This beautifully furnished tatami room behind me is where the Meiji Emperor stayed for just one night during a progress along the Nakasendo in 1898.

With ample storage space, warm wooden interiors, soft tatami floors, and large windows offering natural sunlight, this is a really cozy place to rest and restore your energy.

The mattress is a foldable tatami, which I usually put away in the morning.

and walk into the tatami rooms and take pictures and stuff like that.

Okay so now we're at kind of like at the middle of the street and you can get some tourist information here as it says it's narita tourist pavilion and what else like so they're open from nine to five and also there's a bathroom here too so you know it's you can't really use the bathrooms in the shops unless if you eat there buy something there so if you need to go to the bathroom there's one located right here and they also have free wi-fi here so if you need to get online for whatever reason you can do that here and then right across the street from the tourist building is the famous eel restaurant narita is well known for eel and they make fresh eel they like cut it right in years come down the street and watch them make it fresh i'm talking like you know they cut the fish they pull it out of the water they're alive they stake it and they cut the fish in front of you and they grill it this building right here is super old i think they said it's over 100 years so it's very very historic and they still have a good rep everybody still comes here locals tourists like if you ever see narita's mascot that's an eel yeah it's an eel and an airplane yeah eel that looks like an airplane it's like i thought it was totally something else i didn't realize that was a eel but this street you'll find a ton of eel shops like i don't know how many i've counted but this is the one yeah this is the one to go to apparently we don't eat eel unfortunately we yeah we don't like eel i don't i love the smell of it it's got a really sweet smell um but that's why we don't go because we're not big fans of eel yeah but it's very famous in narita and the tables in there look super cool too like they have seating upstairs i don't know if you can see up there the girls eating up there but it's like tatami style i believe or it used to be all right this is my favorite place it's all matcha it has rice cracker on the bottom maybe all these look so good maybe i'll try that that's new the parfait damn that's not never mind that's too big it's like a thousand yen i don't know if i want to spend that much yeah this one is definitely the cheapest yeah if you're looking for some matcha goodies sweets this is the place to go you can even get instant matcha got my at the darkest green tea ice cream it's kind of like bent hmm there it is it's so good that's much ice cream i could eat another one it's so good it's like i want one but i can't eat all of it because i'm kind of full from the dongle all right so we're at the end of the road where the temple is uh so that's pretty much like all of our favorite shops the top spots that we usually hit down the road but there's like many other stores you can check out lots of souvenir shops so if you're looking for like gifts this is probably like a good road to go on to yeah i would suggest like look at everything before and like while you're going down check out the temple which we have a video on that and then when you go back up do all your shopping yeah all right well i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up and if you want to watch more of our videos please subscribe to our channel thanks for watching

The joke was that tanuki skin was so tough, a blacksmith could use it to stretch gold to the size of 8 tatami mats.

So this is an additional tatami room downstairs, just on the opposite side of the kitchen and living space.

Oda Nobunaga's mansion, which used to be located just behind me, was so grand that it was known as the Senjo-jiki, or a thousand tatami mats.

Okay, so this room here has some cool tatami action going on, pretty standard Japanese room.

Walk through here oh there's the hallway this is a nice ladies room oh these toilets are like they look pretty new they just opened up you got a sink you got an odd like the Japanese toilets which I love you guys know got two toilets all together so wow let's continue on and then the men's room shouldn't be too much different okay so the men's room has a urinal and oh that doesn't look good looks like there's a little hole in the ceiling probably need to fix that a little bit and then you have another toilet here but there's a spider here hi little spider just between the two bathrooms you can see that it's all connected I wish we were doing this when it wasn't raining would look a lot better but we're doing this kind of in the dark it is what it is luckily we have a light so this is another guest room it seems like you can divide it into two rooms with sliding doors which you see in many traditional Japanese houses there's also this historic like vase with the colorful paintings on it and it looks like the shoji window has probably seen better days maybe needs to be fixed but I don't think it's that big of a deal now let's check out the view so it looks like it just looks over the street these roof tiles I think it's actually someone else's house so I don't think it's part of this building and then they built these buildings so close to together you look down and you can just see that there's like a little alleyway or a little space between also the quality of the tatami is actually fairly decent relatively new I guess 2015 not so long ago so this room is connected to the previous one divided by just sliding doors okay huh okay so this is the storage closet you have all of the extra sheets man you go for a time without having to wash any sheets if you just use these you got a bunch of robes as well the top layer and then like pajamas and stuff oh we got some alcohol down here you got the tones right here it looks like a toolkit down there all right so let's continue on dude it is really coming down actually a funny little story on my way here from Tokyo I was on the shinkansen and because of the thunderstorm it actually stopped and I was like stranded on the shinkansen for maybe like I don't know 45 minutes it was like stop like stop stranded and we were stopped at one of the stations in between Tokyo and Nagoya luckily the seat had an AC outlet so I just charged my phone just hang out still made it with a little bit of time I don't know about you guys but I do enjoy being able to go and check out these remote places oh cool there is a little tile painting right here always fun to check out what's inside these cabinets yep cleaning supplies makes sense usually you're not supposed to open these when you're at a hotel oh cool so this is the garden that we were just upstairs looking at okay so this looks like the bath area used like a onsen bath area you got the sinks and everything as may be expected the amenities bath necessities goods and towels are left as is three shower baths and I guess this is the onsen bath here I'm actually not sure if it's onsen water or not it does make a difference especially to Maiko when we're traveling she prefers onsen water not just like hot bath water okay so this is the actual bath area that I'm standing in actually pretty cool sit like this another person sit like this this is probably the women's or the men's I don't know not sure let me know what you guys think in the comments whether you think this is the women's or the men's and then I think we're going to go to the other one apparently it's supposed to be a little bit different so let's go over there and check that out you know one of the best things about going to a ryokan is going to the onsen bath I'm into saunas these days so try to go to ones that have saunas when there are no saunas it is nice to have you know an onsen bath so this is another bath it looks a bit smaller but maybe more modern I guess oh and it looks like it even has some jacuzzi jets built into the tub which I think some people will enjoy okay so I think that's it $210,000 do you think it's worth it and if you got it what kind of renovations would you make let me know in the comments you know like always if you like this video if you like this type of hit that like button help me out if you guys want to help support the channel then definitely check out the merch I know I didn't wear it this time but you can check out the hot sauce the hot sauce is actually in stock now the original and umami ocean so perfect time to get as a gift for friends and family and if you guys want to see more videos like this or anything related to Japan hit that subscribe button and the bell button I'll catch you guys in the next one