Name: My Christmas Eve in Japan! ? Vlogmas Day 24
Uploaded: 2020-03-24T10:04:57.000Z
Duration: 15 min 8 s
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To-infinitive

Good morning guys, we were originally going to head to Odaiba today

To see the lights and all the fun Christmas stuff

Past simple

They put up, we do that every year, and that's our Christmas tradition

But apparently it's supposed to be rainy tonight in Tokyo so we decided to change our plans this year

Start a new tradition, I guess. We're gonna go to Costco because I saw that they have gingerbread houses and yesterday

We watched Taylor's gingerbread making video together and Keyboard-san really wanted to try making one

He's never tried before, so we're gonna go to Costco and get a gingerbread house and make that together today

I am drinking a hot amazake from 7-Eleven. I haven't tried it yet

I've never tried the 7-Eleven one, but this is a traditional Japanese drink made from fermented rice. It's pretty sweet

They either have like a little bit of alcohol or no alcohol

But you can't usually taste it even if it does

I really like drinking these in the winter because they're warm and yeah, it's just like traditional Japanese winter drink

Pretty good for like a dollar, or whatever it was

Please try amazake if you come to Japan. Might sound kind of gross, you know, fermented rice, but it's really sweet and yummy

Okay, we just made a stop at a shopping mall because we both need to finish our Christmas shopping

I want to get a few more stocking stuffers, and he said he wants to pick up some stuff too

We're gonna split up, do some shopping so we don't see what each other gets

I just bought something at this little shop

It was only three dollars, and they gift-wrapped it for me

And they made it so nice with a ribbon and a tag and everything, best service ever

The cakes for dogs- oh that one's for cats

I'm doing well. I got some things for Keyboard-san and I got some things for the cats

I just need to get wrapping paper now, and then I'll go find him and we can head to Costco

And I'm looking for a red wine so that I can make that wine that we had at the Christmas market

I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know what to get.

According to the internet this type of wine is good, and it's organic

Keyboard-san's in line waiting for a Christmas chicken

Now I'm looking for this gingerbread house that

Apparently people bought here like a couple days ago, but I can't find it anywhere guys, and the store closed like a minute ago

Because they're closing and they had a bunch of sweets leftover they gave us a bunch of cookies and a strudel

Bad news about the gingerbread house guys

So I found somebody that works here and asked him, apparently they're all sold out or like they're order only

I don't know, apparently they exist and they're available to be purchased, but you need to order them into the store

So that's too bad. I can't think of anywhere else where we could get one other than IKEA

But I don't think we're gonna drive all the way to Ikea to see a gingerbread house

So we might not be able to do it tonight.

I collected all the stuff on the bed here, and I'm gonna wrap it and get it ready because tomorrow's Christmas in Japan

It's already Christmas Eve at like 10 p.m. now already, so I gotta hurry up

Here's the stuff I gotta wrap- Some stuff for the cats, the rest for Keyboard-san

They had left at Daiso so I guess that makes sense

Cuz everybody else went shopping for it a lot earlier than I did, so I got this like spring-themed sakura paper

That's my wrapping selection for this year, pretty pathetic, but what you gonna do.

Alright, so while I chill here and wrap my presents

And I figured I'd chat to you guys about what Christmas in Japan is like. If you've been following me for a long time

Made this video before, at least mentioned these things before

So I just saw this tweet about an hour ago, and I thought it perfectly describes Christmas in Japan

"Christmas in Tokyo is like a beautifully wrapped gift box with nothing inside of it"

I just thought that was so accurate because Christmas is beautiful here, Japan does an amazing job

At decorating the city with lights and little Christmas displays, all the shopping malls look beautiful

It really looks like Christmas, but it doesn't feel like Christmas

I think that's mainly because Christmas is not a family holiday here. It's not a holiday that you spend inside

Chatting with your family, seeing relatives that you haven't seen over the year

It's nothing like that. If anything it's closer to say how we celebrate

Valentine's Day. Most people will spend Christmas Eve with their significant other, and they will exchange one present with each other and

People don't usually buy any presents for their family or their friends.

Christmas dinner is fried chicken in Japan

Traditional, not because this has happened for hundreds of years or anything

But it's like the Christmas dinner in Japan is to order fried chicken from KFC

And you actually couldn't pre-order it you have to like phone ahead of time and order your Christmas chicken

So that's why today at Costco we were having trouble getting a chicken because it's such a popular thing here to get a chicken

It's kind of like the equivalent of the turkey back at home. That's really it, people will just eat some chicken

They won't gather their whole family together or anything, there's none of that nice warm Christmas spirit

Spending the holidays with your friends and family. There's not really any of that here. It's more

just like, I don't know, do some shopping for your significant other, give them a gift, go on a

It just doesn't have that sense of Christmas that it did back home, so I thought that that tweet

Just perfectly described it. If you're looking for light displays

Japan is like the king of light displays, especially "Doitsu Mura" (German Village)

We didn't go this year, but we went last year, so if you would like to see that video

Artwork made out of lights and there was a ferris wheel.

the amazing decorations of Japan with the Christmas spirit back at home in Canada, Christmas would be

But it just doesn't feel the same without having my whole family here

But at least I have my husband and my cats and we're gonna make the most out of it tomorrow

We got some stuff at Costco, so I'm going to attempt to make a Christmas dinner again

I got a really good recipe for vegan stuffing and it turned out so nice