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1:19

Hello and welcome to the Abroad in Japan

1:21

podcast. Probably the best way of learning about

1:23

life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

1:25

I'm your host Chris Baudin. We're joined as

1:27

always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete

1:29

Dolson himself. Pete, how the devil are you

1:31

doing? What's going on? I'm good

1:33

Chris. I'm continuing my spiral into an

1:36

energy drink addiction.

1:38

I went to a dog

1:41

show yesterday to see

1:43

dogs doing their thing in the

1:46

park. I quite like where I

1:48

live. There's always some weird stuff

1:50

going on. There's

1:53

actually a bookshop on the

1:55

high street that had your book

1:57

front and center. And the man and the-

2:00

the man who owned the bookshop had weirdly read

2:02

your book. He's very impressed. What

2:04

did you go, my friend

2:06

wrote that book when you

2:08

went in or something? No, my

2:11

partner did that. I was on

2:13

a, I think I

2:15

sent you this picture, it was really made me laugh.

2:17

It made me laugh but

2:19

it annoyed me as well. I was on a

2:22

Toyota Century WhatsApp group. So basically

2:24

if you import a car that

2:26

nobody's got, it's really hard to

2:28

figure out what the hell is

2:30

wrong with you. How to get

2:32

new castrons for your bonnet and

2:35

all that good stuff. And

2:37

when you're not that all failed cars, these

2:39

sort of like knowledge bases are so important

2:42

and practical to use. Anyway, so I

2:44

was on the Facebook group and I was asking a few

2:46

questions. I said, look, are you in the UK?

2:48

Let me add you to the

2:50

UK Toyota Century WhatsApp group. I

2:52

might find, okay, let's get

2:55

on a WhatsApp group for car enthusiasts, a

2:57

place I'd never thought I'd be in my

2:59

life. But here we go. I'm not surprised.

3:01

And so I'm on there and some, I've

3:03

never sort of interacted but a couple of

3:06

blokes were sort of chatting on there and

3:08

they were saying, yeah, the yen's really

3:11

weak at the moment. It's a really good time

3:13

to visit and stuff. My son is

3:15

over there teaching English as a foreign

3:17

language. Basically Chris Broad without the fame.

3:21

And nobody said, sorry, who is Chris

3:23

Broad? They just seemed accepting of who

3:25

Chris, like your prince or something. I

3:27

was human. I was absolutely human.

3:30

I love it. I take all

3:32

of my, all of my reserve not to

3:34

get involved. They got, let me tell you

3:36

a few things about Chris Broad. Sometimes

3:39

his microphone doesn't work.

3:42

The caricature of my own self at this point. I like

3:44

that. Yeah. I

3:48

feel to know someone of that

3:51

ill level of that. Yeah. Chat groups

3:53

for cars. Just like your prince or

3:56

Ron Jeremy. They

4:00

will. Then. Again, service Did Prince have

4:02

a Sunday Times bestselling book that. A

4:05

attorney ever pop that way about

4:07

feel biography to the here. In.

4:10

Our body could tell some stories. A book with

4:12

an albino metals it's funny, been toppled from the

4:14

top number one spot and forceful as a I

4:16

mean that's a pretty good road is that what

4:18

from there was up in the back on yeah

4:20

page rank five weeks at number one of his.

4:22

That's amazing Chris. Not. Good enough. Allah

4:24

wants Six weeks on my of

4:26

the discussions have the discussions had

4:28

been had about a second a

4:30

follow up so speak. Year we

4:33

we talked about a little bit and them.

4:35

I. Originals I are no writing a book ever

4:37

again as I did enjoy other it does give your

4:39

i'd enjoy it and it was a very bad time

4:42

to write a book while learning how to. Chess.

4:44

And Box and T Spawn races and

4:46

D cycles with Toner never fails. It

4:49

was really like a difficult time you

4:51

are over and Labrum the.a year of

4:53

in London and new you'd really have

4:55

an A male and he did not

4:57

wanna talk about how. Very

5:00

honest. I'm kind of. I am proud of it.

5:03

I'm oats and it's a cool book am and

5:05

only got a hold of the page about myself

5:07

the other day I see got hold one and

5:09

did little book signing and take a got to

5:11

meet some folks which are interests are probably do

5:13

more as well. But time it I mean

5:15

cigarette doing on a lot of the see

5:17

I would love to see like an edgy

5:20

Japanese language cover. For. Project Pan.

5:22

Out the early. And. Like a

5:24

Japanese I got I would like com dia is for

5:27

the yeah I can be cool. Nickname

5:29

for help from chef. And I think

5:31

they're going to translate into just pennies at

5:33

some point, which because interesting thing or be

5:35

ready. And co actually to

5:37

read like the Borders and book in

5:39

Japanese and so or like her language

5:41

learning computers and centrepiece have a he's

5:44

literally not be able to read your

5:46

on Birch Society I translated to really

5:48

like shite simplistic this a half an

5:51

hour like me horny eighty master Test

5:53

this theory. Visit the law museums in

5:55

this Bush. a

5:58

sister of ramen ski It

6:03

would be bad. I don't know why it would sound like that. I wouldn't do

6:05

the audible. But yeah, no

6:07

sweet. I was actually talking about doing another book this

6:09

time more sort of travel-focused and

6:11

sort of thinking about all the travels I've got

6:13

to do. Because I've got

6:15

to go to all 47 prebages in

6:17

Japan. I have lots of interesting

6:20

stories that I could draw from there. So I'm

6:22

thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. But yeah,

6:24

there's a lot of things I want to do.

6:26

I still want to do like a short film. The

6:28

only, my dream is to sort of still be a

6:30

filmmaker making proper films just before the

6:33

bit where they become fully AI-generated. So

6:36

I want to enjoy,

6:38

I've got to make one

6:40

film and see what happens. It's

6:42

really interesting. I've been following Francis

6:44

Ford Coppola's latest film, Megalopolis, which

6:47

is quite tongue-twister. And it's

6:49

been partly savaged by critics, mostly

6:51

savaged. But also some people like,

6:54

it's so ahead of its time.

6:57

But if you watch the trailer, it looks like

6:59

it was like a student project. It's really, the

7:03

story of the making of the film is even more

7:05

interesting than the film itself, it seems, in some respects.

7:07

Like apparently, he spent half the time

7:09

just sitting in the trailer being high when

7:11

he should have been directing. And then halfway

7:13

through the shoot, he

7:16

sacked or I think the

7:18

visual effects team just left. They sort of walked

7:20

off. And that is painfully abundant

7:22

in the trailer. And it's

7:26

like PaintShop Pro special

7:28

effects. Awesome. And

7:30

a great name check for PaintShop Pro. You

7:32

do not hear enough about PaintShop

7:35

Pro still kicking a bowl. So

7:37

I found most critics have, and interestingly,

7:39

Francis Ford Coppola's had a hell of

7:41

a career in things like The Godfather,

7:43

The Conversation, Apocalypse Now. And Apocalypse Now

7:46

famously was, I think, destroyed by

7:48

the critics when it came out. And

7:50

now it's revered as one

7:53

of the greatest war films, if not the greatest

7:55

war film ever made. It's an astonishing film, like

7:57

a lot of his work. So

8:00

maybe it's like that, maybe the

8:02

critics are not prepared for this level of

8:04

film. But again, I don't know.

8:06

But then my friend Marcus sent me a photo

8:08

today, IGN gave it a 9 out of 10.

8:12

And you are IGN, so you know what's

8:14

going on there. I want it. I want

8:17

it. IGN 9 out of 10. When's it coming out?

8:19

It's just one of those ones that I just know

8:21

I'm not going to see in good time. You watch

8:23

nothing. You never watch anything. You still haven't watched Shogun,

8:25

have you? And that's most of all. I still don't

8:27

watch Shogun, nor I watch the documentary about erm... Erm,

8:31

an Italian couple who erm...

8:33

What you got to say on YouTube now? Unalived?

8:38

I unalived someone. Fucking algorithm. I

8:41

unalived someone. What's that? What

8:44

are you talking about? You know

8:46

like on TikTok, they can't say

8:48

they killed someone. They go, I

8:50

unalived. I've never heard that. That

8:53

horrible euphemistic kind of like hell in

8:55

a hanker direction that we're

8:57

all going where you can't talk about anything

8:59

serious. I was watching a video, I've been

9:01

watching a lot of erm... videos

9:03

from lawyers in the UK. What

9:06

have you been doing? There's a guy called... What have

9:08

you been doing? I

9:10

can't afford a real one. I've got a

9:13

look on YouTube. When you crash the Toyota

9:15

century into a school or something. Into an

9:17

orphanage. Oh no. Oh,

9:19

they're flammable orphans. They're terribly flammable. Erm,

9:21

but I'm watching these guys, one's called

9:23

the Black Belt Barista who's very good

9:25

and there's another guy who's slightly less

9:28

informal. He's slightly less formal and he's

9:30

got a gnar of an accent. He

9:32

tells us like this. And

9:35

they basically go through UK law and they

9:37

basically explain why certain things

9:40

are the way they are. And

9:42

I do find whenever we've had to do chats

9:46

with lawyers for projects that stack up

9:48

my podcast company, I

9:52

Always find dealing with lawyers so

9:54

sexy. Whenever They write a formal

9:56

letter to someone, basically laying down

9:59

the law, It really... really gets

10:01

me going crystallize set, go and

10:03

get his own equivocal he writing

10:05

let as the edges. It's.

10:07

Yes, brisk and to the point and

10:10

for a man is flowery in his

10:12

thoughts it's just saw just haven't not

10:14

to direct kind of who have to

10:16

clara he's to Cbc for a now

10:19

gets me go I'd say but yeah

10:21

they this as a guide to time

10:23

and and and one block and he

10:25

couldn't talk about. I. Think suicide

10:27

Edu said the word suicide and and

10:30

also and Peter Philly Risa as while

10:32

the epistle he said and. He

10:35

was he a best league I think

10:37

Joey Barton had accused Jeremy Vine this

10:39

of being used to a bike norms

10:41

and a thing. If the guy on

10:43

there was this at center you yeah

10:45

yeah he was basically even the even

10:47

the barista. with this it he said

10:49

at using words like the end words

10:51

which is me and my hands and

10:53

the P word and all the stuff

10:55

and am so it's it's I just

10:57

think that the algorithm is making everything

10:59

worse and and the the well I

11:01

mean. The. He he sang

11:04

lawyers minute ago for really bad

11:06

d. Fuck. This video now it's

11:08

a Seagull Apps in Los Angeles. We had

11:10

i I find I modify the way I

11:12

spilled I don't think he says he to

11:14

that like pretty much it is a different

11:16

wow I had to him tied down swear

11:18

words and things like that a little bit.

11:21

right? To the project actually

11:23

rodeo video and them but you can't

11:25

audible group. Of. But the unfortunate thing is you

11:27

give literally can't. Talk about anything serious Because

11:29

you can't talk about. The.

11:31

s word he cuts hook about that

11:33

he would have done with like these

11:35

things are really important and malcolm mouth

11:37

and we can't put a name on

11:39

it because the advertisers just aren't they

11:41

just aren't a position where they couldn't

11:43

them be grownups about in and as

11:45

you to call nine out there to

11:47

to to check manually illegal your monster

11:49

energy maybe monster energy don't care maybe

11:51

you have that kind of surviving monbiot

11:53

as you would advertise on fans have

11:55

you as much as you never do

11:57

see our adverts for monster energy anywhere

12:00

They're just always in the gas station.

12:02

They're just always in the petrol station. Awful,

12:05

awful. Stickerhead ball of coffee. We've got

12:07

a story this week from A. What

12:09

is it? Everyone, these list of stories has been

12:12

very cryptic with their names recently. We

12:14

had an episode last week, right, and

12:16

somebody killed themselves BK Ark, which sounds

12:19

like a Burger King special burger. I tried to Google

12:21

it, but the only thing I could find was the

12:24

Ark official community forums for the

12:26

video game. Somebody

12:28

calling themselves BK. I don't

12:30

think Ark was that big a video game that we

12:33

really care about it. It's all

12:35

a bit of a Burger King conspiracy, if you ask

12:37

me. We've got a story from somebody who literally is

12:39

called A. It says, greetings

12:41

Chris and Pete. Last June my father

12:43

and I visited Japan and we stayed

12:45

in a ryokan near Tokyo. Unfortunately, our

12:47

experience was already off to a negative start

12:50

as three days before our arrival, the host

12:52

messengers to say that they'd downgraded us to

12:54

a western style room. Filth? A western style

12:56

room. Disgusting. Once we arrived, to be fair,

12:58

you know, half the fun of going to

13:00

a ryokan is having the Japanese room with

13:02

the tatami nuts you can roll around on

13:05

and the shawty doors. Once we arrived though,

13:08

I can only describe this ryokan as

13:10

a complete shambles. The structure

13:12

of the stairs leading up to the guest room

13:14

was half broken, making a worrying creek with a

13:16

free step taken. Our hostess, an

13:18

old and very kind lady, led us to

13:21

our room which merely had two mattresses thrown

13:23

on the floor. And I'm convinced it was

13:25

just normally in a storage room. She proceeded

13:27

to tell us that there was no air

13:29

conditioning but was kind enough to point out

13:31

the sockets that worked. The ones that worked

13:33

anyway. As she went to leave us,

13:35

the landlord turned up a tall,

13:39

wide set American man who was completely

13:41

drunk. We had an immediate bad feeling.

13:43

She was like faulty towers gone wrong.

13:45

We had an immediate bad feeling and

13:47

so requested to just cancel the booking

13:50

in favour of finding somewhere else to

13:52

stay. Is

13:55

this real? Where Is this place? We Left,

13:57

found alternative accommodation, had a thoroughly enjoyable time.

13:59

rest of our trip my question to the

14:01

gates is how to make sure he will

14:03

com or good qualities. This one had relatively

14:05

good reviews which turned out to be dreadfully

14:07

wrongs. Is my experience an anomaly? A lot

14:09

to support real campuses in the future and

14:11

I think I just got unlucky. All the

14:13

best A. Reason we are

14:16

anonymous I mean I did a video a

14:18

few weeks ago where I talked about something

14:20

about this to possess the cheapest hotel and

14:22

take it I could find and to duty

14:24

was like twenty dollars a night for double

14:26

bed and the for Alec to right And

14:29

then he looked to the reviews. I was

14:31

a fucking horror show right the door handle.

14:33

At the door had to the come off the

14:36

door lock come off and probably screwed back in

14:38

my you salah type that he's like most concise

14:40

as a scruffy if I don't I liked. It

14:43

was just the sink to smoke. like to

14:45

add cholera Enter A was far as and

14:47

so you've got a D I went with

14:49

reveal that clearly A had their a done

14:52

some homework. But. Like cross check

14:54

your booking online booking.com with google reviews

14:56

try look around was built up a

14:58

picture am but this has a does

15:00

what questions here what have I missed

15:02

while I know like as landing like

15:04

I am a middling to come that

15:07

it can be good and they can

15:09

be bad reactions gone they i mean

15:11

they are at ended this they usually

15:13

quite old buildings and use them on

15:15

on on that but i mean is

15:17

is com. Is. The secret to

15:20

practices Sinister. or it's or success. Yeah,

15:22

so West and Room. That's probably why

15:24

westerners less successful. It's hot, sounds rough.

15:26

I mean it doesn't really sound like

15:29

a real comes dna. The sounds more

15:31

like a mini pocket which can like

15:33

a bed and breakfasts. Where.

15:35

I've as a last or cheater

15:37

a d they this less hospitality

15:39

involved so they get this season

15:41

know hospitality involved in this one.

15:44

Of the whole downgrade things a bit,

15:46

Warren has clearly they've lied. masqueraded as

15:48

this my real com. Nonetheless,

15:50

Oh have to put even though the shit rooms

15:52

which is probably the only roma have. But

15:55

the bit where the drunken america man comes in.

15:57

Said. i it made us as americans hate he

16:00

owns a secret place. I hope you

16:04

enjoy your room. Who knows, who

16:06

knows, that'll be a lot of

16:08

fun. But no, very, very long.

16:10

I'm going to be streaming every last second of

16:13

this fucking hotel stay. I need

16:15

content man. Well

16:18

speaking of drunk and suck here, this

16:20

week's news story involves suck here which

16:23

has been taking off recently,

16:25

overseas specifically in the

16:28

UK which is quite an encouraging news

16:30

story because suck here sadly is on

16:33

the downhill slope in Japan. People

16:36

aren't drinking as much. Young folks don't drink

16:38

suck here as much as they used to.

16:40

Alcohol outright is being shunned. So some good

16:42

news. Tell us what's going on. Pete, fill

16:44

us in on suck here. Yeah,

16:47

well the Japanese fermented rice drink suck

16:49

here is becoming increasingly important on the

16:52

international drinks market. Important

16:54

and import ant. Exports

16:57

have grown virtually every year for

16:59

the past 13 years and the export market in

17:01

2023 totaled about 211 million pounds. China and

17:07

the US are the biggest consumers of sake but

17:09

the UK market is growing apparently. The sake is

17:12

now sold in specialist shops and decent

17:16

bars. Weitrose reported searches

17:18

for sake on its website have increased

17:20

241% year on year while searches for

17:22

plum sake were also up 100% on

17:24

2023 which thinking

17:28

about for a reason that much. Even

17:30

Wagamama, one of the first restaurants to

17:32

offer the drink nationwide has just added

17:35

a sparkling sake to its list. Obviously

17:38

the UK about

17:41

seven years ago started getting

17:43

very excited about stuff like good

17:46

gin and grit there and

17:48

people really like yacking

17:51

on about nonce about

17:53

about special beers and stuff like that.

17:56

So this is obviously the you

17:58

know the last bastion of the drink. to

18:00

fetishise. But yeah, Sake takes a

18:03

lot of boxes. It's got no

18:05

preservatives, tannins or sulphites and

18:08

people are a bit more aware of that stuff

18:10

now. And now they're kind of –

18:13

so they're importing Sake at a hell

18:15

of a rate. I actually – Waitrose

18:18

is a good example because I occasionally

18:21

shop in there when I want

18:23

to get rid of a lot of money quickly. And

18:26

the Sake there is always – and the

18:28

bands are – there's one particular brand of

18:30

Sake that you always see in a supermarket

18:33

and it's this yellowy sort of golden box

18:36

and it's disgusting. But there are

18:38

really good companies doing Sake.

18:40

I forget the one that I ordered online but

18:44

in lockdown I got

18:46

addicted to Prosecco and was

18:49

drinking it like beer. And

18:52

I very much started getting involved in

18:54

the whole sparkling Sake scene. There are

18:56

these little sort of blue

18:58

bottles you can buy that are probably

19:00

about two glasses full. Sparkling

19:03

Sake is worth having a crack. If you're a fan of Prosecco or

19:05

if you're a fan of Champagne, if you're

19:08

a fan of stuff like that, it's

19:10

worth having a crack because it's just

19:12

so light. It's such a

19:14

light drink and yeah, really big fan

19:16

of some over – I

19:18

mean these are all of the sweetened

19:20

Sake with a bit of fermentation and

19:22

the sparkling in is really good stuff.

19:24

So yeah, Sparkling Sake, two thumbs up

19:26

from me. I went on

19:29

a brewery tour of three Sake breweries last

19:31

week. It was a bit rubbish because I

19:33

had to drive me, Sharla and

19:35

a few others. So I got

19:37

to like smell the Sake at two of the

19:39

breweries. Luckily the third brewery – we use a

19:41

train if you could have done from the outset.

19:44

What's the point of going off fucking Sake

19:46

brewery if you can't drink the Sake? Yeah,

19:48

it was good. Once you've seen one Sake

19:50

brewery, you have seen them all and

19:52

let no one tell you otherwise. Some

19:55

Sake breweries are much better at their tours

19:57

than others as I found out.

20:00

on this trip. Everyone was lovely though. It does

20:02

get a bit boring being like this is where

20:04

we put the rice and toast the rice. I

20:06

can't believe you put a rice in the oven.

20:09

The prices are exactly the same on each

20:11

one. I wanted to work on

20:13

a project that's coming up and I

20:15

wanted to sample some of the sake

20:18

and yeah, I learned a lot

20:20

actually about the whole world. But I

20:22

think sake, it's good stuff but it needs to

20:25

be paired with the rice. I'm

20:31

still amazed that sake sells

20:34

overseas in some respects. But then if it's

20:36

like a Japanese restaurant then it makes perfect

20:38

sense. It's so different to every other drink.

20:41

It is. It's definitely a bloody good

20:44

drink when you've got like... It goes really

20:46

well with fish in

20:48

particular. I find

20:50

a nice plate of like sushi or like sashimi

20:52

or something like that. Yeah,

20:54

it's encouraging. Although when it's like the sales

20:57

have increased 241% it's

20:59

like wow, it's gone from £10 to £20. It's a

21:04

bit... But encouraging. Yeah,

21:06

I'm curious as to where the

21:08

sake is selling. In the

21:11

brewery did they give you the sake

21:13

brewery? Because they give you

21:15

free... If you want the... I think

21:18

the by-product of making the sake you get

21:20

this kind of like rice, like the pounded

21:22

rice kind of that comes out at the

21:25

end of it and they give you it

21:27

for like quite cheap. I think you

21:29

can use it in cooking or use

21:31

it for a life or something like

21:34

that. It's this kind of

21:36

thick white chalky thing. It is, yeah. It's

21:38

kind of like chalk meets like

21:40

hand soap and you

21:42

can touch it and it's kind of

21:44

quite soft. It's just like soap, honestly.

21:46

It's called sake kasu and it's quite

21:49

the leftover bit of sake. But actually

21:51

it tastes really good and they make it into

21:53

like a non-alcoholic sake drink

21:55

called amazake which in some

21:57

respects I like more than sake. It's

22:00

an alcoholic and it's almost like rice pudding

22:02

kind of texture to it. It's quite thick

22:04

and creamy and in winter You

22:06

know when it's really cold. It's really nice walking

22:09

down the street with some Amazake So yeah, really

22:11

good stuff really good stuff It's called they take

22:13

the leftover byproduct and make it into

22:15

something that is as equally delicious as the sake

22:17

itself, right? Mmm, pretty cool. Yeah,

22:19

yeah that they're shutting down thick and

22:22

fast sake breweries and They're

22:25

not to get a license to be a

22:27

sake brewer. It's practically impossible as well, unfortunately

22:30

What's weird is and I

22:33

only found this out for you is a

22:35

few months ago with Connor on a trip

22:37

to Akita you could be a craft sake

22:39

brewery really easily and it's like a lot

22:41

more lax with the regulation and so basically

22:43

if you Have a kasake brewery dolson sake

22:46

brewery and you put like some oranges in

22:49

It becomes like a craft sake and all of

22:51

a sudden you've got like you've got around all the

22:53

rules and regulations So you have to make this craft

22:56

sake which is just flavored sake

22:58

Spying it. Yeah, I've just been back in

23:01

the sake Dripped

23:04

one drip of coolish in it But

23:07

I mean we had like not that we had

23:09

some nice craft sake like apple sake So

23:13

like you can get around it doing things like that Yeah

23:18

I'd Definitely love a bit

23:20

of sake but do your homework because a lot a

23:22

lot of them aren't nice I want to scream there

23:24

and one of the good things about that trip is

23:26

Connor had always hated sake until

23:28

that trip where I sort of Took

23:31

him out getting some good sake and he's like oh as

23:33

I see now it is it is edible It

23:35

is powerful to my tongue and that was nice.

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list as this week Mr Those. Illicit Troy

26:11

has go in search I presume fates of the

26:13

As and plans with friends falling through Global shut

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down. On finally heading off to Japan

26:18

by myself, the it is this November.

26:20

My question is about night life and

26:22

how to have a good time when

26:24

traveling alone. A peach recommendation will definitely

26:26

be stopping by Bar or alcoholic in

26:28

Shinjuku, put other any other spots either

26:30

of you would recommend for the solved

26:33

spontaneous and trucks with locals and any

26:35

recommendations of what to do any of

26:37

my first evening in Tokyo or Smetana.

26:39

few dozen sold by then so hopefully

26:41

mostly over the jet. Many thanks and

26:43

keep the good work to Raleigh Room

26:46

wall Well one problem is Barack Aholic

26:48

is in Shibuya not Gc choice. Sir

26:50

I have some time. There is the shivers

26:52

of I think there was one out in

26:54

the m anachronism another one like as bar

26:56

on to another one somewhat there's bar called

26:59

do some were book of Martha Gellhorn later

27:01

Zola. Athletic

27:03

ability to recognize else. Yeah,

27:06

I mean, I don't. Spontaneous. Interaction

27:08

with locals. Swath.

27:11

Honestly, air in the past I would have said

27:13

some. I like Golden Guy but is so over

27:15

run these days that. Than. If I can

27:17

recommend any more really and it's a bit towards the

27:19

trappings of respect is still a good time that you

27:22

still have a D V and other Allied but boat

27:24

bombing don't spend all night I would say. I. Am

27:26

at that. Our kind of ending would

27:28

always end up in Wally Club century

27:30

which might still be them. Why not

27:33

not not be? There was even a

27:35

century. Anything with as I know right?

27:37

Yes, Yoda century. Yeah, you're into clubs

27:39

and a d been a leader that

27:41

says he saw him on the big.

27:43

It's just a big. It's just a

27:45

big club that's isn't quite as bad

27:47

as all of the others and there

27:49

is because you'll always get em kaboom

27:51

and shoved down you throw you out.

27:53

Last two acres is got the world's

27:55

biggest disco. ball of success but ist

27:58

yes barring other was these discs But

28:00

when you actually go in if you're not going

28:02

on a Friday or Saturday

28:05

They don't open the whole place. So you only ever

28:08

see like a really small disco ball You're like this

28:10

disco ball does not seem big enough But

28:15

yeah, it's pretty Trump

28:17

rooms used to be open. I don't know whether

28:19

that's still open but I would always

28:21

kind of go for Like

28:24

look on the map for just find the

28:26

Japanese for club bar Rather

28:29

than looking for it in English because you

28:31

just end up at the same kind of

28:33

like expat bars and stuff Yeah, you end

28:35

up the hub You do

28:37

end up at the hub where all nights go to

28:39

die We got a question here

28:41

from Tiffany from Manchester. He says hello

28:43

Chris and Pete I traveled Japan

28:46

in April last year with a friend, but at some

28:48

point we want to revisit Japan Oh, I want to

28:50

revisit and travel solo. I'm scared to do that though

28:52

because of the language barrier Navigating the

28:54

trains train seems difficult and as a

28:56

younger female, I'm mindful of safety I think

28:59

it's overall safe. But what are your tips

29:01

for traveling solo around Japan? Thanks Tiffany I

29:04

mean, I know quite a lot of people that been

29:06

traveling around Japan recently and I Don't

29:09

think there's not many safety issues to really worry

29:11

about here in particular But

29:14

I think just try and book places ahead

29:18

In advance as best you can because it's

29:20

it's quite busy here at the moment Lots

29:23

of tourists and whatnot. So always try and book ahead in advance

29:26

It's not a nice feeling to turn up to a town

29:28

and be like, oh no Well, the hotels are full and

29:30

now I'm stuffed and you might end up in a Question

29:33

of all real kind like a did earlier on

29:35

in the story of the week but

29:38

yeah, just just plan ahead and have a rough idea what you want

29:40

to do try and book as much as you can advance and Yeah,

29:44

enjoy it. I had a friend come over in April.

29:46

Oh Ali actually

29:48

Ali he was on the podcast. He came over.

29:50

He's a guy but

29:53

Just to clarify he is a man and

29:57

He you know travel around alone for

29:59

half. This trip we didn't hold his

30:01

hand after the. The first half is tricky,

30:03

went on fits into the wilderness. And.

30:06

Discovered Kj Nora and Osaka aligned and he

30:08

had a whale of a time said so

30:10

far as I could gather. ah so yeah,

30:12

sick before him as a good time to

30:14

reflect ceiling. And. Eleven A what

30:17

interesting thanks might be alone the wealthy traveling staying

30:19

a hostels as well as great place to meet

30:21

people in those common areas in the community area.

30:23

Way to like. Hang out with

30:25

steaks and this issue selling my money

30:27

trouble is that that that that can

30:30

help as well as and cam what

30:32

we get stories every week about and

30:34

people have been a solo young fellow

30:36

travelers am so I wouldn't worry a

30:38

duty about books like Chris says a

30:40

bit of them into know your framework

30:43

of your trip I think helps alot

30:45

will absolutely but qui tam. Highlight

30:48

Now out the sold for humanity roughly

30:50

and I'm say the a lot of

30:52

some money and time because the hotels

30:54

get sell that question and lot more

30:56

expensive. Wants food? Yep, Rims Concepts time

30:58

that two months ahead And the yeah

31:00

thanks and be late for that. I

31:02

got one last question from Iona. He

31:04

says that. Britain's. Prison

31:06

P Out! Love us to living in

31:08

Japan for over a decade guy and

31:10

the visiting with only one patch one

31:12

backpacks Guy could give me some advice

31:14

T is the man with one backpack.

31:17

I've. Been living in Japan for least a

31:19

year now and we'll have to go back

31:21

home. Seen During my time here I bought

31:23

a bunch of clothes the don't need to

31:25

combat with main probably won't fit in my

31:27

small suitcase anyway. what the people in Japan

31:29

day with it? Amused clothes. Can you go

31:31

to your local shrine church and donate as

31:33

he can Europe? Or is this another way

31:35

The clothes are still wearable so I wouldn't

31:37

wanna throw them away as possible. Thanks! Ah

31:39

I am I off when I read like

31:42

could you go to your local sry these

31:44

pics of like to take his clothes off

31:46

a football game and on the statue. That

31:48

sounds like as jackets say used to be

31:50

worn by people. are

31:52

yeah i mean skater like a second hand

31:54

shop like a hard off or as is

31:56

it says streak as as call of good

31:59

second half stores in Japan they'll take your

32:01

clothes and give you

32:03

like a shiny penny for all of them.

32:06

You don't really do it for profit but it's a good way to at

32:08

least you know get rid of clothes without a

32:10

road. We went on a trip when we were down

32:15

in, I think it was

32:17

someone Q-Shoe, we went on

32:19

a bit of a pilgrimage to a

32:21

vending machine that we'd heard about that

32:23

sold exclusively

32:27

kind of crypts. There's

32:30

some enterprising presumably French person

32:32

at this vending machine that

32:34

just sold crypts and they

32:37

were in, we were

32:39

expecting like warm crypts freshly prepared by a

32:41

machine. It

32:43

was just very much a basic

32:46

vending machine, can vending machine

32:48

where they jammed crypts into

32:50

cans just to dispense that way.

32:53

But you know what I think about a

32:55

kind of chocolate ganache

33:01

nutty crip almost

33:03

every day of my life now from that vending

33:06

machine. So I'm a little bit annoyed that

33:08

I don't have access to that anymore. But

33:10

we went to a Mordoff that was next

33:13

door because I love second hand goods. I

33:15

just love mooching around

33:17

people's houses. If you invite me to

33:19

your house I will mooch around your house. If

33:21

I go to an Airbnb I'll

33:24

be trying to get into all the cupboards so I'll mooch about what

33:26

you got. And

33:29

Mordoff is the clothing branch of

33:31

Hardoff obviously. And three floors of

33:33

just second hand, there's a little

33:36

like, there's a little sections like

33:38

music instruments and music stuff and

33:41

watching stuff. But the

33:44

clothing, as

33:46

you can imagine, we always say it

33:48

and it's this kind of stereotype and it's

33:50

a stereotype that's real. Japanese

33:52

people wear

33:55

Quite similar clothes in general for

33:57

their work wear. The

34:00

Clean: They're always for you to fully

34:02

turned out and they really do take

34:04

care of their clothes. They just know

34:06

how to. Wash dry, prepare

34:08

their client like every pet like this.

34:10

T shirts is just just ruin, absolutely

34:12

ruin us and them and and and

34:14

I don't know how to look after

34:16

my clothes and and that's why they

34:18

fall to bits of frequently but the

34:20

people of them that is people use

34:22

of donate the close to these mode

34:24

of shops that they just taken care

34:26

of their clothes and if you're a

34:28

big fan of like camp second clothing

34:30

it's such a good place to go

34:32

because they you just get so much

34:34

for your money in their really reasonably

34:37

be priced. See the ads very

34:39

weak at the moment. so yes it

34:41

is. He can get a i mean

34:43

overseas. First, they wanna stay close In

34:45

in in in the mode often. Let

34:47

them let let them enjoy their best

34:49

lives. Secession? Absolutely. or so I decide.

34:51

If I said fifth Street a second

34:53

street right? Wrong. Aca minutes. That's cool.

34:55

It's really fun as well. Rummaging through

34:57

secondhand stores in Japan lot of don't

34:59

do it for close often thought that

35:01

electronic system a half eaten in an

35:03

electronics over my shoulder have it probably

35:05

from hauled off. Ah, including this. Telephone.

35:09

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