call them shacks but just stands that sold all sorts of different things and now it's mostly tourist stuff that they sell but if you look at at the gates they lit up and they're beautifully painted and I think it's such a stunning sight and again when the shops are open you don't see this you completely miss it on the sides of them you can see kind of their history as well each shop has its own history this one shop you can see this seemed to serve alcohol and that seemed to do they do this is an ice cream shop and you can see they have cocky goatee as well that's cocky goatee well not open but when it is for those of you who are coming to Japan in the wind in the summer time was a winter that had been nice if you're coming here in the summer it is extremely hot and today I had a I was with some youtubers that were visiting Japan and they were that they're from the southwest in the United States where temperatures get to like 110 115 degrees and they said that Japan at 85 degrees is hotter than the American Southwest it's just a dryer heat it is it is really hot and today wore me out being outside at the peak hours and you can see this looks like they're they're cooking here so this is a restaurant and that's their history on the wall very interesting this is a done I kind of palm reading you can see they know that the future by looking at your palm and and I guess there's some science behind it where they divide it up but you can get your fortune for about ten dollars once again you can see see the purpose of the shops in here this one she's no this now she's playing a quote doll that's a quote doll a traditional Japanese like harp it sounds so beautiful I can't quite I can't quite imitate it ding-ding-ding-ding-ding it's hard to it's hard to imitate it but it's a beautiful sound so this street came this streets goes on for another hundred meters but it's it's really a beautiful Street to walk down at night because you can hear the sounds you can hear like little chimes in the background because there's just enough wind to hit them and it gives you a Cooling's feeling when you hear a wind chime and then there's the Secada cicada chirping the swaying of the trees it's a slight muffle from the restaurants from people drinking and eating announcements guys so I'm gonna take you down the rest of this Main Street not got me say Dodie we're back on now come you said duty I'm gonna take you to Sensoji just to take a look at it and I'm returning back to commie not Iman I have a surprise for those of you that got the message on Facebook we're having kind of an unplanned Meetup so I think there were about four or five people that are gonna be at the meet up today in front of comm you not even one so I'm gonna go to send shoji and for those that are watching this live stream I'm gonna show you what it's like at dark at night and then we're gonna swing back around and say hi to everybody in the daytime this is so crowded it's really hard to move so right now the temperatures is a lot cooler it's more comfortable and visually I think this is when Sensoji just is so much more visually stunning to me that's when the colors of it really come out you can see the redness to the black sky which is so much better to pick up then when there's so much bright ultraviolet light the blue but if this look nice with the with the blue sky and the white clouds too it's just it's so bright and now you can see here's the here's the inner gate and just beyond it you can see that itself on the left and right are our own II or demons that protect Kannan and there's the five storey pagoda which was renovated recently it had been under construction for such a long time and now it's uh it's finished and this place is just absolutely stunning right now he's only fend off fear the evil spirits nobody wants to mess around with an Oni all right and here is Sensoji this is the main temple this is where on New Year's Day a lot of people come here to pray called hot sumo day become and often in you in kimono to give their first prayer of the year I I kind of avoid these places the very popular temples and shrines because they're so crowded you can wait as long as like five hours to pray and yeah I've done it before it's not exactly special feeling but it's pretty nice if you if you like being around a lot of people and like on especially good when it's really cold on New Year's Day but Hudson already starts at midnight on the 31st on the on January 1st and goes on until about the 5th of January now the temple itself is actually closed but they do put a box out that you can make donations and pray but you can't go inside they closed this off but I'll be honest with you I feel more of a connection with nature more of a connection with Sensoji temple after hours than I do when it is open so this is where you would wash your hands there's a fountain here and I believe that they've taken into the ladle so really beautiful so I hope you can see why visiting Sensoji at night asakusa night is really very much like a living museum this place it's not it might not be in any guidebooks on the left you can see people are getting a fortune telling slips or omikuji but this area of Tokyo really is a living museum at night and you can feel it you can feel it when there's not as many people around and with the 2020 Olympics coming and so many tourists coming to the city of Tokyo nighttime is a time where people are you know back in their hotels or they're back eating somewhere and then you have the city to yourself and that's what I like to be out here hey photo Luke kawaii Aloha all right so we're gonna make our way back to calming not Iman which is about a 200 meter walk Peters here I don't know where he went but if you're just gonna do a live stream as well and there's a link in the description you can go over and see his live stream ever I guess we'll meet up with him back at community mom and I also have a surprise for all of you so we have two moderators on the only in Japan go channel one of them is Jim who's in Tacoma Washington and the other one is nausia broad and nosh is here I I saw him before we started and you can see you know he's here because he's here like right here in the chat this is a good this is a really nice view of the Tokyo Skytree wherever you look up in Asakusa you can get a really good view of the Tokyo Skytree and one more time looking back at I'm gonna turn this campus around check it out now put the wide-angle lens on the front and now you get a wider view of this site here so this is the the inner part of Sensoji temple or just send so G the G indicates it's a temple and it really is beautiful and it's so quiet Ben you're really what you're very welcome awesome so Ben Ben got us in craft beers I really appreciate that it's been a pretty long day we're gonna cool down with some some brews together thank you for that and as you can see it just really aren't a lot of people out here and as it gets closer and later at night the lights are still on and you you could still come here and this is summertime I think if you that know a lot closer cuz the waianae Glen's on the other side in the summertime it's a lot more crowded if you if you were to come here in February empty like nothing it's so quiet and so peaceful but here in the summer time with all the people visiting most of everybody that's here our kurrus when I first came to Japan about 20 years ago and I moved to Tokyo 13 years ago we didn't have that many tourists and now it's really explode - the amount of tourists that are in the city especially in the summertime here and I think that's such a good thing it makes the city more colorful than it was before I'm no longer the tallest person on the subway used to be when I what I remember the first time I came to Japan and I was riding the subway in Osaka or the trains and I was standing and I used to be the tallest person and in the United States I was I was just average and now on the subway when I walk around I'm not the tallest person anymore there's so many people from Europe or from the United States or from all over the world that are now dwarfing me and even in Japan people are getting taller from more nutrition better different kinds of foods all right once again part of and I'm going back to sensor G part of us Chris's history is the Sumida gala fireworks which happened which took place just a few days ago and you can see that represented in the mural all right I'm gonna take it off here and move it on the front there we go so I'm gonna make my way back to coming out Iman which is the main gate quit coke X get some drinks for from the vendo for John and nosh thank you you know what I'm gonna buy now a drink for sure oh I have to give nosh that pillow too not you if you're watching I still have to give you that pillow I'm gonna get Peter to sign it for you love these live streams normally can't watch them but live but like to support the channel thank you as much as I can just sign it for the post card club - Wow see so that's awesome because today is the last day to sign up for the post card club because um on the first day that's when patreon starts charging people that are in the club and that's when I know who to send the postcards to so thank you so much for that I really appreciate it we have a hundred and fifty postcard Club members on patreon so this month is gonna be then I can't say but it's either gonna be the Naboo tomate City or the island au jus which is a festival that looks like that looks like geisha but they're going on I love that sound to hear they're wearing Gaeta the girls in yukata that passed by they weren't Gaeta and there's this very faint clickety clack sound of the gate on the on the stone right here and it's it's such a cooling sound almost there were almost in the front and this should be some people waiting which is really nice I'm gonna I'm gonna take a take a detour this is a show ten guy a show ten guys a shopping arcade that's covered a lot of them were built after World War two and made into shopping malls like this before we had indoor malls and there's a lot of gift shops things that you can buy in there asakusa has always been a really great place to buy gifts just because there's so much competition and so many types of new items that are always coming in I one of my favorite gifts to get believe it or not you know I don't use q-tips and if you know that a little sticks with the cotton balls on it they have these ear cleaners in Japan made out of bamboo and they're also one of the gifts that all of my friends and family they asked me to bring ear cleaners from Japan I guess they don't have that back in the US but it's a pretty neat gift in it I always get them here in Asakusa socks off or osakusa whichever way you say it I know exactly what you mean you're never too far away from a vending machine either I was a ramen place the shops are always changing here and there's commie not iman from the side we're gonna come around we've already walked through ya the fanfare you're talking about knock on me say duty this I saw the question coming in here by Ben this some it's not it's open till about 6:00 p.m. ish it closes earlier in the winter but for me it's when it closes that's when this place really starts to come alive if and it's not until like 9 or 10 p.m. that like there's nobody here you really start to feel the history look at this it's like in the daytime this place is crowded with people lots of people trying to get the picture but at this time of the day it's just so peaceful and if you if you come to Japan to try to connect with the country you don't want to be around a lot of tourists that's why if you go to Kyoto and you go to fushimi-inari you know fushimi inari is is the one with the 10,000 gates i recommended in my video on that to go after 5 p.m. and the tour even the guidebooks didn't know that you can do that which was like mind-blowing to me it's open 24 hours and after all the tour buses go that's when you can start to connect with that sort of peacefulness of Japanese temples and shrines you don't get it when you're with crowds of people it's very hard to do alright let's let's see if we can find Peter and nosh you guys see him anywhere and I don't see anybody here this is what the intersection looks like in the middle of the night and oh it's in the middle of the night it's like 8 p.m. but I'm a little bit late for the meetup here so this is the most biggest intersection and behind me is the Information Center for Asakusa oxide on the first floor if you ever get lost or you ever have questions about what to do where to go how to get transportation the first floor has people who speak fluent English with lots of brochures to help you I think they speak like Chinese Korean Italian French German I've heard languages all over the world the staff can speak in there it's a pretty cool building looks like something designed by Kengo kuma everybody's gone I thought they would be here did I miss there's one person I know are they keeping it clean I like giving it clean in there are you doing well hello do you guys know who this is well they do actually but they just have never seen you before this is not sure broad he's the one who bans you usually or times you out I see that I see what's going on in there so everybody say hi to nosh and we really appreciate what you do for the channel that's no problem at all yeah how long you here in Tokyo for another two weeks okay just a whole month yeah just enough time to sweat out the entire summer it's like it's been an amazing experience well what were some of the things that you really liked about Tokyo on this well you didn't do just Tokyo what was some of the things that you liked on this trip oh I so I went up to uh yamadera and did a thousand step climb to the top and then I went to mines ow hey I am I'm high and I'm here for this Meetup oh well welcome welcome aboard I'm actually live streaming right now yeah what's your name yeah cause I'm okay cause I think best Italian fun because I watch every your livestream also in tonight when I'm oh all the videos at the end this morning I was in near Ginza or eating melonpan oh did you eat it there yeah yeah there's a melon pan-european you other one I introduced in Fukushima circa shumai that shop owner every time I walk by there because I don't live too far from that area he tells me ah it said youtuber Johnson Johnson and he comes over and he doesn't give it to me for free though only in Japan experiences oh wow how long you here in Japan for okay I have time to do a lot of fun in Japan experience yeah that's it and you've been here for how long yeah Wow that's a long trip the nos has been here for a month they'll be here for just about a month here two weeks here two weeks so he'll be it for a month whoa cool so we I don't think we have a lot of people coming I kind of I kind of made this meet up at the last minute nice to telling YouTube and some people nosh has been sidelined give the guy a break okay try to keep it clean out there chat world strange because generally I'm on the other side if you're on the other side and now you're on this side next thing yes we're gonna put you back in there one day yeah that's really cool watching you for years ago because I need to to learn English so I love Japan the science I was 10 years old so I thought I can mix Japan with English and I found your oh cool your channel watching video firstly only Japan only median and now with live streaming but what was the first video yeah yeah I can remember oh my gosh I thought they were memorable I think I started the after the first view okay yeah the first one I watch was about big guns and tattoo friendly Oh oh yeah yeah was that the one with the aunt with the bear Kurt with the bear there was another one sin yeah yeah it's like castles okay oh yeah right that was Shinjuku Kabukicho my caps hotel and by the way that place I talked with the manager he says it's now like 75 80 percent foreign tourists in there go in there that have seen it and they already know how to check in everything so he's real thankful for for that episode a mods are away need all caps you guys just like a riot in another so this is for those that you're joining us right now this is not shoes one of the moderators Jim might be asleep because it's in the middle of the night Jim I want to apologize do not wake up for this Jim Jim is so nice he might wake up into this but I'm sure I'll catch up but not a couple of times well I see here if I can I'm gonna be in Tokyo for a while you bring up a really good point though because I think it's really interesting how dependent I think we are on big youtubers for showing us a lot of ideas a places to go and I mean I look at your channel and always say I look a little bit a traitor I look at some other ones yeah well I hope so is that there's like experience that there aren't around a guide maybe I bought several Tokyo guys but yeah it's a view inside Japan I like it like for example this melonpan shop it's a place that no one know may be in jeopardy you know Japanese know about this place - no - people yeah just a local thing yeah bigger things than just like a melon pan shot because like I would have never gone into like a nice tomorrow unless Doga TV had mentioned going there once and even though it's as popular as McDonald's is in America here I would have never walked into one on my own without having actually seen what was going on inside right the good thing about video and one of the reasons why I love the YouTube platform is that through video especially these long format things a lot of people complain because it's unedited but you can actually feel you can kind of feel on the other side what it's like actually to be here and that's that kind of experience that I really that I'm kind of addicted to with with the live streams it's it's bringing you with me and then kind of sharing with you the actual feeling what you can't do in the edited videos because I add music and kind of jazz it up a little bit that's why I like your you're walking videos like going through ah yeah streets party tjuku or how to walk between all the different stations or how to oh wow I started the live streaming because I was hitchhiking yeah alive music me I pick me up and people would want to get live would come and pick me up that kind of that's actually kind of scary sometimes would they be running I saw you on YouTube okay yeah about nine agree when you say it's a safe place yeah yeah yesterday I was walking in a cable rents and how's Nikki before Wow it's a place I'm from hitch Lisa well Italy's produce my age is Italy's pretty safe as long as you don't have a row like watch yeah yeah there's some places not really safe in Italy also bad things happen in the alleys yeah yeah I don't know where Peter is actually Peter is somewhere I saw him walk by me and he he wouldn't notice me I don't know if he was upset I was look was I looking for him you were looking for him but he wouldn't came down this way then he came back up here Peter's doing something he's gone rogue Peters gone rogue sorry it was late I don't know what you're waiting good what were you shooting and he gave a cutoff sorry you staying in E cable cut off yeah yeah in the station all right North you yeah that's the best way to do it like if I ever went to another country and I had a couple of months I would just rent an apartment and just stay in one area for studying because I'm Asian University [Music] how's your knee humble sorry humble no Japanese no I don't know any Japanese but we're gonna have to help him out and teach him some stuff right now PBG is out to see a man about a dog a very strange man hello hi I'm John jump Dib ah Martin nice to meet you guys you are alive right now now you're on this side of the video I wait a second how did this happen what noir good if you look different when you're not in a racing in a car yeah how are you doing good good so this is Tokyo lens otherwise known as norm and little brother how you doing here filming something what ok everybody good to see you yeah he's real presented to see you yeah yeah we keep like crossing paths we'll be in like the same area or something and just never it but I was over there I was in the middle shooting I heard the voice oh yeah the worlds collide out there keep it exciting out here a small meetup that I announced today it's not like kind of just like worlds colliding we did actually have some we didn't have some people come but they come and gone it's hard to it's hard to do a live streaming with 350 people on the other side and then having people here ever we can we can make this work it's like it's like all of you are with us right now which is which is pretty cool yeah and uh she's our moderator and here he is it depends out now the the chats gone a little bit haywire people are writing in all caps and keep it clean out there hey I see that mark Joseph dollar ser or mods are away look like a party ladder later good everybody I'm actually gonna end this livestream and I'm gonna come back and then we can kind of talk a little bit take off yeah yeah because tomorrow lesson starts like wow okay that means you're gonna go to the bar and get pissed for two hours no I'm just kidding we would never do that he says he's here to study you know freedom the English is very good [Music] Cosmo all right I know it's a it's just absolutely crazy I'm going like this because like why does norm has such a beautiful beard I tried to grow it it just doesn't look good I mean you know what like I gotta catch up to my little brother here how does it look you know what I grow beard people call us start doing I get the hashtag pedophile I don't know that spelled yeah that's spelled that spelled differently the different meaning I'm sure but yeah I just can't grow up there's a lovely beard like like chia pet cool cool see your episode is on ask sad at night well actually that's what I'm doing okay I guess I guess I'll share like a little bit of a site a little bit give us a hint just to highlight a highlight what we're doing is it's just my brother coming into Japan for the first time in 10 years and I'm like how can I make this interesting right yeah so actually doing the entire day backwards Oh like that movie a momento yeah yeah it's got kind of like a momento feel so like it keeps like jumping back in stages and everything's been planned to reach the beginning of the day instead of really getting younger it's an exhausting concept but it's so much fun yeah that's this is a good place to do it and I'm actually here to show how when not to come to us ASSA ah sucks ah you can't say it asakusa you say suck suck cuz the internet goes crazy teach that right way to say it but at night actually more like at 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. this place just becomes absolutely quiet almost eerily so yeah and it's like the ghosts of the past come out because you can hear every single little sound like the wind chime the trees swaying the background sound of people laughing and clinking glasses in the izakaya you can hear the gates rattling and the Secada cicada chirping and that's that's sort of to me what that connection of feeling a connection to an area or neighborhood of tokyo's is like yeah you know having lived in FXI now for the better part of 10 years on and off like that that is spot-on you come out here anytime past like 10:00 p.m. between 10:00 and midnight especially if you're like a photographer you want to come in and get those clean shots of the temple like that's the time to do yeah it's a good time to be here are you staying with your older brother yes I am situating you okay you got a ask right you got a ask a Cosmo it's great to see you thank you so much for watching what any topping I you're gonna be here for a while and I'm not going anywhere either because yeah I got I got a Comicon weekend all right cool thank you good luck with your studying and there goes Cosmo I almost want to say Cosmo Kramer but very cool all right so I hope you enjoyed this live stream 45 minutes is actually a short live stream brunt of what I do I was writing it in his live stream you were with your with the drift hunter elbow out there I've been wanting to go to elbow out to do some drift stuff for a long time but like yeah we've been talking about it for fruit ever and when I saw you guys outside like dog don't end it just rub the car and I was going down shouting it's like do it do it I wouldn't have even thought to get in the car if you weren't Larry serious in the car you guys got a check out that last ring for me yeah like to be around those cars that's how I'll bow and I started back in the day was doing drift some more I destroyed my car and then the story it was quite yeah but then when you were like you'll get in one of the cars I was like why why didn't I think about that so you added a lot to the high street I do what I can which is very little oh hey let me out here hey hello hi I'm John oh okay welcome to Tokyo yeah I remember that I had a suit on and and you guys didn't win the prize yeah that was wow that was a last year I'm going I'm going to Singapore for the same event are you coming for that que eles kind of yeah so how's your trip a long time no see how's your trip you're gonna leave really yeah tomorrow morning you're leaving early you're gonna do it in one day and come back so you staying at the are you ready for this did you kiddie train oh this is a serious mountain did you train for this say is it okay I'm like yeah sorry I didn't ask yeah Mount Fuji I've done it three times always for TV I haven't done it for this show yet but every time I climb on ya I always had a really big afterwards because of the after after 3,000 meters you can get mountain sickness high high altitude sickness and I always get it and so go please go slowly I I go I go at night and and try to arrive for sunrise I see the sunrise and then I get down for lunch which is probably why I have a headache [Music] no no goodbye I see you I don't want to talk to them no no no no are you serious I'm not going I'm not going this year and that's my favorite Japanese summer festival the nape with the festival are you gonna get are you gonna do a honey good answer and get into them you're gonna be wasted it's all right you don't have to participate to feel the energy of the you have to know that's data that's it ah I think I can get to do this like this I can give you a little give you some lessons here yeah that's what I did it I did it at the first time I did it I didn't know it would take two hours so after 30 minutes like I gotta keep going you can but then people look at you and they and with their eyes they're saying Twitter you don't want to quit like how dare you leave in the middle of this literally in the neighborhood if you look in the back of each group groups they Buddha they have cold water that they give to all of the dancers to keep them hydrated because you it's so hot that you can't go to a vending machine or get a drink so they have someone bring water to the dancers yeah look how long you allow money for you staying the night there you got accommodation so you have to it's so much they have a camp for those who are going would they get to go in the neighborhood so you can get a tent and there's a free camping spot about oh you didn't know about that I'm so sorry there's a free camping spot about a one kilometer it's like a 15-minute walk from downtown and you can pitch your tent and just camp there for free and they have bathrooms and stuff like that so yeah that's so cool what what have you done on this trip you've done mountain you're gonna do Mount Fuji tomorrow what have you done so far that you can recommend or did you go to that yeah well you're lucky it was kind of delayed for one day yeah because of the typhoon the samhita gala fireworks was delayed a day which was good because it a lot of people didn't plan for and they the the people who were watching it was a lot less this year yeah that's that's I used to live there so go there early and get a place on the grass and get as close as you can even if just a just the two of you even if you to you can go and find a small spot between all the big groups and get get get super close because you can feel the fireworks at 8 o gala it's so amazing that's like they every one of them all Hado gala is the number one fireworks festival in Tokyo it doesn't have the same it has a little bit less but you can get much closer and you can sit on grass you can sit down and ungraspable and I think also that because it's it's so narrow in the center of Tokyo out there it's so wide so you get to really feel you feel it more and that I I feel so Samina gal has 20,000 and fireworks but the one thing that they don't tell you is it's going on in two different places right see that what's part of the left sciatic really right but at the at the a Togawa haaa it's like a it's all happening in one spot so actually there's more being launched from the same spot than here where it's like in in front of you and behind you so this one is more historical and they stopped doing it for a lot of years because this area of the city burned down which is why we still have no no fire or laws you can't have a fire in Tokyo because of the fire great fire from back then but well I'm so excited I want to join you I would I don't know if I'm gonna go to the to the a toga fireworks I went to for 11 years in a row I lived there but I want to go there because I want to film people's yukatas and the styles that they're wearing like why do they pick this collar and how did the Obi's match do you have you contest not yet I would put mine on after 5 p.m. because it was too hot during the day you can get him at unique look for like $50 maybe yeah Uniqlo has has pretty good you caught that for like 50 $50 or so yeah 5000 yen yeah if you're not if you're not gonna wear it forever right or you can get used yukata which is which is pretty affordable to use used ones or yeah but a little bit more but they're better material [Music] oh but that's a straight shot no changes but it's our to get to get to Asakusa from shibuya it's quite ways but you don't have to change line it's the Ginza line right Ginza line straight from Shibuya to us so thank you so much for coming see me you are out there wandering the streets at night I quit it's not safe with Peter one round he's somewhere out there but where wherever he is bless you sir and I hope you stay safe and wherever you guys are out there in the world have a great day and a great night and stay safe over here stay safe everybody I'm gonna give you the last 20 seconds enjoying no no just like absorbing coming out anymore which is one of the most amazing places at night let's check it out feel it see everybody [Applause]

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 68,300

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, tokyo, asakusa, history, scary, art, sounds, murals, graffiti, sensoji, demons, japanese, streetview, street view, skytree, omikuji, alley, side streets, night museum

Id: fuRQTfW3QGg

Length: 54min 36sec (3276 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 31 2018