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Would actually recommend this over USJ if you're a HP fan. This and the Harry Potter cafe in Shibuya.

I put this in our itinerary for our upcoming Japan visit this November. Might be worth checking out.

No wonder U have a very strong Aussie accent! 🤭 Was wondering how come a Japanese girl speaks like an Aussie! 😆🌏

A whole lot of her face, very little of the place.

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Hello Stephanie! Do you have a business email for collaborations?

Thank you so much for this video! It helped me figure out what hotel I want to stay next month.

Babe, it is difficult to imagine you as a powerlifter!❤

Years often go by before I realize my dating mistakes or failures lol

Will it's time to move on to south Korea 🇰🇷 or China!✨🇨🇳 Both places probably have very impressive dating services!✨ For your very true 💘 love interest!✨ My great inspiring wisdom for today!✨ Have a very impressive beautiful 😍 day.😍👏❤

See that’s the trouble with “suki-desu” being said as both I like you and I love you. That’s very confusing to a westerner? Saying I like you and I love you are both hugely different. However, of course different customs in Japan vs Australia or western world so I get that as well. It’s a minefield.

You must have felt ill after finishing that challenge? Bloody impressive!

I was rejected by JET… then I got a job transfer working for 🍎… it was a blessing in disguise. 😬

Thanks for sharing your dating life (cause it wasn’t ❤ right?😉) Great to learn more about any one of the “Japan by food” hosts because its great to watch a new episode every week - nice 100 💵 episode😊 and oh really liked the sushi one with the “shoot for a prize” game at the end!! look forward to seeing you in the next one 💯

Can I have the Onsen name

Honestly, I've heard far worse and you've obviously learned from your experience... Dating is just different here... I've dated a few Japanese girls though. Not gonna lie, I was probably used by a few of them for free english lessons until my Japanese got way better so now this doesn't really happen anymore. I did confess to my longtime girlfriend. I eased into it by telling her what I liked about her and us and then I was full like... なおのことが。。。。。(Mild panic setting in as I realise I can't go back now because she knows what word comes next...) 好きand then full blown panic as I silently waited for her answer. Very different from Oz where you just kinda start hooking up often enough and it just kinda becomes a relationship.

Very well done and thank you.

lol girls who lift huge red flags

soma seems like a great tour guide :)

isnt this Pat Kay studio?

I dunno Steph. From my dating experience in Japan, it always seems to work out better for me when women are into me instead of me asking them to be my girlfriend. In my modest opinion, since women are the gatekeepers of relationships, it always organically works out for me :)

Cant wait to go next week!

I am so happy you are sharing this story! There is SO much miscommunication with dating abroad and this brought so many flashbacks of my own time in Sendai. More power to you queen for being honest with the awkward and gringe side if being an expat ❤‍🔥

Attraction of Shibuya can not be overstated and immeasurable and very profound and unimaginable

Merci, in Japan japanese is their first language et maybe english

He must have known you wouldn’t understand as he knew you were not from Japan, I’d say that’s more on him 😂 great lesson learnt.. I didn’t even know that existed haha. Saying ILY on date 3 is pretty wild 😅

I doubt a smart girl such as yourself will ever be in short supply of anything in life, even if you have to open every door in Japan to find the person you want to accompany you on your journey..it's your story we are all following. I think "koku haku" is overrated anyways just saying.💌🇯🇵🕊

This was interesting as I learned about this similar concept in Korea talking to a local friend who was seeing somebody at the time.

I don't know Steph, he knew you're not from Japan, so he could have just explained his culture a bit more. No need to beat yourself up

Miss potty mouth

Zapp and Roger - Heartbreaker 💔🕺🎶.

frenzoned again 🥲

Thanks for sharing your experience 😀. :)

In your defense you weren't being mean. It was just a matter of cultural differences and the language barrier.

My Japanese friend told me it's common that you don't lead someone to your dwelling or you'll be marked for creepy harassment and you might have to move if it continues.

pshh someone says 'I love you' on the third date its not real love its infatuation. That being said, it has happened to me with a Japanese girl and I awkwardly said 'yeah I love you too' 😅I didn't know either

Gold's gym name is famous because Arnold Swartzenegger and other famous bodybuilders used to lift there. Now I'm curious and wanna see you powerlift 💪 As a Chinese-Canadian..I am also shooketh at this Kohukaku culture.... I hope you're ready...every guy commentor and will slide into your youtube/ig/etc DMs and profess their love to you. 😏🥰🤣

He learned english just to be able to have meaningful conversations with you. He spent that much time and effort surely because he was in love with you. Btw your hands looks like they are XL size :O

He did what he had to do in order to continue dating you. It could be considered cowardly in his culture if he went beyond the third date without doing kokuhaku.

Josh --- mayor of Friendzone

Haha great story. American here, personally I told my first girlfriend I love you on the first official date at (20yo) we have been married 10 years now. Also depending on how you grew up the difference between a like you and i love you isn't very much if you are dating with the intent of hoping to marry anyway... There is also a difference between "first date" context depending how long you have known someone and knowing you WANT to date each other...

no, haven't made the same mistake.

Your sexy AF 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Oh gosh... This reminds me of my own story in a way early in my Japan adventures. I met a girl that I got along with really well (language barrier though), but we kept going out on dates. Everything was going well and by the third date she had asked if I wanted to go get coffee after dinner because she wanted to hang out more (my monkey brain didn't see the signs)... I walked her to her station when it was time to go, and before she walked off, she stood there and stared at me like she was expecting me to say something (she even put her bags on the ground??). In my mind I'm like, why is she acting weird all of a sudden? Anyhow, I said basically "今日も楽しかった！ありがとう、またね！"... But she just stood there staring still... She didn't talk or respond to me for like 2 weeks after that encounter and it still haunts me to this day when I think about it. 😭 We still talk sometimes but the vibe is definitely not the same... Also I know its not just me, but its REALLY hard to see/feel how people feel towards you in Japan. Its like this game of chess, except your hands are tied behind your back. It's now your turn and you have to move your piece, so you turn your back to the board so you can use your hands. As soon as you turn your back to the chess board, the board rotates randomly. If you turn to look at the board after it rotates, you lose. If you somehow manage to grab the right piece and move it to the correct space, congrats!!! You have to do it all over again on your next turn! やばい...

clicked for thumbnail, stayed for the story i would say the last japanese kokuhaku experience was unwarranted and shocking for me as well, but my reaction was well deserved ahha

If he gave up that easily to win your heart. It's better to move on. If you don't succeed at first try, try again. That is what I would have done

Holy shit your thirsty

Haha I don’t think you are the first kokuhaku victim, you shouldn’t feel bad. Just wondering now if you sent a message to him to clarify the misunderstanding ? 😅

Did things end with the guy right after that or did/do you continue to talk to him? Anyhow, I always figured you and Pat Kay were together given how much you guys are together.