Tokyo – Beyond a Travel Vlog | Exploring the Spirit & Flow of Japan’s Capital

Tokyo – Beyond a Travel Vlog | Exploring the Spirit & Flow of Japan’s Capital

In the previous videos, I was mentioning how I will make a series of four videos about my travel to Japan inspired by Taka from one rock. So, here’s the first one, Tokyo. From the very beginning, this whole journey felt guided by grace. My first long hall flight, 15 hours, further than I had ever been. The plane was only half full, and I found myself with four chairs free right next to me, like a small cocoon prepared just for me. The size of the plane impressed me. But even more so did the friendliness of the staff, mostly Japanese, fluent in English, and also other languages. being so caring and so real. I’m super grateful for the tech in this uh kind of planes that provides just the right amount of um overview in a physical to entice subtle perception of the wider space. I felt like a little country girl coming to the city for the first time. I’m just used to I’ve never been further away than Europe. Like my only flights were within Europe. So flying over Aline Mountains and Mongolia was the most touching part of the already impressive flight that was expanding my perspective from just one continent to planetary awareness. It touched me the most because one of my favorite books written by Nicolas Ruri recording his travels through the Alai mountains titled Al Thai Himalaya a travel diary was written in the saddle like more literally than figuratively. So here I am 100 years later flying above the Alai mountains 11 kilometers up in the sky and from here they look like wrinkles on the skin of the earth. At Narita my friend was waiting for me. He’s Japanese but he’s fluent not only in English and Spanish but Romanian too, my native language. and to be greeted by Japanese in Romanian with the assurance, go and do whatever you want in Japan. If they need me for anything, call me. And then to continue sharing my experience throughout my Japan trip with him in Romanian, I was already bridging the gaps and paving my feeling of home in ways I did not consider before. While driving towards Yokohama from the airport, he surprised me by playing one rock. Wow. It felt surreal to hear Taka’s voice. the pool that had made me travel to Japan in the first place within the first half hour after I landed on his homeland. That was the moment that I knew this trip would be more than just travel. It would be revelation. Tokyo welcomed me with its contradictions. Inside my friend’s tiny apartment, I had to retrain my body to move without bumping into everything. The first three days were mostly about this adjusting, especially the jet for the first time in my life. And yet it didn’t really feel so different from my own usual chaotic sleep schedule. What struck me instead was the vividness of life spilling everywhere. Standing in Shinjuku dwarfed by skyscrapers so huge I felt like an ant in their shadow. Walking through the colorful and loud Shibuya at night, observing drunk youth on the streets. I didn’t explore the wild night I had heard so much about since I had already lived my share of that back in college years. getting drunk, partying, numbing my body in the attempt to free the mind, only to wake up with a hangover for the next day. Neon lights and new faces don’t really change what it is. But just above that, there’s Miashita Park, a rooftop terrace. It was filled with teenagers gathered after school, and that’s different. I was impressed by the numerous couples of students in school uniforms that I saw everywhere. I love to see the playfulness and joy of the girls and the seriousness and care of the guys who took those girls out for those dates. I have heard of Japanese no PDA strict behavior and it was actually refreshing to see simple gestures of affection. A look, a handheld a little bit longer, a laugh shared. It was enough to carry the whole atmosphere. It was purity of love in its first innocence. The emotion of discovery, the joy of just cuddling, the simple delight of being together. I realized I rarely see this in Denmark and probably most of the West where it seems that love already arrives dressed in doubt. Um, weighed down by expectation, influenced by trends with feelings muted before they even have a chance to be felt and explored. Here it touched me more than I expected. Like witnessing the very beginning of human connection itself. How do we return to this initial purity in our own relationships? Not gullible naity, but this conscious innocence, that rare quality of the soul that can see through fresh eyes again, that chooses wonder over cynicism. I continued exploring by myself the capital of this other planet like majesty of Japan. This city of 37 million people should feel overwhelming but instead the feeling of calmness and relaxation like the zero stress predominates. Not that it’s not there but the way it is handled. Birds chirping in train stations, traffic lights singing, spot-on guiding for the impaired. Just how is this not chaotic and entropic? How can such density feel so light? How can order live so naturally within chaos? And the streets smell of flowers everywhere. Are they spraying something? Because the flowers and nature are mostly decoration here to soften the concrete layers of roads and buildings. Except for the Imperial Palace, that’s an oasis. A maintained green jungle in the middle of futuristic civilization. and most of the cars looking cute and tiny like toys. It dawned on me that the fierce and fiery Japanese spirit has this balancing side that developed as kawaii culture. It kind of makes sense to me since their fire is rooted in the core of selfidentity as a nation, willpower and determination. To balance that, cuteness is a natural solution. I can’t Thank you. There are only five minutes left. Here I finally understood what it means to actually use the third dimension and Still Google Maps knows exactly where to guide me without error. How is that even possible in this seeming entanglement? at Tokyo station. It took me exactly to the specific platform and I think it’s like I don’t know many platforms and layers and there and there it’s like buses and trains and another trains and it’s like spot on. I and then the also the signs that they have all over. I didn’t even have to stop and ask or I could just like walk look for the signs and I was there. Like no time wasted. It’s like it’s a it’s some kind of magical. Yeah. Okay. I know they’re 10 times smarter than the rest of the world, but still the precision. Team Lab Planet, the best vegan ramen. I just could not comprehend how it could be so good. Yes, food in Japan is famous for being delicious, but this really find the meaning of the word. Let’s go. To find this level of order in one of the largest, most crowded cities in the world, it gave me hope. Hope that our world can make it further. Japan feels like it’s already a hundred years ahead at least. I understood it is their mentality of prioritizing the whole over the individual that can make this happen. While in the west it’s the opposite. The level of individual comfort and importance over the wellness of the entire community is one of the reasons many European countries do not thrive. Actually, it’s just the west, not just Europe. It’s just how I think it’s the difference between the east and the west. I’ve lived in Denmark for almost 20 years. The welfare system here is one of the best in Europe. I love Denmark for being neat and simple and wellconed. So, things flow and everyone is content. And yet, Japan struck me as another level of flow. way way next level. Everything here feels so considered well ahead, properly prepared so that by the time I as a consumer interact with it, it serves the purpose it was created for without wasting any of my time. I feel supported, nourished. I get the best quality possible from that whatever that product is or service. so that I can carry on without disruption, energized even. It made me want to be part of it that of that way of doing things to contribute to keeping this flow alive. It’s highly educational. It’s inspiring for the western mentality. Tokyo was like the headquarters for me in this trip. The place I would come back to after each exploration. I experienced the first har massage in Kyoto and then I came back to Tokyo and got three massages there. massage and acupuncture from a 70 year old guy that looked like max 50 and he was surprised to see me at his door suddenly without appointment because he was not advertising his business. So he was only used to his regular clients Japanese. But since Google Maps is as 100 years ahead as anything else in Japan, for me it was easy to find my way around and I was deliberately picking up the not advertised Harry massage places that Google recommended. These kind of places looked weird for the western mentality. Like there was no website, there was no information about the mass, the prices, nothing. It was just a name that included Hari Massage in the name and the address and there was nothing else. So perhaps if it wasn’t Japan, I wouldn’t have gone to these kind of places cuz they from the map it looks shady, but it’s Japan. I trust it 100%. And that’s how I found the most amazing mass throughout my trip, turning it into an unexpected healing retreat. And the communication was mainly Google Translate because of course I didn’t speak English. I didn’t speak Japanese. And I had serious issues. I had arrived in Japan less than half a year after I had had a fibroid imolization. And my body was in big need for recovering. But it was so easy to just write down everything. They would read it. Well, there were a few of them who were blind and then they could not read. Um, but they could sense anyhow because this massage seems to be um, that’s why I like it actually. It’s very highly focused on the sensitivity in the hands. So they are trained to sense energy blockages and how to remove it. So even if I think it was like with two of them I couldn’t communicate at all. They did the same amazing job and I felt regenerated after each of the massages. It did help me the part of communication because they could tell me they could give me a diagnostic. They could tell me which organs and what meridians are blocked or mis misaligned and what I should work on. It’s amazing. It’s such an amazing the fact that they even have this mix of um energetic massage, physical energetic like on points like pressure points massage with acupuncture. Yeah. The masur in Tokyo, Mr. Oaki said that the fact that I was a tourist and found him like that was fate. was destiny. So he would he promised he would do everything he could to help him recover and his massages were really really good. His English was not so good but his heart and willingness to connect were 100%. And this is what impressed me the most in Japan, all over Japan. a top level blending of high technology and human heart. Like the technology was used exactly where needed and for the purpose it was created. At least that was my experience. It’s like pointing towards humanity’s next evolutionary step. Not choosing between progress and technology and the soul, but discovering how our highest technologies can actually serve our deepest humanity. What would our cities, our relationships, our work look like if we design them from this integrated consciousness? I thought this is how the whole world should be. For the first time, I felt at home like for the first time in my life because I’ve not felt home in Denmark and in Romania. I’ve not felt home. That’s why I left. I figured out how to feel comfortable, but the feeling of being at home. Mysteriously, I felt it for the first time in Japan. And it wasn’t because I belong to Japan, but because Japan belongs to a possibility of humanity I had always longed for.

This video is about me exploring Tokyo, where I felt like home. It is a journey beyond a travel vlog: from city flow and calm to the transformative experience of Japanese acupuncture: Hari massage. Lying there, needles gently placed into the body, I realized how much of our inner heaviness is carried without awareness.

I share my thoughts and feelings through Tokyo’s contrasts: the neon buzz and the serene gardens, the towering skyline and the subtle spirit that lives between the streets.

Traveling with awareness means recognizing what your soul actually needs in that place and fulfilling that deeper need, seeing through the surface desire.

For me, Tokyo was more than a vacation destination, it became an inspiration. A place where spirit and flow showed themselves in the most unexpected corners.

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