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good morning and welcome to a very snowy iwate prefecture i'm joined by my friend norm today
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because norm wanted to come out here to the middle of nowhere in the countryside to experience some
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snow because it's pretty rare down in southern japan you don't see snow very much in tokyo
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but up here in the north we get it every day for months in the winter we're going to go on a little
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snowy adventure today i've brought us out to hidayzumi which is a very historically important
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area of iwate and there was lots of power here so because the city is so important it's been really
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well preserved and it's just beautiful it's quite a small area but it's gorgeous so i hope you guys
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a temple it's not a shrine flashback right now we're looking up this is a buddhist temple but
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there's a shrine gate right there a tory gate and we're trying to figure out why this guy is
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had no idea just learned something new yeah that's really awesome and a flashback
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we are here what do you think i was trying to catch snowflakes with my tongue
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i am norm's way too excited we get snow maybe once a year in tokyo and this year we kind of didn't
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it was yeah we understated and at night and this is beautiful it is very nice i have to
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say it has been snowing non-stop for months up here in iwate but this is really beautiful
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the temples look extra pretty in the snow i'm not gonna lie so i'm
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happy i could bring you guys out here and show it to you but this is takokuno iwaya
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it's a very cool buddhist temple that's built into the side of a cliff how awesome is that
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there's a really nice lake here uh i was last here in the summer pond small lake ocean here
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there's usually fish in here i hope they're not in here anymore that would be very sad do they
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hibernate under the water i have always wondered what happens to all the koi that are out in these
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ponds do they like in the winter scoop them out i really hope so is there a koi scoop are they just
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frozen in time until it melts maybe on the way out i can ask the guy that too that's a good idea
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the guy was really nice yeah this is so cool and nobody else is here we've got it all to ourselves
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probably one of my favorite things about coming up to northern japan is that you can come out
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to places like this and there's almost always no one it's so true even in the summer when it was
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like really nice weather there was nobody here uh do you want to go inside i do okay let's go
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to be happy there's no hornets when i came here in the summer this is where they attacked me
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pretty nice eh i'm just excited about the snow more than it's actually a really nice contrast
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of you got the open field got the houses here the forest the mountain this probably
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changes a lot season by season it does it's so pretty in the fall with the golden rice
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fields that looks like it's probably a sakura tree definitely is we should come back in the
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spring
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pretty cool eh it is where do you want to go next are you hungry this town is actually famous for
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mochi do you like kochi mochi's fantastic and they have this style of serving it that i've never seen
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anywhere else in japan but okay yeah i'll just say that leave it as a surprise but i hope you like it
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okay that's pretty cool they're alive they're alive and they dig their way into the dirt
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they're just waiting there learning new things every day this is michi noeki gambike i think
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is the name of it it's just a little roadside station but they do serve the special emoji
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so hopefully norm likes it it'll be an experience oh great either way i feel like there's a bait
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and switch kind of thing going on here look i got this great mochi it'll be an experience
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so you order from this machine here
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okay this is what you want i think can't read the kanji but i'm pretty sure this is it
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okay ten dollars
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and then you take your ticket and you give it to them at the counter
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this is where really there were wasps in here what is with you and what they like
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me i don't know what it is i don't know i'm starting to wonder if there are actually wasps
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imagining this you're just like imagining these non-existent
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walks
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wow it's different flavors than last time it actually looks really good honestly
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okay so last time i got it there was a natto one i was like are you kidding me really but this time i
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don't see enough though i think sharla has this like really malicious plan that she was gonna
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have me eat like natto mochi and like this is the only bad one though there were more
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so last time we came here there was a natto one there was a shrimp one it was all over the place
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but this time it actually looks really good so i think you might like it which is good
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most of them look very sweet this is zunda which is soy bean but it's usually sweet this is red
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bean paste also sweet black sesame which should be delicious daikon we've got she packet deep
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fried tofu pocket this one looks like some kind of citrus peanut and this one might be chicken
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i don't know but let's dig in enjoy coming in here there was this atmosphere of like i'm
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gonna get you with this mochi i'm gonna get you and i feel like we ended up with really
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good mochi and charlotte's playing his backfire no i'm very happy that it's good flavors this
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time i recommend starting with the savory ones and working your way to the sweet ones
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got a whole plan what this oh this is what what it's just dying but it's not even watching oh
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the confusion did they for the [ __ ] you should dig into mine i thought they like forgot to put
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the mochi in mine because last time it was like three mochi on each row this one's my favorite
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so it's an inari tofu pocket with mochi inside it's delicious and where should i start
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it's nice right it's all really good i'm back try the shitake i really liked that one last time i
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thought it was kind of unique but i thought it was really good kind of tang to it does it it's got a
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tang almost like a shiso kind of does it yeah i swear they just change up the flavors like daily
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whatever they feel like they're like i'm gonna throw some shiso in here today it's fun though
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you don't know what to expect no really good i'm really intrigued by this orange one i'm not a
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fan of yuzu i really hope it's not yuzu it kind of looks like marmalade though it's very orange
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wait it does
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why does it smell like pumpkin is it pumpkin what i was expecting a really strong orange smell
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squash it's very sweet
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it has a very subtle sweet flavor
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you know what i said peanut for this one but i think it might be chestnut hmm it's almond
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oh my god that is delicious did you like the almond one i loved it holy crap that is so
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good i'm so happy that there's so many different flavors that i didn't try last time thoughts
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on the mochi volunteer was good positive didn't expect to walk out experience it's very filling
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because they give you like nine different well i guess eight they kind of skimped out this time
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with that little patch of daikon that was weird but ate mochi you get really full off of them
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wow really sweet it's really snowing are you sick do you understand my pain every day this is what
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i deal with every day it is really pretty though i think we need like a slow motion norman join me
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okay let's go so what are your thoughts on north japan did you have a nice trip i had an amazing
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trip would you recommend that people come up here in the winter absolutely i would look at this
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it is nice the snow is very powdery i've noticed like i said we've had three straight months of it
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and it's been really nice snow the whole time like it hasn't been slushy it's been these really soft
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flakes that are really nice to walk on once it piles up so also the roads are clear yeah they
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don't salt the roads here but they do a really nice job of clearing them off they're used to it
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it snows so much up here that they're prepared for it so it's not too bad to drive in the winter for
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the most part sapporo have heated sidewalks yeah they do they'll have like the hot water running
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under the road i guess and it melts all the snow it's quite impressive but i hope you guys enjoyed
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our little snowy adventure again check out the links in the description box if you would like
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to get yourself some glasses from glassesusa.com and check out norm i will have him there as well
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he also makes really cool videos about japan so i think you would enjoy his channel bye for now guys
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you