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It's so busy

OMG it's so packed.

Everybody's here to see the sakura so it's super packed right now.

Cindy said it's usually not like this but it's because of the cherry blossom season.

I mean I usually don't have policemen here...

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Okay so we're at the Meguro River right now.

We came here for the new Starbucks that's like the world's largest Starbucks

or the biggest at Starbucks right now in Japan.

And also for the cherry blossoms. The Meguro River is a famous spot to come and watch the cherry blossoms.

But it's not in full bloom yet so... even though it is kind of packed.

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It's more bloomed over here so it's way more packed.

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The Meguro River is like... there's like different sections of it and when we first got out of the station

it wasn't that bloomed.. they were still out there but then we went to the middle section

and it was like super bloomed there so there was a lot more people in that area. And we're still walking.

It's like... it's ok. So it's interesting that this one section is fully bloomed.

But um... we're actually trying to find the Starbucks. We're kind of just walking through right now.

And we were just saying like, man, the stores that are around here,

the little shops, they are making a ton of money!

Oh yeah

It's like it's almost like a festival.

Mmhmm. So they always like... the little shops and the restaurants around here

they actually create like a little... what is it? They stay outside and sell...

There's little booths outside

Yeah, little booths, that's it. They create little booths outside and they sell drinks and food

so they make a lot of money. This is the time to make money for them.

And everybody loves to drink alcohol around this time. It's like Candy said, it's like a festival. So it's like a party.

And then it's blooming again so it just depends on which section you go to.

Yeah, it really depends.

And then there's somebody selling something. I see that strawberry thing a lot. Everybody's drinking it.

So we're at the famous... oh, not famous... the world's biggest Starbucks.

They just opened up... was it this year? I think it was this year.

Mmhmm.. It was a couple months ago actually.

We don't think we'll be able to get in but we're going to go in and check out to see how long the wait is.

Four hours...

Oh, four hours? Oh wow.

Just take it.

I guess they did wait that long. That's why she was here from afternoon to night time.

Your friend waited for like four hours?

I don't know how long she waited but she did not come here first thing in the morning, I'll tell you that.

I don't think her friends did. She was here at night time too.

Wow, crazy!

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Happy?

Yes, there's a of cherry blossoms.

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Oh my goodness!

Wow! You're so cute! Hahaha!

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We are on our way home now. We just went to the famous area

where you can view cherry blossoms at Meguro River

Yup, Meguro River.

Yeah, I was trying to think... I'm like so tired, I can't really think right now.

We've been walking all day in Tokyo but I mean it was worth it to see the cherry blossoms today.

It was worth it. The thing with cherry blossoms in Japan is that

you only have a certain time frame you can view it.

So full bloom is predicted to be this Friday. Today is Wednesday and Friday is supposed to be full bloom.

But Friday is predicted to rain as well so I think it's good that we went today to see it.

Some areas were not fully bloomed yet but other areas were, you know, pretty much full bloom I would say.

CANDY: Yeah, yeah.

So it's still a good time to see it.

Another thing that's new in the Meguro area, around the cherry blossoms is the new Starbucks there

Japan built the biggest Starbucks in the world right now. They just built it a couple months ago

It's March 2019 right now. And they just opened it and at the busiest time.

I knew it was going to be crowded but we weren't expecting it to be a 4-hour wait.

Yeah, I was shocked. I was thinking maybe one or two hours...

So basically you have to go in and get a ticket to get your place in line and a number.

And then we were going to get the ticket and maybe just walk around and enjoy the cherry blossoms

but I don't think we could have killed four hours there.

No way. We were already tired.

Well, the thing about this Starbucks too, it's not just like your normal Starbucks.

We kind of saw some photos online and they have really fancy drinks.

Very fancy.

Just like drinks you probably can't get anywhere else so that's why we kind of wanted to see it too.

But we're not that crazy where we'll wait four hours.

The main reason why we wanted to go to Meguro was to see the cherry blossoms anyway

So Starbucks was kind of a secondary thing. Hey, if we get to go, great!

But we really wanted to go see the cherry blossom so we mainly did that and we're happy because

it was really pretty along the river. All the trees are lined up on the river and there's actually lots of trees.

It's not just one area. It's not that long to walk but you have plenty of opportunities to see it.

So like one section didn't have that many trees blossoming

and the next section had a whole bunch blossoming.

So just make sure you walk through the whole sidewalk or along the river.

And when you're walking it, there'll be lots of food booths and vendors out

because they know all of the tourists will be there. So make sure you get some of that stuff too.

So yeah, that's about it. We sound pretty tired.

We are very tired.

We had a long day.

Alright, so that's our review of Meguro River and cherry blossom watching. Or they call it "hanami".

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