A day in the life at a Japanese Bakery in Tokyo Japan. This is the working life of a typical Japanese baker and their Japan work culture. We follow the Japan baker during their work hours as well as the morning routine and after work life. Japanese bakeries are known for their unique variety of bread products quite different to their western counterparts, with items such as melon pan, an pan and all kinds of sozai breads. And although rice is a Japanese staple, bread gained in popularity during the meiji period, and in less than 2 centuries, it’s become even more popular than rice. Soft Japanese bread with all sorts of cream and curry fillings, mentaiko and yakisoba toppings is all perfectly suited for the local taste. In Japan, food safety is paramount to showcasing and serving delectable breads. And with Japanese customers equally conscious about cleanliness, it’s almost culturally mandatory for breads to be individually wrapped assuring customers that each piece of bread has been properly handled and no else has touched it. Shokupan is a Japanese milk bread, popular for its milky-sweet taste, undeniable moistness and pillowy cottoncandy like softness often served as breakfast toast or sandwich bread. Different than traditional white bread, it has a richer flavorful experience. The Yudane baking method which originated in Japan is used here. Instead of being cooked, the flour is mixed with boiled water then left to cool down before use, which gelatinizes the starch in the flour resulting in a more tender bread which stays softer for longer.
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awesome mum. love her work!
She’s amazing! Her name means flour in Spanish
Multiply this work ethic by every person in Japan and you can see why it is an amazing place. Very inspiring, but very hard work.
What’s crazy is the grand mother being Theo from before 6 am to probably past 7 pm. That lady is putting in some hours
While watching her day in life, I find myself wanting to have a taste of her handmade breads. Hahaha! I'm from the Philippines btw… Wahahaha!
cool video!
What a lovely family they built. That made my day.
Day in a life of a foreign exchange student
Go and meet youtuber Ajay Pandey in Osaka
Itadakimasu
It is strange and weird to see Japan so much technologically developed in terms of robots and etc and they still work hard as manual job. You can question if they develop robots why do they work so hard? Makes little sense
hard working and simple living. What a rockstar mom.
Loved this one can't wait for the next one
To think she's trying not to do so much and taking it easier than before.
10:39 Typo 12.00am..should be 12.00pm I suppose
Ayo was that an indoor swing!
What a hard working woman. Respect!
I find it funny that her name in Spanish means flour and she works at a bakery.
I want to try the bread
Her name "Arina" is the pronounciation for the Spanish word for flour. She seems destined to be a baker.
I agree 100 percent with all the other commenters but can we take a moment to acknowledge how amazing she looks without makeup and having had a terrible nights sleep??? I need her skincare routine.
Thank you for providing such joyous intimate insights into Japan. What loving people!
Hoppy giving me malta vibes
Great video Paolo. It must've been nice to find a baker that doesn't get up at 2 am lol
I wish we could order from her bakery here in in USA!
Love from Sri Lanka
funny fact, her name "Arina" sounds like the pronunciation of flour in Spanish ("harina", no H sound when pronouncing.).
refreshing video, thanks as always 
Japan is such a awsoke safe country… #1 place to live
This was great to watch! Thank you for bringing these videos to us.
Supermom!
I like this video, it seems to be more popular than the previous videos with the same content. Within 2 days it's reached more than a half million viewers. Great job.
It's ironic that her name sounds like "Harina" which means "Flour" in spanish
I like her and her husband working life, struggle in the day and have time for family at night. This what i call well balance life
i dislike j-bread. nothing to brag about, sorry. I've lived in Japan for 20 years now, and boy do I like the seafood, bbq, the culture, almost everything. but this is not a country that does bread well.
I know it looks good on the clip, but trust me when I say it tastes dismal compared to anything European.
And they'll go 'yeah but we won all these international bread-making contests' and blah blah and yes when cooking competitively they'll make a mind-blowing loaf, but the stuff you get down at your local baker? really, really average. everytime I go back to the UK I'll buy a crappy 50p loaf, stick some ham and picallily on that bad boy and sit there in heaven for 30 mins.
It seems to be a lot for a woman.
Typical Japanese mom.
Great respect 
Great video as always Paolo! For future videos, would you be able to do a "Day in the Life of a Japanese Nurse" as I am in the nursing industry and would like to see how it works there in Japan?
People should read Martin Spitzer's "The Smartphone Epidemic". Children as young as those start day with minds glued to screens – it is the worst solution possible…
She amazing. She does so much before 7:30 am. She works so quick. I am suprised she opens in the late morning…..but her stuff is so good, her customers wait. Dancer, baker, Mom.
Her name’s Arina and she’s a baker? Makes a lot of sense. Harina is the tagalog word of flour
I hope Paolo knows that Arina in Tagalog (derived from Spanish) is flour.
Hurray! Another day in the life video! This mom is super awesome! Great video!
Talk about superwoman! Wow. Raising children is no easy task plus running a bakery -yikes! I hope she will find work/ life balance . Much concern for her – to hear she winded up in hospital because of doing too much. Overall, what an awesome video. Thank you for sharing
Geez the school makes you log what they ate and how much they slept?
I love bread and pastries. This would be a great job!
Everything's individually wrapped which I understand is a good hygiene practice, but what about using paper bags? From what I've seen, Japanese are very wasteful when it comes to overuse of plastic and things bad for the environment
I want to try that margherita pizza bread and milk bread, yum
I always wonder if these workers usually listen to music, or if they spend the whole working in silence and not talking
Cute family