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Welcome to Part 3 of our Japan Trip 2023!! If you missed them, here is:
– Part 1: https://youtu.be/8T8A8gXVciY
– Part 2: https://youtu.be/T9A-TJ-NzoE
In this 3rd installment (days 5-8) of our family vacation in Japan, we’ll cover our 2 nights in Kyoto and MUCH MORE:
– 00:03 – room tour of Kyoto Hotel Androoms
– 00:37 – Fushimi Inari Shrine
– 01:35 – Gion ward of Kyoto
– 03:20 – Aloe Yogurt
– 03:34 – Arashiyama Bamboo Forest
– 05:09 – Arashiyama Monkey Park
– 08:06 – Kiyomizu Dera Temple
– 09:31 – How to take onsen / sento (public bath) in Japan
– 11:25 – Higashi Hongashi Temple
– 12:01 – Gatcha Gatcha Capsule Machines
– 13:06 – Takoyaki
– 13:57 – machinery for planting and harvesting rice, and local farmland
– 15:45 – Mos Burger (japanese fast food hamburger) + Okinomiyaki restaurant
Stay tuned for part 4 featuring UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN!!!
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Florida during the summer is crazy at 90+ all day and a high humidity. Japan doesn’t compare. The secret is lots of Gatorade and stay out of the sun if you can. The temperature really only ever comes down during winter and it’s not that much and by spring it’s already crazy hot. The school system is actually quite good and you have really good magnet schools down here.
The Kitakami region in the new Pokémon DLC looks very much like a Japanese Matsuri festival. I think in the Japanese countryside. It’s also based on two stories the peach boy and the ghost mask where a festival mask gets stuck on a boy’s face and he becomes an yokai. It’s quite a shock to see this as you normally don’t expect this from Nintendo. It looks beautiful and kinda reminds you of old japan that you probably saw before. I know a few tales of Japanese mythology as they do come here now and again. I don’t know the tale of genji though as I’ve heard it rambles a lot and often doesn’t make any sense. I’ve heard the title via some old books I was digging through and found it buried in a school library in high school. Never read it though.
Japanese pickles tend to be slow prepared types not the ready off the shelf turbocharged American pickles. That cucumber was probably done in the traditional way which takes a long time to do. It’s not my favorite method to do it but what gets the job done. every culture has a type of preserving method though I like the Chinese and Russian pickles the most because of their control of flavor and preserving the vegetable right. And while you can recreate the Japanese pickle via store bought rice bran it will not taste the same because the good bacteria changes and the taste varies place to place so Tokyo pickles taste different to Kyoto and different to Osaka and so on. I know of one store in New York City that does Japanese pickles the old way though I don’t know the exact location, they actually encourage people to try them out.