I'm Opening a Bar in Kyoto! | PLUS. Journey Across Japan BEGINS Shooting ❄️

Hey guys,
So three pieces of exciting news to announce today!

The first is that we’ve just started shooting Journey Across Japan: Frozen Frontiers in the snowy wilderness of east Hokkaido!

It’s a part of the island none of us have ever explored and two days in, it's already been fairly damn eventful. We've fallen off things at high speed, almost frozen to death and eaten some absurdly good food.

I can't wait to take you on the incredible journey across the hidden side of Japan's largest island and in the next few days, expect a diary of our trip here on Patreon, sharing with you the ups and downs from our journey across the coldest place in Japan.

This time to mix things up, we’ve invited along Pete (Premiertwo) who’s been acting as a challenge/quiz master figure in place of Anpanman. With his American wit and charm, it’s been incredible fun having him along and brought back memories from our last trip to Japan’s most northern point.

With that In mind, the second piece of exciting news is this is for the first time ever, we’re actually streaming this series of Journey Across Japan over on Pete’s twitch channel Premiertwo, using his super IRL streaming backpack. We tested it out today for the first time and it worked beautifully and added a cool new dimension to the day.

Now we’ve ironed it out today, over the next few days I’ll be promoting it across Twitter/FB/Instagram so keep an eye out. But you can watch along on https://www.twitch.tv/premiertwo

And if you want to see what happened today you can watch it back here! (Beware it’s 5 hours!)
https://www.twitch.tv/premiertwo

I may do some live streams over on the Chris Abroad channel as well.
We’ll be a bit strategic with when we start/finish streaming so as not to spoil the series, but similar to the cycle across Hokkaido, it adds a dynamic angle to the series!

It seems all pioneering streams happen in Hokkaido.

AND NOW for something completely unrelated.

Exciting news number three - I’m opening and running a bar in Kyoto in three weeks time! Best of all you can come on down and swing by!

A friend of a friend had a bar lying around empty in Gion, Kyoto and we’ve decided to take it over for a week, serve up sake and produce a documentary on the experience. We’ll also be live streaming it, but during the time it’s open we’re selling tickets for anyone who wants to come down.

BEFORE we announce it publicly tomorrow evening, I wanted to give you guys here on Patreon a 24 hour head start!

We’re treating it almost like an event, so if you want to come please reserve tickets online below, at one of the days/time slots - simply because it’s not a huge bar, and it’d be a nightmare having hundreds of folks turn up as there’s no way we’ll be able to keep up with demand.

This means it’ll be a more intimate setting with no more than 16 guests at one time in the bar.

Included in the price is:
- A flight of premium Kyoto sake (3 glasses)
- Otsumami (snacks)
- Abroad in Japan gift bag
- On two of the dates, we’re having a tea master come in to prepare Matcha green tea (hence the slightly higher price)
- Special guest appearances from the Aij Cinematic Universe

So if you’re in Japan Feb 26th - March 1st, come on down and be a part of Abroad in Japan history and if you can’t make it, not to worry we’ll be streaming certain days and filming the whole thing!

Abroad in Japan Bar
🍺 Reserve:https://abroadbarinkyoto.peatix.com/

Expect to hear from me in the next few days but for now, I'm off to bed before I collapse!

Night,
Chris