Living in Japans Countryside – WHY WE LOVE IT!

Living in Japans Countryside – WHY WE LOVE IT!

There we go. You’re cool. We’re cool. We’re so cool. We live in Japan. Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. Yo yo yo. We are uh here right next to our house. This is the beautiful Asahi River. We live in the Japanese countryside. Many people would ask us, why did you guys choose to live way out in the boonies, way in a small town in the middle of uh Okyama Perfecture, which isn’t uh maybe the most popular place in all of Japan. There’s many awesome reasons why we decided to move out into the countryside. We love Kyoto. We love Osaka. We love Tokyo and the madness and the of the amazing cities here in Japan. But we love nature and we wanted to um semi-retire, I suppose you could say, and film content throughout the Japanese countryside where we could fish, we could hike, we go swimming in lakes and rivers and uh go to the hot springs bass and all the amazing things that there is up to uh uh to do up here. let us show you a few things that we love about the the place and love about uh living in the countryside. Stay tuned. Hey, so look at these gorgeous irises we’re standing in front of. Aren’t those beautiful? Japan has the most beautiful flowers in the countryside. There’s Sakura, there’s wisteria, there’s aelas, it’s endless. And we get to enjoy all of it being out here. You’ll never ever have to go to the store to buy flowers, although there’s amazing selections at the stores um which are mostly grown by local growers. But you can literally walk out outside your front door and collect wild flowers for hours. Anytime. Anytime. They change every season. It’s unbelievable. Not only that, the produce here, the produce here is super rockstar. Super farmtotable lifestyle in Japan in the countryside. All of our neighbors grow vegetables, whether it’s green onions, cabbages, um fruits like pimmens, and then there’s local markets they bring it to and you can go buy it super cheap. We chose the countryside because of its cleanliness and the beautiful air, the beautiful water, and the beautiful local produce. We just can’t get enough of it. Like our skin is like shining. We live in a really uh small, beautiful town. It’s known as Katsuyama. It’s a population about 9,000 people. It’s part of a series of small cities that are part of a larger city known as Maniawa City. It’s in the northern um side of the Okyama Perfeure. Um there’s definitely like further in the countryside type houses and stuff like that people can have that are really out there. Um we wanted to have just a touch more amenity. We don’t want like big movie theaters or sports parks and things like that that are the big city, but we definitely wanted to have markets and stuff like that. This city is really cool because there’s a free flowing river that runs right through the city which is called the Asahi River. And there’s a really beautiful kind of downtown historical historical area that I’ll show you right now. As you all know, Japan is the spiritual home of Buddhism and Shinuism. And there’s the most incredible temples and shrines throughout the entire country. In the countryside, there’s a lot of really hidden badass ones. This one right here is right next to our house in Katsuyama and we found it just when we were walking down by the river. This is the largest single largest bell in all of the perfeure of Okyama. Um is what what we’ve been told. We got to ring it. Check it out. Go do it. He wants you to do it. Oh my god. You’re doing it. Go do it, babe. That’s epic. Swing it back. That’s cool. [Music] That’s really special. [Music] You’d be hardressed to find any small little town or village throughout Japan’s countryside that doesn’t have one of these. This is called Lawson. It’s like 7-Eleven’s little sister. We love it. Look at the pastry selections. Woo. That’s a lot of pastries. The prepped foods here are amazing, too. They have all types of sandwiches, sushi, um, lettucees, ramen bowls, everything you can heat up. They even have like Eberico ham. I mean, like you name it, it’s here. Of course, this uh the section of the store I like the most is right here. All the beer and the wine coolers and high balls and sodas you could ask for. Store really works for all those perverts out there, too. There’s some like pervy magazines if you like those too. We even uh we even pay our electric bill here. One-stop shop, Blossoms. The Japanese countryside has fantastic nurseries from flowers to vegetables. I mean, you name it, they’ve probably got it. Yeah, [Music] we love cruising our mini truck through the mountains. Another amazing thing about living in the Japanese countryside. 15 on the left side. You can’t come to the countryside of Japan and not notice all the trees. There’s billions of them and there’s a million different kind of them. Look it. Certainly one of the things that attracted us about living in the countryside was the gorgeous trees. There’s cedars, redwoods, all these evergreens. There’s amazing um maple trees and of course the cherry trees that bloom out in the middle of it all. Wisteria. It’s just endless. Let’s take a look at this here. Some random road in the countryside we drove down. Awesome. Right. One of the amazing things about living in the Japanese countryside, of course, is the foraging. We’ve learned from a lot of locals, uh, a lot of the edible plants and weeds and things like that. This one right here is called Japanese notweed. Japanese notweed. I forgot for a second there. That’s how I juice. What you can make an incredible juice out of. Um, actually Raquel did a little short video about this. How to make it. I’m trying. If you want to just peel it off like this, peel the skin off of it, the red skin, you can actually just eat it. It’s really good for fatigue. It has like a tart like almost rhubarb flavor to it. But we love to forage. We found morel mushrooms. We’ve went matutake hunting. We’ve done all really cool things um in terms of foraging in the forest. Here you go. Delicious. Woo. wouldn’t look like like like it would be delicious, but it is tart. Of course, one of the reasons we really love living in the countryside and especially the mountain ranges up here in Okyama is the fact that there’s all types of hot springs baths. About 20 minutes north of our house, there’s a small onen town called Yubara Onsen. And up in Yubara, there’s about 10 to 15 natural onense hot springs baths that you can bathe in for really inexpensive. Anywhere from uh 300 yen to, I think, um about 1,200 yen. We actually did a video about onsent etiquette in our channel if you want to check that out. But uh we’re right here in this really cool spot. Let us show it to you. This is literally 4 minutes from our house and we would have never have known it was here if it wasn’t for one of our local friends. Total hidden gem. In fact, when you cruise through the mountain range, mountain ranges, you would never be able to tell it was here. There’s lots of hidden gems and hidden nature spots. This is a really, really cool swimming hole. We plan on coming here when it gets hotter and dip dipping in. It’s a little too cold right now. [Music] You going to take a swim? Not yet. Skinny dipping. You want to go skinny dipping? This water is fresh spring water, which means it’s really clean, but it’s also very cold right now. We got to wait till it warms up a little more. Wow. Check this out. Check this out. This is where you can cliff jump. So says my friends. Beautiful like lagoon down there. There’s a really cool bridge up there, too. Mhm. One of the best things is there’s no one here. Me and Miguel are the only ones in this entire place. Japan caught your son. [Music] Little fresh spring water. Why not coming right out of the mountain? So, these are just a few of the reasons we love the Japanese countryside. We hope you enjoyed the video. Like, subscribe to see more. We’ll see you around. Much more to see. [Music]

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