I'm giving a talk today.

It's for this movie that I was invited to be in but then ended up being the opening scene, for it was insanely exciting.

The movie is about one of Japan's oldest bread makers, which is in a Sucks A.

But today I've come into this area called Kichi Joji, thinking that maybe I could escape the crowds of Tokyo.

But it's big.

The movie has been running for about a year, and today it's having its final showing in this theater right here in the theater.

In the opening scene of this movie, I play that instrument that I play the shamisen.

I had no idea I was gonna be the opening scene of the movie, so that was a huge surprise to me.

It's time to head it.

Third stage that I'm gonna be giving my talk on and look how quaint this theater is.

I think pretty sure that things are about to kick off, so I'm gonna put this aside for now.

I'll see you guys in a second now that the talk is done.

And since I'm out in Kichi Joji area anyway, I figured I might as well come out.

You know, Casita Park just to enjoy the green for a little bit.

Uh huh.

If you walk down this pathway like, like, way down this pathway, it's actually the Ghibli museum, which is, like, impossible to get tickets for a nice park.

But just like you n Oh, it's crying.

Yeah, While we're here, I might as well share a little bit of a fun fact with you guys.

You see these boats back here pretty much every single park in Tokyo that has these boats.

There's a little bit of a legend that if a couple gets on the boat together, the relationship will be ruined and they'll break up eventually.

I don't believe it, Do you?

Did you guys see the guy with the wine glass?

It's champion.

And for us, Muchas I wanna hang out in the park for the rest of the day and enjoy the beautiful green nature We've got to get going.

The oh, what a smooth day.

I did not expect Kichi Yogi to be that crowded.

I really didn't.

The park was nice, so I enjoyed that.

We've got to get going almost right away again.

We're gonna be doing something really fun tonight.

But before we do, there's something that I really want to show you guys give me.

It's also side note.

Before I forget, I mentioned that there's gonna be a video that I'm putting up, that I'll only leave up for about 24 hours.

And people have been like, Have I missed the video?

You haven't missed it, but it is coming soon.

It's something I'm hoping it will be a little bit of fun that we can have together.

Something kind of interesting is nothing huge.

But again, it's only gonna be up for 24 hours.

And then the video is gone.

So make sure that you have the notifications on.

All right, sidebar over.

All right, so this is really fun.

Some of you might know that I started with YouTube with my other channel, Shami San Tokyo, where I make videos for shamisen players.

Well, every single year, two of the girls that I work with called Kiki and I get together in the spring and we do a video of them playing under the cherry blossom.

We've done it four years in a row.

Now in every single year the video gets more and more popular than it was the year before to the point where last year our video was shared by a page called In the Now and got like 3.9 million views.

3.9 million.

That's absolutely insane.

We never, ever expected The reason that I'm talking about this is because today, at the same time that I've released this video, I've actually released this year's shamisen under the Cherry Blossoms video.

And I've wanted to share with you guys first so you'd be able to enjoy it if that's something that you're interested in.

Yeah.

All right.

Let the rial fun of today begin booming.

Is it be a magic?

We're in Shinjuku.

I'm here to meet somebody, and he hasn't even noticed me yet.

This guy over here, This guy right here, this'll one right here.

He's a blogger.

Things here is Patrick on.

You know what?

Let me talk for two seconds about how we met.

Oh, we're gonna do this.

Okay?

It's a really simple story.

Back in December, when I went to Canada to visit my family, I was having a little issue with my camera.

Rocked up to a camera shop to see if I couldn't find.

You know, as I explain this, I remember that there's a scene I filmed while in Canada that has just been sitting and waiting for this very day.

So I'm just gonna go ahead and load that up.

I think that this is it right here.

All right.

I also just made a quick stuff and one of my favorite spots right here in Canada.

The second I walked into this shop, I made some wonderful, amazing new friends.

Brian, thank you so much, Patrick.

Fantastic to meet you as well.

And yeah, that's how we met.

I went into Henry's camera and when I walked into the guys who are working their notice that it was a blogger and Patrick was like, I'm pretty sure I've seen some of your stuff before, which, honestly, I didn't believe it first until he actually referenced a specific video.

And, you know, why don't we just get back to the day with Patrick?

Is everybody that friendly and Henry's like all the time?

Or was that like a special day?

We try to be especially a guy named Brian gave a shoutout to Brian in a video meeting people and making friends a while back.

We're gonna do a little bit of exploration and photography, So let's just get this moving thing.

One of the first photo spots that I want to show you right here in Tokyo, it's called Amoy Yoko Show.

You see that tiny little straight there?

Thistle?

Yep.

Right here.

That's that's actually a street.

Really?

Yeah.

What?

That?

Seriously, That's not a storefront.

No on.

It's like one of the best places for photography in Shinjuku.

Thing this right here?

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

It's such a small alleyway.

It really is.

Had, like, such a need for me to hear e over here.

Let's say what's up?

Thanks so much for coming up to say hello.

Thanks, e love that so much fun.

So happy.

Thank you for coming up and saying Hi, man.

Who?

Patrick, What were you just saying?

I'm saying street photography is so hard because because getting in people's faces it's not my thing.

Good photographer, buddy, that I have here in Tokyo taught me a really, really good tip shoot from the hip from here.

It doesn't feel good to like point the camera right in somebody's face.

You know, it feels intrusive.

Street photography, pro tip.

Doing it right now.

E.

There's only so much of Shinjuku that we could see.

So oh, let's jump areas house quick.

Yeah, just like that, we're in a Ueno station.

Actually, it wasn't just like that.

It was more like what?

So that transition clearly wasn't as easy as we made it seem, but it's pretty good photo opportunity.

Yeah, it was more like that and it kind of sucked.

But we're here now, and Ueno Station is another spot to get some fantastic night photos.

Look at the color of the sky.

Just look at the blue on orange.

We arrived Nuno at exactly the right time.

Theo Sky is just so purple right now it's almost like eerily purple.

There are no shortages at all of amazing places to do street photography here in Tokyo.

I've said it performed.

I'll say it again.

Just chase the light like take a look break Here.

You see these neon lights?

Here, take a look at how they reflect off of everything.

That right there makes for good photography.

Another we got like 10 seconds of quiet.

There's something I wanted to talk about.

It's about what Patrick's doing with his life right now.

You see, when I met Patrick, he was just about to quit his job and and then he quit on.

You've been doing what for the last couple of months.

Been backpacking Southeast Asia, Uh, specifically Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan for three months living the light.

Oh, that's beautiful.

Just take so much audacity.

Encourage to just quit your job, go around the world and do something like that.

Like so much respect.

So many of us dream about doing it, but actually do it.

And how has the experience been so far?

Though, Um, it's different.

If there's a lot of rough patches, you just gotta learn to overcome and not be stressed out in certain situations where, um, sometimes you might be, Let's say, for example, I was stuck on a bus for 32 hours instead of 18.

Yeah, I love that message to just the perseverance everywhere I turned its picturesque like.

This is by far the best part of getting the shore guest around Tokyo.