Using local trains, we travel for 3 days around Tochigi, Fukushima, and Niigata. Going this deep into Japan’s countryside provided some interesting challenges that you don’t normally see when you stay on the more tried and true tourists paths.

I made a video about why Japan’s public toilets are amazing and one of the reasons was that you always find them when you need to go. I speculated that perhaps there were so many because they were cheap to build and maintain. So, I investigated.

In this one, we visit an all-you-can eat fruits shop, a Nashi (Asian Pear) farm, and do a blind taste test where we try and guess which fruits are cheap and which are expensive.

There are some crazy, weird, tiny buildings in Japan. Let’s check them out and learn why and how they exist.

Lots of people have heard about the awesome tech in Japanese toilets. But what about their public toilets?

Welcome to Karuizawa, Japan’s most famous resort town where the wealthy play.

In this one we visit the Nadagogo region of Hyogo and learn all about sake.

In this one we visit Kobe city and investigate Kobe Beef.

We visit the Okuizumo area of Shimane to see how Japanese steel, tamahagane, was traditionally made.

We visited Okubo Izakaya, a small 13 seat bar