Welcome to

Tagajo city.

I'm in a brand new place today.

You can probably guess what I'm doing.

I have three days left of the Pokemon

stamp rally, so i'm trying to get those

last stamps in.

Don't know if I'll be

able to complete Miyagi in the next

three days, but today I'm going to try

and get as many as I can just in case

it's my last trip.

I have a new

friend joining me!

This is Nadine.

This is

our first time meeting.

She contacted me

and was like, "hey want to go pokemon

hunting?".

I can't say no, so

I am Pokemon hunting with a stranger

today.

Making new friends, this is awesome.

We are in a rush as always, it's about

noon and because the place is closed at

about five, kind of have to run around

really quickly.

So we're at Tagajo right

now looking for our first one.

Let's go.

Bonus manhole!

That must be a famous

temple or something.

Pretty!

I love the entrance of the station here.

It looks like a torii gate very fancy.

There it is!

Stamp number one!

We're doing good, making good time.

cute!

How many can we fill up?

There's not much

space left.

We're doing good, 17 empty

spaces so I guess I have 17 to go.

So I'm actually on another mission today.

So they are selling postcards of the

manholes of every single one in Japan.

I've purchased 50 of them to send to

my Patreon supporters.

So I'm gonna stamp

the backs of these with various stamps

that we go to visit today.

Got lots of

stuff to do and very little time.

This is a

nice little city i've never been out

here, it's a nice river running through it.

Lots of really new buildings they had a

really nice Starbucks over by the

station.

It should be just up here.

Oh I see it!

I see it, yeah yeah yeah.

There!

Your eyes are good!

Yay!

Manhole number one of the day!

Look at that!

Awww.

That's adorable!

Cute, I've never seen one before.

Okay, one down

Nadine was saying that some of the

later ones on our map today are open

until a little past five.

So

we should have a little more time than I

did the last time I was doing this.

It was quite a rush.

Okay we're off to the next one.

Apparently it's only 18 minutes away,

so that's great.

I'm eating my

breakfast, Kind Bars, they started selling

these in Japan!

They're so good.

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You can see the cement wall that they've

built.

It was put up after the tsunami in

2011.

It's supposed to

slow down a tsunami, make it weaker if

one were to hit again.

That wasn't there before.

We made it to the next one.

Shichigahama is where we are now.

We're right

on the coast.

We drove past some nice

views of the ocean a second ago.

There's another Lapras vending machine here!

I

had never seen one before and all of a

sudden they're all over the place.

Here's

the little tourist information center

where they have the stamp.

It's cool that

they have them in here because I learn a

lot about each area when I go in to get

the stamp.

It explains that Lapras is the

symbol of Miyagi prefecture.

[Instrumental Music]

Awesome, I'm totally gonna buy these.

They're selling

the postcards and stuff here.

Normally you can only get these at a

store, not at each location.

So, totally gonna get those.

Look how cute this stamp is

for Shichigahama!

I love Ditto so much.

You won't believe what they're selling

here.

Actually you probably will because

it's probably relatively normal in most

of your countries.

But they have rhubarb!

I have not seen rhubarb since I moved to

Japan

16 years ago.

It's the first time.

I would kill for a rhubarb-strawberry pie.

It's frozen though so if I buy it it's

going to be all thawed out and weird

once I get home.

But it's good that I

know it's here, it's not too far from

Sendai.

They've got a little sign telling you

how to get to the manhole.

I love it when

they do that, so apparently it's just

over here.

There it is!

It's adorable.

This is definitely one of my favourites.

Ditto Lapras is the cutest.

Ditto in Japanese is Metamon.

That was a successful stop.

I am so happy that they had the postcards, you have no idea how hard it

has been to get my hands on those.

Right, off to the next one.

Don't think it's too far away.

All right we are at number 25 right now.

We're going to head off this little

peninsula here back onto the coast for

number three which is

this one

in Shiogama.

Shiogama is famous for sushi.

If you are a sushi fan and you're in the

Sendai area head out to the coast of Shiogama.

Some of the best sushi you can get in all of Japan.

Welcome to Shiogama.

So another thing that Japan does that's cute,

that's usually more plain in other countries, is mailboxes.

We have the tuna mailbox.

Because Shiogama is famous for tuna.

Like I said.

So, yeah, come to Shiogama if

you want probably the best sushi in all of Japan.

There it is!

We randomly came across it.

That was easy.

And I think the stamp is inside this

building right beside it.

We've gotten so many in such a short

period of time.

We're doing very well!

Nice.

So many.

Wow.

Shiogama is also famous for salt.

Shio means salt and so they have this

ginger ale salty.

It's a funny name but it's pretty good.

I had it last time i was at a restaurant here.

Alright, we're on a roll.

We're making good time.

i think the next one... is

the cat manhole I've actually been there.

I wasn't vlogging though so I needed to

go back and show it to you guys!

Is that the Ishinomaki one?

[Nadine]: Matsushima is closer.

[Sharla]: Oh, Matsushima is next

Okay.

Later in the day you guys will see my

absolute favourite one.

Can't wait to take

you there, it's so cute.

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So you may have noticed from the shots

on the way here but, the next stamp has

brought us to Matsushima, which you guys

have seen many times in my videos.

But

the stamp location is in a part of the

town that I've never been to before.

What's this one look like?

Oh, this one's

quite worn out as well.

Oh, it's the one

on the bridge.

The little red bridge of

Matsushima.

You'll probably see it better

when we see the actual manhole.

So, this is the area where you catch the

ferry that takes you around to see all

the islands here in Matsushima.

I've never been on it before so I've never

been on this pier.

It's really nice.

[Music]

Over in the distance is the red bridge

that I always go across when I'm here.

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Wow, I can't believe I've never been over

here.

It's really pretty!

I was missing out.

I love these manholes, *laughs* bringing me to all

these cool locations.

[Nadine]: I'm so glad, right?

[Sharla]: Yeah.

So, apparently the manhole itself is over

in a little park behind the visitor center.

I've never been here before.

It looks really nice!

How did I not notice

this was here?

The water's so clear.

[Music]

(Laughing) We totally missed this... took us a minute.

Aw, how adorable is that?

We're on the hunt for a snack now,

been running around— for a couple hours!

We're getting hungry and Matsushima is a

good place to check out street food.

Lots

of different street foods here.

There's a

famous curry bread shop there.

But they have oysters in them, so be

careful— careful, it's tricked me

two times~

I've wised up now.

But in the bottom of the curry pan is

oysters— so we're looking for something

else...

Alright, we've found a little shop that's

doing local

snacks.

They have some zunda mochi, which

this area is famous for.

You can see the

edamame in the background— the coating on

the mochi is made from edamame.

It's interesting, it's pretty good.

Look what I have found!

Flavored amazake— they have strawberry,

mango, or lemon.

I'm definitely gonna get

one of those.

I've never tried a flavored

amazake before.

Oh wow!

Look the amazake—

fresh strawberries in it!

I'm so excited.

Alright, taste test time!

Mmmm!

Mm~