Chasing Cherry Blossoms in Japan & Everything I learned Along the Way
I tried to catch peak bloom in Japan for the cherry blossoms and it was much harder than I thought. Join me as I take you along my wild adventure and learn what I did well and what I didn’t to make your trip even better. Let’s go to Japan!
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Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:52 – Cherry Blossom Forecast
2:28 – Day 2 Rain and Shopping
3:33 – McDonalds and Meguro
4:05 – Day 3 Ueno, Tokyo, and Fujiyoshida
4:40 – Mt Fuji Lawson and Food
6:00 – Restaurant Hotel
7:19 – Day 4 Mt Fuji
7:52 – The Big Reveal
9:17 – Kawaguchiko Area
9:54 – Travel and Time in Kyoto
10:51 – Day 5 The Only Peak Bloom Location
11:15 – Nagoya Castle
12:03 – Inuyama Castle
12:40 – Congestion in Kyoto
13:38 – Kiyomizu Dera Temple
14:16 – Day 6 Cherry Blossoms and Rain
15:03 – Day 7 Hello Kitty Bullet Train
16:18 – Hello Kitty Giveaway
16:58 – Hiroshima
17:38 – Udon in Osaka
18:17 – Day 8 Himeji
18:50 – Matsusaka Wagyu
20:20 – Day 9 Final Day in Tokyo
20:54 – What I learned
21:28 – Foreigners
23:08 – Final Thoughts
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12 Comments
First comment! 😎
You must have went at the same time my friend went 😂 she said the same thing about the cherry blossoms.
12:52 – The taxi in Kyoto is a lifehack!
Really enjoyed the storytelling! Great vid!
The lady buying the whole store definitely could have been me 😂😂
I like you so much that I don't skip ads 😂
I feel like you are going to Japan every month now lol. My family and I are considering buying a vacation home near Sapporo for easy access to all the ski resorts.
It really sucks that some tourists just don't show the same level of respect they would as if there were in their home country that they would in Japan. Obviously it's probably a very small number that aren't great, but it still sucks.
Awesome video!! Can’t wait for that chocolate 😋
Wow, Mount Fuji is absolutely breathtaking—I feel like I’ve already been there. Thank you so much for sharing your video!
what days where you in Japan?
Better intro