IS KYOTO WORTH THE HYPE? 🇯🇵 JAPAN

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In this video we explore Kyoto In Japan

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good morning everyone here from the famous city of Kyoto in Japan which is considered to be the cultural capital of Japan very famous place probably the most famous One along with uh Tokyo and we’re starting off around 7:30 online it does advise to go to the places early to beat the the big tours that are coming you can actually already see two big coaches there but two is not a lot for a place like Kyoto I don’t think so we’re going to be starting off exploring like the historical districts and streets and right now we’re on our way to a famous [Music] temple so this is the first stop K misel data so this Temple was established sometime in the 700s don’t think it would have looked like like this back then though and at that time Nara was the capital not Koto so after Nara Koto ended up being the capital from around the 700s to the 1800s a long time just over a thousand years but yeah even early it is already getting quite busier I like this Temple it’s a bit different cuz it has like a kind of a bright red color almost orange yeah it reminds me a bit of the one that we saw in kapu yeah the pagod there that was bright orange a lot of the ones that we see are either like a brown wooden color or red I get some nice views I didn’t realize we were so close to like the mountains here all green so it seems like we haven’t even entered the main part yet got to buy tickets here even though it was already so impressive on the outside so was 500 per person to enter so now it’s one of the ancient Brown looking temples [Music] [Music] wow that’s an amazing shot from here I think that is the main Temple over there beautiful temple with the city views in the back this walk’s definitely a bonus yeah and you can hear the bird singing it’s like really a really beautiful place and peaceful this part here uh suddenly it became peaceful and I think it this this Temple is uh very different because we have the the forest and it’s so green now because we went to a temple or a shrine I don’t know in Nik which was also surrounding by Forest but uh I think it was dry because of the winter but here it’s so green and just really beautiful yeah in Nico it was also raining so it was like very dark in the forest this is nice and bright very vibrant [Music] [Music] so we’re going to make our way through the all streets everything looks so beautiful around here and I don’t know if we’re already in gon the gisha district but we’re going to make our way around there I’m guessing everywhere only opens around 10 cuz it’s almost 9:00 a.m. now everything’s still closed wow look at this for a beautiful street I’m also curious how it’s going to be cuz apparently there’s like some sort of tourist Banning Place that started April this year just now and I think you’re not allowed to go down some Alleyways some local streets take photos stuff like that it’s just being implemented so we’ll see how that is I haven’t seen any signs so far around here [Music] I think this is what we read about the Starbucks oh this is the Starbucks I think so isn’t that the Starbucks logo oh yeah the coolest Starbucks I’ve ever seen at least they maintain the traditional style would be kind of ridiculous to see a modern Starbucks building in the middle of this yeah remember the one that we saw in Dubai was it Dubai yeah Dubai right uh at the the old like Medina yeah the old Medina it was really cool as well but maybe this one is cooler yeah I think so [Music] yeah here’s one of the signs no photography so down there we’ve now come to maruyama park this was on on our list of things to do we just came across it decided to come through here the Japanese Gardens and parks are always beautiful anyway so yesterday I was reading about the ban and I think it’s just cuz a lot of the Alleyways were getting like congested with too many tourists and um yeah many people stopping to do like Photo sessions right so the locals started getting annoyed since they live there and I think also some people were kind of like harassing the the GES from what we read yeah it was I think it was like isolated uh incidents incidents but still uh we know that unfortunately since there there are uh bad people in the world that are uh bad tourists in the world they are the minority which is good but still some people are disrespectful and that’s uh that’s a shame really which uh ends up being bad for all the tourists even the ones that are respectful yeah so it said there was like incidents of people like touching them touching their hair things like that so yeah it’s just a a big problem right [Music] and right next to that Park we got another surprise look at the size of this massive Buddhist temple complex that we weren’t planning to to come to in Temple in yeah can hear them praying [Music] inside so this seems like a good place to come if you’re just looking for a quiet Temple experience away from the other tourists by the looks of it it’s not a a popular one even though it’s so impressive been seeing these a lot in Kyoto too which kind of looks like a pagoda I don’t know if you call that a pagoda Stone ones [Music] so we’re now on one of the most popular streets called Hanam mikari street so the majority of the side roads here say that you can’t film say it’s 10,000 Yen fine if you do to me so far it doesn’t seem like much of a big deal cuz even the main streets already look pretty cool I don’t know if the side alleys are so much better like can still walk down here yeah it’s mainly just the small tiny alleys that’s it it’s still a lot quieter than I was expecting though I think uh it’s around 11: now 11:00 a.m. and this ain’t busy at all pretty minimal people dodging so a lot of the places seem to be closed though yeah so here’s an example fine up to 10,000 Yen without permit more signs don’t spread out and block the street don’t touch lanterns fences or doors on private houses so I’m thinking that all these places might only open at night for the for the gisha shows premium seat and te ceremony 7,000 regular seat 4,000 maybe we should go to one of the shows one day yeah I’d like to do the Tea Ceremony too for 7,000 [Music] so we’ve come into this restaurant that just opened at 11:30 a lot of them only open at 5:30 p.m. yeah I think this is more an area to come at night looks like it yeah I think I’m going to go for a noodles to number like chicken noodles 1,180 y they brought us like hot tea so us three all went for the same chicken ones with the ud on and yours is o on but with fish yeah I think this is like a Kyoto specialty and it is with the herring fish and just noodles yeah I think that was 1,380 somebody was dissing our Chopstick technique in the video I have none no technique my technique is just as long as you can grab it okay yeah that’s me as well like I don’t even know if I’m doing it right but I’ve been doing it like this for years does the job super black fish yeah it tast is very strong not sure if I I love it too strong yeah [Music] the DU bath yeah yeah I guess they used to be like a ancient Bridge here where this one’s located now so this might be the nicest part so far got the beautiful flowers and plants really old building and then the stream flowing through that was like the Japanese style trees this one looks like those ones where that you see in the Bonsai the bonsai trees normal size version some of these buildings here are also restaurants we passed one down at the bottom that was like a cafe you pull a set right over the water [Music] a [Music] so now we’re queuing up at this place for some local desserts I think my mom’s going to get this which is some sort of thing with custard inside and Carol is going to get this sweet potato thing 300 and I’m going to get a green tea ice cream with red bean 350 yeah this is definitely one of the most unusual things that I’ve eaten in uh in Japan so far I’ve had the red past thing on other other desserts but yeah this one’s bizarre I don’t even know how you eat this as well like a ice cream burger yeah this is like some sort of like Cracker it’s good I like it yeah it’s mainly just the taste of the the bean real hot oh they heat yours up mhm it’s really good I think I prefer the sweet potato more than the the red bean one yeah [Music] so we’ve now come to arashiyama to see the famous bamboo forest about 20 minutes on the Metro from the main station in Kyoto so it’s just about uh 6 7 minutes from the station and you already enter the bamboo forest didn’t have to pay anything so far looks really cool doesn’t it yeah have we ever been to a place with all this bamboo I don’t think so right no been to Forest that have like little sections but not like a walkway like this [Music] [Music] so you got this Temple here tenry G Temple we’re going to check that out didn’t even know there was temples on this Trail there’s always a temple though so it was 500 to enter but that’s just for the garden you want to go inside the temple you have to pay 300 more but we’re going to be visiting another temples so won’t bother going to this one how beautiful from here I guess this was the shop from the photo that we saw in the entrance like a big pond the fish are on the shade oh yeah [Music] wow look at this cherry blossom here still going the majority are already dead must have been a late bloa for it to still be like that yeah some real vibrant colors here though flower Ure pink see Ni sh a bamboo more bamboo oh yeah this is a nice part so apparently we haven’t even approached the main part of the bamboo forest I think it’s over there so the area that we walked through before wasn’t the main part [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so we walked up some steps and check out this view here there’s like a observation deck I think there’s a few observation points but absolutely beautiful River a little boat over there you can do like a little river cruise if you want and there was a sign back there showing that there’s like a train track you can get a train that goes along the Riverside you’re really Scenic ride there are some small beaches like Beach area around there yeah I can see the sand yeah it’s crazy cuz when you search for the bamboo place you don’t see that there are other things you do around here like this place and the garden and the temple yeah there’s so much to do so I checked online and that’s not a restaurant it’s actually a place that you can stay like a a hotel man that’s got to be like one of the best hotels in Koto should have stayed there K probably pricey but maybe it’s worth it $1,000 per night [Music] come down to the Riverside now yeah this is definitely one of my favorite places in Koto the nature so there’s a variety of different kind of boat boats I think you can get your own little rowboat so I think we should get the rowboat and Carol does all the rowing no way I only go if you do the the hard work yeah definitely come down here if you’re visiting the bamboo forest judging by the lack of people here I don’t think a lot of people know that you can come down here and it was only like a a 5 minute walk maybe really close [Music] so we’re going for it we’re going to do the boat tour which we weren planning on doing leaves in 25 minutes I think 11:55 so that is 1,500 per person for a shared boat Koto arashi y ranko I don’t know what ranko is name of the boat maybe you can do it at night didn’t you show a winter photo somewhere yeah oh look at that and Autumn Yeah so basically we got off at the station here walked through the bamboo and then we went here and got some views right now we’re here and then after the boat toour we’re going to have to cross the river I think and go to the monkey Park nice little seat see how the water is here it is pretty cold not ice cold though I think it’s good I think I could swim a refreshing swim I don’t see anyone swimming in here though [Music] [Music] look [Music] we got a shopping boat I think it’s mainly food and drink so we’re going to get the rice cake thing it’s 400 you got 400 thank you yeah they even had like a little kind of like barbecue thing going on yeah fish and some other things some other meat it’s hot it is too hot it’s been a while since we eating this nice though with the get [Music] all right so now we’re going to make our way to the monkey park I think the boat tour was what like 30 40 minutes yeah 30 minutes which was cool just needed a quiet a group with us yeah people were talking and talking all the time it wasn’t really relaxing cuz of them yeah but it was beautiful a beautiful ride yeah but I was just kind of hoping for like a very peaceful and quiet boat ride but yeah when you’re doing these things with other groups you kind of depend on everyone else right still is good though so not only boat tours you can do these little tours as well where the guys carry you along Doo [Music] [Music] so for the monkey Park it’s 600 per adult to enter and it said that we got to do like uh 20 walk it’s pretty much all uphill so we just went up some steps cuz you also get a a Viewpoint monkeys in a Viewpoint so the sign back there said there’s 120 of these monkeys moment you get up you can already see a few do you see the one like taking a bath oh and the fish coming closer fish she is going to eat it that’s like a baby one yeah he it’s going inside isn’t it yeah [Music] [Music] so these are the same kind of monkeys that they call the snow monkeys that you might have seen in footage where they chilling like the hot springs in the snow in the north of Japan the same kind [Music] [Music] so we’ve now come to what is supposed to be one of the most beautiful temples in Kyoto called King Kakui it’s 500 to enter we got a taxi here about 20 minutes to get here and the taxi costs 3,200 we don’t often get taxis in Japan but if we didn’t come by a taxi we’d have to get two buses and the place is closing soon closes at 4:30 this is the most packed place so far so it’s also known as the golden temple for obvious reasons and once again just an absolutely beautiful setting like many of the temples that we’ve been to throughout Japan on the lake I don’t think we’ve actually seen many golden ones no not all golden like this not here uh we’ve seen uh ones like this in Thailand maybe but not in Japan yeah I think that’s the first like fully Golden One originally built around the 14th century but this one’s like a reconstruction like many other ones that we go to in Japan [Music] wow look how it looks in winter so you can’t enter this one just got to admire it from the outside even closer now this is the most builting isn’t it oh like the lake and the forest yeah that just perfect that’s why they say it’s one of the most beautiful in Kyoto definitely it seems like it so online it says that the original one was burnt down by a monk that was here which is not a story that you hear often apparently they said he had some kind of like mental illness schizophrenia and he burned it down he wanted to shock the world so that’s why this one is a reconstruction I think a lot of the other ones were damaged more like natural fires yeah earthquakes or even like the the wars this one is a different reason [Music] [Music] yeah so it is our final day in Kyoto now and we’ve left the most iconic spot for this final day the Fushimi inar Shrine some of you may have seen this the part that we’re going to be visiting very soon it’s pretty much the place that I always saw in the photos of Kyoto yeah I think it’s the most iconic place and that’s why it’s it gets very busy but that’s also why we decided to come early like 7:30 a.m. as usual really epic looking entrance so I mentioned in some other videos that I’m often confused if it’s a shrine or a temple so apparently Shrine is only used when it’s a Shinto building and Temple is when it’s Buddhist so there’s a few things that you can check to know if it’s like Shinto you’ll have these kind of gates at the front so that is just a Shinto gate and you’ll also have like the dogs or lions I think at the front these Guardians whereas the Buddhist temples usually have those kind of like big Warrior statues and then obviously in the Buddhist temples you’ll have the Buddha statues in like the main hall seems like it was good coming here at 7:30 though basically nobody around really nice and quiet good luck choosing a favorite temple on this trip yeah I’d have to look at them again I kind of you kind of forget it’s got to be the last couple the one in um Nar in Nar was something was it with the big bu inside yeah the one in Nar was massive as well it looked like it was like five times taller than this fantastic they yeah they are nice colors orange [Music] so we’re now entering the iconic part that we’re talking about so apparently there’s around 10,000 of these Tory Gates there we used to seeing just like one yeah but I don’t know I had an idea that these were like small really yeah I didn’t know they were like so huge and so like thick like this the big wood yeah I mean they’re definitely bigger than I thought but I knew they were pretty pretty tall so there’s like an entire walkway like this ah this is what Carol was talking about they’re a lot smaller here yeah maybe this was the famous part then like two little tunnels so it makes a bit more sense that there’s 10,000 of this kind cuz if it was the massive ones 10,000 would have been completely nuts and on each one you can see the right in here apparently that’s either the person or organization that donated to this Shrine and the earliest ones are from like the 8th Century going back that far and they’re still putting more and more in definitely glad that we came early this is awesome [Music] okay never mind now they’re kind of big again so I guess they’re all different shapes and sizes and this is a trail I think people say it takes around an hour to go up and then maybe like half an hour 40 minutes to come back down later on apparently L this was also featured in the film Memoirs of Aisha which I watched probably over a decade ago so I don’t remember need to watch it again [Music] oh [Music] so we’re almost at the top now it is a lot of steps at the end and there’s also buildings where you can get like snacks and rest many vending machines places you can buy drinks and stuff so yeah you can rest I really didn’t realize that it would be like this the whole time though I know it’s 10,000 of the gates but I thought it would stop at some point really does just go on and on the further you get to the top the emptier it gets I think a lot of people don’t go the entire way there was a place halfway with like a a Viewpoint I think a lot of people just go to that one and then go back down so this is the top Shrine don’t think you get any views from up here still surrounded by the trees so the name of the shrine has inat in it and I just found out that means rice so it’s kind of like a dedication to the Shinto God of rice seen that on Japanese menus before so now I know what it means rice pretty cool though how they have all the gates still up here mini Gates it’s really nice and there’s many uh like dog statues I’m not sure if there’s any religious thing about a dog I don’t know I will search later on yeah cuz usually we see like that dog lion thing at the end here is a different kind of dog it’s just a dog yeah more dogos yeah yeah they also have something in the mouth they’re playing fetch [Music] so we’re back in the historical neighborhood of gon once again and we just did a tea ceremony you weren’t allowed to film there but you could take some pictures so it’s basically just the preparation of matcha so that’s a ceremony that they do on special occasions things like New Year’s all sorts of occasions but it’s not something that they do on like a regular daily basis not that kind of preparation with matcha and we’re back on that main shopping street again so there is more movement still looks like the places are closed I don’t know are they closed or do they just keep the doors closed yeah I don’t know maybe the restaurants are closed because of the time maybe after 6 they will open again still early the lights are on at this one but I don’t know so this part here is called gon Corner this is where you have the other Tea Ceremony shows and the theater so I think it was here that we were seeing those posters for before but when Carol checked I think you said it was all sold out yeah for even next week everything was sold out really yeah so book in advance if you want to do that but that’s why you’ll see like the proper gisha shows I think it’s more of like a big event but then Carol found the one that we went to online but it was just a small group it was just my family and two other people yeah it was really cool uh very like calm almost like a meditation yeah and a nice like traditional house setting yeah was school it it’s a nice experience [Music] [Music] so we’re going to be leaving Kyoto now we’re actually heading back to Nara where we made a previous video not going to be making more videos there but we just thought it would be a cool place to spend some more days since we liked it there and it’s also pretty close to Osaka where we’ll be flying out of Japan from and we’ve been staying in this house house so it’s two floors $163 that’s shared between the the four of us so we’re just paying half of that we’re in like a quiet little neighborhood not too far from the train station I think it’s about a 7 minute walk to the train station that’s where we’re going now is nice and quiet though and this house has four bedrooms so there’s one in there my parents were staying in this one and then there’s one downstairs there’s lots of light nice art these umbrellas too for the lights that’s something different and then once again it’s the kitchen and the living room joint together but also really nice it might actually be the best place that we’ve stayed so far the best accommodation so basically every single place that we visited on this trip was absolutely amazing I think overall our favorites would probably be kusatsu the onson town since that was something new for us it was absolutely incredible cuz it was snowing too made it even better and then Okawa since we love beaches and that place is just absolute Paradise basically like the Caribbean a lot of people don’t even know that Japan has things like that and Kyoto we have seen during these last few days that it is definitely famous for a reason just so many spectacular things like it is known to be like super touristy but yeah there’s definitely a reason why and as we shown in this video even going to places around like 10:00 a.m. they w actually that busy cuz we read in some blogs saying oh you need to get there around 6: or 7 a.m. but that must be people that want it basically completely empty to take photos or something we don’t need places to be completely empty I just don’t like it when you’re at those kind of places where you have to keep people dodging all the time and it’s hard to walk around but it wasn’t like that at all maybe if you go to the attractions after 12: after lunchtime then it’s chaotic but we didn’t see that on this trip anyway and it’s just been incredible to finally come here always been absolutely fascinated by Japan and yeah I think a lot of people are that’s why there’s so many tourists here right now Japanese things have had a big impact throughout the world so yeah I think the majority of people that I know have always been playing like their video games the Nintendo Sega I remember I used to play when I was little Sonic the Hedgehog Tekken the fighting games pretty much all of it was Japanese video games and then you had the other things like Pokémon Dragon Ball Z I remember seeing all that kind of thing on the TV and then there’s also the other things like the car brands the electronics TV brands all that stuff it’s kind of hard to go a day without seeing something Japanese even outside of Japan so yeah it’s been amazing to come here and see it all around here too and we’ll definitely come back in the future cuz there’s just so many places to visit some people say like Japan’s like a theme park cuz there’s just so many attractions basically every single place that you go there’ll be some kind of tourist attraction something to do there wasn’t really anything negative about here people say like the language barrier I mean it is a bit difficult sometimes without the English I don’t really see that as a major negative though if you have like the translation apps you get used to it pretty quick one of the way things though was sometimes trying to get food sometimes we go to restaurants and be turned away and apparently that’s quite common here and I don’t know why there’s like multiple theories online some places say that like foreigners are not welcome at some eating establishments it’s more for Japanese some other places say that if they don’t think they can serve you well because of the language barrier they just prefer to not serve you instead of giving you bad service so it’s not like they actually have a problem with you they just think it’s bad that they’re going to do yeah bad job I don’t know but you don’t really get that in other countries so it is kind of weird when you go to places and they they turn you away and then you see the the locals the Japanese being allowed in and it did happen quite a few times and we actually met other people that it happened to them so yeah I don’t know what that is exactly maybe somebody watching knows about that and in the next videos we’re going to be visiting China for the first time for just over 2 weeks it won’t be a big trip like here in Japan so really interested to see how that country is so if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe to see more videos like this follow us on Instagram and we’ll see you in the next one 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