Name: Discovering Japan | The Ultimate Tool
Uploaded: 2016-09-07T08:01:14.000Z
Duration: 4 min 32 s
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Modal verbs - A2

It’s amazing isn’t it, how quickly human beings can come into a room

The imperative

and wreck it and make it look like it’s been lived in  by a family of ten for four years.

We’ve been here like four hours and already  it’s just ridiculous.

But where are we and what are we doing and  why is there an Australian girl over there?

That’s what they say isn’t it  - Australians. Playing up to stereotypes there.

So this year an awesome new travel website called Odigo is generously sending myself

and several other vloggers in Japan around the country making videos,

with the aim of promoting the country and trying to promote people - such as you

to come and see it for yourself to come and experience Japan.

So for the next few weeks in March, I’ll be travelling around the northern prefectures

of Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata and Fukushima, as well as mystical Sado Island in the sea of Japan

And I’ll be joined by  fellow vloggers Kim Dao - who’s over there

and Chris Okano who’s downstairs somewhere in his Yoshi costume, scaring the locals.

He genuinely is, isn’t he? I’m not making this up, look here’s a picture.

We’ve been going for three days and I’ve already posted tons of photos to Instagram and twitter

so if you’re not already following on there, please do go and check them out.

There’s also a brand weYouTube channel for Odigo where Chris has been posting a daily vlog of our trip.

And it’s a trip that’s already seen us  receive free incredible cd’s

from a guy dressed as  an idol girl outside Sendai station.

You’ve been in Sendai  one hour and you’ve already got a free cd.

You wouldn’t get that in Tokyo. A free CD

And Chris and Kim do arguably the world’s worst British-English accent impersonations just that I’ve ever heard.

Because I love you British folks. You guys eat crackers and hams and chicken.

No King  - you have a Prince though. Prince Henry. Prince Henry!

But our journey is taking us across mountain ranges, forest, city streets and even the sea of Japan.

So if you follow us on Instagram and on the Odigo’s Youtube channel, it’ll be like you’re there with us,

And as for my videos, they’ll be posted here on Abroad in Japan in the coming weeks.

But I’m really excited to be working with Odigo,  because it is a really good travel website.

Probably the best travel website I’ve seen,  for anyone planning a trip inside Japan.

The whole website is based around using a giant interactive map of Japan

enabling you to plan your trip and discover new places to visit along the way.

And perhaps best of all you can actually share your trip with other people,

so they can see see where you went, what you did and what route you took.

So for example, I’ve publicly shared a trip I did last year around Hiroshima and the ridiculous Rabbit Island.

So if you’re interested in doing that route, you can look at the example in the box below and see where I went and what I did.

But the website is very simple, all you have to do is type in the place you want to visit, or a city.

And then key locations will pop up and you can click on them and add them to your itinerary.

And it just makes the whole experience of planning a trip quite easy and fun.

I do highly recommend checking it out to anybody who plans to travel around Japan - it’s completely free to use.

And it’s a really enjoyable dynamic way of discovering places to visit,

planning your route and documenting your journey along the way for other people to see.

So be sure to follow us along over the next few weeks .

-Are you excited Kim? -Yeah I’m excited.

We’ll see you there.  Thanks a lot guys and be sure to follow us all along.

Also I don’t know if I’ve hidden well,  but I’m really really tired.

I don’t know where this energy has come from. Weird.

It also helps that Chris is not in the room. He would have been just a terrible, disturbing presence.