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Hey, guys, welcome back to my channel.

Today is of log.

I haven't done a vlog in a long time.

It's my birthday vlog.

So today I'm going toe work for a couple hours And then after work, I'm heading Thio.

How did you go to meet my friend Charles from Charles Talk.

His channel will be linked down below.

So we're going to meet up.

And he's also from Kobe, by the way, he's not from Tokyo, but he's visiting with his family for a couple of days, and, um, he's coming to my birthday dinner, which I'm having today.

So we're going to just explore how to Dooku.

We're going to go to a new cafe and check it out.

Hopefully, it's not too crowded.

I'm wearing this cute little top.

I don't know where I got it from.

I don't know why my chest is so red.

I have a skirt.

I'm not going to change into until after work, but I got these shoes on.

It might be kind of cold today.

I don't know.

So we're going to go and yeah, I'll see you guys in a little bit that wearing How did you go?

And it is my birthday.

And I am the big 28 Today we're gonna walk around how to juku, which was a very bad idea because it is freaking crowded.

If you have terrible anxiety, that is the worst place to come.

But, you know, it's a cute place is very aesthetically pleasing on it's a very nice day today and someone is texting me Entire is here she is Ramen quest.

And behind me is to catch the street e so great.

Oh, my God.

My eyes!

Yeah, I'm starving.

I'm starving.

I'm gonna eat everything right on.

Yeah.

How did you go?

Is an instagram hot spot.

I could come here 20 times a week and find a new place to take photos at me.

Taking Instagram photos is not as easy as it seems.

He need the right lighting the right set up and the right venue.

Today I'm going to show you the behind the scenes of what it takes to grow your instagram following.

Oh, I'm with Charles E subscribe to his channel.

I talked about you before you came here.

Thank you.

It's nice when people talk about me I feel good.

Hey, just abandoned his family for E.

No.

I'm hoping my parents would actually probably freak out if I left him alone.

My cannot be alone.

My parents would also be a little bit bothered, but my brother will help them.

Your brother's conference booth When you when you're looking for a place to take photos.

The ultimate spots are generally colorful and aesthetically pleasing, but that depends on your brand.

How did you go?

Has a lot to play with.

But beware of the crowds.

The less people in your photos, the better.

Look at these egg things.

E Wanna go shopping?

Look at this place.

It's so cute.

There's so much candy everywhere.

The theater number.

One thing to do in Harajuku is Try the crepes.

There's a ton of flavors and styles to choose from.

I'm usually there for about an hour, trying to pick out which one I want.

But today we had something else in mind to try.

Okay, guys, we're at one of the best Mexican restaurants I've been to in a long time.

Actually, I like free holies, which is also a really good Mexican restaurant.

But this place it's called chilies and its way in the back of Like, Catch the Street.

It's to die for like it's the best thing ever.

Okay, I got a birthday beer.

Yea, it's been so long since I drink anything.

We This ice cream shop is called Toys off and the layout is, for sure, a pink paradise with colorful balls hanging from the ceiling.

It makes for a great backdrop for your photos.

It's popular.

Ice creams are the black and white sesame flavored ice creams.

They even have a photo booth where you can take all the pictures you want and need.

My instagram has a lot of pink use and pops of color.

So this is the perfect place to snap some photos.

Always make sure you have a plan before going in to take the photos you have, like your full set up E uh, bribery E just I wonder if we can close this.

We could probably ask because the light it looks so yeah, yeah, I know our plan was to take ice cream pictures for both of our instagrams.

It took a while to get that perfect shot.

Plus, my ice cream was literally spilling all over me.

I think my ice cream was soup at the end of the shoot.

Oh, my God.

Great 100 e.

Everyone.

So we attempted to take from Instagram pictures.

He got, like, the black Goma ice cream.

And I got this white or vanilla ice cream.

It's like Goma.

Like, um, Cone.

This place is really, really awesome for Instagram.

You guys want to come like clicking are set up right here.

It's so cool.

Westhoff was literally right next door to Chile.

So if you guys wanted some lunch and dessert There you go.

Okay.

Charles has lots of lipstick.

Gotten right now, guys, he's He's changing his style.

Look at this.

Graffiti guys like, look how cute this graffiti is, but this is adorable.

Do you have the balls graph?

Our next hot spot for Instagram pictures was the Tokyo Plaza, right across from Magic Kingdom.

My station three architecture er is what attracts photographers and instagram models everywhere.

This is my first time taking a picture here.

We're taking Instagram pictures, and this is a tedious task.

We're good at it.

We're masters, right?

When it comes to taking instagram pictures, especially travel ones.

I like to take pictures where my back is turned to the camera.

This allows your followers to feel as if they're right there with you or walking behind you and gorgeous places like this E thing, I think.

Okay, so this place is really famous.

E can't remember what it's called, but I will put it down in the video text or something.

Yeah, this place is super famous all these years.

Perfect instagram spot waiting here.

Yeah, at the same time is doing instagram photos research for interesting content For instagram stories, it's very important to balance both.

I try to see it as a mini vlog or sneak peek at what I'll be doing for my YouTube channel.

Oh my God.

Wear now in the line store.

It is so cute.

I've never been in here.

It's fairly new, actually.

I think it just can't was built last year.

I think you looking all these round stuff animals.

They're so cute.

Utilize your surroundings.

I could give a whole insta story about a store I went shopping at for me.

Japan has a lot of cool stuff to show.

So at the Line and Friends Store, I did just that.

But you can showcase your own town, your own city.

Give us a tour.

It's really fun to watch E.

Look at this.

I like this one the best.

This is so cool.

E like how it lights up.

That is so awesome.

E Always think it's a good idea to have a balance between shots of you and shots of other things like food, places and things.

I always plan on my insta feed before I post a picture.

Me, you tell me.

Yes.

Okay, so we're taking a walk behind Harajuku.

This is behind to catch.

The street is a Japanese shrine and it's so quiet compared to like where we were and I got my tapioca and so yummy he's trying to figure out if that's a bench or not.

It looks like it's important.

I'd be so surprised because, you know, Japan has like no benches.

My goal for each day I'm out is to take a least five photos or more.

At this point, we took a fair amount, so I switched back to taking videos.

It's definitely a stressful job doing both, but it's a good stress.

My God, Look, try to get this for my birthday?

Yes.

Look how cute.

My God, they're, like, little tight.

That is adorable.

Is fuck Kirby's happy room.

I love it.

Look at these.

Look how cute that is.

Oh, my God.

How much are they?

400 Damn!

Look at this Kirby stuff.

You guys.

Oh!

Oh, let's go.

What?

My brother loves this stuff.

Look at this.

It's so cool.

My God.

Don't always take photos of touristy spots.

Take pictures of unexpected places like Backstreets or daily life stuff to be more relatable to your audience.

Okay, we came to these back streets and, like, look at this place.

It's like an old little shopping ST.

They have, like, these shots that have, like, a ton of things inside of them that are just random on vintage.

Look at this.

It's so cool.

It's like a dead end.

Like there's nowhere else to go.

Love how they just keep the stuff out here like no one's gonna take it like these types of watches.

I feel like I'm gonna break.

This thing is gonna fall down or something.

It's 1000 year and only please.

Just a basic accessory.

Next change pocket change for caring for free.

It's is for free.

It's free, guys, it's free.

Oh, this is a cute one.

Look at this one.

This one is so cute.

Okay, tell us a little about, but it's my camera.

Do you have, like, a cleaner?

If my camera was dirty?

I'm so sorry.

I don't know.

I suck.

Tell us a little bit about your channel.

Well, my channel is actually two channels, but e no, my channel Charles stock.

Basically, I've kind of blawg sort of in Japanese and English.

I usually have bilingual.

Subtitles on I just kind of interview.

People talk about you know what life is like here, my kind of impressions on things.

And I also try to offer helpful tips, whether it's about goal setting or language learning and stuff like that, and subscribe to his second channel.

Yeah.

Yeah, My second channel.

Your nerd channel.

My nerd channel is called Shadow You Shadow.

Yes, on that.

That was a good one, though It is a lot of like, game review type stuff, right?

Like just weird things.

Like I do things like making like anime themed cocktails or attending big cause play events here in Japan and interviewing Japanese cause players and kind of showing you an inside look at things.

It's a fun channel, so if your interest in that kind of stuff check it out.

If not, check out Charles stock.

Subscribe to end the day I had my birthday dinner at T G I.

Friday's Japan.

They are 10 times tastier than the American venue.

So I was really excited.

Hey, Loretta got me since so we owe thank you.

Your big, thick and long.

Yeah, yeah, America, That's what their life their exactly how I described into your from the grocery store in prison.

You should be a food critic, but they're not the same as the Baby e, but they're better.

They're like 10 times better.

How did you do?

Has been trooper today.

He's he's been He's been taking videos and pictures and all sorts of things.

Thank you, everyone for coming to my dinner.

I'm so grateful to have all of you in my life.

Hey, guys, how's going like this?

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