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FAQ:
Where are you from? Are you Japanese?
– I am Swedish.
For how long have you lived in Japan?
– I came to Japan in 2008.
Why did you move to Japan?
– I was interested in Japan since I was a child, largely thanks to growing up playing a lot of (Japanese) videogames as well as a brief interest in anime during my teenage years. When I finally came here for the first time I felt that it was a really nice and interesting country, and I decided to do what I could to move here permanently.
How did you get a visa to Japan?
– It’s complicated and my case is quite different from most, as I’ve always been self-employed. But basically, as long as you can show the immigration authorities that you have a stable income, there’s usually a way. Personally, I was here on journalist visas until a few years ago when I got married. Now I have a spouse visa.
Do you work in Japan?
– Yes, I’m a photographer. Currently, most of my work is related to tourism and travel in Japan, but I also do portrait photography as well as documentary work. I used to write news stories and articles about Japan as well, mostly for newspapers in Sweden, but for the last 3-4 years, my work has been almost exclusively about photography. Sometimes I appear on TV too.
What camera do you use?
– My live walks are recorded with my phone, a Samsung S21 ultra, mounted on a DJI OM4 Gimbal. 4K videos are mostly shot with an iPhone 12 Pro Max. For my “real work”, I mostly use a Nikon Z7, but I also have a Z6, Fujifilm X-T3, Leica Q, Sony RX1R mk II and Ricoh GR III that comes with me from time to time.
What advice would you give to someone wanting to move to Japan?
– Study, learn a skill that’s in demand in Japan. There are plenty of available jobs here. Some knowledge of the Japanese language would also help a lot, not just to get you a job, but also so that you can actually enjoy life while living here as well.
How did you learn Japanese?
– I went to language school in Tokyo for one year in 2010-2011. After that, I’ve also taken some online courses and studied on my own.
How many languages do you speak?
– Swedish, English and Japanese reasonably well, and also a bit of German, as I lived there before coming to Japan.
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– No. Streaming and interacting with my viewers while riding a bike would be too dangerous.
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22 Comments
Enjoyable stream , even though i didn’t saw this from the start ( watching it now ) 👍!!! Rain caught you up unfortunately again but atleast you saved from it and not getting soaked and dry !!!
Wow, 90% humidity! Walking must be feeling like swimming in a pool of sweat.😅
I appreciate the walk bro, good morning from here to beautiful Shinagawa!
crazy weather worldwide,this summer is crazy
excellent live stream,I love the JR trains
man,super fast
Ow Man I'm late… the notification 1 hour late!!, anyway enjoyed your stream, hope to be patron soon!
Hi TE, been away from home. Just caught up on this – great stream. Catch you next time
Wow, another day where you can almost wring the water out of the air! I enjoyed seeing Shinagawa, especially the shotengai.
Wow, Thank you for sharing the cool walk video today. Wishing you blessings and peace always be with you in your day~~ : )Thank you for sharing the cool walk video today.
Total cones counted: 346
0:00 We start infront of Ōimachi Station in Southern Shinagawa ward, which as TE mentions has the JR Keihin-Tohoku line, Tokyu Oimachi line, TWR Rinkai and I believe the TWR Saikyo Line (although not sure how up to date that info is)
3:30 First cones some cute small yellow ones and a big green one. (That I can verify anyway, I suspected an orange cone if we went the other way but couldn't really make it out)
3:56 Ōimachi Station Bus Station in the back a bit near the blue cones (although not sure if that is the official name for it)
4:42 Local map reveal
6:19 some funky white and blue swirl cones on the other side of the road, not a common cone coloration combo.
7:21 Level crossing and train passing
8:26 and 11:04 Trains passing
15:08 Temple entrance
15:58 3 vending machines for those interested in vending machine culture. You can kinda see the selection if you put it on 0.25x playback and pause here and there.
19:17 Almost missed these 2 cones to the right here, they're kinda camouflaged, would recommend a different color if the owner reads this lmao
19:46 Another temple entrance.
20:56 100th cone in the back.
21:19 Interesting apartment design, + some trains passing.
27:08 Bus Depot?
27:40 Omori Shell Mounds Garden + Ruins + Rain start ( you can also hear thunder occasionally)
31:40 Some sort of sea shell layer in the park, I'm guessing that's the reason they call it SHELL mounds Garden. Someone in chat mentions its from the Jōmon era which is 4,000–300 BCE
33:36 Another local map reveal + start of more rain (seems to end really suddenly again however)
34:28 Some urban artwork project?
35:17 to the left of the pile of garbage (and to the right of the cone) are some fire hydrants. Kind of strange to mention I know but it was a topic of discussion a few streams back.
36:20 Train passing by.
37:00 Bridge view + another train passing by.
38:12 Urban Playground
39:27 Cool 3D Shinagawa sign
40:33 (electric?) bike rental place?
41:00 An entrance to Ōmori Station (although not the main entrance I think)
41:52 Start of the Ōmori Station bus lines area.
43:08 Reached 200+ cones here (214 total)
44:10 Another local map reveal + some history behind the station
46:20 Omori Shopping Mall Milpa
47:53 Passed 300 cones here (302 total)
49:22 Rain view + Rain noise ASMR start, you can literally see the rain pick up and the puddles grow in real-time
Total cones counted: 346
Watching these from my hospital bed. Thank you for the journey.
28:08 I didn't see anyone noticing it by now but this park information is such an eyecandy!!!
Very beautiful morning walk
Sad that you had to end the stream early but it was still really enjoyable! Hope you had a nice lunch 😋 arigatou gozaimasu 😊🙏🏻
Lovely relaxed stream. I always love seeing the old shotengai, getting some rain ASMR!
The rain at the end was so cool though! I wouldn't have minded waiting it out with you, watching the umbrellas rush past… 🌸
Nice coincidence again ! I drove a truck on Metropolitan Expressway to a warehouse near Haneda area today then encountered the heavy rain around the same time you showed at the end of this stream on my way back to Kawagoe.
I always love your accent. for me it's relaxing and fits perfect with the atmosphere of your vids.
Love the short walk. Too bad have to end early because of the rain but still a good one.
eastern europe is really hot too for two months its at the peak 30 degrees i think its crazy everywhere right now
ah, finally I can watch the only refugee for sane people on the internet. I glanced at my phone in the middle of the night when the notification came…but it was not even 5 o'clock in Germany…but it took me till half past nine in the evening to watch. 🙂
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07:22 21:32 37:01 Trains!
Ah. 大森, not 大盛り. 🙂