Cycling in Japan: Biking Biwa on our 10 Year Anniversary
so this is the most japanese thing i've seen in the last few minutes looks amazing we are on day three and we have uh we've saddled up the ponies and we hit out of the uh the little place that we were saying and i would like to point out something if you have never been here for the for this experience the water pressure in japan is on another level guys like for real like you don't need soap you just like blast off the the germs is incredible um so power what do they call so we are going to probably have a problem in a second because the car is coming let's move forward nope he turned where did katie go you know what i held strong you did you uh uh we today today may also be the third day that we're out but it's also the 10th year that we've been married oh yeah yeah today it's april 1st right now so it's our 10-year anniversary today this is what we're doing for anniversary and you've got some things booked for the evening so we actually already have a hotel which is more than the previous couple days we didn't have anything we have a hotel we have a hotel we have possible dinner reservations but that's through a facebook message so you know essentially that we aren't going to be going super far today right how many kilometers about 27 from the hotel which we've done 0.5 so it's 26.5 do we have any time frame that we have to be there by i'd like to be there before six o'clock what time is it now it is i don't know like 9 30. uh okay yeah that's about it i hope not we got out of there it's nine it's 8 52. oh it's still in the eight o'clock yeah so um but i can tell you right now that the uh time issue we're gonna have is that i'm gonna need to go pee and i'd like to get the next 4.2 kilometers down before i have to use the bathroom let's film some videos it really puts the stress on the ladder yeah so we are currently heading to a bakery there were no bakeries where we are the closest bakery was uh five kilometers away so that's what we're going to do right that's the one we're heading to it's on our way so that's five kilometers down once we get there this will be a pretty easy day as far as the pedaling goes as far as the pedaling goes oh don't speak too soon things could change did things just change we've gotten to our bakery and it's really exciting i love japanese bakeries we talk about this all the time that's why we came here oh yeah happy anniversary so they have got some things that are kind of interesting we got some of the things that are kind of interesting i think i got the thing that wasn't interesting but it smelled really good yeah you could i just got garlic bread but it's it you got to open it up and it's got a cool vibe when you open it up you want to give us a taste test on the garlic brush somebody's going to photoshop that angle did you yeah um i got the most interesting thing i got my start with actually even though it's the sweet thing they're selling this thing and it looks like a tree stuff it looks like a tree that's why that's why they're calling it it looks like a tree song okay and it's called the character like winnie the pooh and please tell me you're looking up a picture of winnie the pooh so that you can illustrate everyone no and then koshikake means like to sit kind of so it's like his stool his stomach and it is full of honey which is that's what i'm going to be into right i really like what they call when you need a poop how are you going to get in there it's cakey yeah it does look cakey the top is really moist but the sides are really crunchy but the best thing about going to bakeries with eric is he gets all the stuff that i want to have one bite of it's kind of like an egg batter it's almost like i don't know like um is that the right thing like a french toast it tastes like a french toast bread oh that's exactly what that says french toast another thing that i got this one's a little smaller it looks like it's a little smaller it looks like it's big but wait hold on it basically disappears it's really thin this is a walnut and cheese thing yeah so you've got kind of like a walnut pastry down here that's covered in a slat of cheese it's standard it's fine it tastes like when you get these types of things japanese bakeries it's like all of them it's just exciting looking cool looking and um i need a fuel for the fire and the last thing i got honestly i don't remember what it was called but it has this is like a little bun it doesn't look interesting at all no um but it looks dirty it has cream cheese and tomato maybe we could have bought the cream cheese from here yeah and we got a bunch of bagels for tomorrow morning as well bagels are rare in japan they're coming in they're coming into season here in japan i went to a bakery that's near our house and they had bagels and i touched it and it was like soft bread i was like you don't know what you're doing outers it's not a pizza vibe that's that's that's good this one's really good this is probably the best tasting of them so that video ended a little bit abruptly because unlike all other restaurants that we've been in and have been filming in where there's sufficient social distancing which was happening in this building um there was also a sign that said that if you don't have your mask on don't talk and we didn't see the sign and we were obviously talking so the girl came over and was i mean she was really polite about it she's like please like don't you talk you got to put a mask on if you're going to talk or whatever you're like oh okay my bad so then we just ate the rest of our food without talking which is fine because that's the rules in a way it would have been nice to have known that from the beginning i thought like if i had seen that sign it would have been cute to just sit there and be quiet and eat our stuff yeah we could have just had we could have shown what we were eating and stuff and then one of those things without saying anything we could have a fun change some limitations are fun um the only other thing that we had that i didn't mention is i had a little cafe all day it was it was fine it was cute it came with like a little couple of biscuits i got bonus biscuits yeah you did get bonus because kids didn't share any of those bonuses i think it's time to pedal though are you ready to go yep do you have enough fuel for the fire i think so i got enough garlic for days oh boy there's my beautiful bride of ten years with your sexy dragon breath yeah there's not really a water front type thing it goes a whole bunch of different roads there might be like the slow one here but i don't really know the situation is that the uh the by ichi course which is the course that runs along the lake for bike riding and we had mentioned in the past it's just markers on the ground that you can follow it's really easy there are actually two of them and sometimes they're conjoined and sometimes they're not there's the fast course for people who are like on like really good road bikes that are burning rubber and maybe doing the whole thing in a day or whatever and then there is the slow course for schlubs like us on decent but you know regular bikes who cannot stop whenever the goddamn they want yeah yeah it's not a race for us some people are coming here and doing it like it's a thing you know meeting you all the time my bike is in front what are you talking about i'm winning right now so um over there is bad we have kind of been bouncing back and forth between the two depending on different circumstances but we're now just kind of riding through a town and it's sort of not very picturesque and i noticed that the ground says fast course so now we're like okay where's the slow course and that's not a thing we can figure out so we are thinking the slow course might be over by the water where it might be a little more picturesque but we're not really 100 certain what are you what are you doing i've got brochures oh she's got brochure that might help or do they have enough detail to show us like to this degree of course when i was to find out we haven't really used them right now when i was first looking up this this trek i was like how long is the course and it was really hard to figure it out because there isn't just one course basically and people don't really talk about both of them so it's just like it's about 200 kilometers depending on how you cut it and there are some places that we've completely cut off because of the landslide stuff in the first day we didn't see landslides just that the roads are closed from landslides and then you can cut off a southern part of it if you need to or whatever so it's kind of complicated did you figure our thing out yeah so the pink one shows the family course it's no longer fast course slow course on this brochure and the purple one shows the fast course and we look like we might be way over off the purple one yeah it looks like we're on the purple one so we could probably head that way and find more leisurely but i think longer road that's my my impersonation because it looks like it curves more stuff this is more of a straight shot on the main roads riding with traffic isn't the greatest thing in the world either actually we might be on the slow one no the road says fast oh you're right for sure yeah and sometimes they do combine we might be in this yeah we're in that we are on the fast one there's a slow one the slow one's actually over there oh we're somewhere over there okay so probably just stay on this one until we get to where they merge and then try to stay i want to be like near the water i guess is what it comes down to that's like the nice area i want to be wherever there aren't bumps and that usually tends to be in the street with the cars i i will take the frightening route so that my butt doesn't hurt i think one of my favorite things about this ride there's a multitude of things that could be favorites but i'm really enjoying the mountains they're kind of reminding me of the dinosaurs that went down into the water on kauai um not in every shape but we have seen ones that get kind of close to the water at least look like they're going for a drink and i don't know like i find myself looking more at the mountains than i'm looking at the lake really yeah i'm disenchanted by the lake in the sakura i can't believe oh yeah how many sakura there are there's thousands of them it's really wonderful the timing we've hit is just amazing so we've switched bikes temporarily and this thing is way way too small for me and i don't think she can touch the ground so i'm not sure how she's gonna get down this is no good dude your seat is angled like it's crushing my nerds this is terrible give me my bike back bro let's see you get off this thing can you do it oh it's not bad but look how high the seat is yeah i really felt like i was up there touching the sky thinking about falling from that high it's only like a few more inches above the world from my seat still feels terrifying i definitely should not be writing something this small like put your foot up on the high pedal like this yeah yeah that's like yeah i don't know if i've ever actually ridden a bike that was even close to the right size for me like as an adult but this is amazing i really am enjoying riding that bike i it makes bicycling not terrible like in my head i was always like it kind of sucks but it's not that bad if you have the right equipment that's the wrong equipment after a couple of days of cruising through the actual countryside we have definitely come down into the part of the lake where there is a city and we are headed to the further south we go the more into kyoto we get and kyoto is a pretty substantial buildup of stuff it's a city for sure so we are on the outskirts of that now not that ridiculously far from it and you can see i mean there's like there's a there's a dominoes like behind me like that's a dominoes and then this is like a starbucks-y style something i've never seen this what is it called green berries coffee i've never heard of that before but it looks like a drive-through starbucks oh yeah that's a starbucks format to a tee we're not in the countryside anymore not any not even close yeah so um we are going to be doing the southern part of the loop there's a place where you can cross a giant bridge that's kind of towards the southern part and a lot of people will do that and it cuts off probably 30 or 40 kilometers or something which goes around the southern basin of the lake and we are going to do the entire thing because we have enough time to do it and we've calculated that it looks good and also that's where the pizza tonight is so we're going to be doing the entire thing and i think is it possible that it's only fast course around the southern part oh and it looks like they almost say it's only slow course oh interesting they overlay the pink over the purple it gets a little bit hard we talked about this minute ago of course but it gets a little hard to follow where the fast course and the slow course diverge yeah when when when we merged into where both of them were riding together i made sure to look at all the different things and now it's just saying fast fast i have seen ones that say fast slow fast for sure so i'm surprised that's not happening here and looking on the map it does look like we're in a part where they are merged and we'll need to be on the lookout for where slow leaves yeah but yeah i mean we are for certain in a city but basically it was what i was gonna do what i was getting into and we are gonna do the entire guacamole we are going to do the whole guacamole is that the right word it's called a lake we're gonna do the whole thing we're doing the southern basin too we're not actually we are [ __ ] up hardcore are we yeah we're completely missing the bridge we somehow got stuck but we don't want to go across the bridge we don't want to go across the bridge but i want to go look at it oh i figured it's possible yeah and in this area fast people don't go anywhere near the bridge and slow people move over let's move over and see if we can get a view of the bridge so we're like right here okay so we should head down that way and go check out the bridge let's see the bridge here's a little logistics thing that we haven't had any problems with at all there have been plenty of bathrooms had to hit a bathroom i mean we're kind of in an urban area so there's little parks but they're kind of little parks even in the countryside and then there have been convenience stores that we've been able to use and stuff but um yeah i mean there's i'll show you the little bathroom in here it's nothing important but it's just a little uh little place to go inside of a park very standard stuff for a japanese bathroom and uh unfortunately if you gotta do that one you gotta do that one but luckily luckily that wasn't my situation we are on a floating temple right now it is gorgeous it's out over the water it is ancient looking and we had to cross like a little bridge and go under a limbo type tree that was going over the bridge it's just very picturesque and was never really even mentioned and honestly i didn't even catch a glimpse of it until we were looking at that brochure this morning so it's really lucky that we happen to just decide maybe we should look at this brochure behind me you can see the bridge that we were talking about earlier we got closer to it but it really didn't look interesting and it kind of still doesn't look interesting it's a bridge it's real functional instead of taking that bridge we are going to go that way we're going we're going over there pizza is over there hotel is over there um you really need to get on the bike and got about at least 18 to 20 more kilometers depending on whether the slow route has extra girth those are nice we're stopped here at a 7-eleven for a few minutes katie i don't know why she went in maybe she needed to use the bathroom or something i don't know but we're stopped here and as we parked next to the 7-eleven i saw the little 7-eleven delivery mobile this is a little electric car they have that they use to do deliveries of 7-eleven goods so you can buy things on the internet and they will bring them to you and the campaign that they talked about in the past that has been the reason behind this is like the aging population etcetera etcetera it lets older people be able to order things and they can bring them to them it's a nice little service but i'm just specifically interested in the little vehicle it looks really cool i love how small it is i love the little mesh doors on the side this is cute and uh it's a little electric car this has got me thinking i keep seeing these little vehicles and there's a lot of quirky vehicles in japan and i was talking to katie i was like wouldn't it be cool if we took like uh doug demure's cat doug demure has how you say it doug dumour i can't remember how he pronounced his last name exactly but you know the car guy that's like the quirks and features dude we took his format and we did something like that in japan where we found weird little cars like this and then reviewed them and then drove them around and showed like off all the quarks and features i think that might be kind of a cool idea but i don't know if it's a good idea to steal somebody else's jib you know what i mean traveling outside of tokyo our main goal is to eat at restaurants we don't have access to inside of the city because i mean they're traveling eat things you can't normally eat and who's there is fire happening and we have come across a little chain restaurant as we've been biking down the road and it is a chain restaurant that i have never seen before it's called uh however you want to say that part of the word i guess it's from the area i don't know it's not something i'm familiar with but they have got uh different types of dong buddies and as we say all the time donggudi is rice with stuff on top and that's what we've got a couple of bowls of rice with stuff on top mine is a miso yuzu dongburi so it's going to be pork that has been cooked and then i have got a couple of sauces on the side that look like they might be the miso and yuzu is like a japanese citrus it's like a lemon pen in that area but before i get into the sauces i thought i would just give the give this a shot just as it it's is kind of like a we have a chinese foodie taste vibe um that's very standard stuff it looks like it's also been sure it's served with some sugar so some ginger so let me get into what we got going on here got a little i'm guessing this is a miso base and then there's a yuzu base there you can taste this yeah it's a miso it's mixed with something it's really rich flavor uh i'm just gonna go in why not and then i will throw the other one in looks like a little bit less probably a quarter of that amount and this i'm assuming is usually just based on the color yeah it's really sour like super super sour citrus flavor and i'm just gonna do the thing i like when they let you get the sauces on but they've measured them out for you you already know how much to use but you get to do the pouring the pouring is fun and that is hella delicious it's really really good the sourness is like right on top of the flavor which is incredibly good it's a set with a salad soup and some pickled stuffs and the set was i don't know 970 yen i think it's under under 10 so yeah i'm i'm super over the moon and i was talking to katie yesterday about how um when you're out doing tons of exercise sometimes food that maybe wouldn't be like amazing becomes super amazing for some reason if you're burning all these calories you're exercising getting those brain endorphins and anything you eat is incredible so i'm wondering if this is actually incredibly incredible i think it is but maybe it's just because of the bike endorsements i don't know we are making good time for the day so we decided uh why don't we go and see something that actually was promoted by someone who has been to the area before and said they liked going up into the mountains to look at the lake so we're heading over to a cable car but on the way there there was a high-speed collision and by high speed i mean i was just standing still and the bike got off kilter and i fell over and it's not bad i know it's not bad but the gear sliced my leg a little bit and i had grease all over me but i cleaned it up um yeah it's really the first injury though aside from your ass which is this could all change in flames we shouldn't be talking about this just inviting bad stuff so this is the most japanese thing i've seen in the last few minutes looks amazing sakura fubuki is when the sakura pedals are following it's a thing that's happening right now and it's magical it's the hell of a hill we're not riding to the top of the mountain fosho because we rode to the top of where you get on the cable car holy crap uh wasn't super intense but it was enough for me to go i will ride the cable car 3 200 yen later we're definitely gonna ride the cable car it's a little more expensive than we expected we thought it was going to be a thousand per person it was 1600 plus per person which is fine because i'm gonna sit down for a little bit and let this little amazing cable car do all the work walking on these cable cars is pretty weird because they're slanted at a weird angle and like you're on a track at a different angle and you're walking up but you feel like you're walking down at the same time yeah like you aren't making any elevation progress and this feels like um similar to all the other cable cars i've been in japan this one does feel a little bit bigger and apparently this is the longest cable car route in the country it says it takes 11 minutes and we asked how long it takes to walk back and down and she told us an hour and a half to two hours so it's going a fairly significant distance oh she's over estimating for sure no i kind of wonder if she was talking about going up no no no i specifically sat down i wonder if she heard it i'm curious about that i don't know i'll take the cable car down and you can walk and we'll find out us we've done our 11 minutes in our cable car and we are about two kilometers away from where we began so it's pretty far right and you go uh you just you know go up a hill basically like this i like cable cars there's something cool about it it feels a little bit dangerous you know what i mean like this is one cable like yanking you up i know there's like things built under the system so if the cable broke it would just click back a little bit i know that but it's still you know if you don't think about those things it makes it a bit like a roller coaster on the up part of the roller coaster uh so yeah we've got up here and it's neat we can see the lake and that's really cool normally but it's especially cool because of what we've been doing we've been using our human power legs to go around it and you can't even see the entire lake in which we've ridden around because of the haze and the distance and stuff but you can see like the big bridge that we saw earlier today and it looks a long way away from where we're standing but i mean we basically pedaled all but the two kilometers to this point to get there so like it just helps you quantify actual distance having actually pedaled it rather than having ridden in a car or something like that uh it's it's pretty it's a lake and it i feel accomplished even though i'm not done hopefully we'll be done and we'll be safe and it'll be what two days with two more days right yep yeah two more days so two more days of pedaling and then we will have conquered the whole thing are feeling about this hike not too good would you rather be doing that on a bike no so since lunch we have come up from basically down in this area somewhere down here that connects all the way up to here there's about a two kilometer ride and then we hit up the cable car the cable car doing his other two kilometer ride went up through the tunnel is this map not awesome it went up up up up up bam landed here and the train comes every half an hour so we've already kind of chilled up here for about 30 to 40 minutes we have walked around this kind of alcove of trees like this is just a drop off right here and we've walked around that and we're chilling at the map which is coco right here they didn't mark it but it's right here this temple complex comes very highly recommended but considering that we have a 10 more kilometers to do today we're just gonna glimpse some bright orange things in the green out and just enjoy the walk also it's a thousand yen to get in there and we don't have enough time to enjoy justify a thousand yen mask on i was able to expose this really well oh yeah is it going well for you uh no it's really washed out but yeah are were you joking about it okay hold on deadpan i can oh you can't see your mouth it's hard to read oh all of it's in my mouth yeah i can i'm starting to pull in the background of the lake but you my darling are now very very dark yeah so yeah it's hard to i'll see if i can get you purple there you're probably properly exposed right about there but again nothing nothing over there this is the world of photography you want to walk yep so i just wanted to kind of discuss that i came from kyoto hanging out with friends i had a suitcase full of stuff for a weekend of like friend activities like non-sweaty eating parfaits with your friends that was the stuff that i had i sent all that off with a friend after really really thinking to myself what do i need for this adventure because the suitcase is the opposite of what you need yes trying to put that suitcase on my bike would look real stupid um so before leaving tokyo i had kind of put all of my sports gear not that i'm real sporty or whatever i'd put all my sports gear and a backpack um to the side at eric's smart request um basically what that consists of is i have a bunch of like airy sports shirts that are short sleeved and i brought all of them that i own so we have five of them right now and then i've got kind of like a long sleeve shirt that goes underneath which you've already seen this i was wearing it earlier today when i had my jacket off and then i've just brought my jacket and i've got a crap ton of like sports bras like just keeping the bangers in check and um let's see was there anything else sunscreen to the max and you just want to talk about what you brought yeah and i i have like these exercise pants and underneath i'm actually wearing like spandex this is for an extra cushion um that doesn't really do anything and um just a bit more so that if there's any like kind of chafing maybe it happens to this to the spandex instead and like mega underwear and um the rest of the story is that katie sent her suitcase back to tokyo with a friend who she was hanging out with so he took it on the train and took it back so we didn't have to deal with any of that which is something and then i brought her stuff up that she would need for the biking adventure yeah so that'll work so i basically just transitioned with two people carrying my luggage what royalty am i we didn't really even like come up with the idea to come and do this trip until the day basically the day that i was before she yeah she was leaving in all honesty you hadn't pulled the trigger until i was already in kyoto for a full day oh yeah yeah yeah and that's when i was like man yeah so we just had to like figure out how what are we gonna do with our bag you know what i mean there's coin walkers in japan but usually you can't put a bag in a coin locker for five days yes like they'll eventually be like what is the story here for and they'll throw it away or who knows what happens i don't know yeah so i kind of feel like when i was in kyoto i kind of just threw everything back in my bag and i was like whatever is it with eric is what i'm going to survive on and shockingly i feel like i am surviving yeah you i think everything is going pretty well as far as out here i don't feel like i've needed anything nor that um i oh um band-aids was the one thing that i sent off with we've been fortunate with the weather too it had some memorandum so it was raining i don't know what would happen we aren't really prepared for that i had my uh raincoat in the other the only thing notable for me you can take this is this is a rare occurrence you don't normally see this but i'm wearing shorts where you can see my knees i don't really like this i feel exposed i don't like having my knees out usually i wear shorts that are like down there even if it makes me look like a bum so this is a bit rare but these have been going nice like it's all right i say i don't like wearing these but these are my running shorts so i do wear them but just not like out you know what i mean running and going out and running and then like going out and doing stuff or two different things in my mind so i feel a little bit naked to feel like i'm hanging a ball or something but other than that i'm just wearing my normal clothes what about what's around your neck oh um this is when i go around if i want to cover my mouth i'm around people or whatever that's the thing that i use because i'm wearing a normal mask is nightmare-esque so this is okay and it's actually been pretty nice because when i'm on the bike it's wearing around my neck and it's keeping the sun off of my neck uh because you've been getting a little cooked oh yeah my feet are really red and the back of my my back of my leg is getting burnt and stuff i don't care about my legs burning i mean i don't want it to happen but i definitely don't want my head burning that sucks so that's how i've dressed the goal for the evening is actually in sight just off in the distance the tallest building that you can see right next to a bridge is our hotel i'm gonna point at it now oh my god i don't know if i can line it up and you can't really remember we were talking about the exposure thing be able to do fix your eyeballs again maybe i can see it i don't know it's somewhere over there yeah so it's a really tall building and it's 15 minutes walk from a pizza shop and it's over there 10 kilometers away and we're gonna make our way there and enjoy some tasty beverage did he just one-up me he went up to everybody now going back down the hill and it's way easier than up the hill it's time for fika we've come back to the area when we rode up the hill and it was all these incredibly beautiful sakura trees with these stone statues and the petals were falling it's like snowing the petals it's beautiful and uh it's fika time we've got ice cream and you went in there and found a i'm assuming this is a sakura cream a softer cream they always have all these stuff we made a video about this in the past it's like how do you quantify that flavor and they're a bit it tastes like runny because cherry they're a bit runny because yeah cherry for the cherry blossom um tastes kind of like soda cherry soda um it's a bit runny because eric was trying to capture pictures of petals falling i'm just standing there with the ice cream i'm trying to like the wind blows and it blows on the other side of the street and then you cross the street and then it blows on the other other side of the street and you just like i need one trying to get this big like storm of petals falling down gotta camp out i remember one time when we were in ueno park you and i were there and it was during we were drinking martinis we were drinking martinis and there were there were it was in the daytime and there was a big gust of wind underneath the mall and in a window park during that time there i mean it's crowded you can't find a place to sit it's like every people are everywhere thousands of people were there and a huge gust and all these petals came down everybody there gasped at it and it's like a moment frozen in my mind mine too that's kind of what i live for when it comes to hanami that moment yeah where everybody just goes and you're all together in it it's cool i decided to go all out and spend 8 000 yen on a hotel room for our anniversary our 10-year anniversary that's like two that's a lot of money it's not real i know it's not a lot of money but i found a coupon for luxury a nice hotel a big hotel obviously when we were looking from the mountain the biggest hotel on the horizon and uh when you find that coupon you get a rocket um weird thing that we're already noticing there's some sort of like safety sticker on the door look at this guy yes there it is cleaned and disinfected for your security normal or if it's occurring about corona stuff green holy crap can you take the camera i gotta get our stuff before the lady comes yeah the lady took all of our stuff and put it on a cart and it was really confusing and we've decided that luxury comes with like a massive amount of confusion and not only on our part but like of the staff the staff doesn't seem lubricated enough to like be making the efforts that they're making like one person runs away with this ticket that's supposed to get our luggage while the other one's holding the cart with our luggage on it and the one that's holding our cart with the luggage on it is staring at us like where's your ticket and i'm like she walked in the other direction with the ticket okay that's that's enough of me ranting about that okay shoes off i don't know if we can do a full long-winded tour right now because we have to get to the pizza place we do have to take a shower but at the very least wow for a japanese this is the biggest japanese hotel room it's our 10-year anniversary they gave us twins did you like no genitals yes yes i did i told them that it was our because i figure you know it's not every day that you have a 10-year anniversary so nobody said anything to us or anything if anybody was going to do anything it might be the hotel but as we can tell this hotel is not lubricated enough to uh to facilitate a 10-year anniversary you got to bring your own lube on your 10-year anniversary but somebody who also knows that it's our 10-year anniversary is the pizza people let's see what they do i was hoping to have a little more dead on that way but i guess it really doesn't matter it's gonna be dark by time we come back what does it matter my breakfast in the morning my bagels all right we got our sundae best on for our uh anniversary dinner hold on oh wait what do you got you got something special oh yeah all the bells baby all the bells you got the taco bells yep all the taco bells and i actually already wore this shirt once i already wore this shirt once to a pedaling you know priority is not looking fashionable the priority is making sure you focus on having a good time and doing the things you love for your anniversary and that you have a functional wardrobe for what the [ __ ] you're doing i put my knees away success uh can you show us the bathroom facilities we missed that when we came in oh i gotta stand up yeah you gotta stand up dude you do look pretty chill out well you want that pizza you gotta stand up anyways oh i gotta stand up for the pizza yeah domino's don't deliver baby this is this is a really long walk for a japanese hotel like this is a voyage oh it's got a little sink in there too like a like a sink sink and not like i didn't even notice it like it's got a sink you got to push a button oh wow it's not like the flush sink you know what i'm talking about the flashlight did you flush this toilet i did but i didn't pay attention did you put you did the button you have to push this but then look at that oh yeah that that to me is really gross that to me is public toilet you're kind of right i thought of it as no it doesn't that guy's coming out and killing somebody it quickly flushed and then the shower is immaculately clean like i put my feet on it and i could feel how clean it was i really enjoyed that but the shower pressure in this shower is half of what it was one fourth of what it was at the other place um so or at other places we've been on this trip and i mean there's not a whole lot it's a pretty big tub like i would fit in that tub which is surprising and then uh just your normal like japanese shower stuffs over here that's all i used but yeah it was functional it didn't blow me out of the building that's for sure and this is what we're looking for i think what is this thing called is there a word for this you might call it like a vanity but normally those would have chairs in front of them this i would just call the sink i would call that the sink unless it has somewhere for me to really relax and like get my looking at myself on and i tried to do some looking at myself but this is so dark you can hardly see anything like i was trying to check to see if i had any like whole hairs growing out of the moles or whatever you know all right so it's time to roll yeah oh what's behind this mystery door what is this oh it's just a pole it literally is just a pole and i think you might be able to turn on some sort of air con to dry a towel or something i don't know um i'm gonna put my towel there but it kind of feels like if nothing's going down there it might not actually be getting dry yeah so i was kind of worried about that and i don't know how to turn that apparatus there's an air con button like over here maybe that's some sort of that system now that this looks like temperatures and stuff off on yeah hey uh fill me for a second something else that's uh i should have surprised everybody with this but there's a bed button that turns on this beam in the back that's actually pretty cool okay i gotta give i gotta give the luxury uh a point there and then come over here i'm not really sure exactly what's going on but look down here see this guy that hole oh leave it on at night time oh yeah yeah oh it's kind of cute a mouse might come out yeah he might not be able to sleep okay let's go get some food i feel that it's actually important to show all the levels of luxury which right now the levels of luxury are random lights everywhere a lamb boat over here shooting out a rainbow over here christmas tree [ __ ] it is april i don't know what they're doing but they're committing to it so i can't i certainly can't like snub my nose at that um we're gonna go inside the rest of the hotels to pretty much the same inside we've had some wine by the way should i explain more about that you said we're gonna do it upstairs so we'll talk about dinner upstairs okay we're going to talk about dinner upstairs got to put your mask on because you're going to encounter staff that might try to do more for you than you want them to do hands are clean man she blasted through the temperature ah 36.5 what are you
what what's in you there'd be a six point five i don't know i don't know i just do whatever number is me is better this is the hotel we're staying in there's some sort of fountain over here they did have this rainbow lit up for a while that was kind of nice there's an escalator here to nowhere um we haven't been over this far so we are adventuring into this together they have shops over in that area and they were open earlier and i assume like you get a crepe here or something like that some sort of ice cream situation this looks like ice cream and beverages cruise ship kind of to be honest with you very much feels like a cruise ship let's ride the elevator elevator goes really fast you have to go past the fountain again though you want to avoid anyone who works here and also anyone who's staying here just avoid them convenience is closed oh man we were going to use that combining for nothing because we went to the super and we got all our needs met you got to keep being entertaining kitty i can't be entertaining look how look how fast this elevator goes we're going to the 16th floor 16th floor closing them doors are you doing the social distance thing i'm here well i need to go over here and then now you turn ah you gotta face the wall hands up some sort of like illegal [ __ ] is going on i have to pee really bad and we're already here [ __ ] is fast yeah that's 16-4 that's amazing cooking the bacon man we're faster than you pedal that's for sure but we're in we're in room 19 and that's way down the hallway oh it's toilet paper i thought it was the sakura so i apologize for not bringing everybody along for the food review but to be honest with you it's our anniversary and there was also a small child there that i [ __ ] like adamantly ignored after engaging the child i realized i'm trying to have an adult moment so yeah yeah she was the little girl was great she was but it was just like you know what i mean like she was just kind of poking her head around the corner and stuff and eventually i think her mom told her like you need to give them a little bit of room or she got bored or she got bored because we didn't like engaging but we played with her for a little bit and then it was just like we have a bottle of wine and we want to have our anniversary dinner together you can have a really stupid time with you or with him you choose um so the pizza place was i mean it was it was good it was it was fantastic i think so here's the deal about like japanese people give japanese pizza a bad rap and the thing is if you go to domino's or something and get like a pizza with a bunch of shrimp and like weird stuff in the crust and stuff yeah it's weird but it's overpriced and not very good but you can definitely find good pizza in japan if you go to like italian style pizzerias or whatever if you look for a brick oven you will be happy yeah that's how i feel and that's how i picked where we were going to go tonight not cheap because these pizzas were 1600 yen or something a piece so like they're not very big that's the deal you got to keep that this dinner almost cost as much as our room and that's a bottle of wine two pizzas and a salad yep yeah it was 7 600 yen for dinner but the bottle of wine was nearly 4 000 yen and uh so the people that ran the place they were like the the husband has lived in new zealand they're pretty young couple um but the husband had lived in new zealand for six years and everything was kind of themed around that they had new zealand wines and they had um the name of the place it was like a new zealand name or whatever it was the name of a city taopo yeah and we chatted with them a bunch and they were just like wonderful people very chill and they gave us this uh shuchu that um there we go did it do it stupid thing okay there we go no it's so sticky it like really wants your face you gotta put your face behind the bottle with me i've decided that you need to do b-roll b-roll yeah yeah i think this time by myself you need to do that it's possible holding it too close like it can't focus or something wait no it's look at that it's beautiful look at all that i'm lost oh maybe we should just cover anyways so anyways she gave us this stuff and she gave us this because it was our anniversary yeah i had sent a facebook message earlier today i said basically it's our 10-year anniversary can we get a reservation for 7 p.m tonight um on 4-1 and they wrote back like oh congratulations yes we can totally give you a reservation we arrived at seven we're the only people in the whole place and we didn't reserve the entire restaurant like other people ended up coming in later but it's just a whole restaurant it's kind of nice to make that connection they were really excited that we were there and i was excited to get to peruse whatever they were making because they made a special kind of pizza okay yeah it's an aggie pizza it's like a fried pizza so they fold it in and then they lightly deep fry it and we don't know how lightly deep frying happens but i thought it was really cool what was that that was my phone hitting a big piece of metal yeah that's safe it's all good phones are indestructible now i don't even know where my phone is it might be at the pizza place that's true but that only means more friendship so we got the age pizza and then we got the cuatro excuse me yeah that one and uh yeah the pizzas were great and the it was uh it was fine it was we had a good we had a good 10-year anniversary meal and now we're gonna jump into this and it says it's two percent juice and eight percent booze and it comes from shiga prefecture it is made from shiga ashbury so we're currently in shiga prefecture yeah and she gave us this as a we actually have two of these but i think we'll stick with one for now because we already had a glass of we only had a bottle of wine between the two of us and i am a lightweight like i at least three bottles or three bottles three glasses and i think you had one and a half he told us to put this in ice but we don't have ice so we're gonna just have seems frosty enough [ __ ] it's pretty good man it just tastes like berries it doesn't taste like alcohol it just tastes like delicious berry juice yeah shit's ten percent though no it's eight percent it's two percent eight tips oh no so anyways the rest of our evening i just had the anniversary video that you will have probably seen by now if you follow all of our videos i'm putting that online in a few minutes so that's going to be my evening and then i think i'm going to fall asleep because it is uh bicycle days and bicycle days are early nights of sleep and we still have to figure out what time we're getting up and leaving tomorrow we're waking up about seven so i think we can just stick with that man it's too early it's like it's 8 30 now how am i gonna get up that early if you get up in the earlier you contend with it just being really cold outside in the morning yeah and we don't really have coats so the first thing i say to you almost every morning it's really cool yeah and i'm wearing as like not max layers but i'm wearing more layers than one would need in what i want which is just i want to wear a jacket all the time i like jackets yeah i think i don't even think you agree with that why are you saying yeah i like a hoodie you're like a hoodie yeah i like it to cover me from the sun all right let's do it let's push the record button to stop the recording oh i'm just like are we now going to record yeah this is fun it's just been off all right see y'all later you can clearly see the gears eric i'm very busy right now i just finished you are in the middle of this book i just finished another video in it and when you do the end card thing where you remember all the things that we need to promote okay you got it yeah i like just dropping in here and just throwing it at you you got the facebooks and twitters and the instagrams and they gotta ring the bell and then there's probably some other bell like a new bell now um and some sort of notifications things and subscribe and probably just watch more videos and um then uh the twitch and yeah twitch which is the thing i'm pushing hard now if you're a twitch person come hang out with me on twitch because it's fun to hang out with people want to play video games and sometimes i go outside and we twitch outside yeah so that's the thing that's happening so if you're a twitch person yeah come hang out and then of course the way that we make all our videos is through patreon and if you want to check that out that'd be great there's perks and you get videos early in names in the end card and postcards and all sorts of fun stuff so yeah uh patreon postcards oh yeah wait what do you need to do them no oh you just got to finish them we printed them and everything but they got to be made okay i got it i got to write the notes they've been addressed everyone's name's on a postcard but it says nothing right now so anyway there'll be more from biwa coming soon and then other stuff as well we went camping this will be a video about that kind of camping kind of camping kind of camping we went kind of camping so look forward to that see y'all later do do you
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