This is exactly the type of date setting I love. Walking through a forest, where people are rare and who knows what might be discovered? It makes me feel calm and relaxed, whereas going "out" makes me feel super self-conscious and awkward.
I absolutely agree. I spent my whole childhood playing in the woods (didn't have internet back then!) and it's something I constantly still miss. I want very badly to live alongside a forest near the mountains in Japan!
I think it would be really helpful if you guys made a video about shrine etiquette. I want to visit Japan and their shrines/temples, but I don't want to offend anyone while I'm there.
Rachel you look so at home in the woods! I also spent my childhood playing in the woods behind our house and making trails, building forts, etc. I miss it! The area looked soo peaceful, and also made me excited for fall. Thanks for the video guys. :)
Watching these kinds of videos always gives me this sort of happy bloom in my heart. It makes me remember the times when I too wandered into old, forgotten places. You can feel the weight of time and memories there, the air always feels a little different.
mido yes, the gods were so impressed by the tenacity and hard work of the koi, that they transformed it into a dragon. My tattoo is an homage to the noble koi. I have my forearm decorated with sakura buds and koi, and a dragon with sakura blossoms from my shoulder to elbows.
places like this shrine are one of the main reasons I want to visit japan, the history, the architecture, the carvings so beautiful additional thought: I wander who feeds the koi in the dragon god's pond
those type of videos are so great ! It feel so relaxing just lke if we were besides walking and enjoying this special astmosphere and the beautiful nature and landscape : D
Omg, when are you two going to have a little baby dragon of your own. I can't wait. Muah. Thank you for these videos. There magical. I'm in love with the culture. Beauty, respect, cleanliness, peace and serenity.
Hi! Thanks for this, this video was so beautiful and touching! As an European Pagan, I wish I could find something like this in our ancient forests, instead of trash and empty spaces. So thank you so much for sharing this! PS: I'm Spanish and I liked this video so much that I tried to help with Spanish subtitles. I did my best translating from English to Spanish, I hope you like and approve them! If not it doesn't matter, but I thought this was so beautiful and so many Spaniards lack the basics on English understanding that I felt I could help a little! Thanks again and I'm looking forward the next video!
Rachel & Jun My pleasure, the video is so lovely! If you let other videos to be subtitled I'll try to help as well, because I admire Japan so much (and it's not something like "oh, I like manga so I have to like Japanese culture", I really believe they achieved what the rest of the world failed to do: to keep a native and ancestral-like way of living, believing and sense of being with a modern environment and development). I reached to you guys through a friend that linked me the video about being LGBT in Japan and I loved it, and I've been watching you guys since that moment. So count on me for next subtitles, I'm glad to help ;). Blessings from the few Spanish secret trails there still are!
Albert Milbert In Spain, places "like that" (and even cromlech, dolmens and menhirs) are being hit, painted, etc., mainly by psychotic Christians, it's a shame
The woods behind my house has a bunch of woods and a large stream that me and my friends used to go to when we were younger, and this looks exactly like it. It’s so pretty.
My favorite moments were the wind in the trees and Rachel running ahead down the path, her hair the color of Autumn leaves. I wished it had rained when you came to the pond of golden koi dragons.
Both of you look so sweet, like a couple who has recently started to date :) The place is beautiful and thanks to the good weather, you were able to appreciate the incredible colours of nature.
I'm feeling a little sad because those places are amazing and yet almost nobody visits them! It's really sad that no one remembers these little mysterious places.Thanks for visiting it, Rachel and Jun!
Hey Rachel, just wanted to say that I love when you post videos like these. I've been wanting to teach english in japan after I get my degree but every once in a while I get really nervous and don't want get work in Japan. Then I watch one of your videos and get excited at the possibility of working in japan again. So thanks!
The temple and the streets looked so clean and tidy, you'd never see a street or a religious building that tidy in the UK! Also the pond and the little shrines looked so adorable, almost like a glimpse into old Japan. I can imagine walking around there would be very relaxing and refreshing :3
There are small forgotten cemeteries in the forests around where I live. Most of them are small family plots from 100 years ago or more. There is even one in front of a hotel that they found when they were renovating, and the hotel just planted pushes around it and left it.
I want to go to places like these! In America, there really aren't many of these types of places. But in San Francisco I've been to many secret-like and very serene stairs surrounded by nature and quiet houses and they just go in and on until you reach the peak where there are really beautiful views.
Rachel is so energetic :D this video reminds me of where I used to live, when y friends and I would go through the woods and stumble upon cool things and places :D I think woodland adventures are the best ways to spend your day :D
Oh my gosh, that reminds me of home, too! I was always in the woods walking around rivers and sitting under trees... it makes me sad to remember it now that I live in the city.
Gosh, you guys, have no idea how cute you two are together~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!! It must've been fun walking through there. ahhhh~~~~~ I wanna go to Japan one day!! and I will!!!!
I love these videos of you guys doing these random videos at such beautiful and cultural places of Japan! It seems so peaceful too! Also, JUNN get in the video, we like to see your face in these videos as well! :D
Love your videos Rachel & Jun, always entertaining but informative too! I've always wanted to visit Japan, but when I started watching your videos over a year ago, it inspired me to make it happen! Some friends and I are going next spring to (hopefully) catch the Cherry Blossoms. And so happy that you two will finally be together, I hope you guys can take a nice trip somewhere with all the frequent flyer miles you probably have at this point lol!
Wow, That Dragon Shrine with the Koi fish is so bad ass, I wish we had such things here in South Africa. I can only wish, Maybe one day I will come visit Japan, I can only wish for now.
I love this vid when you visit places or shop in fun stores. I would love to travel but not a reality for me yet. I would love to see vids of Jun sight seeing US places. To experience my country thru the eyes of a foriegner.
I love these videos, I find they give off a different feel from your other videos, they almost feel nostalgic and kind of homey ? Maybe because these places aren't so touristy and show a more day-to-day side of Japan. Anyways, I hope you keep posting them :) Specially where the both of you interact, I think Rachel's reactions are the best XD
Pieces from history! I love it! I want to do this someday, walk through a forest or some natural place and find "forgotten" things like these. And not have to worry about large wild animals coming to eat me...😭
This is so magical, this is why I want to go to Japan, the sights, shrines and culture (and technology :) ) I knew about the koi jumping up a waterfall turning into a dragon with magikarp and gyrados in pokemon.
Hey Rachel, the legend Jun was talking about goes like this: if a Koi climbs up a waterfall and jumps through the Dragon Gate which is at the top of the waterfall, it will turn into a dragon. Did you know that the Pokémon Magikarp and its evolution Gyarados are based on this legend? It's really interesting, because Magikarp does not evolve until level 20, and before that, it's absolutely useless. It possesses little to no attacks and strength, plus it levels very slowly. I think this is related to the fact that Koi are said to symbolize perseverance (and some others things). The hours you spend training your Magikarp (it takes the longest in Pokémon Red and Blue) represent the Koi's perseverance while slowly climbing up that waterfall. It takes a long time, but the Koi knows it's getting closer and closer and your Magikarp reaching level 20 represents the moment when the Koi jumps through the Dragon Gate and turns into a dragon. And both the Koi and Magikarp know it was all worth it, because Magikarp evolves into a big strong Gyarados, ready to kill everything on its path and becoming the powerhouse of your team. I'm sorry for the long story, I hope you enjoyed it though. :D
This is exactly the type of date setting I love. Walking through a forest, where people are rare and who knows what might be discovered? It makes me feel calm and relaxed, whereas going "out" makes me feel super self-conscious and awkward.
I absolutely agree. I spent my whole childhood playing in the woods (didn't have internet back then!) and it's something I constantly still miss. I want very badly to live alongside a forest near the mountains in Japan!
I think it would be really helpful if you guys made a video about shrine etiquette. I want to visit Japan and their shrines/temples, but I don't want to offend anyone while I'm there.
haha I definitely will at some point! But the funny thing is, a lot of Japanese people don't really know, either... We'll have to do some research!
That would be great! Thanks a lot :D
I WAS JUST THINKING THIS, please make a video about this!! ♥ ♥
It seems like a cult of spiritual but not religious... People should spend time getting to know god instead of practicing odd traditions of men.
Koi becomes dragon? Now Magikarp's evolution finally makes sense to me ...
Ohhh it does!! 🐟🐉
It's beautiful! When I saw the stone dragon I immediately though MUSHU! "I LIVE!"
Rachel you look so at home in the woods! I also spent my childhood playing in the woods behind our house and making trails, building forts, etc. I miss it!
The area looked soo peaceful, and also made me excited for fall. Thanks for the video guys. :)
Aww thank you! :D
Do they have many woods or forests in Korea you can walk through? Or do you have to be in a more rural area?
They do! Especially around temples. We live in a small city but they call it "rural", haha yes lots of woods nearby to walk around in~ :)
Guys, Japan is soooooooo beautiful. I wish only good things for Japan and the Japanese people. Thank you for this video.
Watching these kinds of videos always gives me this sort of happy bloom in my heart. It makes me remember the times when I too wandered into old, forgotten places. You can feel the weight of time and memories there, the air always feels a little different.
What a fun little adventure!
O my god , now I get the Magikarp into Gyarados evolution : 2:52 :OO
yep it says that one day a koi swam up a waterfall and turned into a dragon if I remember correctly
mido yes, the gods were so impressed by the tenacity and hard work of the koi, that they transformed it into a dragon. My tattoo is an homage to the noble koi. I have my forearm decorated with sakura buds and koi, and a dragon with sakura blossoms from my shoulder to elbows.
places like this shrine are one of the main reasons I want to visit japan, the history, the architecture, the carvings so beautiful
additional thought: I wander who feeds the koi in the dragon god's pond
Rachel, you should do a few videos of you and Jun touring around the USA. It would be interesting for the Japaneses that are curious about USA.
Thanks, I enjoyed your little trip in the woods. Just seeing the shrines and knowing the amount of effort that went into building it is amazing.
It's so nice seeing you and Jun together. :) it kills me when either one has to fly back home and you guys are apart.
Thanks for showing us these special places in Japan. It is so cool to get to visit Japan through your videos. Thank you so much Rachel and Jun
those type of videos are so great ! It feel so relaxing just lke if we were besides walking and enjoying this special astmosphere and the beautiful nature and landscape : D
Wow Rachel. Jun is such a good husband. You found True Love. Congratulations.
素敵な動画ありがとうございます。^_^
こんな綺麗で素敵な日本を感じさせてもらいありがとうございます。
私はこんな素晴らしい日本がこの先も続くように祈ってやみません。
お二人がいつまでも幸せなことを祈って。
２０１５年１２月
ガッツマッキー
I love your choice of music for the videos, I feel such at calm watching your little adventures. :D
とても素敵ですね。海外からいらっしゃってる方の日本紹介動画の中では、あなた方お二人の動画が一番好きです。
近代的な文化の紹介もいいのですが、こういう歴史ある風景を投稿してくださる事で本当の日本を紹介していただけてるように感じています。因みに岩崎菊水滝には昔話があり、昔(江戸時代)、盗賊がこの滝の岩で刃物を研ぐとこの世のものとは思えないほど神々しく輝き、それを見た村人が驚き通報され盗賊が捕らえられた、という話があります。この山の岩石は砥石として有名だったみたいですよ。
Makoto Take 素敵なコメントをしていただき、ありがとうございます。 (^_^) そのような逸話があるのは知りませんでした。日本の神社や仏閣にはいつも面白い話や歴史があるので、とても興味深いです。教えて下さり、ありがとうございました！
Maybe you were not returning to the real world. Maybe you just left the real one into a distorted world :D
:D
この動画傑作だと思いますよ。（１０回くらい観てしまいました。）うちの近所にもある（日本中至る所にあるだあろう）ただの裏道、ただの散歩が二人のセンスで特別ものに感じられる。00：59「失礼します。」とか本当に外国人ですか。可愛い、優しい、楽しい、ちょっと上の世代には涙もの。。これからも素敵なお二人で。いつも素敵な映像有難う。
I watched the video on the way to my workplace. My mind is so calm I'm ready to work peacefully. Thanks!
Gotta love Dragons, wherever you may find one.🐉 Love little woodland trails as well. Cool and relaxing video, thank you! 🙏
So beautiful! Makes me want to visit Japan even more. Thanks, Rachel and Jun.
Could you make more of these kinds of videos?
For sure! :D
Omg, when are you two going to have a little baby dragon of your own. I can't wait. Muah. Thank you for these videos. There magical. I'm in love with the culture. Beauty, respect, cleanliness, peace and serenity.
I love exploring out in the woods/jungle and finding caves and shrines. Beautiful video Rachel & Jun
Hi! Thanks for this, this video was so beautiful and touching! As an European Pagan, I wish I could find something like this in our ancient forests, instead of trash and empty spaces. So thank you so much for sharing this!
PS: I'm Spanish and I liked this video so much that I tried to help with Spanish subtitles. I did my best translating from English to Spanish, I hope you like and approve them! If not it doesn't matter, but I thought this was so beautiful and so many Spaniards lack the basics on English understanding that I felt I could help a little!
Thanks again and I'm looking forward the next video!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make subtitles!! m(_ _)m
We really appreciate it, and I hope it'll help others understand our video! :D
Rachel & Jun
My pleasure, the video is so lovely! If you let other videos to be subtitled I'll try to help as well, because I admire Japan so much (and it's not something like "oh, I like manga so I have to like Japanese culture", I really believe they achieved what the rest of the world failed to do: to keep a native and ancestral-like way of living, believing and sense of being with a modern environment and development). I reached to you guys through a friend that linked me the video about being LGBT in Japan and I loved it, and I've been watching you guys since that moment. So count on me for next subtitles, I'm glad to help ;).
Blessings from the few Spanish secret trails there still are!
Albert Milbert
In Spain, places "like that" (and even cromlech, dolmens and menhirs) are being hit, painted, etc., mainly by psychotic Christians, it's a shame
The woods behind my house has a bunch of woods and a large stream that me and my friends used to go to when we were younger, and this looks exactly like it. It’s so pretty.
It looks like such a nice and peaceful place there, you really do visit interesting places. Very nice video.
My favorite moments were the wind in the trees and Rachel running ahead down the path, her hair the color of Autumn leaves. I wished it had rained when you came to the pond of golden koi dragons.
What a truly beautiful place! You two are perfect together.
That video was so peaceful I loved it ;) Thank you for sharing your adventures guys !
Beautiful thanks for sharing guys.
Rachel your hair looks so pretty in contrast with the leaves ^^ I loved the koi fish, very serene~
I like this video with the strength of a thousand suns. That places seems so calm, pretty and peaceful.
So cuuute! I always love when Jun is filming because I imagine he just adores all the adorable things Rachel does xD
Always nice to go exploring with Rachel and Jun! Beautiful place!
Both of you look so sweet, like a couple who has recently started to date :)
The place is beautiful and thanks to the good weather, you were able to appreciate the incredible colours of nature.
I'm feeling a little sad because those places are amazing and yet almost nobody visits them! It's really sad that no one remembers these little mysterious places.Thanks for visiting it, Rachel and Jun!
wow this is just so beautiful, this just made me want to try even harder to convince my family that we should go to Japan!!
This makes me love Japan even more. Thank you to both of you! ♥
Thanks for sharing your adventure to such a beautiful and meaningful place!
Hey Rachel, just wanted to say that I love when you post videos like these. I've been wanting to teach english in japan after I get my degree but every once in a while I get really nervous and don't want get work in Japan. Then I watch one of your videos and get excited at the possibility of working in japan again. So thanks!
The temple and the streets looked so clean and tidy, you'd never see a street or a religious building that tidy in the UK! Also the pond and the little shrines looked so adorable, almost like a glimpse into old Japan. I can imagine walking around there would be very relaxing and refreshing :3
I really liked this video, it was very relaxing :)
You are a wonderful couple.
So beautiful! I would never leave, even just looking at it makes my heart ache to be there!
There are small forgotten cemeteries in the forests around where I live.
Most of them are small family plots from 100 years ago or more.
There is even one in front of a hotel that they found when they were renovating, and the hotel just planted pushes around it and left it.
i love videos like this...if i already can't go to japan, at least i can see this through your vids :]]
I feel so much envy right now. That place looks so beautiful and peaceful. One day I have to make a trip to Japan happen.
i've lived in nyc all my life, to get a forest like that in the backyard i have to go upstate ha
that place looks absolutely beautiful.
I want to go to places like these! In America, there really aren't many of these types of places. But in San Francisco I've been to many secret-like and very serene stairs surrounded by nature and quiet houses and they just go in and on until you reach the peak where there are really beautiful views.
Rachel is so energetic :D this video reminds me of where I used to live, when y friends and I would go through the woods and stumble upon cool things and places :D I think woodland adventures are the best ways to spend your day :D
Oh my gosh, that reminds me of home, too! I was always in the woods walking around rivers and sitting under trees... it makes me sad to remember it now that I live in the city.
You guys make such a beautiful harmonious couple ♡
Very cool place! I've always loved hidden places in the woods like that. Rachel is correct, when you find a secret trail, you must follow it.
thank you both for a look into hidden Japan! lovely!
So beautiful and peaceful.
I love the forgotten dragon shrine! Totally my kind of place to visit!
Gosh, you guys, have no idea how cute you two are together~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!! It must've been fun walking through there. ahhhh~~~~~ I wanna go to Japan one day!! and I will!!!!
Loving these videos. So beautiful your adventures together!
I love these videos of you guys doing these random videos at such beautiful and cultural places of Japan! It seems so peaceful too!
Also, JUNN get in the video, we like to see your face in these videos as well! :D
Love your videos Rachel & Jun, always entertaining but informative too! I've always wanted to visit Japan, but when I started watching your videos over a year ago, it inspired me to make it happen! Some friends and I are going next spring to (hopefully) catch the Cherry Blossoms. And so happy that you two will finally be together, I hope you guys can take a nice trip somewhere with all the frequent flyer miles you probably have at this point lol!
懐かしい感じがしました。
愛知には、良い温泉もあり、名古屋の喫茶店なども有名ですね。
今はなき、妻が蒲郡出身だったので、いつも動画を心温かく思い出と重ね見ています。
どこか忘れましたが、妻と最後に行った山の温泉に行った時にトンビが上に飛んでいて、温泉が石鹸水みたいにぬるぬるなのに、出た時にはさっぱりした温泉を思い出しました。
いい動画ありがとうございました。
こちらこそ心温まるコメントをくださり、ありがとうございます。自分たちの思い出を残せればと思って始めたものですが、そのように言っていただけて大変嬉しく思います。私も、いつかその時が来たら、これらの日々を懐かしく感じならが思い出すのだと思います。まだレイチェルを温泉に連れて言ったことは無いのですが、いつか機会を見て行こうと思います。素敵なコメントをありがとうございました。 -Jun
Rachel & Jun こちらこそご返事ありがとうございます。
千葉県在住の普通のおじさんなので、そんなに固くならないでいいです(笑)
そちらの温泉には、貸し切りもあるし何かタオルのゴムついたやつをつけてはいる混浴もあるので、海外の方でも抵抗なく入れるところが沢山あるはずです。
よかったら奥さまをお連れしていってみるのも良いかもしれません。
私が妻にしてあげられなかった事を心から悔みもあり、できれば遠くからお見えになった奥様に日本の風美など沢山体験させてあげて欲しいと思います。
もし、何かお力になれることがあれば出来ることは少ないですがお手伝いできればと思います。
いつも楽しい動画ありがとうございます。 龍太郎
騎馬龍太郎 すみません、もう泣きそうです。出来るだけ色々な所に連れて行ってあげようと思います。嬉しいお言葉、本当にありがとうございました。重ねてお礼申し上げます。もし将来、千葉を訪れる機会がありましたら、千葉の良い所を教えて下さい。 (^_^)
Rachel & Jun 要らぬ気を使わしてしまったようで大変申し訳なく思います。
おじさんの戯言と思って気にしないでください。
千葉は観光には向きませんが、どこかいい場所を探しておきたいと思います。
ディズニーは嫌いです(笑)親戚来るといつも連れていかされるので(笑)
これからもよい動画を楽しみに待っています。
末永くお幸せに(^O^)
I don't know what is going on but I'm just gonna leave this comment here xD
The colour of your coat and hair really adds beautifully to the colour composition of the video :-D
Oh, man! It's so mysterious and awesome! I'd love to go visit- 2:15 On second thought, I'll stay home...
Absolutely lovely. All of it.
Thank you Rachel & Jun. :^)
Jun has fabulous shows.
Wow, That Dragon Shrine with the Koi fish is so bad ass, I wish we had such things here in South Africa. I can only wish, Maybe one day I will come visit Japan, I can only wish for now.
Looks so peaceful!
It looks very peaceful there...
That was an amazing video, especially that dragon shrine and the koi pond.
i would so love to visit old shrines like that! ♥️
Such a pretty place. Very nice little adventure
wow that place looks really cool and seems like it'd be super spooky at night
I love videos like this, thank you for posting it.
A magical place, one fit for Mythical Creatures.
i really enjoy your videos thanks for sharing this stuff i have never been to japan but its a place i have always wanted to visit
Hey~ It's the coat from that Japanese thrift shop episode!
I love those shrines :) I would just look at them from afar with awe if I ever go to Japan.
Encore une superbe vidéo, j'adore la musique de la vidéo :)
I love this vid when you visit places or shop in fun stores. I would love to travel but not a reality for me yet. I would love to see vids of Jun sight seeing US places. To experience my country thru the eyes of a foriegner.
This reminded me of softypapa videos. He used to make amazing videos about abandoned shrines and other places you could find in Japan.
Very nicely photographed! Thanks...
I love these videos, I find they give off a different feel from your other videos, they almost feel nostalgic and kind of homey ? Maybe because these places aren't so touristy and show a more day-to-day side of Japan. Anyways, I hope you keep posting them :) Specially where the both of you interact, I think Rachel's reactions are the best XD
This video was really nice, Japan looks like a beautiful country, you guys should make more nature-y videos like this.
So beautiful! I want to go there too! Rachel & Jun I really love all your videos!
Such a beautiful place. I hope to visit Japan someday.
thank you so much for this clip it was very nice i loved it
Pieces from history! I love it! I want to do this someday, walk through a forest or some natural place and find "forgotten" things like these. And not have to worry about large wild animals coming to eat me...😭
This is so magical, this is why I want to go to Japan, the sights, shrines and culture (and technology :) ) I knew about the koi jumping up a waterfall turning into a dragon with magikarp and gyrados in pokemon.
Your videos are the best! Your my favorite person who make videos about japan! Keep up the awesome vids :D
japan must be a photographer's paradise...nice place.
thanks for taking us with you :)
Wow, that was magical!
wow it looks so peaceful and serene~
Hey Rachel,
the legend Jun was talking about goes like this: if a Koi climbs up a waterfall and jumps through the Dragon Gate which is at the top of the waterfall, it will turn into a dragon. Did you know that the Pokémon Magikarp and its evolution Gyarados are based on this legend? It's really interesting, because Magikarp does not evolve until level 20, and before that, it's absolutely useless. It possesses little to no attacks and strength, plus it levels very slowly. I think this is related to the fact that Koi are said to symbolize perseverance (and some others things). The hours you spend training your Magikarp (it takes the longest in Pokémon Red and Blue) represent the Koi's perseverance while slowly climbing up that waterfall. It takes a long time, but the Koi knows it's getting closer and closer and your Magikarp reaching level 20 represents the moment when the Koi jumps through the Dragon Gate and turns into a dragon. And both the Koi and Magikarp know it was all worth it, because Magikarp evolves into a big strong Gyarados, ready to kill everything on its path and becoming the powerhouse of your team. I'm sorry for the long story, I hope you enjoyed it though. :D
So peaceful~
Gorgeous place) thank you)