Living like a LOCAL in WAKAYAMA Japan | Apartment & Fishing Village π π
What does everyday life in Japan really feel like? Not in the tourist districts, but in a regular neighborhood. The kind of place where most people actually live. Come join us for a week in Wakayyama, a coastal prefecture just an hour from Osaka. Known for fresh seafood and quiet neighborhoods. We made it to Makayama and it’s very local. The people are staring at us like we’re from Mars. The one guy looked at us and waved. And now he’s standing in the road looking at us. We think that is our building for the week. Only Japan where you walk in the door and there’s keys here and you take your key and then you unlock your door. Your door. How crazy is that? You just walk in. Anybody can walk in and take like a key and go to the room. But so safe. So when you come in, you have this very cute alleyway where you take off your shoes. Bathroom. Bedroom. Bathroom. Here is like a kitchen space. And then here is a lounge area which is really nice with a couch and you can close that doors. So we have like three working spaces technically a bedroom which you can also close the balcony. Yeah. Oh, we have a Oh, not really. Something is always something. Always give you paper towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes. Wow, this is so big. Got a bath shower with like anything you can choose from. No matter how small the place is, there will usually be a bath. They love buying washing machine. This place is really cool. They left us some noodles. Oh, wow. Check here, Jay. Meat packets. Oh, wow. A whole thing of ramen. Yo, needle, needle, needle, needle, needle. A lot of times you get to places and you need to get like everything. Here they always have toilet paper. So many like hand towels. This one has oils. Oh, there’s more pastas. pasta sauces, salt and pepper stuff, oil cleaning stuff. Oh, and usually if you stay at a place, except in Japan, you always have to buy washing detergent. Comes with washing detergent always. Even in the hotels, there’s like a pack of washing detergent that you can’t just use. It’s quite an old building, but it’s quite big inside. Hey, it’s not too bad. I think it’ll be fine. [Music] very local. I think everyone is like, they have this really cool thing in Japan where you can order internet. So, you order it online and they send it to your closest post office and it’s like quite cheap. This is what life was like before we started using Eims. Today, it’s a lot simpler. We use Olafly Eims. You buy them online and the moment you land in a new country, you have internet. No more waiting for SIM cards in the mail or searching for internet on arrival. They even have options that cover an entire region like Europe or Southeast Asia. You can scan the code on the screen or your skin travels at checkout for a discount on your ESIM. 1 kilometer later. The rest of the week we spent grocery shopping, going for walks in the neighborhood, and working until the weekend arrived and it was time to explore. I really wanted to go visit the island of Okinosima right off the coast of Wakayyama where you will find abandoned ruins. Unfortunately, on the Saturday the wind was too strong, so the ferry wasn’t operating and we work in the weeks so we can only explore on the weekends. We ended up exploring the small local fishing village. [Music] Deep fried legs. I don’t know whose legs. Someone’s legs. Noodles. I want to try the curry. Udon. Tuna. Pickle ball. Half pickle tuna. I got five. [Music] Oh, wow. Is it alive? Yes, it’s alive. Yeah. So, you might have to order something else. What else do you want to eat? I don’t know if I want to eat anything more. Don’t know that the abalone is alive. I went to go film it and then it’s wiggling in itself being burning alive. I showed her before we walked in. I was like, look at all the fresh. It’s fresh. It’s It’s very fresh. like very very fresh. I feel very bad now. It’s not that fishy. It’s okay. It has feelings. Jared says abalone doesn’t have feelings. I mean, I’m not a scientist, but it doesn’t have a centralized. So, someone’s drone that they’ve hung up, but they have to say mad. But this place is very cute. Yeah, my buttered alone. It’s 200 here. Oh, that looks good. Rice and vegan soup and cheese. Are you going to eat it just like that? No. It’s good. Really? It’s like succulent. It’s like so like buttery. Like it’s like just breaks like like like [Music] it’s like calamari texture. Calamari texture. Just more tasty than calamari. Really? Okay. Like more buttery. Yeah. You like it? Definitely sweet. M. Good. You like it? Yes. Good. Good. Nice. It’s good. Jared’s scared. It’s chewy. It’s like calamari. Yes. Tastes more tasty. It’s eating the kale and eating fresh with juices for the first time. It’s not that I’m not quite sure how I do this. Oh, it looks so good. Oh wow. Good. Oh, so good. Y try Japanese pickle. [Music] So weird. They’ve had it before and stuff. It’s like it goes into the back of your nose like stinky feet. Oh, cute. A reminder that for every 10 new subscribers to this channel, we feed or donate a meal to a stray animal somewhere in the world. It doesn’t cost you a thing. Another area to explore in Wakayyama is Sacred Mount Koyasan where you can overnight in one of the monasteries with monks. You can watch our previous video where we did this. We spent the next week just living and working in this neighborhood. The grocery stores here are amazing. Just look at this wagger we found and sushi at the grocery store. I’m so excited. Jay, it’s some fresh licorice from the shop today. Oh, and in Japan, I’d say it’s a crab. It’s some tuna. It’s some salmon. It’s some I think that’s like an egg thing. It’s some scallop. Doubt I will know after I’ve eaten it what it is. Okay, thank you for watching. 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We spent a week living in Wakayama, staying in a small apartment, grocery shopping in the neighborhood, strolling through local parks and even visiting a quiet fishing village to try fresh seafood π.
This isnβt the typical sightseeing trip, itβs about slowing down and experiencing the rhythm of daily life where most people actually live.
00:00 Welcome to Wakayama
00:35 Apartment Tour
02:21 Exploring Local Neighborhood
03:10 Local Fishing Village
04:08 Trying Local seafood
07:30 Grocery shopping in Wakatama
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