Final 24 Hours in Japan 🇯🇵 Osaka Food, Castles & Chaos Before Flying Home

Final 24 Hours in Japan 🇯🇵 Osaka Food, Castles & Chaos Before Flying Home

Today is our last day in Japan and we’re in Osaka. If you’ve been watching our Japan series from the beginning, you know that we’ve done some pretty crazy stuff like seeing Mount Fuji from a rented camper van. This is pretty nice. Hanging out with some snow monkeys in Nagano. I cannot believe how close they get to humans. And patting some deer in the deer park of Nara. Hello. A bow. That was elegant. That was a beautiful bow. 10 out of 10. But today, we’ve decided that we’re not going to try to do anything fancy. It’s just going to be a normal day traveling in Osaka, the way that we have been spending our days in Japan, mostly off camera. That always starts with going to a local family m for some coffee. [Music] There are three main supermarket chains here in Japan. You’ve got the 7-Eleven, which is all over Southeast Asia. You’ve got the Lawson, which is new to us that we’ve never seen before here in Japan. And then you’ve also got Family Mart. Family Mart seems to be the winner. They’re all incredibly similar, but the food’s just that much better in a Family M. Don’t know why. Thanks, baby. This is our apartment. This is actually quite clean for us. Do you have a key? Hope so. Today is the best because it’s just all punctuated by it’s our last day, so why not? Second coffees. Why not? Because it’s our last day. We have bas a dog in a basket. We have basically nothing planned, no cool facts to tell you, but we’re just going to have the day that we want to have. Is this the right way? Yeah. Okay. We’re just going to have the day that we want to have and enjoy all of our final things in Japan. So, we’re starting by going to a castle. I know that we might go on a ferris wheel tonight and we’re going to like a really busy market street tonight as well. But other than that, the budget doesn’t exist today. We’re ignoring that. It’s just one of those days where if we want to do something, we’re going to do it. The budget is toast. That could go some toast. We uh quickly came down here yesterday. We didn’t take any photos or anything, but it’s a very impressive castle. Really impressive. There’s like two layers of moes. Yeah. And like thick thick moes, huge walls, a huge stone. There was like 105 ton. I think I had to Google it cuz like distances and weight. Like just saying 105 ton means nothing to my brain. Like it’s I can’t automatically put that into context. But it’s like 50 elephants. I had to Google how much an elephant weighs. 50 African elephants. Yeah. Yeah. And that like putting it into that context makes me go like wa also makes me think about those people that are like ancient aliens. How did they move these rocks back in the day? I always think this cuz like I wouldn’t know how to do it in today’s day and age with today’s equipment. And like I know I’m not an engineer or like a construction worker. Like my knowledge is very minimal, but I just don’t understand how anyone does that now, let alone then. That is so true. Floating. There’s another dog over there. I don’t know if we talked about it already, but these are our favorite ones. The latte. Yeah. Also, just while we’re rambling, we realized we’ve had our whole life being iced coffee people and then we got to Japan hot coffee people. Yeah. I think it’s cuz they have vending machines with like hot coffees and everything. Mhm. Anyway, castle’s just here. Just on the rambling though quickly. Ramble away, baby. That’s what today’s going to be. It’s We might not get great shots. It might be a bit hectic, a bit handheld, a bit shaky, but you know what? Why don’t you just come in with us for our final 24 hours of bliss while we travel? Whether you like it or not. Yeah. Although you can click off off the video. No, don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t do that. [Music] I can’t be the only one who comes to sites like this and tries to envision back in the day when the walls were getting attacked and like how I would defend, how I would attack. Obviously, when I’m thinking about that, everything’s super easy. I can defend against anyone and I can attack anyone. In real life, it may be a little bit different. May not, though. Who knows? Look how big this stone is. That is a monster. I’m 90% sure this grounds is like open 24/7. But the Osaka Castle, like the main bit we’re going to, does have opening times cuz you can pay to go up it. And maybe depending on the line, depending on the price, we might go up, but probably not. I’m determined to not leave Japan with any local currency. So, we also have 2,000 yen to get through, which isn’t much, and we can do that very easily. We also need to figure out how much the train to the airport is. Yeah. Put that into our squeaker cards and then spend the difference so that hits zero as well cuz you can use the cards at like 7-Eleven and Lawson’s and stuff, I’m pretty sure. So, we’ll see. We got them down to 1 cent and then we had to put more in. So annoying. Wow. [Music] It’s another monster rock. That’s one piece. This is the one that’s like 50 elephants. [Music] That’s what I did. Entrance to the castle was going to be $6 or $7ish. Six per person. Six bucks. We haven’t done any research, so we don’t know whether that was going to be worth it or not, but we decided not to just to save our money. There’s also like a little boat you can go on that takes you 20 minutes, I think, around the moat, and that was $15, which we’re also not doing. That’s the peach groves. That would be beautiful at the right season. Like when they’re all full. It’s chilly up here. It’s so frosty today. Should we go? There’s another castle over there. Go down there. Do you want to? There. Peaches. We can if you want. I’m not too fast cuz they look just dead. Maybe we just go find breakfast. Yeah, I want breakfast. All right, breakfast time. Boom. Immediately got distracted by a shrine as we were leaving Osaka Castle. Yeah, it’s across the road. Yeah. Um there’s actually a temple I really wanted to go to while we were here, but I didn’t realize how far away it was. I think it’s 45minut drive and I was like, “Oh, that’s fine. It should be like a 30inut train journey.” But it was like four transfers in an hour and a half or something. But it looks really cool. So if you go check out this temple so much fun fortunes that come with the little red character thing. I don’t know. It does look really cool and we were very close to doing it, but it was just that little too far away for our final day. Yeah, I agree. Final days should be more relaxed than that. Yeah. Anyways, time for breakfast. I cannot believe it’s our last day. I can’t believe we’ve done so much on this trip and it’s coming to an end. Yeah. I just like it feels surreal. We were planning this for so long. We were doing it for so long and it’s the last day. That’s crazy. I’ve had such a good trip with you this year. This year? Yeah. Other years been Fair enough. [Music] I didn’t realize how popular this place would be and we have been waiting for only 10 minutes but it looks really good. We are next in line though. Smells really good. Venue looks great. And one of the menu options is an Australian full breakfast which is crazy. I don’t even know what that is. Yeah, we’re not going to get it. Eggs benny’s too good to ignore. Come on. Thank you so much. [Music] Thank you. Thank you so much. Yum. Feel like we actually haven’t gone out for breakfast. I can’t remember the last time we went out for breakfast. It was delicious, but it was expensive. I disagree. I got the eggs benny. The toast bit was really, really good. The eggs were really good, but the ham on top was pretty much not cooked at all, which is unusual. It was cold with warm toast, warm egg. That is weird. It was weird. The pancakes were good. [Music] First impressions of Don Don Bori Street, a 10 out of 10. There’s giant signs everywhere, like crabs animated to move, things sticking out of the walls, street food, restaurants. I love it. No, thankfully this did not happen in Osaka. It actually happened 9 days into our full-time travel adventure. It was scary, but as I sat in the ambulance with Emily, I had one thought running through my head other than I really hope Emily’s okay was, I’m so glad we got travel insurance for this trip. That’s why I wanted to take a moment to thank the longest running partner of this channel, Safety Wing. Safety Wing now offers two main plans. 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All right, let’s get back to Osaka. really does seem like the kind of place that would look totally different after dark as well with all the lights and things. We’ve come to one of the main streets in Osaka and I’ve seen a lot of Wagu and Kobe beef shops that are like 10 bucks for a small skewer of steak. So, I wanted to look up what the difference is between Kobe and Wagu beef. Apparently, it’s the type of cattle in the region that it’s grown in. But, Kobe is specifically a region in Japan. Wanted to make sure. So, I Googled a little more. Apparently, Japan’s Kobe beef is a Rolls-Royce of red meat. The world’s most famously luxurious steak. It’s also the world’s most counterfeited beef. Odds are that if you ate it in this country, even if you paid hundreds of dollars for a single small steak, you would do. So, I don’t know whether I risk it and get like a $10 tiny piece of meat or if I just don’t. But I think I’m going to rum. Isn’t it? This is what I’m most excited for. It is the world’s only ovalshaped ferris wheel and it’s only $10 to go on. There’s hardly anyone on it at the moment. So, I don’t know whether we go now or whether we save it. Let’s save it. Okay. Keep walking. Let’s go get some beef. Going to get sake as well. Yeah, that’s a good idea. Yeah, why not? You know, place is very time squary. There is so many people. And our final things that we really want to find and try is Kobe beef or some sort of Wagu beef, saki, and then there is a cake shop. I really want to go to you having fun. Yeah, it was great. Yay. Good vibes. It just Oh, look at all the big yoza. Very time square vibes. So time square. This Kobe beef is much more expensive than the first one, which means either the first one’s obviously counterfeit or this one is overpriced. I think I’m going to go to the counterfeit one. 3,000’s just a bit too much. All right, that one’s the only one with Kobe. It’s 1,000, which is like three times as three times less than some of the ones down there. So whether it is or whether it isn’t, I’m going to try it. I mean, it looks good. Juicy. So the Kobe beef, he got it from the front and it was like the most marbled one possible. It was almost all marble. I don’t know if there was any actual beef there. It was just marbled. But he then put it on a grill, put like a what looked like the thing you would use to uh flatten out cement on top of it and then flamethrowed it. I did also see him at the end there dunking it into a tub of something. I don’t know what that was. And then grilling it again. It’s super thin. It smells really good and I have no idea what to expect. Just to say at the moment your top ever steak is the Rocky Mountaineer. Yeah. So this needs to tell me where it is in comparison. This is interesting because served like this even if it isn’t the real Kobe steak. It is the best steak I’ve ever had. However, ooh, when you taste it, you realize this. It would be too much for me to have a full steak worth of this. It’s too rich. Too rich. Too luxurious. Can I have the middle bit? Yeah, you will understand what I mean. I reckon I’m interested. That’s so good. It’s super salty. I know you like that. OMG. This is going to sound crazy coming out of my mouth, but that is worth the money. Wow, that was so good. I’m going to have another nibble of the next. Little bit, little bit, little bit. It’s super luxurious. Like, it’s not dinner because it’s not enough to be dinner, but it’s still $10. So, it’s as much as our massive bowls of itchy rhyme to get this one skewer, but as a treat, 10 out of 10. So glad we got it on the last day in Osaka. Yay. Oh my god, that’s good. It’s so salty. Not salty enough. I need a drink of water just to rehydrate. But we’re going to continue on down and see what else is here. You want to go on the Paris way with me? You betcha. Yay. Paris. Why would it be cash only? Apparently, it’s cash only or Alip Pay, which we still have from China, but it’s just not. They’re scanner isn’t working. We really wanted to go on the ferris wheel. I’m sorry. Byebye. We’re always trying to get rid of cash, so we don’t carry any home. And then it’s stuff like that right at the end that happens to need cash for some reason ruins it. to go to the ATM, pay an ATM fee, have to get out too much, and then have to go on a spending spree to get that cash down again. Do I still have WeChat pay? We can try that. I don’t think we ever use that. It definitely seems like it’s an issue on their end because we tried multiple different cards that were saved in Alip Pay. Yeah. And there was both of us different phones. I was prepared to pay the fees. Tried to find the ATM. It’s not here either. So, you were going to pay the fees for me? Yeah. But that’s the universe telling us we should not go on that ferris wheel. That’s so nice cuz you hate paying the fees. I hate it. Yeah. All right. All right. Let’s walk and get this cake. All right. So, we’ve been saying all day that today kind of feels like the last day of school. We usually call it muckup day. And it’s like in Australia, it’s like the one day that the kids are allowed to basically do whatever they want. And you don’t get in trouble cuz what are they going to do? They can’t suspend you. They can’t put you in detention. Last day of school. There’s normally a prank that happens. Calling teachers by their first name. Craziness. Anyway, feels like today is that for us in the travel sphere. So, we’re getting cake for dinner. We’re getting an entire cake for dinner to share. Not just a slice. Entire cake. [Music] [Music] Thank you. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you. I don’t think we got cutlery. So, we might have to go home. That’s $10 for a whole cake. Whole cheesecake. $960 actually if you want to be specific. $9.65 if I want to be accurate. Before we get home and try the cheesecake and the sake, we have to announce this is the last video of ours for this little trip for Japan. Yeah. What was your favorite thing we did this year? Okay. If we’re playing this game, I’m not tying myself to an answer and we’re going to get hit by a taxi. Like, I’m entitled to change my mind. It’s just going to be whatever I think of first. Yeah. Top of mind. Yeah. Um, Great Wall of China. What about you? Uh, Mikong River Cruise. Wow. Yeah, really like them. Deep cut. Fuji was another highlight. Fuji was really good. Um, favorite food? Itchy rum. Yeah, we have recency bias, so we might not recency bias for right now in my brain. Itchy rum. Oh, that’s cold. Let’s hustle home. Okay. You got it. Time to go. Oh, $10 cheesecake. $965. Jiggly jiggly. You can’t get slices of this. You just have to get all of it. Also doesn’t smell particularly. Cheers. It’s like eggy. Oh, we bought a whole cake’s worth. That’s weird. Yeah. Try again. But uh I don’t mind it. I don’t think it’s not as sweet as you’re expecting. Whole cake for me. Mhm. Saki time. Love that they have these in 7-Elevens and family ms everywhere. It’s just a jar of sake. It’s one cup of sake. It does say one cup of sake on sojuy. Better than soju really in my opinion. And I’ I’d assume this is like an home brand version. I think soju was smoother. What is that flavor? Isn’t it meant to be warm? Or it can be warm maybe. If you’ve made it this far in the video and you are not subscribed and you do have interest in visiting other countries with us, please subscribe, join us, and we’re going to 100 countries, baby. Yeah. [Music]

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It’s our last day in Japan, and instead of ticking off big tourist checklists, we’re just doing whatever we feel like in Osaka. 🏯 From wandering Osaka Castle and getting distracted by random shrines to eating Kobe beef (possibly real… possibly not 🤷‍♂️), hunting down sake, and buying a whole cake for dinner.

Join us for our final 24 hours in Japan as we:
👉 Explore Osaka Castle’s massive walls & ancient moats
👉 Stroll through Dotonbori’s neon chaos
👉 Taste the richest steak we’ve ever had
👉 Fail spectacularly at riding the world’s only oval Ferris wheel
👉 End the night with cheesecake & sake

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