0:00 Intro
0:09 Travel to Nikko
2:06 Bullet Train to Nikko
3:48 Arrive in Nikko
6:33 Nikko National Park
9:58 Chuzen-ji Temple
11:20 Lake Chuzen-ji
17:00 7/11 Haul
Leaving Tokyo and headed to Nikko! We took the bullet train for a 2 hour ride and landed in beautiful and scenic Nikko. After getting full on a warm bowl of ramen, we take the bus to Nikko National Park. First stop is Kegon Waterfall, and afterwards we make our way to the Chuzen-Ji Temple. Following that, we take a boat ride of the lake close by- Lake Chuzen-ji. Taking the bus back to Nikko, we head to check into our hotel. Of course following a quick stop at our favorite 7/11.
or a as asakusa so after a week in Tokyo we are headed to Nico right now we’re heading to asakusa from akasaka which is very confusing we are taking the limited Express train to Nico at 9:30 a.m. it’s 8:30 right now so we got a little bit of time we just want to make sure we had enough time because finding where to go in the stations is a little bit difficult about 30 minutes to get to asakusa from akasaka so we’re just heading there now we got all of our stuff on us and if you watch our packing video you’ll see that I actually have different stuff on me we’re going to Ginza Ginza yeah way um if you watch our packing video you’ll notice I actually have completely different bag on me and I also have a little camera bag let me show you and it’s because last second I decided I wanted to have a little personal item and I also switched to the same backpack as Kylie last second Kylie also decided to add an extra bag so instead of one bag in it we actually have two bags maybe we’ll go over what we actually packed afterwards we actually packed basically the same stuff we just switched up our bags on the way so anyway headed to the ginel line right now to get to Asuza almost difficult to know how to dress because it will be like one type of weather outside obviously and then in the station it’s hot as hell like right now I feel like I’m going to start dripping instantly through my clothes so but outside it’s like perfect [Music] weather okay so anyway right we’re headed out to Nico right now but our tickets online we had to show the train D to our Nico pass and our limited Express ticket and then we had to show our limited express Ticket again uh to get on the train and we end up barely making it for an undisclosed reason it’s potentially a batt Movement we were waiting on um yeah I’ve had trouble here let’s just say um but now I don’t so we made it with like 2 minutes to spare yeah I think the move is definitely to buy your tickets beforehand but downside is you’re still going to have to wait and L to go pick it up because we try to go through with just showing it on our phone cuz that’s what it says you can do and you actually can’t do that you have to go pick it up no matter what yeah unfortunate so yeah yeah you’re going to have to figure it out anyways like when you get here you’re going to have to talk to people and get the ticket so so get to fairly early because you’re going to have to wait in line yes get here earlier than have everything cuz if you get there last second you’re not going to get on the train no and we’re just going to go explore for us the day cuz I think we’re only supposed to get rain around 3:00 today supposed to just drizzle but then tomorrow is going to be thunderstorms so we might just be chilling in Nico tomorrow not really sure [Music] all right we just hopped off the toe line in Nico so now we’re going to exit and go grab some food and then I think we’re going to go hop directly on the bus after we put our stuff in some coin lockers so yeah made it wasn’t too bad of a journey Kye slept the hallway and I was just chilling we coin Locker that way coin lock oh my got to go up the stairs for the coin [Music] lockers well we just arrived in Nico and it’s much more mountainous than I imagined I thought there’d be like some hills and stuff but it’s pretty mountainous I’d say we just dropped our bags in the coin Locker we can’t check into our hotel till later we’re going to get some Ramen before we get on the bus to head out to the [Music] ropeway think that’s a tofu skin yeah this place is already exceeding our expectations I think I think every place that we overhype I think uh disappoints us time to do that sometimes yeah I think we get too obsessed about places we’re going and then we get there and it’s like oh this is just a normal place it’s not some magic magic land okay so we’re on and we’re headed to the we’re headed to the aacha daa ropeway about 35 minute bus ride to like figure out the buses you really need to get this little Nico guide map or else it’s very confusing on where to go very helpful it’ll help you plan your time uh but the only problem is the only place we figured out where to get it was in akuka or asakusa yeah now we’re on our way to the first stop cuz we can’t check in until later so we’re just going to do stuff all day um we had some really good ramen some of these places we go into I mean I feel like recording in some of these places it just feels like disrespectful to record so some of the meals I haven’t recorded in maybe just recorded the food itself it’s called no um and it’s just a couple minute walk from the to train station and it was awesome on and okay we’re here at Kon yes we here at Kon waterfall we missed our stock for the ropeway whoops but that’s okay yeah and if you if you miss a stop you can’t go back so well you can but you got to go all the way back yeah so and don’t miss the stop yeah we didn’t realize we were supposed to press the button yeah and so we missed it but yeah the sign of the bus said press the button when you get off so I was like okay I meant like to get off before yeah yeah to get off anyways it’s fine we ended up seeing the mountains anyways from the bus which is beautiful so we’re just going to hang around the Falls this area and kind of shop around and check it out oh cute what ni pins you did that one oh that one was the coolest one obsessed with this little lemon stuff are you kidding me already got to Lemon jacket also this one is cuz it says it’s like to tooo limited Express that’s other one o Tu one K on oh that is the cutest SI I heard this is like the popular s here Nico is their pudding got a lot of little shops need some ice cream oo melon chei we delicious it’s a really cute area so this is the area around Chon Falls and they got like a bunch of little shops and like eies and they also have uh like a a elevator you can go down that takes you I guess right in front of the falls we don’t really want to do that so we’re not going to but yeah I can see the Viewpoint that we went down to you can just walk down it’s not very far from the bus stop I think next we’re going to go to cheni uh temple temple which is I think a 20 minute or so walk from the 26 bus stop clouds rolling in a little bit so we’ll see if we get hit with some rain hopefully not but so far it’s a pretty nice day yeah weather’s perfect honestly yes it is ooh rain and right as we talk about the weather we start getting some drops of rain so on this walk we’ll see how bad it gets oh and we’re finally at our hotel the r Carlton just kidding that is not where we’re staying I wonder how much is to stay here I don’t even think we would have glanced at this place while booking this I almost think it’d be weird to have a ton of money to stay at like places like this on trips like there’s no struggle involved the sweatiness the the your back hurting I think that’s part of the travel experience if you take that away I don’t know if it’s it’s just like vacation the holiday how was it that was cool I mean it’s that was really cool I think I was just saying I mean I don’t think that they need to uh translate everything but but it might be useful for them so that we uh we know like maybe we should pay for something or like yeah offer something cuz I have no idea like what to do in any kind of church yeah no same so like I’m not just going to go up and light something on fire I know I yeah I wish I knew what to do I mean we could probably Google it you’re here at the lake we got our favorite coffees Costa flat white mhm it is the bus we’re going to chill here for a little bit before we go back to our hotel and check in and I’m going to take a bath CU I got a bathtu thereat so I’m stoked so we are over at the chees energy shine and just having our coffee just chilling and then we saw this boat and I remembered that there was a scenic boat that went around the lake and I didn’t realize that this was the boat the boat and um this boat is actually free with the all is the all access Nico pass so um yeah you can right around the lake I think it takes about an hour responsible May is throwing my hair trash can’t always find these so got to throw things away when you can there’s no trash anywhere you can only recycle bottles or cans so yeah that’s nice there’s only one time in Tokyo I think it was in sh Shibuya that I saw where people had piled a bunch of trash but other than that I feel like people follow their rules pretty well yeah that was a fun little boat ride made us pretty sleepy though we had plans to keep going but it’s starting to rain so I don’t think the sanjo gahara hike is a good idea now getting cold and yeah it’s getting chilly I think it’s about 4:00 right now yeah the buses don’t stop till about 7:00 p.m. but honestly we we still have to check in and yeah we got to go check into our hotel go get our bags from the train station also figure out how we get back on the buses cuz they’re a little bit confusing honestly the place we’re staying is a little bit expensive compared to how much we you paid in Tokyo or the rest of the trip we paid about I think 90 bucks a night for most of our trip but tonight I think it’s like 200 T night yeah we’re paying like 200 night for our Nico spot but the reason is because it is $1,000 97 a night a night yeah okay so I don’t know I know if you could hear kly but the Ritz on lake chenji is $1,000 a night but anyway back to what I was saying we spent like 90 bucks a night on hotels but tonight we’re spending about 200 bucks the reason is this place is going to be a lot bigger it’s kind of in the middle of our trip so we thought be nice to splurge a little bit have a little bit nicer of a hotel this is going to be like five times the size of our hotel in Tokyo and we’re just staying for two nights here so the Splurge isn’t like going to be for a long long time and also yeah just some more space is going to be nice for just a couple nights yeah so yeah I mean it’s a Splurge but not for a crazy amount of time is that our bus yeah I think so ah see you well there goes our bus we did miss it but next one’s probably coming soon barely missed it probably would have had to stand though but yeah I think we got to wait like 25 minutes for the next bus down still without knowing the timetables we ended up getting on faster than we thought KY May is very happy I feel like coming up here it’s a little bit more complicated than I expected with this bus system cuz there’s like a lot of buses and they go all over but it’s kind of hard to make sure you’re going on the right one I think it’s definitely better to come up here and like plan a little bit better yeah like maybe study the buses a little bit more and know where you want to go and which buses go there cuz when you get here it’s a little bit difficult to yeah know try to like figure out at the same time where you want to go while you’re trying to figure out the buses yes and honestly I think if you’re coming up here for an extended period of time I think it’d be better just to run a car okay we made it to back to Nico K’s feeling a little sick after that twisty turby ride Derby turby twist our hotel is a little bit away from the Nico station just down this road I saw everyone online complaining about this hotel that it’s like down a highway and there’s nowhere to walk and I think that when people walk there that they were walking down the main highway but if you just go like one block back back there’s a sidewalks the only other downside about being in Nico tonight is that unlike Tokyo where everything seems to be open all the time everything closes very early like I don’t even know if it’s 5:00 yet and like every restaurant’s closed so we might be just eating at our trusty old 7-Eleven tonight but honestly that’s fine with me cuz it’s just about as good as anything anything you could have in Tokyo just kidding that’s not true but it’s up there yeah we’re going to have some dinner at 7-Eleven tonight let’s see what we can find for 7-Eleven Hall in Nico for some reason this light never changes so you just got to send it look how cool that is that setting of that s okay 7-Eleven haul let’s see what we get to get two c out H they got some pasta or seafood noodles I kind of o o got a big bowl of ramen I don’t know how that would be really for breakfast I’ve been eating like trying different danishes they are so many different ones you going to get some sandwiches for for dinner I’m going to get one for breakfast okay okay so we just got a huge haul from 7-Eleven so this big ass bag we got some 7-Eleven uh spaghetti spaghet we got I got some honey toast again okay running across the freeway let’s go let’s let’s go um yeah try not to die yeah but we’ll uh review our haul here in just a minute love that so here is my 7-Eleven B on I don’t know about that I guess we’ll see what it tastes like here in a second I mean it smells good that smells fine but looks spooky positivity I guess got to have a little positivity before you embark on things like this honestly sometimes when people find our videos they’ve searched ASMR food sounds so here it is pushing around I don’t know this kind of smells weird when you get close to it it’s fine not the best thing I’ve had on this trip tastes like frozen yeah spet tastes like something you get like stokers a convenience store does it taste like spaghetti though the noodles I mean or the sauce yeah I mean the sauce tastes like meat sauce it’s not bad honestly I give it like 6 out of 10 H okay maybe 7even 6 probably nice would I be like yeah let’s get this tomorrow no but I’ll eat it tonight cuz I’m not walking back to 7-Eleven no all right that’s going to be it from us today we are just getting ready for bed and unpacking tomorrow is the first day of the trip that we don’t have something super early in the morning so we’re kind of stoked about that we’re going to sleep in a little bit tomorrow there’s supposed to be thunderstorms all day so we’re going to see what we’re able to do we have plans just to do stuff around the Nico area the toshogu shrine and some other things that are pretty close to the station we tried to do as much as we could today that was farther away from the station we just got into Nico today obviously so we weren’t able to do a ton but at least we got some things done so yeah tomorrow we’re just going to see what we can do during the thunderstorms worst case we just hang out around the room and have a chill day before we continue on for our next 12 days of the trip so anyway that’s it from us today and we’ll see you in the next one