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?

Greg Doing?

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

We're about 30 seconds away from that.

This is Maria, check it out here.

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.

It's pretty cool.

But who knows, who knows?

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 don't even know what that means.

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.

John I am very, very 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.

I didn't know that.

Sorry, I tweeted that you did.

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

Um Yeah, the travel update.

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.

Um which is not for everybody.

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

So don't book your trip yet.

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

eight, June 10?

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.

I don't care.

Nothing.

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.

You're Prevented from doing that.

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.

There's no more quarantine.

There's no more pcr tests.

Um, really no peace.

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

Yeah.

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.

Um all the time here.

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?

Like 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 feel it 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?

I have no clue.

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.

Are you thinking of coming to Japan?

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?

Also in the comments.

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.

I see that every day.

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

But it's, it's interesting though.

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?

They do it anyways right?

Generally 99% of the people.

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.

So right, me too.

I got this.

I don't, I don't get angry anymore.

But if someone had their nose out or they're near me, I kind of felt slightly like, dude, really put your mask on, right?

Or get away from me.

And if I'm walking around the city outdoors, um you can definitely tell if there's a foreign looking person not wearing a mask, they stand out a lot.

So I don't, yeah, I pretty much every time I take off my mask outdoors is when I'm not around people or when I'm like jogging, which is, you know, it's fairly wide open place.

I don't wear it when I'm, I'm running either John writes in here and Greg hello from Wet Winnipeg.

Winnipeg, I was there in the winter for the snowy snowy snowy Winnipeg, I'm gonna release that video next or this upcoming winter.

Okay, I guess you can't because the summer is coming right?

Well, I don't know, like by the time, you know, I came back, it would be edited like winter is over.

So I thought releasing at the start of the winter will be cool, but it was like record breaking snowfall in Winnipeg.

So wow, I got lucky with the timing.

That's what I love about life where I'm from.

It doesn't have to be about Japan, right?

That's why you're not gregg in Tokyo.

Right decision not to say was that one of your options when you started the channel?

How did you come up with life where I'm from?

No, I mean it's really in the name of the channel, like it's about life form from, so it wasn't supposed to be just about our family is supposed to be a lot of different families, obviously that didn't pan out, but um it's supposed to be life in different countries.

So it's not Greg in Japan because it's more about, it's not, it wasn't actually both their channels wasn't about us anyway, so we didn't put our names in it.

What about the topic here?

Isn't your channel now, john only in Japan or something.

Yeah.

Okay.

Just things going on behind the scenes that people don't, they shouldn't care about to the awesome dynamic duo.

You guys are the best, wow.

So who, who's batman and Robin with that name MacDougal, would you be Robin?

I don't even watch that stuff really.

Okay, so he's Robin alright moving on because I don't want to be famine.

That's why I'm driving this time.

Although you want to drive on the way back, you can drive.

I could potentially Yeah, I don't mind.

Um all right.

To put this to, to put this pin on this with the travel update.

Um not a lot of stuff has changed since the last time.

Um I'm gonna, we're going to see how everything pans out.

So I'll do another travel update on June 10 and then again two weeks later because I think we're gonna have some news back on how they want to evolve the tourism.

But my, my best guess is that by the end of summer they'll start to allow some blue lighted.

It feels like, yeah, by time fall kicks around they'll have something or maybe after the election, you know.

Alright, the japanese elections in september right.

I thought earlier in the summertime, but it could be in the summer after the election when everybody votes.

That's when they'll do something.

That might be more more useful.

The thing is though, that I think this tourism is connected with the mail and um, I don't know, Japan post is a disaster right now for eight months we couldn't, I can't send anything to Australia or no, no packages to Canada doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

So hopefully Japan opening up means packages and mail were returned because that's a good indication of the country has returned again.

This is a lot this livestream is left for you guys.

So leave a comment below and let me know what your situation is and I'll use that information for the next one.

Um, anything, what are you working on Greg?

You want to tell the people?

What am I working on?

Oh, I'm working on Showtime guys.

So, japanese shopping streets.

That should be interesting.

I hope, Yeah, the old places like in koya right, using, I went there before, but I have footage from all over the place.

So, right, talk some shop owners talked to some associations, so Should be interesting for people who don't know about Children going to Osaka and do the long one down there.

No, I didn't do the Osaka one.

But yeah, I'm just talking about shootin guy in general.

So some of them have really modernized, haven't they?

They're finding, finding ways to make it more.

I've heard those stories.

I don't really see them, you know, out in the wild from just walking around.

Like there's people who are using the places that have shuttered and they're using them for like uh share spaces, like coworking or maybe share houses are like rental places.

So there's a lot of different businesses going on.

But if you go into your average one that I've seen and I've been to a lot lately, you know, it's just what, you know, to expect, but maybe the viewers don't know.

So I'm going to introduce them.

I love Shootin Guy, but it's changing a lot lot.

Did you, Did you know there's a donkey hotel on in um, Yoko.

Oh, you didn't know that.

This is the kind of a shooting guy.

It's like, it's kind of a different though because I mean, I think a lot of the people who go to Japan, they'll probably end up more on the touristy shootin guy, right?

So they're gonna different, different feeling than the local show 10 guy.

So I'm concentrating on the local ones because a really different mix of shops and different fields.