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  • Wow this looks amazing!!!

  • This looks colorful

  • This is the one right? It really is beautiful!!!

  • Just... admire the flowers...

  • Director singing: Where is the lost kitten?

  • There she is!!!

  • Hey guys

  • It's CathyCat and right now we're on the way to a beautiful beautiful

  • Sakura spot out here and you said near Tokyo?

  • At the corner of Tokyo

  • Oh, it's in the corner of Tokyo, and it's not so well-known

  • so the director and I are gonna go by car and try and search for that wonderful

  • Sakura spot for you guys because it just started

  • It just started blooming this weekend, right? Yeah blossoms have just opened. So we're hoping for

  • MANKAI which is the full bloom

  • in Tokyo and

  • Saitama is gonna take a little bit longer. So the full bloom in Saitama is gonna be a couple of days later

  • So hopefully we can show you wonderful Sakura trees in full bloom today

  • Let's go!

  • The Tanashi Tower doesn't seem to be "tanoshii" (fun) to me....

  • Check it out Cathy there is a Donki Hote!

  • It's actually a MEGA Donki!

  • (suddenly both start singing the Doki Hote store jingle)

  • "This strange store has a random selection of many items"

  • What smells so good here? - Smells!!!

  • Wait a second it's Yamazaki bread? - Yes this is their factory here.

  • Yes it smells of bread it smells of like freshly baked toast!

  • Danger!!! - That cyclist is living on the edge!

  • That was really dangerous! - She drove right over the red light!

  • Many Japanese cyclist are keeping to the rules but honestly....

  • Some are ignoring all of them!

  • That was quite a shock just now!

  • (director sneezes) - Bless you!

  • So we have now reached Ome city.

  • OMEEEE

  • The Japanese symbol is for "blue plum"

  • It can also mean "green plum" - I see.

  • You can easily get here by train from Tokyo, without many changes.

  • People from Tokyo would often come here when they are tired of the city life.

  • We are in Ome now...

  • WOW that truck just now had NTR written on it!!!!

  • There is a "namazu" on the street signs...! - What is that in English?

  • It's a Catfish!

  • Catfishes live quite deep in the ocean and they have those antennas there right?

  • That's why they can sense things.

  • They are said to predict earthquakes.

  • But in truth they cannot predict earthquakes, still they are used as symbol for it.

  • They can't? - Has not been proven.

  • In the old days people used to believe in that.

  • In the old days they used to think if a catfish acts up, there might be an earthquake.

  • Its like a mascot character to spread awareness of earthquakes.

  • That's true.

  • We finally have reached a gasoline station! - So glad you found one.

  • Gasoline stand! - Finally!!!

  • Whaaat?

  • - We are MAN-TAN on gasoline! - Full tank!!!

  • Why is it called Man-Tan CathyCat? - Well....

  • The MAN syllable is used for full things like the full bloom. TAN could be from tank?

  • Full tank?

  • That's right, that's why we use it.

  • We can see the mountains now.

  • The mountains look so close!!!

  • We are no longer in Tokyo right?

  • This still counts as Tokyo. - Wow!

  • (Cathy started singing Kyari PamyuPamyu and thought this would get cut but it didn't lol)

  • Navi: Keep left! After that keep left. Director: Ok!

  • There is another tower. - You have reached your destination.

  • Right. Are we there?

  • Let's park.

  • Done

  • So we're back to my microphone style and the place we are right now is called

  • MAYUGURA... does this name have a meaning?

  • This used to be an old storage for cloth in the past days.

  • We used to store silk

  • That's why we chose a name true to it.

  • I will have your MAYU plate then please and...

  • And this vegetable plate here.

  • Does it only contain vegetables?

  • We don't use any meat at all for this plate.

  • It is suitable for vegetarians.

  • With my meal I got a card that explains to me all the ingredients used in my dishes.

  • The Mayu dish and the vegetable plate are both listed here.

  • There are some Kanji even I can't read!!!

  • It's here CathyCat.

  • Wow amazing!!!

  • This looks so pretty. How colorful!!

  • Enjoy your meal. Thank you so much.

  • Wow, there's so many colorful things on here.

  • I don't even know what to start but you can see that they really carefully select all the

  • vegetables and that's not to be taken for granted when you eat out

  • And I have a special type of rice that I've never had before so I'm excited to try that one

  • So what I heard now that MAYU KURA is the word of "Mayu" which is like...

  • cocoon of silk and similar things and KURA for storage

  • So they used to store here different types of cloth before they were actually made

  • So ORIMONO and they're using the first floor as a cafe and the second floor is a gallery and even on the walls

  • right now, there are many art pieces that symbolize again cloth and similar like that. So

  • Pretty nice .... like even the chairs are pretty cool

  • the way they're made so they pay a lot of attention to the design in the place

  • But also to the food, so it was really well selected types of food that you don't casually get to eat

  • There were a couple of things I've never really had the chance to eat here

  • and the director said he likes it, but he hasn't eaten it much either so

  • Wow pretty good, I think in the center of Tokyo this would be so much more expensive. So

  • I'm glad we got a parking space here it seems to be very popular outside everywhere

  • It says, "please do not park all around this place. Please park in the designated parking area"

  • Having the food "Teishoku" style is nice too.

  • There are many plates with many things that we can eat and think about while eating them.

  • There were some rare ingredients. How did they get those?

  • And I was wondering what some things were.

  • We both were talking and comparing each others food during this lunch.

  • That was fun.

  • Okay, the second floor gallery and I'm really curious to see what's upstairs, so let's have a look

  • So right now and this is a KATAEZOME exhibition it's a type of

  • You kind of stencil... certain designs on to cloth directly

  • So you can see for example the koi fish that you hang up during the boys festival or the Children's Festival

  • It's amazing how those colors come out in the end and the detail of it

  • You can kind of spot like little insects in here

  • If you look closely like from the distance, it looks like grass and if you look closer

  • There's like a couple of butterflies and here is a little spider hiding

  • And the tiny snail that's the cute

  • they're still using the old storage house just like it is

  • They must have refurbished all of this to make it look like this

  • This building is like hundred years old. So

  • It's been doing a good job all over the years

  • So the gallery does change through the months right now

  • It's this gallery for a like little bit over a month by the time you guys come to Japan

  • It might have changed into something else

  • It was so tasty there!!!

  • And our next stop is the sakura you mentioned?

  • We will go to a Temple called BAIGANJI

  • It's famous for it's "weeping cherry" which I want to see.

  • Ok let's go to that Temple!

  • And here we are at today's goal it's called BAIGANJI ji is for temple so let's have a look inside.

  • Wow

  • That's the one

  • That's the tree you mentioned right?

  • Wow it's pretty!

  • Okay, these ones here are called weeping cherry

  • So they're like willow, but they're still cherry blossoms

  • And that's what this temple here is famous for.

  • The branches are coming down so low you can touch them. You should not touch them though

  • So this is the SHIDARE SAKURA which is also called weeping cherry or Trauerkirsche in German and

  • Loads of people are coming here to take pictures and go and I can't believe that this is still right in the middle of Tokyo

  • It's really quiet here. The only sound you have has occasionally when one bird is calling

  • That's about it!

  • Instead of watching a mass of sakura trees, just seeing one beautiful tree

  • can make one feel satisfied.

  • It's really impressive and I wonder how many people have like come and seen this tree over all the years and

  • Just admired the flowers

  • Hello there excuse me!

  • Are you from this area? - I am!

  • What personally do Sakura trees mean to you? Would you like to tell me yours?

  • Sakura are the heart of Japan. They are like our roses.

  • Roses and Cherry Blossoms have something in common for us.

  • Flowers that people will go to see. - And they are so beautiful.

  • So, on that note everyone please out there stay safe

  • Stay healthy take care of yourself. And there's gonna be more stuff here from

  • Japan as long as we're allowed to go outside

  • we're gonna deliver you loads and loads of videos of content here

  • So don't forget to subscribe for more and I hope I catch you soon. For more videos here on ask Japanese. See you

  • Stay healthy guys. Bye.

Wow this looks amazing!!!

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