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  • Shikoku Trip - Day One

  • Tokyo - Ehime

  • Welcome to Ehime (Matsuyama)

  • Hi!!

  • Look who it is! It's Sherry and Norm

  • Welcome to Ehime guys!

  • It's my first time here

  • It's my first time off of the main island of Honshu

  • which is pretty freakin exciting

  • I've never been to Hokkaido

  • I've never been to Shikoku, which is where we are now

  • And I've never been to Kyushu

  • So it's pretty sweet to be off the main island

  • and to be seeing something different in Japan

  • after living here for 10 years and only traveling around Honshu

  • I hope you guys enjoy the trip!

  • Norm is driving. Thank you Norm! Don't kill us!

  • And Sherry is the one that put this whole trip together

  • So thank you Sherry!

  • You're welcome, thanks for coming!

  • She has a lovely channel, so go check her out if you haven't checked out her channel yet!

  • I will link her down below

  • OMG there's a Kabuto!

  • We'll like pull over the car just to catch Pokemon

  • BEST TRIP EVER

  • We need to get to the hotel

  • Hey, you know what? Priorities alright.

  • I'm glad we're on the same page

  • They said that it's 28C today... but that's a lie

  • It's most definitely at least 40

  • And this is the train we're riding... When are we riding the train?

  • Uh, tomorrow!

  • Tomorrow. I'm so excited, I love train rides!

  • It's gonna be pretty awesome

  • It will be

  • Ooo this place is so nice

  • So this is where we're staying tonight? Or the whole time?

  • Tonight

  • That's so pretty! Is this for your feet?

  • I think so!

  • That's so nice

  • Oooo look at the butterfly!

  • Oh it's so pretty!

  • You guys have different butterflies here, I've never seen that one in Tokyo

  • Really?

  • Yeah

  • So this is Dogo Onsen

  • Sherry told me that it's the only onsen in Japan that allows tattoos!

  • So Ehime is famous for oranges

  • There are orange souvenirs everywhere and I can't wait to buy them for my friends

  • What is the cat? Aww they're cookies

  • Even the cats are orange!

  • Lots of their drinks you can change the milk to soy milk

  • That's awesome! Omg there's so many drinks

  • This is amazing, this is the best matcha latte I've ever had

  • Starbucks eat your heart out

  • It's so delicious!

  • It's like icecream

  • Yeah it's really thick and creamy

  • And soy milk!

  • Next we headed to Yamatoya Honten Hotel

  • to view an art exhibit my Ninagawa Mika

  • She gave amazing artistic makeovers to traditional Japanese hotel rooms

  • The result is pretty amazing

  • I think you guys are really gonna love this

  • Wow, pretty!

  • Go ahead

  • Is it okay?

  • Oh look at the tatami! It's not showing up on camera but it's dark blue

  • It's so pretty

  • These rooms are available to stay in

  • Music by KiKi Shamisen Girls

  • Before photo of the room

  • I want to live here

  • You can stay in this room, right?

  • Yes, you can rent this room

  • So this room is designed by Ninagawa Mika

  • She's a photographer and also a movie director

  • Oh okay! So she designed this room

  • and we're gonna go see one other hotel room

  • but Sherry says you'd never wanna stay there

  • So there's something like, weird about it

  • Weird... well you'll see!

  • We'll see...

  • Wow

  • There's one more door!

  • There's two, which one

  • This one? This one?

  • Yep

  • Omg

  • Whoa it's beautiful!

  • Omg I love it!

  • Look at this room! I wanna live here!

  • I love how Sherry's like "Oh you wouldn't wanna stay in the next room..."

  • And I'm like "Yes! I want my house to look like this!"

  • Look at the TV! Look at it! And the phone

  • We all got our orange drinks and popsicles

  • YAY EHIME!

  • Norm's failing at Ehime-ing

  • I know! Everybody got orange, and I'm here with chocolate mint...

  • I'll leave

  • Not acceptable

  • Bye!

  • That's a beautiful house

  • Yeah that's so nice

  • I love these kind of houses

  • Japanese house

  • Our friends are getting ready for their shamisen performance tonight

  • And we're just setting up a little table here for selling CDs and DVDs

  • Sherry's workin hard

  • Me and Norm actually filmed the footage for this one!

  • That was a good day

  • Yeah it was a good day

  • There gonna give me a copy later

  • Oh that's nice, you have a little stand

  • Yeah just for one

  • "sasuga" - should have expected that

  • KiKi Shamisen Girls

  • That was so much fun! Thank you to everyone that joined us for the Periscope live!

  • There were like 100 of you over there, so thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed it!

  • We're heading back to the hotel now for dinner

  • I'm not sure what we're having yet

  • Are you hungry?

  • So hungry.

  • I'm hungry, we're getting hungry

  • We had lots of lunch but we're hungry already

  • Lots of lunch, a little bit to drink, and now we're hungry

  • It's hard not to walk through people's pictures

  • I know right! It's like a maze

  • We're taking one of these tomorrow they said!

  • The rickshaw

  • Rickshaw, how do you say rickshaw in Japanese?

  • jinrikisha

  • Check out the awesome bamboo grove!

  • OMG BEST BAMBOO EVER

  • Isn't that awesome?

  • Can you hear the bugs guys?

  • Semi, most likely

  • Cicada

  • Look at this guys, they made a super fancy vegan version for me

  • Ooo it looks so yummy

  • What's in here?

  • Ooo udon and some mushrooms

  • green onion

  • And this one looks like... rice?

  • But, I don't know

  • Can you cook rice with just a little candle?

  • We will see

  • Some fruits

  • And I think this is konnyaku, it looks like squid but I'm pretty sure it's konnyaku

  • Not sure what those ones are, I think that's cucumber

  • This one is udon

  • Thank you

  • And this one is white rice

  • Oh my rice is cooking! Wow

  • The food here is SO GOOD

  • It's really delicious

  • One of my favourites was actually, this!

  • Which I'm pretty sure is cucumber, but I'm still not sure

  • The konnyaku inside...

  • Lemme see if I can get it to focus

  • The konnyaku in the middle is really really squishy

  • Can't really show you guys, but it's so soft! And it's really juicy!

  • Are you enjoying my food explanation?

  • I'm doing everything I can to not reach over and just eat it

  • NO It's MY konnyaku

  • Norm didn't get any

  • I didn't get any konnyaku

  • Maybe you should be vegan Norm

  • Stop trying to convert me Sharla.

  • And then they have this yellow sauce to put on it, I'm not sure what it is

  • Or if that's even what you're supposed to put it on

  • It kinda tastes like mustard, and it's really good

  • They just brought me some veggie tempura

  • Hey HEY that's my favourite! That's my favourite!

  • These two here are almost like a dessert

  • They're like a really sweet... this one's plum! Let's see what this one is

  • Also plum? ... maybe

  • Man these are good. These are so good.

  • After dinner performance

  • YAY they brought us mikan juice

  • Ehime style

  • Thank you!

  • It's good!

  • Really? Are you gonna put this in, really?

  • Yeah. It's gonna be the thumbnail!

  • So this is where I'm staying tonight

  • Two futon all to myself

  • And there's a tea set!

  • That's always like my favourite part of the ryokan

  • I'm obsessed with ryokan now, I've only stayed in 3

  • in total, but I'm really enjoying them

  • Cute little teapot

  • Air conditioner, mini fridge

  • TV...

  • I think there's some yukata in here? Yeah!

  • Yukata and like toothbrush and stuff

  • This is some more futon

  • They give you so many futon

  • You could cover the whole floor in futon and have a sleepover with all your friends

  • And this is the washroom

  • Basic hotel style washroom

  • And that's it!

  • Cheers! Kanpai!

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Shikoku Trip - Day One

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