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You speak Chinese? yes a little Oh, cool. being a local, how is Japan? in a brief like how is Japan like? as local yeah i don't want to say it but like local people in Kyoto actually like half of them are hate the tourists coming here yeah it's absolutely beautiful for sure one more thing about this building that nobody knows Japan’s what? huh? You can speak Chinese Exploring Japanese culture while overhearing Chinese gossip... Alright guys so good morning and welcome to Kyoto and i'm literally new here i just arrived like a few let's say minutes ago maybe 30 minutes ago 30 and i met Haruto yeah my name is Haruto and he's a local here he's been living here i mean he's a local so he lives here and he will take me to a few areas here in Kyoto we'll go check out some temples and you know some low key areas just be popping up and showing up in different places so if you're ready be sure watch to the very end join us as we go on an adventure here in Kyoto right yeah that's it let's get it going guys so now we're actually waiting for a bus in a bus station here and one thing so far being here in Japan guys like every time the the skies are so clear yes the skies are blue you know and the clouds are up yeah take a look, something like this you know it's always clear i don't know why yeah it's always clear so it makes taking pictures here very very beautiful and clear seriously yeah yeah so since i'm with the local of course i would love to ask him about a few questions you know here in Japan like how life is like you know and You said you could speak Chinese Isn't it? A little bit Little by little Yeah, yeah, yeah. He speaks Chinese
Then we can talk, too chat in Chinese we'll try that at first you were asking me about how do i like Japan so far and i was telling him like it's a really cool place the convenience is one of the things that i like so much when i talk about convenience of course i will mention like convenience stores we need to get a ticket here? so getting into the bus you know Japan public transport we cannot really talk so i guess we'll see you in the next place let's get it going it's a main street and then the other way has a like small street with not too many tourists okay okay walking and then there are many kimono shop around here okay kimono shops here yes i like this okay let's see the kimono shops okay yeah let's see what we can find there so you said sometimes you take tourists around this place right yes yes yes okay what's the name of this place that we are right now Kiyomizu Temple Kiyomizu Temple it's very famous okay i see guys so we'll take you around kiyomizu Temple show you what is there and give you a little history about the place you know we'll see how the vibe goes so join us let's do this this the street right here being a local yeah how is Japan in a brief like how is Japan like as local yeah eh hmm or how was it like growing up here in Japan I grew up in the country side eh i grew up around the uh rice field so okay the rice field okay yeah it's so good okay yeah those are you know rare experiences that not everybody will get you know growing up from the countryside yes so do you prefer the countryside more than being in the city yes because you know like this city is like some foreign tourists is coming here and it's too much crowded and i don't i don't want to say it but like local people in Kyoto actually like half of them hate the tourists coming here okay yes okay i see that's crazy because sometimes they are in pride like throwing away gabbage i see guys so there you go um you probably have to take me to your one of the country sides to show me like what is really there you know yeah so first let's enjoy this place oh sorry yeah let's enjoy this place there are buses taking people around here i tell you what skies are always blue clouds are always up yeah it's just crazy in Japan man the weather is so good i mean it's cold but it's it's it's okay it's okay it's a lot of kimono right here take a look can i see all right thank you You speak Chinese? Can speak You speak Chinese? oh cool So cool so cool You have kimonos here, don't you Yes kimono If i rent... How did you rent it? Uh, you wearing it, right? You both wear it, right? I’ll wear it This is our price. Ah, how many hours? Uh before 5:30 Just come back Oh before 5:30 Where are you from? I am from Shenzhen. is the ancestral home of Africa Kenya? or I'm from Ghana. Ghana Republic of Ghana Have you heard of it? I know I know. I know.
Your Chinese is amazing Thank you thank you auntie It's this price. so guys it's going for like 5000/$33 Which is more special You want to ask for something special. Right? Right That is special To give it a little color There is still a little color. There's one more How about this one? There are also here. It's all kimono.
It doesn't look like Hanfu, does it? Ah no It's a kimono. The kimono is essentially the same as the Hanfu. Same oh oh The same place.
Understand Understood, but this one Take a look. This one is green. Be more special Well, this green is also ok This green too Normally for Japanese, which color do they like to wear? Japanese people like to wear black Black, white, black and white gray like this for the Chinese they like it with a little red. Yeah, like red. Yes, yes, yes, the red one.
It's a little bit colorful. A little more sparkle This one is very good. This one, this one. Oh, this one has gold in it. Black and then gold There is gold, this one looks a little special. Uh-huh.
This one is also a bit special to wear. Okay, and then Auntie, let’s do it this way I want to make a video with my friend After, we will come. Then take a video with kimono, okay? You have to wear it to make a video. No, just later. check it now Which one can you choose Yes, yes, and I'll be back later.
Then just shoot a video with kimono. no problem, you can take it. 5,500/$37 is it $37 is the rental price. Lease pair Rental is the price Ok, I'll come back later. Ok that's fine Thank you, Auntie. Okay.
It's okay, guys so there you go that’s the kimono shop Can you speak Japanese too? Yes Then you should live here for a long time. Ah yes yes Oh yes yes Ok aunt Thanks, soon Are you an international student in China? i studied before After studying, I go to work now Working in Shenzhen Yes, yes, that's awesome Thank you, auntie, Goodbye! there are some taxis right here looking like Hong Kong taxis yeah and so we'll continue our journey here what do Japanese people like to eat a lot uh Ramen Yakiniku okay and I like miso soup miso soup yes Japanese people like miso soup you gotta be hurry oh yeah miso soup everybody telling me about miso soup yeah so i guess today we gotta try miso soup what's the time almost 12 o'clock 12 so our lunch we'll have to try the miso soup in breakfast we try it oh you do miso soup for breakfast yeah oh i see rice and egg yes uh and what else ocha ocha tea mizu mizu mizu mizu mizu is water water yeah and then what else what else let's cross this way this way yeah growing up here in Japan and then visiting other countries what makes you want to always come back when you you told me you've been to China once you've been probably to other countries or something like America Vietnam and the Philippines cool what keeps you when you go to other countries what do you miss about sorry what do you miss about Japan i think toilets the toilets yeah toilets in Japan is very very clean okay okay i see what else what else do you miss when you go out of Japan that you think other countries don't have yeah food the food yeah food the food the Japanese food okay yes is it miso soup miso soup and sushi sushi sushi okay but other countries have sushi but is it um is it different yeah it's different i think the Japanese are the most like fresh Sushi okay i see guys so we're still walking here i want to show you around real quick there are a lot of cars passing by the roads are very small just like a Hong Kong somehow you know and this place looks kinda special roads are very very clean guys take a look take a look guys so this is the road oh i see a very big temple right there so we'll show you very soon so you have a look and what is something that you think a lot of foreigners don't know about Japan or some misconceptions that a lot of people don't know or think Japanese do but it's not really the real thing like don't know about Japan yes so i think some foreign tourists uh love to go to the Kyoto temple but i think they don't know about the history of Kyoto like why some temples are in Kyoto and then how they how it built okay yeah okay what is um you know we see temples and we know it's a kind of a prayer area or something can you tell us something that you think the foreigners don't know what are the history how did it how are the buildings different you know i know there's a temple there are castles what's the difference between that castle was built like after 18 or 19 century for the people who are rich and then protect themselves from the other like opponents and then the temple okay temple was built for praying or sometimes it's connected to the Japan's government government okay party politics yes oh i see wow guys that's it we'll keep walking here there's a lot of street food people grabbing some stuff you know some street food a lot of people wearing some kimono and you know kids having a good time for sure how are the locals like spiritually do they pray a lot or it's like they just believe in you know working some like that or how is it like for Japanese locals do they have a religion uh for this temple like people praying uh huh uh no like if um like some local people uh huh goes here just for sightseeing and then yeah they don't pray they don't pray yes they don't pray but at homes in Japanese homes do people literally pray yeah the younger generation now they don't believe in God but some senior generation believe in the God and then like they do praying in their home okay so they do believe in a is it the god like Jesus God or like some smaller gods like Buddha or something like that this one is a Kiyomizu Temple Kiyomizu guys Temple is looking good for sure let's go this side then we can give you a very nice view from here so here i'm seeing a lot of people go through the gate there are other places where you can pass through to you know get to you know the top side of the of the temple but a lot of people literally using the inside of this gate and you're telling me it has some importance it has some significance right yeah as you can see uh in the pillar there is uh two big statue okay inside of the pillar okay and then the face of that statue is like a little bit angry yeah it's like angry but you know sorry i don't know how to say i get it but first i can see these two, is it lions ? or tigers no it's not the lion it's not a tiger it's like the sacred dog yeah sacred like a dog okay a sacred one okay guys so there you go um it's not the animal existing this world yes oh i see just like the Chinese have some non existing animals that they believe in right yeah it's for protecting this temple from like a devil or something oh from the devil yeah it's like a devil because the Kyoto used to be so like so poor the government is so poor and then they built this for protecting from the bad things okay guys i wanted to see this real quick, let's see see the statue of the statue that is in there wow statue literally frowning it's not smiling yeah let me show you from here it's absolutely beautiful for sure you know take a look they've got some uh people taking pictures here with their kimonos take a look and i was asking can you tell us like some history about this place when was it built how did how did it come up why the name um kiyomizu temple tell us something name of this temple is coming from the pure water like coming from the top of the mountain yeah and then the pure water pure water kiyomizu is means pure water okay and then the very like important person Japanese person build uh well like an shrine okay so there's some water on the mountain yes is it a waterfall or something like that yeah like a waterfall yeah waterfall okay yeah there's a three waterfalls over there three different ones yeah three different oh i see okay and then the important person in shrine the statue but this statue and this temple and then this place has been loved by some people like of course the local people in the country and then some governments and then the emperor and then some people like uh contribute a lot of money here and it's getting like this very famous oh i see what is the color orange for Japanese people cause i'm seeing almost all the temples either you know orange or they have a little bit of gold or orange so getting like this big temple so the government takes some Chinese culture okay here so that's why it's very similar it's not very similar but it's kind of similar to the Chinese temples so the temples here in Japan has a little bit feature from Chinese culture oh i see i see so because some ah the governments used to send some important person to China China to learn about Chinese yes oh i see guys we learned a lot today you know you can see the one stone inside this building and then when you like touch it with your left hand okay like it says uh your wish your wish okay come true wow guys we gotta try that yeah let's join the line quickly so we go to the like special route and we can see that statue and inside this building only in this season they said can we film inside ah no no yeah okay sure no problem so guys i'm going to experience that i'll tell you how the experience is like and then we'll continue from there, let’s go After few minutes well guys that was an experience in the you literally go through a very dark room and while you're going you're probably thinking and then there is a stone what is that stone is it related to believe or Buddha or something like that yeah believe like touch that stone and close your eyes and one wish make one wish one wish so we had to go in there it was very dark on the inside to the point you can literally not see anything and then boom you see the stone a very bright one and then you touch it you make a wish so of course your boy had to make a wish can you guess the wish that i made he was literally asking me which wish did you make i was like, this is personal i know some of you guys watching me on YouTube and all you might probably know the wish that i made so comment below what do you think i made If I see that wish, I'll say it's okay you guys are with me you know wow guys the view here i tell you what something that you can never do away with take a look it's just so beautiful you can see all Kyoto's cities that one is a Kyoto tower oh that's the Kyoto station where we just came from yeah it's just so beautiful here and this the temple right here it's looking so good you know bright there's mountains in the backside I'm gonna explain about this building okay they like some foreign tourists just take photos but uh i think this building has no guide like that even in Japanese but this one is like one of the highest three story Pagoda okay in Japan oh Pagoda okay Pagoda yeah okay and then the inside of this building there's like um paintings paintings all over the inside like dragon okay and then Buddhist statue anything and there's a one pillar inside and then this pillar also has painting yeah but it's i think it's not open to the public so i've never seen the inside of it this building yes so what was the significance of all the paintings and the stuff inside of me you're not sure sorry i'm not sure yeah okay okay okay do you know what's the purpose of the Pagoda? Pagoda yeah i think you know uh Pagoda is kind of a Buddha temple something like that right yeah it's no it's a Tomb a Tomb, it's Tomb yes it's Tomb okay yeah so is it believed that there is a Tomb inside of it yeah whose Tomb whose Tomb oh maybe an emperor or something who's tomb i know just i know only it's just a tomb a tomb yeah it's tomb okay so i don't know who's tomb it is let me tell you one more one more thing about this building that no nobody knows nobody knows so this one and the edge of this roof you can see that that dragon oh yeah there's a dragon yeah yeah yeah only this side has the water dragon shape Kawala Onigawara but the other side is like a demon face so this way let's go see this only this side is it yeah only this side is a water dragon Dragon okay Dragon okay what does it mean? why only this side has a water dragon shape because the this water dragon this way uh the water dragon shape from here to this way has a what i just said like three waterfall okay this one has a three waterfall is it kind of a feng Shui feng Shui you know feng Shui sorry i don't know okay you don't worry you go ahead so like this way has the waterfall and then actually the history of this building that you will get surprise is this main temple was burned down like 7 or 8 times because of the war happening in Kyoto okay yeah i see like after it burned and they built again okay burned and built burned and built and they almost 7 or 8 times okay and then like someone i put the water dragon here to protect the burning from this temple yeah i see wow that's really interesting so the water dragon here and then the devil looking on the city to protect the city and then the water dragon kind of protecting the forest and the water guys you got that for yourself pretty interesting history that we and some stuff that we are learning about the Japanese culture here so it's good for sure thanks for giving me all this information and i hope you all learning something about you know the Japanese culture and their traditions like some temples are sacred place so I want foreigners wear like not so flashy outfit but sometimes i see the foreign tourists we are like revealing outfit and then take a photo in front of the gates that's really not good yeah people don't want them to do that okay and then like especially in the summer season okay like some foreign because there are no like guides or i mean there are no places to like there are no chair yeah outside like inside of the temple there's no toilet or something like that yes okay so that's why people get tired especially like from the country we have no so much so hot season uh huh but not so like there sometimes after getting tired they looking for the place to take a rest but no chair around here so they sit down in front of the temples or like this place yeah that's really no good oh it's not good okay yeah okay but people do okay you can see in summer season a lot of people sit there yeah and as you can see no chair it's not good for eating food inside the temple okay inside the temple okay yeah yeah they are trying their best to study English and to speak the English but of course they're not a native English speaker so sometimes like cannot understand yeah so and then like i i've seen the uh before like in Kyoto that foreign tourists i think it's the foreign tourists who have the native language English like little bit irritating that Japanese people cannot understand them yeah and then sometimes they post on the Instagram Instagram like why Japanese people cannot speak English cannot understand English our native language is Japanese yeah okay so you think the foreigners should understand Japanese people that's what i want and try to even learn some Japanese right yes yes yes sounds good guys so let's get it going okay before going through the gate okay another gate another devil again? wash basin okay it's like an traditional water please treats with almost respect yeah so this is a kind of water coming from the dragon yeah it's like a traditional wash basin so you can rinse your hands before going inside the temple yes and then like this washbasin i think all temples has like this washbasin something like that because uh like it used okay like people say that so don't bring that devil or like bad thing with you and then go inside the temple so i want people to wash their hands before going inside and people have been drinking it it's good to drink right but this one ... it means not for drink but people are drinking it right in front of us not for drink what is this? like this one is a shakujyo this one is called shakujyo what is the meaning of shakujyo what is it? this shakujyo is like uh sword to fight they use this for fight yeah and then they have the smaller one and the bigger one okay this longer one like used to the Japanese one person use this one to fight with okay yeah so this is a real one he used if they could lift the smaller one it said like the woman can be stronger than man can be stronger than man and then the man if the man can lift this too much heavy this shakujyo they can be rich they can be a rich that be a family so if i'm able to lifts up this big shakujo yeah shakujo meaning my family will be rich right okay guys we need to try this so our family will be rich and i'm representing you all watching this video so wish me luck let's go do this okay let me try okay easy and then this oh no man i can't do this man but at least we pushed it so i guess we're getting some success for sure and this very easy yeah so guys that's it we push this we're getting some success yeah let's get it going some people used to jump off from this stage to there whoa because it was said that if we could just survive after jump from this temple like their wish come true so people used to jump off from this guys take a look at how shallow this place is very very shallow and people used to jump off yes from here the Japanese people how many years was this how many years maybe like from the 1800’s 1900’s okay wow i see so let me give you one quiz okay so can you guess the survival rate like how many percent of people could survive when jumping yeah % after jump, can you guess like percent wow i gotta see this guys see this and you also comment below what do you think the percentage would be before he says it i think man this is dangerous yes and it's too high very high i'll give it a maybe uh uh 60% uh it's a little bit close but more high more high yeah more high 80% uh yes like 75 percent wow so let me tell you why 75 percent 75% it's too high what yeah so as you can see there is a load here but this used to be the place with, like a forest yeah and then the soil the soil in this, very soft okay yeah so that's why people can survive and there so many trees under this temple so like the trees will catch them the jumping wow so this temple as you can see this pillar this pillar sustains this temple and then that one temple without using any nails just like assembling the wood so no nails no nails and they sustain this building oh i see yeah wow so guys there you go it's a very beautiful view here looking into the city of Kyoto it's a beautiful view from this side you know you see the temple are on this side and the city is right here and you're telling me something you said there cannot be skyscrapers here cause if you look through the city there are no very high like buildings high rising buildings it's just uh maybe at most maybe 10 floors or something yeah and then only the tower even the tower right there is not that very long you know why is that why is there no skyscrapers here ? the local governments prohibit some Japanese company like a building like maybe higher higher than twenty meters building in this Kyoto area to protect the view from like here to keep this view it's like the city is covered with mountains so like why some temples in Kyoto is located in near the mountains yeah almost all the temples are close to the mountains because at that time Kyoto, like all over Japan there are so many wars even in Kyoto inside the city so some people like want to avoid the war so like they build some temples in near mountain like to spend their rest of their life peacefully in silence they want peace yeah yeah so that's a waterfall yeah this is a waterfall this one is called otawanotaki otawanotaki was there a real waterfall? it's a real waterfall from from the top of mountain yeah then this is a three waterfall okay uh this water is very pure and then the name of this temple is coming from this waterfall okay and then so this is pure water from the mountain yes then each waterfall has different effects okay yeah the left one the left one is about studying you can success in about studying then center one is about love like if you fall in love with someone it gets success, the last one is about health, like a long life you can get a long life and then there's a one rule if you drink more than two water first drink you are considered that's greedy greedy okay so you have to just try one yeah just try one because okay like Japan has like original culture that's like Japanese people like so humble okay so humble that's why like more than two is like greedy alright guys so let's see how it's going to be OK tea it's green tea ocha guys so we're trying some Kyoto special food it's kind of sweet and this ocha what is it called Namayatsuhashi and what is it made of? it's like inside is anko and anko this green one is a matcha matcha anko is like made of the beans okay all right guys let's try this you try one i try one okay or you try one you try one i try one okay which one you wanna try uh i think Matcha is Matcha i should try the matcha yeah this green one is a matcha okay so let's try there you go this is the matcha one and then that is the beans you know yeah this yellow one is chestnuts oh chestnuts yeah mine literally have matcha inside of it but the food was good, we got some pastries here it's good for sure yeah cheers cheers is Kampei in Japanese Kampei oh it's like Chinese yeah cheer cheer cheers alright guys so i got this food here Okaki i literally i literally don't know what it's made of let's try it and see *heard Chinese talking about me* Japan’s what? Uh oh. You can speak Chinese? a little bit. Oh, are you a blogger? Are you a blogger? Yeah, food vlogger I'm not a food blogger. I'm a travel vlogger.
travel vlogger Amazing alright this is good um is it rice um gohan gohan mmm it tastes so good Brother, have you been to China? Been there Wow. Which province did you go to? Guangdong Province Guangdong Guangdong Yes, we are from Guangdong. Which city in Guangdong? Dongguan Dongguan Dongguan Is it near that Zhongshan? Yes, we are close to Shenzhen. Oh, Shenzhen. Dongguan Dongguan I have been there Yeah, yeah.
did some business there I live in Shenzhen. You live in Shenzhen? yes You came here from Shenzhen? yes We are also come from Shenzhen. Oh. Ok have fun What do you want to ask? Just uh Where are you from? I am from Ghana you haven't heard of it, have you? Uh, I saw it on the map It's a West African country ok, can I take a picture with you? sure OK Come on, brother is very handsome, Okay, thanks. Have fun, okay okay guys so there you go after going to and fro finally found some good food this some Japanese ramen with some miso soup you know the popular miso soup that everybody talks about let me show you the food that's how it looks like there's some pork on top of it there's some soup miso soup and then they just brought the rice which is the gohan so yeah we about to try it i'll tell you how it tastes you know it was hard getting food in here and here it's mostly pork everybody takes pork here which is just crazy so we’ll go ahead to try this i'll tell you, some green onions we got ramen we got some rice this food was so good i had to clean the bowl take a look oh i didn’t record i was recording the other side of the camera whiles we were eating
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