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How Expeinsive is Shake Shack in Japan | Fast Food Price Check

Advance notice -John

Yamadera Mailman's Incredible Mountain Route

Early access! It's a trap to the north - TOHOKU - and Yamagata, Yamadera, the mountain temple with 1000 steps to the top and a view you'll never forget ... and a mailman who has to pick up the mail at a postbox up there! I was curious, contacted the post office and they introduced me to Sasahara-san who will be there for another year! See if you can find him :) Enjoy and thank you for the support to make this! -John

Tokyo has Cherry Blossoms, Sakura in January?!

Some sort of black magic?!? Sakura on January 18th in Tokyo!?!? I’m so confuse and HAPPY 😆

Japanese Ramen Spoon Makes Chopsticks Obsolete (Akihabara)

Let’s eat, if we can! Glorified Spork!! -John

Q&A with Matt Alt tomorrow

I plan to go live with Matt tomorrow conglomerate our podcast released today on GO! If you have any questions about Travel in / Around Tokyo or Japan, we’ll try to answer it, leave it below ^_^ probably around 10:00-10:30am JST we’ll start. -J

Tokyo Podcast with Matt Alt

Ohayougozaimasu! This is early access to the podcast we made in collaboration with Tokyo Conventions and Visitors Bureau & Reuters last year. https://youtu.be/nIlKGyAhqqM?si=UFXFOtXVO1FooZaX I hope it’s super helpful for people! We had to cut about 20 minutes 😂 so maybe I’ll release an unedited version soon. Let me know if you like this format. Thank you for the support ^_^

Hokkaido Accommodation Tax Hiked Again | Japan Hotel Stays Going Up

Well, it’s starting, tourists are gonna pay more — but is it fair? (Kind of, yes) 🤔 maybe … & LEO gets a mega cotton candy! 😂

Leo Braved the Festival, I Kept my Promise!

Leo wanted one thing, a mega rainbow cotton candy. That’s it. So we rode to Odaiba’s Diver City for it. ¥1200! It was ¥900 last year 😂 but the smile and candy covered face was worth it. I saw that it’s actually NOT a lot of candy. It melts down to almost nothing. Cotton Candy is a great racket to be in! Thanks for braving the cold 🥶 and ice bath festival!

Tokyo Ice Bathing Festival

Cold???!!!!

This Japan Travel Destination WAS UNKNOWN until now

Toyama! Now we all know. -John

Yokohama Landmark Tower Observation Deck

Let’s see what up here! -John

Yokohama Cable Car Sky View Experience “Air Cabin”

Advance notice, with Leo & Kanae -John

Tokyo Station’s Market Street & Marunouchi Back Yard

Advance notice with PvG -John

Meguro Station Street View Adventure (Tokyo)

Advance notice -John with Mike!

Akihabara at NEW YEAR 2025 | the Secret Shrine

Happy New Year stream from a “Holy” Otaku Place -John

Tokyo 2025 New Year’s Live from Asakusa

Let go! 2025 together in Asakusa!

Tokyo New Year 2025 | Shibuya Gets Ready for “Cancelled” Countdown Event

Let’s get it on “Hachiko is SLEEPING TODAY!” 😆

Tokyo Eye #140 | Akihabara Shopping, Electronics & Robots (2009)

OiJ Main Channel Releases Coming Soon

Preview of next release - Yamadera postbox!
Update on the main channel, I have a bunch of videos ready to release, this one requires the JP Post to approve it, the condition for the access to follow the postman. Still waiting.
Nishio, a small town outside Nagoya - off the beaten path - unagi, miso, soy sauce, so many unknown attractions now being highlighted by a 24 year old Japanese guy who's putting energy into his hometown! (He went to University of Michigan so we had a few smack c...

Tokyo Eye 2010, Shoestring Travel

Tokyo Eye 2009 | Ameyoko Market

Would you like to see more Tokyo Eye “Classics”?

I wanted to ask our community what you thought of the old NHK classics that they’d never upload themselves … all that wasted knowledge! Let me know what you think. The holidays is a time to share. Some cringe worthy reporting 😂 but we all came from somewhere before we got somewhere else. I’m sick as a dog today. Just a cold, no fever but stuffed up bad. I’ll try to get back live tomorrow.

Tokyo Volunteer Guided Tour in English Experience | Local Guides

I thought I’d share my experience trying this, Tokyo has free volunteer locals guided tours of A LOT OF areas! In English!! See you soon -John

Tokyo: It’s Christmas Morning in Japan!

Merry Christmas! Might start a few min late as Leo’s coming back from school now. -John

What Christmas in Japan in Like after 26 years

Advance notice -John 🎅 Ho ho ho humbug, too many Christmases in Japan 😂 hahaha

Tokyo’s Kitchen Cooking Ware & Knife Shopping Town | Kappabashi

Advance notice -John (here on a mission!)

Tourists will Rule Japan in 2030, Japanese Yen Weakens Further

Advanced notice -John

Ebisu Station to Daikanyama Street View Experience

Advance notice, might start from Daikanyama! -John

300 Year Old Japanese Bento, What did the Shogun eat?

Early Access ^_^ I got a chance to try an ancient recipe found in a diary on what the Shogun ate so the city got experts to recreate it. I got to learn about the Nikko Kaido, one of the 5 ancient roads made by Tokugawa Ieyasu and also eat some good food 😋they actually have a tour to try it so I like this kind of historical tourism 🍱

How Tourism to Tokyo & Shinjuku is Impacting Japanese Culture

Advance notice -John