This past Saturday, we uploaded our fourth video on our YouTube Channel after doing a “soft launch” the three prior Saturdays with videos on Takayama, Sasayama and Kanazawa. It has involved a lot of baby steps as we’ve been working out the kinks, but with Saturday’s Tokyo video we are full speed ahead, and grateful to have you along for the ride.
Tokyo is consistently ranked in travel magazines as one of, if not the top destination city in the world. If you’ve been there, you know why. Japan is unlike so many countries in that for centuries it was isolated from the western world, then during the Meiji Era beginning in the late 1800’s (when Josephine’s great, great-grandparents arrived on its shores after a four month ocean journey), it opened up with the result being an ancient culture with temples and castles dating back to the 1500’s meeting modern technology, architecture and society. There’s nowhere else like it. As a result, tourists from around the world have discovered Tokyo, making the most popular spots overcrowded.
Yet even within this megalopolis of some 37 million plus all those tourists, there are hidden gems where you can escape the crowds. In this latest video, we introduce you to several activities and places to get away within the heart of Tokyo. These include the “G-Cans”, an underground labyrinth that stretches for miles, and the Tokyo Water Taxi as well as the Yaesu Terrace and Marunouchi Terrace; both being quiet hang outs overlooking Tokyo Station that few foreign visitors (and even few locals) know exist. There is also the Small Worlds Tokyo Museum that is a fascinating place with few tourists.
So we encourage you to watch the Tokyo video for the inside scoop on each of these amazing places and then some. While there, please click the “like” button and subscribe to the channel. At this point in our fledgling experiment that is Uncharted Japan, LLC, these “likes” and “subscribes” are really a big deal as they let the YouTube genie know we have something worth promoting, and without that, we won’t get much further than a handful of videos. (please watch for more than 30 seconds, otherwise it doesn’t count on our end) So your support in liking, subscribing, and sharing with others is sincerely appreciated.
Right now I get excited to see just one or two new subscribers over a day or two. Hopefully there will come a day when the channel is growing by that every hour and then every minute. But as I told Josephine, if we’re fortunate enough to have that occur, I don’t ever want to lose the thrill that I get today when I log on and see “+2 subscribers” on our YouTube dashboard. I want every morning to be Christmas morning, so to speak. Thanks again for reading this blog, visiting our website and watching our videos and your encouraging emails and comments. We truly hope you learn something new about Japan and enjoy the journey with us!