Is Osaka Better Than Tokyo? JAPAN
[Music] good morning everyone here from the city of Osaka in Japan we arrived here a few days ago this is one of the major cities here in Japan really been looking forward to visiting this place the area that we stay in in is called nishar looks kind of old we've even seen some abandoned buildings around here and right now we're making our way to the famous Osaka Castle I think it's pretty close on the on the Underground on the Metro and now the cherry blossom season is in full bloom so in this video we should be seeing like the cherry blossoms at their best can actually already see one right now behind that gate the fence so we'll be seeing a lot more of [Music] that dutu and my station so we're just getting the tickets 240 person I still have some credit on my swiet card 245 so I'll use [Applause] [Music] that wow so even besides the cherry blossoms got other really beautiful plants and flowers super pink this one this isn't the cherry blossom though is it no but it's beautiful beautiful as well yeah we're also lucky that the skies are so clear so it's going to look really nice today so when we were in Tokyo we visited the Edo Castle another famous castle there wasn't actually much to see inside of that one so we'll see if this Castle is a bit more impressive I think that one the majority of it was just d ride wasn't it yeah and also we couldn't go inside because the royal family still live there yeah still live there so but I think this one we are going inside cuz I already bought the tickets online to skip the line yeah you said it was 600 per person yes yeah we read that if you don't get the tickets online you'll have to queue up and some people said it took over an hour to queue there is a lot of people here and here we go the the Cherry botom straight away at the entrance beautiful yeah so in Tokyo we had a few attempts but the trees were always dead it's been a lot colder this year so it's coming like 2 3 weeks late compared to normal that's the real deal isn't it Mom fantastic isn't it that's what I was expecting all the time finally it's a tunnel yeah yeah it is a tunnel and the row of cherry blossoms are right next to the moat like we saw in Edo Castle yeah it does look bigger this one even the the walls around the m [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] more wedding photos yeah beautiful is yeah those are going to be some real nice wedding photos amazing ones to remember the architecture style seems to be the same as Edo Castle the the tow is there on the walls yeah so is looking very similar yeah basically everywhere you look around there's wedding photos going on there's another one over there another couple it's too beautiful this part looks even better like a really enclosed tunnel so I think in Japanese they call Cherry Blossom Sakura wow this one looks really pink some of them look white other ones look pink [Music] yeah we were planning on just going straight into the Castle Park a big distraction we didn't know there would actually be this many here at this park going around the castle really is just non-stop all the way around so one nice thing about Osaka is it's way less crowded than Tokyo we actually met a few people that they said they preferred Osaka over Tokyo so we'll see what we think like a place like this in Tokyo would just be an insane amount of people yeah yeah cuz I think this is the most uh touristic or busy place in Osaka and it's not that bad really so it came up these steps and we have an amazing Viewpoint we're still not in the paid part that we paid for that must be over there but you can see like the main tower I don't know if that's a palace can see people all the way at the top so we'll be going there and I think that's the same building we saw in the Shogun Series yeah we're finally watching the series and it's a really good series and I think the the main place is oaka and I think it's inside the this area or the castle I don't know some of the the moments in this series [Music] so we're going to head inside now even this part here isn't the paid part so I think you're only really paying just to go in that building super beautiful building though there's a more modern one here some sort of Cafe and Restaurant so construction of this Castle began in 1583 on under the rule of toyotomi hosi who was a Samurai and Lord at the time that ruled a lot of the land of Japan and then after he passed away his son took over and then the famous too gawa defeated his son and he ended up unifying Japan as we mentioned in many previous videos so this is why we bought the ticket online absolutely massive cube out there but we just go straight in [Music] so we're at the top now the eighth floor a lot of the floors you weren't allowed to film but it was like a museum I think two of the floors we could film I got some footage it was just explaining the wars that I mentioned when too gawa defeated the previous ruler yeah coming up here really gives you an idea of how big the castle is though the castle grounds I think that's the outer Moe isn't it don't know actually yeah it is here's the inner one that's the out to one [Music] [Music] I'm locally from Osaka I'm very glad to come my hometown thank you so much today [Music] yeah so it's 100% worth visiting that place a lot better than the Edo Castle just a lot more going on a lot more to see inside and it's been extra special because I've always wanted to see the cherry blossom season and like the park like this it was pretty much how I imagined really and yeah just a very nice experience a dream come true yeah [Music] so we're at Namba station now it's actually night time this is reminding a bit of Shinjuku station yeah it's very busy not as busy as Shinjuku but very busy for what we've seen in Osaka and there's also a mall inside of the like Station train station yeah so the part that we're in right now looks like a shopping mall we're just trying to find the exit we're also lost in here just like in Shinjuku so theh District that we're in is called do B so this is supposed to be like the popular nlife District of Osaka the famous one and I think we're just following this crowd cuz it said for us to go right here all right now it's looking more like Tokyo with these crowds you told me that you read that this place is never empty yeah on the reviews people were saying that only like 11 a.m. it's kind of kind of less busy but I think there's still people so it's never never empty got the mega Asahi advertisement billboard Mania so it's actually hard to film here people dodging but this is the part that I wanted to see I can do a boat tour that's cool so I think this is the do borei canal and that's the famous advertisement that you always see in the pictures glyco apparently it's been there since like the 1930s ended up being like an icon of Osaka yeah so it's cool cuz obviously in Tokyo we had the places with the lights at night but I don't remember being at one where you had like a little Canal going through where you can do a boat tour look at all the screens there yeah Netflix Netflix promotions are definitely in your face K [Music] bear I wonder where the boat goes yeah I don't know if it's like just a quick tour or if it goes somewhere [Music] else so we're going to go on a stroll along the canal since it's pretty relaxed compared to the other parts yeah what an awesome place to walk around you already know if you've been watching our videos that I like the the night strolls in Japan once again loads of cool bars too yeah you could get like a drink here with the iconic view yeah I'm not sure if there's a place that I like more than this in Osaka yeah I mean it's not a relaxed place but it's really cool check the Master Chef up there gigantic it's also some kind of like roller coaster right thing here wo I didn't know that was here [Music] [Music] [Music] so you crossed over you can get a better view of that ride now how big it is and just below that ride is where you can get on one of the boats I think there's a few different companies though Carol you found a a Ramen Place For Us yeah I think so and uh apparently they have vegetarian options hereo and nonvegetarian so I think it will be good for everybody sometimes it's hard to find food for me here yeah cuz a lot of them only have meat right not veggie and sometimes they don't have fish or just like fried food but I think this one will be good [Music] yeah so the area overall isn't actually that busy it's just that everyone's just in the same places like we're right next to where that big sign was and the bridge and here's pretty chill easy to walk around more laidback so the place that Carol was planning to go to had a massive queue in front of it so we're going to plan B we were really hungry and it didn't look like the queue was going anywhere no it was like the biggest queue I I saw in like for a restaurant today I don't know why and it was only foreigners maybe it's a famous place that's why you found it yeah really another queue oh God yeah it seems like everybody wants Ramen all right we'll continue on so we ended up giving up on the ramen cuz the reviews that we saw of the other places were only meat so we came to an Indian and Nepali place already got a shish kebab that right and a samosa vegetable s here good yeah it smells delicious and this time we're drinking a Kine beer never had that before it's actually really nice maybe I like it more than saporo and U Asahi I think that's 500 you got the mangol lassi right mangol lassi and a Japanese drink I I think it's shoe High Sho High something like that so I went for the chicken Tika the Brit's favorite that's 850 and then the namb bread was 350 and Carol got like a veggie set meal yeah uh I think alata set meal with the vegetables like salad and vegetable curry papadon I think a none with a potato inside yeah so that was a 350 did that include this yeah okay all of it yeah mine's pretty spicy I asked for mild um I've noticed that here when we've asked for mild it's actually very spicyy thank you thank you very much you have another beer please I have another one too yeah I think we've had about eight Indians in Japan so far we've ordered a lot of takeaways fantastic quality yeah yeah they're really good and everywhere we go there's full of Indian restaurants yeah well Indians our favorite food number one for us are you guys Indians number one I know he maybe Italian and Indian second Indian second for sure so we're heading back down another street now look at all the wacky like things sculptures that are coming out of the building got an octopus don't know what that is trying to take a picture yeah what is it like a baby yeah a baby and some fried food some skewers [Music] so we're in our neighborhood once again we're heading to a park that's supposed to be popular called teni Park it's a bit cloudy and cold now not so Sunny so we haven't walked around this part before some pretty Mega buildings that one's absolutely massive so we thought we were in like a pretty random neighborhood but we do have this park nearby and there's also like a popular shopping street that we'll check out so yeah there are some things to do around here so I think we just have to go up here cuz we got to cross over some tracks that are over here railway tracks and I'm guessing that you can go over this way it's like the one in Bangkok oh yeah uh the mod area of B just like this like a circular overpass identical 10 Sheba so the part that we're trying to get to is called tenji I don't know if ten shra is just this shopping part here I guess so so some people have mentioned in the videos about the mask wearing in Japan and yeah you can see loads of people still wear masks but I think apparently even before Co people would wear masks a lot anyway so it's just part of their culture got more of the cherry blossoms I think in a few days it'll be the end of the season right yeah from what it says online definitely glad we were here for it though [Music] wow so beautiful yeah it doesn't get old it's just really amazing yeah I definitely love to come to Japan in Autumn you always see those amazing pictures of like the Reds and oranges too be beautiful also carry lost some overload yeah so as you can see the this is a good part to come to if you're in Japan since there's so many and over there you got a tower I think it's another tower that you can go up I know at night it's liftting up we might be able to see that at night at some point [Music] so it seems like there was a battle here Battle of tanoi May 7th 1615 the last part of the summer war in Osaka and it was the legendary Toko go wow he had 155,000 people and toyot Tomi only had 55,000 so that must have been like a a serious War then with that amount of people an important one got the flowers on the ground so many of you have asked what language my mom keeps speaking in the videos obviously she's speaking English too but every now and again she'll speak another language so that is Portuguese cuz I am half Brazilian a lot of you think that I'm fully English and Carol is fully Brazilian and Carol is fully Brazilian but I'm also half Brazilian I just grew up in England that's all that's mainly the reason that I moved to Brazil when I was 19 lived there for 6 years and met my wife Carol yeah so we end up like mixing our languages and the conversations without even thinking so even I'll switch to Portuguese a lot of the time yeah cuz when we are filming with like it's not planned so we're just going and talking so that's why sometimes uh we mix especially when we are with them yeah obviously we just speak English cuz we know that in filming sometimes they don't realize that in filming as well cuz I'm just holding the the GoPro so that's why it's constantly switching and as usual there is always a temple nearby everywhere you go in Japan I think this one is called ishi a Buddhist one this one is kind of different to the others that we've been in cuz it's like a graveyard at this part at the main entrance really cool graves don't think I've seen gravestones like that before [Music] [Music] [Music] so I also read that this Temple is pretty old it's from the 12th century a lot older than a lot of the temples that we've been visiting in Japan so far kind nice even in the temple grounds got the cherry blossoms yeah this one is a bit different yeah the flowers are really big beautiful aren they this a double one this is probably one of the best temples that we've been to so far in Japan and we didn't even know that it was there we just saw that it was next to the park right now some more really nice buildings I guess this is the gravestone of someone important the grave of Lord Honda Isom Monami T Tomo he was a warrior Samurai and a follower of the famous show TOA leas died in 1615 in the Battle of Osaka [Music] [Music] [Music] so this was the shopping Street we were looking for shinai yeah it's this one so I think this is the most popular one in our neighborhood oh wow look at the tower there right next to the the tower now Sor Tokyo on we went up the Tokyo Tower to one of the floors not all the way to the top cuz you need to buy tickets in advance probably go there too but I don't think we're going to bother so I think this is another one of those places this is where it's more lively at night and things will be litting up I saw a picture of it it looked amazing probably come back here at night to check it out we are going to grab a bite to eat around here though I think another cool little Shrine with the mini Tory Gates the red ones we're also eating a r time 3:00 p.m. so I think some places close and then reopen at night we had that problem in Tokyo when we'd eat at weird times yeah and also in other places like KATU and NIU yeah you need to eat lunch I think around like 12: 1:00 more normal time that's funny a a pringle store I don't think I've ever seen a store completely dedicated to Pringles before we check the menu out at this place looks like a local kind of place all in their language isn't it yeah Google Translate to the rescue yeah so we decided to go for that one pretty quiet inside right now one thing I didn't mention is pretty much every restaurant we go to they always have like these baskets where you can put your coats and bags so at this place it's nice and easy cuz you can just order on this site here like just like a food app and they have this thing called Kushi katsu or kiag which is kind of like food on a skewer can be vegetables meat so I might go for a beef tongue 286 never had beef tongue before so I went for a medium dra beer not sure what kind of a beer it is maybe it's a sahi I think that was around 600 dad got a small one what's this uh orange juice orange juice and a little wine and they also brought this um I don't know what's up like that but a little bit of we didn't order it though a bit know yeah I'm not sure what this is is it poor po yeah yeah someone to try that what is that maybe a potato looks like a vegetable it's like a little jelly thing yeah I don't know what it is but it's really nice is yeah did you it though yeah I really like it so this is everything that we ordered we didn't realize that they were going to put it all together though so there's stuff there that shellfish that me and Carol not able to eat so this is the chicken gizzard I've had this before in Japan on this trip it's really nice nice and crispy that the mozzarella s yeah really good what's that one I S but I don't think it's is this some vegetable swe potato what is this thing no idea the fish is good too I also got this too the kagi chicken that I really like also very crispy it's a bre cheese bre cheese [Music] nice veggie yeah even the vegetable ones just look the same as the meat ones that's L flour lots of flour interesting [Music] so that ended up being $70 we ordered two more beers as well so pretty good price that's for Everyone by the way and now we're just walking down some more of the streets I thought it was just one main street but there's this one too but yeah we definitely got to come here at night some other nice views of the tower some old lady just started talking to me in Japanese I didn't understand what she was saying but she she didn't stop wonder what she was saying got some of the little toy stores here arcades too everywhere why Y A Street Fighter I used to always play that did you play Street Fighter no no what did you play um Sonic Sonic the Hedgehog yeah I had a mega mega drve yeah Sega yeah so I don't remember but I used to play a few games yeah that's Street Fighter too lots of Sega things out run I think I've played that one before not in that kind of machine though so there's even what seems to be a arm wrestling machine easy Carol one I never seen that before ginai Market New World Market going to buy this one yeah I'm interesting clothes seems to be all like animal based right Dad's getting that that is pretty funky looking [Music] here we got the classic japanese doggo I forgot what race it is super cute you see them everywhere got his light nice Little Neck scar some pretty wacky buildings on this street another one of those doggles I think it's the same one with the green scarf yeah look at this building here whole things colored I think it's sushi by the looks of it and this one has a boat coming out of it inside too oh there's a boat inside yeah there really is like a fulls size boat inside yeah so even right now it's already pretty Lively and it's not even dark yet I thought it'd only get like this at night oh yeah more man look at the weird things you can eat here on this skewer lizard B are what is that too Sparrow Cricket coconut worm scorion yeah the street is a bit like a theme park got people shooting games looks a bit like a theme pack doesn't it yeah crazy [Music] so we're back at the house that we were staying in this is just $82 a night which is pretty good and that's for four people two bedrooms so this is ours it's like two big queen siiz beds we only just found this out after that we actually have a balcony too and a washing machine didn't even know that this was here some of the other houses around here and then my parents stayed in in this bedroom so it's two floors and then downstairs the kitchen and the living room is all together and this one's really cool cuz they have a projector instead of the TV like a cinema so yeah every night we've been able to Shogun on there it's been been really cool and overall I can definitely see why some people would prefer Osaka over Tokyo it's just less busy like Tokyo was kind of chaotic in a lot of places just the amount of people here things seem to be just like a slower Pace uh a bit more relaxed so yeah I think we probably prefer here overall too but they're both amazing either way and in the next video we're going to be heading to Nara on a day trip which is another popular place to visit but we're still going to be staying here in Osaka it's not that far I think it's like 40 minutes away so that's what will'll be coming up if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe to see more videos like this follow us on Instagram and we'll see you in the next one [Music] let [Music]
2024-05-11 16:07
