Name: Too much excitement at IMPERIAL PALACE 皇居周辺を散策！
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T20:30:36.000Z
Duration: 5 min 35 s
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R: Grace did this in heels, like a monster.

G: I had just gotten to Japan and I thought, "Imperial Palace? That should be fine!"

R: So, I'm going to pretend you're the expert on the Imperial garden,

and I'm going to ask you all kinds of historical questions.

R: What is this wall for, Tourist Guide Grace?

G: This wall was originally created in the BC 2000's.

G: By people who carried the stones on their backs.

R: Wasn't the original palace in a different city in Japan?

G: I know that one! It was Kyoto, right??

R: [GASP] I can see the reflections of the buildings in the water!

R: Grace said you can ride tandem bikes here. G: Yeah.

R: Ryosuke and I rented tandem bikes with one of our friends who was pregnant.

G: Well, her husband was the one who was biking. R: Oh, okay.

G: But we raced a pregnant woman and we won.

R: So maybe Japanese people don't know, but

when we see these trees, us foreigners, this looks so Japanese to us,

and we're like WOW~ It's so cool and traditional!

Grace just said those are electric bikes!

G: Yeah, you can see the little electric thing on there so they can bike for a lot longer.

R: WHAT! I didn't know that was a thing!!

G: Yeah, don't mess with them. They'll chase you down.

R: I just made it so you guys can see more clearly.

Because it's dark and I have a fancy camera.

R: Are we on the wrong end? We are on the wrong end.

WOOOAHH look at the tail flowing in the wind!

TOUR GUIDE GRACE! Tell me his life story.

You know a place is fancy in Japan when it's all covered in gravel.

G: If you fill out a form ahead of time, you can book a tour to go on the inside.

G: because you have to fill out the form ahead of time,

and I just don't have that kind of commitment.

R: I love Japanese police officer uniforms!

It's like the same with the train station staff.

It's very similar to train station staff!

SO Tour Guide Grace, tell me about the effort that it took to make this moat here.

G: Well, they had to fill it with cups of water.

R: So uhh this was made during the same time we had Tokyo station?

G: Yes, 100 years ago. They made this moat 100 years ago.

R: 100 years ago... And that was also the same time Tokyo station came around?

G: Actually I DO know Tokyo station is 100 years old now.

G: Ooo it's open! We can jump the fence, swim the moat, and make it there!

R: But then the police officers on their motorized bikes are going to come get us.

G: The Emperor's granddaughter went to my school in Tokyo.

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Too much excitement at IMPERIAL PALACE 皇居周辺を散策！

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