Japan 2025 (Anti Vlog)

Japan 2025 (Anti Vlog)

This a 2hr (please use timestamps) journey through Japan in freezing cold, we visiting Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Osaka — all captured in stunning 4K HDR at 60fps using a mix of professional and mobile gear. This video is an amalgamation…… a glorified slideshow crafted in professional-grade editing software… not a vlog.

There’s no narration or storyline, just a chronological montage of the trip: city streets, shrines, food stalls, peaceful moments, bullet trains, and more. It’s everything – the big sights and the little details.

🎥 This is my first travel video, so please give me some grace. I know it’s long (2 hours!), so I’ve added timestamps in the description to help you jump around to different places.

📅 Trip Dates: February 2–16, 2025
❄️ Season: Winter in Japan
📍 Locations Featured: Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Osaka
🎶 Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcVJmb5mvk&t

⏰ Timestamps
0:00 – 😅 Sorry
0:29 – 🎬 Intro
0:42 – 🛏️ Night Before
0:55 – ✈️ Airport Time
1:29 – 👋 Bye MCO – Hello YYT
2:04 – 🇨🇦 We’re in CANADA
2:20 – 🛫 It was fun while it lasted. Bye Canada. See you later.
2:27 – 🇯🇵 We MADE IT TO JAPAN
2:32 – 🚆 First Japan Train!
2:44 – 🚄 Bullet Train go BRRRRR!
2:56 – 🏙️ Welcome to Shin-Osaka
3:09 – 😞 We Got Lost
3:16 – 🏠 Airbnb Tour!
3:53 – 😌 Day 1 – Do Nothing Day
5:22 – 🏮 Day 2 – Kyoto (Arashiyama at Night)
6:37 – 🛍️ Don Quijote Tour
9:24 – 🚌 Bus Terminal
9:50 – 🚶 Off to Arashiyama at Night
9:54 – 🌌 Arashiyama at Night
10:43 – 🏡 Heading Back Home

11:12 – 🦌 Day 3 – Nara + Nintendo Museum
11:59 – 🦌 Meet the Deer
13:08 – 🏢 Nara Prefectural Building Tour
13:28 – ❄️ ITS SNOWING!!!
13:35 – 🛕 Off to Todai-Ji Temple
13:55 – 🏞️ Off to Nintendo Museum (Scenic Route)
14:30 – 🎮 The Nintendo Museum
14:50 – 🚫 No Filming Allowed?!
15:58 – 🚶 On The Way Home
16:04 – 🛍️ The Spoils of WAR

16:18 – 🏯 Day 4 – Hiroshima
17:14 – 🙌 Welcome to Hiroshima
17:19 – 🗼 Orizuro Tower
17:29 – 💡 But first, an Electronics Store Pit Stop
17:39 – 🏙️ Back to Orizuro Tower
18:03 – 🌇 The View from Orizuro Tower
19:24 – 🏯 The Hiroshima Castle
19:27 – 📍 Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Plaque
19:30 – 🕊️ Peace Paper Cranes
19:36 – 🎐 Dropping Paper Cranes from the Tower
19:45 – 😬 WEEEEE OUCH
19:57 – 🕊️ Off to Peace Memorial Museum
20:17 – 🏞️ Peace Memorial Park
20:35 – ⛴️ Off to Miyajima Island
20:51 – 🚢 Ferry Ride to Miyajima
21:01 – 🌅 Miyajima Island
21:04 – ⛩️ Otorii Gate + Surroundings
21:38 – 🌊 Back Landside

21:49 – 🏯 Day 5 – Kyoto (Arashiyama Day + Kinkaku-ji)
21:55 – 🚃 Off to Kyoto
22:25 – 🎍 Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
25:21 – 🌉 Togetsukyo Bridge
25:58 – 🚏 The Same Bus Terminal AGAIN
26:09 – 🚕 Off to Kinkaku-ji
26:18 – ⛩️ Kinkaku-ji’s Gates
26:48 – ✨ WOW, So Golden
27:18 – 📸 Sights Around the Grounds
27:30 – ✌🏾 They Were Closing, So We’re Leaving
27:34 – 🛍️ Off to Traveler’s Factory Kyoto
28:42 – 📍 We Have Arrived!
29:02 – 🧳 Off We Goo
29:10 – ❄️ ITS SNOWING!!!!

29:17 – 🏙️ Day 6 – Last Day in Osaka
30:03 – 🌆 Kuchu Teien (Umeda Sky Building)
30:39 – 🚗 Car Driving Through the Building?!
31:33 – 🎪 A Random Wrestling Match in 40°F
31:41 – 🌳 Umekita Park
31:53 – 🚉 Osaka Station City
32:23 – 🚄 Bullet Train to Tokyo
30:46 – 🗼 Tokyo Time

34:04 – 🗾 Day 7 – Tokyo
34:20 – 🌃 Shibuya Sky
34:26 – 👀 Shibuya Crossing from Above
34:29 – 🛗 Elevator to the Top
36:21 – 🗻 Good Afternoon, Mt. Fuji
36:25 – 🌆 Tokyo Is So BIG!!!
35:52 – 🛒 Off to Yodobashi Camera Akiba
37:55 – 🏬 IT’S SUCH A BIG STORE
38:18 – 😱 I Met @akidearest!!!
38:21 – 💳 Picking Up Dad’s Debit Card at Koban

38:23 – 🚉 Day 8 – Tokyo Station
39:33 – 🗼 Off to Tokyo Tower
40:25 – 📍 We Have Arrived
40:55 – 👁️ The View
44:34 – 🌈 Off to TeamLabs Borderless
41:49 – 🏙️ Azabudai Hills
41:58 – 🏢 Arriving at TeamLabs Borderless
42:00 – ✨ Inside TeamLabs Borderless
47:31 – 📴 My Phone DIED
47:36 – 🏙️ More Azabudai Hills
47:55 – ❓ I Have No Idea What This Is
48:00 – 🛗 This People Mover GOES UP?!

48:49 – 🌅 Day 9 – Asakusa + Odaiba
49:46 – ⛩️ Kaminarimon
49:59 – 🛍️ Nakamise
50:18 – 🛕 Senso-ji Temple & Surroundings
51:58 – ⛴️ Off to Asakusa Tokyo Cruise
56:58 – 🚀 Our Space Boat Has Arrived!
57:18 – 🚢 Inside the Boat
57:24 – 🛥️ Ride to Odaiba
58:12 – 🏖️ Odaiba
58:59 – 🌌 TeamLabs Planets

1:06:48 – 🎢 Day 10 – DisneySea Day

1:17:20 – 🌊 Day 11 – Enoshima Day
1:17:33 – 🚃 Taking the Enoden to Enoshima Station
1:20:37 – 🚉 Enoshima Station
1:20:51 – 🚶 Walking to Enoshima Island

(Part 2 in Comments)

📸 Filmed With:
iPhone 16 Pro Max
iPhone 15 Pro Max
iPhone 12 Pro Max
DJI Osmo Pocket 3
Sony A7IV
(Everything in 4K / 60fps / HDR)

💬 Feedback is welcome! Let me know what worked, what didn’t, and where I should travel next.
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