Touring Tokyo, Shinjuku, and Golden Gai Nightlife Area and Godzilla Hotel

[@MaxGrey03]

The looks on the people as you ran from Godzilla were priceless.

[@livingphase2]

We had a great fun!

[@DawnCoen]

Your intro was epic!! Loved the expressions on the locals' faces!!

[@livingphase2]

Glad you liked it!! It was a ton of fun! 🤣🤣🤣

[@pattieb8214]

This has to count as one of my favorite videos you have done. Mike, you give so much information, that it makes us feel as though we are there with you. Thank you for continuing to deliver fun and interesting vlogs.

[@livingphase2]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

[@eileenammendolea1776]

I loved your intro! I was literally laughing out loud! You are so much fun! Now to watch the rest of the video!😊

[@livingphase2]

Glad you liked it!! 🥰

[@BeefromSC]

Wow that Godzilla hotel and memorial, such a long day!!! That layered crepe cake is interesting for sure!!!! Thanks for sharing

[@livingphase2]

Thanks for watching! ❤️

[@barbarawalkowiak5763]

I love the locals faces when you pretended Godzilla was attaching . 😂 great video .

[@livingphase2]

Glad you enjoyed. It was a lot of fun

[@jasonclift7253]

Great content again guys! So glad you survived Godzilla and an earthquake - can't wait to see the next one!

[@livingphase2]

It was a lot of fun doing that one, thanks for sailing along with us

[@jeangraceNpeace6767]

I love those tiny bars! How fun! In 1980-81 I was stationed, as a Marine Corps active duty person, in Iwakuni Japan for a year. Beautiful country. Wonderful people. Great video!

[@livingphase2]

Very cool! Thanks a lot for following along with us

[@amyhenke2417]

You two are so full of joy, and I'm so glad you are getting to have this experience with each other. Thank you so much for doing all of the work to document this awesome cruise for all of us! Looking forward to the rest of your adventures!

[@livingphase2]

Thank you so much!

[@JessiFayS]

I love Japan. I've been watching Japan videos from the start of my youtube history. It was watching a princess cruise sailing out of Yokohama that got me addicted to cruising youtube videos. I ran out of english speaking videos of people living or visiting Japan - so I watched that 1st cruise video. I've been addicted to cruise videos ever since. Cruise videos allow me to experience all kind of new countries. It's kind of nice that it's come full circle. My cruise videos brought me back to Japan.

[@livingphase2]

Glad you enjoyed it, and can travel along with us

[@Janknitz1]

I’m really enjoying your visit to Japan. I grew up on Okinawa and visited Tokyo as a little girl 60 years ago! If you visit the San Francisco Bay Area there’s an earthquake simulator at the Cal Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

[@livingphase2]

That's a place where it makes sense to have an earthquake simulator as well. Thanks a lot for following along with us

[@samandkellealbrecht9034]

Yall are so dang cute!! Loving the whole adventure!

[@livingphase2]

Aww thanks. 😊

[@mabelsangal2067]

You two are so much fun! Godzilla could not get to you!

[@livingphase2]

🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelmorris3821]

The bar staircase reminded me of Amsterdam when I was there in the late 1970s.

[@livingphase2]

I was there in the early eighties and yes I hadn't thought about it but it does kind of remind me of some of those

[@cyndihanson157]

I just love how much fun you guys have in these videos! It’s always makes me smile❣️

[@livingphase2]

Thanks, we really are doing these as our personal scrapbook for when we finish the world cruise and we always try to have a great time doing them. Glad you're enjoying as well

[@jannetterodriguez1205]

Godzilla Hotel looks amazing. Thank you for sharing such an amazing journey

[@livingphase2]

Her friends stayed there and we got to see their room. It was a fun place.

[@davidoquias6061]

Thanks for the suggestion, it will be added to my bucket list

[@livingphase2]

Glad you liked it.

[@CCB249]

I am loving all these Pro Tips on Japan! Thank you so much. I experienced a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Maryland at my house in 2011! Didn't know what was happening. My house is a Colonial type house and it seemed like the top floor was going one way and the main floor was going another way. My husband was at work in DC, but my son was upstairs. He was home from college. He came running down and said "That was an earthquake!" He had done a class in California in the summer in high school at LMU and experienced an earthquake when he was there. No damage was done to my house, thank goodness, but I will never forget the experience. This was the same earthquake that damaged the Washington Monument in DC.

[@livingphase2]

Wow, I'm glad nobody was hurt. It was a fun but a very educational experience for Nancy

[@angelasofia7726]

What a fun day you had in Tokyo!

[@livingphase2]

We did, we love that City

[@kathyreed6988]

Love your videos! Thank you for taking us along! Tokyo looks beautiful.

[@livingphase2]

Thanks for watching!

[@QueenFan-cj4jh]

The extruded fries look good!

[@livingphase2]

Thanks!

[@joanneyoung8571]

Oh gosh I love you guys. Your video was so wonderful and Nancy on the earthquake machine was hilarious. Your zest for life and travel really inspires me to challenge myself and how new experiences

[@livingphase2]

Nancy here. So glad I could inspire you. The earthquake machine was a riot for sure.😂😂

[@2147jarhead]

I was just in Yokohama for business, great time, too short of a time

[@livingphase2]

It was wonderful can't wait to go back

[@mgtow1562]

It looks like a kewl place to visit......

[@livingphase2]

It was, thanks for following along

[@19JBow81]

Question: How do couples feel about living in tight quarters together for an extended period of time? You obviously have the whole ship to explore, but personally, I need a little quiet time alone each day to recharge. Just curious how your fellow world travellers are feeling. Thanks again for bringing us along with you!! 💕

[@livingphase2]

For the most part everyone's doing great, we all have agreements with our spouse if we need quiet time we just let him know. This is Mike and sometimes we'll go to the pub with the guys and play some darts while the answer to the spouses relax or she may go do some cross stitch and I'll go do something else. So it allows us a little bit of recharge time as you said

[@knottynumbers44]

I was in Japan in January & compared to the rest of Tokyo, to me Shinjuku looks like Times Square - dirty party district. You’re still safe there though, especially compared to most major metropolitan areas of the world.

[@livingphase2]

You're right it is big crowd and busy, but safe

[@9OClockRant]

Kind of like the “Tokyo” airports. The Haneda Airport (HND) is right in the Tokyo Prefecture, but the Narita Airport (NRT) is over an hour outside of Tokyo. In regards of transportations, an alternative to buying tickets, for iPhone users, you can actually create a virtual IC Card in Wallet to be used. For Android phones that support NFC that has Google Pay, you can do the same thing.

[@livingphase2]

We did that in Singapore and it worked great, just didn't get it set up in tokyo. But excellent suggestion

[@DavidGQTravel]

Enjoy your video. I will be going on an Asian Cruise next month starting in Tokyo. Will spend time before and after in Tokyo to explore the city. Papago is actually better than Google Translate when you are in Japan.

[@livingphase2]

Thanks for the suggestion we'll take a look at it

[@JennAndAmy]

Love your energy!❤⚡️😊

[@livingphase2]

Thank you!!

[@SHYsArt]

This sounds fun. Yep that was fun. Nancy you did great surviving. I want to go but there are so many people. All the bar rules sounds like they had too many rowdy Americans, lol. That staircase to the bar was a ladder, omg. hugs

[@livingphase2]

Actually, it's probably more like Rowdy people from every country, including many, many local Japanese people🤣🤣🤣

[@kimcanty1885]

Love this😂😂😂😂

[@livingphase2]

Thank you!

[@JaniceM0908]

Absolutely loving your videos!!!

[@livingphase2]

Glad you like them! 🥰

[@greenbutterfly-8]

Love watching all your Adventures Enjoy and Stay Safe All Ways All God Blessing’s 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@livingphase2]

Thank you, and right back at you🙏🙏🙏

[@melissahendricks1511]

I’ve watched several of your videos, very informative! Do any of your videos cover the cost of this cruise? Seems you are going all over. Would love to do something like this. Thanks!

[@livingphase2]

We've talked about it over a few different times but in summary it was about 65,000 a person for the cruise itself and then another 10k to 20k for all miscellaneous expenses and excursions over the 9 months.

[@LynnDavis-ln3bx]

!GODZILLA!🎏🎊

[@livingphase2]

🤣🤣🤣

[@anneellison8188]

I've been meaning to ask you, how has the air quality been in Asia? At least between Korea, China and Japan? I've often heard its awful and that's why so many locals wear masks. Also, I was surprised to see the signs that say No smoking on the street! Is smoking discouraged there?

[@livingphase2]

In many of the Asian countries the air quality was very very poor, lots of smog still using a lot of coal powered and oil-powered generators. Japan was much better but China and the other countries it was quite bad beard as far as the no smoking signs I think they're trying to discourage smoking but there's still much much of it everywhere

[@mizsuzee]

I'm so curious if you see any homeless people/encampments like we have in most all big cities here in the USA?? If not, I wonder why we can't learn from countries like Japan and figure out how to improve the situation here for all involved...

[@livingphase2]

Not so much in japan, but we did see immense poverty in many other locations. Much of the reason they haven't had as much homelessness there is there has been for their whole history a deep culture of work is honor. If you don't work, you dishonor your family, and that has a huge part in how Japanese society is run overall. It is a very monolithic culture

[@alanaclark5715]

You can pay with Apple Pay

[@livingphase2]

Yes you can, we actually did get set up for that in Singapore and it worked quite well

[@nancybarta8167]

I live in California and that table would not be that secure. LOL i couldnt eat a panda on a stick! CASH ONLY. Yeah....here Ive been places where they dont except cash!That bar looked like Covid central!

[@livingphase2]

Panda on a stick was great. 😋

[@therahughes1018]

As I travel around the world, trying to find bathrooms is always a challenge. How has it been with you?

[@livingphase2]

Oh yes, it's always a challenge