Riding FIRST CLASS On Japan's Bullet Train Worth It? (Shinkansen)
good morning everyone here from katsu where we filmed our last video the magical onon town this place this ended up being one of our favorites in Japan so far just a really unusual unique place and right now we're heading to the bus station cuz we're going to be heading back to Tokyo in this video we're going to get on the bullet train but first we have to go to a city nearby called kuui Za we're about to get a bus from here to kuua and then we'll get on the bullet train we're going to be traveling in first class too on it so that's something that we've never done before and then we'll be filming a bit of Tokyo some other places that we haven't seen and I think the cherry blossom season is supposed to be starting properly now so hopefully we get to see that properly in Tokyo too it's a bit noisy cuz we're all rolling our luggage I'm definitely glad that we decided to buy these bags we used to not have roll bags but way less tiring and we will be leaving the snow now cuz in Tokyo I think it's around 25° C a massive difference the last time we were in Tokyo I think it was just around 8 9° so yeah huge difference that's why the cherry blossom starting [Music] now hello uh Express is 6 bus 1020 we pay on the bus the buy now okay how many people uh four express the express yeah yeah four okay how much is it 8,960 I can pay with this all right thank you one two three 4 one people one okay okay thank you yes I think the guy said it's not guaranteed that you'll get a place on the bus so it's best to queue up first we're getting on the 10201 it seems like that bus over there goes straight to Tokyo but it'll be a lot quicker getting on the bullet train [Music] so we're just looking for the ticket counter I think we have to print off the bullet train tickets I think we just got to scan the QR code so the ticket for the first class is is going to be around $62 that is with a booking fee from cluke but we've been using this app quite a lot cuz the sites are kind of confusing here yeah for us uh foreigners and it's since it's our first time in Japan we are not very used to the the system of Transportation in general so it's a bit confusing I was checking the The Local website for the tickets but it was a bit confusing so we just thought it would be easier to use cluk and it was really easy and straightforward also to get the tickets here at the station and this place looks really nice too kizawa A lot of people stay here can see the ski slopes back there the ski lifs I think they also have the onson around here there's a nice waterfall so yeah we saw a lot of tourists staying here if we had known maybe we would have spent a day or two here as well [Music] so I think the ones with green car are the first class ones where do we put our bags at top yeah quite a lot of space you can shove that one up there dad so before we could even sit down it's already off they're very on time in in Japan loads of leg room too me and Carol are pretty tall I can almost stretch my legs entirely the hook yeah it's just kind of like a plane really do some laptop work I think you can charge it right almost like a bed yeah good sleep too good you all right back there very comfortable yeah I'm thinking already that this is the most comfortable Trin that we've been on I wish it was like this in airplanes so I could actually sleep yeah it would be a big difference you can never sleep on airplanes pretty much because it's just too bad the seeds nowadays but this one is really good the only problem is that it's just 1 hour and 14 minutes so not enough time to sleep we need to go on a longer ride yeah [Music] so from what we read the first class is supposed to be even quieter and smoother compared to the other carriages yeah it's very quiet we have to speak like this we are the only ones that are speaking here Japan is very quiet uh normally like every day but here is another level think we're arriving at another station now don't know where we are and there is Wi-Fi and the I was able to connect just fine it's working and the speed is good I think too yeah cuz some trains they say they offer Wi-Fi not in Japan in other countries and then they don't but the Wi-Fi here is available on all uh fairs not just the the first glass one I also noticed that there's a light here so if you click that think it's like a reading light and we got a little cup holder I suppose this is somewhere that you can put things to so I forgot to make mention that this ride is going to take around an hour and 12 minutes I think by car it would be 2 hours and 30 minutes and by a bus it would be even longer and on this line I think it goes 260 kmph Max but on some other lines I think they can reach like 320 a lot faster f up [Music] [Music] so we've arrived at Tokyo Station and it is real warm here as we were expecting it is feeling around 25° man look at that train though looks super slick I don't think I've ever actually seen one with a nose that long it was a good ride wasn't it yeah yeah various moves and silence just like we expected really yeah so on the way to KATU we got like the second class and we wanted to compare I think this one is around $15 more per person but it is way more comfortable but it is a short ride though but the seats were like not as comfy not as thick you didn't have as much room but if you're on the budget I think the second class is still great yeah cuz I think uh what we see here in Japan like all the transportation that we have taken so far are really good and just just really good in general so if you're on a budget just go for the cheaper one so Japan is kind of famous for its amazing trains when we went back from Nico to Tokyo we got this kind of new one called space share X that looks super futuristic and even the carriage that we were in it was like a bar or a cafe had sofas things like that so yeah just really amazing trains throughout Japan and now we back in the organized chaos of Tokyo always hard to walk around so we had to get on another Metro and we come to shimbashi station well that's where we've gotten off anyway we're going to be staying around here looks pretty cool kind of laid back for for Tokyo a bit less people it'll probably be another cool place at night with all the Billboards and signs litting up we'll check it out at night pretty cool how you can go from a place like KATU to here in just a short distance yeah just two different sceneries well I said short distance it's not short distance short time it is pretty far [Music] away I suppose it's a bit like sumida the part that we were staying in last time over there there weren't that many people around really kind of more of a residential place not in front of the station though that place look pretty cool seem to have a few bars there bar streets all right this is us Hotel wink so it's a pretty simple place it's $162 per night and I think it's that expensive cuz we're right in the cherry blossom season once again just like the prices were high last time we were in Tokyo but yeah this place is extra tiny and this is the view seems to be Apartments maybe some office blocks back there pretty decent size TV compared to the the small room got some food delivery stuff might do that today and it does include breakfast though in that price and then small little old bathroom wow look at that bathtub that might be one of the smallest bathtubs ever [Music] so now we're going for a walk around the area that we're staying and we just found out that we're right next to the Tokyo Tower so we're going to go close to that that's like one of the famous landmarks of Tokyo yeah definitely liking this neighborhood though just really laidback nice Parks yeah so I guess this is actually a pretty important Temple complex so many people come in here so the main building that you're seeing over there it's called a Hondo the main hall another benefit of this place is that you also have the cherry blossoms now we're finally starting to bloom looking really beautiful yeah so you can check like forecasts online where it tells you the peak days I think it's going to be in about 2 or 3 days here so we're going to be here in Japan during the peak it's going to look a lot more impressive I see one over there too [Music] [Music] so I don't think you have to pay to go in here out of all the temples that we've been here in Japan I think it was only the ones in Nico that we had to pay those were like a UNESCO world heritage site though so maybe that's why yeah so it's definitely looking like a great area to stay in and we knew absolutely nothing about it really so interested to see how the night life is later as well since the places look pretty cool really nice and peaceful beautiful here this place like a zen garden really it is the Zen Garden [Music] so we're going to see if it's possible to go up the Tokyo Tower now don't know if you needed a reservation we didn't make one since we were even planning to come here might be a huge queue it is a Sunday today also man that thing is Big got the British double deer bus why not no idea what this thing is the Lemon the lemon mobile yeah I don't know what it is so the top deck was fully booked I think they only had a time slot for like in two hours time but we're going to the main deck that is still 150 M that's 1,200 per person W what's that like uh the old Tokyo really cool I'd love to have seen that that so I think the top deck would be 100 m even higher but it's a lot [Music] smaller all right just need to find a empty window yeah maybe this side yeah we're already pretty high up would have definitely been cool to see it from the the top though but we're pretty much higher than a lot of the buildings anyway so that was the temple that we were at just now and we walk from over there we're staying around there somewhere there's also this other Park that I think we're going to walk through on the way back [Music] [Music] and I forgot to mention that the top deck is 3,000 yen so it is quite a lot more so this Tower was built in 1958 and as you probably noticed it was based on the I4 Tower but this Tower is 333 M high it's 30 m taller than the eiel tower we also went up there uh last year in Paris [Music] [Music] pretty nice that everyone does the little picnics yeah like the Gathering friends and family together the Sunday picnic and a great little Park too with the tower like that well very calm and quiet if you would yeah if it was in Brazil it would be like music people shouting usually when we go to big cities uh there's just a few touristic areas but in Tokyo it seems that everywhere that you go like there are so many places to stay and just so many touristic attractions it's such a big city with such a big variety of things to do it's really really cool yeah we definitely need to come back again see more different things different [Music] neighborhoods so we're going to check out shimbashi now at night see the night life like I mentioned before I wanted to see it all Len up and it is liten up right now it's around 700 p.m. and I found online that there is a cool Buy area like where the real nighti is so I think we'll walk through there don't know if we're going to drink as much as the other time in Tokyo no I'm very tired I won't be drinking that much not tonight might have one or two though one or two sometimes turns into 10 so this is the part that I really wanted to come to that I had no idea was here look at this amazing looking street so this up there is actually the rail track that we were on today and underneath you have all these bars it's kind of like arches I don't know what you call these but look at those cool bars and it goes all the way down so completely different to what we saw the last night out in Tokyo how cool is that very cool now very nice yeah especially that red one back there what is it a Cap Fuel Hotel yeah we have many in Tokyo but not many where you come out and you right on this road so I think Tokyo might be the first place that I actually prefer walking around at night than during the day even though during the day is awesome too but just at night really goes another level so I think we are going to drink and eat somewhere just got to choose a place got a billion to billion options it's definitely like a more mellow version of Shinjuku that area kabuku more chilled out it's early though still maybe towards like 11 it gets real busy so we ended up coming to that first Arch that we saw under the rail track the one with the Red Lanterns really cool on the inside more Red Lanterns too all right cheers to Japan Japan tokkyo to Tokyo yeah so me and Dad are going with the Sephora again Japan's oldest bear I didn't even know that since 1876 and M and Carol Soo not Japanese Korean Apple flavor not Apple grap oh great okay [Music] [Music] yeah so as I mentioned two drinks ended up being more I think I ended up sharing four of those big bottles with my dad but I'm pretty good yeah and I think you guys had 20 chicken SK skers or lamp skewers yeah 20 we ate a lot I think the bill overall was like 17,000 probably the most expensive bill so far here in Japan I probably have a problem if um if I lived in Tokyo cuz I'd want to come to these places all the time end up drinking too much so this looks like another cool street that we haven't been down yet yeah this is probably the best bar street so far super CR hello so one thing that I haven't mentioned so far here in Japan is that they have zero tipping culture you're not expected to tip anywhere and we actually have a friend that's from Japan and she just said it's weird if you try and tip here and in some cases they might even find it offensive if you try and give them extra money so I think now worldwide in a lot of countries um yeah in is kind of accepted and even expected in a lot of countries that we go but yeah Japan is not one of those country so yeah you basically just tip nowhere that you go now we're back in the quiet part again literally just walk like 2 minutes and everything becomes quite aome so I'll probably close this video out now and this will be our last video from Tokyo on this trip but it's already a city that we can see that we could easily come back we left a lot of things out there's just so many places that you can visit but we're only like halfway through our Japan trip so there's still many videos coming here from Japan even though we've already done so much already so 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]
2024-04-29 13:31
