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  • City vs Countryside - Best place to live in Japan?

  • Hey guys!

  • So me and Rachel and Chris have spent the past 3 days travelling Tohoku Japan!

  • So the Northern area of the main island

  • I thought it would be cool for the three of us to sit down and talk about

  • Now that we've seen lots of Japan

  • Where we think the best place to live is

  • So what do you think?

  • I've lived in Northern Japan for 3 years

  • And I've lived in Chiba for 3 years

  • and Tokyo for about 2 years now

  • How about you Chris?

  • I've lived in Tohoku for 3 years

  • And I've travelled Japan a lot

  • And you Rachel?

  • I've only lived in Aichi

  • And I've only travelled to Tokyo, and here

  • Let's start with Chris

  • In your opinion where (and why) is the best place to live?

  • I think Tohoku

  • And I think, Sendai

  • Although I've never lived in Sendai

  • I think it's the best city, and the best place to live in Japan

  • It's very much a city, but it's got all the benefits of being in the countryside

  • It's only 20 minutes away from the mountains

  • You've got the sea as well

  • Skiing in the winter, but no snow!

  • For some reason the snow stops in the mountains

  • Lucky, people in Sendai are very lucky

  • The food in Tohoku is amazing

  • I think Tohoku is the most beautiful, overall, region in Japan

  • From what I've seen so far

  • I agree with that

  • Sendai is definitely the most beautiful city I've been to here in Japan so far

  • It was absolutely gorgeous!

  • It's just a great combination

  • We were in the city, and then in 3 minutes we were out in the mountains

  • So if you wanna take a break from the city life, you can just go out there

  • It's got the beautiful forested backdrop and the bubbling brooks running through the city

  • It was amazing

  • Now that I've lived in Tokyo for 2 years, I don't really like it at all

  • It would probably be different if you didn't have to take the morning train every morning

  • They're so packed!

  • It's just so stressful to have to wake up and spend your morning like a sardine

  • Like this, with sweaty salary men

  • I've thought about living in Tokyo, but I can't do it

  • Everytime I go, I feel quite claustrophobic by how many people there are

  • It's so dense

  • It's the same for us

  • It'd be so much easier to get jobs and all kinds of opportunities in Tokyo

  • That's why I'm there, for the jobs

  • If you're in Tokyo, it's a bit like a bubble

  • It's difficult to go out, or you're hesitant to actually leave Tokyo

  • It seems like Japan feels a lot bigger

  • Whereas if you live in Tohoku, or the countryside

  • You still go to Tokyo and the cities a lot

  • But you actually get to have a car, and travel around a lot more and see places

  • that you wouldn't otherwise see

  • I'm considering moving back to Iwate now

  • Now that we spent a day there

  • Because I really miss it, and...

  • I can see how much more relaxing it is

  • We were only there for a couple hours, but there are so fewer people than in Tokyo!

  • But you were still spotted by your fans!

  • Haha yeah we met a couple people!

  • So hello you guys in Iwate! That was nice of you to say hi to me :)

  • That made me really happy!

  • But yeah I dunno...

  • Tokyo is amazing, there's so much to see there

  • But I don't think it's a great place to live

  • For my type of person, who doesn't enjoy the crowds

  • and the business, and yeah...

  • There's a lot of us countryside foreigners

  • Yeah for sure

  • Prefer the out and open, beautiful nature, fewer people

  • For those of you guys that are visiting Japan

  • As opposed to just coming to Tokyo, definitely consider going up North

  • for just a week and at least checking it out

  • I feel like that is more "genuine Japan"

  • There's lots of old shrines and temples you can visit

  • and the views are just amazing!

  • It doesn't have the pop culture aspect that Tokyo does

  • But I think there's so much more to see there

  • There's so much more to makeup for it

  • Let me know what you guys think in the comments!

  • For those of you that have visited Japan, what was your favourite spot to see here?

  • I would be interested in that

  • And I'm sure other people would like to know as well

  • so they have some advice when they're coming on trips here

  • Thanks for watching!

  • Don't forget to subscribe to Rachel's channel!

  • Rachel and Jun is the name of their channel

  • And Chris' channel!

  • There's like a video, about...

  • There's like one video about something

  • But it's quite good probably!

  • Abroad in Japan is his channel name, I will link them both down below!

  • Thanks for watching guys! Bye!

City vs Countryside - Best place to live in Japan?

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