How rural Japanese people like to spend their cash!

Quick video on what the rural Japanese folk like to spend their money on here.
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Early next year i plan to expand my rural Japan cafe to include rescuing stray cats in my area to turn it into a unique Cat Cafe. Any help is very much appreciated.
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[@RealRuralJapan]

Early next year i plan to expand my rural Japan cafe to include rescuing stray cats in my area to turn it into a unique Cat Cafe. Any help is very much appreciated. www.buymeacoffee.com/realruraljapan

[@jamesgraham446]

Australian women "spending 40-60k on a new kitchen but won't spend $100 on a cooking lesson"....that line cracked me up. Perfectly sums up the majority of Australian women. Enjoy Japan and being away from that type of idiocy.

[@RealRuralJapan]

Beware of Australian women with $60K kitchens with granite countertops and expensive splashbacks because they are going to serve you up something from the frozen food section of Woolies because it was on special. It is not the food that is the problem it is the fact that you have to agree with them that they are financial genius when they tell you all about it!

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

1:06 "Payday millionaire" Made me instantly think of a really well known song in Sweden called "Kung för en dag" or king for a day by Magnus Uggla. It's about a dude that pretty much blows his entire paycheck and then all of the problems that follow that, all just to be "king for a day".

[@DoiPunctZero]

That Subaru casually parked at 9:15

[@RealRuralJapan]

Impreza

[@Mr.Randy210]

😅 yup, making 5 dollar meals in a 60k kitchen! 75k car for 10min drives and put the cheapest gas in it.

[@RealRuralJapan]

Solid mahogany doors to store away $2 plastic food tubs!

[@KCOWMOO]

I really enjoy your videos, such beautiful mountains and country side, japan is an amazing place.

[@kernfel]

Aw, no cat kisses :( Jokes aside, nice roundup! I didn't know about the vacations, but I've always been amused at hairdresser's in what seemed like the most remote places.

[@RealRuralJapan]

He is getting more mature i can barely get him to dance now!

[@andreiprecup1368]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who needs to be tied up to be taken on vacation

[@brucebaum1458]

By time I was 19 I’d travelled around the world almost twice, in early 70’s, now the wife wants to travel but has to have everything booked etc which I can’t stand, it’s a kind of torture to travel these days, especially the airlines kill the pleasure at the start.

[@richardm4706]

Chock a block with Hair dressers, barbers, and pharmacies. An aging population means lots of women getting their hair dyed once a month and a lot of people on multiple prescriptions for various ailments and pains.

[@RealRuralJapan]

I didn’t think about the hair dye thing! Yep full grey haired women are unicorns where I live!

[@richardm4706]

@@RealRuralJapan - 😂 yeah, definately unicorns. I don’t know how many do their nails monthly compared to the hair dye, but the nail art - it’s far more than a simple manicure and bottle of polish - is another of those home businesses. I figure it’s around ¥20,000 per month for this racket. I somehow manage to survive with a 15 year old set of hair clippers and a nail clipper that I bought at the ¥100 shop years ago.

[@CB-sx8xh]

Wow, that is fascinating. Totally different to how I spend money. Mind you if I had a lazy $5k I'd be very tempted by a massage chair 😂

[@TheSabuArt]

Love your videos friend! So nice to know a bit more about such a distant and interesting culture and lifestyle. Greetings from the other side of the globe!

[@revenanke3132]

I found it baffling when you said that Japanese people don't spend money on house renovations, but it all made sense when you mentioned their houses are worth nothing after all. I grew up in Norway and it probably bears some similarities to Australia in this respect: wages are generally high for all fields of work, making hiring skilled workers too expensive for all but the richest, so a very popular pastime is DIY home renovations. Young men love to brag how they made $100k by renovating an old house they bought over the course of several years of living there, riding the housing bubble. Any money you put into your house is generally seen as an investment since you'll always get it back, and sometimes in multiples.

[@fauxvier8519]

Maybe thats why their businesses always find customers

[@Mr.Randy210]

Out of all the youtube I look forward to your videos

[@RealRuralJapan]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@Mr.Randy210]

@RealRuralJapan I've had an affinity for Japan since I was 10, had a penpal through English class. Watched NHK on PBS, neighbor had satellite and we watched Japanese TV. I watch a lot of Japanese youtube stuff like train videos and walking videos, I started perfecting my coffee game and drifted into Japanese coffee videos. Started baking and the YT algorithm put up your channel and bobs your uncle. I think the universe wants me to go to Japan and open a Cafe, I'm thinking Hokkaido somewhere or north of Sendai. I'm trying to get my channel up and running "Mr.Randy's Coffee", I also have a pen channel "Mr.Randy's Pens".

[@RealRuralJapan]

If that is something you have mind i am doing a big hospitality series about opening and running a cafe on my Patreon page which has already started. It will be many hours long and will go through everything you can imagine including tips from me who has over 20 years doing this. Well worth the $7 a month especially for someone thinking of doing this and just this series alone you will get so much out of. It is too long and boring as it goes through lots of stuff to put on the channel.

[@Mr.Randy210]

@RealRuralJapan my wife and youngest are planning to go to the Kanamara Matsuri next year, I told them that if I go to Japan I am not coming back.

[@EdwardM919]

The way you drive down these narrow roads always make me nervous, it seems like the norm in japan, i guess im just use to wide american roads.

[@IgnasV]

Yeah, to my eyes it looks like 2 cars not gonna be able to pass each other, but they always manage somehow.

[@EdwardM919]

@@IgnasV I couldn't imagine doing that in a kia car without airbags

[@j_reed_main8629]

I wonder if there is an increased cost of renovations (purchasing and transporting material) and potential scarcity of tradesman (increased labor costs or maybe just time to build) in rural areas that combines with the lack of house value that also makes renovating undesirable? For example, maybe it would cost 2x as much to renovate your kitchen but only add a third of the amount of value.

[@RealRuralJapan]

If you want to know about Akiyas and this sort of thing i have a big series on Patreon. I used to knock them down here as a part time job.

[@TheKGBtsar]

Did you get lost driving around that area when you first moved there? It's looks like a bit of a maze of like roads going everywhere

[@RealRuralJapan]

No, the village is one road in.

[@PiperStart]

So, really, they're very much the same as kiwi farmers - although Queensland, Hawaii, and Bali are the holiday destinations.

[@RealRuralJapan]

Yeah, farmers around the world have a lot in common except for the pillows perhaps!

[@scherry9198]

What models are those little flatbed trucks I see everywhere?

[@RealRuralJapan]

No idea what you mean.

[@scherry9198]

@@RealRuralJapan The ones parked next to the fields? They look pretty cool, sort of like Subaru Sanbars.

[@RealRuralJapan]

Need a timestamp

[@cccc87659]

@@RealRuralJapan 1:32 bottom right of screen, white flatbed truck

[@richardm4706]

A few things that I don’t see much here in the Hida area as compared to Kanagawa. Granted, population densities are vastly different. 1). Scooters. There are a few, but it’s not the insanity that a driver in Kanagawa will endure. I suspect this is partly due to how much snow we get and the steep hills. 2). Road bikes. I’m talking about the spandex, clippy shoes, $15,000 carbon fibre bike gangs of Tour de France wannabe’s that can have a driver pulling their hair out. There are a few here where I am, can count them on one hand, and I strongly suspect that they retired and moved here. 3). Joggers. It’s a more elderly demographic here. You will see more people walking with the ski pole sticks than joggers. You won’t see me out jogging, I get all the exercise I need on the farm. You want a workout? come help me cut a field of grass with a scythe or help to build a dry stone wall. 4). Bozos. I haven’t seen or more importantly heard any so far. Those packs of kids riding through town reving their bike engines, running red lights, and being a genrral nuisance. 5). Traffic jams.

[@RealRuralJapan]

We get hikers come through and the occasional bicyclist it is just too hilly where i am.