today, well in a last couple of days, it's the 100 % bloom, which is absolutely stunning right in front of me

It's Hirosaki castle

we're turning around and show you

It's beautiful weeping willow like, cherry blosom because around the castle pink with these, really beautiful

You can go into Hirosaki castle, but

I'm not sure I want to go in there

Absolutely beautiful

Cherry blossom have been finished in Tokyo for about two weeks now

Maybe a little bit more

I'm up here Aomori which is about three and half hours, three hours' Shinkansen ride

Up north, there's in bloom,

At the end of April

Some haven't even bloomed yet

The figured couples dates lot

Some live streaming right now on a Docommo's 4 G signals

From Hirosaki Castle

That castle behind me with built in 1611

It's 14 and half meters high

and this way is

really beautiful view

Some people know what the mountain this is

Anybody knows the mountain it is

It's not "Fujisan" (Mt. Fuji)

Not Everest either

This is not Mt. Fuji? That's not true

Hahaha, it's not Mt Fuji, You knew it

They do look a bit similar

This is Mt. Iwaki. Yeah it is

That’s not Mt.Fuji, but Mt.Iwaki

This mountain is, look similar to Mt. Fuji

but it's about one-third height

Ah, it's a volcano, it's not active right now

It's beautiful because it's black, so the rain from coming here, it's the sky looks like

almost raining in most of the morning

right now screwed up a little bit

which is great, tonight they light up all the cherry blossoms around, castle and park

this park is most famous this time of the year

are the cherry blossoms attractive from million visits that's

probably bigger than the city population itself

more workers on the park when we go down and take a look in some of the foods

I promise Muslem Ramadan

Some starving

The hitchhike here two days ago, I pageant a couple days off

Hitchhike here from Odate which she is wear

there's another "Hachiko" statue,those to visit Japan, you know "Hachiko" in Shibuya

There's also another statue here in Odate

That was made almost same year

1935~1936

Not statue is difference

I did live stream on Only in Japan, Go channel, if you want to see about more Odate, definately check that out

I love this you find little honor, it's a beautiful view

That's we're came in

Somebody's heading down toward foods

I did the castle a couple weeks ago at Matsue

and this castle looks a lot smaller

Again that castle is built in the year 1611

I'd love it color change

This is a "Shidare-sakura", weeping willow variety of Sakura

It's a those vivarent Tokyo right now and

We are discovering is no what cherry blossom

This is JR railway pass this is heading up north, because

Right now, Tohoku is blooming

It's a castle again in the distance

If you can talk to some local people

This not looks good

It's telling you you have abotut 15 mins before

It cannot this poor

That's each cherry blossom they are, we call, "Mankai" Mankai means 100 % bloom

You can tell the mankai because

every single blossom, every single bud should exploded into a blossom

Now, the 100% mankai was in the last couple of days

Then, when it hit 80% to 100% in the last couple of days

the first wind and first rain nocked them all down and green leaves break through

This is what the Sakura look likes it for 100% bloom in it

It's llike a special time, It lasts through just a short period of time

It's over , at it get this point

Jah, like 2 or 3 dyas later

the longest is a week, that's one is no rain, there's no wind, that's would happen so rarely in frank

get the extra few days

This is the best time here in Japan, isn't it?

Today we get a cloudy sky when the sun bereak through you get the bloom

Cracken through the trees with white leaves

It's stunning. Today's a warm day

Once again, Hirosaki, north of Japan in Aomori prefecture

I keep going straight north being to Hokkaido, it'll be in a couple of days

I am so forced in the trip

Even in the last month, I've long been hitchhiking

I've been following the cherry blossom up

Hello, I'm live now

It's a live streaming for foreigners

I am introducing this amazing cherry blossom view to those who can't come to Aomori

That's great! Are you from Aomori?

No, I'm from Hiroshima

Hiroshima? Yes, Sightseeing? Yes!

Wonderful ! Cherry blossom in Hiroshima is this beautiful, isn't it? Of course!

As pretty as here, but it was already over

It was already over, is that right?

Was It fully bloomed around March 20th ?

Please go around to find more beautiful places

I was in "Miyazima" about three weeks ago

Oh, really?

Are you travelling around the world? Yes, I'm now Hitchhiking from Kagoshima to Hokkaido

Is that right? So, I'm now in Aomori, and the next stop is Hakodate

By hitchhiking! Cheer up! Thank you so much, Bye bye!

I've lived in Yokogawa. Not far?

I love pumpin-sucking people

They're looking at me and wondering what I'm doing and told on my live stremaing

give you a chance to see I'm seeing today

Very friendly people from Hiroshima, they're travelling a long way to see this

That's how popular the park is. People travel long distance to come here

Here is the caste. Beautiful isn't it?

Could we go cherry blossom viewing even in the rain?-

Certaily, if it's a little rain

Judging from the look of sky, most likely we'll have a rain soon

Are you from Hirosaki?

Oh, you are going to come here every year, aren't you?

There're a lot of foreign visitors here, Yes, there were

You can see there are, they're doing Hanami (cherry blossom viewing) in spite of rain

Rigth now rain is coming down

The wind's starting pick-up, that means these really dark cloud come this way

I'm taken down a food for, I can completly washed out here

You can see what I am seeing now is absolutely stunning

This is sort of bright walk round

One of Japan's ten top cherry blossom sites

Just white, little bit white look like snow

This music playing at the background is

a lot of cultural festivals going on

I saw other Iwaki, Iwaki-san which is the mountain famous in Aomori

look like Mt. Fuji

Before the rain gets too bad

The cloud definitely come

Let' get down and look out foods

I don't get to see the rain's coming down

I do have the umbrella

first for from where you get really nice Benetton

Hey, look because the rain is leaving, that is my chance, maybe

This is also 100 years' Hirosaki Sakura Matsuri (cherry blossom festival)

Lots of tourists from China, I hear a lot of Chinese, some Indonesians and Thais

those cloud worry me. I have I-phone 7 plus and OZMO

The phone is water-proof, but AZMO is not. Are you an AZMO?

Get down to foods very quick

If you can get a ticket to come into

Hirosaki Castle

This ticket looks like. The castle itself is 310 Yen, and a little parked cost another 200 Yen

But I kind of passed the park and go in the castle

I've been here in a couple of days

I don't really care about the little garden area because right now, today all about the cherry blossoms

going over the bridge

Food area is about 250 m down

I guess toy something they really made into like a fair

like a state fair

like a carnival maybe

look like a carnival down there

I'm excited to introduce it, will be there in a couple of minutes

Wow, a lot of visitors from China

This is another little flat for me

It's not bad. You don't need an umbrella

Hard core

I go on the plastic umbrella because it does rain

I put in umbrella, but you get to see through it

We'll have full access in spite of rain

This no way I'm cutting this live feed

A lot of you joining now I know take a little bit time for you get the notification

A lot of people're joining now

I'm in Hirosaki, Aomori prefecture

It's in Tohoku about

3 hours and 20 minutes Shinkansen's ride

He gets up here

Or I get to about 4 day Hitchhike

I've been now on the road starting tomorrow

No right now, today I've been on the road for a month

I've been on the road for one month, Hitchhiking

and It comes a very long way

From Kagoshima

Hadn' t a live stream for a while

kind of off-line because charging a little bit

get ready for the next stretch

because everybody, Kichstarter project has been going so well with the funding great 340% of the goal

As a result, I'm doing a stretch call

which means the money for all the way, said just Hakodate, but to Wakkanai, to the northernmost point Japan, Hitchhiker's bear

and maybe something crazy, jumping to the ocean

But somebody said still iceberg there

floating around

I'm not quite sure I'm jumping to

Cape Soya

Maybe I will

can't be colder than that night, naked man susceptible

Episode No.1 is a serious sick

That was pretty cold

All right, almost there

You can see just up head is the bottom corner, some of the food stand

You can smell too

Ah, squid, smell too, you can smell like,

If you've fed "Takoyaki" before

Or " Okonomiyaki", sweet soy based sauce

grilling on fire

and just the worst through the air

I have like a "Takoyaki" raider go on here

Yah, festival foods

It can be really hard to pick what I'm going to eat, because I can't eat everything

I don't I can forward

because everything is like 500 Yen

New live's streaming like this I'm holding stick up my face, but speaking people looking at me, the best thing do it, turned them and talking

Never knows what happens

OK, here we go, here we go, all right

As you know, or don't know, Aomori is famous for apple

Prefecture has the best apple maybe in the world

Very big, very sweet

In there they have an apple wine, apple cider, apple everything

Here we go

Very big isn't it?

big size!

How much? 300 Yen

These are 500 Yen

Please line up who are to pay the money for the Jumbo Oden

The entrance is located at the left hand side

Just look at something to eat, just 100 Yen

boom, let's do this

Hold on a second, I gotta get my cash out

I don't know why people line up for

Gosh, people always line up

May I have a Jumbo Oden? Sure

It's black!

Wow, why is it black?

Why black? Oh, it's secret!

This is Oden, looks like Konjac (Mannon)

It's black. I don't know anyone told me why

This is 100 Yen, it's like a dollar

This is Konjac right?

That's Konjac, it's good, isn't it? It surely is

Why is it black?

Squid ink

Ah, squid ink

He didn't tell me about this, and said "Secret"

Here we go. It's Konjac which is, um, gosh what the heck is it??

I guess it's like the gelatin part of the potato that they make into a rubbery substance that

tastes like this

But it's got

The black I think sort of like a soy sauce has very salty taste to it

Now here, you know what? Here is the problem.

This thing's so heavy, so like voluminous, it's kind of fill me up