DONT WORRY - I get better at communication during this trip. Life is a learning journey you will see 😂

I went to Japan for the first time in 2019 and it CHANGED MY LIFE!!!! The most amazing place I have ever been to on the planet. The people, the spirituality, the culture, the food, the art, and on and on, and on!! Hope your visit is as enlightening as mine was. I cannot wait to go back....which will hopefully be this fall. I need to see a lot more of the country. In the meantime, I am addicted to a show on TV called "Journeys in Japan". It is helping me map out my next trip there. You MUST do a Japanese onsen (bath). Preferably one with an outdoor space. Nothing like it. My one reluctance...the earthquakes. They totally freak me out. I have been through two in my life in CA. I hope to never go through another.

This has given me the best flashbacks to my own trip to Japan, landing at the airport with my sisters and being absolutely lost and bewildered. Thankfully, every single person we met was the kindest and most helpful, and they helped to get us on our way.

Japan was also my first international trip outside of North America. I was there with my husband and our friends for 3.5 weeks and after the initial few days, it was actually pretty easy to navigate. Google translate was my best friend lol. I was able to communicate with the locals a lot and I was able to use the camera on the app to translate the Japanese characters to English anytime I was trying to read street signs or a menu. We were on the bullet train going from Tokyo to Hakone and were too busy chatting that we accidentally missed our stop by about 250 miles haha. We just got off the next stop and hopped on another train to go back and made it back 250 miles in about 20 minutes. I wish we had the bullet train in the US. I'm so happy you were able to go. Japan is one of my favorite places to visit hands down. Cleanest country in the world. 😁

We’ve been looking forward to these vlogs, love to see you guys navigating a new country and new experiences. Love the narrated videos as well!!

8900 yen for Uber? No. You could have taken the train to Shinagawa for 15 minutes.

let's go!!! So excited to watch more of these- so glad you guys took the leap and went- trip of a lifetime i bet!!

Since I've never been to Japan I appreciate your vlogs with your experience arriving and moving around from place to place and how you did it.

Welcome to Tokyo !! We’re so glad to have you in here. Enjoy your stay and hope you’d have wonderful experiences !!

Totally invested on this trip. Can’t wait for the next vids!!

So fun!! I can’t wait to see your adventures!!

excited about these vlogs and proud of you guys for getting out of your comfort zone to experience the world! These kinda trips are life-changing!

Loved this vlog Jojo thanks for everything you do!!!

Great video JoJo. I like the new format with your narration. Keep up the excellent work.

I already love these vlogs! The airport looked beautiful. I can’t wait to see more!! I’ve never seen Jete so tired 😂 I can’t wait to watch his vlogs to! You guys are the best !!

We love your videos. Your excitement is contagious. I would be so scared traveling internationally and not understanding or speaking the language. I will live through you until I'm brave enough to do it.

Great! I hope to visit Japan soon, can’t wait to see all the videos

JoJo thank you for sharing your experience on your 1st trip to Tokyo. I have never been and hope to sometime in the future but my son and his friends are planning to go for the first time and I will definitely tell him to follow you so that he can prepare for his trip. Have fun

I’m so happy for you guys and traveling to Japan must’ve been amazing. Try having a translating app the iPhone has one to help you communicate with next time. Can’t wait to see your next adventure

Thanks for posting! I'm traveling to Japan and landing at Haneda. I love seeing how you handled it.

Hello! I have just discovered your channel through this video. You and your friend seem like very kind people. I hope you enjoyed your trip in Japan, as I enjoyed mine very much when I first visited Tokyo in 2018. It is overwhelming at first with the culture shock, but with more time spent, you start to blend in and get used to everything there. So much so that Tokyo began to feel like a second home for me. I’m from the US and I am subscribed to your channel now. Excited to see the rest of your trip!

Exciting!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for to see the adventures ahead!!!!!!!

So glad you were able to do this trip! Living vicariously through you and Jete!

I am excited for these vlogs! Don't know if you're up for it, but international travel make for amazing videos. Amazing to learn about other countries. My son hopes to move to Japan in a few years so that makes these vlogs extra personal for me.

I can't wait to see all the vlogs! I hope some day to travel to Japan. I hope you traveled outside Disney into the city. Have been all over Europe and the British Isles and it is the same on the Underground and subways with the phones, everyone is texting, very quiet which is relaxing. Hopefully you will get the travel bug like I did after my first international flight! There is so much to see in the world!

Wow. I am anxious to see what happens next. Suspense is a no brainer for me. Just have fun and enjoy all Tokyo has to offer. Which is a lot I hear.

Keep up the great work JOJO

Just one thing as a Japanese. The sign on the lift says "Be aware of the closing door", it doesn't say" It's broken"😬 It is very rare that we have broken lift as we fix it straight away! Hope you guys had a great time in Japan!

I like how you are giving us parts of the trip daily. Let’s savor the series!

You had great travel company with Jete and vice versa! Looking forward to all these vlogs!!! Anxious to hear about the tragedy 😮

Hi JoJo, the most international I've been is Canada - never to a country where I didn't know the language. I am so impressed that you figured it out - I think I would have just cried in the airport 🤣 First impression is everything is so clean, even the bus!!

Hey JoJo, it must have been so refreshing to have things quiet everywhere you went. Sometimes silence is so relaxing. Gotta say the yellow tiles? For the blind people to get around was pretty amazing.

Glad you had each other to experience this with!

Im sure that all felt so intimidating! But also so exciting! I personally would have been a nervous wreck lol.

I enjoyed our video. Congrats on your first intl. flight and trip. I'm heading off to Tokyo in June and I'm looking forward to it.

It’s adorable how you get quieter the longer you’re there. I’m thinking of this video vs the live ones from Tokyo 😅

OMGosh so jojo I so want to go there thanks for your video

Why didnt you do any research before you went?

I definitely remember that feeling of being overwhelmed, tired and hungry and just trying to figure out how to get to the airbnb/accommodation as smooth as possible; right after exiting customs. I took the keikyu line and I ended up in Shinagawa station during rush hour (nuts). but 4 trips back to Japan, I think I've figured it out!

Hawaii isn’t “technically” America. It is literally America.

Translating app on cell phone (Google Lens/Apple) is a godsend!! What a great video/trip!! Can't wait for more!

Disneyland paris next jojo?! 😊 great job on the Tokyo vlogs so far.

Omygod when you guys were struggling in the airport I wanted to hop through the screen and help 😭 I was just at the Haneda airport last month. Buses are cheap but trains are really cheap and quick ahhh. I hope you guys got your transportation cards eventually 😆HOPE U GUYS HAD A GREAT TRIP, enjoy Japan

This was a very fun vlog but i felt anxiety for you guys when you struggled with basic stuff like exchanging yen and getting to your accommodation haha. I live in Singapore where it’s 7 hours direct flight but you guys did 14 hours holy shit. I cannot imagine the fatigue on trying to stay awake on the first day, 🤣 Can’t wait to watch more videos! Also you guys should go back to Japan during peak spring or autumn. The vibe becomes totally different again.

The fact Jete said he wants to get a tattoo there just shows how little research you both did into the Japanese culture before getting there! 🤣 Fair play for at least trying to learn along the way, but with countries with such different values, it's always best to have at least SOME level of understanding before getting there. Loving the vlogs so far! 🙂

Travelling in business class while worrying about Uber cost 😅

You trip seems nice. As a retired Fliight Attendant I had the opportunity to travel to five continents and many countries. Knowing basic customs, foldways and mores is very important. As a "guest" in another country knowing just a small amount shows native citizens you have made and effort. Although you might not get a simple courtesy correct they can tell and appreciate your attempt. So for future travel you can purchase a book containing the basics for many countries all in one place. I am glad you had a nice time, and did learn a few things. Be well and safe travels.

Very cool to see i hope one day I can do the same

Nice video! Stay home and safety the wear mask with you too in trip😃

hi i am new to your channel i am enjoying your trip to japan

Oh my god that went so fast I would Be simply scared not knowing where you are I don’t like that feeling just give me Disney world ha ha but it’s great to see your adventure out of the country good job JoJo😊.

I can’t believe to see how your airport experience went. When I use to go before the pandemic, it was NOT like that. Seems more tedious

I just booked my flight to Japan for mid-January, and I forsee myself reacting the same way. I've never been out of the US at all and only out of Florida once

Even closed caption (cc) on this video thought you said "tattoo." I thought you said it, too. Anyhow, thanks for this informative video.

Great educational trip and advise especially cell phone availability & money exchange. Thank you for this video & flying Delta 🔺 ✈️

Being well traveled and experiencing new cultures is the best thing you can do for yourself....don't stop

Glad you made it back to the States. You guys looked so clueless when you first got to Japan though😂

You and Jete gotta do Disneyland Paris or another international Disney together!

I kept looking for this beanie at Disney Tokyo in both parks these past 3 days and apparently it’s completely sold out!

Love the hat 😍 Can't wait to watch this and the rest of the series

Ugh I want to go to Japan now! I have family in Japan, would be nice to travel out of country!

They sell sim cards at the Narita Airport in Tokyo. If you have an unlocked phone, you can just stick different sim cards from other countries in your phone. My Japanese friends sometimes wrote out directions for me to hand to my Taxi drivers. I just got all my Yen out of the ATM’s in Japan.

Its better to exchange your momey 1st b4 going to japan china or hong kong or paris... keep in mind at the airport exchange rates are alot.lower....

Bro is capping so hard! I was literally just in that airport… at 3:26 you say you don’t understand what this pink paper says but dude we both know if you flip that paper over it’s in English. Then at 6:58 you’re like “I brought 40 dollars over from the states hopefully I can change it” while your boy was taking money out of the atm. All you had to do was take two steps to the right and there’s a place you can exchange US currency…

3:14 I have Verizon and get the international plan too to text, call and use data

Welcome to Japan✨ The building with a sphere in the middle is FUJI TV's station. It is one of the most famous TV station in Japan 😆 I'm looking forward to next video from Japan 🔥

Do a Tokyo Disney Merch giveaway!!! I thought u said tattoo also! You guys were definitely feeling the jet lag.

6:15 Why didn't they ask the information behind them?lol

Hey JoJo won’t help ya now but next time keep Google Translate ready on your phone! It helps translate using the camera! Great tip for traveling. Can’t wait to see the rest of your Tokyo journey 😊

Jete representing IU on his mask! ❤

I freaking hate people that don't plan properly. Especially when you're going to another country. 😭😭😭😭 This was hard to watch. *screams*

Your friend lives in NY? I live in mass, so cool. So lucky you went to Japan 😊

A place that has a survey in their bathroom is definitely gonna take the top spot for a different experience 😂😂😂 lol hahaha

13:05 One of the most famous TV station in Japan,,

You are welcome ❤👏🏻

I'm not sure what was going on with that elevator, but the sign just says to watch your hands so you don't get them crushed in the elevator doors

I need that Mickey ears hat!!❤

Omg this sends my planning brain into a panic 😱

Woooo!!

Very cool an IU face mask. Hoo Hoo Hoosiers!!!

Did you use the visit Japan site? They don't ask you for the negative tests until you arrive?

Rent a Wi-Fi in Japan, so much easier. Literally for the same price. Pupuru is one of the brands to choose from. Taxis in Japan from the airport are expensive. Luckily Haneda is closer to town. Can always ask the Information Desk for help.

So much bad advice in this video. $10/day for cellphone service is crazy, when you can get a Tourist SIM for a fraction of that. You can get that delivered, picked up or even an instant e-SIM. Don't take UBERs in Japan. Public transportation is cheap and easy. You can create an IC travelcard on Apple Wallet for free and top up directly with your credit card. You don't need to exchange cash back home. Using at ATM once you land is cheaper, especially if you have a debit card without foreign transaction fees. You just need to do the slightest bit of research before you leave.

those "bumps" are pathways for vision impaired individuals and can be found at stations and public streets....it isn't to slow people down with suitcases. also Hawaii is America.

Jojo how long was the flight to Tokyo?

At least you have somebody with u

Jojo - we’re you able to use your phone/WiFi without having to get a sim or rent a pocket WiFi? I’m going in 6 weeks and att says I can use my phone ($10 a day) but I’m skeptical

I feel like I'm watching a video from 2020 with all the masks, I had no idea it was so strict over there

I'm actually going to Japan next week. my question to you is : if I enter my negative covid test onto the Japanese's government website (fast track) do I have to worry about the 72 hours elapsing before I land in Japan? or once its uploaded its good?

How can anyone get to being a full grown adult without having been to a foreign country?

I know that I am late to this video and I don’t know if you will see this but next time you visit a place that’s a whole language you can’t see or read…. Google translate is your best friend. Sure it’s slower but it helps so much.

You would be much better hanging out in Hong Kong....Haha haha!

I feel like you should of have done more research on how to navigate. It would of saved u time. I usually take the trains after i land in tokyo For future travelers reading this*** Research! Research!

There are two airports in Tokyo fyi. Interesting to see what its like when someone does ZERO preparation and research before going to a city or country

It’ll be interesting to see what you think of DLP when you eventually get there. I’ve been twice and found people very disrespectful. Smoking when there’s ciear signs saying smoking not permitted. And both times I’ve nearly been knocked off my spot at the fireworks. Just pushed out the way after waiting for ages at a decent spot. Kids flip on shoulders and you’re just pushed and squeezed, and phones go up with the lights still blazing. It’s put me off going ever again. However. The French know how to do catchy music for the parade. And the drones for 30th were sooo good. Shame about the ignorant culture. Makes me want to go to Japan

Till this day do you need to be fully vaccinated with boosters?

God Bless everybody

Did your friend cricket phone work in Tokyo

You could mention that your vacation was paid by Disney.

Less gooi