TOKYO: i Segreti per un Viaggio Indimenticabile Passando dal Monte Fuji all’Oceano

TOKYO: i Segreti per un Viaggio Indimenticabile Passando dal Monte Fuji all’Oceano

Here we are at the last part of our adventure in Japan, it’s time for Tokyo! chaotic but extremely fascinating city, with a unique and profound soul, city of contrasts, among the largest in the world;
we will not limit ourselves to visiting this metropolis, however gigantic it is, but we will go all the way to the foot of Mount Fuji! Among dazzling neighborhoods full of colored neon lights,
temples surrounded by greenery, bookshops, trading cards and lots and lots of good food we couldn’t help but try our luck by traveling
out of town to present ourselves in the presence of Fuji San who also gave us an unexpected surprise
on the last day of travel in this wonderful land. Now if you are ready, let’s start where we left off… In the last video we were on the Nakasendo for three days to explore some postal villages in the Kiso Valley, an area of ​​Japan
that is decidedly different from Osaka or Kyoto where we relaxed, we walked among centuries-old woods of touching beauty and met very sweet people; as you can imagine, going from this to the chaos of Tokyo in the space of a few hours on the train
put us to the test, also because we know Tokyo is a city of lights and shadows, each
neighborhood is a world apart; dutiful quote that I know someone will catch! In the video you will see us
jumping from one area to another and despite this we will only visit a small part of what the city has to offer. Our base for the next week will be this simple but very spacious apartment for Tokyo standards, on the seventh floor of a building.
It has a perfect kitchen for dinners at home and a truly splendid view from the balcony;
we have never told you about Japanese toilets but know that we are big fans of the heated seat,
we will miss it when we return home! The neighborhood we are in is outside what can be considered the center of Tokyo but we like the idea of ​​living for a few days in such an authentic area. We take the train to Chidorichō station,
the closest to home and we go towards our first stop Ginza is famous for its refinement and luxury shops, a high fashion district in short by now if you know us a little you know that
these things are not at all of our interest but there are some places not to be missed, such as i beautiful
stationery, stationery, stickers, cards and writing paper shops Itoya and Kyukyodo are the ones I liked the most Itoya is seven floors of wonders, there are lots
of objects for the new year, 2025 is the year of the snake We make a quick stop at Uniqlo and then enter for the first time in a Daiso, a chain that sells everything for 100 Yen, here too we found some interesting things. We start looking for a place to have lunch
and we pass through a half-hidden street in an underpass to then emerge into a pedestrian street full of restaurants and Izakayas. We find a small place specializing in Gyoza,
they really prepare all types and they are fantastic. Now that we have rested and refreshed, let’s do a quarter an hour’s walk to reach the Minato area and the Nittele Tower, home to one of the most famous television stations in Japan;
we are here for the immense clock created thanks to a project by master Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli, does it remind
you too much of Howl’s Moving Castle? We think it’s wonderful! We are surrounded
by skyscrapers but not only that some trains pass by at different heights, creating fascinating views to see and photograph. We always stay in the Minato neighborhood and go to Azabudai Hills, a vast multifunctional complex inaugurated in 2023.
The design of the buildings is particular, modern A Pokémon-themed art exhibition is being held
inside these days and there could be no shortage of stamps to celebrate it, but that’s not why we’re here, our final destination is the Tokyo Tower, it’s not the tallest nor the most futuristic but it has a certain Retro charm for us! We get the ticket for the main Deck at 1500 Yen and go up in the elevator. We arrive just in time for sunset and here’s
something we didn’t expect: in the distance with its unmistakable silhouette and against the background
of a fiery red sky we see all its Mount Fuji is impressive I don’t know how common it is to see it from
Tokyo but this is a wonderful gift for us, seeing the city from above is a spectacle we remained in contemplation for a while. When we return to the ground it is already
dark but there is still a neighborhood that we want to see Let’s take the subway and go to Akihabara, Tokyo’s Electric Town! Where to find PC components, household appliances
but above all a daydream for those who are passionate about anime, manga and video games;
in short, the kingdom of all the otaku in the world! Since we are quite hungry we find a chika restaurant,
literally an underground restaurant very common in the city we try some fantastic udon, we are eating really well since we have been in Japan we have not yet found a dish that we didn’t like! Let’s take a truly random tour among the lights,
the neon, the songs and the multitude of people who crowd the streets of this absurd place! Paolo gave himself a birthday present: a Japanese exclusive 1998 Pokémon card that he had wanted to add to his collection for years, he is super proud of his purchase! We eat a Magikarp-shaped Taiyaki;
I would say the first day in Tokyo was challenging, it’s time to rest… Today, the second day of exploration in Tokyo, the weather is decidedly different, yesterday it was 23°, today it was 15° and you can feel the sudden change;
we will go to two new neighborhoods. The first is Harajuku! We take our usual train and when we reach our destination
we find two stamps waiting for us, now we can set off. We exited the metro and within 5 minutes of walking we found ourselves immersed in this wonderful forest and it doesn’t
even feel like we are in the center of Tokyo After passing a monumental Torii we find ourselves immersed in a forest made up of more than 100,000 trees from all over Japan, this relaxing walk leads to the Meji sanctuary, founded in 1920 to celebrate the emperor’s exploits Meji precisely and Empress Shoken; you will realize that you have arrived at the entrance by the presence
of many barrels of Sake all decorated in different ways offered by wineries and producers from all over the country. As soon as we enter the portal we notice a couple of guys who are doing
a wedding shoot, they are gorgeous in traditional clothes. The sanctuary is very simple and elegant. It has large spaces and sacred trees inside. We liked it but having been in Kyoto a few days ago on comparison between
the magnificent temples we saw there is practically automatic. Within 10 minutes we completely change scenery before exploring the street in front of us but lunch!
We have now subscribed to the underground clubs. Let’s try this restaurant which opened a few months ago, it’s very nice and the guys are very kind, the ramen is delicious;
I tried the vegetarian version and I recommend it. When we go out we are already immersed in the madness of Takeshita Street. In this street there are the strangest Street Foods we have ever seen! To be honest, some didn’t attract us at all,
but we let ourselves be tempted by a Dorayaki. Paolo, who doesn’t like elaborate things, simply had it with cream while mine is matcha with strawberries, very sweet but not bad really. As soon as we leave the street main Harajuku
is transformed it doesn’t even seem like the same district there are second hand shops, craft shops and
very few people walking through the streets we really liked this area and we even made some purchases in a vintage shop! In 15 minutes we change area, exiting the Meguro metro, while we go towards our next destination, we find a small temple that
is practically deserted but very beautiful and evocative with an entire garden full of sculptures dedicated
to the Rakan, the enlightened disciples of the Buddha. It’s incredible how walking randomly around the city you will find these treasures now another place awaits us that we discovered by chance while we were planning the trip, it immediately
seemed interesting to us and so here we are! We are at 100 steps staircase, a historic
structure located inside the Hotel Gajoen Tokyo, a small architectural masterpiece of the Shōwa period;
the 100-step staircase connects seven rooms all decorated differently with refined details, paintings and carved ceilings Now the structure is used for events and when we visited there was an exhibition on the moon in Japanese culture going on, a really nice surprise! Leaving we pass through the super luxurious
hall of the hotel and its garden which are accessible to all and then go towards the last neighborhood we want to visit today. We leave Shibuya station and here in front of us is the statue of Hachiko, raise your hand who likes me shed all his tears watching the movie. Here is the most famous and busiest intersection in the world, seeing how many people cross the road in all directions at every green
light is impressive! How lucky to find ourselves in such an iconic place with the sky colored pink and with this dream light, however there are not only people in Shibuya, a robot dog
running towards passers-by completes the picture. If you want to enjoy this show from above there are several places where you can go we found Share Lounge, much less known than others which are always crowded , it is a coworking where you can access by paying
an hourly fee, there is an area similar to a lounge, books and several PC stations close to the high glass window
overlooking directly on Shibuya; imagine working for a few hours with this view! Included in the cost is an all you can eat snack and drink and you will have WiFi, traveling around
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and the channel! So thank you, now let’s go back to Shibuya We leave Share Lounge, take a walk among the skyscrapers and stop by Taito Station to play Pokémon Frienda We will stay here a little longer so see you tomorrow, goodnight! This morning the alarm went off early; we reached the Shinjuku bus terminal to take the bus that will take us to the foot of Mount Fuji in a couple of hours. We were hoping for a beautiful day and it seems that our wish has come true, we can already glimpse the mountain with its unmistakable
shape that makes it famous throughout the world We arrive at our destination Shimoyoshida, we don’t
understand why but we are the only ones to get off at this stop we will spend the night here, in this typical Japanese countryside village after 2 hours by bus we finally arrived in Fujiyoshida and we, who were afraid of not seeing Mount Fuji, were super lucky with
the weather because the sun was incredible and the sky was super clear; our first stop is perhaps one of the best known panoramic points in the whole area. We are facing the climb that leads to the Chureito Pagoda, an endless series of steps that could be challenging if we didn’t have
this wonderful view in front of us which repays us for the effort! Now that we are towards the end of November, the colors have exploded in all their beauty!
The momigi are redder than ever and frame Fujisan in a perfect postcard, arm yourself with
patience here you will always find a lot of people Maybe going up at dawn wouldn’t be a bad idea,
let’s see tomorrow if we can repeat the visit We return to the village via a downhill road
and begin to wander through the streets and cultivated fields. We really like this rural landscape, different from all those we have seen so far. We go to lunch in a small and informal place specializing in vegetable tempura soba. let’s take both so as not to make mistakes! When we go out we wander around the main
streets of the town and then go to check in. We arrived at our hostel for tonight even if in my opinion calling it a hostel is an understatement; it’s in a wonderful historic house and we’re sleeping on the futon tonight too! We are happy because the first time we slept at the ryokan we slept great! Now let’s leave the things down in the room and go get the train because we want to see another area nearby. We really like the structure, it’s all made of wood and inside a courtyard house. We would like to stay longer but we are here and not we can miss all the other wonderful places that are nearby! With the train in 30 minutes we reach Lake Kawaguchi; this should be one of the best spots to see Mount Fuji reflected perfectly in the waters of the lake ! Rightly; but within a few hours the temperature dropped from 15 to 4°, the clouds cover the sky
and there is a biting wind that we weren’t expecting. I think we’ve used up all our luck to see Mount Fuji this time morning with the sun shining, now we came here to the
lake because we wanted a different perspective but one, it’s incredibly cold and two, it’s completely
covered by clouds already when we left the restaurant we couldn’t see anything anymore, it’s a shame but that’s okay… We decide to anyway get on the cable car,
because rightly when we happen to be here again the return ticket costs 900 Yen and at the cash desk I can also
get one of the most beautiful stamps in my collection of memories. Despite the bad weather we see the lake from above, the view isn’t bad at all! At the top we also find a small temple and
a bar where we can have something to drink. When we start to no longer feel our
fingers and it is almost dark we decide to go down even though the afternoon has gone so we are still happy with the day Since the tiredness is makes us feel we go back to the village and have
dinner in the room after doing the shopping at the konbini We wake up with the sound of the rain, this is the worst weather we have found so far we wanted to move to other spots nearby to see more but I silence my fomo and we decide to cancel all plans and take it easy. We have a super breakfast in our hostel and then we change the time to return to Tokyo, we decide to take the bus in the morning. So we return to the city for lunch . We are in Shinjuku and we decide to try Kaiten sushi, sushi on the conveyor belt! It’s not exactly the most elegant and refined thing that exists but it’s fun! The sushi was also very good, we had never
been to a restaurant like this and we wanted to try it, the pile of saucers at the end of the meal was important! We move to ikebukuro, take a walk around this
new neighborhood and go to the Pokémon Center mega Tokyo. It is located inside a huge shopping centre, where there is also a viewing point, an aquarium and I don’t know how many activities! we’ll save you all our trips to video game, comic and card shops. For the evening we move closer to home; after returning from the Fuji area,
given the incessant rain which did not stop even for a second now instead we have moved and are near our apartment, the neighborhood is called Chidorichō and we have
now ended up in a small restaurant which is a family-run Tonkatsu restaurant they are all super nice and kind;
now we’re waiting for the dish, I’m curious to try it. Even though the owners spoke little English, they were very kind and also wanted to know where we were coming from;
how nice to meet these realities managed by special families! we’ll stop at Lawson for breakfast tomorrow and then go to bed. Thus begins another rainy day, today we leave from Asakusa. We are in front of the gigantic lantern of almost 4 meters which marks the
entrance to the Sensoji temple, perhaps the most visited in the city from here starts the Nakamise Dori,
a long street of small shops and street food stalls. We taste a sweet filled with red bean cream in the shape of a pigeon, it’s super cute and good too! We arrived at Sensoji again today armed with an umbrella given the rain;
it is the most important temple, certainly the most famous in all of Tokyo, you will notice it immediately
from the filming, but we couldn’t not stop here! It is certainly an iconic place where tradition, spirituality and culture meet. We really liked the part of the garden
next to the main temple where there is lots of greenery and also a small pond with beautiful Koi carp. We move away from the most crowded area to reach a covered market here some guys are arranging some light sculptures that will then be used in festivals it’s very fascinating to see them up close but we are also here for another reason We are in Asakusa and finally we try the Melon Pan, among other things we came where he told me recommended by me Sister
Linda we’ll let her know if she was right and it was good! Nice sweetie! Since Paolo ate practically the entire Melon Pan himself, I had a skewer of caramelized mandarins, not my favorite dessert but I must confess! One last tour around Asakusa where we pass by several
small theaters that put on Kabuki performances . And since my dessert didn’t satisfy me at all we make a stop at Mister Donut, also because look at the beautiful
donuts they have, they are cute and good too! There is an area that I was looking forward
to visiting most of all: it is Jimbochò, the book district. Before starting our exploration we stop for lunch
in a restaurant in Udon which does not have an English menu but where we still manage
to get by thanks to the saint Google Translate we don’t know exactly the ingredients of the Udon we ordered but they are crazy Walking around these quiet and uncrowded
streets with books at every corner is a wonderful thing there are thematic bookshops, some ultra-modern
and others that sell second-hand books even if we obviously don’t know the language,
immersing ourselves in such a unique and particular district was special, think that in Jimbochō there are around 170 bookshops. As evening falls we move to Shinjuku, the last area we will go to today! As soon as we exit the metro we find ourselves
in front of a large Torii which marks the entrance to a very fascinating temple; shame about
the unlit lanterns, they must have been a spectacle. A few steps and we are in the Golden Gai area, an iconic area
that has remained almost identical since the 50s and 60s. In a small space there are around 200 very small rooms
that can accommodate a maximum of 5-10 people walking between In these alleys we perceive the clear contrast between modern Tokyo and the more vintage one,
if we want to define it that way, it’s all very authentic… Not far away we are catapulted into a totally different place made recognizable by the enormous statue
of Godzilla that emerges from the buildings This is Kabukichō, dazzling, chaotic, with a multitude of bars,
night clubs, karaoke and cabarets where you can party. We enter one of the many Book Offs that are around the city;
I couldn’t resist and got the first issue of Ranma, the first manga ever that I read and that I’m very fond of. Let’s move on to the crossroads where there is now the extra famous 3D cat playing, meowing and throwing objects from
a shelf and then find ourselves in a crowded street called Omoide Yokocho which translated means:
“Alley of memories” here there are typical restaurants that prepare Yakitori and other grilled dishes with soft lights
and a slightly nostalgic and retro atmosphere like Golden Gai, a fixed point in time, surrounded
by an ever-changing futuristic metropolis. Let’s say goodbye to these places… Tomorrow we have a trip out of town! The sun is back for our last day in Japan, it’s so clear that from our apartment we can see Mount Fuji. It’s snowed a lot these days. We’re still here but we’re already homesick, we’re not ready to go home! Unfortunately our last day in Japan begins
and we are a little sad, we have decided for today to visit the city of Kamakura which is on the
sea we will go in the opposite direction compared to all the other days because it is towards Yokohama, towards the south.
We were lucky with the weather because it was a beautiful sunny day. The train journey lasts only an hour, in the blink of an eye we were at our destination. Just outside the station we take Komachi Street, with shops and places where you can try sweets and typical
food. . We have just arrived in Kamakura with practically no time to get off the train and we already have something to eat, I had some Matcha and green tea mochi, I hadn’t tried them
yet and I would say that they are perfect for the last day! We then set off towards the first place we want to visit in the city but since we haven’t had a proper breakfast yet, we stop in this beautiful all-wooden place where, to stay on topic, I have a Matcha latte. Among other things, the desserts they are fantastic here!
coffee found by chance but much appreciated! Walking through the streets we immediately
notice the relaxed atmosphere of Kamakura . There is a lot of greenery, many villas and a few buildings.
Thus we arrive at Kōtoku-in, the temple which houses the Daibutsu , an 11 meter high statue representing the Buddha,
it is one of the largest in Japan and therefore very visited, despite this the Temple garden is very quiet! We take a walk through a beautiful residential area, before returning to the station. We take the train back but we don’t go very far, with just one stop we change the area. This area is a little different from all the ones we have been in so far. Walking along the tracks we reach the Meigetsu-in,
a Zen temple with a wonderful garden in which to relax. We pass through a bamboo forest, we pass a bridge and a portal to reach the main building of the temple where we find a squirrel to welcome us, the round window gives on the zen garden at the back of the structure and it is simply wonderful symbol of spiritual fullness, unity and harmony it is impossible not to remain in contemplation for a while in front of all this We wander around the garden, we pass by
some ancient caves before returning to catch the train According to many, this route is one of the most beautiful you can do in Japan. You pass narrowly between the houses, admiring the
gardens and the daily life of the people and then emerging onto the ocean, the Wow effect is guaranteed! When we get off at the station we are really hungry, today we
were late and we haven’t had lunch yet even though it’s 3.30pm, a great classic when we’re travelling!
We go to Panda Store, a Spartan place but with excellent reviews Paolo crowned Okonomiyaki as his favorite dish of the trip and for this reason he couldn’t choose anything else for the last lunch in Japan and then finally the ocean, the beach of Shichirigahama is
beautiful, a long strip of dark sand perfect for a walk at sunset there are several eagles flying around the people, we have never seen so many We are happy to be here and grateful for everything
we have seen over the days Last month the sun was setting and Fuji San did us
the honor of appearing in front of us as if to say goodbye. I would say that we couldn’t have chosen a better place to end our journey, we have Fuji in front of us which can be seen very well, the wonderful sunset and the ocean… we wouldn’t want to leave anymore, there is no more romantic
place to say goodbye to a country that has given you so much in just 20 days but when it’s dark we walk towards the station to catch the train that will take us home for the last night here… On the way back however, since we are not ready
to leave yet, we make a stop in Yokohama which is right halfway between Chidorichō and Kamakura, we didn’t have much time but
the walk among the thousand lights by Minato Mirai was very beautiful And it is from here that we greet you, it was a special journey , we tell you without fear, perhaps the most
beautiful we have ever done, every little detail, every shy smile and every person we met and who wanted to talk with us, even though she hardly knew English, she entered
our hearts! We saw so many beautiful sights and tasted fantastic foods. One better than the other,
now without a doubt, we understand the people who return time and again to this magnificent country!
The melancholy we felt while we were returning home is inexplicable. We hope that with these three videos we have managed to convey to you some of the emotions we felt and we thank you for being with us on this adventure too, let us know in the comments Which is the place
that most appeals to you? what struck us about our trip: Osaka, Kyoto, Nakasendo or Tokyo but also Fuji or Kamakura;
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00:00 Intro
01:24 Tokyo
13:00 Monte Fuji
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