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Arrived to kabukicho right now it's a
friday morning
you know maybe that godzilla over there
is familiar for you guys yep even such a
beautiful day really nice people
anyway i'm starving let me grab some
breakfast from the convenience store
so this is the entrance of kabukicho and
this is the main street of godzilla road
this Donqujote is one of the
signatures of kawakisho
i've seen many travelers here 24 7 but
uh
seems like not anymore well one good
thing even in the kabukicho
we can find a mask this one it's only
one mask
but 50 japanese yen well this mask has
7 masks
it's only 100 japanese yen wow it's
pretty cheap
kabukicho is the largest night street in
japan because of the COVID-19
many people are avoiding to visit this
place now it's friday morning 11 pm
i still can't believe it
well i've never seen such an empty
kabukicho street
well i was thinking of eating a
breakfast from convenience store
and the shooting intro but i don't think
i should eat
here so after show you guys kabukicho a
little bit
i will leave from this place well, so let me
move to some other place
it's kind of a strong window here hey
guys welcome to Rion's tv i'm Rion
so today i'm at the shinjuku kabukicho
right now yeah that's right
you see the Godzilla over there this
is one of the most popular shinjuku spot
however
really few people actually i was born
and raised in osaka however i used to
live in tokyo so i've been to shinjuku
so many times but
i've never seen shinjuku like this so in
this video
i try to show you guys how the shinjuku
kabukicho and other shinjuku places
looks like
in summer 2020. anyway you know i don't
want to stay here much so
let's go to the other part of shinjuku
so let's move
so i've decided to leave kabukicho
without eating
this is the main street from kabukicho
to shinjuku eastgate
compared to kabukicho there were more
people but still less
many stores were open but i didn't see
customers inside the stores though
in front of shinjuku station there is a
really popular fruit store
however it was closed it makes me
surprised
all right so here we go this is the East exit
of shinjuku station
for me this is the main gate and finally
they finished the construction
this place became more spacey loving it
yeah the last year when i came here
there was a construction oh yeah
there we go
this is the shinjuku lion one of the
symbols
Yup, Rion and lions sweet
all right okay well there were so many
people last year so
it was more hard to do it but this year
just not so many people so
i'm not shy anymore by the way
that building called the studio ALTA
which was a really popular studio in
japan
but it's closed since last year it's not
because of the COVID 19 though
anyway so this is how the east gate of
shinjuku looks like
now let's go to check the west gate of
shinjuku
still compared to kabukicho there are
more people inside the station
by the way train in japanese is Densha
so if you want to find train in japan
you can just say
densha people will let you know the
closest station by the gesture
even they don't speak english this place
was under construction last year
wow it became cleaner
this is the west gate area of shinjuku
station
for the first time travelers many people
misunderstand
this is the ground level however it's
underground
you need to find the stairs to go to the
ground level
otherwise you will be stuck in here
alright here we go this is the west gate
of shinjuku
probably if you see that building over
there you can realize where we are
yes that's one of the iconic buildings
in shinjuku
anyway it's 12 30.
i am hungry however this place is too
hot
let me get into the station and let me
cool myself down
yeah let me see what's the templature
today no wonder
it's 34 degrees in shinjuku today you
know even it's really hot outside
but if you get into the station it's
really cool so
whenever you feel hot just get into the
station that's the easiest way
remember for your next japan trip
oh by the way you can't smoke on the
street in japan right now
if you smoke you have to pay fine and
you see that's a place where you can
smoke
wow it must be hot
so if you are the smoker just remember
since there are more office buildings in
west part of shinjuku
you can find many inexpensive chain
restaurants around this area
also there are many discounted ticket
stores as well
so if you want to find a discounted
ticket in shinjuku
you can come here and compare discounted
ticket stores
Also near westgate there is omoide yokocho
which is a really tiny hidden street if
you want to enjoy
japanese small restaurants you can stop
by here
even in the noon time this place used to
be so many people
but seems like not anymore though
since i didn't buy the food at
convenience store i've decided to go to
Keio department store's food section
it's just right next to the west gate of
shinjuku station
you can just go down the stairs and keep
straight
you will find many fancy stores on your
left side
still keep going and on your right side
you will find the entrance of the food
section
you can find many kinds of food here
usually a bit expensive though
there are many kinds of healthy bento
also sushi too this seafood bento looks
good and also discounted
but last time i ate seafood bowl at tsukiji
so this time let me choose something
else
oh this bento box looks good and healthy
price is cheap as well
so let me get this
all right so i get the lunch
sweet to be honest i don't really want
to eat
in the restaurant in shinjuku so this
Bento box is good enough
look at this bag it's fancy right that's
a department store in japan anyway let's go to the
south gate of shinjuku
so here we go this is the south gate of
shinjuku so usually
in the south part of shinjuku less
people so if you want to take a rest in
shinjuku
probably you want to go to the south
part of shinjuku by the way that's a
popular bus station in shinjuku Basta
most of the buses
are starting from there so if you are
thinking of taking a bus from shinjuku
station
remember this southgate anyway i want to
eat lunch in somewhere
so let me find a place to eat i am
pretty sure that i can find a place to
eat
in south part of shinjuku so let's keep
walking
so right now i'm looking for a place to
eat i know there is a park over there
and i'm pretty sure i can eat
but i want to have a table oh you know
what i remember there is a table in
front of the shinjuku station
and we can use it so let's keep working
all right here we go yeah i'm pretty
sure i can find some place to eat
but beforehand let me grab something to
drink
i am thirsty it's a koi meno Carupisu
which is a Calpico stronger
taste
it looks good
sweet all right so before drink it let's
find a place to eat
i think this is a good place to eat we
have table and chairs
and luckily not many people here
also we can have a train special view
which i don't see train yet but yeah
it's coming
anyway so let's eat
all right wow
yeah you know because i bought it in the
department store
it's super fancy right and they gave me
an ice pack as well
so even in the hot weather the bento box
is fine
maybe this place is a bit noisy but i
think still it's okay
hopefully so let me wipe my hands
and let me use my hand sanitizer
i will use the chopsticks though so
basically i'm not going to touch the
food
however i think it's better to use the
hand sanitizer
so this is not the regular tada pizza
which is Koime no Carupisu
means condensed so it's a condensed
Carupisu
it has stronger taste it sounds good
right oh my goodness
i was super thirsty
okay so let's open the food
you know the price is 500 japanese yen
but
it's a vip style there is a handle to
hold
it's cute isn't it oh my goodness
uh
you know this place beautiful sky it's
perfect
however one thing if i can complain
about it there is no ac
so it's a bit hot but not that bad now
so anyway let's open it alright so this
is how it looks like
oh nice so
there are two areas this is like a
chinese food style huh
i know in some other countries if you
see this pack
immediately you guys can imagine the
asian food
however this style is not really popular
in japan
it's my first time to see this chinese
bug style
anyway so there are foods and
rice so this is the rice with red color
well i'm not sure this Zakkokumai how to
call it in english
but uh probably here
you can see the translation
it smells good all right so let's eat
italian okay so basically
this is what we have here there is a
fried chicken
broccoli glass carrots eggs and i
believe this is a sweet potato
plus Renkon which is a lotus root
yeah pretty much that's it unfortunately
i picked the cheapest bento box
so prices are cheap but the quantity not
that much
well compared to the regular food i eat
definitely it's healthier
itadakimasu
especially look at this it's much
thicker than regular rice
and there is i believe this is a red
bean plus
many other stuffs
compared to regular rice more flavor
inside and i believe
this is healthier than regular rice i
believe
not sure though
so how about other veggies
it is really soft and with this teriyaki
sauce yummy
is this the teriyaki sauce or sweet and
sour sauce
let me see it's Teriyaki sauce
hey no way is it raining
well i think it's raining it's weird
all right i am ready to move whenever
rain gets harder i will move from here
still this much rain i can stay here
by the way this lotus root it's really good
but
you know how come such a beautiful sky
but it's raining well totally weird
i think i need to eat quick
well the rain had stopped well i don't
think it's gonna rain again
anyway my food already became only the
chicken
and egg yeah it's already my last
chicken you know the price was only 500
japanese yen
so definitely the quality is not that
much however the quality
is good
hold on a second i think it might be
raining again
maybe not anyway this is my last food
egg
itadakimasu
Saiko, that was a good lunch so let's go
back to the shinjuku south gate
since we are at south part of shinjuku
station
let's go to check out one of the biggest
bus terminal
shinjuku Basuta if you are taking a bus
from shinjuku station
probably you will take a bus from here
well compared to before there are really
less buses however still
many buses are starting from this place
and
omiyage shop also 7-11 are still open
many people are avoiding to use long
distance bus right now
because of that the bus price is much
cheaper than usual
however i still don't want to use it
though well still there are several
people there however compared to last
year
really nice people okay so anyway next
let's go to check the east part of
shinjuku station
so let's keep walking
so this is southeast of the shinjuku
station i used to see many street
performers over here
but not anymore well compared to west
part of shinjuku this east part of
street is
kind of small so feels like more people
here
so you see that's the Lumine est and
also that's the east gate of the
shinjuku station oh my goodness
really hot and i sweat a lot
okay so speaking of the east part of
shinjuku area
there are more restaurants you know
west part of shinjuku more office
buildings and the east part of shinjuku
is more like sightseeing place so as you
can see
compared to west part of shinjuku more
young people are here
since we are at east part of shinjuku
area let's go to check one of the
biggest electric appliance store
Bikkuro
as you can see even in the friday
afternoon i didn't see many people there
well there were really these people as i
expected i believe electric appliance
store having a really hard time because
nowadays
you can buy the electric stuff on amazon
so i was wondering
how about the apple store this is the
popular
apple store in shinjuku thinking about
the friday afternoon
i believe it's less people here
well actually i wanted to come over to
the apple store because recently my
macbook has some problem
the keyboard chattering i'll be back soon
hold on one second
well actually i couldn't get into the
apple store because i didn't make a
reservation
if you want to enter the apple store
right now you need to make a reservation
yeah no wonder there are less people
inside the store
all right so i came to the back street
of shinjuku this place is just in front
of
the Bikkuro yeah it's totally different
from busy Shinjuku
street right this is in front of the
entrance of golden street
which is really popular tiny street
anyway so this shinjuku video pretty
much that's it
hope you could see how the shinjuku
looks like right now my tokyo journey
has just
started so speaking of myself i was born
and raised in osaka
i'm a food and travel full-time
youtuber i've been traveling to many
places and i tried to show you guys how
it looks like
if you haven't checked my kyoto video
and the first day of universal studios
video after the Covid19
there were really few people in popular
spot and really interesting
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