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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast
Hello
Good morning
Good morning
Good, good morning
Oh, I thought you put something like different
Is that light?
Yeah, I didn't bring my usual tripod, so I had to find one
That's in the studio, and this was all I could find
So it's attached to some sort of like a lighting slash iPhone holder shit
Right
Not bad
It's different
Yeah, it's different
Yeah, it's different
Looks strong though
Looks powerful
Looks, you know, looks holdable
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Is that the way you should hold, right?
This is the way you should hold
You put your phones here
That's right
That's right
You put them here
Yeah
I just, I went through, I did a massive sample yesterday
Okay
Massive sample, I mean, like your average sample is like more massive than the usual
So I guess if you say massive sample, that means like you did marathon or something
I wouldn't say marathon, but I went from
The Tokyo area, around Tokyo station area to Odaiba
Wow
Pretty big walk, don't you think?
Wow, that's a, wow
It's a pretty massive walk
From like around Tokyo station area to like Odaiba station
To Odaiba
That's a big sample
It's a pretty big walk, right?
Wow
Pretty big, it was about like 10 kilometers
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pretty big
Wow
How long does it take?
It took me two hours
Two hours of walking?
Not bad, right?
Fun two hours for me
Yeah, fun too, yeah, yeah
The weather was good, you know
You just walk through all the Tokyo
That's right
You know
That's right
You could see like everything, right?
That's right
Like bridge, the buildings and cities and everything
Yeah, that's right
Wow
My leg hurts now, though
It's true
Muscle cramps
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah
How fast did you walk?
Very, very just normal average walking speed
Just, yeah, very average
Wow
And still your legs hurt?
Yeah
Wow, wow
Futomomo?
No, Fukurahagi
Fukurahagi
Yeah
That kind of hurts, you know
Was it like in daytime?
It was
No, it was around like 6 p.m.
6 p.m.?
5, 6 p.m. when, you know, dawn
Right, right, right
Weather was like getting colder
That's right
It's not as, you know, the sun isn't burning
03:00
Right, right, right
As during the daytime
Yeah
It was pretty hot yesterday
It was
The sunlight was strong
It was
Yeah
What have you been up to, man?
I went to family trip
Oh, shit
To a very countryside
Onsen
Hito
Hito
You know, they
I think I've heard of that
Yeah, it's like secret hot spring kind of
It's like a hidden place
Hito
O
U
Yeah, if you write Hiragana, that's
Hito
Hito
Right here
Yeah
Oh, there's a lot of Hito right here
Yeah
Okay, so this is
You're not talking about an area
Yeah, typical
You're talking about a
Like a karaoke
Yeah
Bowling
Yeah
Hito
Same genre here
Are we talking about the same genre here?
It's right
Himitsu no hi and then oyu
So it's not like
It's not human made place
Okay
But there are many onsens
That call themselves as we are Hito
Oh, yeah
Hidden place
Kind of in the countryside
The mountain side
So there's not like a certain area, right?
It's not like it's in
Yeah, it's not something like
Hakone or
It could be anywhere in Japan
Not like that, yeah
Could be anywhere
Like in Chiba
Could be in Nagano
Saitama
Oita
Imanashi
Anywhere
Yeah, yeah
That was pretty
Enjoyable?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Good
Went to with my grandma
Who's 90 now
Oh, shit
Yeah
Wow, congrats
Yeah, it's been a while that she
Did a trip with us
Not like 10, 20 minutes drive
To a local restaurant or something
It took us like
Two, three
Good driving trip
I guess it was pretty big challenge for her
Physically?
Yeah, physically
But she made it
She made it
All happy and everything
Yes, yes, yes
That's good, that's really good
Yeah
The onsen was great
It was very wild onsen
It's in the mountain side
So there's like
It's in the ryokan
And you have Uchiyu
Okay
That's not pretty
It's not usual but it's old
Small, good Uchiyu
Okay
And they have like Rotenburo
Oh
Which is just
The hot spring
That's all kind of
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You don't have nothing else
You don't have changing place
Oh, okay
You don't have any lockers and everything
You just have like hot spring
That just came from somewhere
Mountain side or something
Yeah
And then you put a
Goza, you know
Tatami kind of sheet
Okay
They put that on the ground
People change on that
That's all you get
Goza
Oh, shit
And then you just sit
Oh, shit
Nothing else
Wow
Damn
Oh, it's wild
I like that
Yeah, yeah
I like that
It's pretty
I feel nature
Yeah, yeah
It's like really like street style
Yeah, yeah
Fucking
Hardcore onsen
Yeah, you just have like
Wall
Made of like rocks
Uh-huh
So that separate man and woman
Okay
That's all
Oh, shit
Was there other customers?
Yeah, yeah
Oh, there were?
Like two, three groups
Wow
But we didn't
I didn't met them
During the stay
What do you mean?
'Cause
I don't know why but
Maybe the time
Timing was different
So you didn't see them in the ryokan
No
That's what you're saying
Right
In the ryokan they say like
なんとかご一向様
なんとかご一向様
ようこそ
You know
Wow
They put a name on
the front board or something
Yeah
So we know that there are
Like some different groups
There's two or three there
Staying but
Oh, yeah
I didn't see them
So do you sort of like
えしゃく
When you see them
Like because you know that you three
Uh-huh
Are the only groups
Or
All the only groups
In the ryokan, right?
Uh-huh
Is there like sort of like a
Weird connection between you guys
Like when you see each other
Oh, yeah
If you met them like
どうもこんにちは
Oh, that happens?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I guess so
Wow, wow
If we met together in the
Hot spring
The hot spring
Yeah, we might
You know, have some conversation
What about the 朝食?
You guys would get together
In the 朝食 or you guys
No, we had a like
Separate room
Separate rooms
And they brought the
Yeah, yeah, yeah
The Oba-chan brought it to you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wow, nice
Nice joke
Right, right, right
They
They had a Inoshishi
Sure
They had a Shika
Uh-huh
They had a
You know, wild things, you know
Yeah, yeah, yeah
It's pretty extreme
Wild vegetable
You could
Could probably then
It's possible that you'd see them
Yeah, yeah, yeah
During the hot spring time
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Like right there
Just watching you take a shower
Yeah
Sure
I guess
They have those in the
In the
Shikichi
Uh-huh
So
Could be
Wow
Yeah, that was fun
Wow
Wow, must be fun
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Wow, must be fun
And then after that
We went to Flower Park
Flower Park, okay
And
I forget the name but
The very famous Flower Park
Very famous Flower Park, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Okay
That was packed
Oh, Hitachi Nakashi?
Not that one but
09:01
Same area
Same area
I forget the name
Hitachi is Ibaraki, by the way
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right
Yeah
I forget the name
But very popular one
Yeah, the very popular
Very popular Flower Park
For Fuji
Tulips
Not tulips
Not tulips
Not tulips it is
Okay
They have tulips, yes
Oh, yeah
But famous for like Fuji
Fuji
Fuji tree
It's
It's like
It's like grapes, you know
Oh, okay
Flowers like
It flowers down
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Okay
When it was packed of people
Right, because of the season, you know
Yeah
Because of the season
Golden Week
Yeah
I was surprised and we were very like
Wow
Yeah, Golden Week is pretty crazy
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I heard online news
It was
Dad, right?
Dad
It was an interview
Some line news did an interview to a dad
Some random dad, right?
It was like
What are you doing in Harajuku today?
Oh, my daughter
From some like Niigata or something, right?
She wanted to drink the tapioca that was on TikTok
So the dad had to line in Harajuku tapioca store for two hours
For two hours?
For two hours
For one tapioca?
For a tapioca
That's crazy, right?
What a dad
At this point, I don't know if the daughter is too greedy
or the dad is too stupid
I really can't tell which is which now at this point
Wow
What is she doing?
I don't know
Maybe she's walking around the Takeshita Dori or something
Like shopping or something
Yeah, maybe she's having fun at Laforet
Harajuku or something
I don't know
Wow
I don't know
Wow
They got a new building in Harajuku
They got new buildings, right?
I heard
Yeah
I heard maybe she's over there chilling
Yeah
You know, under the AC
Pretty crazy
Wow
Yeah
Yeah
You know, it was pretty countryside though, the flower park
Yeah
No like accessible Harajuku Shibuya, you know
Gotta go by car
Yeah
Right
Two or three hours maybe from Tokyo
Yeah
They would go
Yeah
They would go
We went
Yeah
That's right, that's right
I mean, you can't say shit about it
I was the crowd
Yeah
One of the reasons why I walked to Odaiba, you know
During the later time of the day
Because I wanted to avoid sort of the crowd
Like, you know, walking from Tokyo to Odaiba
Not many people, you know, actually
No one really walks
Well, yeah
Yeah
Like the bridge in Tsukishima Bridge
You know, the Tsukishima Bridge
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Yeah
You know, the bridge that's holding
That's between Ginza and Tsukishima and Tsukishima and
The Toyosu area, something like that
You know there's a bridge, right?
Yeah, I know there's a bridge, yeah
Yeah, no one was there, literally no one
Is it walkable bridge?
Walkable, absolutely walkable
Absolutely view is stunning
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pretty good, no one was there
Wow
Lovely
Wow
That's a great, great thing to do
That's right
In a golden week
That's right, avoid the crowd
Yeah, lovely
All right, I hope you guys had fun during golden week
All right, thanks for listening guys
Thank you
Bye-bye