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Good morning, everybody.
A very sweaty good morning from here.
In summary Tokyo, Today I'm here with Norm Tokyo.
With today we wait.
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Yes, we are.
Yeah.
Have you ever been to Kabul?
Actually, I used to one of my very first part time jobs I ever had.
When I first came to do, Japan was working at a gym.
You know, other than that, I've never explored the area.
But I've heard that there are a lot of like, I've got a lot of people who message me like I'm staying in a hotel in Chicago and you should check out the area.
There's a lot of little So I want to see if we can find a lot of little spots of that.
I've never been to me.
I've probably been to a gigabit.
I've never known it.
It's just never bean something where people have said, Hey, let's go to a vagabond hangouts really close to Shinjuku.
It is.
It is.
It's very close to Shinjuku.
But as you can tell, it's very much.
Doesn't feel like Shinjuku Cool.
It's a good place to be.
Yeah, definitely.
So hopefully we can find some good spots and let you guys know all about it and explore Sogecable.
Maybe one or two of the air conditioning.
Oh, my God.
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Let's go and explore.
Okay, Let's do it.
Love.
Coy.
That's so cool.
I want to hug them, but it's forbidden.
Who was that big guy?
I think this is exactly what I'm talking.
There's so many little parks hidden throughout Tokyo.
Just like, Well, maybe not just like this.
This one is actually really nice.
What's wrong with everything?
There's a lot of more media everywhere, and I think the entrance was gingko trees.
So I think this place to be super nice in autumn.
I really want to come back here.
I was taking a peek of my phone online.
They said all those trees, like, 100 years old.
Oh, damn.
Okay, E My first meal of the day.
It looks pretty good.
Healthy?
Yeah.
Nice and healthy.
A big old bowl of ramen equals, actually really well known for ramen like Shinjuku is the typical drinking place.
Yeah, and in Japan This is very probably already know this, but Japanese people tend to go for ramen after they drink.
It's kind of a closing out of the night.
And this is the ramen zone, right beside the drinking zone.
Yeah, Shinjuku.
You could go drinking, but I know there's a quite a few ramen joints in Shinjuku, but a lot of them a kind of directed towards tourists because it's very touristy area.
So if you want to really authentic Roman experience, just head on a little bit out.
Tioga, COBOL.
There's lots of different kinds of ramen shops around here.
Yeah.
Lucky mom.
Whoa.
How is it?
It's a very rich I'm going straight for this.
Oh, yeah.
Good friend.
Mm.
Good place we're at right now.
It's called because the owner is If you're gonna own a shop, it might as well call it.
You're a name.
I think I would do that.
I think you have a store called Emma.
You sell em up today?
A little.
Good luck with that.
Yeah, like those.
Oh, Okay.
There you go.
That's my new business.
All right, well, we're just gonna chill and eat some ramen.
And then I think We're heading to a garden after this.
So gotta stuck off some energy to go out in the hot weather again.
Yeah, it's gonna give you like a chime Sound will be my Oh, right.
You guys hear that?
Thank you.
Good work.
Nice.
It's a meditative Yeah, definitely.
It takes you out of the moment.
Of all the heat and everything going on around you just kind of takes you it, Zack.
A peaceful water.
Summer time.
Yeah.
So I got us a bit of a guide.
I did a terrible job of handing that Teoh.
I got it.
It's all good.
So this is Kadokawa Garden.
That's a very beautiful, very nice.
And behind us is Genki Samba Hole.
So this used to belong to a famous poet?
Yeah, they actually do, like poetry or haiku like classes and stuff here.
Now I personally impersonal just to the garden like a nice space in the middle of Tokyo where you can enjoy the green in the sound of the cicadas in the summer.
It's only like what, about 15 minutes from the station?
Yeah, Yeah, it was really quick to get Yeah, it's It feels like 46 degrees day.
It's It's pretty hot outside, but yeah, because this place is you can learn how to do high coups and do poetry here.
So we're gonna do a high court challenge.
Yeah.
Have you got a haiku?
Love the sound of bugs.
I am so very sweaty.
I would like ice cream.
I'll just be me and be like I'm getting thirsty.
Way should grab some coffee.
No, that doesn't work.
So yeah, I've already I think we should grab coffee.
Why not head there now?
Okay.
Yeah.
Let's go get some coffee.
Way made it to Nishio.
Jacob are in this place.
That we're all right now was just a five minute walk from the station.
It's called Mano Tiki.
And it's Kisa Dan A coffee shop e really Like how it looks in here.
Yeah, they've got so many antique clocks on the wall and lots of wooden it za good feeling.
It's a good vibe.
It's very quiet.
Here it is very nice.
So this area initial gigawatt is actually known for antiques and coffee shops.
It's like a really classic, classic classic vibe to it.
I thought I was gonna go for a cold drink and the cinnamon tea looks really cool.
So what did cinnamon too?
But it only comes in hot.
So let's do it.
And it turns out it's a milk tea too, So I'm gonna have indigestion.
But he was saying that chewing on a cinnamon stick will help indigestion.
Maybe I won't hold you to it.
I'm gonna just try it.
I'm no doctor, but I've heard that chewing on things.
I'm gonna look this up now because I'm gonna go on the Internet for absolutely forever.
Yeah.
People are gonna get angry you, if you're not 100% correct about benefits of chewing on cinnamon loaded with antioxidants, anti inflammatory properties.
There we go.
Good.
Oh, it's hot.
Oh, it's hot.
Yeah.
What a vibe with this many clocks.
I'm amazed.
It's not like all of them going off.
Yeah, I feel like it would be insane.
Are they all different?
Yeah, they're all at different times.
No one says it's 15 past seven way Dogo.
It started.
It's like something out of a bad movie.
The coffee itself is really mild, like I don't really like sour coffee.
I prefer something is a little more bitter has, like, a soft taste to it because you often come out to like pizza.
And I actually don't.
I would need to go to kiss that animal.
That's so nice.
And it's such a nice place.
Even if you wanna, like, do some work during the day.
I want to start doing one of the first videos that we did together.
We went to a Yeah, that was back when I was living in a sex.
Uh, it's the atmosphere, right?
Like Why it?
Anything here?
Yeah.
We owe going to get some antiques.
I don't know Well, by any.
I'm excited.
I if they have something called on my bike, I've never actually been doing antique shop in Japan, but I love antiques, recycled shops, stuff like I got some really good stuff in an antique shop in Japan is a really good way to kind of check out the history in, like, a very different way, right?
Yeah, definitely.
That is providing that they haven't just talked the place with Western antiques.
That's what I am thinking like, Is it gonna be Japanese antiques and Western antiques?
Because I don't know, this kind of area is about Cohen.
She has a lot of secondhand stores, and a lot of them have, like American or Western clothing.
So I'm wondering what the antique stores alike e like this yellow ketchup and mustard.
I think there's so much cool stuff here that I need to have time to unpack.
Everything thinks is awesome.
So many beautiful lent here.
Oh wow, some playing cards?
E.
Just in general, I love playing cards.
Oh, card trick.
I don't really know any card tricks.
I could dio meat stuff like that thing.
Sensational orange drink with the rial orange flavor in the big big bottle bottle looks huge.
Yeah, Original Phantom.
That's awesome, E actually having like a small collection of gotcha machines or these gumball style machines in my house.
I have a full sized metal like North American one that's about like that wide by this by this, and it's just filled.
So back in Canada, I have at least three like this, and it's actually lately attempted to actually pick this one up.
It's no pressure at all, Get it?
It's really close.
Oh, man, let's have a little sit down.
Cute little seat.
Yeah, it's an antique O e police was awesome.
So many things that I wanted there.
But not the truck, By the way, we're next to a road.
There's so much stuff in there that I wanted.
I really want those ketchup and mustard chairs.
Gumball machine didn't fit in my back.
Oh, well, at least we know where the stories.
So maybe if I get, like, a nice, big, healthy paycheck, come back and get ketchup and mustard.
This is actually a really nice little antique store.
Has just been a good day.
Yeah, Yeah, it's been so nice traveling around and just like seeing gardens drinking lots of bukhari sweat eating ramen is like, what, third video you've done in this general area.
Yeah, So I've been having a good time, so you only got to come on for today.
But I've Bean enjoying so economic for three other videos to other videos, including this.
Where did you go?
S I've seen Thio, Saga and Yeong.
And now Okay, Okay.
So if you guys wanna check out those videos of the lien McArdle like, I've never been toe asada, it's really cool.
You should watch the video.
It's not out yet.
You can't very well.
Yeah, but I've had a great time today.
Okay, so it was really nice.
There's some nice houses here.
Maybe I'll live here one day.
You need, like, $20 million to live here or something.
I don't know if you guys staying in Shinjuku or near this area.
Okay?
It was a really nice place to come and hang out.
And there's such, like, unique things that I don't I haven't seen this kind of stuff, especially the antiques anywhere else in Tokyo personally.
So if you don't nobody Ogi Cuba itself.
It's just a hop skip and a jump from should you go on the modern okey lines.
So it connects really easily with a lot of other train lines and Shulin, right?
Thanks for coming on.
A little adventure with me today.
It was I'm always up for a little adventures.
Anytime and thanks for coming on the adventure through all of tsunami with me, I had an awesome time.
It's a really nice area, and I will be coming back especially to shop for watching guys.
And we'll see you in a video soon.
Bye.
It's just nice to be back inside.
E don't zoom in on me.
Going hanging.
Yang?
Yeah.
Nice.
Cool people and maybe a toothpick thing.
This is the next level, girl.
Got some pretty wicked looking melons over there.
Really?
Like actual watermelons.
Fantastic.