Definitely!

Nice! :)

Awesome!

2012, myself. Hoping to go back next year

I felt the same way when I went to Japan for the first time :)

Indeed!

My son, who was 6 at the time was definitely intrigued when he saw a kid his age walking home by himself in Kyoto! Totally different!

Many Japanese schools forbid parents from accompanying their children to school

Aww.. thanks Jeannie!

Same. Towards the end of our trip there back in 2012, my dad dropped his wallet and we literally never even noticed until a Japanese man who ran after us for at least 5 minutes came up to us, handing my dad his wallet and explaining where he'd dropped it. We were very surprised how kind he'd been, going so far out of his way to return my dad's wallet

This info is very useful for first time visitors to Japan.

I wish I could say I had Japanese ancestry. I think I might've been Japanese in a past life due to remembering something from my childhood that never happened because it was a memory set in Japan despite not leaving Australia til I was 21, but no Japanese ancestry sadly. I am apparently over 40% Scottish on my dad's side, though

Thanks Robert! Great point!

Thanks Glenn!

Yes... they do not believe in "eating and walking" at that same time :)

Thanks Jambaa!

Thanks Henry!

Japan! Enjoy ;)

Indeed! :)

Thanks uniplex... I'll get the onsies up there soon :)

Definitely the best time to go!

Just be wary of how much "adult content" to put it politely, you will see out in the open even if you're not looking for anything close to it

Thanks TieDef for the additional clarification!

Thanks Colleen!

Thanks for the update Andy!

Thanks Nini! I'll have a whole bunch more Japan videos coming up on my new Fukushima series in a few weeks.. stay tuned! :)

Yes. Europe really takes first place for early closing shops :)

For sure!

Thanks Ethan!

Good eye!

Its smaller in Japan that in Europe :)

Glad I got it mostly right :)

Thanks Linda!

You're right.. thanks for the correction! Uber is available in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto

Hah

Aww.... thanks Santi!

Yeah.. that's beyond surprising. That's definitely in the weird category

Yes.. in particular to the region known as Hakone. You can do it as a day trip from Tokyo.. or 1 to 2 nights. Here's a video I did on the region: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKmAgq6LrJ3YnZ8.html

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Yup! They were already wearing masks!

G'day Evelyne! :)

This is the CBP websites that says what you can't bring in to the US: www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/know-before-you-go/prohibited-and-restricted-items

October is a great time to go. My dad and I were there during that month in 2012 and it was wonderful. The weather (aside from the one night we got stuck in a monsoon) was perfect, mostly clear and cool, not too hot or cold. And the Halloween themed everything is just wonderful. Kinda makes you feel like a kid again

@@YellowProductions thank you

Hi Son!

I'll add that to my topic list! Interesting to hear on the plastic bag ban in Thailand.. I think that's a long way off in Japan

Yen are a little taller than USD -- but not by that much.. fits in my typical wallet

That is a good description for sure

@@YellowProductions Maybe 10 years ago, I still watched a lot of those "internet reviewer" videos, people making fun of bad movies and stuff like that and many of those guys were big Weeaboos and it was always amusing to see how disappointed they were when they traveled to Japan and found out that Japan really is a very conservative and kind of stuffy place and basically all the Manga, Anime and Maid Cafe wackiness they associate with it, is basically confined to 3 or 4 street corners in Tokyo. Still, I too was surprised when I recently watched a hour long dash cam video of someone driving around in Tokyo, how "not Bladerunner-ish" it really is. Even knowing that Japan isn't all Maid Cafes, I still thought Tokyo is architecturally a distinct city and a interesting concrete jungle, but in that dash cam video, looked at from the street level, it really looked rather mundane and boring. Hard to distinguish from similar dash cam videos on the same channel, showing mid-sized American cities like Houston, actually. In general, watching such videos a lot lately made me realize how much alike very different seeming cities all over the world actually look. What really surprised me was to see how much Nashville looks like a typical South-Western German city like Stuttgart. If it weren't for the different street signs, the licence plates and the different cars, some of that dash cam footage from Nashville could really have been filmed in Stuttgart or Mainz, or parts of Cologne. As an American who has visited Stuttgart, I wonder what you think about that. Did it feel and look totally alien to you? By the way, even the difference in car styles is shrinking. Strangely enough, at the same time Americans started driving more European and Asian style compact cars, Germans started buying more big SUVs and even Pickup Trucks. Even Hummer H2s and Ford F-150/250 have become a quite common thing to see in the South-West of Germany, belligerent bumper stickers and truck nuts and all.

And what's wrong with the DVD player age?

@@autumbreeze1129 The same thing that is "wrong" with the Bronze and the Stone Age: it's over. Where are you going with that question?

@@TrangleC I'm going with how is it over? DVDs are still being released and sold regularly so it's hardly over

Enjoy Korea then :)