happy new year and welcome to the first video of the year

It's been pretty chill around here

I hope you guys have all had a really good start to the year

i've just been kind of chilling at home

it's been so snowy in Sendai

that I don't really want to go out

because there's so much snow on the sidewalks

and I walk everywhere

it's a bit of a pain in the ass

but today is super sunny which is amazing

because my friend Cassie's coming out from Tokyo

i'm going to be showing her around the city

I thought I would invite you guys

because we haven't really gotten out to see

Sendai together at all yet

so I hope you enjoy seeing my new neighbourhood

here in japan

I don't know what we're going to get up to

we're just kind of going to go with the flow

see if we find some fun stuff to do

first we're going to grab some caffeine

i'm going to bring her to the new

Tully's tea shop that just opened at

sendai station because they have

an extensive menu of milk tea

which is just so delicious

if you're looking for a really good milk tea

I feel like Tully's cafe does the best ones

and they do soy milk if you don't like dairy

so let's go meet Cassie

grab a milk tea

and then we will be off on our adventures

I hope you enjoy the video

oooh

(gasps)

winter tea

so look at their selection of milk tea

it's so much better than usual

there's so much tea

they have peach and matcha smoothie

what's Russian tea?

I have no idea

intriguing

and then

yeah coffee

but we both like tea

so I'm going to get

I always get the French vanilla one

I might try the Chai

I might get this Winter tea

with soy

this Winter tea looks amazing

oh it's a fruit

fruit and there's honey

and yeah

good choice

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all right we got our one day pass for

the bus

and the chikatetsu subway

it only cost 920 yen

and we can use it all day long

so it's pretty cool if you want

to come up to sendai

and do like a little touristy day trip

you probably want to get one of these passes

so i put this in

cool and then it stamps it with a date

and then when you get on the bus you

have to show the date to the bus driver

that's how you use the bus

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we're going to a honey shop a honey shop

yeah and why are we going there because

it's runs my favorite band and i'm

not a crazy fan

cassie's a huge fan of monkey magic

they're a band that's based here in

sendai they're also canadian

and one of the members one or two of the

members two members the two brothers run

a honey shop here in sendai so

that's what we're attempting to get to

it's out in the middle of nowhere

literally middle okay so clock one four

four okay

there's so much snow out here

there's nothing left in sendai but we're

kind of out in the mountains now so

lots of snow piled up

i have exciting news so i've started

collecting photos of the pokemon

manholes that they have throughout japan

and i was looking on the website and

there was one out here in the middle of

nowhere in tomia so miyagi i feel like

has the most out of any prefecture

there's 35 different pokemon manholes

and yeah luckily there's one here in the

mountains of nowhere

on the outskirts of sendai so we're

gonna go hunting for that today

hopefully i can find it while i'm out

here because i probably won't be coming

back here again

another goal we have for today

adventures oh wow look at this oh it's

like an old town what's this i think is

this where we're going we're going

around it but it's really cool we'll go

in there later

i wonder what's going on in there it

looks like sake they make sake

warehouses

very cool

look at this little road that we have to

take to get to the honey shop

this is such a pretty little town

i'm glad we came out here i probably

wouldn't have come out here

there's no one here

oh there's cafes and everything

little shops

Eight Crowns

so this is the honey shop here it's in

this really cool old

building

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cassie got her fancy honey yay and now

we're gonna go look for the pokemon

manhole which is hopefully not covered

in snow and we can see it

why is there a postcard

oh what's that oh it's all the oh

so there's stamps manholes oh my god are

they stamps of like the manhole maybe

i think they are it's the tomio one what

okay so our day plan might have just

changed we might have to we might have

to do this spend the whole day

i'm not sure

this is so cool so they've got a little

booklet here

and in the locations with the manholes

you can also collect stamps i'm a sucker

for anything you collect love it

we'll definitely have to do this oh and

i guess if you get all the stamps you

can maybe win a lapras oh a little

lapras plushie

i'm probably gonna buy one anyway but

CASSIE: Awesome! (SHARLA: Yes)

SHARLA: That's cute.

SHARLA: This is so exciting.

SHARLA: It must be up there.

CASSIE: Let's see. SHARLA: Maybe up on the road.

CASSIE: Oh, up by like the parking lot. SHARLA: Yeah.

SHARLA: Right here.

SHARLA: It says it's like..

SHARLA & CASSIE: Here.

CASSIE: Over there maybe?

CASSIE: Oh, yes! There it is! SHARLA: Yaaay!

SHARLA: That's such a random spot.

CASSIE: You would never find that.

SHARLA: Oh, they went, they dug it out.

SHARLA: Look at the snow, yay.

SHARLA: Sweeet. CASSIE: How did we find that? That's intense.

SHARLA: I don't know, I'm so glad that I checked.

CASSIE: We're just like in a parking lot.

SHARLA: All right we're gonna hire a taxi to take us to the next manhole.

SHARLA: We came all the way out here. We can not get the other one.

CASSIE: We need to. SHARLA: That would just be a waste.

SHARLA: He was like what's your name. I'm like Sharla.

He's like Sowada-san (? nothing like Sharla).

I was like, yeah, sure, whatever. CASSIE: Sure, whatever.

SHARLA: That works.

CASSIE: You're gonna be like.. SHARLA: You're gonna be shocked when you come to get us.

CASSIE: The foreigner, who's like, that's not you!

SHARLA: Alright, we got a taxi and we're on our way to the next stamp.

SHARLA: We're gonna go to the manhole first.

SHARLA: Take a quick picture and then hop back in the taxi.

SHARLA: And he's gonna take us to the place to get the stamp because..

.. because it's actually a little far from the manhole.

SHARLA: It's an interesting system they've got going on here.

SHARLA: It's not overly convenient if you don't have a car.

SHARLA: All right we hopped out of the taxi to search, quickly search for the..

.. next manhole while the driver waits for us.

SHARLA: The gps said it's around here.

CASSIE: It's literally right here but I'm worried now because there's snow.

CASSIE: I found it! SHARLA: You found it? Yaaay.

SHARLA: Nice work.

SHARLA: I'm so glad that the snow melts around them.

CASSIE: I think they dug it out cause..

SHARLA: They're so cute.

SHARLA: My instagram's just gonna be pictures of the manholes.

pictures of the manholes

now we'll get him to take us to the

visitor center to

get the stamp

what a journey

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okay time to get a stamp

oh they have little origami to take

yeah

okay

hardcore

success

(Sharla): We made it! Where are we ?

(Friend): I don't know where we are

(Sharla): so far from Sendai down

(Friend): we are out in the boonies there's nothing around and we're here to find a manhole

(Sharla): oh it smells very good I'm getting really hungry

yeah so this is like

a farmer's market i think which is cool

so we can do things other than just get

our stamps but I guess let's figure out

where to get our stamp first

(Friend) : yeah maybe in here

hey!

(Sharla): yeah let's see what this farmers market has to offer

what could we eat here

oh ichigo daifuku yes

hell yeah

they've got all kinds of good stuff it's

(Friend): probably locally made too

(Sharla): Oh they got sakura

melon pan

purple potato pan

croissants look nice

oh yucky emo pie

SHARLA: Almost forgot about the manhole.

SHARLA: It's right out front! Yaaay.

SHARLA: It's really pretty.

SHARLA: We just looked up how to get back.

SHARLA: There is a bus from where we are to get us back into the city.

SHARLA: But it doesn't come very often so we're walking very fast.

CASSIE: On Icey roads. SHARLA: To the bus stop, right now.

SHARLA: In hopes that we'll make the next one.

CASSIE: Because if we miss it, it's two hours untill the next one.

SHARLA: TWO hours?! CASSIE: Yeah, this way. SHARLA: Where are we?

SHARLA: It is really pretty out here. CASSIE: It is.

SHARLA: Probably wouldn't have come out here otherwise so...

SHARLA: We made it. Barely. This bus is fancy!

CASSIE: (?) bus.

SHARLA: So apparently we're on this for an hour to get back to Sendai.

SHARLA: Where are we? We're going to eat our daikoku.

SHARLA: Relax a bit.

SHARLA: This looks so good.

CASSIE: That's good.

SHARLA: Arigato gozaimasu. (Thank you very much.)

SHARLA: We made it back to Sendai (CASSIE: Yaay) after the..

..longest bus ride.

SHARLA: We're so hungry

CASSIE: Yes!

SHARLA: We're going to find a café to eat at.

SHARLA: Scarf down some food and then we're back to hunting for Poké-lids.

SHARLA: That's what they're called. They have a name.

CASSIE: Poké-lids? SHARLA: Poké-lids.

SHARLA: We're going to try out a new café.

SHARLA: So they have a daily lunch special.

SHARLA: Can't decide between that or curry.