Japan Travel Guide for people who don’t like mainstream.

Do you hate crowds? Do you appreciate nature than urban part? Are you low key type of person? If that’s you then you might like out way of traveling in Japan.

We visited Asakusa, Nikko, Mt Kintoki, Fukuoka, Itoshima, Yame and Narita-san.

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Subway even outside Tokyo and you can even buy stuff in convenient or other vendors and you can top up this card pretty much any stations in Tokyo or any other part of Japan unless it’s a very far Countryside H it used to be pretty difficult to get these cars even for me

In Japan cuz the process was super long but now you can go to a vending one of vending machines in Narita Airport and yeah it’s pretty handy and also it has a long expression date so if you want of uh visitors who come to Japan a lot for example um this one we

Bought in 20123 will last until uh 2028 so it’s pretty long I would say F so for food I don’t remember how many times we went to yayen yayen is a franchised Japanese T gr uh which you can find anywhere in Japan one meal could call cost um

Roughly like 1,000 y to maybe 1,200 t or something like that and what we like uh of course you know the all the food is delicious but also as I showed on the video you can get the refill of rice for free this Japanese pickle is so

Delicious seriously I could eat like um like five or six bowls of rice with these pickles you don’t even need other food so yeah definitely I recommend you to go to Yo Ken also needless to say you can find Oni in any comes in Japan personally I like Onis from

7-Eleven so yeah um we ate tons of Onis and of course it’s really good food to take away um take with you if you’re going to hiking so while we are in Tokyo we stayed in Asaka and obviously there are tons of videos and informations out

There about Asaka so not going to say a lot about this place but I’ll point out that you should go up to the observatory uh you can find the Google Map link um on the YouTube descriptions and I recommend you to go to H and coffee if you grab coffee and

This one is technically a Norwegian Cafe but they only have cafes in either Norway or Japan and Japanese people are crazy about this Cafe and their coffee is pretty good but I would say I make better coffee to be honest for the the filter ones so if you are like me who

Make coffee by themselves at home maybe you should get one of americanos Americano was super delicious Nico probably you’ve heard of this price it’s a very very ttic spot you can do a day trip even from Tokyo and there’s tons of thing you can do in

Um niiko if you’re nature lover or even if you’re not uh the main purpose we went there is to enjoy hiking um obviously we climbed on Mount NTI that’s the probably the most iconic mountain in niiko uh Mount n is actually a sacred Mountain so there’s a shrine and you

Need to pay the entrance fee but the good thing is you can get one of these om moris so there’s a little souvenir for you and Hike itself was very challenging I would say it’s like non-stop um ascending and the view was okay to be honest I mean it was it

Was good but at the same time I thought m n is better for just watching not climbing I would say so I I just put other um recommendation of hiking to enjoy the view of Mount NTI with the lake huge Lake I do not agree okay cuz you

Have and if you’re lucky and if you’re fortunate to have a good weather you can maybe see Mount huji from the top of Mount NTI and also we lost our cameras that’s why all the footage is kind of but yeah um if you happen to find our

Cameras in Mount L please let us know or bur or Burn yeah Co yep um you should definitely visit this place it’s my birth prate first plate first plate yep so you should definitely visit this place it’s the coolest place in Japan that’s where I’m from and yeah of

Course is known for tonos ramen it’s a pork broth Ramen and yeah there many Ramen stores in fukoka so I’ll just put the links for the places we went we we only went to two ramen shops but both of both of them are really good and other thing is uh

Maybe you can visit gachapon gapon is like a cell um toy vending machine where you can find in Japan Maybe seen it uh on the internet but um there’s a one building it’s filled with more than 700 gacha bonds it’s called # C PL don’t know why but you should go there it

Might be fun you can find a lot of weird stuff and yam if you are into green tea or Japanese tea tea probably you appreciate a lot um yame is known for Japanese tea and then there a lot of um T field and yeah from santaa you need to

Take a bus and train then it it would take more probably like an hour so it’s a little trouble but it’s worth it um yeah like we did you can walk to the observatory of of the green te field from the center of yame it took probably 1 hour to 2

Hours and what else yes so please check out this called the bus stop Library it’s in front of the main bus stop of yame you can get a free kind of bottle of green tea by downloading uh this app I forgot the name of app but the stuff there is very

Very friendly and he speaks English so maybe he will help you but I assume this app is only available in Japanese uh Play Store or app store on the way from the bus stop to this Observatory of green uh green tea field there’s a tea shop where you can get yumy tea

Ice cream M it was delicious so yeah especially the the hot day and a long walk it would be nice to stop by to get ice cream lastly Narita Narita is definitely an underrated spot to check out even I thought Narita just a place for the airport I never thought it could be

Cool like this so Narita so what we did is on the last day of Japan um we just FW back from Hoka to Tokyo so we are like H it’s kind of long trip to you know um go from the Narita Airport to Tokyo to just stay one night so why not

We just book a hotel near Narita Airport because prices are kind of Cheaper Than Tokyo and you know the facilities are much better than the ones you can get in Tokyo Tokyo all the accommodation is kind of small but you can get the decent hotel room with the same price in Narita

So that’s what we did and then we found out Narita has uh the place called Narita sand it’s like um it’s kind of similar to asakusa to be honest they got shrines and then the beatiful um road with a lot of J uh Japanese vendors and very traditional and then

Photogenic buildings in there so we went there and then we are kind of surprised that who maybe we we don’t even need to go to Asaka you can just stay in Narita and do bunch of Japanese experiences right yeah and I would even consider just staying in one of hotels

In Narita because all the hotels has uh Free Shadow bus service from the airport to the hotels or vice versa and also Narita Sando or other no other than main city of Narita and as I said the facility is much better uh mostly these hotels have gym and then maybe don’t know the puric path I believe they in Narita it’s actually close from Narita Sando you can find the best statu ever um actually this is the the best T

Cuts I ever eaten in my life and it’s called tonon it’s even on Google Map has I mean even Google map has uh the very good reviews so maybe you will find it searching by Tatu or you can just check the link below yep pretty much that’s what I

Wanted to talk about so thank you for watching and I hope you will have the good experience like we did in Japan if you have any questions or or the comments please let us know just