I love Jinan! Haven't been there in years, but the last I was there, I stayed in an area adjacent to all of the nice little alleyways with hot springs dotted through them. It was the middle of winter, but I saw some of the locals going swimming! It was really cool, and I'd love to go back there again

Your smile is infectious. I couldn't help smiling with you. Man I wished I had enough money saved to tour China. I have subscribed to most of the china tubers and have never been dissapointed. Hope to see your channel grow to new heights.

I live in Jinan. Been here 6 years, and love the place.

Thank you so much for making this video to introduce Jinan, which is my hometown. I am studying abroad and really miss my Jinan🤗

Wow, thanks for introducing those the underrated cities.

John, we are having so much fun with you travelling in China. I love your personality and easy style. There are so many westerners living and travelling in China. They always seem to have positive reports about the country, such a contradiction to what you hear from Westerners who have never been there. Keep up the good work.

love your big smile ! ❤❤❤

The unique Spring City in the world, Great Video.

Also.... those are by far the clearest water i've seen in china

How much I miss my hometown🥲🥲🥲 thank you for making this video

Hidden gem. I love traditional architecture than the skyscrappers.

Thank you for sharing my hometown! Jinan has over 2000 years history and just getting more and more beautiful and modern!

What a great place to visit❤️❤️❤️

I love Jinan too. I was posted there from Qingdao. It is known as the city with the most hot springs in China. A city of 7 million, it also offers more Shandong cuisine than Qingdao. Taishan, one of China's most sacred mountains is also located in the same province. So is Confucious's hometown, Qufu. Jinan is one of the hottest cities in China during summer.

2:31 BEST PART

There're hundreds of spring water spots in Jinan, the 72 is the most famous one and each has it's own name. Due to the heavy rain this year, most Jinan spring water reached a 55 year record level, it's the best time to visit Jinan. The best memory about Jinan spring water is Water pushed out from stone covered road and runs on the local street, you can still experience those in Five dragon's pond Park, sweet memory of my hometown. You can also visit Foliage Valley south of Jinan in Nov, with red color covering the whole mountain, it's breathtaking.

I love this city. I was there for 5 years ❤❤

I spent 5 great years in Jinan! I lived there and enjoyed it. I left to come to Shenzhen for work, but I refer to it as my "Chinese Hometown".

Jinan metro should be 3 lines by the March 2021, and another 3 lines are under construction.

Excellent quality video, pity about the rain. My wife comes from Jinan and we've been going there from UK, every year since 2002-2019, only the virus keeping us away. We like to walk most evenings, to Hero Mountain Park, to the South of the city, to join in the dancing. There's a good restaurant in Daming Lake, where I can get my favourite, Kung Po chicken.

It's sooooo nice to see my home town here! Thank you for your post!

Jinan is fooking AWESOME 💙

Actually Jinan has three subway lines now.

Awesome, thanks for sharing

So beautiful! Thanks for introducing Jinan to us.

Lucky you. It looks so beautiful from that tower. Thanks again for sharing💕💕

John, you’re such a positive and happy person! It shows through your smiles in all your videos! Keep up the great videos and stay happy and soak in all that life has to offer in China!

Hi, John. Love your energy and smile.... Subscribed... Hope you enjoy your stay in Jinan

Wow so amazing views ...I enjoyed watching here thank you for sharing this video

Your videos are great. Great adventures with many interesting places and food. Keep up the good work.

Love seeing China through your eyes! Haven’t had the chance to travel to China since the pandemic. Great coverage. Keep it up!

haven't been jinan but love it, nice video

Great video!

Welcome to Jinan👏my hometown😀

Thanks for introducing my hometown! Miss there

Wow I hadn't heard of it.But now that I have it's definitely added to the list. So cute your groupies in the beginning :) Love your big smile and giggles so contagious! Really enjoyed this video!

You made very good content, love your video exploring China.

First! haha! Have been waiting for this Video to go with my dinner😛

Hi John,you are simply the best.👍👏

Amazing 👍👍👍

Thank you for sharing your trip, I love Jinan and very enjoy when I was there, the food in Shandong province is good too.

Nice man thanks for showing us around a place I never knew about. Looks really nice there. Stay safe.

Lotus blooming, crystal clear spring water, signature brand name of jinan. Glad you showed the beauty of it, thanks John

Jinan China does look like a beautiful city, thank you.

Looks like a fun place. I like the educational voiceover!

The Jinan-born and raised people is here! Have you tried 大米干饭把子肉？It's a combo consist of braise pork belly and rice with gravy, sometimes adding with balls, tofu and seaweed, you should tried it my bro!

Jinan is amazing city, love it

I only know Jinan because of my grandfather he showed machines to the chinese workers as an Engineer ive visited Jinan this city is so beautiful

Hey John! Wow, the #1 spring in the world ? We’re absolutely LOVING all of the different peopl watching & video-ing you, video-ing yourself. awkwarrrd! 😜 You’re such a great sport and so sweet to them all! Sorry you (we all) didn’t get to see the jets of water at the spring. The streams running through the streets are beautiful, as are Daming Lake, and the views from the top of the tower, too. Thunder, yes! Seems we’re always watching you get rained on 😁, but you’ve shown us so much despite it! Jinan at night is 🤩 And you’re room looks MASSIVE! We wanna come & hang with you in China one day!

This is cool

I lived in Jinan for 6 beautiful years. I miss that city and specially the people and friends that we made!

Another great video. Thunder and water sounds are relaxing to some - so this would be a perfect watch. Thanks for showing this place.🤝 (do you use your phone or have a dedicated camera for filming?)

Not heard of Jinan but looks cool everyone seems super friendly :) amazing so many natural springs being there :) love all the fish! The spring looks very cool :) so many people but so pretty :) so refreshing!

Thanks for showing everybody around my home city. Jinan has so much potential to be a much better city(not that it's not great now), over the years I've been feeling a little disappointed for it not being able to live up to its full potential, but now every year when I go back(except for the last 2 years due to covid) it seems to improve quite a bit, seeing from your video in 2021, it has definitely become more beautiful. Thank you.

Thank you for returning the greetings from the friendly chinese citizens that are always interested in seeing a caucasian Vlogger in their cities!!! So cute, when you turned your camera, n showing us the group of little children with their mobile cameras aiming at you. Cant stop laughing at that cute moment!👏👍🇨🇳🤗

Oh you got lots of friendly fans around you John hehe Nope we've never heard of Jinan and what a wonder, 72 springs? That's pretty special and you went to the number 1 spring in the world?! Gosh such a busy time lots of crowds in the springs at the moment. Oh Damn! it rained! Seem pretty normal there now too despite much of the world having different experineces of the pandemic. Keep safe

oh~~ Cool ~~, I'd like to view such a city .

I need to start a company to heal and refurbish the xiaoqing river!!!!!!!!!

I am watching your chanbel now and will be watching a lot more from now on.

Love all your videos. Your easy-going manner and smile is very infectious. No.1 spring in the world, of course, sounds a little boastful today, but remember in the olden days, the world or more correctly Tianxia (Under the Heaven) is really just Central China.

There are literally SO MANY Chinese cities with a history of 2000 to even 3000 years of constant urban settlement that non-Chinese have ever even HEARD OF (but of course most Chinese will know as the most basic Chinese history will have covered the historically cultural importance of these cities). Of course some have dwindled down to dilapidated conditions, but some have grown into modern metropolises like Jinan, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Qingdao, Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing, & of course, the famous ones even wypipo know of like Beijing, Shanghai & Canton (they might not know it's called Guangzhou nowadays). Thank you for showing people Jinan!

Lovely video John. Shows the world how beautiful China is, at the same time shows the world how nice an American can be.

The hotel room must be expensive 😂😂😂 It is so big 😁😁

Woah!!! Wow!!! Woohoo!!! Enjoying your vid at tea (coffee) time (at work) ;p ;p ;p : )))

Jinan is my hometown, I have not been there almost 5 years... miss it so much really hope everything turn to be as before soonly. Thank you for your video. The people from Jinan are the best in China! haha

Look lovely. Thanks for revealing this hidden gem. Is it always so busy. Is it more empty in winter

Maybe the many underground water is the reason why Jinan only has one metro line.

There are so many not famous but very interesting cities and places in China!! Not far from Jinan I highly recommend Xuzhou city (tombs, lake, etc) and Qufu (Confucius family hometown)

I love peaceful China, kind Chinese, awesome Genshin Impact, beautiful Liziqi and too much!

Don't travel during holidays. It is crazy. My friends always take one or two weeks off before or after holidays for traveling around.

Welcome to China

Recommend the bamboo sea in southern China, which is relatively large

I visit Jinan 25 times becausae I do business there, Jinan is a great place and is full of good peopel and I have a lot of private friends in this city. But be cause of Covid i dont visit Jinan in some years.

4:40 im curious is this spring a kind of Geyser? They should have a lot of natural hot springs I guess. Would love to visit one during a snowy night. Also what we can see, most people can walk maskless 😁👍

thanks for sharing, so pretty! Is there an admission fee for Da Ming Lake.

Wow, hotel Intercontinental room is so huge, like a suite! How much does it cost you for two big rooms? If you dont mind my asking!. Good view, n thanks for another lovely City of Jinan.🙏👍

want to see you explore, NANSHAN&YIBIN bamboo sea

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Jinan =Spring + mountain

Hayate you brother 😍😍

Jinan is my first Chinese city to visit.

I need to a buy a subway card!!!!!!!!

bamboo sea！ bamboo sea！！ bamboo sea！！！ bamboo sea！！！！

google Shandong Bamboo Spring (Zhuquan) Village

💯💯👍🏼👍🏼🤝🤝😍

There are bamboo Villages in many places in China

HALLO FREAND ..baby

四面荷花三面柳,一城山色半城湖

希望約翰在中國幸福快樂，樂不思美。趕快去買一台烘衣機來用，用過烘衣機真的是回不去。😄👏

大明湖畔的夏雨荷

Jinan is really a low key provincial capital.

Let me show u around Jinan next time hah

Im not sure if this city is too far but if you like spicy food and Pandas I guess Chengdu? I think is pretty cool.

May be spa with pool?

千佛山、大明湖、趵突泉是济南的三大名胜。现在单讲趵突泉。

Bonjour moncopain ,john thomas abroad ????

u seem to be a nice guy

What about place for foreigners in Jinan? I mean disco, bar... Night life. Where are many foreigners spend good time. Thank You.

Tangqiao district?

im a middle school student from JN.we are usually asked to introduce our city by 150words. my english is not very good so could someone can help me in English？tomorrow i ll have an English examine……