I'm hanging out with my friend Quinlan today on we're in downtown Morioka.

And I thought I would take you guys out for a night on the town with me, especially because I showed you the old Gordy the downtown area in the daytime.

And it's no fun in the daytime, so I wanted to show you guys what it's like at night time.

So, yeah, I'm gonna go for dinner and go for drinks, and then I'll show you, but of the downtown area, it'll be fine.

So where we going first?

First, we're going to this tiny little place called Asanuma Show 10.

And it's mainly discovered.

Was an Australian friend of mine showed it to me because it's got the greatest entrance of any shop in Morioka.

Okay.

And in fact, I don't know if you guys could tell how tiny this door is.

Maybe I should go stand by it, so yeah, Yeah, give us that.

It's cute.

How did that come about?

You know why?

Well, I don't know about this particular one, but you know, the story always goes with a lot of places in Tokyo and it'll area they would have the small doors so that samurai wielding swords could not Russian attacking.

Oh, my God, that's really cool.

Good to know.

All right, let's go inside.

I will have a mission.

So yeah, this place has a system where if you get a 200 yen drink, which there are a few, it's on the white straw.

You get 300 which is includes a tap Pearson like that.

It's 300 young red straw.

I believe you're getting a high end nation.

It is 400 yen on for something that has a strong will.

Be right in there, collect in your jar against a little jar and then at the end of the night.

That's how you can tell how much tax included.

It's very simple.

Cheers.

Jeers.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, really?

Nice thing is really good.

After we finish our drinks here, we're going to head over Italian food, actually, and Japan is really good at doing Italian.

On another bonus is that they have lots of vegetarian and vegan stuff.

So if you're having trouble finding anything that fits your diet in Japan for a vegetarian or vegan for an Italian restaurant because I was find at least one past there that I could eat.

But we're going to a fancy place, and it's like a course.

Wear street of getting courses.

It's all locally sourced.

Every single ingredient is from us.

All right, Time to pair.

Bill.

We got to read straws.

That is 800 years, I think.

A cool little place.

It's pretty quiet down here.

The crowds are all down on old Gordy.

I guess that's cute.

Oh, this is Yeah, It closed and opened again or No, it's a different shop.

It's an Indian restaurant now.

Oh, yeah, A little bar that it liked.

This is such a pretty little river park area gonna short you guys one day when the weather warms up.

It's so beautiful.

It's such a nice place to walk.

Oh, wow.

Check out the Christmas lights.

Morioka Stepping up their game there be Whiting.

I was just hoping that they would start putting up some lights through December.

And they have.

They haven't let me down.

Is that tower always lit up or is it a Christmas thing like that for at least a couple of months?

A color That's cool.

I love walking along this river.

I go for walks along here.

It's got a really nice walkway.

Have you been to that cafe?

I haven't.

I always pass it and think that it looks really nice.

Oh, uh, just a coffee shop.

But you can drink beer there at night.

Really?

Cool.

Also decorated the lampposts along the street.

That's really nice.

It's a nice cobblestone road.

I don't think I've ever been down here.

And here we are.

This is the Italian restaurant.

What's it called you, Philo?

Otherness.

Philo, I am so stoked.

Cannot wait game or Christmas stuff.

Our seats upstairs.

This is such a cool old building.

Love it.

No.

Oh, that's so nice.

This place is so cool.

It's so cozy.

Love it.

It's not that large.

Four tables here And then there was a bar counter downstairs.

We have the whole place to ourselves at the moment.

That'll probably change jeers.

It's super tasty.

It takes like a smoothie.

Actually, it's really clean.

Look at this tasty little appetizer.

Apparently, this is an Italian style kind of okonomiyaki dish, so a savory pancake.

And he said all the dishes they use at this restaurant, our local to Iwate Prefecture as well.

Look at this gorgeous dish.

I wish I knew where to purchase some.

I would definitely get some for my house.

I love it so much.

Taste you.

Do you make me get home?

I do.

I love the green hands on top.

So here we have a beet salad, beet and carrot salad, and this is a radish dish that's flavored with African spices.

It's very fragrant.

Smells like cumin, coriander.

Typical that curry spices.

Actually.

Whoa, going to disappears in your mouth.

When you bite into it, it must be stewed.

I expect it to be a lot tougher.

It's really hard to explain.

It's kind of about the texture of a really soft marshmallow and beats.

It's so exciting to see beats in Japan.

They're one of my favorite vegetables, and they're not included in Japanese cuisine.

So I never see them go to a foreign restaurant like this.

So Quinlan has run into a little dilemma.

I've run into a snag.

What's happened?

Well, it's a course menu, so we don't decide anything.

All I know is I'm getting this nice course, but yeah, what you could see but maybe not recognize on here.

So look at this.

You see that, huh?

Guess Guess what.

Guess what this is now, This is a family friendly channel, so I'll try and say this and most delicate way that I can, But this is basically salmon.

It's what the salmon uses to fertilize the eggs.

So, yeah, they eat it in Japan.

It's called shit, uncle, and you're not a fan.

And I had it once before, and the only reason I had it before is because I was told How could you say that?

Like you've never tried it?

I thought, Yes, you're right.

And it was worse than I imagined.

Oh, no.

I love this restaurant in this chef is amazing.

So if anyone, I actually I have faith that you will like it because I've had Chicago before and I actually liked the flavor, but I didn't like that.

I like the flavor, but all right, I don't get too much my first bite, but I have to take it all.

Have to take it off, making it worse.

Good.

Well, yeah, I guess it doesn't mean it won't make sense.

It's not just that, you know in some hole sauce thing, but it's got this fishy nous that pervades it that I'm not a big fan of but but yeah, all the other flavors are so delicate you want some complex and it's this vegetable base.

Shocked, I reminded it's good school in replacement of the normal anchovy sauce that they would use.

They flavored it with Koji the socket Koji that you guys saw in my camping video if you watched it.

So that's really neat.

Wow, I can't live.

There's no cheese in this kind of taste, like it has a Parmesan labor.

Todo has brought out a tray of knives and we can choose our own steak knife.

All right.

My steak has arrived.

It's a radish and cauliflower steak replacement.

It smells so good.

I can't wait to dig into this And look at this cool dish.

I'm really enjoying seeing all the plates and accessories that they're using to serve the food.

It's so nice.

Oh, yeah.

So the spaces are so nice.

Contest like fried chicken.

It's a weird thing to say, but yeah, it really does.

I will definitely be coming back to this restaurant.

I was so impressed with this meal.

Every single dish was super tasty.

It was really cool how he could make it a vegan.

I'm pretty sure he would take any requests you have.

So if you have certain allergies or dietary restrictions, feel free to contact them beforehand on Oscar.

Any changes you need but certainly recommend this place if you find yourself in the Morioka area.

This is such a nice little street.

I need to come down here more often.

It was really pretty.

All right, You guys ready to go downtown?

This'll was the location of one of my first jobs ever in Japan.

I was there for a couple of years.

Straight talk English school.

Looks like they've shut for the night.

Unfortunately, was gonna come say hi to my boss if you was in next time.

You're a cute little collection of shops, Morioka.

So nice at night time.

It's so quiet.

To be fair, we're not in the main part of downtown yet, but I love all these little side streets with bars and pubs and restaurants.

All right, so this is O'Doherty at night time.

This is what it looks like.

Tuesday is one of the quieter nights.

We have a die so here, not as cool as the ones in Tokyo, but it does the job.

You'll find tons of coffee shops, restaurants that's, Ah, lamb barbecue, August, says Genghis Khan.

Here we have a good own place.

Full typical late night fast food joint some more easy, aka Wei have a really good selection of Kataoka shops, which is cool.

Come on.

I often come to this restaurant here specializing in Kyushu food.

It's really tasty.

I'm so pleased by the amount of Christmas decorations that have popped up in the last week.

Morioka got Mister Donut, which may or may not have the Pokemon doughnuts.

Oh, I can see it.

I can see it on the shelf.

In there, you see the yellow one.

It's a peek atyou, but so this is my favorite pub in Morioka.

So far, it's called Sundance is actually the place where all the foreigners used to hang out.

But if you go there nowadays, it's mostly this Japanese people and me probably.

But it's kind of like, ah, British style pub.

They have all the foreign beers they got like fish and chips and all the typical dishes you would see in a British pub.

It's really nice.

Scudder really nice, cozy atmosphere.

I love it.

So there's actually an area town that I've been meaning to check out.

What?

I haven't made it there yet.

So I'm gonna stop by there now When they made a video about it, There's a new like a row of shops along the river.

There's a couple of bars.

There's Cafe, a gelato shop telling restaurant.

It's quite a selection here is called Keep Machine and you want to see my little introduction to one of my craft.

Your guys Morioka Video get down below in the box.

Oh yeah, I'm really excited that they're using that area.

It's a really beautiful area of morio kind and always kind of felt like a waste because people would just pass it coming to downtown from the station.

I never really hang out there, So this bridge we're standing on right here is Kaew NBA.

She It's a really famous area, Morioka, because you probably have the best view ever of mount right there.

If you search Morioka on Google, you will get this this image right here and there'll be a pretty mount you want in the background, which can't see today because it's really cloudy.

But this is the area we're talking about with the little shops.

Looks like some of the shops will be closed already.

Unfortunately, which makes sense because I suppose it's not really the area you don't wanna hang out in the cold at night time.

It's a little chilly in the winter Here.