yeah yeah this is all over america too this is an exclusive to japan just be careful right this is probably everywhere but that's just like a general internet thing and they do have that here in japan as well personally i've done auctions that are i mean a lot more than a dozen yeah i've never experienced anything like that right but you shop different things like he shops expensive knives wait wait wait that was just one time i normally bought things like i use for house like home stuff oh yeah or home stuff or vegetables because it was a lot cheaper it happens a lot with clothes if you look at clothes yeah i was gonna say like clothes so they're a little cheap crap yeah just be careful with those and the third thing i've heard of you probably won't come across is people calling up elderly people yeah like hey i need money remember me i'm your family and this again this happens everywhere it's not like a japan thing it's like just a worldwide scam thing we have atm at convenience stores and right in front of the atm it says when you transfer money be careful are you sure you're not scammed there are signs like that really oh i never saw that so be careful yeah it happens right yeah be careful okay also at stations i've seen signs for like be careful chikan which is like pervert or molester like japan is infamous for having this reputation of like creepy guys like touching girls on trains or taking pictures of skirts which is why they have the sound on the cameras here so if you take a picture with your camera like with our our phone camera it always makes noise i still haven't had this happen to me but this is something that happens to some people sometimes so if you are a girl and you're like wearing a short skirt i yeah so subtle yeah next one if you're wearing a short skirt i always wear shorts underneath but that's also just because it's really windy here and i've had some accidents with the wind and not wearing shorts so um just be careful about things like that as well so i would recommend if you were a woman to wear like like thin shorts or something underneath your skirt or dress the most likely things that would happen to you in japan is someone will steal your umbrella if you put it in one of the things outside of konbini while you go inside or someone might steal your bicycle if you leave it unlocked unless you are going to certain kinds of bars or like kyabakura clubs in like roppongi i've heard there are some that will drag you in and then charge you a really high cover fee but you don't go to those kind of places so we're not super knowledgeable about that con number one japan is very crowded especially in city so when i was in college i actually trained to go to school and every morning i was squashed like that's with him oh the celery man and everyone was so packed and i hated it yeah um japan's not actually a very small island it's a decent size but most of it is mountains and most people just live on the small coastal plain areas so even though there's a lot of space everyone's packed into like a couple areas and that's why these areas are so crowded yeah especially tokyo if you're there during the holidays and you're at one of the big stations like shinjuku i literally would get picked up by the crowd on the train and like carried off the train at the stop and you can't really there's nothing you can do about it you're just you're going with them and you know this is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world for people to travel to so there are people all over the world coming here there are people in japan traveling to other parts of japan kyoto was probably one of the worst places we went for traveling it was so beautiful and i still love going there but it was also one of the most disappointing initially because when you look at pictures of kyoto or like these really artsy videos that people take they wait until like people part so they can get a nice shot or wake up super early or they wake up like super early and they go at special times where there aren't people there but that's not how it looks like in real life when you go there there are thousands of other people there just like you yeah just like you just like us we're one of them and so even though these places are like they should be amazing and magical you go there and then there's like thousands of other people and hundreds of them have their cameras out taking pictures and videos exactly like us we are 100% part of the problem but then it just doesn't feel as magical anymore so i grew up here so like i also have been to kyoto before and it was not normal to me i wasn't familiar with it but if you're from not so crowded areas then you might be a little bit disappointed but if not then you might be okay but like my wife she's from not so crowded areas and i just personally prefer non-touristy areas so there are still a lot of really awesome areas in japan that aren't crowded yet especially if they're not as accessible by train so we've made videos on some of those places before that you can go and it still feels like incredibly beautiful and magical and you can have like a fantastic time without the huge crowds and it's kind of weird because by showing you these places we're going to make them more crowded so they will end up becoming more touristy so we're still contributing to the problem but at the same time i don't want to like keep these places to ourselves they're so awesome and i think you guys deserve to know about them and the people who live there deserve to have like more visitors to get like the more tourist money and everything so i think a lot of places we've been to i think they're still worth going yeah kiyomizudera was probably my favorite place in kyoto it's this giant temple built on a mountain and you can see the entire city of kyoto from there and even though there are so many other people there it still feels like you can put yourself back in time and just imagine how amazing this place was before but if you don't like the huge touristy crowds there are also other places you can go that won't be quite as crowded which we've shared before like geibikei gorge and gujohachiman still isn't super crowded except during like the festival season and another tip would be like i said earlier wake up super early in the morning or go there right before they close and you can get to enjoy like whole kiyomizudera for example just by yourself without as many people there yeah and actually my friend who's living in kyoto told me this and she enjoyed kiyomizudera by herself several times before and she loved it so yeah yeah yeah you should try that and you can also try to travel during off seasons so just in general in japan most people travel during spring especially around cherry blossom season which is like early april early august is obon season which is one of japan's biggest holidays everyone's traveling to go see their families so places will be really crowded then as well new year's is really crowded lots of people especially go to like temples and shrines during that time and koyo season in the fall when the leaves are changing color that's also a really popular time to travel the problem is if you go in the winter when it's really cold some places aren't open especially if you're going really rural areas so there won't be a lot of shops for you to shop at the big places like kiyomizudera they're still going to be open but they're still going to be maybe somewhat crowded just not quite as crowded summer is really hot and humid so humid it's not the best for walking outside for long periods of time but some places might not be quite as crowded as spring or fall but honestly i would still recommend people travel during spring or fall even though it's more crowded then just because the weather is much more permitting and everything is going to be open also depending on the places if you go off season then you might not really enjoy anything so just do some research before going there yeah there are so many people giving awesome tips about japan like so many blog websites so many youtube channels so if there's one place in particular you want to go you can just google it and i'm sure you'll be able to find lots of research and advice on when the best time to go is yeah so another tip we can give you guys would be just do some research and find the best timing or season to go yeah yeah all right so we have a whole list of pros and cons but we have already been talking so long for this first pro and con so i think we're going to end this first video here and then we'll do a part two a little bit later on okay um otherwise this video is going to be really long like as we get older like i could just talk forever now i used to be like i couldn't talk at all and i would have been so happy to be me now but now i'm like what am i supposed to do i just went on forever and i'm becoming grandma i'm becoming i'm becoming one of those old people i'm just gonna be able to talk forever i have grandkids and they're gonna be like shut up grandma stop well i hope this was a little bit helpful for you if you have any other tips on traveling in japan then leave them down in the comments for other people otherwise we'll see you in part two bye okay bye

to call them out and be like, "CHIKAN!" and call over the police or something, but

The Tower of Chikan remained from the Fort of Province, built in 1653 by the Dutch, on the place of the aboriginal village of Saky.

Pete: Chikan, chikan! (pervert)