Tokyo's Party Capital BANS Public Drinking | @AbroadinJapan #84

I think the lead singer of evanesence is now going to be the lead singer of Lincoln Park it's like um it's like a match made in Lime wire Heaven evence I can't stand it what I can't stand is who knows Evan Essence power of one song for crying out loud WOW hello and welcome to the abro Japan podcast probably the best way of learning about life in Japan that actually being in Japan I don't know why I pointed at myself there because I am in Japan but our co-host Mr Donaldson is not Pete how the devil are you doing what's going on I'm Mr Japan look what I look what I've just found on my uh desk of many bits and Bobs mask it's not a burglar's mask yeah it's a special Japanese mysterious uh I don't know what I think it's a is it a Kendo mask I don't know either way red skull out of Captain America what's going on it's uh it's the wrestler from the 80s Kendo Nagasaki mask uh he came over and pretended he was um some kind of Japanese mystical Warrior uh but in fact he uh he very much wasn't he was just a man from um I believe Burnley or Sheffield or somewhere like that but he's um he's still kicking the ball I think he's going to have his final match this year and he's 84 Jesus Kendo Nagasaki that's wild I said I mean the way you just described him coming to the UK imagine if we could like bring over netki and pretend he was like the Prime Minister of Japan I think we could legitimately pull it off and it would be the funniest prank ever I mean Chris I mean we could get I think natski could be a midcarder in sort of WWE NXT I mean you know if if uh Logan Paul can make it as a uh as a as as a headline actor in the uh in the old professional wrestling I think naty could definitely be fighting Ricos on the mid card well I think less fighting more just pretending na is like someone of great importance I mean I suppose he is in a sense he's pretty I mean most kind of like um was it uh Boris yelon when he used to God look that hair wow Boris yelton when he used to fly around the world he used to come off uh he used to come off uh planes and uh be rather worse for where so I can imagine natski could make just just quite a similar uh similar entrance and exito love to go to like a British Primary School of like 10 12 year old kids and be like and we have a special guest speaker the Prime Minister of Japan that's like walks in with his sunglasses and a cigar like oh my life is cigar listen kids yeah there was there was a man my mate comes from abedine and when he was a kid there was a Japanese man who would visit um the school every now and again and basically just talk about what Japan's like um but he was just a BL he was just a Japanese block who um like was quite high high up uh in the managerial company of a of an offshore um oil rig do you know what I mean he's just like an ale rig guy and he would just he he was just from so far away he would come into uh he would come to school and teach him a little bit of Japanese so then later on when uh uh on a forum I think um Mario creator um shigar mimoto was his his phone number was exposed was left on a forum and my mate from abine he was he had all the Japanese in his head from this man who used to visit from the rigs um and he rang up me and Moto San and basically said you know oh Gus the Maya blah blah blah and uh M and Moto gave out a little chuckle and then hung up so well done said go [ __ ] yourself and hung up go [ __ ] yourself me and M that's a nice story though I I just like this idea of a school in abedine where all the kids know how to say oil in Japanese obscure Japanese vocabulary my friend sh M moto my friend my editor Marcus he like ran into sh mamoto at Kyoto train station once just standing there at the platform cuz Nintendo B and you like yes friend was like Photo and he's like yes had this photo Shoto sounded quite nice he seems like quite a cool guy actually he's just a man I who's the BL who who's the BL who does death stranding in solid uh yes hi coima um he um when I live in SoHo he would occasionally be just having a bit of pizza around the corner oh just there's hideo Kima he's an interesting Chap hideo coima and the aforementioned Marcus loves hi coima more than anything and wants to meet him and he loves death stranding always but uh he he seem like an odd trap coima doesn't he he's got he's very much a cult foll one of the most famous people in Japan but he seems quite understated he seems quite humble and uh I love his reviews whenever he goes to see a film if he likes the film he'll Rave about it and be like it was amazing I saw you know it was great and then if he doesn't like it he just says I saw Madame Webb at the cinema and that's it I I like that um I like these alter kind of um video game kind of head of Studio like sort directors that people absolutely love check I think I've spoke about him before but check out the block who made Yakuza and check out pictures of before he started making Yakuza and what he looks like now because he looks like he's turned into a side W character from Yakuza like he's got like bit of bit of Botox here and like just leather jackets and he looks he's gone from looking like a computer programmer to in like about 10 years because he's been working on the Yakuza game and he's seen as this kind of a it's it's fascinating stuff he's probably the world's busiest man but uh I do like how these uh fellas and is in in in frequently always a fell um get kind of held up as these kind of Legends but they're actually quite weird J i' I'd like to I would kind of like to meet coima even though I've like never played one of his games so I don't know what I'd say but I respect him artistically you will have done surely and uh he's apparently he's often at shinuki Cinema U I'm going later today to watch a film uh I'm going to go and watch what am I watching oh Rise of the Planet of the world of the monkey of the Apes Kingdom [ __ ] it's called are they still doing another one of them are I didn't come right okay there's more there's more and but like to be fair the last three were quite good and um right I thought I'd give it a watch I've heard decent things I watched Mad Max last week that was amazing I there's so much press about how it bombed at the cinema and people sort of rubbing their hands with Glee and how it bombed at all this but actually yeah shut everybody shut up just go and watch it and then this be a problem I thought you were going to have a really s well actually if you look at the um the the first opening weekend everyone just shut the [ __ ] mouth the thing is I think people obsess over like how the bo the box office performance of the first few days uh in the same way I do a little bit over my YouTube videos my mov dictated by like the first day of how many views I get but in the same way though like movies make their money back in a lot in a sort of long-term fashion people downloading it streaming it buying it it's not the case that if it bombs at the box office it's game over everyone loses kind of thing uh interestingly do you not think that do you not think that every like I think people expect too much from Cinema releases these days anyway and I think they um they they're comparing films from 5 years ago where people still went to the cinema and we're just not doing that anymore true quite so much but but that's I mean people are going to the cinema though I mean not yeah not as much as they used to for sure because we got it all at home now but uh I think the new Bad Boys movie which looked a bit pant that was doing extremely well got over 100 million dollar in a few days and June part two did very well as well so but yeah I Mad Max though really incredibly well made and Liam Hemsworth gives his best performance ever just really solid movie and very entering um reboot yeah Fury Road I really want go back and watch that but yeah do yourself a favor go and watch it because it is very very good and uh yeah and it it it put me off going to Australia though if that's what Australia is like that's what it's like bikes in the sand in the desert I've not been for a while have you been to Australia before I haven't but I imagine it's just like Mad Max yeah the same I I just think that um yeah I mean I guess you're quite close to Australia it must be weird for Australians to have access to Japan like I would have access to T Molinos do you know what I mean every year access access to Japan I got access to the kids but they don't want to see me I uh I mean our actual story our first story here today is from an Australian uh and he has access they have access to Japan and also they have access and they don't have Bloody jet lag everyone that lives in like austral austalia New Zealand I hate them out of Envy because when they come to Japan they don't have to die for 4 days of jet lag like everyone else does Lucky Devils uh so we got a story from Andrew he says good day Chris and Pete about a year ago I decided to do a cycling trip out in the Goya I took my bike down on the train and I had a great trip cycling around the SES of ngoya castle and a shrine and more that's literally what he wrote about n on the return leg I attempted to board at the less busy station of Tumi 2 minutes before my train was expected to come a station attendant came up to me and told me that I couldn't bring my bike on the train and escorted me out of the station oh dear the Australians may have access to Japan but they don't have access to the trains if they bring their bikes assuming that Japan was like Australia and you couldn't take bikes on trains during peak times I calculated that if I cycle to the next station along the line I'd be outside of rush hour and allowed to board with my bike it was there at kigawa station that I encountered the rudest person in my entire life I went in to tap my past M card my Saker but didn't even clear the gates before I was yelled at by the station attendant once more I was told I couldn't board with a bike this time confused and concerned I explained that as I was able to bring my bike on the train to ngoya surely I would be able to return with it he proceeded to tell me that this was impossible and that I was lying apparently no bike wheel has ever touched a train floor in the entire history of Japanese Locomotion defeated I asked the man what alternatives I have if I can't take my bike on the train as the cycle back to my house was about 100 km away it was already 6:00 p.m. the station employee simply yelled at me once more saying it was my problem good luck with that faced with no choice I cycled all the way back to rural gfu from Central ngua Jesus my phone B phone ran out of battery I navigated dangerous stretches of Road and almost ran into multiple animals including a fox and a wild boar it's like Mad Max isn't it I finally managed to get home in the we hours of the morning absolutely destroyed my question to you both have you ever made a similar heinous mistake when attempting to board a train Andrew from gify prefecture Breaking All the Rules with his train and his bike I mean when I ride the train with my bike I have to pack it up into a stupid bag that's the size of a bike anyway and then I have to like carry it through the train Carriage um right yeah but they they don't allow bikes on trains here so far as I know uh according to the JR Rail Pass website bikes may be brought for free given if uh sorry bikes are allowed on the train for free if they are packed in a special bike bag with a circumference of less than 250 cm so you can small 250 cm seems I mean that's 250 cm seems a little small for for for a bike I don't know whether I'm used to riding a big Penny faring but I mean this um and also like is it just the mess is it just a dirty they don't like dirty Wheels on the on on the train is that kind of I get the feeling that's probably something to do with it possibly yeah I I think it's just they don't like they don't like obstructions and things getting in the way of other passengers which is fair enough you know the trains are often rammed to Dickens and they can't fit people on and having every you know if if you did allow it then everyone would probably bring their bikes on it would be chaos so a mangle of bike spokes just mashed they're just pushing more bikes onto the Met I just love the the use of the word like impossible in this context it reminds me of a story uh my friend Ellen is here at the moment and she's staying in a hotel and uh she she got like a breakfast fry up sausage egg bacon and she didn't want bacon she said instead of bacon can I have like an extra egg and the woman at the the table just said in English it is impossible and it just sounded very dramatic so like dramatic and uh it reminds me of uh one of the Japanese words for cooperation in the in Japanese vocabulary you say the word like cooperation quite a lot koku I thinku uh and you say it quite a lot like oh thanks for your cooperation it's natural to say in Japanese but translated into English it always sounds a bit wrong right it sounds like yeah and my colleagues would always be like good work today Chris thank you for your cooperation like to having a chat [ __ ] RoboCop or something it was very like threatening almost y move creep but yeah Andre did not cooperate there was no cooperation I mean it is impossible I I don't like the sound of that um that attendant though just gave him absolutely both barrels he must be he sounds horny that guy sounds really really frustrated in some way Fu very angry fous indeed but uh anyway bikes aside you're not allowed to bring your bike on and soon you won't be able to drink in Pete's favorite place shabuya shabuya so in Japan you can have a drink out side in the street it's not Unbecoming to you know walk around with a strong zero in hand I might have done it a few times every week for 10 years and uh it's but shabuya obviously has had a bit of a bumpy ride over the years uh especially with lots of tourists these days but also lots of Japanese people like in my a recent video I put out a few weeks ago I had a rant about how um tourists are often lambasted for like making a pro causing problems in public and being a bit drunken or whatever but actually you know Japanese are just as bad if not more so because they get drunk very quickly here but shabua you Shabu meltdown we all know it we all love it lots of photos and images of things going awfully wrong in shabuya on a Friday or Saturday and the people of shabuya are tired at last they don't want this anymore it's time for a public drinking ban and so shabuya is implementing a year- round public drinking ban the first of its kind in Japan's capital tell us what's going on Pete even though I've just told everyone anyway give us the fin points obviously Shabu has got a reputation of being as Chris said a bit of a a Party Town um but the litter and the unruly behavior is getting out of hand back in 2019 before the pandemic the local authorities decided to put a drinking ban a public drinking ban in place during the Halloween season following that a public drinking ban was put in place on New Year's Eve and now some shabuya lawmakers want a 365 day no drinking night each year we want no drinking in the street in shabuya ever it's going to be introduced it may be approved and yeah you you won't be able to drink in the street in um kind of uh around sort of shabuya station the north side of shabuya station including Hachiko the dog obviously uh and also Shabu scramble as well Center guy shopping street and uh also the music and Nightclub area it's a bit further up um up the hill Mario mar Maru yamacho music and Nightclub area they are looking to ban public consumption of alcohol between 6:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. which is hilarious because drinking at 5:55 straight out the office before you hit hit it but um yeah Shinjuku also considering sort of banning um a public drinking ban of its own I mean Chris this all comes down to Halloween doesn't it I mean this all kind of kicks off and it's and and I can't help but think it is tinged with um more anti-tourist it's a it's an anti-tourist but nza in my opinion that said but that said I I don't really drink in the street all that much and I think I I never do to if I'm I want to be inside somewhere even in like um in Halloween I didn't necessarily enjoy drinking strong zero on the streets I mean it was it was fun and stuff but it was just we were getting somewhere I think the issue um with that kind of area shinuk and shabuya is there are no bins give us some bluming bins and you won't have so much mess to tidy up I think you need to do a big campaign rally shab give us our bins give us I'll be on one of those big big black um trucks with a with a with a big tanoy going give us some bins playing loud nationalist music what music would you play there of your music truck to to promote bins what's the perf bin song it should be uh Creed it would be the it would be the post pre uh new metal Creed band Creed yeah perfect perfect you can make me higher with a bin give me a bin they did is that Creed did fortunate sun right Sur that's how much better down well I don't know I I just reminds me of bad um wrestling compilations on YouTube or maybe evanesence bring me to life whenever you watch a football compilation on YouTube for about 10 years um Evan Essence Bring Me to Life uh was very much I think the lead singer of evanesence is now going to be the lead singer of Lincoln Park it's like um it's like a match made in line why a heaven can't stand evanesence I can't stand it what I can't stand who knows evanesence part of one song for crying out loud so someone had uh I I was read somebody had a uh an evanesence wedding it's just bring me to life five times is it go down the aisle Bring Me to Life first dance bring me a life repeat I what I like about this is it's like you you can't drink but only from the hours of 6:00 to 5:00 a.m. so surely all you do is you just drink at 5: you just get it's going to dr. yeah cuz what happens at 600 p.m. you have to like throw your drink away it's like a drinking challenge it's like Nomi Hy almost get it all down yeah I see it's a challenge not not a restriction but um it it is true though people the businesses in in chibuya I sort of felt that I mean to be fair you couldn't get in most of them because they were too busy on Halloween anyway uh and be nobody was really sort of enjoying the the the spoiler because people W drinking on the street the only people were winning were the people who were on the sels true true and I think this all stems back to the that time that some people flipped a truck in shabir like in 2019 whatever it was and then nobody's sto everybody's not stopped talking about it since September 11th wasn't it it was wild they'll never recover they're changing everything for it it's always cited as the the incident yeah that that is caus all this stuff but um I just don't like Shir at Halloween anyway it's very you just can't again you can't move in the crowd or whatever but um no uh yes did you see the story about there's a ominous title uh from the this the times British newspaper uh Japanese Hospitality wears thin as over tourism takes toll and it's about how a British tour guide named Sherlock which is people didn't people actually called Sherlock in real life I don't think there are I'm sure I'm sure they're just affecting that like they call themselves I don't know um Downing Street hello Downing Street here would you like to see around your pad the think you could be like no [ __ ] Sherlock you can actually say that to somebody called no [ __ ] Sherlock would be F anyway this guy called actual Sherlock has has not had a good time in Tokyo in Kyoto it was a video that went viral a few weeks ago on uh Twitter and it involved a Japanese woman uh telling a tour guide a British guy Sherlock from Birmingham uh to stop his people on his tour the people he was guiding from ringing a bell too loudly at a temple uh at a shrine and she lambasted him and then there was tempers they they're both pretty angry the woman was angry at him he was quite angry at the woman cuz I think he wouldn't she wouldn't sort of leave him alone and in the interaction he starts sort of saying can you speak English can you speak to me in English and she can't speak English and she's like oh it's you know it's Japan and all this horrible heated incident but anyway the the video went viral and this guy's got like death threats Galore and his TS been like ripped to shreds with reviews oh dear and somebody yeah he's had he's been on the receiving end of a lot of hate and I think a lot of people in uh Kyoto obviously are pissed at the over tourism and how the city's handled it and now they have a Target to to focus that hatred against right a lightning rod Sherlock is the lightning rod he'll be he'll be at the he'll be at the airport soon enough getting chucked out yeah for Sherlock and uh well I think he's got a wife and I think he's got a kid yeah he's got a kid and stuff and it's all sounds very stressful for them um it's it's a sort of situation where things have got well out of hand and uh I feel bad for him he he he also screwed up though he shouldn't he should have handled himself better when he was being filmed someone puts a camera in front of your face and you know just just try and compose yourself well and not come off us too angry and like it's it was it was yeah really unfortunate the way he handled it in the video because it plays out beautifully to people uh who are angry and uh right even the two of guides are nightmarish so but I can see both sides of it also see the woman's side of it uh fujino who's a sort of anonymous woman who posted the video and who seems to be sort of a vigilante of Justice against over tourism in Kyoto uh sort of saying how she proudly goes into shops and has a go foreign tourists and stuff uh so but uh yeah it's it's all she sounds like a lot of fun yeah I I see both sides of it um and now the shrine has stopped people from ringing the bell at night as well but yeah it seems like a Tinder Box old Kyoto at the moment um with all the sort of things going on like this um and I guess kind of like in every sort of um other part of the world the kind of the touring and the walking around of stuff is so much more kind of like you know you go to sort of like the golden temple or you go all these kind of places in Japan and you you are kind of left to your own devices to a certain extent you are kind of just you filtered but not really you can kind of just have wander around and look at stuff and walk away and stuff but in um everywhere else in the world you're on like timings you got to turn up at the right time you got to kind of like walk at a certain speed you can't do this you can't do that and I think people find their freedom in Japan because is just a it's a lot more you can take it at your own pace a little bit um but obviously um with the over tourism they're going to be in a situation where they have to restrict numbers and they have to um provide um framework I think uh in which to to to view a lot of this stuff I mean I mean is there that much in kyot to actually look at I mean it's an old just an old town is it you should be part ofing campaign you don't need to go to [ __ ] Kyoto go somewhere go [ __ ] [ __ ] Nar somewhere somewhere little bit quieter look at the de or some I mean it's unfortunate I I feel bad for the people of Kyo that the you know the Japanese government is obviously pushing tourism heavily in 2000 year 2000 Japan had like 5 million tourists now it's 30 million and Kyoto is the second most popular destination after Tokyo itself and while Tokyo can handle that kind of foot traffic Kyoto can't really do that especially as everybody goes to the same four [ __ ] things in Kyo to get a photo for Instagram but uh yeah I do feel a bit bad for the people in K because they can't enjoy their City because of this um but yeah it's it's an unfortunate sort of thing and I saw sort of sort of posts online talking about how this this terrible British man acting rude and kotto blah blah blah and I was just like oh [ __ ] off like yeah whatever but I hate how one person puts a foot wrong and everybody gets on the receiving end of it there 30 million tourists coming to Japan most of them aren't Pricks most of them aren't doing bad things I think we should focus on that more and I want to do that going forward um as I've talked about obviously uh it's all a bit sensationalist isn't it if you sort of cover this topic it's it gets clicks it's quite popular it's quite it's people sh share it and spread it um but it's just you know but we we've seen it a million times over in the past few years about you know IM immigration like it's obviously a Hot Hot Topic in you know the British election the American election and it's just it's just basically because Japan doesn't have a lot of immigration like um legal or illegal they probably do it does actually a lot of immigration now though it's 200,000 uh folks a year are coming to Japan and uh you certainly noticed that convenience stores in Tokyo actually most convenience stores now not staffed by Japanese employees uh folks from South that's always been the case isn't it it's always been like South Asian St in the 7-Elevens not like this so immigration is happening but it's obviously it's not enough to uh sustain the population uh very little C compared to most country simply because it's um it's not um it's it's an island it's a lot harder for um you know obviously the the big kind of um immigration um issue uh for for for the Tes and the you know the parages of this world were obviously the um the boats coming over from from from France across the channel and on in America you've obviously got the border that um Republicans obviously weaponizing so in in Japan you've you have got a situation where it's it's a lot harder to get um get into the country um either by sea or by air and stay there but I imagine there's a lot of people that overstaying these I want to see you sail to Japan from from I'll choose from Russia please that's all right I think that seems to be the easiest way to do it no I want the full-blown William Adams 2year Expedition canoe around the canoe uh the canoe man he was from Harley pool the cane but uh yeah I mean I I'm so sick of this topic so we'll see what happens but yeah it's been everywhere this week so I felt we had to talk about it here even though i' kind of held off doing it but the the guy Sherlock is suing the woman now fujino for defamation and for causing all this stress and his has to like leave her job so I see both sides of it uh and it's it's [ __ ] it's [ __ ] [ __ ] this is why you got to be careful when you get caught on camera uh you know saying stuff and acting cuz yeah I can see why the video of him was a lightning rod for this situation but uh also I imagine I from what from the way she describes herself it sounds like she was sort of looking for someone to slip up and almost capture the moment and and sort of record it so and he was at the wrong place at the wrong time but uh we shall see what happens won't we uh now we'll be back in just a moment guys with your stories comments and questions over in the facts machine wow and we're back with the fact machine what have we got this week from our listeners Mr dson fill us in we got a message from Tony and his many friends and family members Dear Chris and Pete in late September to Mid October we'll be gone to Japan for 15 days when I say we I mean a group of 10 people with five adults and five kids do you think it' be difficult to navigate find restaurants and do activities with such a large amount of people are there any tips on what to do and what to avoid really enjoy the podcasts and always wait in anticipation for the next episode thank you in advance Tony it's it's a rare um thing being asked a question about navigating uh Tokyo with uh with 10 people I mean yeah better better you than me Tony that' be quite tricky I I think the only thing i' say say is you'll have to try and book restaurants in advance where possible and if you can't obviously if that's an issue a lot of places you can book online now just on Google whatever when you find a restaurant but maybe if you if you go to a hotel ask the concur or the person there at the desk ring the hotel ring the restaurant and book it for you to be honest um other than that I think you'll be fine though I don't see any other issues go to Disneyland ke eight hours to ride on one ride and I think you'll be also uh large family restaurant chains like Royal host Gusto ceria those sort of restaurants are good at handling like big family groups as well we can order at the table and whatnot um yeah get yourself a sua card for everyone at the airport before you leave Hanid or Narita so your whole family has a card so they can tap in and out you have to buy tickets those sort of things will make a big difference and make you have a good trip I think so bear that in mind we got a question here from JJ from Vancouver who says salutations Elite Pete Elite Pete Elite Pete old school media Elite Pete fit Chris I love that fit Chris even though I failed the Spartan Race Chris my wife and I have booked our first time trip to Japan this October for 5 days two days in Tokyo three days three days in Oraka my question you both tell you both is if you were to re-experience Japan for the first time where would you go or what would you do 5 days to maximize Japan as if you may never return again thank you for the amazing content a dramatic question from J AJ there 5 days in Japan with Canada jet lag that's a bold trip coffee man like you that's what I mean just vending machine after vending machine coffee after coffee you may think like you do if you're sort of getting up cuz I I do this and I have done this in the past I get up um in Japan and I'm like you know what I'm going to go back to bed 11 Jaan I get up at like whatever it is 5:00 in the morning I'll try and I'll I'll go till 7eleven get some food morning and then and then I'll TR it's like a bad blue song isn't it and I get some food and I'll try and get back to sleep if I can't get to sleep I'm like right I'm up now but I will be going back to sleep as soon as I can so what I'm going to do is I'm not going to drink coffee so that I can get to sleep later on Bad Idea drink the coffee you'll feel better for the time you are awake and you'll always be able to sleep always always so that is my just always drink coffee always drink energy drinks all of the time and never stop ever never stop it's a good philosophy actually if it was 5 days and that's all the time you had do what I did go on the amoto line and see every station in a day yes that's that's a really good idea lovely you get everything though you got ikuro you got um um the the the tech District you got Shinjuku you got the all the temples and stuff excellent you'd have to kick off you know we're talking like wake up at 7 and kick off at 7 uh and you'll probably be done by like you know 9 or 10 p.m. but you'll be amazed what you can fit into a day when I was at University in my first year I had like a bit of a breakdown cuz I didn't want to be at University I thought I was wasting my time and I bought like a EasyJet flight ticket for me and my friend we B like a 30 quid ticket to go to like Zurich for the day I was like look I was like I'll go anywhere in you're what's a city that's quite fun to explore in a day I'll Zur that'll do cuz it's not a sort of place you want to spend a week probably uh so we got up at 5 a.m. went to Gatwick hopped on the plane 9:00 a.m. when I would have normally been waking up for lectures and [ __ ] I was like oh I'm in zero bumbling around Zurich eating chocolate looking at a watch and whatever goes on in Zurich and then we got like a little boat and had lunch on this little boat in the lake Lake Zurich or whatever it's called it was it was amazing we got home at like 10: p.m. and the day just felt epic it felt like this amazing long huge eventful day that otherwise would have just been me sh in a room depressed in you know University so you'll be amazed what you can do in a day go around the OT line see the SES see all of Tokyo and just do that for Osaka as well obviously it will be like pretty full on but you can see a lot of Tokyo in a day if you're willing to put your mind to it if you're willing to put the hours in you know so make the most of that I love these like day challenges there you try and do stuff in a day it's kind of cool like the one I did Pete where we we walked across Tokyo and that's another alternative that might be better than the amote line to be honest uh because you get to walk through places that are more reasonable pace so that's the only thing with doing the amote line thing going to every station cuz some of the stations aren't that good but uh yeah bear that in mind and one last question from Jordan he says hello CH P I'm planning a trip Japan in October and I want to go to Sendai and to Hawker should I hire a car or is their transport just as good and accessible as Tokyo all the best thank you from Jordan uh Sendai he just takes 90 minutes on the bullet train once you're there you can walk around the whole city don't worry about that if you want to go to places like matushima Bay and yamadera Temple there's a train line that to both of those so that's got you covered I'd say only get a car if you want to go off the Beaten Track a bit more and explore like the a coast line places like that uh then get a car but you get a car anywhere and there's the reason I don't drive my own personal car so much is it's just easier to get a bullet train to the other side of the country or the other PL like Sendai and then rent the car from there right uh to drive to Sendai takes like 7 hours um just easy just a bullet train there 90 minutes rent a car so I often rent cars and most stations in Japan do have like a car rental place yeah but um yeah you might not even need one to be honest if you're get a Sendai I've I've seen you rent a car and Sendai I've seen you rent a car I've seen you the the the process was surprisingly simple it is yeah it's really really easy peasy the only thing is with English speakers the websites don't have English as well um that are as good I use nipon rent a car or Toyota rent a car and all you got to do is I got like a a form in English and you go on there and you just fill in the form and it sends it to someone at the team there and they translate it and work it all out for you and book it so nice and easy nice and easy um it's not as smooth as the the Japanese version where you can book it and you've got the car there's a little bit more like time required I think for the English version of the place so as long as you got like a couple days heads up book ahead and you'll be fine with the cars so don't worry about it um that's it though that's all for today I've almost finished my coffee I'm off now to go and see Ry of the Planet of the monkeys of the Apes of the kingdom of the ape of the monkey or whatever it's called keep the stories questions comments coming in to the braw Japan podcast gmail.com or right below on YouTube but for now guys have yourself a great few days and I'll let you know what I think of the film in the next episode of the ab Japan podcast bye for now have a good one [Music]

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Length: 35min 34sec (2134 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2024