You guys are easily some of the best amateur content producers I know of on UA-cam. It amazes me how much great stuff you manage to capture. And I like how you guys aren't so heavy on the editing. I mean we get about an hour and a half of awesome footage with wonderful details and commentary. Not many places you can find that on UA-cam. Thanks guys.
Schuyler Morales Wow, what a wonderful compliment! Thanks so much! We always worry about making videos too long, but I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoy them! Hopefully we can find time to make long videos more often. We also ignore the trend of heavy cutting in the editing on purpose to make things feel more genuine. Glad you are enjoying that as well. -Eric
This is the best presentation of Matsumoto Castle I've seen from any channel. Great little trip and it sure didn't seem like it was 90 minutes--more like 20!
referring to 18:12 - in EU this is too. i'm a polish cittizen and every single time when i was in polish mountains (Tatra, or Beskid or Bieszczady) you can also here on the route in the mountains from peolpe passing by "hello" good morning" or good afternoon - in polish ;)
Going to Tokyo in two weeks, can't wait! Been binge watching your videos to prepare, and Eric I also love bits in my food and drinks ;) Wanna go to Hakone after watching your trip. Keep it up :)
So happy you both visited Matsumoto and Zenko-Ji Temple as I did in 2013. That Moon Room was so much fun and that was the only castle that I could videotape and take pictures in. The Buddhist temple was where my life changed forever. Nowhere have a ever had an out-of-body experience then at that Temple. The evening sun, bells ringing, monks chanting and the smells of the incense sent me to a whole other world and I am more enlightened and open-minded since. My hostel was a 10 minute walk from that wonderful place so I got used to climbing that hill. Thank you for sharing this I'm helping me relive it, I love you guys your my connection to a higher plain of existence and I'll just live vicariously through you :-)
Marcel Stevahn Oh wow, cool experience! Glad you enjoyed the videos, but more importantly I'm glad you enjoyed your own trip to Japan. Thanks for the interesting comment. -Eric
I was sitting here thinking, why do I recognize the name Matsumoto so much. I've heard it before, but it was ringing some kind of bell and I couldn't place it. Then I realized, The legendary guitar factory "Matsumoku" was in Matsumoto and I own a guitar made there. So that's really cool! Also, Eric. Did you just hum whilst pouring wine? ;)
I'd like to live within hours of mountains like that... :) 1:00:55 - 1:02:00 twss moments... ;)
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Yay long video, I really loved this one ! I felt as I was a guest and you were showing me around. I really got the Japan vibe there. Also, just worth mentioning as a comment to the fire arms thing, that the Portuguese sailors introduced them to Japan around 1500 and they've been using it ever since. Anyway, thanks for sharing the video and the outtakes. :D
Francisco Araújo I totally just read up how firearms came here via the Portuguese introduced firearms here two days ago during some Wikipedia randomness. Glad you liked the video! I'll be in touch soon about website stuff, sorry! Haha. -Eric
Hey Eric and Kyde, thanks so much for posting such amazing videos about your adventures in Japan. I've been an avid follower of your videos and recently have decided to go to Japan and travel around. This videos about Matsumoto first caught my attention and I guess this was one reason to go on my own journey. You guys are awesome and an inspiration t
i am rewatchuing this 12 time and justb realised i love the scene when kyde tells she is annoyed and then realizes the view in front of her. its so true.
hey guys! just watched your video. that was really awesome. saw lots of cool things on there. loved the bear bells and your warnings of not wearing bells up the mountain. yes i can imagine that bear thinking "oh im hungry, i wonder if there is any fast food nearby? as he listens for bells. "yep i hear some bells!! RAWR!". lol. i loved the little hotel you stayed in the first night. was really cool. shame on you. sneaking around. lol. i dont blame you though. i would probaly do it too if i knew no one was around. a lot of the food you had looked really good. i have only tried kabocha pumpkin a few times, but it was in tempura form. really yummy i must say. i thought it was originally a fried carrot, but they said it was kabocha. so the soba kabocha bun looked intriguing. i am not a fan of eggplant. bleagh! never liked it. here in Phoenix AZ. we are the sister city of Himeji. and the castle there is the crane castle. back in 1986. a group of japanese people and representitives came down and helped phoenix build a japanese friendship garden. we have a tea house in the back. they had to use plants from here that would survive the heat of our summers. our garden has a big koi pond, waterfall, bridges. it is really nice. i used to volunteer in it a lot and trim rosemary hedges into the tomomono rounded shapes. and take home some freshly trimmed rosemary to make food with. lol. the shinkasen looks so awesome. would like to ride that one day. really great video you guys made! thanks so much! love from AZ
ladyamerias Hi Amy, glad you enjoyed the video! I'm with you on kabocha, it's incredible especially in tempura form! Neat that Himeji is a sister city to Phoenix, I wonder if the people of Phoenix built anything in Himeji. -Eric
I really enjoyed this video. I'm a total snooper too haha! Loved that it was a super long video =) My husband and I will be visiting Japan in January, staying in Osaka, if you find yourselves over there I'd love to meet you guys!
Danielle (LePooke) Oh sweet, enjoy your trip! Osaka is pretty far from Tokyo, so I doubt we will meet unless you make a trip up this way. Maybe next time! -Eric
Kyde and Eric Yea, its a bummer cause I'd really like to visit Tokyo but its like a 3 hour train ride and we're only in Japan for a few days. Your videos are really making me excited for this trip, especially the food ones =)
Hey Eric and Kyde, thanks so much for posting such amazing videos about your adventures in Japan. I've been an avid follower of your videos and recently have decided to go to Japan and travel around. This videos about Matsumoto first caught my attention and I guess this was one reason to go on my own journey. You guys are awesome and an inspiration to people like me and keep on doing what you guys do. P
+Ian Yee This is wonderful to hear! I love hearing we have helped spark people's excitement to do some travelling of their own! Thanks so much for the kind words! -Eric
Oh man, I don't know how you guys can just be all "Hey, let's ride trains and buses all night, then go hiking the next morning yay!" Nooo..girlfriend needs her beauty rest..lol!
Another great video from eric and kyde! Id love to hike with you guys. How awesome is japan you can hop on the trains on the weekends and do trips like this. Thanks for sharing. The first hike when you just winged it seemed brutal i hoped you would of gotten a better view at the top but stew instead ain't that bad !!
Saw in one of ur videos that u wanted to come to Sweden, not sure if you just wanted to visit ur friends here or live here but i think Kyde expressed some notion about living here (im a Swede). Looked at quite a few of ur videos today (and subscribed, cause how can you not) and i noticed that food seems quite cheap in Japan! Ud find urself lucky to find a standard lunch here for under 10 Bucks, food out isnt cheap here. In the groceriestore however you can make a "bargain" if want to. Stay awesome, got loads of videos to catch up on! Let the coffekydeandericvideosessions begin!
Limerant Yea, we really want to at least visit Sweden, but after meeting so many wonderful people from Sweden if we had the chance to live there we'd jump at it! We'd get over the expensive burgers, haha. Enjoy the videos! -Eric
Woohoo! Another long video from Eric and Kyde! I love your videos soooo much! ...they are the most beautiful escape from the everyday life! Thank you so much!
I love the positive attitude you two take to travel! My only wish would be that I could go back in time and recommend a little izakaya called Chikuma on the canalfront in Matsumoto. The owner is insanely nice.
You generally don't have to worry too much about bears, just keep on the watch out for bear poop. You can tell it's bear poop because it will have little bells in it.
Dinner bell for bears!!!!...I've never had corn flakes inside my ice cream. It seems like it would make more sense as a topping... Give that owl some wine!
mrreddragon0000 It'll be here in Tokyo in just a couple of hours! Shouldn't be too powerful here though, we are just going to stay in. Thanks! More videos are coming soon! -Eric
I can't remember on what video you guys said that the only melon pan you ever liked was the one in Nagano. There is 0 melon pan in this video... Now I'm wondering if it was either in nakano-brodway, or if the only melon pan you ever liked wasn't a melon pan at all and it was actually the sobaoyaki.
I had to watch this video in 3 separate viewings... kept pausing and coming back... haha. That's why it took me forever to finish and like and comment. I really liked the castle and those ornately boxed meals you got. (And the excitement over those dumplings, the soba and pumpkin and apple and other stuff...) I'm also not mad that we couldn't get footage of you guys crawling through the dark tunnel thing... that's meant to be a personal thing... or at least a fun story... Also the bullet train... I really wish it hadn't been so dark on that ride and you could've gotten some awesome footage of how fast the scenery goes by at that speed on the train... but it was fun to see your cheap little baby-bottle of wine, lol... I would have downed like 3 of those... At the very end... I think Kyde had a point about the statue, but I also like the hammering gnome guy... so I'm cool with both. Also, Kyde praying for bears was the most epically scary/awesome thing ever. I want to write a short fan-fic about that now.
Hey if the bananas go black just stick 'em in the freezer for banana bread at a later point. They keep well that way, and when they're over-ripe they're perfect for baking. 0:31:32 I always thought that was a little sitting area. I had one of those at my hotel in Osaka and in mine there was a little table and 2 chairs to sit and enjoy the view. It was a view of a love hotel but it was nice to have a little place to write letters and postcards. Yours doesn't have anything, so kinda a bummer. 1:15:14 It's probably Japanese sweet potato which is white fleshed and has a red/purple skin. If you ever hear the Yaki Imo guy come by your place, you should get one of their roasted japanese sweet potatoes. Very nice, and surprisingly filling.
Kyde and Eric I had one in Kyoto. I heard the guy and ran out of the ryokan like it was the ice cream truck... and I wasn't alone, 3 kids about age 8 to 11 ran out in their pyjamas and got some off the guy.
I love your channel guys and have watched all your videos. Gotta say this video goes straight into my top 5 of yours. Brilliant work yet again. Love it. I'm just working on getting my Vlog channel out there and if I end up making ones near this quality I will be happy !! Keep safe guys. John.
TheAdventurousVlogger Thanks, glad you enjoyed this video so much! I'm also happy to see you are enjoying Bangkok right now, it's one of our favorite places! -Eric
Haha! I spent March 2014 - Feb 2015 on homestay in Nagano's Suwa area, very close to Matsumoto. I miss the mountains so much! I got to go to Matsumoto a couple of times as well, really is a nice city!
Hi guys from Ottawa. I have been wondering if you get funny looks or comments when you share your food. Since the burgers come in with their own wrappers, it seems like sharing would be a big no-no...love the videos...thanks.
Alex A I checked out your channel, pretty high moral ground you stand on when posting (and presumably shooting) videos of unknowing strangers on the beach in their bathing suits. Go ahead, zoom up on another girl's crotch, that's a "good one for the kids", right? Usually I don't bother to respond to such things, but this is too ridiculous to ignore. -Eric
Hold Fast Films Oh, totally feeding the trolls...but seriously. This is just too much. I expected to go and see stuff about people thumping a bible, and what I got was perverted shots of some creeper on the beach. If this guy is serious he's gotta be insane. If he's not, he needs to make a new profile to troll from without all the chikan videos. Wtf.
Thank you so much for your videos, it is even better than Rick Steeve Touring Europe! Very real and down to earth, it feels as though we are right there with you. One last thing, I am not a hair dresser, however, my wife has curly Scottish red hair, the reason of my mentioning this is that Kate seems to have a "do it your self hair cut", so as a cheap tip to give a nice hair cut to your wife, get her to wet her hair so they naturally fall down, then use a small 12 inch level starting with the back and some masking tape at the height that she desires to mark where you 're gonna make the cut...Then all you have to do is follow the masking tape around with a pair of scissors and she will have a perfect even hair cut. As it dries it will remain even. Cost $1.99 for a reusable plastic level, $2.99 for a roll of masking tape for 500 hair cut and $5 for a reusable pair of scissors. Thanks again for sharing your adventures with all of us. From Parma Idaho, Thomas T. Hayot
I just start to watch your video and I'm enjoy ! I like travel like you , some mistakes make more funny the journey , remind me with my friends.........thank you
Your videos are very entertaining and sometimes informative. I notice you guys go to a lot of places and wonder why the Japanese do and like the things they do. Search Japanology on youtube. It will explain a lot of your questions I hear you asking about your videos. Keep these videos coming. -Eric R
When I went hiking on the Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand they put us into different groups and the slow group they joked was the National Geographic Explorers. I also did a hike across the Tongariro Crossing in New Zealand. Everyone who came on the bus with me finished before me, so I ended up going back to my hostel on a bus with people that started a couple of hours after I did. Lol. I'm not very athletic and have flat feet/weak ankles, so I'm always in the "slow bot" group--probably going at a slower rate than Kyde. :D New Zealand is absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend it to you guys.
+saltyfrog75 Sounds fun! We really really want to visit NZ, it's just so expensive to get there from anywhere! We have friends there we'd love to visit, and just see the crazy beautiful nature. Sounds brilliant! -Eric
Friend of potato in the ramen. Water-chestnut possibly? in the izu peninsula kyde ate something that she said tasted of soil and didn't have much flavor that im guessing is jicama or 葛芋 (kuzu-imo). Im loving you two's videos, been watching you two all day at work rather than netflix the last few days (90% downtime in my job). I'm super jealous of your adventures. Wish I had done some of this before kids and becoming a single dad. Exploring japan vicariously through you. cheers!
Yes, there are persimmons in the states- Diospyros virginiana. I've been eating them from a tree near my house! They're much..much smaller than that, though. Maybe an inch in diameter. Taste sweeter after a frost, but don't need frost to ripen. Local custom says you can cut open a seed longways and look at the germ of the seed to predict the type of winter it will be. If it's a knife, winter will be icy (cut through the ice). If it's a spoon, it will be snowy (shovel to get through snow). If it's a fork, the winter will be mild. Of course, it's only a myth.
Wow! A train that comes every 5-10 min blows my mind! Where I live the BUS, the only public transit in the city!, comes twice every hour during the week and once an hour on weekends and holidays. Some cities are better here (Ontario). In Ottawa they come every 10 min during the week days. My solution? I bought a car. the expense is worth it here. I want to move to Japan so bad.
allyvv89 Haha, the train on the main line in Tokyo comes every TWO minutes during a majority of the day. It's insanity. We had cars when we lived in the states, it's a necessity in most places. To be fair, out in the country it's a necessity in Japan too. -Eric
For that variety of persimmon, it's great eat it while it is crunchy and sweet or when it is ripe and ultra sweet. BUT don't eat it on an empty stomach and DON'T eat the skin!!! You really don't want gastric persimmon stones in your stomach. Here are 6 reminders about eating persimmons: wenku.baidu.com/view/cd815bd3195f312b3169a5a6.html
頑張って(ganbade) is the transliteration of Combat, though Japanese using it as 'keeping up'. 熊出沒注意 出 is out 沒 is none, null, void put them together 出沒 is a verb to describe an animal 'appear and disappear'.
Hey guys. Just wanted to say I love your videos. Brilliantly entertaining and full of great information. Thank you very much for filming them. Looking forward to more!! 😃.
Hey guys, I usually don't comment, but this was the most enjoyable video from you since the lakes trip. Keep up the good work, you gave me some great hiking ideas for my next trip to Japan. Best wishes
Kyde and Eric Vegas is great software. I was mostly just curious because I edit for a living. Had you originally intended to go to Mount Ontake on this trip? Probably good that you didn't.
Philip Thompson Vegas is OK in theory, it just does a lot of really stupid quirky things I have learned to work around. Plus the interface feels a bit....1999 if you know what i mean. We never had plans to go to Ontake, glad we didn't end up there by accident! -Eric
Yay, new adventure!!! Looked like so much fun. Shame you had such a short time to fit it all in, but you guys still manage to put off a great video enticing enough to make anyone want to go there! I can't imagine how much more there would have been if you had more time lol but I bet it would have been just as awesome! Loved it!! I miss your longer adventure videos, so glad to see this one!
By the way, the box they used for the meal you folks ate in Nagano is unlike anything I've seen from most Japanese restaurants. Food looked delicious, though.
The "Friend of Potato" is a white sweet potato, also known as a Korean Sweet Potato, and the gelatinous stuff was steamed egg, that was actually strained after it was whipped in order to get the "stringy" portion of the egg out! Lovin' your videos looking forward to more!
There is a native North American Persimmon but it's extremely astringent. It will sting your mouth when you eat one. You'll find them all over the place on the east coast but most of the time they are too old to be fruiting. I only know because I was researching on growing on at my parents house for them, but the Asian one is normally grafted to an American root, since it is easier to transplant.
great video. looked like kyde had black eyes at one point on that mountain lol. i have been to mastsumoto castle. pretty cool place really. i stayed in toyoshina for a week on business and we got to explore a little bit. and yes right the trains are not very frequent...keep them coming guys loving them all. living vicariously through you two....steve
haha i just finish the whole video. funny and fun! thanks for sharing! im planning to go Nagano next year april. my itinerary is once i land in tokyo i will go nagano right away. im just worry about my flight will be in night time. any tips for train tokyo>nagano? thanks!
No Way! An hour & 1/2 long Kyde and Eric video?? Yaaaaa! ( sits in comfy chair and makes some popcorn)
better than any movie.
drmlabs Awesome.
aunt becky Not better than "American Movie." Nothing is. -Eric
Man, I love your videos so much. It's very refreshing to see a culture other than my own.
Biff T Great to hear, especially from such a butthead, Mr Tannen. -Eric
You guys are easily some of the best amateur content producers I know of on UA-cam. It amazes me how much great stuff you manage to capture. And I like how you guys aren't so heavy on the editing. I mean we get about an hour and a half of awesome footage with wonderful details and commentary. Not many places you can find that on UA-cam. Thanks guys.
Schuyler Morales Wow, what a wonderful compliment! Thanks so much! We always worry about making videos too long, but I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoy them! Hopefully we can find time to make long videos more often. We also ignore the trend of heavy cutting in the editing on purpose to make things feel more genuine. Glad you are enjoying that as well. -Eric
thanks again for a share.
I prefer watching this than a 90 minutes movie =D
MMOChampDE Haha, nice! -Eric
This is the best presentation of Matsumoto Castle I've seen from any channel. Great little trip and it sure didn't seem like it was 90 minutes--more like 20!
everytime im having a bad day I just watch you guys videos cheers me up^^
BITW punk That's a great compliment! -Eric
Eric I know this is an old video, but please tell kyde she is soooo funny and I can see why you love her so much. Kyde is just a big kid
+Autumn Ortiz Hahaha, I don't want her head to get too big! -E
referring to 18:12 - in EU this is too. i'm a polish cittizen and every single time when i was in polish mountains (Tatra, or Beskid or Bieszczady) you can also here on the route in the mountains from peolpe passing by "hello" good morning" or good afternoon - in polish ;)
+PanAhimsa Nice! -E
Great to see you both enjoying time exploring and as always informative and entertaining, looking forward to seeing more.
Nzuser1 Thanks! We loved out trip, hopefully we can go on more soon! Thanks for enjoying! -Eric
Thank you. You always make my whole day when you post a video.
Ingsord Awesome! -Eric
Yah. The return of The adventures of slowbot.
You guys are awesome. Love your videos.
oZiKiDDa Thanks, glad you dug it! Slowbot! -Eric
Going to Tokyo in two weeks, can't wait! Been binge watching your videos to prepare, and Eric I also love bits in my food and drinks ;) Wanna go to Hakone after watching your trip. Keep it up :)
So happy you both visited Matsumoto and Zenko-Ji Temple as I did in 2013. That Moon Room was so much fun and that was the only castle that I could videotape and take pictures in. The Buddhist temple was where my life changed forever. Nowhere have a ever had an out-of-body experience then at that Temple. The evening sun, bells ringing, monks chanting and the smells of the incense sent me to a whole other world and I am more enlightened and open-minded since. My hostel was a 10 minute walk from that wonderful place so I got used to climbing that hill. Thank you for sharing this I'm helping me relive it, I love you guys your my connection to a higher plain of existence and I'll just live vicariously through you :-)
Marcel Stevahn Oh wow, cool experience! Glad you enjoyed the videos, but more importantly I'm glad you enjoyed your own trip to Japan. Thanks for the interesting comment. -Eric
You guys are awesome! Always enjoy when I watch your video ;)
Warithdhorn Chuenarom Thanks! Glad you enjoy the videos! -Eric
I was sitting here thinking, why do I recognize the name Matsumoto so much. I've heard it before, but it was ringing some kind of bell and I couldn't place it. Then I realized, The legendary guitar factory "Matsumoku" was in Matsumoto and I own a guitar made there. So that's really cool!
Also, Eric. Did you just hum whilst pouring wine? ;)
***** Oh wow, cool, had no idea the area was famous for guitars. Cool insight! -Eric
Hi Guys! Enjoying your videos. I lived in SG for a year. You are bringing back many memories . Keep up the good work. 🙋👍
PDNB214 Thanks! Glad we could bring back some nice memories for you! -Eric
I love your videos. They are so informative. If i ever go to Japan, i am definitely consulting your videos. Keep them coming!!!!
I'd like to live within hours of mountains like that... :)
1:00:55 - 1:02:00 twss moments... ;)
Yay long video, I really loved this one ! I felt as I was a guest and you were showing me around. I really got the Japan vibe there. Also, just worth mentioning as a comment to the fire arms thing, that the Portuguese sailors introduced them to Japan around 1500 and they've been using it ever since. Anyway, thanks for sharing the video and the outtakes. :D
Francisco Araújo I totally just read up how firearms came here via the Portuguese introduced firearms here two days ago during some Wikipedia randomness. Glad you liked the video! I'll be in touch soon about website stuff, sorry! Haha. -Eric
Hey Eric and Kyde, thanks so much for posting such amazing videos about your adventures in Japan. I've been an avid follower of your videos and recently have decided to go to Japan and travel around. This videos about Matsumoto first caught my attention and I guess this was one reason to go on my own journey.
You guys are awesome and an inspiration t
i am rewatchuing this 12 time and justb realised i love the scene when kyde tells she is annoyed and then realizes the view in front of her. its so true.
hey guys! just watched your video. that was really awesome. saw lots of cool things on there. loved the bear bells and your warnings of not wearing bells up the mountain. yes i can imagine that bear thinking "oh im hungry, i wonder if there is any fast food nearby? as he listens for bells. "yep i hear some bells!! RAWR!". lol. i loved the little hotel you stayed in the first night. was really cool. shame on you. sneaking around. lol. i dont blame you though. i would probaly do it too if i knew no one was around. a lot of the food you had looked really good. i have only tried kabocha pumpkin a few times, but it was in tempura form. really yummy i must say. i thought it was originally a fried carrot, but they said it was kabocha. so the soba kabocha bun looked intriguing. i am not a fan of eggplant. bleagh! never liked it. here in Phoenix AZ. we are the sister city of Himeji. and the castle there is the crane castle. back in 1986. a group of japanese people and representitives came down and helped phoenix build a japanese friendship garden. we have a tea house in the back. they had to use plants from here that would survive the heat of our summers. our garden has a big koi pond, waterfall, bridges. it is really nice. i used to volunteer in it a lot and trim rosemary hedges into the tomomono rounded shapes. and take home some freshly trimmed rosemary to make food with. lol. the shinkasen looks so awesome. would like to ride that one day. really great video you guys made! thanks so much! love from AZ
ladyamerias Hi Amy, glad you enjoyed the video! I'm with you on kabocha, it's incredible especially in tempura form! Neat that Himeji is a sister city to Phoenix, I wonder if the people of Phoenix built anything in Himeji. -Eric
all i heard that there was a plaque over there somewhere saying that we are its sister city. lol.
I really enjoyed this video. I'm a total snooper too haha! Loved that it was a super long video =) My husband and I will be visiting Japan in January, staying in Osaka, if you find yourselves over there I'd love to meet you guys!
Danielle (LePooke) Oh sweet, enjoy your trip! Osaka is pretty far from Tokyo, so I doubt we will meet unless you make a trip up this way. Maybe next time! -Eric
Kyde and Eric Yea, its a bummer cause I'd really like to visit Tokyo but its like a 3 hour train ride and we're only in Japan for a few days. Your videos are really making me excited for this trip, especially the food ones =)
Danielle (LePooke)
Bummer you can't make it up to Tokyo. Enjoy your time in Osaka! Get some okonomiyaki! -Eric
WOW! that's a long video 😍 Love it! 💗💗💗💗💗
Love how optimistic and spontaneous you guys are. Great video!
I really enjoyed watching your adventure :D. I would love to visit Japan some day. It looks so beautiful.
***** Thank you! It is quite wonderful here, I hope you have the chance to visit! -Eric
I used to travel a lot before I got sick :(
I really appreciate your videos sooooo much! It helps keep my mind off the pain....
Hey Eric and Kyde, thanks so much for posting such amazing videos about your adventures in Japan. I've been an avid follower of your videos and recently have decided to go to Japan and travel around. This videos about Matsumoto first caught my attention and I guess this was one reason to go on my own journey.
You guys are awesome and an inspiration to people like me and keep on doing what you guys do. P
+Ian Yee This is wonderful to hear! I love hearing we have helped spark people's excitement to do some travelling of their own! Thanks so much for the kind words! -Eric
Oh man, I don't know how you guys can just be all "Hey, let's ride trains and buses all night, then go hiking the next morning yay!" Nooo..girlfriend needs her beauty rest..lol!
musey85 haha, we are hardcore. -Eric
Another great video from eric and kyde! Id love to hike with you guys. How awesome is japan you can hop on the trains on the weekends and do trips like this. Thanks for sharing. The first hike when you just winged it seemed brutal i hoped you would of gotten a better view at the top but stew instead ain't that bad !!
ttrendxyz Yea, it was a bit more intense of a hike than I had anticipated. Fun either way! -Eric
Saw in one of ur videos that u wanted to come to Sweden, not sure if you just wanted to visit ur friends here or live here but i think Kyde expressed some notion about living here (im a Swede). Looked at quite a few of ur videos today (and subscribed, cause how can you not) and i noticed that food seems quite cheap in Japan! Ud find urself lucky to find a standard lunch here for under 10 Bucks, food out isnt cheap here. In the groceriestore however you can make a "bargain" if want to. Stay awesome, got loads of videos to catch up on! Let the coffekydeandericvideosessions begin!
Limerant Yea, we really want to at least visit Sweden, but after meeting so many wonderful people from Sweden if we had the chance to live there we'd jump at it! We'd get over the expensive burgers, haha. Enjoy the videos! -Eric
Woohoo! Another long video from Eric and Kyde! I love your videos soooo much! ...they are the most beautiful escape from the everyday life! Thank you so much!
Maike Vogt-Lueerssen Fantastic! Thanks so much! -Eric
I love the positive attitude you two take to travel! My only wish would be that I could go back in time and recommend a little izakaya called Chikuma on the canalfront in Matsumoto. The owner is insanely nice.
Bnio Ahh, those kinds of places are where we'd love to try! Maybe next time! -Eric
Such an adventure!!! Wow!
***** It was lots of fun! Thanks! -Eric
You generally don't have to worry too much about bears, just keep on the watch out for bear poop. You can tell it's bear poop because it will have little bells in it.
+David Cervera Hahaha.
Hi-Chew are great, I have started regularly seeing them at convenience stores here in the states. Melon and Grape Hi-Chew...so good!
KelticAce18 Oh nice, great they are making their way stateside. -Eric
Matsumoto, its castle and streets, deserve a full day. Back when I visited the castle there were long lines and the building itself was crowded.
I think you could spend even longer there, wish we had more time! -Eric
Kyde I think the bowl you thought was tofu in your 100 year old box dinner was chawanmushi, a steamed egg custard with dashi.
JTT C Ahh, nice! Good stuff!
Poor Eric, covering up huge castles and nearly hitting himself on beams. Haha
Ismael Perez It's hard to be an Eric. -Eric
Aww Beaky came along.
Dinner bell for bears!!!!...I've never had corn flakes inside my ice cream. It seems like it would make more sense as a topping... Give that owl some wine!
+Jennifer Newell Yea, corn flakes are actually not bad with ice cream! Give it a go! -Eric
Hey guys, you both stay safe with that typhoon heading to Japan, take care of yourselves, cause I want to see more of your videos ;-)
mrreddragon0000 It'll be here in Tokyo in just a couple of hours! Shouldn't be too powerful here though, we are just going to stay in. Thanks! More videos are coming soon! -Eric
I can't remember on what video you guys said that the only melon pan you ever liked was the one in Nagano.
There is 0 melon pan in this video...
Now I'm wondering if it was either in nakano-brodway, or if the only melon pan you ever liked wasn't a melon pan at all and it was actually the sobaoyaki.
Haha, in Nakano! Not Nagano. -E
I went to Matsumoto too! Like the castle too heheh. So envious, I want to go to Japan more
Ama•1 Yea, that castle is awesome! -Eric
I had to watch this video in 3 separate viewings... kept pausing and coming back... haha. That's why it took me forever to finish and like and comment.
I really liked the castle and those ornately boxed meals you got. (And the excitement over those dumplings, the soba and pumpkin and apple and other stuff...) I'm also not mad that we couldn't get footage of you guys crawling through the dark tunnel thing... that's meant to be a personal thing... or at least a fun story... Also the bullet train... I really wish it hadn't been so dark on that ride and you could've gotten some awesome footage of how fast the scenery goes by at that speed on the train... but it was fun to see your cheap little baby-bottle of wine, lol... I would have downed like 3 of those...
At the very end... I think Kyde had a point about the statue, but I also like the hammering gnome guy... so I'm cool with both. Also, Kyde praying for bears was the most epically scary/awesome thing ever. I want to write a short fan-fic about that now.
Joe Blow Haha, you gotta write a story about bears eating people who wear bells. -Eric
Kyde and Eric That's an excellent plot point but I must include the prayer to summon the bears. :P
Hey if the bananas go black just stick 'em in the freezer for banana bread at a later point. They keep well that way, and when they're over-ripe they're perfect for baking.
0:31:32 I always thought that was a little sitting area. I had one of those at my hotel in Osaka and in mine there was a little table and 2 chairs to sit and enjoy the view. It was a view of a love hotel but it was nice to have a little place to write letters and postcards. Yours doesn't have anything, so kinda a bummer.
1:15:14 It's probably Japanese sweet potato which is white fleshed and has a red/purple skin. If you ever hear the Yaki Imo guy come by your place, you should get one of their roasted japanese sweet potatoes. Very nice, and surprisingly filling.
ikaruseijin01 Oh, we know about he yakimo dude. Haven't heard him in a while though! They are pretty good. -Eric
Kyde and Eric I had one in Kyoto. I heard the guy and ran out of the ryokan like it was the ice cream truck... and I wasn't alone, 3 kids about age 8 to 11 ran out in their pyjamas and got some off the guy.
I love your channel guys and have watched all your videos. Gotta say this video goes straight into my top 5 of yours. Brilliant work yet again. Love it. I'm just working on getting my Vlog channel out there and if I end up making ones near this quality I will be happy !! Keep safe guys. John.
TheAdventurousVlogger Thanks, glad you enjoyed this video so much! I'm also happy to see you are enjoying Bangkok right now, it's one of our favorite places! -Eric
Haha! I spent March 2014 - Feb 2015 on homestay in Nagano's Suwa area, very close to Matsumoto. I miss the mountains so much! I got to go to Matsumoto a couple of times as well, really is a nice city!
Oh wow, I am jealous! -E
Kyde and Eric XD You should be. ;)
Hi guys from Ottawa. I have been wondering if you get funny looks or comments when you share your food. Since the burgers come in with their own wrappers, it seems like sharing would be a big no-no...love the videos...thanks.
Phil Be You don't often see people share food like that, but whatever, it's not hurting anyone. -Eric
Cool ..thanks Eric..
.Phil
I would have definitely been a slowbot on this expedition
Miles McKinley Hahaha.
So I'm about to do some of the homework I have pending since I'm home sick...
Then you guys upload a video. Hmm. Difficult decision.
lbonini1gaming Haha.
Alex A Grow some balls
Alex A
Would you prefer us to not be ourselves for your sake? -Eric
Alex A
I checked out your channel, pretty high moral ground you stand on when posting (and presumably shooting) videos of unknowing strangers on the beach in their bathing suits. Go ahead, zoom up on another girl's crotch, that's a "good one for the kids", right? Usually I don't bother to respond to such things, but this is too ridiculous to ignore. -Eric
Hold Fast Films
Oh, totally feeding the trolls...but seriously. This is just too much. I expected to go and see stuff about people thumping a bible, and what I got was perverted shots of some creeper on the beach. If this guy is serious he's gotta be insane. If he's not, he needs to make a new profile to troll from without all the chikan videos. Wtf.
This is one of my favorite places that you have visited :)
Skye Hagenstein It was wonderful! -Eric
i think your channel really stand out because both of you are such fun loving characters lol but man what a looooong video!
You guys rock! Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us! - Matt Elliott.
+Howard Film You're welcome! -Eric
I love your adventures, so fun to watch!
Jolliffs Abroad Yay! Thanks! -Eric
Thank you so much for your videos, it is even better than Rick Steeve Touring Europe! Very real and down to earth, it feels as though we are right there with you. One last thing, I am not a hair dresser, however, my wife has curly Scottish red hair, the reason of my mentioning this is that Kate seems to have a "do it your self hair cut", so as a cheap tip to give a nice hair cut to your wife, get her to wet her hair so they naturally fall down, then use a small 12 inch level starting with the back and some masking tape at the height that she desires to mark where you 're gonna make the cut...Then all you have to do is follow the masking tape around with a pair of scissors and she will have a perfect even hair cut. As it dries it will remain even. Cost $1.99 for a reusable plastic level, $2.99 for a roll of masking tape for 500 hair cut and $5 for a reusable pair of scissors. Thanks again for sharing your adventures with all of us. From Parma Idaho, Thomas T. Hayot
Can we just call the hotel section the" Eminem and the hunt for a towel"?
General Aladeen I don't get the "Eminem" part. Did I forget something? -Eric
Great video. I liked watching your adventure. Long! I had to watch in 2 parts.
18:54 a good sample. you prepared ? lol
1:14:40 I like the old styled but clean restaurant like that
Perfect timing on this video! I was in serious Kyde and Eric withdrawal.
IrishLincoln Perfect! -Eric
I just start to watch your video and I'm enjoy ! I like travel like you , some mistakes make more funny the journey , remind me with my friends.........thank you
School can wait another hour and a half :)
Shane Hampton Hahaha, you gotta edumacate! -Eric
Kyde: the bell means "Luuuuunnnnnch".... (for the bears)...
Haha I completely agree with Eric - the bell is a homing beacon for the bear ! Also it seems your wish did come true! Good job :)
Have you guys been to senjoujiki of komagatake mountain in komagane? An awesome place to visit. love nagano. good work.
Maybe that sign means "CAUTION, BEAR XING" or something, I don't know..
That hand puppet when he was showing off the fancy bottle of wine had me cracking up! I was not prepared for that.
My god you're so selfish, those poor Japanese folks are trying to sleep for chrissake :p LOL
Your videos are very entertaining and sometimes informative. I notice you guys go to a lot of places and wonder why the Japanese do and like the things they do. Search Japanology on youtube. It will explain a lot of your questions I hear you asking about your videos. Keep these videos coming. -Eric R
iltjoa Glad you enjoy the videos! We've checked out Japanology in the past and it's good! Thanks for the suggestion! -Eric
What happens when the time of your coin-locker expiries?
Does anyone in charge takes care of your stuff, it remains closed... what happens?
***** ......I dunno. Maybe you have to put in more money? I have no idea, haahaha. -Eric
Kyde and Eric =D
Wow mega size video.. have to watch all later. Thanks for sharing again!
So glad to visit Japan through your videos. I have watched your videos all day long! Thanks so much for making them! They are incredible!!!
Monique D Fantastic! Thank you so much! Keep enjoying them! -Eric
that's one bad hat harry lol.
Much awaited! Yay! Thank you for an awesome video! And you too are a great couple! And this Kyde's blue hood is great too) Hugs!
KOBA971 Thanks! She loves that little hat! -Eric
Wonderful video! Thank you for sharing!
I think you guys climbed the Tateyama mountain? You took the bus to Ogizawa and up the mountain i'm guessing?
Sammy Oh Sheng Teck We have no idea where we ended up! Good travelers! -Kyde
kudos to an awesome adventure and really chill attitude~
Matsumoto Castle is on Google StreetView...sweet.
When I went hiking on the Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand they put us into different groups and the slow group they joked was the National Geographic Explorers.
I also did a hike across the Tongariro Crossing in New Zealand. Everyone who came on the bus with me finished before me, so I ended up going back to my hostel on a bus with people that started a couple of hours after I did. Lol.
I'm not very athletic and have flat feet/weak ankles, so I'm always in the "slow bot" group--probably going at a slower rate than Kyde. :D
New Zealand is absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend it to you guys.
+saltyfrog75 Sounds fun! We really really want to visit NZ, it's just so expensive to get there from anywhere! We have friends there we'd love to visit, and just see the crazy beautiful nature. Sounds brilliant! -Eric
Friend of potato in the ramen. Water-chestnut possibly? in the izu peninsula kyde ate something that she said tasted of soil and didn't have much flavor that im guessing is jicama or 葛芋 (kuzu-imo). Im loving you two's videos, been watching you two all day at work rather than netflix the last few days (90% downtime in my job). I'm super jealous of your adventures. Wish I had done some of this before kids and becoming a single dad. Exploring japan vicariously through you. cheers!
Glad you found us and are able to do some exploring through the videos! Although being a single dad would be an adventure of it's own I'm sure! -E
Yes, there are persimmons in the states- Diospyros virginiana. I've been eating them from a tree near my house! They're much..much smaller than that, though. Maybe an inch in diameter. Taste sweeter after a frost, but don't need frost to ripen. Local custom says you can cut open a seed longways and look at the germ of the seed to predict the type of winter it will be. If it's a knife, winter will be icy (cut through the ice). If it's a spoon, it will be snowy (shovel to get through snow). If it's a fork, the winter will be mild. Of course, it's only a myth.
Destructionsan Haha, wow, neat! -Eric
Wow! A train that comes every 5-10 min blows my mind! Where I live the BUS, the only public transit in the city!, comes twice every hour during the week and once an hour on weekends and holidays. Some cities are better here (Ontario). In Ottawa they come every 10 min during the week days. My solution? I bought a car. the expense is worth it here. I want to move to Japan so bad.
allyvv89 Haha, the train on the main line in Tokyo comes every TWO minutes during a majority of the day. It's insanity. We had cars when we lived in the states, it's a necessity in most places. To be fair, out in the country it's a necessity in Japan too. -Eric
For that variety of persimmon, it's great eat it while it is crunchy and sweet or when it is ripe and ultra sweet.
BUT don't eat it on an empty stomach and DON'T eat the skin!!! You really don't want gastric persimmon stones in your stomach.
Here are 6 reminders about eating persimmons:
wenku.baidu.com/view/cd815bd3195f312b3169a5a6.html
Tony C Haha, good lord, are they poison? Now I'm afraid of them! -Eric
頑張って(ganbade) is the transliteration of Combat, though Japanese using it as 'keeping up'.
熊出沒注意
出 is out
沒 is none, null, void
put them together 出沒 is a verb to describe an animal 'appear and disappear'.
eightbighillman Ahh, interesting. New kanji of the day! -Eric
Hey guys. Just wanted to say I love your videos. Brilliantly entertaining and full of great information. Thank you very much for filming them. Looking forward to more!! 😃.
Ben Featherstone Fantastic, thanks so much for enjoying them! More are on their way! -Eric
Hey guys, I usually don't comment, but this was the most enjoyable video from you since the lakes trip. Keep up the good work, you gave me some great hiking ideas for my next trip to Japan. Best wishes
WanderingJim Awesome, glad you enjoyed it! We loved making it! -Eric
Hi, Guys! Love your videos. Eric - what software do you edit with?
Philip Thompson Sony Vegas. It's not the best thing in the world, but I know it so well it's hard to change at this point. -Eric
Kyde and Eric Vegas is great software. I was mostly just curious because I edit for a living. Had you originally intended to go to Mount Ontake on this trip? Probably good that you didn't.
Philip Thompson Vegas is OK in theory, it just does a lot of really stupid quirky things I have learned to work around. Plus the interface feels a bit....1999 if you know what i mean. We never had plans to go to Ontake, glad we didn't end up there by accident! -Eric
Yay, new adventure!!! Looked like so much fun. Shame you had such a short time to fit it all in, but you guys still manage to put off a great video enticing enough to make anyone want to go there! I can't imagine how much more there would have been if you had more time lol but I bet it would have been just as awesome! Loved it!! I miss your longer adventure videos, so glad to see this one!
Teri Tarrant Awesome, glad you enjoyed the long video! I'm always worried they are TOO long! -Eric
By the way, the box they used for the meal you folks ate in Nagano is unlike anything I've seen from most Japanese restaurants. Food looked delicious, though.
Sacto1654 Yea, it was really unique and fun! -Eric
The "Friend of Potato" is a white sweet potato, also known as a Korean Sweet Potato, and the gelatinous stuff was steamed egg, that was actually strained after it was whipped in order to get the "stringy" portion of the egg out! Lovin' your videos looking forward to more!
mrsducati Ahh, nice! Thanks! Glad you are enjoying the videos! -Eric
There is a native North American Persimmon but it's extremely astringent. It will sting your mouth when you eat one. You'll find them all over the place on the east coast but most of the time they are too old to be fruiting. I only know because I was researching on growing on at my parents house for them, but the Asian one is normally grafted to an American root, since it is easier to transplant.
readyset Interesting, wonder if I have ever had one and just forgot about it. I want to try it now! -Eric
great video. looked like kyde had black eyes at one point on that mountain lol. i have been to mastsumoto castle. pretty cool place really. i stayed in toyoshina for a week on business and we got to explore a little bit. and yes right the trains are not very frequent...keep them coming guys loving them all. living vicariously through you two....steve
steve s Thanks Steve! Glad you enjoyed, and I'm also glad you made it to Matsumoto Castle, what a cool place! -Eric
Great show! 100% worth the wait. It was thoroughly enjoyable. I will be looking forward to seeing another Kyde and Eric Adventure soon.
Buck O Ruudah We will have another one sometime in October, hopefully! Takes a long time to prepare these videos! -Eric
haha i just finish the whole video. funny and fun! thanks for sharing! im planning to go Nagano next year april. my itinerary is once i land in tokyo i will go nagano right away. im just worry about my flight will be in night time. any tips for train tokyo>nagano?
thanks!
+rommel bautista If you have the means the bullet train is your best bet. You can check hyperdia.com for routes. -Eric
1:12:38 I have the same problem!!! I dont know what caused it tho but it is pretty much how u described it.
Gamershellalpha Eric's problem did go away! Not sure if it was the statue, but he's not itchy anymore! -Kyde
Just discovered your videos. You two should take a trip to Mongolia. Definitely worth a visit but I don't go back for more than a month :P
Temuulen Gansukh We would LOVE to go to Mongolia. I really hope we can arrange it sometime....in the summer anyways. Haha. -Eric
Loved Beaky dancing in the window on the train. Had a little chuckle.
Looks like a really fun trip. Amazing what you can do in two days!
MelCanJapan Good eye on finding Biki in the window! Glad you liked the video! -Eric
Yes, we have a persimmon tree in our backyard in Seal Beach, California, which is about 40 miles south of Los Angeles
sandiego22tnt Oh, nice! So good! -Eric
Japan really needs more Eric-sized busses.
Awesome get-away. That ice cream bus was bad ass.
Houston, we have hit the Cornflakes! :D
thanks for reporting back! haha
Ultros Tako Haha, it was an awesome surprise. -Eric