[Chris] Oh for heaven sakes if I break my legs

doing this, I'm going to kick you to death with whatever is left of them.

Shit!

So today we're off to visit the hotel that the Emperor himself stays at when he

comes to visit Sendai. We're being taken off on another adventure by Ryotaro

although this time he's being worryingly more secretive than usual.

[Ryotaro] Hi there. Today you're going to visit the kind of room that Emperor stays whenever he

comes to Sendai. Then after that we are going to try some outdoor activities.

I know you're being really busy right, so I want to destress yourself

and yeah and it's the experience of this week exciting outdoor

activities right. And if you want to escape from Sendai, this is the place to be.

Yeah all of a sudden it feels like we've just left Japan and driven up into

Beverly Hills or something all the houses are huge and the roads are wide.

Apparently this whole town has been built by Mitsubishi since the 1970s to

be the kind of ideal place to live and well certainly beats my apartment, that's for sure.

[Chris] Have you seen how big my apartment is? [Ryotaro] I haven't.

[Chris] To see this, is just like, not fair. [Ryotaro] How many rooms have you got? [Chris] Not enough.

[Ryotaro] How many chairs have you got?

[Chris] What kind of a shit question is that?

How many chairs- that is the measurement of success isn't it? "How many chairs you have in your house"

[Chris] Now "How many rooms". It's all about the chairs. [Ryotaro] It's all about the chairs.

[Chris] I bet they've got a lot of chairs. Too many chairs.

[Ryotaro] So Chris this room that we are approaching here is called the Royal Suite.

[Chris] Wow, two doors. One door isn't enough. [Ryotaro] And it's got two doors.

[Ryotaro] This is most expensive room supposedly. And this is the kind of room that the Emperor would stay.

I guess... They didn't really tell me where he would stay. It's kind of a security secret anyways. Yeah.

[Chris] Yeah. This is the kind of room- [Ryotaro] This is the kinda room he would stay.

[Ryotaro] Ta-da-di-da-laaa~

[Ryotaro] Ho-ly! [Chris] Oh my god.

[Ryotaro] God! What is this! [Chris] So, so this is the

the barrier the entry to like a palace.

[Ryotaro] Alright, it's the, it's the - chandelier! [Chris] That's ludicrous.

[Chris] This conference room is about the size of my entire apartment. That's depressing.

[Chris] Earlier in the car you ask me how many chairs I had, as a measurement of wealth.

[Chris] Look at how many chairs this goddamn room has! [Ryotaro] So many!

[Chris] 8 chairs there. 2 chairs there. [Ryotaro] 8 chairs! That's already...

[Ryotaro] That is already wealthy.

[Chris] We come to this beautiful royal suite and all you care about is counting the chairs!

Bloody hell.

[Ryotaro] What now? Ohhh-ho-ho-ho! [Chris] Oh wow.

[Chris] That is... that is... That is quite the bed. [Ryotaro] A huge bed!

[Chris] There is king-sized, then there is "royal-sized".

[Ryotaro] This is like bigger than a king-size, like twice the king-size, a royal-size.

Even if I sleep on this bed I will just sleep on this part.

[Chris] The first 1/10th. [Ryotaro] The first 1/10th exactly.

[Chris] Been in here about four or five minutes we still haven't found the bathroom. [Ryotaro] True.

[Chris] Uhh, it could be down there behind the conference room or it's either behind this door.

[Ryotaro] This is a door? Ah it's a door. [Chris] This is a door, or a wardrobe.

[Chris] Let's have a look. It's like a nuclear bunker blast door. [Ryotaro] Oh my...

[Ryotaro] Look at, look at... again, look at the width of the...

[Ryotaro] That-that-that's again, a measurement of the wealth [Chris] Yeah.

[Chris] That is one hell of a door. Enough about doors, let's do down...

another corridor. The secret bathroom.

Now this, is the kind of bathroom I want.

[Chris] We've got a shower... [Ryotaro] And... what is that to the right?

[Chris] This is... this is a sauna! Wow!

[Chris] A sauna, a shower, a jump in jacuzzi bath

for the mountain view out that window.

[Chris] Best of all though, automatic window shades!

This is the future.

I think we're in, we're in this the most glamorous bathroom at North Japan

[Chris] And all I care about is the automatic window shades. [Ryotaro] And number of chairs.

[Chris] And the number of chairs. [Ryotaro] And the width of the door.

[Chris] And the width of the door...

[Chris] It's the most glamorous hotel room I've ever been to

and at least five times the size of the largest hotel room that I've stayed in as well.

Compared to the traditional Japanese business hotel.

[Ryotaro] And 15 times bigger than your room right? [Chris] 15 times bigger than my house.

[Chris] Which is a small apartment.

[Ryotaro] You need to be more popular on YouTube, eh.

[Chris: Yeah, I need to be more popular on the YouTube. That'll get me my ridiculously large hotel room.

Just to give you an idea of how big this hotel room is

I'm down one end where the bedroom is

and Ryotaro all the way over there in the distance

you can kind of make out Ryotaro at the conference room table. Say "Hello."

[Ryotaro] Hello World!

[Chris] I think you'd burn about a thousand calories a day just by staying at this hotel room

and walking around it and I don't know what he's doing...

What is, what is going on...

I don't... I don't understand just let him, let him get on with that.

[Chris] Well... In his last chair. [Ryotaro] Well well.

[Ryotaro] So um, so did you enjoy some time? In this room that you can't ever possibly afford?

[Chris] I feel both impressed and depressed, both simultaneously.

[Ryotaro] Same here, same here.

[Ryotaro] So now it's time for outdoor business!

[Chris] Outdoor business.

[Chris] What does that even mean?

[Ryotaro] Outdoor business. That's it.

So pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We've just come across this kind of

market stand, loaded with vegetables from the garden just behind us.

[Ryotaro] But there's no one. [Chris] And there's no one here.

[Chris] But their all the food and all the produce is labeled with prices.

You can basically just turn up here grab your, what, whatever you got

[Chris] What is that a persimmon? [Ryotaro] No it's not persimmon, It's a...

[Chris] Persimmon... I really am shit at vegetables. [Ryotaro] Persimmon, how could this be a...

[Ryotaro] Zucchini. [Chris] Zucchini.

[Ryotaro] You know this right, zucchini? 100 yen, a dollar. [Chris] Yeah. Right.

[Chris] What is this? Ow.

[Ryotaro] It's goya. [Chris] Goya. It's a vegetable.

[Chris] But you can, you turn up here. You grab your, oh my god.

You grab your zucchini for 100 yen. Put the money in the box here.

And away you go. And it's pretty quite... humbling.

To see this you know. If this was in the UK, a bunch of teenagers would

rock up on their bicycles and it'd be gone in about 45 seconds.

[Chris] It takes a degree of trust to be able to do this. [Ryotaro] Even less.

[Chris] Yeah, this sums up the kind of trust you find in Japanese culture.

Trust that I wish we had in a lot of other countries.

So we've just been cycling through the fields and this is breakfast. Rice balls

from the very field that the rice came from from the nice farmers from the local area.

It's been an uncharacteristically good morning. When you spend the day with Ryotaro

you're guaranteed one thing. Well two things actually: disappointment and

near-death experiences and so far, it's actually been alright. Cheeky cycle through a field.

[Ryotaro] It's only 10 o'clock and I haven't tried enough yet.

And this breakfast is just the beginning of like the end.

[Ryotaro] But anyway, I've got something I want to show you. Great scenery is waiting for you.

[Ryotaro] Up in the mountains for us [Chris] The beginning of the end.

[Chris] That's not what you want to hear when you're eating breakfast in a rice field.

Bloody hell

[Chris] You real... you really do want to kill me, don't ya? [Ryotaro] *evil laughter*

[Ryotaro] No, I never said that ? Did I?

[Chris] It's not even 11, 11:00 a.m. in the morning and he's dragged me up a mountain.

[Chris] You told me it was a nice view. Yeah it is a nice view, but I didn't know I'd actually be doing something.

[Chris] I've never done this before, he's got a, what is it? A paraglider? [Ryotaro] It's paragliding.

[Chris] Oh for god's sake. It's not even 11:00 a.m. I haven't had my second coffee and you want me to

[Chris] fly. Is it, is it safe? [Ryotaro] Not sure about that because I mean there is, they can like only hold up to a certain weight.

[Ryotaro] And how much do you weigh? [Chris] 80 kilograms...

[Ryotaro] And I think this is made for Japanese people and you're from the UK.

You're gonna be the first UK, person from the UK trying this and you said how much

[Ryotaro] you weigh again? [Chris] 80 kilograms.

[Ryotaro] And I'm not sure about that... [Chris] Maybe repeat my weight...

[Chris] What a... what a dickhead.

You can see the paraglider and then you just got the edge of the mountain

and then nothingness for like a thousand meters or whatever is so yeah it's a

little bit scary 11 a.m., 11 a.m. this is at least a 2, a 2:00pm job.

I'm not ready for this.

[Chris] Union Jack helmet, right. [Ryotaro] Once you're in the air, and you're just gonna relax and sit back and...

and kill yourself.

[Chris] Reassuring words. This is it then. 10 past 11.

Wish me luck

Oh my god.

[Ryotaro] *insane laughter*

[Chris] I'm also trying not to look down too much right now.

[Chris] Ohh....

I, we took off before I even knew what was going on.

All of a sudden we were up

and yeah so sudden and you're supposed to jump in and sit down but for some

reason I couldn't get in properly so I felt like I was dangling out the front

the whole time but yeah it's very fun very fun. Job well done. Job well done I

[Chris] did it and I survived ha ha ha High five. Next challenge? [Ryotaro] Well done, next challenge.

[Chris] Next challenge...?

Oh for heaven's sake. He really does want to kill me. He really does want to kill me.

Ski jump? It's not even 12 o'clock I still haven't my second coffee.

If I break my legs doing this I'm going to kick you to death with whatever's left of them.

Make no mistake.

[Chris] Oh my god. I'm basically wearing a sauna.

It's a wetsuit but on a day when it's like 35 degrees,

it's not a good thing to do I'm so sweaty and feel like utter

just utter shit. But at least I get to watch Ryotaro go first.

[Chris] Go! Go! Here we go.

[Ryotaro] Yes!

[Ryotaro] Oooo!

*splash*

*genuine laughter*

[Chris] I love that noise he made.

[Ryotaro] Oooo! [Chris] *laughs*

[Ryotaro] My, my chest hurts.

[Ryotaro] I lost... I lost my ski. And this is all cut. [Chris] You lost your ski.

[Ryotaro] Look at that. [Chris] It's over there in the bottom of the, in the bottom of the water.

[Chris] Good luck with that. Alright it's my turn.

[Ryotaro] All right, your turn. Let's see what the man with 80 kilograms can do.

[Chris] Shiiiiiiit!

*splash*

[Chris] First ever ski jump

Into some water.

I officially have no energy. This is shaping up to be a rather bizarre day.

Unlike Ryotaro though, I've got both my skiis.

[Ryotaro] Yes but... [Chris] So I'm the winner!

Definitely. I'm the winner.

Unbelievable. It's, it's I don't know where my watch is.

It's two o'clock, about two o'clock now.

Still haven't had my second coffee I'm about to do a zipline again for the

first the first time. And I think that's it. Is that it?

Shii-t. It's quite high actually. Uh OK?

[Attendant] Ok, three, two, one. Go! [Chris] Ehhh, I dunno about that...

[Ryotaro] Shut up and die now! [Chris] Oh Shiit!!

[Ryotaro] Um... So I think he did all good for today and I think uh

I think another session of assassinating him. I should go all right. three two one.

[Ryotaro] Whooo!

[Chris] That is a nice chandelier

for a tent.

We're doing something called "glamping" which is

called glamorous camping. I don't know who thought up that name.

Ryotaro is cooking us a barbecue it's on fire look at this, shit.

[Chris] What are you doing?

[Chris] I left, I left him in charge of the barbecue and he set fire to... the food.

[Chris] Well if none of the things we've done today will kill me, then Ryotaro cooking certainly might.

[Chris] Salmonella chicken and onions.

[Ryotaro] Um, can you hold this for a moment? [Chris] Yeah.

[Ryotaro] I've got some treat for you. [Chris] You've got a treat for me?