A Day in Okayama: Kurashiki Canals & Japan’s Black Castle
[Music] All right. So, I’m just taking my meds. Shingles are definitely getting better. I don’t know if you can see it from there, but it’s definitely healing. Second day, first night here at Nakyama. I will be heading out west though. I want to go check out this place called Kureshiki. Um they’ve got some canals there. Looks real pretty. So I want to go check it out. And then on our way back, we’re going to go check out the Okyama Castle. But yeah, that’s all much I’ve got planned for today. But I think I should go get some food. First, probably have a shower, get ready. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] All right, so we’ve made it to Kurashiki, uh, here in Japan. Cute little town. But there’s a canal that runs through quite a fair bit through the town. They’ve got this section of right at the beginning of it where they’ve also got like all these other shops. I think this area they make a lot of like denim stuff. So it’s very popular here. So there’s a lot of shops here that sell denim. Pretty much everything like obviously denim jeans, denim shirts, jackets. Yeah. So there’s like this little ride as well you can get on which is like a little boat where tourists and people that come through, they can go on their canal and enjoy like a short trip. There’s also like um I don’t know what to call these things. Maybe I should like search it and find out if I speak about it. But I’ll show you. Probably span here a few more minutes and then I’ll make my way back and check out the Okyama Castle. [Music] [Music] Okay, so I found a place to sit down right in front of the cop station. I just stopped at uh Lawson’s which is a convenience store and I got myself quick buy like kind of lunch pork fillet cutlets and just a bottle of water and I think this cost me like 550. Cheap but really tasty. I’m just going to smash this up and continue my travels. [Music] Okay. Well, I just got to Okyama Castle. The entry fee for here was 600 yen. So, it’s like five bucks or just over five bucks. There’s not much to do, I guess, here, right? Like, you go up, get to see like a miniature scaled version of the castle and the surroundings. You can also pick up real samurai swords. Two different sizes with two different weights and the gun as well that they they would use. They have videos playing, I guess, about history and stuff. So, it’s quite small. For 600 yen, it’s actually pretty cheap. I’m not going to lie, like the last couple of days I have been feeling pretty just wrecked. And it’s mainly because of the shingles. Like three days ago, it was the worst, man. And like I was starting to get the little pimples kind of looking things all over my face. And I watch YouTube videos and they’re like, “Oh, if you get them on your face, should go to the doctor and, you know, go get it checked out, especially if it’s around your ear or around your eye because shingles essentially affect the nerve. So, if they are starting to appear around your face and if they affect the wrong nerve, then it can be cooked. Man, I was getting pimples, shingles all over my face, bro.” Yeah. you know, at times I was like, should I go back to uh Sydney and go to the hospital and get this checked out? Cuz I have a weakened immune system. So, it was kind of scary a little bit. Like when it got really bad, I remembered that I can just always go back to listening to Joe Dispenser’s Blessings of the Energy Centers. Highly recommend to do some meditations, specifically some guided meditations cuz you can just switch off. I mean, I couldn’t switch off. Like, my mind was still racing cuz I was just, I guess, scared. Scared for my health, you know, a clear intention with an elevated emotion and matter response. It’s true. Being able to tap into that gratitude and just unconditional love and putting my attention to all the different parts of my body and, you know, sending it sending all that love to it. It’s it’s crazy talk, but it’s it’s real wizard You guys should go check out Joy this Pence’s YouTube channel and just watch the testimonial videos that are up there. and some moving Like when you start to see the amazing things that other people are doing for themselves, it automatically creates this massive amount of belief that you can also do it. Cuz you can. If there’s someone out there that is able to do something, it’s just proof that you can do it, too. It’s like the 4-minute mile. You know, back in the day, people thought that it was impossible to get to that 4-minute mile, to run a mile in 4 minutes and then someone breaks it and then so many other people also achieve it. [Music] What you believe in has massive impact in your life. Something as well that that keeps coming into my consciousness is you have something special. We all have something special. And the more I believe it, the more it becomes real. [Music] It’s not hard to manifest the life of your dreams when you’re simply in love and just in gratitude all the time. In love with yourself, in love with your life, in love with everyone else. It’s written in ancient texts, man. Even Jesus Christ was trying to teach us that life’s beautiful, man. [Music] Next stop is [Music] episode. What kind of [Music] question? [Music] [Music] I am [Music] so [Music] tight. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Okay. [Music]
Today I spent the day exploring Okayama in Japan! I started my morning in Kurashiki, wandering through its beautiful historic canal district, before heading back to the city to see Okayama Castle — also known as Japan’s “Black Castle.” Along the way, I share some reflections on solo travel and end the day with a cozy burger dinner.
If you’re planning to visit Okayama or looking for hidden gems in Japan, Kurashiki and Okayama Castle are must-see spots.
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