This is a neighborhood.

What is this like?

Magic?

Good morning.

We're off to eat breakfast the most beautiful day.

It was raining all night, but it's probably so nice out.

We're gonna come back and clean up and take photos and then we're going to leave and go see some places before we head back home.

I like the view here.

It looks like we're like next to a forest.

We're actually in front of a parking lot.

The, there's the parking lot.

It's a very nice parking lot though.

Okay.

This whole building is like they've been adding and expanding so it feels really weird like some places are smaller, some ceilings are higher, some hallways are like, they feel different.

I don't know, it's just like everything is very uneven in my life.

I want to manifest a home that intertwines a western and japanese style.

I was always infatuated by the history of both my own country and Japan.

Something called me to this place and by being here, I ultimately raised my whole vibe in hopes that I will be able to implement the beauty and art of Japan into my Western style home someday.

The breakfast today involved french cutlery and a choice between japanese and Western style foods.

Eugene got his first and it was a gorgeous mento box full of fish, fresh vegetables and rice and I opted for the western meal, although I had a bit of an allergic reaction to the eggs.

It was the best thing I ever tasted.

No regrets.

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.

It sets the tone for the day and kick starts your productivity cycle.

Mm Have you ever walked into a room or a building and felt a particular energy to it for impacts like me, I tend to pick up on the energies of rooms or people and this particular building, you can really feel that energy and it was so positive and happy as if there was growth that went on within these walls of the people and the ones that stayed here.

I love how the hotel documented all of its history because oddly enough, there is very little information about this hotel online so you have to stay in order to understand it all.

But the fact that they kept a lot of the antiques related to this hotel really warmed my heart.

I feel like the japanese are very good at preserving pretty much anything, which is why I love it here so much.

They care a lot about their history and the physical objects related to the past.

Goodbye.

Hotel.

Goodbye.

No, you cannot.

We were on our way to the Toshio Goo shrine, a World Heritage site built before the 16 hundreds.

This was our first adventure of the day.

All right, it is.

They two of Nico, we're going to the Toshi Nobu shrine, I think it's called temple shrine.

We're gonna go to the World Heritage site and spare beautiful day.

So let's go.

Mhm, wow, look at all the money.

He's rich.

Yeah.

This little jewish.

Oh geez Oh geez Oh is really rich tea and a big bottle of water.

Yeah.

Mhm Yeah.

Within the shrine lies Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who conquered Japan.

What I love about this gorgeous shrine is the detail, the carvings, paintings and statues within every crevice of the 55 buildings standing here.

They tell stories of the past.

Video couldn't even capture the beauty of this shrine.

You have to see it for yourself to feel that wow factor.

This really ties into the geeky guy lifestyle.

Whoever worked on this shrine and made it so beautiful had the wiki guide to complete it and make it a work of art.

The thing about the shrine is that it fits into the world of WAbi Sabi.

The beauty of its old age reminds us of our own mortality.

We're constantly surrounded by reminders of our own mortality.

And the truth is we fear aging.

We try to ward it off at all costs.

People are constantly searching for ways to stay younger.

But if you adopt a life according to WAbi SaBI, we learn to appreciate our imperfections and find beauty in it.

Just the way we appreciate the faded beauty of antiques and these shrines, mm hmm right?

Whenever I come to some really crazy historic place.

There steps or a hill, no wonder Japanese people are so fit.

It's like in their genes.

Now look at these trees, they're ancient.

Okay, we made it.

This place is so incredible.

No video or photo is ever going to make do justice to any of this.

Like you have to be here.

We have an all green tea vending machine.

This is so funny, So funny.

We are going down 200 flights are 200 steps, not flights of stairs.

Oh my God, it's so beautiful.

Mhm one thing people helping them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Come on.

Okay.

We found the toilet.

It's right there isn't look how beautiful it is.

A beautiful toilet.

What a beautiful toilet.

You're so handsome heading to a cafe that we wanted to go.

We're going to go see the ghost, jesus statues that he wanted to see.

So I love this little route.

Nobody here Dolans are so old.

I wonder if these were like man made like that man made but I think they were stacked on top of each other by people.

A lot of these barriers were are made by people.

So look at this moss covering it.

You can just tell how old it is.

This is like a fantasy.

This is a dream flooring a little bit such old buildings with someone's house.

I just love these little stones.

Like I don't want to know why I'm so obsessed with these stone.

Just like the neighborhoods of Nico.

This is so cool.

You guys.

This is what a neighborhood looks like.

Look at this like what is this?

This is gorgeous.

I'm just like so excited about this.

I think this is just so amazing houses here and they're pretty spread far apart between the trees and there's someone's house there, there's someone's house, Look at all those little stones.

This is where I want to live guys, This is where I want to live.

Oh my God, like bumble, huh, we can buy this land, let's do it.

Mhm Someone's house here.

They're not very big houses but oh my God, I feel like I'm in a fantasy.

Okay, mm hmm.

Mhm.

I have never been in a neighborhood this beautiful and fantastical in nature like bamboo.

There's bamboo.

Look at that house.

This is a house in a neighborhood.

This is a neighborhood.

What is this magic?

There's like a frickin temple and a playground.

That's, that's, what is it.

What thing about Japan is like whenever I go through these neighborhoods are like there any forest or hiking.

I feel like I'm so small compared to the trees and the rocks and the barriers and like everything like in America, everything is so small and new and fresh.

A lot of this stuff has been here for centuries and years and before our time.

There must be a river below us or something.

Look at this little house, Look how cute this is.

Someone lives here in this beautiful magical location.

This is a cafe, what, what is this is this a restaurant, wow beef hamburg steak, grilled chicken breasts, beef stew, beef tenderloin cutlet.

Look at this.

Okay, and right in the middle of this beautiful neighborhood, there's a frickin steakhouse.

Like what is this?

This is a neighborhood of japan, this is the real japan.

This is what is this.

Cafe was originally a house built in the Edo period and turned into a small coffee house where you can sit with nature and enjoy a cup of joe.

This menu is so adorable.

Look at how cute this is.

This risotto looks so good cheese and mushroom risotto with a slice of bacon and they have japanese desserts.

Oh my gosh, they have the traditional desserts, orange juice, iced macha latte.

Mhm.

You're at home google cafe and I got the row, so to risotto.

I said that's so weird.

I got the cheese risotto with bacon and it looks so good.

And then you got coffee cafe latte, regular coffee and cheese tart places.

So retro.

But like old school japan, the house was built in the edo era.

So it's like really old.

I got a mosquito bite my neck.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There used to be a train at this bridge.

That's so crazy.

But look at that.

Look how cool that would have been cool to see, wow, I wonder why it's gone now.

Everything you touch in japan, your wish comes true basically.

So duty is telling me that if you touch that stone.

My wish is gonna come through.

Okay, hold my phone.

Wait, do I need to put money in?

I'm just gonna touch it.

Better come true.

Okay, so we made it to the bridge.

It's beautiful and I have a lot of history.

Mhm It's so gorgeous.

Oh my God.

All right.

I love you.

I love you too.

This is where you would summon some kind of God in a video game.

That is the twisty ist tree ever.

That is the best parking skill ever.

Get this mysterious gate thing about Japanese neighborhoods is you're always going uphill and downhill in the rural areas and everything so much closer together.

There's so many like overgrown gardens and then no, it's just like a mix of old and the new and really hard to see that in the city.

Look at all these people fishing.

I bet this is a great fishing spot.

That is the tallest fishing rod I've ever seen in my whole entire life.

That one has a, has a flat head and one has a square head that has a super tiny head and that one has like Tis beanie is covering his whole entire face.

All right.

So we have to be super careful of bears.

Were going to come on Gucci this and it's like a sort of George area with like these ghost Jizo and they say if you count the Jizo the statues, human statues one way and then you count them back.

It's a different number.

That's why they call it the ghost Jizo because one of them seems to be disappearing or moving.

Look at these random rocks.

This little meadow here, Japan's con manga fuji abyss stands a row of stone Jizo statues.

How many?

Nobody knows for sure Because apparently each time you count them, you end up with a different number because they routinely disappear.

Jizo statues care for travelers and lost souls.

They're also the guardians of Children.

Jizo statues are decorated with red cloth bibs and crocheted caps treated his spirits who are very much in our presence as we walk the abyss.

He has no head.

This one has no head.

This one has a head.

You lucky son of a gun account.

All the statue down this way and then we'll come back and we'll count again.

Okay.

123456789, 10.

Got 25 26 27 got this.

Okay.

I feel like people just lose count 28 29 30 31 32 33 34.

Some of these don't even have spaces like this one number 34 he has no face.

Not even a body.

25 31 32.

I feel like I should just give up 37.

I don't know guys, we're gonna have to count again.

Okay.

Oh hello Herman.

Hello Ben.

Hello, Tommy.

Hello frank the location but they have names.

I love you.

Daddy.

Hey.

That absolutely looks like me.

Like how they still put something on him even though he has no physical body left.

This is so cool.

No more bodies for these ones.

These are like the older ones.

It's like an old dam here.

I feel like I have to do something like I'm in a video game.

You know like you have to go through there, you have to climb down the ladder, you have to go up here and you have to turn something on and activate some really crazy thing in a video game.

Japan is just one big video game with a deadly ants.

I gave up and counting.

I'm sorry I let you all down, but you can always come here and do it yourself.