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Hello from Japan.

This is country number eight for me and I'm very excited to be here.

So just arriving now from Taipei.

Let me get through immigration and then we'll go from there.

Got Mario on the wall here.

Something going on with my ear from the flight.

Hopefully it resolves itself soon.

Okay guys, well we are officially in Tokyo.

So yes, country number eight.

Very, very grateful to be here and

that was a very quick immigration process i recommend

that you fill out the forms online before you come here uh

because it was just like scan qr codes put your fingerprints

in bang done now i have to pick up my jr pass i bought the jr pass um

so i need to pick that up

and then we're gonna take this train

and we're gonna explore tokyo something's going on with my ear

it's like there's water it feels like there's water in my

ear something to do with the elevation it's like my ear didn't pop i don't know

but i need to ask somebody where the jr pass is

all right guys i got my uh japan uh rail pass

here took not too long i bought it i pre -purchased it online i was worried

because some people say it takes forever but it took me very very short amount of time.

I have my SIM card.

It costs me $40 for 15 days.

Unlimited data.

And now I need to find an ATM.

First look at the money here in Japan.

Nice.

Okay, sorry for the flickering, guys, but I had to change my settings there, so the lights are now good.

No more flickering in this video.

Okay, so here's the JR East.

Now I need to take the Narita Express,

the JR line, and I was told that I have to schedule it.

I should have scheduled it in advance, truthfully.

I scheduled a bunch of other train rides in advance. So, let's see.

Here's my JR Pass.

Looks like I should probably buy these, one of these sweet cook cards, but let me go talk to someone here.

Maybe I don't have to schedule it, I don't know.

Do I need a reservation to take the Narita Express?

Yeah.

Oh, I do.

Okay, Okay, I don't have a reservation, but I have my JR pass.

Gotcha.

Okay, maybe.

I'll try.

Yeah.

So are there multiple ones?

$4 .45 and then is there another one?

Another one, yes.

Okay.

Alright, thank you.

So maybe I'll get on $4 .45, maybe I won't.

I don't know.

But it's a significant cost savings, so I better do it.

Because an Uber, yes, it would probably be quicker, but it would be very expensive.

So, I've already paid for this JR pass.

I might as well take advantage of it.

Oh, I made it.

I just had to run.

90 seconds.

I made it within 90 seconds, so here we are.

You guys have to say that was a bit stressful.

but I got it all sorted within like 90 seconds

but we made it so we're on our way in here to Shinjuku

so yes here we go I was struggling with my ticket

getting the the reader to read my ticket in a very friendly couple a Japanese couple really helped me

and they pointed me in the right direction I got it so

we're in tokyo baby okay guys well i would consider myself

to be a pro with public transportation up to this point

but i gotta tell you this one here in japan is stressful

so now i'm doing a switch and i'm at tokyo station i think i need to go to maronucci line

but i don't i don't know i have to ask somebody i've asked two people okay guys

so I 100 % missed my connecting train here to Shinjuku

so I think I'm gonna go to a visitor center

and see what I can do to get on another train there

but it's been a long day of travel I'll tell you

that much first time I've ever missed a train I'm actually

really good with this stuff this has been very confusing and we're in Tokyo station so it's like the biggest one

I mean how crowded it is here.

Oh my god.

So I gotta sort it out.

I gotta go to Shuwu line, one or two.

I missed the other one, so I gotta go to this one.

But we are in the biggest city in the world, and probably the most busy metro station in the world, if I'm guessing.

okay very stressful very stressful so

let's see here okay two lines i mean wow guys okay

i mean i can't even walk right now It's crazy.

Okay, I don't see Jiu Align.

Okay, Jiu Align.

I'm in Shinjuku.

Some very friendly man helped me out to make sure I was on the right one, but now I have a 9 minute walk and I just need to find the right exit.

It's gonna be fun.

I have no idea where this is.

Oh boy.

This is the most difficult metro day I've been on, I've had here.

okay does google tell me okay we'll just go out here

okay well

that worked thank god okay well i just need to get the heck outside i'm tired of being in a metro.

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I think I've been in a metro for like two hours, three hours.

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For the first time ever, I missed my connecting train for the first time in my life.

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So there you can see, Shinjuku Station.

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Okay.

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Well, this is expert mode, guys.

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This is expert mode.

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Uber would have been easier, but much more expensive, so it is what it is.

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Now, let me try to find my place but we are here guys

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so we are here all right here we go eight minutes so

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i will be in tokyo for two weeks i do wish i maybe scheduled more

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because just on the metro in here i was like man there are

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so many things i want to see in tokyo

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but there's always a number two There's always a chance to come back in any of these places that you travel,

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so all right Now it's very hot it's very humid.

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I decided to wear pants instead of shorts

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because I heard some horror stories about immigration and it turns out

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that this was literally the easiest immigration I've had so definitely just uh apply online

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like if you're doing

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if you're coming to Tokyo just apply do all of the

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immigration stuff beforehand you'll get a QR you just put the

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QR go right through easy don't even have to worry about it

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but there is something about like looking presentable at immigration especially for Japan

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but anyway it was unnecessary so I'm gonna put a more comfortable pair of clothing on and then

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I'm gonna go probably get a beer and definitely get some Japanese food because I've only had

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airport lounge food it is 6 30 p .m this day

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started at like 5 a .m for me my flight got

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delayed 90 minutes in Taipei we lose an hour going from Taipei to Japan

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so I landed here at 3 30 it is 6 30.

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took me three hours to get through the airport buy a sim card pick up my jr pass

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get money it took an hour

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and a half to get in on the first train ride

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i missed the second train ride had to reroute get on

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a different train now i'm here okay that's a lot it's a mouthful i know

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but we're in tokyo so look at this look at this guys no more complaining no No more complaining.

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It's all beautiful.

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Cool.

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Amazing.

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Amazing view.

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Tokyo has been an eternal bucket list item for me, and so I'm so happy to be here.

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Okay guys, well, look at this really cool alleyway.

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I am somewhere right around here.

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It's called Tokyo Stay.

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There it is.

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Okay, I didn't realize how in the heart of everything I am.

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Here it is, Tokyo Stay.

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Let's get checked in here.

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oh all right okay through here and okay okay guys

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so we are here

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so this is considered a classic business hotel it's called a business hotel in tokyo

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and they're typically cheaper okay

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but basically this is what you get okay this is what you get it's a room i'm very happy with this.

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Let's take a look at what is in here.

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I have no idea what's this.

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How to use Corby trouser.

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Oh, it's a trouser press.

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All right.

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I'm not going to do that right now.

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Oh, the bed.

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Oh yeah.

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It's definitely hard, but you know what?

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We will make do.

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No complaints because we are here.

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We also have air con and this should be the bathroom.

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Oh, oh, whoa.

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I was not expecting this.

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The bathroom is almost as big as the entire room.

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Wow, I was expecting a crazy small bathroom.

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And you know what?

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I'm super excited for the Japanese toilet game.

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I'm not gonna lie, okay?

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So, if you don't know, in Japan, these crazy toilets.

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This is how you work the toilet.

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Over here.

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So, I have no idea.

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It's gonna take a minute for me to understand how to use this.

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Walk in the shower?

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Oh my.

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Hello? and here we are so this room cost me 89

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or 90 a night yes i know i'm not joking you heard

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that right 89 or 90 a night

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because i am in shinjuku i'm staying here three nights this

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is like one of the best places in tokyo to stay shinjuku

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and shibuya those are the two places they're the most expensive places other than ginza

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so ginza shinbuku ginza shinjuku and shibuya are the most expensive places to stay

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because they're probably the most lively energetic active central areas

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so that's why you can expect to get something like this for $90 a night however

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and I'm very proud of this I'll be in Tokyo for two weeks I think it's like 15 days 14

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or 15 days and my total spend per night for two weeks in Tokyo is $79 a night

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so I was able to get the spend down by doing a combination of Airbnb

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and hotels all right

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and let's take a look at this view here we even

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got a trouser press guys I don't even know do I

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wear trousers of course I do anyway here's the view not much

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but you know what zero complaints from wah let's go let's go explore Tokyo Hey guys,

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so here's free accessories that comes with the room, toothbrushes, toothpaste, all of this stuff,

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like coffees, and then we also have these famous Japanese vending machines here.

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First look at them, so you can get yourself a Kirin beer, 150 yen is a dollar, so that would mean that $300 is $2.

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So that would mean that this is about $2 .50, $3 maybe.

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This is like $3.

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But yeah, cool.

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Cool, cool, cool.

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So I don't have a plan other than I'm going to go explore Shijuku.

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And I might even head over to Shibuya Crossing, which is the famous crossing.

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We'll see.

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I don't know.

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I'm feeling it.

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It's one of these nights I don't even really want to bring up the map.

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I just want to walk.

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I just want to walk and I want to see what's out here.

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So stressful day but we're here.

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Look at all these little cafes.

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Could be quite challenging to order but you know since I'm only in Shinjuku for three days,

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three nights, I do want to like pick wisely I want I want to choose wisely on the restaurants

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so yeah this is like a special place now I can always come back because where I'm staying next

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is close to a metro

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so the metro in Tokyo you can get anywhere you need to go

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but yeah I'm right here in Shinjuku for three days

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so I might as well take advantage

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which is look at this street guys oh man

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and I suspect every street you turn down is going to be really cool.

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so yeah sure there's amazing stuff down here and grilled pork looks really good i have to say

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some people have told me that it can be the interactions can be a little cold

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in japan but i'll tell you what i have not experienced

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that i have experienced very friendly people so far uh

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because i've been i got legitimately lost on my way in here and without the people I talked to, I would have been really confused.

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So for my Thai friends, Chang, Singha, Saigon, Lao.

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So we've got a Southeast Asia bar there.

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I mean, it's first night.

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We have to go with a bowl of ramen, right?

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Is that not is that not what you do?

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I've got more vending machines here.

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I will probably do a vending the team video

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or do we have to get a sapro you tell me sapro

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or Kieran what is the what is the one I think

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sapro is a more premium I'm at the point where I

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just want to dip into one of these restaurants get a food and some beer

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because it's where I'm at

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but I want to make the most of it you know

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do you feel me do you feel me okay here we go All right,

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let's go with this.

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Okay.

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Onigashima.

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I got a spicy ramen and I gotta say who does it look good?

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Let's try the froth and garlicky broth.

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Spicy.

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Very spicy but very good.

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The chopsticks here.

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Careful I don't put my elbows on the table

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okay I think I will get a beer number two at

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the sale house here all right well cheers again they had

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Kieran on drafts I did not they did not have Sapporo on draft.

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I'm sure I'll have Vinny Zapros here.

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Okay guys, while I've been sitting there looking at this vending machine, I was drinking this beer.

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So we've got 100 yen water.

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I think I'm going to need some water.

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But I want to see what else is over here.

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So we've got isotonic water.

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I've got 100 yen here.

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I don't know if it takes 50 yen coins or not, but by the way, this is incredible.

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Uh, Calpis, uh, which is like a, uh, it's like a fermented,

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like a yogurt drink, but all right, let's see here.

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Okay.

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It does take 50 yen coins.

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Okay.

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So we'll put a hundred in here and what do we do,

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okay, okay, let's get this open,

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so it's called picnic water,

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picnic water, it's good, so I was gonna go to Shibuya Crossing tonight,

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but you know I've been on a metro for like hours

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today i don't feel like going back to the metro station

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today i really don't it was just too much metro

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so i'm gonna go over to golden guy which is a place

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that has like hidden bars

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and basically these bars are very special only certain amount of people are allowed in each bar

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so like the bar might be capped at like 10 people only 10 people can be in at a time

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and foreigners are not allowed in every bar it's a very special place

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so we're gonna go over to golden guy

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and we'll see we can get a seat I don't know

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so not only do can you be denied entry into a golden guy bar

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but I don't think they're gonna like filming

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so I will try we'll see how far we get

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but I really don't feel like taking the metro again

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so that's where I'm at it's like one of these ramen spots where you order you order from the machine

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and they you go in and you pick up the order pretty cool I'll just maybe try it While I'm here.

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Looks like you, like I said, looks like you pick the one you want.

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I guess you get a token or a ticket and then you go in and they serve it to you.

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Like no contact.

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So Google Maps tells me that it's right around here.

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So I have no idea what that says, it's in Japanese.

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But you can see like there are a bunch of little shops down there.

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And basically these are like little hidden bars.

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that have like you just literally some some people just you're

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not allowed to go in you just have to see

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if you're allowed in um we'll see i don't know i'm gonna try guys i'm gonna try

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so yeah like down here i'm sure that's one okay death match in hell

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is this a golden guy this this whole area like down

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there down there down there yeah okay thank you guys thank you

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okay

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so here we go deathmatch in hell seems pretty cool no cover charge

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you guys get the idea here look so like that guy was saying it's like a little network

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of bars and shops and each one has a different theme

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oh my gosh this is so cool i'm gonna have to go down all of them

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i wonder where that goes probably somewhere cool hello Wow.

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I'm blown away.

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I mean, I've seen this on YouTube,

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but to see, to be here in person is amazing.

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500 yen cover charge.

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Okay.

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So if you're going to go there, you better drink.

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okay oh wow and uh keeps going farther wait i want to go this way

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oh very uh a lot of foreigners here

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oh wow by the way i'm gonna get some instagram photos here So make sure you follow me on Instagram.

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Make sure you hit subscribe.

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It would really help me out I'd really appreciate it less than 8 % of you are subscribed

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This one's like aquarium themed okay i want to go back down that other street

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yeah i mean this is like one of these things where

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there are no words necessary i hope hope you guys can

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see how amazing this is yeah i don't know what's going

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on in there nope okay photography prohibited i can't go in there um some of these no cover charge cash only

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some of these i think you can find yourself

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and you can get yourself into some things i think here

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if you catch my drift not not not endorsing that in any way but

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oh you get pizzas here i'm noticing like lots of pizza here in uh tokyo lots of pizza available

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okay so that might be golden guy

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but i want to see what's down here

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and then i think we're going to dip into one of those shops

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and get ourselves a golden guy beer but there's something

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that looks cool down here so i want to see it all these neon lights caught my eye so wow

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first and foremost let's look down here it's like a grass walkway it's like a i don't know it's a walkway.

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Might have to take that back because I'm very intrigued.

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Is this whole area golden guy?

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Oh my gosh guys.

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Okay, photos are are incoming.

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I know five words.

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Japanese onegaishaimasu, which means please.

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So when you order something you can point and say onegaishaimasu.

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What else do I know?

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Sumimasan, which means excuse me Arigato,

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arigate gozaimasu, and arigato, uh, of course konnichiwa, and there's also konbaiwa,

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uh, deathmatch, so, that's what I know, cover, cover for foreign visitors, well I like that, that is very nice,

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that is very nice, maybe we go there, no photo, okay, I gotta be careful, not everybody's gonna want this,

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If I can't bring you in, I'm not going to bring you in.

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I'm just telling you right now.

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English, okay.

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English, okay.

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Oh, good bar?

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Good?

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Good bar?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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It's here.

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Oh, sit here.

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Okay.

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You picked my seat for me.

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Okay, alright.

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Okay, thank you.

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Alright guys, I'm continuing this First Day in Japan video here during the next evening.

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And we're gonna go explore around the Shinjuku Station area.

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In fact, we're just going to explore more of Shinjuku.

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I'm going to be doing Shibuya Crossing in another video.

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So yeah, there are a couple really cool shops it seems like over here that I'm excited to check out.

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So this video is picking up after you last saw me go into the Golden Gai area

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and I will tell you that you'll be sure to make friends if you decide to go in one of those bars.

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It was an incredible time last night

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and yeah I'd highly recommend you check out Golden Gai if you are coming to Tokyo.

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It's an unforgettable experience so you can just take a look at this street.

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It's absolutely beautiful at night and there's something about Tokyo at night

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that I really wanted to capture in this first day in Tokyo video because one thing I want to highlight

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is that Tokyo is one of the world's safest cities

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so this is a place where you can absolutely explore at any time of the day for sure

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so it's just something to keep in mind

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you know I always like to bring in population statistics

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so Tokyo is estimated to have around around 37 million people that's

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if you take the entire metro area

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which puts it at the world's largest city

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and um it is very evident

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when you are walking around especially in the public transportation areas

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so yeah now one of the things

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that i would like to do here now we're not in Akihabara

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but one of the things i would like to do here is maybe go into like a bookstore

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or like a used cd shop or used electronic shop

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because i believe there are some in this area so yeah

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that might be something that we get into here but right now we're just going to explore

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uh around here for right now i really like the energy here

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so yeah over here looks like we've got like a shoe

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shop looks like all different types of brands you pick up shoes lots of like clothing areas

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and this is one of these things where I don't even really want to bring up the map.

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I kind of just want to walk around.

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You can see the street here is made for walking

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and right there is JR East which is that very stressful metro station

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that I'm sure I'll get used to by the time I am done here.

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This feels like a relatively upscale area here.

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You know Honestly, a lot of Tokyo.

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I have a lot more of Tokyo to explore in my life, and I think it would take a lifetime Truthfully,

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but this feels like pretty a relatively upscale area and this area is very interesting

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because it's a mix of local eateries restaurants and

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also retail shopping and

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It's like one of these things where you just you want

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to go in every shop You want to go in ever absolutely every shop

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and check everything out like just look at this neon sign it looks incredible

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so at least to me i don't know if you guys find

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that interesting but i do i don't know what the words are

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but yeah let's continue on

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so there's a store called book off i actually did peek at the map

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but there's a store called book off

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that has uh like used books this is i believe i don't know

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but i believe this is also owned by the same company

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that owns hard off which is a an electronic store where you can buy used Game Boys

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and vintage like electronics video game stuff like that

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and I will be going to a few of those in a future video here on this Japan series

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so yeah okay so I don't know we walk up here, we walk down here.

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I'd rather walk down here, but yeah, let's see.

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I am somewhat limited on time.

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I do think we walk down here, so this is even better.

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I'm somewhat limited on time because the store closes in about two hours, but eh, not really.

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Oh, it's only about a 10 minute walk.

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And guys, look at this X bar.

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It's called Craft Beer in Game, so I'm assuming you can play like arcade games i do want to dip into an arcade at some point

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so maybe it's the same thing as here i don't know

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but this looks pretty cool look you can win a uh like candy

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you can win candy here look at this okay

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and i have to say this is a mix of adults

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and children playing right now so it's kind of for all ages here i mean this is just so fascinating

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and beyond anything i've seen before in this style

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look popcorn i have no idea what this is oh i

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don't know i don't know you can even uh try your luck at getting some house blend uh starbucks here

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or massive cringles this is essentially gambling these things almost never hit

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but hey oh a gengar i see a gengar in every video i've been watching my taiwan series

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oh look uh kirby oh my gosh uh my inner child is really going to come out here in tokyo

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that is for sure that is for darn sure

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and that's a good thing that is a good thing

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if there's another floor to this oh my gosh look at

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this oh my god guys have you ever seen anything like that

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One of the interesting things I've seen in this Shinjuku area is that there are casinos,

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air quotes, basically they're gaming arcades but they're casinos and I would like to go in and play some blackjack.

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I'm not going to be able to film.

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I also think there will be absolutely no English speaking there

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so I don't think I'd even be able to get to

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play okay well this looks very cool I don't know

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if that's what I'm looking for

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but I think I'm gonna probably end up going in here we see more of these uh amazing

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vending machines we've got Pepsi refresher shot

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or refresh shot I have no idea what

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that is I'm not going to roll the dice on

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that right now I do think that some of these coffees

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that you buy are hot like they actually come out hot but I need to know before I buy

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but you can get a shot at some of the prices

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here a bottle of water is less than a dollar

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because a dollar 150 yen is a dollar

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so nice bottle of mineral water for less than a dollar same with a coke

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and yeah but you can see they're just everywhere but okay Okay,

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so Book Off should be around here somewhere.

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And just take a look at this shot here of this street.

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Oh, it looks incredible.

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I'm going to take another photo.

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Yes, here's Book Off.

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Okay, now how do we get up here?

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There is Book Off.

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Oh, it looks like DVDs and stuff here.

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Wow.

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I do wonder if they have an English section.

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Oh, look at that.

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oh my god guys look at this wonder what this novel's about oh man

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oh shinigami i do know what a shinigami is i have watched death note so okay well

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let's see what else is here and see if there's anything else interesting here

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okay up here I think we have like DVDs oh no

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these are books okay you've got the one -piece manga here

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here what arcs these are oh I can't read Japanese I don't know

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and take a look they also have phones for sale here

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and you can even buy Nintendo switches here or other video games How about this,

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M64, M64 dance.

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Okay so this section, I'm not sure what's going on other than there's more bleach stuff.

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I think this is like figurines and like some more like anime stuff.

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I think you can see like trinkets here.

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Little trinkets.

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So we have like, oh, Pokemon cards, get out of town guys, get out of town, we got a Mew.

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Oh wow, look at all of these cards guys.

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Okay, well all of that book shopping made me thirsty so we're going to go ahead and get a sparkling water, believe that's sparkling water, I hope it is, so 120 yen.

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Let's see if I have it here, good.

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And you can see the ones we can buy light up, the ones that you don't have enough money for don't light up, so okay.

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Okay, I consider myself to be a huge fan of sparkling water, and let's give this a taste.

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Mmm, some qualified sparkling water.

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so guys this is one interesting thing

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so you have these uh coin lockers all over japan here

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so if you like i don't know if you're in between hotel rooms

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or airbnbs you can put your luggage in here it looks

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like it's about a thousand yen i don't know how long

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that is for i don't know how much a thousand yen would get you

489

but thousand yen is about seven dollars seven eight dollars something like

490

that but yeah it's so interesting i've seen them all over uh tokyo so far

491

but uh yeah the vibe here in japan is just is

492

unbelievable as i was walking i looked to my right and found this cool little street here.

493

I have no idea what this is.

494

I'm really glad I decided to come down here.

495

Well, I have read

496

that this is like a classic thing in Japan where you go down an alleyway and there's a whole culture here.

497

Okay, well I don't know which way to go

498

but I think we'll go this way the smell of food right now is

499

so incredible no idea

500

so down here it seems to be even farther going even

501

brother see the big hot pot oh my gosh wow yeah this is uh this is next level

502

i'm really wishing i think we've got yakitori here or some sort of skewers

503

really wishing i didn't eat already guys yeah i'm gonna have to come back here tomorrow Wow.

504

Indescribable how cool this is.

505

Alright, so I'm walking towards Kabuchiko, which is, I believe, the Korean town here in Japan.

506

I believe this is a place where, how do we say, extracurricular activities happen.

507

But it's also the place where I see poker tables and I'm wondering if I can find a place to play blackjack.

508

I won't be able to take you with me on that, but yeah, we'll see.

509

Here's a pachinko and slot.

510

So basically what happens is you play pachinko, which is a game, and you win like tokens.

511

And basically you can exchange the tokens in the alleyway next to it for money.

512

So it's an arcade so I would love to play some Bajinko

513

but I don't think I don't have an IC card I need to pick up a Suica card

514

and then I think I can load money on it I

515

don't know I probably could have asked them in there

516

but I don't know how to play it there

517

so I'm not gonna play it right now I do hear There's some live music though down here in Kibuchiko.

518

Look, it lights up.

519

I wonder what it means.

520

okay guys so we have more pachinko here and this one seems to be even bigger

521

oh another one of these alleys that you can just get lost in since 2001

522

i don't know i don't know what i'm doing here i can't read this

523

and i know you can like press i don't know i don't know what i'm doing but Okay,

524

well, that was a bucket list item.

525

Play slot machines in Tokyo.

526

So I lost 1 ,000 yen, which, again, I think is like $7.

527

It was an experience.

528

Okay, well, this is like what you see in the movies.

529

Look at this.

530

Look at this.

531

This is like what you see in the movies.

532

Look at all these signs here.

533

Neon lights.

534

crazy energy going on yeah pretty incredible oh taito station it's like an arcade or something up there

535

so here's one of the many famous uh don quixote's here in uh tokyo Don Quixote is a discount bargain shop.

536

It's a bargain shop, it's a discount store.

537

It's a very interesting background.

538

Alright, so down this street you can really see the classic Tokyo scene here that you see in the movies.

539

And I think I might need to be a little careful filming here.

540

because yeah i might need to be a little careful filming here but uh yeah we'll see we'll see

541

okay so i am gonna snap a photo of this street but this is absolutely fascinating

542

I have more arcades here.

543

Okay so I have found myself in a spot that is very interesting here.

544

this doesn't even feel real guys this is a such an interesting place oh man so

545

i actually i've been walking the entire time and i missed it there it is there's the

546

godzilla head and i think you can get like a really good shot of the godzilla

547

if you go to hotel gray street

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and you go up this um building here the legendary uh

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godzilla head i think there's another one somewhere like a statue

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or something all right guys well i hope you enjoyed my

551

first time in japan video much more content to come here uh from japan

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and yeah make sure you hit subscribe hit the like button

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and i'm most certainly be talking to you again soon peace Thank you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 553 sentences and 5691 words to shadow. The speech runs for 44:27. The speaker talks at a steady 128 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
metro noun	/ˈmɛtɹoʊ/	A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
explore verb	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	To examine or investigate something systematically.
immigration noun	/ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/	The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
stressful adjective	/ˈstɹɛsfəl/	Irritating; causing stress.
arcade noun	/ɑɹˈkeɪd/	A row of arches.
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
sparkling adjective	/ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/	Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light.
toilet verb	/ˈtɔɪ.lət/	To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.
coin noun	/ˈkoɪ̯n/	A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
subscribe verb	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
token noun	/ˈtoʊkən/	Something serving as an expression of something else.
spicy adjective	/ˈspaɪsi/	Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
neon noun	/ˈniˌɑn/	The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas.
clothing noun	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to…
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
book off verb		To call off from work.
light up verb		To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
walk down verb		To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's…
bring up verb		To mention.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come back verb		To return to a place.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been sitting · i've been watching · i've been walking
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've already paid · i've asked · it's been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was told · is considered · are allowed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	Crossing, which is · guy which is · onegaishaimasu, which means

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 228 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/, deathmatch /ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/, truthfully /ˈtɹuːθ.fəl.i/, broth /bɹɔθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Long words — get the stress right: immigration /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/, reservation /ˌɹɛz.ɚˈveɪ.ʃən/, photography /fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fi/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like metro, explore, immigration.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?