Actually you haven't had to book online for some time now. Nowadays you just turn up and do the tour. If I remember correctly I think they accept about 200 people on a first-come first-served basis.
Just discovered this channel, but I can already tell it'll be great! Your great videography and use of graphics really help give a great production value to the channel! I'm looking forward to seeing more from you in the future!
Thank you! I really appreciate it! I'm still working on finishing up my schooling before I make the move, so It'll still be a while before I start making my main videos from within Japan haha. Though I will probably do some introductory videos in the coming months just to get things rolling. I really do appreciate your sub though ;D !
Hi, Andrew welcome back!!I'm glad to see you and your wife Lori again in this new channel, since I watched bicycle video.Thank you for introducing about Japanese tradition and a part of Japanese essence, and useful informations too. I really want to say " You did good job as always!!!
Awesome. I really hope I get the chance to visit Tokyo and see half of the things you've shown. Great job as usual and now onto the skytree vid as I stalk your channel lol.
Wow, great video! I came across your channel a few months back due to your great bicycling japan documentary. I subscribed so I could watch the rest of your videos, and was able to see a few before they were all taken down. Now I see why! I love the new show, I've been looking for some high quality tourism videos and I think this new one is great! It's very professional and the video quality is fantastic. Glad to see your making videos again. Does this mean you're back in Japan?
Aaron V yaaaa... the other videos just didn't fit with the new ones I've got lined up. Wow, I'm impressed someone kept track, yes, I'm back in Japan (finally, what was I thinking leaving the first time)! Many more videos on the horizon. Thanks for staying tuned. ~Andrew
+Bobby Lopez Creative Hey Bobby. You got it, I have a Blackbird camera stabilizer and love it. Very easy to adjust and collapse to take in my backpack and also able to handle a wider range of camera weights than the traditional Glidecam brand. The studio section of each episode was shot on mainly on a Nikon D750 with a secondary ND7000 rolling on a slightly different angle (though after reviewing footage I wish I had put it further to the side). The location section was shot almost 100% on Nikon D7000 about 8 months before getting the D750. A few shots were from the GoProHero3+ Black which I usually control via iPhone app... though in truth it sometimes is too much of a hassle and I just hit record and shoot blind w/ GoPro. The shot at the end is GoPro, and although I tap my phone like I'm stopping the recording I'm actually just a big faker since the phone was still locked and not controlling the camera at that point. ^_^ Season 3 of Tour Japan will be the first season where everything (studio and location) and are shot on D750 with a few GoPro shots sprinkled in where necessary. I'm using GoPro less and less these days. Originally it was for underwater and slow motion (120fps at 720p, or even 120fps at WVGA), but since picking up a Sony rx100m3 last spring I find I only reach for the GoPro to get interesting angles other cameras can't fit or for something underwater... Sorry for the long answer to your short questions. Hope that helps though. Feel free to hit me back if I've only created more confusion. :-) Andrew
Hey, I love your videos, and they're really well shot - could you offer some insight as to how you shot up to and around the statue at 2:36 ? Get as technical as you want!
I was lucky enough to tour the Imperial Palace in 1997 and got to bring along my tiny maltese dog Babe. It was a beautiful day and all was going well, until my dog Babe got away from me and went under a huge black lacquered door. I ran to the door, got on my hands and knees looked into the bottom gap of the door and starting yelling for her to come to me "....right now!", before I knew it the palace guards had me sitting up straight but still on my knee's with guns in my face yelling at me in Japanese. Two pushed me to the ground with my hands behind my head and began to frisk me. A fellow tour, an older Japanese women came up to the guards, bowed low and than explained to the guards what had happened and they dog was still on the other side of the big doors. I thanked the nice lady in Japanese but the guards still would not let me up or move. After more guard cars came and this female guard with a big animal wire looped pole to catch mean big animals; I was finally stood up, taken to a black unmarked car and sat in it for two hours. With the very nice fellow tourist lady refusing to leave me. After two and half long hours another car showed up; after the palace closed down that whole section of the palace gardens we were touring, this very nice lady dressed in a business suite, skirt and all spoke englsh with me and said they were very sorry and that a Palace employee would be bringing my dog to me very shortly. I asked why was my dog kept in the palace for so long. She explained to me that my dog Babe, had gotten all the way to the private gardens of the Emperor and a lady in waiting to the Empress found my dog drinking from a koi pond belong to the Empress. I asked if my Empress meet my dog. The nice lady said no, due to the Emperor and Empress being in London, but several of the Ladies in Waiting to the Empress enjoyed my dogs company for a while before calling the Palace Household Agency. About fifteen minutes more and those big lacquered doors I looked under opened a beautiful lady dressed in the finest silk kimono came out followed two more guards dressed differently than the one's who had me on the ground. She came right up to me with Babe in her arms; with Babe looking very smug; the heffer, and handed me Babe. She said a few words to me; leaned over to kiss babe, bowed very low to me, turned and went back in the gates. than with a loud boom; the doors closed behind her. I was than escorted out by car top the entrance we came into, out of the palace and driven straight to my hotel. My Babe had be bathed, combed out beautifully, perfumed up and was wearing a gorgeous silk hand embroidered little over-coat. And when we checked out of our hotel; we had found out that the Palace had paid our bill. Now that is a Palace experience Although i would not like to repeat it. Thanks for reading, Joe.
Amazing Video!! Thanks for the Link! I've been the the Imperial Palace with visiting friends a few times but never gone on the tour! Should be a great time!! +Subscribed! ^_^
YES finally!! I reallyyy love the new graphics, animation, video quality, and most importantly the useful information. This is a huge upgrade to your channel.. Keep it up.. Thanks your channel is one of my favorites.
Thanks very much Khawla Al Hassan! Your encouragement on the Japan by Bicycle video as well as positive comments from others helped make this video a reality. Much more to come.
I would love to do the tour but my husband and I are limited on time and want to see as much of Tokyo as possible. We'll be there for only 3 nights before heading to Kyoto and it's our first time in Japan. Do you know how long the tour is and is it worth doing? Or should we just take some pictures and move on?
Happy In Japan thanks so much for the reply! Love the videos. It's getting me so excited for our trip. I'm going through all of your videos right now. 🙂 I'm a bit nervous because it's all going to be so new to us but the videos are definitely giving me some good ideas. Thanks!
Hi, I am traveling to Japan this May 2017, Is the private tour worth visiting? I want to go on the private tour but its having a conflict with my schedule. Should i change my schedule to go on the private tour or just look around the imperial palace.
I did plan to see the Imperial Palace but unfortunately I had no idea it closes on Mondays so I only got to see it from outside. I did get to stroll around Kitanomaru park though, it's worth a visit!
I love 4K. It's interesting though, that most devices and playback locations aren't capable of displaying 4K. Before making that jump, I'd rather make these videos 60fps. My camera shoots 1080p at 60fps but in order to create true slow motion I make the final video 24fps (like you'd see in the movie theater) so that if necessary all the footage could be slowed down to 40% speed. When I upgrade my camera next, I'm hoping to get something that shoot 1080p at 120fps so the final video could be 1080p60fps. I'd go up to 4K if the camera also shot that res at 60fps, but not really convinced people watch YT videos at true 4K. Even if they select that option in the playback settings, they would also need a screen with 4K pixels to get the benefit.
Happy In Japan frankly I watch in lower res because we no longer have unlimited internet in states. Most of us now have a 1tb cap per month which 4K hits sooner then you think with a family
We went there in Oct 18, cool place although as we got there later in the afternoon and it closed around 4.30pm or 5pm, going by your video it looks like we missed quite a bit. Oh well, maybe next time 😃
I must have missed an entire half of the grounds when I went. You didn't get any shots of the remains of the burned palace or some of the smaller buildings :P I'm kicking myself for missing out on the bridge gahh
I’ve read various comments. Let me give my own perspective. I have been to Japan a few of times. I go there for business, not any sightseeing. I had the time to walk around the Imperial grounds, or former Edo castle and I did see the lines to tour the Imperial, “residence’ but didn’t go there . They were very short lines. I love history, architecture, art and various Japanese things. One can spend months touring this country. Very nice people, but please learn very basic Japenese such as hello, good afternoon, thank you…. You really don’t want to be that foreigner. Basic courtesy goes a long way in Japan.
Love the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station. The station itself has undergone significant changes in the last few years I've been visiting and grown so much you might want to do a video on the inside. The Higashi Gyoen Gardens next to the palace are always a must visit for me as the wide open spaces are such a contrast to the tight confines of the city.
+Perdomot Great point! Yes, the station has become an attraction in and of itself. We almost made a video all about it and interesting nearby areas like Yurakucho and Ginza. With only 6 eps per season it didn't make the cut, but you could easily spend a lifetime exploring Tokyo and never run out of interesting stuff.
Thanks! If you don't mind, You were expecting more of what? I'm always trying to make these episodes better. Would love to know where you felt this was lacking.
Oh yeah, no Ultimate Imperial Palace tour would be complete without watching some doofus eating a green frozen treat. Apparently this guy does not understand the meaning of Ultimate.
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I went to the imperial palace last week! they allowed my family to join the tour even though we didn't book online
Actually you haven't had to book online for some time now. Nowadays you just turn up and do the tour. If I remember correctly I think they accept about 200 people on a first-come first-served basis.
+Rohan Gillett Yeah, we had around 200 people in our tour group... "First come, first served".
日本人ですが、クオリティの高い素敵な動画ばかりなので、いつも拝見しています。日本人にとっても知らないことや行ったことのない場所の解説もあって見ていてとても参考になります。私にとっては英語のリスニング勉強にもなるのでありがたいです♪応援してます！！
Beautiful! Japan is a country I really would like to visit! Have you made a video about the Great Buddha of Kamakura?
+Rainier7777 Great suggestion! thanks!
***** You're welcome. If you do make one, I'll watch it with interest. Congratulations on your channel. Japan is a great country and people. :)
Just discovered this channel, but I can already tell it'll be great! Your great videography and use of graphics really help give a great production value to the channel! I'm looking forward to seeing more from you in the future!
Japan Diaries *blush* ... just subbed you in anticipation for your own up and coming channel, any idea when you'll start making videos?
Thank you! I really appreciate it! I'm still working on finishing up my schooling before I make the move, so It'll still be a while before I start making my main videos from within Japan haha. Though I will probably do some introductory videos in the coming months just to get things rolling.
I really do appreciate your sub though ;D !
Would definetly like to see more! Glad you're back!
wow its been a while. I love how this video turned out. I hope we all see more of you.
Hi, Andrew welcome back!!I'm glad to see you and your wife Lori again in this new channel, since I watched bicycle video.Thank you for introducing about Japanese tradition and a part of Japanese essence, and useful informations too. I really want to say " You did good job as always!!!
So awesome Andrew! I wish I would have gone there!
just amazed asking myself how much labor did it take to build these bridges and buildings how long did it take to build
Awesome. I really hope I get the chance to visit Tokyo and see half of the things you've shown. Great job as usual and now onto the skytree vid as I stalk your channel lol.
This was Awesome! Incredibly well done my friend! Keep it up! Hope you and Lori are doing well!
KCAS Thanks dude! Miss those days taking naps on your couch and losing to you at Smash.
***** Hahah miss those days too! Plus playing our Frisbee golf course across campus
Yo that intro is slick. Good work!
Wow, great video! I came across your channel a few months back due to your great bicycling japan documentary. I subscribed so I could watch the rest of your videos, and was able to see a few before they were all taken down. Now I see why! I love the new show, I've been looking for some high quality tourism videos and I think this new one is great! It's very professional and the video quality is fantastic. Glad to see your making videos again. Does this mean you're back in Japan?
Aaron V yaaaa... the other videos just didn't fit with the new ones I've got lined up. Wow, I'm impressed someone kept track, yes, I'm back in Japan (finally, what was I thinking leaving the first time)! Many more videos on the horizon. Thanks for staying tuned. ~Andrew
YOURE BACK!
Did you get some kind of camera stabilizer? Did you use the Nikon for the whole shoot? What was the phone controlled camera at the end?
+Bobby Lopez Creative Hey Bobby. You got it, I have a Blackbird camera stabilizer and love it. Very easy to adjust and collapse to take in my backpack and also able to handle a wider range of camera weights than the traditional Glidecam brand.
The studio section of each episode was shot on mainly on a Nikon D750 with a secondary ND7000 rolling on a slightly different angle (though after reviewing footage I wish I had put it further to the side). The location section was shot almost 100% on Nikon D7000 about 8 months before getting the D750. A few shots were from the GoProHero3+ Black which I usually control via iPhone app... though in truth it sometimes is too much of a hassle and I just hit record and shoot blind w/ GoPro. The shot at the end is GoPro, and although I tap my phone like I'm stopping the recording I'm actually just a big faker since the phone was still locked and not controlling the camera at that point. ^_^ Season 3 of Tour Japan will be the first season where everything (studio and location) and are shot on D750 with a few GoPro shots sprinkled in where necessary. I'm using GoPro less and less these days. Originally it was for underwater and slow motion (120fps at 720p, or even 120fps at WVGA), but since picking up a Sony rx100m3 last spring I find I only reach for the GoPro to get interesting angles other cameras can't fit or for something underwater... Sorry for the long answer to your short questions. Hope that helps though. Feel free to hit me back if I've only created more confusion. :-)
Andrew
Hey, I love your videos, and they're really well shot - could you offer some insight as to how you shot up to and around the statue at 2:36 ? Get as technical as you want!
is it possible to visit there without the tour?
Only the outside grounds. You have to go with the private tour if you want to see more of the grounds.
Great video. The opening animation is wonderful. :)
I was lucky enough to tour the Imperial Palace in 1997 and got to bring along my tiny maltese dog Babe. It was a beautiful day and all was going well, until my dog Babe got away from me and went under a huge black lacquered door. I ran to the door, got on my hands and knees looked into the bottom gap of the door and starting yelling for her to come to me "....right now!", before I knew it the palace guards had me sitting up straight but still on my knee's with guns in my face yelling at me in Japanese. Two pushed me to the ground with my hands behind my head and began to frisk me. A fellow tour, an older Japanese women came up to the guards, bowed low and than explained to the guards what had happened and they dog was still on the other side of the big doors. I thanked the nice lady in Japanese but the guards still would not let me up or move. After more guard cars came and this female guard with a big animal wire looped pole to catch mean big animals; I was finally stood up, taken to a black unmarked car and sat in it for two hours. With the very nice fellow tourist lady refusing to leave me. After two and half long hours another car showed up; after the palace closed down that whole section of the palace gardens we were touring, this very nice lady dressed in a business suite, skirt and all spoke englsh with me and said they were very sorry and that a Palace employee would be bringing my dog to me very shortly. I asked why was my dog kept in the palace for so long. She explained to me that my dog Babe, had gotten all the way to the private gardens of the Emperor and a lady in waiting to the Empress found my dog drinking from a koi pond belong to the Empress. I asked if my Empress meet my dog. The nice lady said no, due to the Emperor and Empress being in London, but several of the Ladies in Waiting to the Empress enjoyed my dogs company for a while before calling the Palace Household Agency. About fifteen minutes more and those big lacquered doors I looked under opened a beautiful lady dressed in the finest silk kimono came out followed two more guards dressed differently than the one's who had me on the ground. She came right up to me with Babe in her arms; with Babe looking very smug; the heffer, and handed me Babe. She said a few words to me; leaned over to kiss babe, bowed very low to me, turned and went back in the gates. than with a loud boom; the doors closed behind her. I was than escorted out by car top the entrance we came into, out of the palace and driven straight to my hotel. My Babe had be bathed, combed out beautifully, perfumed up and was wearing a gorgeous silk hand embroidered little over-coat. And when we checked out of our hotel; we had found out that the Palace had paid our bill. Now that is a Palace experience Although i would not like to repeat it. Thanks for reading, Joe.
Wow! What an amazing experience! I wish it had happened to me. You're so lucky! - Andrew
Really cool storry!
That is I called an adventure.
What a babe!
Creative fiction!
Great video.....which gimbal do you use?
Awesome video man, thanks! Definitely subscribing. And thanks to Dochi for sending me here ^^
Great video! I would love to see a tour of Kichijouji, including Inokashira Kouen!
+willowwolf8 Good idea! I love that area.
Amazing Video!! Thanks for the Link! I've been the the Imperial Palace with visiting friends a few times but never gone on the tour! Should be a great time!! +Subscribed! ^_^
Do any tours actually go into the place itself or is it just some of the grounds??
this is awesome. cool to see you making videos again
***** Many many more on the way. Thanks for staying tuned!
Awesome job Marston! Followed your Google map when we visited and made the best of our 24 hours while we were in Tokyo.
Dave Baker Glad to here your trip to Tokyo went well! All the best.
Thank you ! Japanese introduction.
YES finally!! I reallyyy love the new graphics, animation, video quality, and most importantly the useful information. This is a huge upgrade to your channel.. Keep it up.. Thanks your channel is one of my favorites.
Thanks very much Khawla Al Hassan! Your encouragement on the Japan by Bicycle video as well as positive comments from others helped make this video a reality. Much more to come.
I would love to do the tour but my husband and I are limited on time and want to see as much of Tokyo as possible. We'll be there for only 3 nights before heading to Kyoto and it's our first time in Japan. Do you know how long the tour is and is it worth doing? Or should we just take some pictures and move on?
The tour is about an hour. In your case I think it would be fine to just take phots and move on without doing the tour. Have a good trip! - Andrew
Happy In Japan thanks so much for the reply! Love the videos. It's getting me so excited for our trip. I'm going through all of your videos right now. 🙂 I'm a bit nervous because it's all going to be so new to us but the videos are definitely giving me some good ideas. Thanks!
Japan is so beautiful
Hi, I am traveling to Japan this May 2017, Is the private tour worth visiting? I want to go on the private tour but its having a conflict with my schedule. Should i change my schedule to go on the private tour or just look around the imperial palace.
I enjoyed it, but if you are crunched for time I would recommend saving it for another time.
Do you think its worth doing the private tour? So many reviews say its boring?
I did plan to see the Imperial Palace but unfortunately I had no idea it closes on Mondays so I only got to see it from outside. I did get to stroll around Kitanomaru park though, it's worth a visit!
What days are they open?
welcome back
DUY LE MINH Thanks. Good to finally be back. Plenty more vids on the way.
How long should we plan for this location and all the sites shown?
1-4 hrs
thank you so much... i like all your videos... short but informative.
+klis jo That's what we're going for! thanks!
Wow! Awesome! Nice video! Thanks!
Great! How about 4k?
I love 4K. It's interesting though, that most devices and playback locations aren't capable of displaying 4K. Before making that jump, I'd rather make these videos 60fps. My camera shoots 1080p at 60fps but in order to create true slow motion I make the final video 24fps (like you'd see in the movie theater) so that if necessary all the footage could be slowed down to 40% speed. When I upgrade my camera next, I'm hoping to get something that shoot 1080p at 120fps so the final video could be 1080p60fps. I'd go up to 4K if the camera also shot that res at 60fps, but not really convinced people watch YT videos at true 4K. Even if they select that option in the playback settings, they would also need a screen with 4K pixels to get the benefit.
Happy In Japan frankly I watch in lower res because we no longer have unlimited internet in states. Most of us now have a 1tb cap per month which 4K hits sooner then you think with a family
Good to see that you're putting your time in Japan to good use! :D
Chris Harber As always :-P Hope you're well!
We went there in Oct 18, cool place although as we got there later in the afternoon and it closed around 4.30pm or 5pm, going by your video it looks like we missed quite a bit. Oh well, maybe next time 😃
Your editing is so on point ! I need to learn from you :)
+internationallyME Thanks! I usually just try to edit to the beat.
Nice editing
How old is the palace.
The entire last week of March has no tours. Why not?
I must have missed an entire half of the grounds when I went. You didn't get any shots of the remains of the burned palace or some of the smaller buildings :P I'm kicking myself for missing out on the bridge gahh
Great video!
Wow that’s a nice intro
So you can't go inside??
is the Emperor living there?
Yes
I’ve read various comments. Let me give my own perspective. I have been to Japan a few of times. I go there for business, not any sightseeing. I had the time to walk around the Imperial grounds, or former Edo castle and I did see the lines to tour the Imperial, “residence’ but didn’t go there . They were very short lines. I love history, architecture, art and various Japanese things. One can spend months touring this country. Very nice people, but please learn very basic Japenese such as hello, good afternoon, thank you…. You really don’t want to be that foreigner. Basic courtesy goes a long way in Japan.
Waw!! Very nice place
Nice videos but way to short...
Wasabi ice cream??
Japan and UK are Kingdoms and Islands 🇬🇧🤝🏻🇯🇵
BELLO
皇居はマジで良いところ
Love the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station. The station itself has undergone significant changes in the last few years I've been visiting and grown so much you might want to do a video on the inside. The Higashi Gyoen Gardens next to the palace are always a must visit for me as the wide open spaces are such a contrast to the tight confines of the city.
+Perdomot Great point! Yes, the station has become an attraction in and of itself. We almost made a video all about it and interesting nearby areas like Yurakucho and Ginza. With only 6 eps per season it didn't make the cut, but you could easily spend a lifetime exploring Tokyo and never run out of interesting stuff.
You showed next to nothing about the palace.
i liked it but i was expecting more
Thanks! If you don't mind, You were expecting more of what? I'm always trying to make these episodes better. Would love to know where you felt this was lacking.
more access to the grounds
+Tommy Sands you mean more footage of the grounds in the video or more info about how to access the palace?
👍👍
Who came from the future😂
Hey, you misspelled "ultimate", great video though!
+Patrick12 Ah! Thanks!!! Fixed.
+Patrick12 Ah! Thanks!!! Fixed.
A holy man
Yeah, you have been watching Casey Neistat's filming style. You look a little too clean shaven, but that's ok.
I thought this was going to be a video showing the palace not talking about it. What a disappointment.
Wear your walking shoes!
Yes, this! Upvoted.
Get your facts correct, The Imperial gardens are NOT free to visit.
Oh yeah, no Ultimate Imperial Palace tour would be complete without watching some doofus eating a green frozen treat. Apparently this guy does not understand the meaning of Ultimate.
Polygonal structures ie stone all around you and you focus on swans and Ice cream? You're a real winner aren't you.