JAPAN’S REAL SHOGUN! 🇯🇵 NIKKO

JAPAN’S REAL SHOGUN! 🇯🇵 NIKKO

[Music] come on everyone once again here from 
incredible Japan today we’re in a place called  
Nico we arrived here yesterday it’s about an 
hour and 50 minutes away from Tokyo on the  
express train so we actually got this thing 
called the 4-day ni pass which includes the  
transport here from asakusa station in Tokyo and 
the return and it also lets you get an unlimited  
amount of the transport within Nico so a lot of 
people do that I think they only have available  
a 2-day pass or a 4-day pass and since we got here 
yesterday and we’ve still got two full days now we  
got the 4-day pass cuz it’s going to be 3 days in 
total and that was $35 per person and in the video  
description below you can find the link for the 
Nico pass and this is the amazing view from our  
hotel can see everything pretty much the snow 
cap mountains in the background might actually  
be snowing while we’re here so yeah those guys 
might get even wider later on run and the hotel  
is really good it’s called Nico Station 2 just 
$55 a night and that also includes a pretty good  
breakfast so I was doing some editing work here 
yesterday with the nice views and it’s just a  
small room but not too bad and the bathroom’s here 
car’s getting beautiful for the day good morning  
it’s like a planing bathroom that’s what we were 
saying yesterday or a cruise bathroom look it’s  
all like plastic so this is the center of Nico 
right next to the hotel that we’re staying in  
and that is the station where we arrived where the 
majority of you will be arriving if you come here  
got a pretty cool old train Carriage here must 
be how the original ones were yeah the Tramway  
was open 1910 and you also have the little bus 
station here I think that’s the Hop On Hop off  
bus that’s included in our ticket so right now 
we’re going to go on a bit of a walk we’re here  
and we’re going to walk all the way up and there’s 
a bunch of different temples we’ll go to those  
first and there’s also a waterfall somewhere I 
think then for the waterfall we need to get a a  
bus though yeah cuz uh I think it’s far away from 
here and since the bus is already included in the  
pass just uh getting that uh and from what I read 
uh the bus like a loop that’s why by uh I think  
majority of Tours get the pass here to just travel 
around niik so one thing that’s really nice about  
n is how quiet it is after the Tokyo chaos yeah 
it’s like a big difference from Tokyo uh because  
we do see tourists here uh but it’s not that many 
really and like last night when we walked around  
the town it was like a ghost town because I think 
many people just do day trips but it’s very calm  
and relaxing I think it’s good after Tokyo cuz 
we love Tokyo but sometimes it was a bit too  
much overwhelm me so it’s basically just this 
Main Street and all the stores are on the main  
road on both sides so just the usual really 
souvenir shops cafes restaurants lots of nice  
traditional looking buildings so when we came here 
yesterday the mountains were in the clouds so we  
weren’t seeing it like this even though it’s 
cloudy today looks really awesome yeah but I  
just remembered that it’s not 10:00 a.m. yet so 
I think uh during this time the the stores start  
to open around 10 or after that so maybe that’s 
why it’s also extremely uh empty right [Music]
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so this is going to be our first attraction of 
the day it’s called Shinko Bridge yeah I’ve seen  
this place in pictures when it’s like Autumn 
and you’re getting all the colors of orange  
things like that I think Autumn would actually 
be the nicest time to come to Japan yes I think  
so I wonder how the prices are but maybe I would 
prefer to come in Autumn yeah since Spring’s just  
starting things are a bit dead it’s also not 
sunny today so yeah it looks a bit more dull  
than usual still beautiful though Apparently 
that is one of the most beautiful bridges in
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Japan so that statue right there is 
of a Buddhist monk called shu and  
he’s apparently the first documented person 
in Nico from around the 700s so I did read  
that this place was founded in the 700s by 
a Buddhist monk so I’m guessing it was that  
monk back there and three of the temples 
in this complex are UNESCO world heritage
sites so this first one is the renoi temple and 
this was the first one that was established here  
by the monk that I just mentioned in 766 although 
it wouldn’t have looked like that back then it  
would have just been like a simple Hut and you 
got to pay 10 to so this one is 400 we’ll have  
to pay for each one that we go to so it turns 
out that you can’t film inside basically just  
had these golden Butters but they were absolutely 
massive a lot bigger than it looks in the picture  
is this the Zen Garden yes looks lovely doesn’t 
it didn’t we have like a little B in our garden  
was a massive B A big one was about half a Meer 
old think it was behind the pond wasn’t it yeah  
I did they put the bamboos at the back and 
I love my parents tried to reconstruct this  
at our our home in England but many places that 
you go around the world have Japanese gardens I  
remember when I lived in Houston one of the main 
parks there had a Japanese garden famous [Music]
worldwide
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that is one cool pagod yeah beautiful red with the 
colors like inside yeah Green’s gold so this one  
is 1,300 to enter and it’s considered to be the 
most most important one I’ll tell you why very  
soon when we get to the place wow so this one is 
way more impressive so many more buildings also  
the red kind of style more golden though so these 
are the monkeys that see here and speak no evil  
oh okay oh yeah I see the monkeys now that’s 
what it’s supposed to represent and there’s  
supposed to be another one of an elephant that 
the artist I think he drew it without ever seeing  
an elephant oh really how how is that possible I 
don’t know maybe he saw another drawing I imagine
[Music] yeah [Music] man I think this this might 
be one of the most impressive temples we’ve ever  
seen yeah like a complex it really is stunning 
and impressive so big so much to see look at  
this gate well not of those dragons yeah I like 
their the golden ice really beautiful really is
beautiful [Music]
Masterpiece so we’re now going to the main 
part of the complex which is the main reason  
why it’s so busy with so many people and it’s 
a shrine where to gawa Leu is buried and he’s  
the founder of the too gawa period the Edo period 
that I mentioned in the other videos so that was  
a time where Japan was unified under just one 
rule one Kingdom and yeah the founder of it is  
buried here important person for the history of 
Japan so the new series Shogun which we haven’t  
watched yet apparently the main character is based 
on this guy but he has a different name in the
series quite the workout to get here yeah I 
think it was maybe 400 around 400 steps and  
there’s more so it was his son that ordered 
this to be built for him pretty much right  
around the time he died I think he died in 1616 
and that’s when construction began so this is  
his grave rain really starting to pick up yeah 
so he was the one that ordered the Edo Castle  
to be built where we went in Tokyo where the 
Imperial Palace is now it was the man the mighty  
leader there’s another queue here maybe people 
paying their respects to [Music] him [Music]
right
[Music] so this will be the last Temple so 
the third and final UNESCO heritage site  
called futarasan this one will be a lot more 
emptier than that last one this dude looks  
cool it yeah happy choppy very happy I wish we 
could have seen it here when it was covered in  
snow I’m guessing it was just like a week ago 
or something this Tory gate was made of bronze  
in 1799 in Shinto belief and architecture T 
Gates Mark the boundary between worldly and  
sacred spaces so I guess that’s why we always 
see them at the entrances of the temples and
shrines man it’s really pouring it down now 
the forecast is so bad for the rest of the  
day and tomorrow though so I think think 
we’re just going to have to go for it and  
hopefully it doesn’t get heavier shows 
like 90% chance of rain over the next
hours the golden
bunny so it seems like I’m allowed to film 
from here at this one at the tooa grave there  
was also a really awesome main Shrine there 
but I couldn’t fil inside have to come and  
see yourself so this one is 300 per person 
and I think it has like a garden too a big  
area not just the temples wow check that out 
the bronze lantern from 1292 super [Music] old
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so back in the center now we just missed 
the bus to go to the waterfall and it’s  
only going to pass in like 40 minutes 
time so I think we’re just going to eat  
here we’re going to eat near the waterfall 
instead I think these are all restaurants we  
have no problem for finding food around 
here I know this one’s a bakery since
1873 so got some pretty interesting 
options here seems like there’s a lot  
of sets I don’t know if they 
have a specific name for this  
kind of thing Bento Box bento box 
that’s the one yeah where’s the
guoa okay I think we’ll get that for starters 
440 I might get this Tori sober 930 noodles  
with chicken so noodle soup has been my goto in 
this colder weather this one looks amazing just  
like the others that I’ve had dad got something 
different sausage sausage is what is that little  
thing that’s the shrimp in it shrimp temp on yours 
is like mine just with shrimp yes and then I don’t  
know what that is no I think it’s potato cat with 
the Yuba I don’t know if they say Yuba or I don’t  
know how they say it but it’s a thing that’s 
traditional from this region of niik and it’s  
basically a tofu like um crisp not not crispy 
but like a layered tofu it’s different but it’s  
good I like it so that’s tofu on the outside on 
the inside oh on the inside and then potato on  
the outside okay from the picture I thought 
it was going to be the chunky noodles Bento
her sorry sorry okay sorry oh pay downstairs pay 
downstairs okay thank you yeah boxes always look  
cool that the Miso yeah miso sou rice maybe rice 
and wow looks sool all sorts of different things  
yeah tofu uh based uh food I think it’s like 
the specialty of this restaurant and it’s all  
like tofu stuff oh so this is tofu yeah and 
this so that’s a tofu skin yeah looks weird  
yeah it’s different I’ve never seen it like this 
before I think I need some soce so sauce maybe  
you want some of this this this sauce is good I 
think oh that one yeah it’s uh salty very salty  
yeah so the Bento Box all that was 2,000 right 
too salty just got to dip it a little bit then
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[Music] so we’re at the entrance of the waterfall 
that we wanted to come to kegon we actually got  
on the wrong bus don’t get on the world heritage 
bus it does not come here does go to the shrines  
though and now we’re in the snowy mountains that 
we saw before I had no idea we’d even be coming  
places with snow in Ni yeah it’s definitely been 
snowing heavy here all the mountains completely  
covered looks pretty similar to the center of Nico 
similar kind of layout Main Street with all the
stores more like ice
actually you’re next mom and that over 
there the mountain is uh Act volcano  
called NTI really yeah you can hike it not 
now probably another season funny thing is  
it actually doesn’t seem that cold here 
in Nico I think it felt colder in Tokyo  
yeah surprisingly because the temperature 
here is I think the same but uh maybe it’s  
the wind in Tokyo maybe the wind come from the 
ocean I don’t know there’s something different  
yeah there was a icy cold wind and here 
there’s no wind yeah maybe that’s [Music]
why a sweet so even the waterfall is covered 
in snow definitely didn’t expect that either  
don’t know if you can see it back there we’re 
going to like a proper paid Viewpoint so it’ll  
be even better nice yeah it’s funny cuz uh a 
few days ago I searched for this place and the  
pictures were showing snow and I said to you 
oh I wish it would be like that and that’s how  
it is today so I’m happy yeah cuz we thought 
that picture was probably from like January  
not not spring it’s it’s really beautiful with 
the white snow that makes up for the dead tree  
appearance at least how much was it uh five 
70 per person okay thank you good job yeah  
much better from down here yeah we couldn’t see 
all this part before it’s like we are in Iceland  
yeah I think that’s the only other time we’ve 
seen a waterfall with snow yeah it was kind  
of similar to this some of them yeah we got 
water coming down here from somewhere [Music]
you going to get some of these finger socks 
they’re fun yeah I wonder if they’re more
comfortable 500 mL yeah what the hell is that 
put liquid in there so if you come to the back  
there’s actually another massive waterfall loads 
and loads of water had no idea this one was there
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either [Music] so we come back to where we 
got dropped off by the bus and everything  
everything is completely closed now I don’t 
know what time it is it must be around 400  
p.m. everything shuts so we’re just making 
our way to a lake which is just right here  
it’s right next to the waterfall I think 
this is basically what’s flowing into that  
waterfall that we just visited so even here 
you get one of those amazing massive Gates  
not only at the entrances to Temples then and 
there’s the beautiful Lake in the background
so we’re going to try and find a cafe I think 
Carol saw on Google Maps that there’s a nice  
cafe with the lake view yeah this has been a 
awesome surprise it all looking like this it’s  
almost like a a pebbly beach that we’re on now 
you can see that the water level would usually be  
higher there’s a pier and actually the waterfall 
the main part of it it was quite weak the water  
that was coming out of it if you see which as at 
other times of the year it’s like a really thick  
waterfall and this is beautiful the calm snowy 
Lake I think these are accommodations aren’t  
they yeah this is a fancy hotel the RIT but there 
are other options down here yeah I think it would  
be cool to stay here maybe in summer it will 
be cool too do some kaying many things to do  
and also hikes around here I saw there are many 
hikes beautiful hikes oh yeah you can hike to  
the volcano so this lake is a th200 m above sea 
level so that’s why it’s like snowy and icy here  
Tokyo I guess is just the same elevation as the 
sea [Music] almost so in the 4-day ni pass that  
we have it actually includes a cruise on this 
Lake that I thought we were going to be doing  
in this video but then I found out that it only 
starts mid April so just in a couple of week’s  
time you’ll be able to do a cruise around here I 
guess they don’t really have it during the winter  
so we were just saying that probably be nicer to 
stay around here than where we are even where we  
are is very nice but obviously having a big late 
like this is a lot nicer and then we could have  
done the opposite got on the bus from here to 
the shrines and temples and then stayed around  
here not sure if this Cafe is going to be open 
though on Google it says it closes at 5:00 but  
yeah judging by how closed everything is I’m 
thinking it’s going to be closed I think we’re  
in luck looks like the cafe is the only thing 
that’s open in this entire place right now the  
lights are on so it was that place back there we 
saw the lights on and people inside but then when  
we going to open the door the owner said that 
it’s closed so no coffee for us around this  
Lake I think where we’re staying you can get a 
coffee and if worse comes worse you can um go to  
Food Mark 24/7 or a 7-Eleven get some dodgy 
coffee sometimes pretty good [Music] though
so this happens quite a bit on our travels 
sometimes we’ll go to the place where it’s  
popular for day trips but we actually go there 
and stay there two nights and it’s usually kind  
of like this so very busy during the day and 
then a complete ghost town at night and early  
in the morning it’s kind of funny to see the 
difference but we like staying in places like  
that [Music] too so that’s going to be it here 
from Nico we actually spent all of yesterday  
here too but it was absolutely pouring it down 
all day so we didn’t even go out we were just  
doing work so from the window you can see it’s way 
more covered in snow now so probably if you go to  
that Lake Area it’ll be even nicer the snowy 
scenery and in the next video we’re heading  
to a place called kusatsu We’re actually about to 
head there right now we’re getting on the return  
train back to Tokyo and yeah then we’ll head to 
kusatsu and that place is an on town like a hot  
spring town which are very famous here in Japan 
so really looking forward to that they also have  
the onson towns near here you can get like a bus 
there in the center and it’ll take you it’s not  
that far we just didn’t go cuz we’re going to co 
atle right now so yeah we’ll leave it for there  
so that’ll be where the next video is coming from 
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