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0:00 – Stunning Mt. Ibuki View 伊吹山
1:00 – Kyoto Station 京都駅
1:58 – Hotel Vischio Kyoto
3:02 – Madrague (Lunch) マドラグ
5:48 – Yasaka Shrine 八坂神社
8:42 – Hokan-ji Gojunoto 五重塔
10:17 – Steamed Tofu Bun
12:54 – Kiyomizu Temple 清水寺
17:27 – Fushimi Inari Station 伏見稲荷駅
20:17 – Soft Rice Cracker ぬれおかき
21:49 – Fushimi Inari Shrine 伏見稲荷大社
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32:23 – Matcha Cream Puff
33:00 – Tsukumo Udon つくもうどん
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That’s it’s ni to explain So we just took an hour and a half long train ride from ogaki to Kyoto just got here we’re staying at a hotel only about 5 minutes away from the train station so we’re going to go drop off our bags and then go get some Lunch [Applause] So that’s kyodo station right over there this is our hotel hotel vishio Kyoto it’s a fourstar hotel so we just got to the hotel early it’s about 10:30 we’re going to leave our bags in the hotel’s locker room which is very nice system can to eat Here Good so fun Milky and smooth so we’re in kyodo right now we’re taking a little bit of a walk to get to all the temples today so Sunny yeah look at how clean the water is drink it it’s not that clean did you like the meal that we just had oh yeah it was
Cute filled with kids what filled with kids no it’s more like a date spot or or like the girls come together now the interesting thing about Kyoto is that it was untouched during the war yeah so all the temples and shrines that we’re going to go View today are originals not replicas
Replicas they I think they fixed up a little bit sometimes like cuz you know like earthquake and stuff so they want to make sure that it doesn’t collapse but pretty much like Kyo is the only place that those like castles and stuff are like originals and other places are
Like they rebuild it again like ngoya Castle yeah all right so right now we’re in front of the yasaka shrine let’s check it out it’s customary to Bow before you enter a shrine in Japan as soon as you bow in the traditional form you buy stuff in the capitalist
Form I know that’s what you like it’s beef stick beef luckily I’m not hungry that’s nice I brought a lot of f cheap what give me five yet okay the way you win this game is whoever gets their their money closest to the door wins no it’s about it’s about how far
You can throw it right that’s not true that’s true all oh this is the year of the dragon yes indeed oh I think we can get out from okay Wow that’s pretty like pretty Street where are we Temple yeah you can do Pottery this looks nice too oh T tofu buns like sweet buns smells good though I’m 250 Yen all right take a bite I know it’s hot though be careful it has U paper on the box I know that I know that I’m not you how hard it is it’s really hard oh probably this is Savory
Actually in it what’s in it I think it’s just like um the Okala It’s Kind kind of like um you know like tou they squeeze out all the like soy milk and everything and this is a leftover oh yeah good it’s the sav and we need to share Can’t okay so we are at the k m and this is pack goes towards the K Temple let’s go super packed oh the cookie the rice c yeah but it’s kind of wet oh and that a Snoopy place you know yeah where are you Koda this is kizo Temple we’re in K miso
Temple kizu kizu temple let’s go take a look behind okay those people you see them now oh yeah I know today is so clear it’s nice though Ready they Clos at six so it’s it’s 400 yen to enter let’s go just got the tickets tickets sweet 400 Yen each we’re going to go inside this Temple You oh I want to ring that Bell Do you want to get Lucky Charms okay what do you want you have a full money H you got a charm for everything so many more do you want to do those the omii what’s that it’s like no they just going to tell you um
How lucky you are going to might be to see you oh okay yeah look good oh look at the wi n it’s okay What nice just so cute hello guys all right so we just took the train and we’re heading to fushima no hushim Inari kushim Inari haa Shrine and we just got off at kushim Inari Station do you want do you want to eat our way through do you want to get some snacks no I left it where’d you leave I left my puff where station let’s go see if they still have no it’s inside I’m not going wait inside of what inside the [Laughter]
Station you left it in the [Laughter] bathroom well I I’ll go get I I’ll go and get it U maybe I’ll ask tomoko’s going to try and retrieve her puffs that you left in the Bathroom there is no access to K Temple or from this ticket gate please cross the railway Crossing and proceed to the ticket gate on the opposite side all right so you just got your Puffs back she let me in you left it in the woman’s bathroom Yes do you want to get crab crab let’s get one it’s imitation CL oh looks good they have the same thing at the other the rice cracker oh do you want to get one all right This is for the location only mm look like this and what is it oh this is rice cracker okay with tofu yeah tofu on top it looks like meat now this is Inari do you remember Inari Sushi like sushi in a pocket yeah yeah this is the same is it good
This is hard all right I will what would you Say a sa and sweet a sweet soy sauce a little bit of mayonnaise so what’s the name of this R in look at these guys standing guard yeah do you know who he is no he has a arrows it’s pretty yeah this is similar to the
N yeah the one in t this is that is also Shrine the shrine has God yeah yeah temp you look like a Buddha you look like Buddha you look like a Buddha all right comment section tell me who looks more like a Buddha me or tamoka definitely
Tomu look at his face look at your faceb oh they’re praying right now smok so cheap That oh they have the same can I try that no phone so that box people shake it and it tells them how lucky it’s going to be how lucky their year is going to Be did you ever play it oh man yeah sure yeah I used to do it every new year at the N good we didn’t do it this time with your parents I don’t believe in you anymore who I mean do you do you still believe the Santa Claus though
No oh so this this is the famous walk that’s always on Instagram oh it’s a beautiful day yeah e tanky yeah so a tip if you’re going to come here you probably want to come first thing in the morning at like 700 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. but I thought I
Mean if you want to get like that insta picture all right take a look this is it right here it’s already a traffic jam so if you want to avoid this traffic you want to get here early in the morning don’t do what we did oh it’s okay oh no that’s called shrink
Flation they has to get rid of two pillars it’s telling us to make a right at the fork we’re doing the thing we’re doing the thing we’re tourist oh look at those Cats there’s more yeah it’s a hike yeah and it’s going to be pretty especially spring and fall spring is going to be umry yeah and you’re going to see a lot of during the fall and it’s going to be that’s why those two seasons yeah we’re coming on a shoulder season
Yeah this is January middle of January I heard that if you continue going on the crowd spin out so since the Sun is setting in about 45 minutes we’re here right now and we’re just going to go this route and then instead of making a right and going up Mount
Inari and doing and doing the whole hike we’re just going to make a left here and come back down yeah if you’re going to do the whole a whole entire hike it’s going to take two hours that’s why I recommend coming here early in the morning I’m show one [Applause]
Is there a spirit living inside that tree probably like a god [Applause] yeah we continuing oh yeah the crowd is starting to thin out you know I think we should just go back there’s a restroom here how many people are still coming up yeah oh look we’re back at the station
Yeah all right we’re heading back to the hotel yeah so this is our hotel room nice separate sink area got pocket door that reveals a separate toilet room and of course it has all the bells and whistles of a typical Japanese toilet Toto and then we’ve got a separate
Shower and bath area here we’ve got two twin beds air cleaner air purifier and this is our room this is the view out if you look that way you can see Kyo station we’re on the fourth floor to what do you think about this room that’s nice very nice and we paid
About 67 USD per night for this room and it it has public bath oh it has like a public bath yeah and it has Cafe that you can get there like coffee and you know teas yeah so you can make it here and there’s a fridge oh there’s a mini
Fridge down here sweet is there anything in it I don’t think so well you get complimentary water as well but again there’s a lounge with water and coffees and stuff like that downstairs downstairs so this is sh yatu hasashi shoe cream so basically yatu hasashi flavor um cream
Puff mhm and this is much of flavor so let’s oh I almost I I left it in the bathroom but yeah it’s it’s still I was able to get it m nice we got some lattes from the lounge it’s not too sweet and it has a nice match of flavor I like It think is really hot I see the the bottom is curry it good it’s really Good bro is good they don’t overcompensate by making it too salty the flavor speak for itself they’re slippery not too firm authentic authentic a little gelatinous which I like it really ties in well room crispy on the outside crunchy nice and moist and soft on the inside that’s
Really good they also give you these little dried tiny fishes you can just add on top I was it delicious good authentic noodles I’m so full