Name: What Camping in Japan is Like (Eating Lots of Food)
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:37:32.000Z
Duration: 11 min 18 s
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My Japanese brother-in-law and his high school friends, along with their families,

decided to go camping and invited us along.

And of course, I brought my camera along as well.

However, by the time we arrived at the campsite on the first day, it was quite dark.

Why is it as if the patch is saying pitch a tent here?

So the main priority was setting up the tent.

It's a Coleman instant tent, which is not unique to Japan, but I wanted to see how instant it was.

Of course pitching the tent wasn't instantaneous, but whadya know,

it's in fact the easiest tent I've ever set up.

If you knew what you were doing you could get this bad boy pitched in under five minutes.

You know what? I'm going to turn this off. I don't need it on anymore.

After that, it got really dark, and I was tired from getting up at 4AM that day to drive,

When we awoke in the morning, this was the view.

We happened to go camping at the end of November,

which depending on where you are in Japan, is fairly decent weather.

However, we decided to camp on top of a plateau.

but this was also officially the last weekend the site was open,

as the temperature would dip down to around freezing during the night.

As it happened, during the day we did non-camping stuff,

which was visiting an outdoor theme park.

And if you hopped on the train, you'd find yourself in Canada land.

My wife made me pose sadly in front of things, but in fact,

the thing I really was sad about was the price of maple syrup and whatever this is,

I did perk up when I saw the hill rolling section,

Camping at family-friendly campground like this provide lots of creature comforts,

like flush toilets, which I forgot to take pictures of,

showers, which I didn't take a picture of because we went to a nearby hot springs instead,

and the most convenient thing of all, electricity.

So when I said it was cold outside, I was telling the truth,

but I also didn't mention that at night, we slept on top of a heated carpet.

As it happened, it was soo hot that it woke me up in the middle of night and I had to turn it down.

I don't know enough about camping to tell you how different this Japanese campground is

but I did snap a few shots with my smartphone and maybe you can pick out some things for yourself.

A difference I noticed in comparison to camping in Canada

is that people bring their own fire pits.

The biggest difference I saw was the food that was prepared.

It could just be that it's my brother-in-law's friend group,

but they didn't seem to realize we were camping and made food just as if were warm inside a home.

The previous night I didn't pick up my camera to film,

On the second night I was told it was going to be a simple butter chicken dinner,

but being a Japanese camping party, that was only the beginning.

Finish the one that's on your plate first.

So this not only has a griddle and burner on the side,

There are side slats that you can put on, and you can also convert it to a standard table like this.

Apparently, holding the blowtorch is for amateurs.

- Unagi restaurants use (charcoal). - Use this.

- Yakitori restaurants too? - Yes, yakitori restaurants use this as well.

What the kids are sitting on is a hot carpet.

Of course, to sit in that area you need to take your shoes off.

- Leftover vegetables... - What's the name of the dish?

- Wow, it's hot to touch. - Drink up, drink up.

- Japanese-style, right? - Japanese-style.

You guys don't grill fish and beef at the same time like this, right?

- Wow, it looks nice and juicy. - Yeah, it's good, did you try it?

- You're adding a lot! - Cover the meat with the vegetables so it can steam them.

After that we'll put sake on and steam it.

- Those are actually for feet. - Wow, (your) idea works well.

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