Let’s take a road trip to Itoigawa – Niigata Prefecture – Japan – 28 June 2025
[Music] Hello folks, it’s Lisa and L exploring Japan. Where is this rest stop? We going to Nigata Prefecture. What’s this red stop, Lisa? It’s a dango daka. Oh, madanga parking area. Parking area here. Yeah. Look at this. Really nice here. Right, Lisa? Look at that. Yeah. This is all Japanese style. OJ M style. Japanese style, right? Like a like a festival type, right? Yeah. Like festival. Festival type, right? Yeah. You know what, folks? You can escape. You can escape. Lisa found Starbucks. She’s Starbucks. Starbucks. She want She only want eat drink Starbucks. Nothing else. Yes. This is a rest stop here, right? Lisa, look at the beautiful mountains here. Look at that. Yes. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Look at this. Wow. Oh, look at that. Oh, yes. Beautiful. Folks, we see you somewhere inside. We going to Starbucks. Lisa be kicking me all day, all night, every day. I didn’t do that. I want Starbucks. I want Starbucks. I want Starbucks. I didn’t say that. See you guys soon. Look, you said NIA back here. Look at this map here. How do you say it again? The name of the place here, Lisa. Danga. Yeah. Danga service area guide map, right? Yes. Look at that. Beautiful. Beautiful map. Galina mountains there, right? Yeah. So, we’re going to go up up north to Nigata Prefecture, Ita. Mhm. We were there last November, I believe. This time we driving. Oh, no. Lisa’s driving, not me. See you guys. Lisa and I, we’re standing here at Starbucks. She can’t She can’t wait. She can’t wait. I can’t wait. She can’t wait. She’s getting angry at the at the at the people here. Long ride. Long line. And she went to the exit. She She went to the exit line. No, I want to exit. I’m going order now. on the order now. Sheep beat everybody. She got head of the line. I didn’t do that. You didn’t do that? Okay. Okay. We see you soon. We see you soon. We walk into the car. We walk into our car. Lisa, show the bag. Show the bag. Show the bag. What? Show the bag. Don’t keep Don’t keep the bag to yourself. Oh my god. She’s happy. She’s smiling. Yes. Good girl. Um I don’t know where I parked I think we parked over there or we parked it over here. We miss we we lost. We lost. We can’t go back. We can’t I mean we can’t go to uh Nigata. Yes. Yeah. Folks, we see you soon. We go find our car. Maybe tonight. Lisa and L is going Japan. We’re on the road. We’re going to the perfection. We’re going to Nikata Perfector. Oh my god. Forgot. I forget everything. Every time I forget everything, folks. We stopped. We stopped by Starbee’s. And this this is that was my drink. It was my drink. The mocha. Ma mocha. But guess what? Lisa drank at all. Yes. Did she drink my drink? I did not drink this drink at all. No, I didn’t drink. He janked it all. While I was driving, I was focusing the car, driving and driving, and I reached I reached into the uh the drink. It was empty. Lisa, why? She does that all the time. Stealing my drink. I didn’t do that. She’s And now Lisa’s looking for another another place to drink. She’s looking for another Starbucks. Starbucks. She’s a star. She’s addicted to Starbees. Yes, I am. Oh my god. Starbees. Last weekend we passed by. We passed by Starbies and the parking lot was so full. Mhm. Lisa got angry at me. I’m not angry. She start hitting me and punching me and I got bruises in my face and I got broken arms and broken. You didn’t stop it. Sorry. Lisa, the parking lot’s full. Oh my god. She didn’t believe me. It was like almost like a week ago, folks. Lisa and I, we always have fun videos. Mhm. Funny videos, you know, right? Just just funny joking stuff. Oh, what’s that little noise in the car? So, look at the scenery in Japan, folks. Beautiful. Beautiful. Look at that. Oh my god. So, we still got another another five to six hours when we get we going to the other side of Japan, the sea of Japan. Okay, folks. We see you down the road. We see you down the road somewhere. I hope I I hope at least one finds again. Look at the beautiful mountains. Oh, look at that. Beautiful here in Oh yeah, look at that. Oh my god. Folks, come visit Japan during the summertime. Oh, so nice. Japan is so safe and friendly. The roads are fantastic. The rest stops. Oh, awesome. Awesome. Awesome. The rest stops. So, we were driving after Lisa and I finished drinking our Starby drink and Lisa took a little nap. Well, she took a little nap. She was snoring. Like an elephant. What? And you I’m awake. Huh? I’m awake. No, you were sleeping. I used the storm like an elephant. You think so? Yeah. What? Oh my god. Yeah, Lisa was taking a nap. But look at look at the head. Sorry, folks. Beautiful. We going we going toward what? Hakaba. Akuba, right? We’re going to take us a little uh country road another another hour or two. We’re going to get off the freeways pretty soon, but not yet. So, on the road. On the road. Lisa and I love to travel on the road, right, Lisa? No. We like to go to Iokuni, Chimoseki, Ai. Mhm. Where else we like to go? Uh uh Chimoda. Mhm. Atame. Atame. And in the future we gonna go to um maybe Nagasaki, right? Yes. Nagasaki and another we go Saporro in the winter time. Mhm. I make a snowman. Snowman. Lisa won’t make a snowman. So it’s going to be a lot of domestic travel in the future. Oh, Lisa want but Lisa won’t go star. Starbies. Starbees. Do you want to go to Starbies to Nagasaki and then come back? What? I didn’t say that. You didn’t say. Do you want to go to Chinatown? Uh down Nagasaki. Oh, I forgot folks. Also, we going to Sassibo. We going to go to Nagasaki, get a rental car, and go to Sassibo to the Navy base there. Mhm. There we got many We got many travel. We got many we have many many uh plans to go. Then maybe next year for sure we’re going to Okinawa. Mhm. In May. Mhm. I’m going to go Okinawa as a special it’s going to be a special time for me. Mhm. And I was there I was there many many I mean a long time ago when I was a young Marine. Yes. Yes. Folks, we see you down the road. We see you down the road. Rest up right now. Lisa told me to stop buying the rest stop if there were a star. And I told there are no Starbies no more. And she insisted. She believe every rest stop you got a star. Right. God. I didn’t say that. You said every rest stop got a star. I said no. Lisa said no. It’s only a coffee cup. See little coffee cup there? Oh my god. Lisa, there’s no s. Let’s make sure. I’m going to make sure there’s no star beans for Lisa. All right. You’re so funny. We going this little rest stop here. Come on, Lisa. I’ll show you. There’s no There’s no star be. Oh my Oh, where? Oh my god. Where? Where? Okay, there we go. There we go. I was kind of lost. See, Lisa? Uh-huh. There is no star bees. Look at it. Look. No, it’s more. I told you there no star bees here. She’s so funny. Okay, we got to turn right. Oh my god, I missed my I I missed it. I got to turn around somewhere. Oh my god. Right here. Right here. Right here. Uh-oh. Right here. Right. Right here. See? See? Okay. See you guys. Don’t release. I told you. I told you. I told you. Take care. See you guys soon. We’re on the road. Guess what? There’s snow in the mountains. Right over there, Lisa. Turn right to the left. Do you see the mountains? Yeah. You got snow. Snow. This is uh What month is this? This is end of June, right? Yeah. Yes. Oh my god. Still snow. Still snow in the mountains. In fact, we going to go We’re going to go right near there. Mhm. Okay. Oh my god. You barely There you go. See the snow? See the snow right there? See the snow right there? Oh my god. So beautiful. Let’s make a snowman, Lisa. Yes. Let’s make snowman. Yes. We need a hiking. And I don’t like hiking. Don’t get me into the hiking. Don’t say that word, please. you. I’ll get you, Folks. Look at that. There’s no See? Oh, look at look at that. Look at that. That’s a Japanese elps. Yes. Yes, sir. Yes. All right. All right. Soon we going to be getting off, but uh we got to get a rest off first. I got to get our check of our map. Get get the right exit. Mhm. But look at that. Look at that. Look see the snow. Oh my god, that’s beautiful. Okay. Oh. Oh, look at look at the countryside too. Here. Very beautiful here. Mhm. Oh, beautiful. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Well, we see you down the road. We see you down the road. Hello, folks. We came for the family mart. Oh, I need some water, some potato chips. We going to uh What the place we going to, Lisa? Huh? Adamino. No, no. We’re going to the other place. The skiing place into what the heavens. No. Anyway. Oh, come on. Oh, there you go. I got mixed up. Anyway, so we went inside the uh family mart. Uhhuh. And I wanted to to, you know, do my toilet roll. You know, I got a wee wee. Mhm. Then Lisa didn’t I asked Lisa if she wanted to buy some drink? Uh she wants some snacks. She said she went Yeah. And she said no. So Lisa was still standing in line in line where you you want to pay up to the counter. Lisa, why are you standing in line? You you don’t buy nothing. It’s okay. She said it’s okay. What you going to do? You want to go say hi to the lady at the counter? You go say hi, but you don’t buy nothing. Oh my god, Lisa is so crazy. So funny. Oh my god, I’m crazy girl. Crazy girl. Oh my god. All right, folks. We see you down the road. Lisa, don’t make me laugh again. Hello, folks. This is Lisa and I’ll explain Japan. We here at What? I know. I’ll get all mixed up here. Here’s a downtown area here. Look at this small little downtown area. Mhm. Oh, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Real cute little town here. Oh, look at Oh, cute. Oh, this is a real cute town. Lisa told me she want to go skiing. I told Lisa it’s a summer time. There’s no snow. Oh, there’s no here. No, there no skiing. She insisted. She insisted. There’s no snow. Hakub. No snow. No snow. She want to go skiing. Yes. Oh my god, Lisa, you’re running me nuts. Crazy. Yes. This is June. This is June. Yes, it’s June. Not December. Not December. So, we’re going to go to Itawa another uh another 50 kilometers or another 30 miles up the road. Some beautiful country over here, right Lisa? Beautiful. Yeah, it smells beautiful. Oh my god. Look at that. Yeah, look at this. Look at the clouds over there to the left. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Kind of kind of strange. Right. Oh my god. Yes. She said, “How? Let’s go skiing.” What are you talking about? And let’s make a snowman. What are you talking about, Lisa? There no snow here in June and Hakuba. I didn’t say that. Yes, you did. I didn’t. Yes, you did. Oh my god. She bought a jacket, too. Wait. We got in a car. We didn’t bring a jacket. It’s cold in Hakuba. No, it’s June. Yes. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. So, we got some beautiful country over here. Beautiful country. Beautiful here. Oh my god. Look at that. Look at that. Oh my god. Wow. Wow. Oh wow, this is really good. Look at that. Look at this little valley here. Mhm. Look at that. Nice. Those is green trees. Oh, what you call that? Why you call that? What you I was mistaken. She teach me some other Japanese words. I got all mixed up. Yes. What did What did I say? Hakaba. Hakaba. It means graveyard. I was saying the wrong I was saying wrong for many years. Yeah. And Lisa just taught me the first time today. Yes. She just caught me saying the wrong word. Lisa, why didn’t you tell me that before? I was in graveyard in Japanese for a long, long time. She had to break out. She had to get her iPhone and I researched Google it in Japanese into English and I read it. What the graveyard? Yes. Graveyard is haka. Yes. Oh my god. Oh, look at this. Beautiful. Look at this. Oh, folks. I’m so lucky. Listen, and I are so lucky to live in Japan. So beautiful here. Mhm. Ah, everything is every so nice and clean and everybody’s so friendly and everything. Oh my god. Yeah, we at least not we didn’t like exploring Japan. Oh, look at that. Well, folks, we see you down the road again. We see you down the road, folks. We’re back. This Lisa and L explan Japan. Here we at where we at? It Oh, look at this. Finally, we got here. Oh my god. Beautiful. Beautiful. Look at that. Oh my. Let’s Let’s Let’s check over here, Lisa. Yes. Let’s go over here. Let’s Oh, look at that. Look at Wow. Look at that. That’s amazing. Oh my god. Like a dam. Like a dam. Yes. Right. Yes. Isa, don’t jump there. Don’t go swimming. I don’t do that. You don’t want to do that? She want to go swimming there. Oh my god, this is beautiful, right? And the weather is so so cool, right? Yes. It’s different from down in Yoko. It’s kind of hot and today it’s really cool in here. It’s cool. Wow. Wow. Wow. Ay. So folks, we see you down the road. See you down the road. We back. We back. Lisa and L exploring Japan. Folks, we’re here and you got the perfeure beautiful country road. Oh, beautiful. Oh, how you like this country, Lisa? Nice. Nice. Right. Yes. That’s beautiful. And the weather is kind of cool, right? Yes. I was I was kind of surprised about that. Back in Yokohama, it’s kind of hot, right? And humid. Yes. But here it’s kind of cool. Cool. I was kind of surp I’m surprised about that. That’s nice. Right. It’s nice. Right. Oh, look at that river there. I bet you there’s a lot of jade. See the jade’s coming down the river and it goes down to the ocean and there’s about two three beaches. You can find the jade on in the o on the beach shore. So, Lisa went this video. We’re here already. Um, thank you for viewing our videos. Please go to our channel and we here. Take care. Was our ready Lisa? One, two, three. Enjoy life. Bye. [Music]
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