Day 2- A Tour Through Kobe and Osaka!

Toshikawa takes me on a tour through Kobe and Osaka!

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Hey what’s going on guys um just woke up after about seven hours of sleep couldn’t really sleep any longer than that for some reason but uh yeah it’s my first day in uh Kobe this is the view um gonna go eat some breakfast right now

And then uh meet up with my friend Kento uh he’s an old Yu-Gi-Oh friend uh we’re gonna go uh explore Kobe today I’m not sure exactly what we’re gonna do but something along those lines um I will be updating you throughout the day uh see you soon

And I can have some fun today it’s a really nice day it’s only like 40 degrees but pretty warm it’s not bad compared to Nebraska so I’ll uh if you guys updated no idea how to buy a ticket for the station yet so this is going to be an experience

Okay of course nothing’s in English so I’m gonna have to do short counter see how to do this is not sure how the subway system works but uh uh hopefully there’s not too much to it see what happens week since uh be walking the whole way but it was an experience [Applause]

We’re gonna go to a local shop here on Kobe um yeah I’ll keep you guys updated [Applause] [Applause] or something this is really cool this is something that they don’t have back in the United States uh it’s a game a card game that you uh you slide cards on as you’re uh

As you’re playing and sensor I guess and it moves on the screen I asked the Chicago where the coolest place symbolia was and he said there so uh here we go hey guys uh we’re walking to the port right now um and we picked a very terrible day to

Walk because it started snowing and this is uh this is the first time it snowed in a very long time yeah yeah it doesn’t snow very often here and now it’s snowing I don’t know if you can see it or not but it’s a um we’re still gonna keep walking

Because it’s like 40 degrees out so the snow’s not gonna really stick so but yeah great day for a walk [Applause] all right looks like we’re just in here in the courts still snowing out so I could stop oh it’s lightening up a little bit but

What is this called you said a American Park I’m there this is called American Park they had a statue of an eagle back there what parts in America are like but uh this is the port can’t really zoom in but uh looks like they got a Japan Coast Guard

Ship up there which is pretty cool and all the snow it’s uh yeah it’s really it’s uh cold for him so uh I mean I’m not cold it’s 40 degrees it’s like paradise here for me but uh he’s pretty cold so we’re gonna we’re gonna head back

Um probably go get some lunch or something so stay tuned [Applause] and we’re gonna go eat lunch here he’s gonna take me to a good Chinese place my second or third meal in Japan and I’m eating Chinese food already but uh he said that they have really good food out here so uh we’ll see I’m excited barbecue pork barbecue pork buns

Um and they’re really hot very hot um but uh it’s very good um I love the food that they have here so far I haven’t had any bad experiences so soak it up it’s actually really nice out right now it was freezing um with you know it was really windy out

And now it’s not windy at all and the sun’s out and yeah we’re just uh we’re gonna head to the Pokemon Center after um after that hey guys we just arrived in Osaka Japan and it is huge oh my gosh where do we go in at do you oh okay okay

All right Pokemon Center that is cool okay we’ll get a picture of that later wow there is a lot of plushies a wall of plushies do they have all 150 or or how many are there how many Pokemon are there I don’t know do they have all of them here everyone wow

Wow look at all of them favorite Pikachu actually my favorite is Lucario Lucario is my favorite instead of the straw hat Backpacker I will be very small yeah very small maybe what are these pens pins okay yeah maybe I can for my backpack or something but uh yeah we’re gonna check this out

More and uh just arrived um I know a few people that would want some of them oh and they got my flag I already got one but uh taco so much one piece if only I could bring stuff with me but I can’t laughs konnichiwa oh Genki this guy Genki Disco fascinating

Yeah then we’re gonna meet up with Satoshi at around 6 30 and uh go get some food a little bit hey guys satoshi’s with us say hi Satoshi uh we’re going to go to we’re going to go get some Gilda right now and some ramen and yeah

You’re hungry so hungry I’m very hungry um I will talk to you when we get to the shop hey guys I uh just got back to my hotel room um it’s like nine o’clock right now but I’m absolutely exhausted did a lot of walking today I’m I think it said on my

Pedometer I walked like 20 000 steps whatever that translates to um learned quite a bit today um the language is definitely something I’m picking up on a lot faster since I have no idea what I’m doing um without it um it’s gonna be something I’m gonna start studying a lot actually because I

Can’t I can’t continue on without at least knowing a little bit of the language so um I’m gonna look through some of the books that I have on my Nook and uh get better with those um I have a Skype call right now which I will get back to um but anyway um

Tomorrow uh uh Satoshi is working so I’m going to go out and explore Kobe on my own toshikawa is busy too so it’s just gonna be me um yeah I don’t really know what I’m gonna do but uh we’ll see I will see you guys tomorrow later YouTube