Name: Japan Travel Update | June 1, 2022
Uploaded: 2022-04-24T17:50:05.000Z
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Hello everybody, Welcome to another live stream where we're gonna be introducing Hugh the Japan travel update for june with me as a guest who won't be speaking to us because he's really hungry.

Greg lamb from life where I'm from, how you doing?

Alright, hungry, yeah, yeah, we're just gonna pull into a service area right now.

I think, I know I want to talk with Mexico and all of the weird robots and trucks that they have for highway work here.

We're here in Japan and actually Japan, it doesn't have an entry ban if you're already here.

But right now we have gotten a little bit more news from the Prime Minister and the travel authorities were going to be um giving us more information about, I don't know, I think in about a week we'll hear more about this, but an interesting thing that Prime Minister said, he said that foreign tourists will, will have to wear masks?

I think he didn't, he didn't emphasize enough.

Do you think we can sneak in the front row, front row?

I don't know, you never can hear maybe park further down.

Well, the Prime minister said that we've got to wear masks and I already, I mean Japan is telling you that you don't need to wear masks.

I think right here on the corner speaking there.

Yes, that's also we can pull right through oh my gosh, that is like gold when you can pull right through like this.

Oh gosh, that really happens a little bit too happy.

I got to buy him, buy him lunch for doing an episode in scuba not too far away and I can't tell you what it's about because it's top secret.

Did you know, don't, don't, don't, don't treat me like that.

So the prime minister said that on june 10th foreign tourism will will return.

But the blue list, there's a blue list of 86 86 approved countries that could come in for tours, but you can't just come in as a free tourist.

You actually have to be a part of a government sponsored tour.

So this might not be the perfect time to book your trip.

However, I'll give you in about a minute, a reason why you might want to do that?

We're going to start to see some people come in here and hear some stories about it.

Um how do you feel about tourists coming back Greg?

Are you angry that we're gonna lose this really nice ability to walk around sites that are completely empty.

No, I think, I think it's good though to have people come back.

Honestly, I mean people have been waiting for so long and um, I know when I had troubles, like, you know, even as permanent residents, we couldn't go back at a certain time.

So I think just easing up the ability to go back and forth between countries is just a nice thing.

So considering the Japanese could do that the whole time, right?

Yeah, basically the good, the good thing about June, the June opening is that they're for those 86 countries.

No more pcr tests on arrival if you've been vaccinated, right?

If you, if you haven't been vaccinated, then there's, um, there's a pcr test and I think there might even be quarantined.

The thing is though, that, and the thing that worries me and I do the show called Tbs hero be every now and then about inbound tourism.

And they asked me this question about what about what I felt and what are those potential problems if tourism does return in june that japan is not prepared for.

And I gave them about an interview for about 30 minutes about different things.

But one of them that was, uh, that they used in the news program was about masks and there's this big debate in the United States, people just don't like to wear masks on anything when they go into stores or indoors and japanese do that.

Yeah, I mean, I guess, depends where you are, but we, we've been traveling around the country separately different places and the mask wearing is very, very high like over 90% even outdoors, right?

Whether or not they were completely, it's, it's debatable.

I do think it works on public transportation.

I think it works when you're in crowded spaces when you're outside in a park by yourself.

Yeah, it's the outdoors one that's kind of tricky, you know.

Yeah, it's like is it really doing anything like, I mean, I think when you're outside of a, like a busy station, there's tons of people, I just don't know, I think, you know what, when we had the state of emergency, everyone who went outside was wearing a mask remember those days.

But yeah, everyone still is wearing a mask, everyone but everyone's still wearing a mask.

I think during those days if you went outside during a state of emergency and you didn't have a mask, people would look at you and think bad thoughts and you can and I've been in Japan long enough and I think maybe you have to, where if you're doing something wrong or you think it's socially not right?

You can feel people judging you and chan, I saw that go by here, sorry, I was driving, chan is stuck in a trunk Greg.

Here's a little something towards your rest stop.

Thank you chan I will use that for what are you gonna eat here?

We haven't gone in so I don't know what's there something light, something light I'm watching what I eat.

Why should people book trips right now Greg?

I don't know because it's really expensive to, I was just reading about it, it's like really crazy pricing.

Do you think the trips are going to get more expensive because of inflation in the fall or do you think that prices are gonna get cheaper because more flights is gonna drop them down?

I think because right now it's still limited the number of flights going in and out.

It's expensive man, if you want to lock your, if you think you've got a good deal and you want to lock your trip price and now you would probably want to book in advance.

Yeah but then you have to be part of a tour so it's not just so easy as for right now but if you're in august or september I think that they're taking bookings without you needing to go on a tourist trip, it's so tricky man, this whole pandemic time you think one thing is going to happen and it changes like who knows dude, I want to ask you guys a question here.

This isn't gonna be a very long live stream but I wanted to ask you a question, you can read the live chat because um in this play back the live chat has so much value.

And when are you thinking to come to Japan?

And are you getting your tickets and are you getting them?

So they're fully refundable or you're getting insurance when you book your tickets?

If you're watching this in playback, please leave me and leave everybody a note because I think a lot of people are going through the same problem of when do I book my ticket and if I do will it be safe and how is everybody else planning their trip to Japan despite it not being so clear right now because there are people who are doing that.

Yeah, I kind of want to be more helpful to you but there's not as much news as I thought.

I think the guidelines for the tourism to return is not yet decided.

Which is why they're doing this test trial trial tour thing.

My gut, my gut says at the end of this, they're going to have a document that says that they want you to wear a mask on trains and indoors.

That might be contradictory to what you do in your own country because in Japan they have their own sets of customs.

People don't need to be told in Japan to wear a mask?

So the society works pretty well like that and if you don't, you feel guilty.

So that's just that part of society works extremely well.

Like yeah, actually, you know what, I'd be worrying crowded places if there's so much of people not wearing masks that would make me anxious to tell you the truth.