Name: Ise City | The city you probably haven't heard of but need to visit
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T22:32:31.000Z
Duration: 10 min 19 s
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Ise Jingu is the 2,000 year old Shinto shrine of the sun goddess Amaterasu.

Basic passive voice

The emperors of Japan are said to be her direct descendants.

Modal verbs - B1

Because of her importance the chief priest or priestess of Ise Jingu must come from the Imperial House of Japan

I thought it was going to be cold today so I wore pants and long sleeves and a coat

but it's really nice and it makes me really happy!

The good and the bad thing about all these beautiful rivers here in Japan

is they come from the mountains because Japan is mostly mountains

but THEY'RE FREEZING. THEY'RE ALL FREEZING.

This is so rare for me! I never see them flying a Japanese flag in Japan.

Japan just never seems very nationalistic like that.

They have flags like that, but not at normal houses.

That's one of the things I got surprised by when I first went to America.

In America everyone has an American flag.

That I once backed into with my car and I knocked it over

and we had to burn the flag because it's not supposed to touch the ground.

They had to get a new flag and we had to put it up.

This one looks like he has a Japanese flag on his head.

Ise Jingu is also supposedly the home of the Yata no Kagami or Sacred Mirror,

one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan.

Although the public isn’t allowed to see it, so no one knows for sure.

This is the sacred Isuzu River. You can wash your hands here and drink it to purify yourself.

This is the entrance to the main portion of the Ise Jingu shrine here

but we're not allowed to film up past that gate

It's nice that they have these signs because I'm lost already.

This is Okage Yokocho, an old-timey street in Ise, Mie prefecture.

It's a little koi fish! This is so adorable!

That little koi fish purse is the cutest thing ever.

Watch Jun follow the cat on our other channel!

Jun look at how cute these are! These little bunnies!

If it wasn't raining, they would have a lot of fish like right here.

I need to come here to interview these craftsmen.

These are incredible. Look, that one's a dragon!

How long does it take to make something like this?

When it gets wet a pattern appears on it.

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Ise City | The city you probably haven't heard of but need to visit

pattern

adorable

gorgeous

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