We are back in Japan where it all began 7 years ago! Join us as we explore the 2 snowiest cities in the world, and ski the country’s best mountain resort! Thank you BetterHelp for sponsoring this video – Get 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/kandn | We are giving away a FREE TRIP TO THE CARIBBEAN! All you have to do is enter your email here – https://faredrop.app/yt_puertorico plus you’ll get our free travel newsletter, Daily Drop ✈️
Episode 863 | Filmed February 2023 | Sapporo, Niseko, and Aomori, #Japan #travel
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Who are Kara and Nate?!
Watch our documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuFv4iF8wgg&t=1s
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, we got married 2013 and were super “normal.” I was a teacher and Nate started a small printing business from the spare bedroom of our apartment.
We discovered the world of “travel hacking” while planning our honeymoon & became addicted 😉
So after 2 years of obsessively saving $35k and over 2 million miles and points, we sold our cars and apartment and left home January 10, 2016 for a “one year” trip around the world.
Our goal was to see as many places as possible before we ran out of money and went back home to “normal life.” We started this travel vlog to share our experiences with friends and family, but quickly fell in love with living on the road and found a new passion for capturing our travels through video. So we did everything we could to keep going.
4 years later, we achieved our new goal of visiting 100 countries and all 7 continents. We had no plans to slow down, until 2020 forced us to 😉 Which is when we bought a converted van to start exploring our own country for the first time.
After ~2 years of van life, we are back to full time traveling! And now we are finding the best adventures the world has to offer 🙂
We are incredibly grateful to be able to continue doing something we love every day. 😊🎥🌎 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of our journey 🙂
00:00 Japan’s snowiest cities❄️
00:35 Why this trip is special💛
01:35 Day 1: Sapporo Snow Festival☃️
04:32 Ramen alley🍜
08:28 day 2: train to the mountains🚂
10:41 days 3-4: skiing Niseko⛷
15:08 day 6: Aomori local fish market🍣
21:22 the snow monsters🏔
23:17 win a FREE TRIP to the CARIBBEAN!🏝
23:43 Bloops😂
32 Comments
But what a sweet feeling about growing old together when you are still so young!!
Omg the ending music!!! Classic!
It is true about the chopsticks. Ohashi manners is very important. Vertical chopsticks is about funerals. So at a funeral, rice is offered to the deceased and they put the chopsticks vertical. So to do this is extremely rude and bad luck. Also in the funeral they cremate the body and there are larger bones remain after burning the body. So they use chopsticks to pass the bone for crushing. So you never pass food using chopsticks. You always place food on the plate. So when offered food never try to take the food from the other persons chops ticks, offer your plate for them to place the food there. Again related to funerals and extremely rude and bad luck to pass food from one chopstick to another.
Hey! I've always been curious. Ik yall mentioned you have a Christian background. How do you fit in church/devotionals into traveling? Any favorite devotionals that yall do? 🙂
Loved the little snip of original (annoying) music theme at the end.
Kara ,Nate you should come to trinidad and other countrys in the carridean please thanks bye🤗.
I absolute love the walls at the train stations to help ppl from falling
Which ones do you get? I like tuna. I went to Tokyo with a friend and do not eat those. As soon as we get off the plane before finding the train or bus. I would head to the convenient store and get my Onigiri!
The chopsticks are only placed vertically in the rice at a funeral only for the person who passed. 😔🙏🏼
i waited for this, you guys going back to Japan
Awesome video!!!
Should try to link up with Mav
You guys should do a colab with Chris Broad while you're there. He's on a health fix lately. Maybe climb mount Fuji together or something
I love the musical ode the early Japan vlogs.
They're not "still wearing masks".
one of my dads High School friends is an english teacher in Sapporo. If you see an american guy whos 6ft+ tall and looks like Scotty from the original Star Trek, that would be him
That's awesome. I wish I'd stop by Japan before the explosion noe I'm too scard to go there because of all the radiation.
I like how you slipped the music from your first vid at the end. 😂
Go to Hawaii next
Great video. I grew up in one of the world’s snowiest cities (not in Japan though) and that brought back a lot of childhood memories. Will be going to Japan for the first time this summer when there is less snow. Haha! Love your videos.
not every loved up moment in this video fully bringing me to tears because y'all love each other so much and it showssss
Go see @mav !
The lady at the fish market who kept saying "yay!" is my spirit animal.
So in love with this vlog. It felt just like the old days where you guys would explore and eat and take us with you. So fun to watch. I was smiling the whole time! Please do more like this. It was so good!
I would have loved to have seen scenery from the trains yall took. I love all of your videos and they always leave me wanting more
Goes to Japan and eats vegetarian ramen and says it’s Americanized ramen?!?!?! How about ordering regular ramen or get a salad at McDonalds. クレイジー
That’s not how you eat a sweet potato you were supposed to peel the skin and then eat it
Your new content sucks. Bring back budget traveling.. now all you guys do is complain.
Love seeing you guys loving Japan..
You guys live in Nashville to! I just moved from there to Denver!😊
Got to as one to take his first trip put of the USA where should I go to n visit first wether it's a city or a country where should I go first
They can keep the snow over there too. We haven't had much snow in Kenosha Wisconsin this year and I'm not complaining lbs!