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We're back with another...
Whoa.
Yeah, that's a good place, dude.
For my glasses.
That's new.
Oh, really? That's...
Yeah.
So we're right now enjoying coffee.
Iced coffee that Yamachan
served for us. Thank you Yamachan for the coffee.
I like it. You bought this at Kohimame, yeah?
Yes, yes, yes.
And I was like, I was at the start of a podcast,
and Yamachan just suddenly like,
spilled the coffee on top of the plants.
Yeah, I mean the plants...
The soil.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was like, that's new.
Really?
That's a good place to put my glasses on.
Okay, okay.
Because it's...
Stable, and flat, and yep.
Right, even if you spill the coffee,
it's just going to be water from the plants, right?
Right, that's a good idea.
Okay.
So, is there coffee?
Is it nice?
Yeah, I thought it was light. I think it's light.
But it's not, he told me.
Not that light.
It's rather...
A little bit deep roasted.
Okay.
You like deep roasted ones?
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm glad you're enjoying the Kohimamea.
Yes.
Did you discover something new about that place?
I'm kind of getting...
No.
That's great!
How many times have you visited?
Like 10 maybe.
That's a lot!
Like every time I go to those...
areas.
Like, areas.
And if I have time,
I go there, visit there.
And buy something.
Wow.
That's great.
The good point about that shop is
they change beans.
Oh, okay.
Like every season, every month.
So,
you can find
new beans every time.
That's nice.
That's so great.
How much per bean would you say
they sell?
Let's compare
with Starbucks.
Compared to Starbucks...
How more expensive are they?
Percentage-wise,
do you think?
Just a tiny, actually.
Compared to Starbucks.
Because it is like
1,500 yen to
2,000 yen.
200 grams.
Starbucks, no?
I guess so.
Around that.
I guess so.
When I buy Kohimamea,
it's around
the same prices,
but 150.
Okay.
So, it's not that actually
that expensive.
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Okay.
Like 20% more, maybe?
Yeah.
Okay.
And think about the quality.
I love
Kohimamea.
Yeah.
I'm also thinking about
upgrading my
my latte game.
Yeah.
Buying a soy milk or
almond milk
to go with the latte.
That's nice.
To go with the espresso and make it like an almond milk latte.
Yeah, because you told me that you like
the special milk
latte.
Yeah.
I forgot the name, but...
But, yeah.
I do love customizing my latte.
That's exciting.
That's nice.
But what I wanted to talk about in this episode
was continuing from
last time.
Where would you...
If you have a friend
who's never been to Japan
and came to Japan
and they're like, "Hey, Yama-chan, I'm here in Japan
for the first time. Can you take me to places?"
Where would you take him?
For him to enjoy
Japan.
I love making a plan
for those people.
Now, first,
I need to listen to him
or her where
he or she wants to go.
Like, the tendency.
Got it.
What do you like? The animes?
Is he otaku?
I want to see all these anime
or go to places or electronics
or go to the nature places
or eat something
or dig into the culture
like sumo, kabuki.
Okay.
So I'll be the foreigner.
Okay.
So what do I need to...
What do I need to know?
Okay, so your first visit to Japan.
First visit to Japan.
Do you...
What do you...
What do I need to know?
Food.
I go on vacations because of the food.
I'm mostly interested in the food.
So you want to try Japanese food.
Japanese food and a little bit of like
Saisin.
You mean the temples, right?
Yeah, temples or like
the modern kind of buildings.
I like that too.
Okay, so you want to see the buildings?
Like, you into architecture?
Not that much?
Landmarks in Japan.
Like the popular landmarks in Japan.
So you prefer the...
Like modern shopping.
You want to shop?
Do some shopping?
Okay, so you prefer
entertaining places
rather than shrines or temples.
Yes, I'm more like...
Okay.
Then...
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We're in Tokyo, right?
Yeah, we're talking about Tokyo.
Yeah, Kanto area.
Then let's eat
like very Japanese traditional
lunch today.
Let's go to the very authentic
traditional...
Let's go to the
market.
The fish market.
The Tsukiji fish market.
Get some sushis.
Or like tendon if you want.
You know what it is? Tendon.
In the lunch.
And just pass by the...
Let's call it Shia.
And pass by the Kabuki theater.
Just in front of the Tsukiji.
And go to the
maybe Tokyo tower then.
Yes.
And just keep
going through the
Rainbow Bridge.
And the little bit of divers.
And then...
Let's go to the...
Sensoji.
Yeah, like in Asakusa.
Have you ever been there?
Yeah.
The...
The temple after the
Kaminarimon, right?
Yes, yes, yes.
At the...
Sensoji, you can see the...
The very Japanese
traditional temple.
That's the Sensoji temple.
And also you can shop
in front of the road.
There's a road called Nakamise street.
There's so many shops there.
And so many...
Odango shops.
Senbei shops.
Where traditional shokunin-san is making...
military.
So many things.
Let's go to the Sensoji.
And then...
Let's finish with
eating something.
Let's go...
Let's take the Yakatabune then.
It's gonna be fun.
The Yakatabune!
That's new.
Like Japanese cruising.
But it's very like...
on a Japanese boat.
Not the cruiser.
I heard that it's like a little charai there.
Is that true?
Oh, what?
Yakatabune?
Is it not charai?
Like a lot of like nampas.
How?
That's what I heard.
Really?
Well maybe there's a nampa boat.
So you just gotta be careful which one to go on?
Yeah.
The one I've been using...
is not that...
Oh, not that charai?
Yeah, it's rather kind of...
Like a normal peaceful...
And there's a very like...
traditional desk and chair.
In the boat.
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And there's so many...
high quality like...
Japanese course menu.
With little...
Sake.
And you can go to the deck.
And you can see all the...
Japanese like Tokyo Bay.
The night view.
So it's not that...
nampa-y.
Okay.
Like the...
I think I like the...
Like the...
You went for like the daikyo areas.
You've covered a lot...
of like the major kind of...
Japanese...
It's his first time visiting Japan.
So...
He needs to show the places...
Like famous places, you know.
Yeah.
If that...
visitor...
comes like...
firstly...
If it's the first visit...
I think I'm going to show them...
like the very famous places.
Not the deep deep places.
Just...
famous like...
Japanese stuff first.
Yeah.
And if you have time...
Maybe just dig in a little bit.
Like ramen jiro.
Or like little...
You know.
Those little...
Deeper areas.
Like Yoshinoya.
Yeah Yoshinoya maybe.
Those places.
Like Sushiro.
That's actually...
Very interesting.
I know right?
The system itself is interesting already.
Yes yes yes.
By shokken and like...
sin encounters.
Yeah.
So I want to...
Have them in those...
Little deep areas actually.
That's fun but...
Does the travel agency...
Not only the one that you used to work for...
Do travel agency...
Do travel agency...
Introduce places like Yoshinoya?
Well...
Yes. They do?
We can.
Of course if...
The clients agree...
We can propose anything.
So if the clients were like...
We really want to get to know...
What the everyday Japanese people are eating...
Outside.
Meaning like...
Yoshinoya or Horijumento.
Or like...
Family restaurants and stuff like that.
You...
It's possible that you take them there.
Yes.
So it's possible that you go to...
That I go to some random...
Yoshinoya.
Group tour is there.
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Yeah.
It's possible.
But...
You know I know...
Yoshinoya works.
So...
If the group will be like...
20...
I won't let them in one place.
One Yoshinoya place.
Because there's not many seats.
I need to choose the Yoshinoya restaurant.
Right.
Try to choose like...
Huge Yoshinoya.
Where 20 people can sit together.
Or just split into...
Two or three...
Different.
Yeah, different places.
So that more convenient.
Easily move.
Is it within your responsibility to take care of like...
Not to make it too much for the other customers?
Or is that not within your responsibility?
It's...
My responsibility.
To...
Because it's me who build all the...
Plans.
But there's a one...
Professional called...
Attendant guide.
The translator.
So...
That guy or the lady...
Will be the responsible.
On the spot.
Like the gemba responsibility.
To control the...
Organizing the places where to sit.
Where to buy all these and contact.
Not to be too loud.
Oh that's not within the manner.
Some stop and so on.
So it's not...
I cannot be on the spot.
Because I'm in the office.
So it's not me who...
Control on the spot.
But if trouble happens...
The guy or the lady will call me.
And I have to make decision.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
But it's kind of very rare...
That we can...
Take them to the Yoshinoya.
Or those...
Places.
Because we cannot reserve...
Seats.
We could wait for an hour.
Or it could just be like 3 minutes.
As we have plans...
It's kind of very hard if we need to...
Wait like one hour.
That's make everything...
That makes sense.
Late and...
Right, right, right.
But the plans are very tight.
Need to go...
Today Tokyo and take Shinkansen to...
Osaka and next day Kyoto.
So many things.
There's no room for uncertainties.
We need to reserve the place.
And need to fix it.
It's very rare.
Okay.
Alright.
That was interesting.
Alright, thanks for listening guys.