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and obviously super chats um go a long way and guys this I have one Tokyo banana left what does that mean that means that thereās only one stream left um next week and then Iāll be in Japan Iāll be traveling Japan for 6 weeks where Iāll be bringing you to the streets of Japan live on my second channel the happy Guin so make sure that you head over to the Happy gin and you subscribe over there too show your support on that channel too um Iām going to be hopefully um launching some memberships for that channel in the next few days before I go to Japan anyway uh Iām actually sick obviously it always happens right the just before going on a trip hey Jim Ross M thank you so much just before going on a trip my tonsils are like this and Iām actually going to be off work my doctor told me to rest the next few days so hey anyway letās get to it and let me just quickly add Jim to the support wall thanks Jim [Music] awesome and um thank you thank you so much letās get started all right so anony Moreno is in the house hey hey hey hey hey how you doing how Bojo pigeon only one and a half days till you leave to Japan well I have like eight days or nine days before I go to Japan and I am ready well my suitcase is over there not quite ready hi all from cooling Australia 16Ā° 5 a.m. 5:30 a.m. early start Gumi thanks for being here so early on a Monday for you EO Japan travel how are you doing thanks for joining us here on this um this live stream I hope youāre doing well Tommy how you doing awesome ikim Mas letās go hey Michelle H hello from from Chicago Tommy Tran um letās see wal crab hello from Denver Colorado another person from Colorado there somebody earlier I think from Colorado howy Nathan and monkey crew indeed we are all a bunch of monkey monkeys on here monkey crew hey man with no life from Sweden um no question so far just lots of Hells it tends to be the case because we all sort of know each other um hi from Birmingham hey saica hey how you doing SAA got my extra P trip scheduled for 2 weeks in October bonus something to look forward to and loud and clear yep we can hear yes you can hear awesome Iām glad the Sunday treatment meeting for Japan obsessed individuals actually um Jim I wanted to Showcase a gift that Jim gave me when I was in Japan I met Jim and he gave me these pins which are really cool and I havenāt forgotten I do want to put them somewhere um cuz theyāre very special to me and Iām Iām going to put them somewhere in in my um main Studio once um the weather cools down cuz at the moment I had to move here cuz itās just so freaking hot and this is the only moove air conditioning so do do I think the Yen will hit two two what itās already hit two pound over two two2 200 yen to the pound over so itās 203 itās crazy just arrived back from Japan and already having the blues World Danny be this is the right place for you this is what itās itās itās become itās become canāt wait for you to go to Japan 6 weeks yep I canāt wait to to um show showcase um Japan I have my um eim at the ready 500 gabes eim special edition Sakura mobile eim specially made for me thank you Sakura mobile for being so nice to me um and Iāve got a feeling that Iām going to run out of data and Iām Iām then going to have to um purchase some additional data what say hit the the 100 gigabytes which I reckon would probably happen around the halfway mark of the trip which is kind of crazy Iām not very sure but Iāve been Iāve been hearing all sorts of rumors about the Yen Iām not the kind of person that likes to to speculate because I donāt like um giving false hope to people you know heal up fast yeah itās viral I went to the doctor today and she looked into my mouth and sheās like oh your tonsils are so big but itās viral so no antibiotics for me hey jird how you doing Japan Japan itchy ban is in the house also for anybody who doesnāt know who he is he is um has an awesome Facebook page check him out on Facebook for some inspiration also rank how are you doing right I think thereāll be lots of people in October um question any new updates or changes on your 14-day itinerary video I think my 14-day itinerary video would probably stay the same um because it does take you away from the Golden Triangle and I think that recently my more common advice my new new advice Iāve been thinking about this a lot I think that people want to do the Golden Triangle of of Kyoto Tokyo and Osaka itās going to happen you know you cannot expect PE people especially first timers to go to Japan and not do the Golden Triangle itās just just one of those things however my advice has sort of shifted recently the last few weeks has shifted to do if youāre traveling to Japan set 40% of your trip between 30 and 40% of your trip outside of the Golden Triangle to have a successful nice Japan trip so if youāre going for two weeks then spend you know 30 40% of your trip making sure that youāre not in Tokyo that youāre not in Osaka and then youāre not in Kyoto and um I think that that twoe itinery sort of hits hits that that sort of um percentage so lots of travel channels here today I can see Iād have to go back is it worth it just for a week or should I wait next year for two weeks well it depends if you can do one week this year and two weeks next year then itās definitely worth it uh obviously this is my big trip six weeks itās a long long trip and thatās when I travel a lot of Japan Iāll be all over the place 14 different hotels countless different places Okinawa kushu etc etc etc um when I travel for a shorter amount of time like a week I usually try to to stay put in one place maybe do an overnight um somewhere um I enjoy my one week trips but it depends on your what you like hey Anthony Moreno whatās the best Hidden Gem bar youāve been to like something of the beaten path like a bar like gem bar um there is so easy to find gem bars to be honest youāre talking about Tokyo you can go to so many thereās so many zakay and so many bars I think that that um part of the charm is just getting lost and finding something thatās unique to you and thereās only one or two that I go back to one of them is um is near hamro station um Diamond station and I actually did a short with some information itās just a really friendly bar and for me personally itās off the beaten path in the sense that itās itās itās a a bar that I went to zakaya that I went to on my very first trip to Japan and I sort of go back as a result of having those sort of like um memories but um in terms of bars there are so many that um what what is hidden nowadays I donāt know hey youāll be there first Iāll be there too also Jay is a green car worth getting on the in Cen um depends on how much money you want to spend and personally I think that it can be a worthwhile um a worthwhile investment depending on the route for example between Tokyo and Osaka which can be and Kyoto which can be quite a um a busy train going and getting seats on the green car can actually be a little bit easier and can actually give you better better options um in terms of of finding seats at the times that you want and obviously far more comfortable hey SE thank you so much for that have you traveled between fukoka and Busan in South Korea thinking about going by ferry to Busan next year and man with no life I have not I have been to both places individually separately in different trips um fukoka I actually I went to both places on the same trip however I flew from from um from hushu I flew to um what was it from Shoku I canāt remember but I flew to Saul the capital of of South Korea and then I got a train down to Busan and I loved Busan so Iāve never done that but I totally recommend Busan Busan was a pretty cool City and thank you so much man with no life let me just add you to the list Iām not sure oh just about awesome letās see Travel Channel totally worth it says six weeks of Japan sounds so good Iām looking forward to it itās going to be good and Iāve going to 500 gigabytes gigabytes gigabytes gigabytes 100 gabes what 100 gabes um yeah 6 weeks sounds good it is good have you traveled between F and in South Korea about going by to next year you know like pacing myself and Iāve actually started pacing myself now so put it this way I already have three videos that are scheduled for the next 6 weeks every two weeks there was a video that Iāve already filmed edited and I just need to sort of work on the on the thumbnail um so thereāll be one coming out this weekend and then after this weekend um thatās when I when I start flying off to Japan on next Tuesday actually not this Tuesday the following um so thereāll be a a a video this this Saturday Friday Saturday and then after that thereāll be a video scheduled every two weeks whilst Iām in Japan and that means that I can actually be in Japan and not have to worry about um filming anything specific or better I said I donāt have to worry about editing anything once Iām in Japan um so I am pacing myself that way Iāve worked very very hard the last month in the leadup to this trip so that I can actually do that and um and Iām Iām looking forward to sharing those videos thereās one video that Iāve got three quarters filmed and I need to finish filming over there and it wonāt be too much work itās semi edited but um yeah you can look forward to to content from me whilst Iām in Japan every two every two weeks instead of every week which is my normal schedule obviously um I need to pce myself other than that I will be going Live Hope every Sunday Monday similar to this but obviously on a different time and but I want to keep it to the same same schedule I want to keep the live stream on ninja monkey um going itās just going to be a different time and I will be I will be um um streaming very very often on Happy gin so if youāre interested in watching me live from the streets of Japan was I travel through all sorts of different places then Happy gin is your place hey thumbs up everyone please just returned from Japan a week ago our trip was simply amazing thanks for all your tips and advice which held us tremendously thank you Iām Iām glad that my my tips oh let me put it a little bit better Iām glad that our tips because itās itās a team effort here like the monkey crew like so many call so many of you call us the monkey crew um itās a itās a team effort weāre here to help each other and Iām glad that um the advice has has helped you so thatās what I want this channel to be I want this channel to be the number one toan planning Channel and um itās not there but hopefully in the future I know Philipe is crazy and and against the pound is crazy howo meet up I have to check on the Discord but if itās on actual Halloween then I wonāt be able to make it the Halloween day or the Halloween night Iām got to figure out itās completely um itās a itās a Content Creation Day for me um Iāll be follow Iāll be meeting other content creators in um in Tokyo and I cannot actually meet anyone or commit to anything on that day so it just depends on the day maybe we can play around with dates does your Japanese te plan allow you to do mobile hotspot the upsite of poke WiFi was being able to run a second device Iām not very sure see rules youād have to check directly with um with um with Sakura mobile like I said I promote Sakura mobile because they are good to me and theyāre good to you and theyāre a good product to promote but when it comes to technical stuff Iām not techn technical um you know Iām not tech services for Sakura mobile question have you planned to return from e um Shima via the luxury Shima Kaz train so good Iām looking at that Iāll be looking at that in the next few days I have it um I have it um bookmarked with an alarm because those tickets havenāt gone out on sale for for my dates yet So the plan is yes kind of letās see any good ninja samurai museums that should be in my list to see interesting ninja and some museums I think that if you go to to um aatu youāll find a lot of um like like ninja and Samurai sort of stuff if youāre interested in that but not off the top of my head to be honest what was the moment when you discover Japan is a great place you know Iāve be thinking about this interestingly I think that um it was probably the this is going to sound weird and insane but I remember my very first trip to Japan and Iāve said this many times the first time I went to Japan I went on a twoe organized tour with a guide and another four 13 or 12 people or whatever it was and we traveled around Japan um and when that tour ended I stayed in Japan by myself an extra week or just under a week I think it was on my own in Tokyo and from Tokyo I did some day trips on my own to hakone M Fuji etc etc etc on my own and I think that the it was actually when I when two things hit me and that was when I was finally on my own in um my tour group had left and iā stayed an extra week and I think that that week made me realize how um how I had sort of been doing it all wrong my whole life by trying to depend on on other people there were many things that I think that I never did because people just either were too busy to do them or the dates didnāt coincide with the dates that worked for me or people were just not interested in the same things as me and therefore I just never got them done and that week made me realize hey you know like you the world is your oyster or whatever the the saying is you can do whatever you want you donāt need other people to to um to do anything in in in life obviously if you want to do things with others itās fun and Iāve done lots of trips with friends and and itās always been fun this time round Iām going to Japan the very first week Iām going to be spending it with friends from home so donāt get me wrong but what Iām saying is that if you have a mission and you have something to do something that you want to do then go and do it donāt donāt wait for others because you might be waiting forever and it might never happen and I think that was a moment when I discovered and I discovered that in Japan and I discovered on my way back from from Japan back home at the airport leaving Japan I think thatās when I discovered that Japan was a great place leaving Japan thinking I want to stay longer I want to come back letās see have I climbed M Fuji yes I have and I even have a um video about it itās an old video 2018 I think it was maybe 2017 um and I used uh um I think I booked everything via Willer travel which they also do all the expressway um sort of like um passes and stuff and what I liked about using a guide and I know some people do it on their own I Iāve got lots of friends have done it on their own but what I like about doing it through a travel company was that they organized for me my my um my hiking boots they organize for me my my hiking gear they organize the h reservation they basically organized everything and I it meant that I didnāt have to worry or carry any unnecessary um gear equipment to me to Japan hey thank you so much ah see Sid how you doing let me just add you to the to the wall Iām not very sure what 200 what even that that currency is but I appreciate it was planning a kushu and tohoku for my second trip but my friends wanted to tag along because of my first trip experience so I Iām stuck again with a golden route because it will be their first time well you know what Iāve been in the same position as you said and um I went to Japan and one of my friends said I want to go to Japan because they theyād heard and theyād seen my photos and my videos and I said right okay you can you can come to Japan but Iām not doing the golden rout I mean Iāll do Kyoto wasu in for my second Tri but my friends wanted to tag along because my first trip experience so I am stuck again with the golden route because it will be their first time explored at that time and thatās what I did and that those were my terms for them basically and ultimately I think that it worked really well because I love Kyoto I love Tokyo and then I got to see um um experience kushu with with my friend um who hadnāt been to Japan so thanks for that comment trying to get to all of your your com your questions Iām going to now focus on questions um first okay 19 months oh my god seriously [ __ ] I appreciate your friend ship and your support for the many months itās crazy to think that um you know probably I donāt know how how long ago how many years ago you came on on the chat and said hey Iām Japan Japan ban awesome thanks for your support dude watching Nathan on the streets of Japan sound like talking channel itās okay you could talk me just not in real life back of the clay how you doing question um Nathan and wonder I see a lot of restaurants serve crab in Osaka saporo what is so special about crab in Japan is it is taste recipe price thank you caros I think that like many things in Japan things in Japan are just incredibly fresh and very very very seasonal so it will most definitely be taste and um and and freshness the worst part of Japan is leaving Japan exactly and thatās thatās when I realized how much I love Japan will the new year notes coming soon will it be awkward using the old notes for ticket machines Etc actually they think will be the other way around I think that what will happen is that there will be quite a long transition period where um some of the the vending machines and ticket machines might not necessarily be be um um updated to use the new notes from what Iāve been reading um how however Iāve also read that as a result of this transition to the new notes a lot of places are moving on to using a cash not a cashless like credit card or sua payment um solution so yeah and the O notes will remain valid exactly as Japan Jaan it says oh my God seven years ago flipping heck you know that um Mount Fuji video seven years ago you I look at it now and I think oh my God I would do so differently everything about that video I would do so differently in fact I was I Iāve been um cataloging all my footage because believe it or not this is um one of the lifelines of this channel is that I have such a crazy collection of footage from the last 10 years of traveling through Japan that Iāve been um cataloging all the footage very slowly and I have all that footage raw footage from seven years ago and I was so tempted to re-edit it into into a a Mount Fuji climbing video that that could actually give it a little bit more more life but thereās so many other projects that I need to do and thereās so many videos out there for from M Fuji where can you buy Tokyo bananas in bu in bul I think you could buy them maximum I think itās a pack of 16 and um where could you buy them at the you could buy them at a lot of the major stations in um in Tokyo will sell them I know that I found them in weno station um or you can also find them in um to station you can find them in basement um you know like stores you can also find them at the airport my last too banana you know that Iāve been counting down my trip via Tokyo bananas and I thought I had to I must have sneakily eaten a Tokyo banana because thereās supposed to be one for this for this um live show thereās supposed to be one more for the last live show and I donāt know where it is maybe itās somewhere in the freezer Iāll have to look again is it expensive eating the poisonous Blowfish delicacy the the the Blowfish um it can be expensive but I you know it depends on what quantities and how itās served up to you and where you buy it oh itās a rupee okay the voice over is distracting sorry I hopefully itās very short um voice over super chats are readed alloud whilst you speak really okay how do I how do I fix this um maybe it will be fix it now maybe Iāve taken a setting off Mark G good evening good evening good evening I hope outside sober shop vending machines donāt disappear Iāll have buy the meal before I walk in and getting those little tickets I donāt think theyāre going to disappear at all I think theyāre just going to be updated um to either fully some of these um like Ramen sober sort of like shop vending machines where you like you me mention you buy the ticket before some of them Iāve been reading are been are they have chosen to update their their methods to actually not accept coin to go completely um contactless so theyāre only supporting credit card like weay or whatever and um and um s so so those will still still exist Cai are you into these DIY comining drinks like ice coffee and smoothies hell yes absolutely yes yes yes those you were to take the glass pay for it and then go to the machine are they tasty yes they are they are surprisingly I mean to be honest I sometimes find myself Gra sometimes no very often find myself especially now in the summer grabbing a um a ice latte from from um 7eleven or wherever laon or whatever from the from the from the machine from the freezer section paying for it and then getting my ice latte tell you a funny story of how Japan is so strict with um rules cuz there was once a time that I bought a large cup for my ice latte right a large cap for my ice latte and when I went to I paid for it obviously you pay for it and then you go to the machine and when I went to the machine I noticed that the ice latte button the large was was taped over and there was something in Japanese which I guess you know said like sold out or not working or whatever but the medium was was there so I I I called the attendant over to you know to sort of say you know like whatās going on you know blah blah blah and and then she sort of explained no no no no itās broken itās whatever and I I said okay itās okay Iāll just use a me the medium and she looked at me and she was like no no no no you cannot you cannot get a med Iām like itās okay I donāt mind if itās less coffee um I really donāt mind but she was like no no no like you cannot put a medium coffee in a large cap no no that that that is no no like she literally wouldnāt let me she wouldnāt let me and she made me go she gave me my money back and then she made me um she gave me a medium a medium um cup which was ridiculous because at the end of the day it was just wasteful to get rid of that large cup that um I never used anyway thatās an example of sometimes Japan being Japan um Iāve never seen them sold as singles but they do sell them in fours is the minimum is four I think I should try scuba diving in Okinawa Iām going to be um doing some snorkling thatās for sure um Iām not very sure about scuba diving you never know do you need a physical scer card to add one to your Apple wallet thereās a digital only version you do not you can actually just go to the to the um Apple you can go to the wallet app on the iPhone then you can go to the little plus button in the top right corner then you can go to Transit cards and you can choose Japan you can choose a IC card that you want to add and for example you can you can probably add op pasmo or you can add eoka or you can add um Suka for example and then just top it up once topped it up with Apple pay it becomes active you just need to be aware that between I think itās mid midnight and 4 in the morning Japan time um the service is down and even if you try to top up with a with a with a um with a card thatās accepted it just wonāt wonāt work which catches a lot of people off off guard um I know that some people have had some issues with Visa or MasterCard I think was Visa um Iāve never had any problems I use my revolute or my wise and um I I use my Apple pay wise revolute cards to top up my suer no problem you donāt need to download uh an app or anything literally you donāt need a swka app you all you need is to go to the wallet app which is built into your iPhone those ticket machines are getting better some automatically send your order to the kitchen now cool I thought thatās pretty cool by the way havenāt seen a new 2,000 year note so the existing one will become sort after Rarities yet there is no no new 2,000 year note at all um they will be as rare as they have always been although Iāve never found them as rare because Iāve always come across them quite often this movie was good I didnāt know how to do it the 7 7-eleven shop guy did it for you okay question do you live in Japan or are you a Ser Japan trist as some of my colleagues I do not live in Japan I am a professional Japan tourist thatās how I like to label myself a professional Japan tourist a lot of people think Iām in Japan so 11 cups are highly regulated and accounted for by the franchise the owners usually instruct the workers to account for every single cup yeah but it doesnāt make a difference because I would have literally used the cup the large cup but I would have just pressed the medium button and filled it up 3/4 of the way anyway thereās a problem with s and Apple pay with card sub types Iāve never had any problems ever ever ever ever um I hear some people in the USA have problems um but like I said I get around any problem by using um Apple pay sweet cart or revolute Nathan is not a seral Jaan tourist heās the seral Japan tourist scary Carlos Rodriguez any advice on how to choose an echy B besides checking its aspect and content gracias um I think that when it comes to an iyan most of them will have like a a plastic display version of the iyan E Ben where youāll be able to see what there is inside there just depends there are so many choices ekin that it just depends on what you fancy what tickles your fancy that day me at all of the time now I actually end up buying stuff from cominis and taking them on the train rather than getting an EP an eky Ben not an epip Ben eken um ento and um there are some times that I do get the the really cool ones where you pull the the string and it Heats itself up those are always really cool I have no idea but usually um when it comes to Japanese Japanese um like cemeteries and Japanese sort of like um for example I know that in inasan which is a very famous cemetery has a has a very famous um graveyard cemeter um there are lots of really important people that people actually go to visit so I wouldnāt see that as a as a bad thing except for maybe itās kind of recent Iām not very sure to be honest I I wouldnāt advise you to unless you do some good research before I do live in Japan in my heart have I used cooling pads and pack solding communis in your pockets during summer visits hell yes very often um but usually I use them to stick them to my phone to keep my phone cool in the summer so thatās what I do when Japanese people go from saying wow your Japanese is so good to asking how long have you been lived in Japan it feels like a graduation point for you I mean my Japanese isnāt as good to get any reaction like that question trip end of August 10 days there we actually prefer warmer weather wow we talked 3 days 142 days Canada today sounds nice already toyoto Osaka Nara Area 3 days does that sound realistic um yeah obviously you need to take into account where youāre flying out from thatās the only thatās my only issue that Iām seeing there if youāre starting in Tokyo and ending in Tokyo then it might not be realistic with that sort of um time frame um but yeah be a little bit rushed maybe and I would say that when you stay in Kyoto Osaka Nara just you use one as a base so you donāt move around so for example you could side if you stay in Kyoto then you can travel to Osaka orara from Kyoto if you stay in Osaka you can you can travel to um Kyoto onara from Osaka for example is my tip there the heatup echy bands are awesome Iāve used them a few times um if you go to my I think I did a Matsumoto um Vlog maybe on mppy gin and and I use it there it was pretty cool how I just have with operate in Tokyo about midnight how like can you go bar hopping in juk until you need to catch the last train back and thereās lo I mean usually thereās lots of places that will remain open um pretty much till the early hours of the night and yes you probably want to avoid expensive cab rides one way for you to sort of like make that extra time for whatever reason you need you have um extra time to to um to sort of use up whilst youāre waiting for the first train which is usually 4: or 4:30 in the morning is to do karaoke a lot of karaoke places will remain open Carlos I think that pretty much everything in Japan right now is going to be cheaper than Europe as a result of the cheap Y and also as a result of getting your tax free so automatically itās going to be 10% cheaper just because of the tax and then the Yen any questions let me see if I missed anything out Iām going to put the airon a little bit trying to sort out my air conditioning so that itās pointing at me cuz itās kind of warm right now all right I put it higher am I get a little bit noisy Epic pen yeah thatās why eky Ben EpiPen eky Ben has another meaning now yeah I havenāt seen I havenāt seen frog lady for a while actually coming to think of it I hope everything is okay with froggy H itās very warm here in duola and um you know that the latest news is well not the latest news but sort of like the recent news has been that um the rainy season started two weeks late the question is when will it end um because Iāve been looking at the weather forecast it looks like itās going to be raining on and off which is quite common I think for the beginning of the trip although last year I went to Japan and it rained one day out of the six weeks I was in Japan one day um and that was including me escaping a typhoon so how many places would you have to visit to justify buying a Jr pass um I think itās not so much about how many places itās about how often you need to use it rather than how how many places and I think that youād pretty much have to use it every other day to make it worth your your your time and your money aan is still the king I think Iāve been four times in 14 months heās been more than me in 14 months I donāt know probably I donāt know five six times I donāt know you fly to saporo on Saturday and I need to find a sports bar that will be open at 1:00 a.m. on Sunday for the English England game as we are scra through yes well down England um yeah I have no idea when it comes to sports bars in in um sapuro how I researched any food ahead of my trip no I havenāt at the moment Iām living on a on a on a sort of like get my first week or two weeks sort of planned and then whil Iām in Japan Iām aiming to sit down at a coffee shop slow down and then plan obviously I have my my R itiner and all the tickets and hotels booked but what Iām saying is that Iāve got the first two weeks planned know what Iām going to do what Iām going to see and then whilst Iām in Japan Iāll work on the next two weeks um and thatās how Iām going to do it cuz it is 6 weeks you know and and I like to sort of be a little bit flexible also having your hotels and having your your having your hotels and having your you know knowing flight if you have flights is crucial you can get four 7 14 or 21 day pass and an Moreno you got to remember that also there are Regional passes that are worth looking into and for example Iām going to be using a kushu um Regional um pass uh all kushu regional pass and thatās going to be worth it for me hello does Shin Canan platform Chang last minute in Tokyo usually no usually usually the the shansen will go to the same platform in fact so much so that um on the Platforms in Tokyo or in any shinkansen station really you will find markings on the floor for the train um the cart number and um and the the name of the shin Canen so you know exactly where que up where to que up in advance yeah maybe the hab might be good which island Iām going to be in ishigaki ishigaki Island and then from migaki Island thereās another Island next to it which Iām hoping to do like a day trip too will I be trying snake whiskey in Okinawa why not why not I mean Iāve tried all sorts of snake drinks in the past and Scorpion stuff in the past so um so I am those things I will try watch live I probably end up eating horse again I was really disappointed of the ra season weāve been in Japan almost the whole June and we had only three days of rain local Japanese told us that it was unusually hot and dry by June Everythingās changed now it was two weeks late so you they fooled you who spam musabi and the other varieties the special okina alcohol Okinawa SOA Goya champo yeah ok now although I have to say that ok now I am making sure that I really really just go with the flow um itās a kind of place that itās just after my birthday and I want itās sort of like a treat to myself a celebrating 10 years of traveling around Japan sort of treat and hopefully the weather will be good hopefully there wonāt be any typhoons around that time CU you know there lots of things can happen but um yeah on other interesting news Iāve actually booked myself randomly very last minute because I was supposed to be hanging out with another YouTuber um for a chunk for quite a big chunk um of of my trip like a good six days I think it was and they are no longer available theyāre traveling somewhere so um which is unfortunate because I told them my dates but hey um theyāre traveling elsewhere and I actually booked a hotel near where they live in the area where they live and I donāt want to stay in that area because itās not an area that Iām interested in staying I was only staying there for convenience and um and anyway so theyāre not going to be there and I was able to cancel that that hotel um and instead I B myself into the robot hotel that um that robot hotel that yeah so that was random I wasnāt expecting that maybe things work out for the for the better that way Iām sure itās just like regular whiskey Iām not a big whiskey Drinker Iām not a fan of whiskey but hey no problem tahara if I go to ishigaki you must try diving itās a place to dive in Okinawa I mean Iām going to go to phantom phantom Island snorkling um weāll see I mean I live in a very good diving spot and I donāt dive here and people travel all around the world to come diving where I where I live so so and I have plenty of friends who dive who have tried to get me to dive um but yeah Iāve never done it actually cherry blossoms were not two weeks late um cherry blossoms were pretty much um on the correct time of when theyāre supposed to bloom if that makes any sense just about what was late they were late according to the predictions that were wrong the predictions were wrong if you want to think of it that way but usually usually in terms of the cherry blossoms they actually bloomed more or less at the time that traditionally theyāre supposed to bloom itās just that for the past few years theyāve been blooming earlier and the prediction this year that was they were going to bloom earlier and they didnāt itās a bit crazy once you get bitten by the bug you will understand indeed the diving bug weāll see like I said I mean jial I live in JTA if you searched for JTA diving um loads of people come here diving people fly from the UK to dive in Jaa thereās lots of um wrecks and reefs and all sorts of stuff here in the Mediterranean Sea and um obviously itās very different to you know the Crystal Waters of AWA but but yeah if I havenāt done it here I donāt know weāll see Iām only going to be there for 4 days total three and a half days total and um like I said I just want to go with the flow and play by ear Iām even considering I saw something come up on CL which was a whole day at some Resort all inclusive food taken care of drink taken care of where I get to just lay down on a beach for a whole day and not have to worry and water sports included and everything and I was very tempted to just have a day where I just lay about and do nothing yeah we you have loads of dolphins dolphins I am no stranger to dolphins there are lots of dolphins and whales here and in fact you know those okas that are making headlines because theyāre attacking boats itās here thatās basically here hopefully I could tell you that itās a dream when I get there and I donāt even know what the what the streaming capabilities of ow is going to be like I have no idea we shall see in some ways Iām sort of hoping that I canāt stream so that I could just switch off completely the panaches are a whole vibe in itself was in Mima for the day and just didnāt want to leave Mima is pretty nice um Kam iā been to the beaching Kamakura before um enoshima seems to have a nice Beach also your past October trips were too hot I can imagine fig that always changing here hey ninja monkey says sorry back of the clay says streaming is okay no now itās the Japanese cell system saying obstacles remain mountains valleys and trees yeah I mean I know that in in naha which is like a big city probably it will be okay but Iām in ishigaki which is basically in the middle of nowhere itās a kind of quite a remote part of of Japan perhaps even potentially one if not the most remote sort of areas that you can go to um obviously you have all the those Tokyo islands that are super super remote you canāt even fly into those but but isaki is very remote hey we have we have 33 likes but over 50 people watching by the way but only 33 likes what am I doing wrong please tell me what Iām doing wrong for you not to like this stream so that I can better my streaming techniques so that you can like the stream cuz if youāre not liking the stream which is only like a little click then maybe itās just that Iām doing something wrong or maybe itās because you donāt want to click the isak the jsdf and US Marines going to then they have to sell it up I donāt understand what you mean hey thank you so much for your Super Chat have some coffee money op car sweet sweat I tell you what Iām going to tell you right now already that itās going to be coffee coffee coffee for the first at least four days whilst I sort of get over my jet lag although I do find that jet lag I get over more and more um easily especially in Japan the first few days but it will definitely be coffee Manny or maybe a beer but coffee Manny for sure we go towards coffee I appreciate that very much appreciate it let me just add you to the list Lord MC gray Aras Aras you want to know something kind of funny that is that um Iāll do I oh I can love I can I didnāt know I could do like all the hearts whatās this reply ooh I can reply ooh cool thanks thatās cool I donāt know I could reply to Super chats directly thatās pretty cool um I was talking to to Oriental Pearl and she told me that two German girls stopped her in the street and they told her that they recommen they they recognized her from my video how ironic is that Iām like Iām sure youāve got it wrong yeah thatās pretty cool how do you even do that did you even know that you could like respond anyway got 48 likes 48 views okay Iāll accept that can I recommend a Rian um Iāve stayed in so many rans really just find one that works theyāre Al so theyāre all usually pretty good I just find the things that youāre looking for in a rokan basically is what I would say what are you looking for specifically in a rokan um some of the some amazing rians are actually out in the middle of nowhere so some people might not want to travel too far my flight route this time is easy peasy lemon squeezy jalta to London London to Tokyo easy I have a um I think itās a 2 and a half hour layover in herro and I leave with Japan Airlines um basically I leave I arrive Terminal 3 from jalta and I leave Terminal 3 with Japan Airlines I already got my seats Iām seating on the left hand side on a window seat um to Japan so Tuesday the 9th of July is my flight oh I think I like um kiding Lally why my page is called Ichiban beaches I go Bay Amo divers museums fishing beautiful mountain drives and more sapot is pretty good also sapot is good on draft I think you know what you canāt really go wrong with be Iām looking forward to having be in Japan yes um tahara itās going to be very hot in Japan um just embrace it let your body absorb it you know like go with that mindset donāt let it spoil it for you thereās a lot in Japan to to see in the summer so youāll youāll have a great trip yay thank you Japan pan itchy ban of course I like itchy ban you donāt quite fit but I appreciate that comment look I can what can I do I can do this and I can reply can I reply to it no I can repay to it here thank you hey question is an 8 or 10 hour day trip long enough to see the sites in Kamakura and enoshima let me think I think depends on what time you set off and probably probably I would say yes you might not be able to see I would I would actually start in enoshima and work my way back to Kamakura and then decide depending on how much time I have you know what to see if that makes any sense and oima as a day trip could take you 3 hours maybe 4 hours um once youāre in inoshima and Iām talking about like actually enjoying the the your time there rather than rushing around please donāt do any any day trips rushing around itās just a you know waste wasted um day trip but you could spend a good four hours in Kamakura and then you could head back to sorry in enoshima and then you could head back to Kamakura and then depending on on how much time you have left decide on when to leave thatās the best best way to do it is what I would say Iām not very sure what um what the what the route will be this time with Japan Airlines directly I havenāt flown Japan Airlines um via the Landon trip trip route with Japan Airlines for a while now because Iāve been flying very often with um with th air or with Anna or with Turkish Airlines and Iāve only flown Japan Airlines on the way back and that was via the North Pole Iām not very sure it will be the same on the way that way maybe some of you can tell me I mean at least Iām getting sick or Iām sick now you know a good 9 days before I go cuz it means that I have 9 days to recover so have this been next Sunday Iāll be freaking out itās uh yeah it sucks I hope itās not monkey pox um I think Jal has better I think Jal is better Iām going to Iām going to Iām going to be the um Iām going to be the person with the unpopular opinion but I actually think that is better than Anna um definitely in terms of the economy product I think Jal has some pretty darn amazing leg room itās kind of crazy yeah going on a plane sick would be horrible but you know what I guess that it gets to the point now that if youāre sick and you need to travel you just need to travel you know the worldās changed obviously wear a mask and that kind of thing what are you going to do obviously by then Iāll be fine but Iām just saying Char London to Tokyo goes under Russia according to flight Raider ooh let me check out the the link that youāve posted M okay goes and Russia nice Iām looking forward to it but my flight is the um evening flight not the morning flight though which I prefer because it means that um I think my flight takes off at 7:00 or something like that 7 UK time around that time and it means that I can get my dinner on the plane and then Iāll be tired and hopefully I can sleep quite a bit of the of the flight hopefully anyway um I donāt I think that the red L District can be dangerous if youāre if youāre looking for the wrong things that is but in terms of um of like a danger danger um walking down Oxford Street in London is for me more risky than walking down the red L District in Tokyo [Music] ooh Kura sushi in ugat was the best kiten sushi Iāve ever experienced nice nice nice but Iām going to be there in in um M so you never know but I try my best not to like have a list of restaurants or places to eat just because Iād rather just um stumble upon a place the district where you buy red lights oh youāve only flown with J okay I flew with Anna I flown with Anna now few times and um theyāre pretty good donāt get me wrong but I think Iām going to be totally honest when it comes to the economy I I I donāt get the the pleasure of flying um business like Japan Japan um ichan but when you get the the when you get to economy flying I honestly think that most of the products at the economy level are very very very very um comp comparable very similar and um when it came to Jal and Anna they both have very similar sort of like um customer service the only thing is I do think that Jal has longer better um seats maybe somebody can research that whether or not Iām right in that Jal has better economy seats and leg room I think so Iām not very sure now um sushiro but Iāve never been Sushi hey fugazi Punk hello hello hola thanks for the videos and advice had an amazing time in Japan um Iām glad thank you Iām glad that you had a great time do you have any tips for me any tips for the monkey crew you see Japan japanes Jaan has now start is now understanding why I fly it CAU on me yeah itās all of balance isnāt it you got ask if youāre old enough really cool wow yeah I wonder um what letās see um so apparently Jal and Anna have similar economy classes between 31 and 34 in for Long Haul international flights but jalās Sky wider seats provide more spacious experience with 34 in of seat pitch and 31 okay yes so apparently yeah child is slightly better slightly flying economy and then stay in the park but there was a reason for that oh Japan Jaan ja sent me a photo let me check it out hey nice one this is um photo that was sent to me kittan enjoy do flight attendants remember me um no I donāt think so although I did have not that they remember me but I did have an interesting thing I donāt I donāt know if I mentioned this last week but um last week I was in London I flew to London and on my flight just before we go take off the flight attendant came up to me and said hi excuse me are you Mr whatever you know um are you Nathan and Iām like yeah thatās me and I was thinking what have I done you know are they going to kick me off the flight seriously and he said to me did you know this is your 10y year anniversary flight of being an executive Club member on British Airways would you like some champagne once weāve um once weāve taken off so that was kind of nice yeah the key is to enjoy your time in the flight on the ground yeah uh thatās a good question I donāt smoke so maybe somebody can answer that question patches maybe nicotine patches yeah Executive Club member for 10 years Iām now moved up to bronze which is pretty cool because it means that I get um business class check-in with um with British Airways so I could check in buison this class which is kind of cool and also I get um priority boarding and I also get priority luggage which inferior means that itās a supposed to like arrive at the front or one of the first or whatever but hey they remember you because youāre only vegan oh thanks you know what I have some vitamin C and Iām actually going to have some vitamin C now before going to bed because um yeah I mean the doctor told me to rest my voice and here I am but Iām off work for the next few days and I am definitely going to be rest resting my voice and resting myself so Lord mcrey let me see if I can put a little start there you go much appreciate it your wife has like three cigarettes back to back before the flight wow Michaela I love you I love you though Nathan get your pain I get do what do you want to ride inside the plan this time yeah Jim you must flying soon huh exciting I donāt know if itās going to be easier for you or harder for you to catch my streams whilst youāre in Europe um Lord mcgrey I I did Lord mcgrey put the two little stars next to Lord mcgrey so he has two little stars to show that heās donated donated twice cuz youāre so awesome you get two stars oh yeah letās have the talk Iām going to start ending the stream but I think that is time to eat my last Tokyo banana before I go to Japan which is kind of mad might have one hidden somewhere but Tokyo banana banana banana I use Google Maps I got a win yeah um on the left hand side which in theory should be the side that I see Mount Fuji in theory yeah if youāre going to Japan in the next three months or so um comment with a Emoji or some kind now with a Japan flag is a Japan flag Emoji show me I do yay yay yay exciting when are you going back in the cay anyway guys I think Iām going to start calling it good night get myself some vitamin C and rest my voice if itās late August I leave on the 22nd so just bear that in mind um I hope everything goes well with your with your um test results donāt worry Japan Jaan your flag still counts but thank you all for watching um thanks for your donation thank you so much Jim Ross man with no life assid Lord mcre Lord mcre I say it twice and Jaan Japan Jaan much appreciate your support and um your positivity helps me continue making content and um I look forward to the next one exciting Iām excited take care stay positive and be a happy guy Jin