WE FOUND PARADISE IN JAPAN! OKINAWA
[Music] good morning everyone here from the island of Okinawa in Japan we arrived here last night from Tokyo it's about a 3-hour flight from Tokyo so we're way down south it's really far and you're going to see that this island is very different to everything that we've shown so far here in Japan some of the beaches that we've seen in pictures kind of look like you're in the Caribbean so that's why we came here and right now we're just walking to the port which is just like a 5 minute walk from where we're staying cuz we're going to be going on a boat tour to a group of islands called the Kama Islands National Park supposed to get some amazing beaches there so we arrived late last night so we haven't seen much of the island yet this part looks very developed I like that there's already the palm trees off that's a good sign for what's to come I think this is the station so that's the ticket office but it looks like we have to fill in some kind of paper boarding application form so the ticket is 4,910 per person that includes the return so the ferry that we're going on leaves at 9:00 a.m. and then we come back at 5:30 p.m. so yeah pretty much the entire day a good amount of time I think it only takes about 30 minutes to get to the island that we're going to [Music] all right so bad news as we were leaving we got like a tsunami warning on our phones everybody's phones and I think we're turning back there's supposed to be a tsunami coming at 10: it's around 9:15 now and one lady started freaking out and the guy speaking on the ship is speaking in Japanese so we don't know what he was saying is a bit worrying though cuz we're we're still in the water and we're not going back fast so I don't know what's going on but the Island Tour is definitely over man I wish they'd speak English yeah this is not good guys all the the cars are leaving the port it's like a traffic jam and uh yeah we haven't actually been able to speak with anyone English I'll buildings right here and we're high up some people are running already man so it's kind of weird like some people are still just like riding bikes and these guys working but then there's other people that look like they're [Applause] escaping what is going on we got another warning too so I don't know if you see that bridge in the distance there's all these trucks and cars they've just stopped there and the cruise ship back there has moved too it's come out but yeah I don't know if there's people on that cruise ship I would hate to be on that thing right now or if they've had to do Escape I really don't know so got more news coming in now and it is actually a really bad one it's the strongest earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years and that's like a place that's prone to earthquakes so yeah it's terrible I mean there's already images of like buildings collapsing over there that's where the earthquake happened here is more just a tsunami [Music] R so it is the next day now and we're back at the Port once again cuz we're going to attempt to go to the island and in the end it ended up not being much of a problem for okin hour no luckily they lifted a warning few hours uh after the first warning that we had in the morning uh and nothing happened the tsunami didn't hit our Island I think it uh kind of hit some other islands that were near Taiwan which was the epicenter of the earthquake but even there it wasn't a big uh wave or anything so everyone is safe right now yeah it's good that they were cautious though and took it so seriously because we actually found out that's the first warning that's been raised here in Okinawa since 2011 which was a very deadly earthquake and tsunami here in Japan so we thought it was like common here that almost every year they'd have these kind of warnings but they don't it's first one since 2011 and unfortunately some people did die in uh Taiwan I think right now the casualties are around 9 you'll be watching this video after so more information would have come out but I suppose for the magnitude of the earthquake that hit there we were actually expecting more casualties but these countries are very well prepared the buildings are like shock proof so yeah I think that's the reason why [Music] [Music] all right so this is beautiful tokashiki island and right now we just looking for a bus that goes to the beach that we want to go to not sure if it's one of these so we're doing a day trip but a lot of people actually spend time on the island there's places that you can stay in the National Park yeah I think this is the bus bus station to the beach so did he say that it was 400 yeah Pur first for adults I think it was 200 for for children [Music] so the place that we've come to is called aarin the bus just stopped here there's like a rental store we just got a mask and this vest which is mandatory 500 each and yeah there seems to be like restaurants and things here and they drop you off right at the beach welcome to the Caribbean of Japan wow wow W this is way better than I expected yeah that color of water is intense do you see my parents I don't know where they went they're they're over there this way okay wow look at the sand too this really is like Caribbean level identical almost untouch the island yeah and just a few people here I think the ones that are here are the ones that came with us it looks like there's some cool rock formations here also an island over there I think you can get like a banana bat from what I saw in the pictures and this is our setup so it's 3,000 for 2 two beds and an umbrella and obviously we got two sets of that we're going to be here for quite a few hours [Music] how's the water it was not too bit ice cold it's not like the is it it's warmer than the AL little bit yeah still pretty damn cold though I did read that this time of the year the water is cold though the Pacific Ocean when when was the last time you came to like a Paradise Island like this I can't remember tons last year yeah but I think this is a level above yeah the PO is amazing yeah so last year we went on a trip to Thailand and we went to that area like Maya Bay PE pet but I think this is a level up from that oh no way the alien brain fruit yeah that we keep finding during our travels I think we saw this in India Mal malis Philippines and now here oh yeah it's those isn't it yeah exactly the ones that we saw in go and the Maldives there's the fruit whatever it is then we also saw in the Dominican Republic and what a beautiful beautiful beach this is why we came to Okinawa [Music] so we're going to go on a little walk now I just asked the guys that do the boat tour and they said there is no boat tour today to the island I think cuz of the current the guy was saying so we won't be able to go there but I can fly my drone here we didn't see anything online saying you can't and there's no signs or anything so yeah I'll easily be able to fly over there soon and right now we're just going to check out the rocks and there's also a viewpoint on top of that hill so I think we're going to go there and I think there's also some other beaches around the corner cool got another little hangout spot here yeah like a private or Hidden Beach yeah there is some little Sandy area there water's really calm water it's really calm everywhere actually I don't know why they can't do the boat tour it's like zero waves and it's only there yeah I bet some of you had no idea that Japan even has these kind of islands since normally when people show images of Japan they don't really show this like tropical look inside it's actually a subtropical Island though it's not in the tropics but pretty much looks tropical yeah pretty sweet view from over here up the beach that we around for one of the nicest angles so we found out just yesterday that this actually isn't the main island to come to is it we thought it was yeah we thought it was but apparently in the same uh area here there's another Island I forgot the name zamami I think zamami and I think that's the main one and I think there are some hotels to stay there more than here I think here you can find some camping and Backpacker place but in the other Island I think they're more accommodation [Music] [Music] options we're just going to walk further around the rocky area before we head up yeah the views keep getting even better and better of the coastline this is interesting where two types of rocks join together oh yeah it is it's like a combination isn't it yeah merged together got almost like Coral patterns on this one yeah all this is coral here broken Coral should be good to snorkle we'll see you later on so right now it's getting to around 27° here you watched our previous videos it's a big change cuz we were literally in the snow in kusatsu a few days ago it was snowing but here it gets that hot and I guess in the summer it must be like scorching hot here if it's already 27 right now in April yeah I think we'll swim in this part here can see that it gets deep yeah cold in water I'm not finding it too bad though oh check that out looks like a a doorway see you later Carol going to another realm yeah you get like these arches everywhere went through another one before [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right yeah some pretty awesome views indeed so those were the rocks that we were around incredible and then on this side is the other beaches completely deserted I don't see a single person on those looks like the same level too and for those of you who have been following us for uh sometime you know that we were in the US and British Virgin Islands a few months ago and this place looks very similar to the Virgin Islands especially St John which is a us one because of the mountains and the scenery and the color of the ocean just as beautiful as that one yeah and St John was also a National Park so it was quite untouched like this one I mean it really is like identical to the Virgin Islands cuz those those places are just like this like Hills coming straight out of the water and on the Virgin Islands you can also see all the other Islands so these are different ones that I think you can visit maybe one of these is zami might be that one over there the popular one [Music] [Music] he [Music] so got some really amazing shots of the island back there cuz see there was like a sandbar really beautiful and like I mentioned there's so many islands like this not just this national park I think even the main island we're on has some beaches almost this level which we're hoping to find out in the next video yeah but I'm thinking of uh if we don't have enough time this during this trip maybe come back and do some like island hopping around the okwa island yeah and then we'll probably stay on these more secluded Islands not just the main island of ow [Music] is [Music] so we're heading into the village going to look for a bite to eat they don't have any like food being sold on the beaches or drinks even no vendors at all yeah you can see though just how quiet it is around here I think in summer will be the peak months although I don't know if it ever gets super busy we got this one here it's called My pce and I think me and Carol are going to get the yucky Sila 700 my parents went for fried minc chicken with basle rice 1,000 and I think they have bubble tea I might get that rocking sugar Jasmine 900 some interesting dishes how was that interesting is the wood very spicy yours too it's the same thing isn't it yeah just me a lot of rice with a little bit of meat on top Carol got my mom's egg that's me so on our Yak SOA they put this like fish skin thing that I've never had [Music] before very fishy they expected [Music] so we're heading to those other beaches that we could see from the Viewpoint now originally we were going to go to a completely different Beach but you'd have to get a taxi to get there don't know if it's this way little pathway I think it is this way bit overgrown isn't it yeah yes so I think we would have to get a taxi to the other Beach there's no bus that passes there and we didn't see any taxi drivers at all like no vehicles whatsoever so yeah we decided just to stay around this part and then we'll get the bus back the last bus is uh 4:30 and the ferry going back is 530 so this is one of those secluded beaches that we saw from the Viewpoint which is up there somewhere there was many of them but I don't know how you get to the other ones I thought you could walk around the Coast looks like there's some boat tours going on yeah maybe if you stay on the other Islands you can just do like day boat trips to this island too I just spotted a a statue here in the corner hidden away wow that's a a nice statue pretty sure I've seen this statue already with the flower Carol collecting as usual oh yeah this one that one Speaking of tattoos you you were just saying that we've noticed more people here with tattoos yeah Japanese people uh mostly men but some women too and we couldn't see that in in Tokyo yeah cuz we mentioned in the previous videos that some places here I think they don't like people going in with uh tattoos I think tattoos here are kind of related to gangsters like the Yakuza I think they have a tattoos so I'm not sure if that's the reason why they're kind of against tattoos we haven't had any problems though we even went in onon in KATU where they allow tattoos so I think it just depends on the place [Music] [Music] so we walking further along the coast and we just realized that there's a camping area here so there's some here yeah I guess you can camp around here then on the island we did see like some Backpacker looking dudes around here so it is a Backpacker friendly destination also certainly a nice place to Camp right next to that beach that we just went to look at this tree the vines or Roots whatever those are it's like a nice place to ride a bike yeah I think they we have rentals also cars not only by uh motorcycles but also cars but we cannot drive in Japan yeah we haven't mentioned that so Japan's a place that doesn't accept Brazil's license yeah even the international license is not valid here so that's why we can only do things using transport like normal Transportation public transportation luckily we're in a country that has very good public transportation although OK in hour it's not as frequent from what we've read I saw this place on the Drone before when I was flying it seem to have some empty swimming pools prohibited area for taking corals that's on the beach obviously W look at this it's like a a big tank maybe for diving training I don't know anyone know what this could be like Carol said before though it certainly be a good place to just jumped from Island to Island since it seems like they do have fairies between them so i' definitely love to do that one day [Music] [Music] one [Music] [Music] [Music] so this is the apartment that we've been staying in in naha it's a really good deal just $84 a night a lot cheaper than everywhere else on the Japan trip so far so this is where my parents have been staying you obviously saw the balcony this morning and through here is where me and Carol have been sleeping two double beds and you got the little living room and kitchen really nice and spacious so we've been able to do some cooking here and through here is one of those high-tech Japanese toilets it's that one with the sink again like we saw in the first place was St where the water comes out of there pretty cool and through this way we got the washing machine and the shower and bath just like other places in Japan the shower is right here on the floor water just goes down there so we do plan on making another video here in Okinawa exploring more this island that we're staying on and naha so that's what's coming up next if you like this one 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 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2024-05-02 17:05
