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Tokyo Tales - The Simon and Martina Podcast

Tokyo Tales: Tiny Villages

Tokyo Tales - The Simon and Martina Podcast

Simon and Martina

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

5759 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A restaurant we go to made me cry, and made me rethink what it means to be a part of a community here in Tokyo.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tokyo, Japan, the friendliest, awesomest part of Japan. And we're talking about friendliness today.

0:04.7

Friendship! Because we've noticed some observations, not only from Kichiguchi, but like mostly from Kichig,

0:11.7

and we kind of are starting to form a theory about community in Japan. Okay. Go with it.

0:18.1

Okay. So this starts with... I didn't form any theory. What's your theory?

0:23.2

Okay. So this comes from a few different examples.

0:26.7

Follow our story.

0:27.5

So it starts with the Wortha Team from BuzzFeed.

0:30.5

You've probably seen some of the videos on YouTube.

0:32.5

They're here doing some videos in Japan.

0:35.0

And Stephen, who's part of that team message us. And he's like,

0:38.1

hey, we got a free night. You want to do something? So he said, hey, let's take you out to Kichu Jogi

0:42.5

because I always think it's a great place to take people because whenever people come visit Japan,

0:47.5

they mostly think about, you know, like Shibuya and Shenzuku and Hadojuku. But not a lot of people

0:52.9

know about Kichu Juchi, apart from our very intelligent and esteemed and dignified audience that knows what the best part of Japan is.

1:01.8

And what I'd say is I don't really blame people for that because, you know, if you're coming to Japan, you're going to kind of like hit these locations and feel like these are the things that Japan has to offer.

1:09.8

Right.

1:10.0

But those aren't really like the local scene.

1:12.7

It's not what the average Japanese person is doing.

1:15.2

Not at all.

1:15.6

They're not leaving their house and being like, let's go party in Shibuya tonight.

1:19.2

Right.

1:19.4

That's not actually what people are doing, right? come over. We want to take them to some Isaacais that we really like to have a good vibe, that have a good feeling that like look kind of cool, that look very different.

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