Nagano, Japan’s Hidden Gem | Visiting Snow Monkey Park ♨️ Togakushi Shrine & famous soba 🍜
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Hi everyone!
I went on a 2 week trip to Japan over the winter break with my family. In this vlog, we spend some time exploring Tokyo before journeying to Nagano to visit the famous Snow Monkeys - known for their human-like behavior of bathing in onsens during the winter. We also took a short day trip to Togakushi, and visited a shrine with cedar trees that are hundreds of years old.
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Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max with Sony A7iii
Voiceovers on Audio Technica AT2020
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:35 Route Plan
1:00 Flying to Tokyo
2:18 Senso-ji Temple
3:11 Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku
3:30 Shibuya
4:08 Harry Potter Plaza
4:45 Shinkansen to Nagano
5:32 Snow Monkey Park
8:09 Earthquake
8:45 Togakushi Shrine
10:30 Off to Matsumoto
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Happy 2024 everyone! Hope you enjoyed this short trip to Nagano :) Next up, we would be travelling to the city of Matsumoto, nestled among the Japanese Alps, before going to Kusatsu Onsen for a traditional ryokan experience. Lots of exciting locations to feature, thank you so much for watching!
Really amazing
Beautiful!!!!!
glad you liked it!! :)
Nice video Nicholas!
Thank you so much Amy!
Really gorgeous editing. I like hearing the places under the gentle music. The snow monkeys were beautiful. I’m curious; what were your immediate actions during the earthquake and tsunami warnings?
Thank you 😊 We were on a bus travelling back from the Snow Monkey park when the earthquake hit - emergency warnings started blaring on everyone's phones so the driver stopped in the middle of the road. We were surrounded by open fields at the time so no immediate threat of collapsing structures. When the quake started, we could feel the bus shaking quite strongly and see powerlines swaying. Everyone just remained in their seat and even the bus driver was quite calm too. We had no idea how bad it was (and the subsequent tsunami warnings) until we checked the stats on the official website when we returned to Nagano city.
You should consider driving in Japan. For Hiroshima, yes, Shinkansen is more appropriate. However, to see the smaller towns, countryside, and rustic ryokans in villages driving in the central Japan alps is wonderful.
There’s many places near Nagano. Hope you give it a try in the future.
Yes, there are many places in the countryside and Japan alps I would like to visit in Japan, so I would definitely try this out some day. Thank you for watching 😊
Just stumbled upon your channel! Nagano is my dream destination on Winter and Autumn but I'll be visiting this spring. I can't wait! I was pretty surprised that there's snow there by the end of December. That's so lucky given that Japan was hotter than usual last year. Btw, I love the quality of the video! Was majority of the videos taken from Sony?
Glad you enjoyed the video! ☺️ I’m sure Nagano would be beautiful in the springtime too! We were not expecting snow at all too so it was such a pleasant surprise. I’d say about 90% of the shots here were from the iPhone, and some scenes of the snow monkeys and Togakushi were from the Sony
@@leesvisuals Good to know! Thank you!
Oh man i was also at Nagano during Jan 1st. I was in between the Nio Guardians at Zenkoji Temple when the earthquake hit and was gawking up at them rocking before my husband and guide dragged me away from them.
But the worst part was the uncertainty of reaching Tokyo since we were due to depart Japan on 3rd. Our granclass Kagayaki got canceled but luckily I could understand Japanese so I ran into Nagano stn to catch the non reserved Asama cars to Tokyo. We then spent 4 hours plus slow inching to Tokyo and check in at 12am at Tokyo Hotel.
Then jan 2nd at Akiba was just endless sirens which we later found out about the plane collisions.
Wow that sounded really scary! We were on a bus back when the quake struck and we remember feeling both shocked and somewhat helpless. We also walked past the station later that night and there were crowds of people due to the shinkansen cancellations. Glad you managed to make it back to Tokyo!
@@leesvisuals Yea, the scary part was it was mere seconds before the 5 pointer hit Nagano and everyone phone blared earthquake warning. Imagine thousands of phone alerting to brace for impact. Also, at night, all channels were just showing Tsunami warning and panning to some stations where people were getting ready to sleep overnight since their trains were canceled and there were no remaining trains available.
It was overall a very scary experience and i'm glad you were able to vlog a little about the experience!
Did you film this on your phone?
Yes, almost all these clips were shot on the iphone, with a small handful on the sony a7iii
sir should i buy jr pass
Hey there👋 so JR pass prices are now higher compared to previous years, but if your trip routes allow for it, you may be able to get some regional passes such as the Hokuriku Arch pass or Nagano-Niigata Area Pass. You can see if the main JR pass is worth it for your trips using this site www.japan-guide.com/railpass/!