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  • It is a beautiful day here in the heart of Tokyo, and we're on a robot.

  • It's not too often that you get to hang out on a rowboat in the middle of Tokyo.

  • Let's enjoy it for a minute.

  • Uh huh, yeah, So starting today for the next couple of days, it is going to be peak cherry blossom season here in Tokyo, and I promised to bring you guys along.

  • So it's actually a little crowded out here, which is something I didn't expect.

  • It's a weekday morning and I came out here at 9 30 but it was too crowded.

  • So they give me a ticket and told me to come on back.

  • But still Carl Pope.

  • I do.

  • I'm testing out our new camera today.

  • How does the audio sound?

  • It's a tiny, tiny like when I say tiny, I literally mean it's this big.

  • It's a little camera.

  • I can't remember the last time I've actually used a rowboat, and it's much harder to actually row than I remember.

  • I'm stuck on the wall, and then so many places around the city are either at or near full bloom.

  • The goal for today is very simple.

  • We're just going to explore the city and enjoy the second, uh, such a beautiful day for him, like, Oh.

  • Mm.

  • Alright.

  • For as beautiful as the area around the Imperial Palace is, it is far too crowded to enjoy right now.

  • So let's head into the city.

  • All right, So this area here is Hibiya Park, and it actually has a few half decent cherry blossom spots to let's take a walk.

  • So with all the birds in the background, this should serve as a pretty decent mic test, so he'll be a park.

  • Tends to be a lot less crowded as a whole if you compare it to a place like or Ueno park.

  • Mm.

  • Let's see what else we can find.

  • I came across the shrine over here.

  • Look how incredibly steep those stairs are.

  • That is something else.

  • Oh, my Lord.

  • And it says no training, Which is kind of funny, because these stairs are apparently famous for some samurai who actually went up and down these on a horse.

  • And I guess they don't want anybody else trying to do it on a horse, let alone Wow.

  • Okay, there's another staircase off to the side, which I'm assuming is a slightly easier path up.

  • But we were doing this.

  • Okay.

  • Wow.

  • Wow.

  • When you get on the stairs, it's actually kind of intimidating.

  • They actually feel like you're just climbing a wall.

  • Like I'm not particularly afraid of heights, but this feels really high.

  • Okay, here we go.

  • Nice here, though.

  • I honestly could not have predicted being this crowd about this.

  • A lot of people climbing the stairs.

  • I kind of feel ridiculous, right?

  • That's a big deal out of it.

  • And it looks like that other staircase leads to here, so you don't have to come up the crazy stairs if you don't want to.

  • It's recommended, though.

  • Oh, even that is a lot of stairs.

  • Wow.

  • And you can even grab food up here.

  • This this is incredible.

  • There's a very good chance that this may be my new favorite trying in Tokyo.

  • There's just so much here.

  • There's actually a really nice cherry blossom place I don't want to take you guys to, But first we have to make our way down these stairs.

  • See what I mean?

  • It feels like a wall.

  • Admittedly, it is a bit easier going down.

  • Don't know why Going downstairs is usually harder, but yeah, we made it happen.

  • We broke the rules.

  • We ran.

  • Sorry.

  • Sorry.

  • So sorry.

  • Mm.

  • I shot way too much footage in the boat place.

  • So I got to actually swing by home ones and dumped the footage before we could head out again.

  • So from Tokyo Tower outta here has been nothing but hills.

  • But on the plus side, when I swam home, I had a new pair of pants waiting for me.

  • So I have new pants.

  • Hey, how many times have I dropped this thing today?

  • Still not a scratch.

  • That's good.

  • There it is.

  • People love together here about offense to take pictures based on how things were over the Imperial Palace area.

  • I thought for sure, we will be at, like, full bloom here, but it looks like we might actually still have a couple more days, so Oh, yeah.

  • So I just stopped for a few minutes to have a chat with the gentleman walking up there, and he was telling me that because of the wind that comes along the river, this area tends to be a little colder.

  • So these ones open up more slowly.

  • He also mentioned that since the Imperial Palace is wide open and gets a lot more sunshine where there's buildings on each side of this which create more shadows and temperature Anyway, let's keep going.

  • It's a lovely sound.

  • Absolutely love that view.

  • Look at that.

  • Just don't get tired of that, do you?

  • And I love that even after over 10 years in Japan, I get excited for this every single year.

  • Also, would you believe the majority of this video has been shot either on this tiny little camera right here or my iPhone?

  • Actually, let me show you this camera.

  • This thing is amazing.

  • This might be my new look at this.

  • Look how small it is.

  • This is the NSA 3 60.

  • Go to And it comes to this little case right here.

  • There's just the absolute best thing in the world.

  • It just magnetize is to everything.

  • Like a vast majority of this video has just been shot with me having the camera right there, and I just push it and it records or even better yet, almost dropped it.

  • The case here opens up like this and you can use it as a little standard.

  • You can hook it onto something, and and it's got this clip mount that I've been using for my hat where I just pop it in like that and off we go.

  • And the camera itself is waterproof, Which is a good thing, because when I was doing the row boating, there was water splashing all over the place.

  • It got pretty wet and it was okay, Case actually charges it and serves as a remote.

  • My only pet peeve with it is that it's only got mine, has about 27 gigabytes of space and that that that filled up real quick.

  • I need to be more picky about my shots.

  • I just shoot everything and you can screw it onto a pole like that.

  • That's how I was getting all those shots for the sucker and everything.

  • I love it like even like this.

  • I can just hold it right in the case and walk and talk.

  • I love it, and then when I'm done, I can just pop it right on my just like that and we're good to go.

  • Yeah, look at this area, though.

  • That guy back there was the one who told me about the Sakura in this area.

  • I'm starting to get really thirsty.

  • So let's see if we can't find ourselves a vending machine.

  • It's been a really nice day.

  • I'm actually just glad that I have a couple more days to enjoy the cherry blossoms.

  • And if by any chance you're like, Oh, I wish this was longer, so do I.

  • We're definitely going to come out and do some cherry blossom live streams.

  • Let's do it.

  • I tried to come out to Ueno Park tonight just to shoot the Sakura because I did not want to miss.

  • This is France.

  • A 3 60 emailed me today and told me that they're gonna be doing a special campaign or discount on the one R and the one x two and and I'm gonna be announcing the winner of the one X two from the give away from the video.

  • I don't know which side.

  • All the promotion and discount information will be linked below.

  • And honestly, I still can't believe Where did I put it that I managed to shoot an entire video on this little camera right here.

  • What did you think?

  • Would you use this.

  • How would you use it?

  • I feel like I could have used it much more creatively.

  • Like, for example, that scene with the vending machine.

  • When I got home and I looked at that, I was like, Why did I not put that inside the vending machine and push the button and then have the drink fall ready?

  • I could have I might have got it stuck in the vending machine.

  • I could have done that.

  • Who knows?

  • Maybe I'll even take one of the most creative suggestions and work it into a video over.

  • Let's have some fun with it.

  • Let me know what you would do.

  • In fact, if we get enough interest, I might even be able to convince into 3 62.

  • Let me give one of these away as well into 3 60.

  • If you're watching, we would love that.

  • We would love it.

It is a beautiful day here in the heart of Tokyo, and we're on a robot.

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