around the emperor's house i don't know  why i thought this would be a good idea  

if someone looks out of their office window  sometime in the next half hour you might be lucky  

enough to catch a glimpse of a 29 year old british  guy having a heart attack in the middle of a park

a lot of people often ask me for ideas on things  to do around the tokyo station area known as  

marunochi because odds are if you're traveling  through tokyo it's a district you'll find yourself  

passing through at some point or another in  this video we're going to eat drink and shop  

our way around in search of 10 things to do and to  assist me in my exploration i've enlisted the help  

of a good friend and a former tokyo resident  who claims to be an expert on the local area  

here he comes tokyo expert slowly but  surely sometime today good morning  

good morning how you doing why are we jogging  ryotaro why is this a thing what are you what  

about this is number one place for jogging tokyo  the number one jogging spot in tokyo yes i do i  

look like someone that needs to go jogging well  yeah definitely i mean clearly the uh your belly  

look at that and the cycle didn't work out  at all cheers man i must admit though there  

are quite a lot of joggers around here why  is it so popular why is this the place to  

job well i mean obviously this is one of the  nicest parks in tokyo and also there's so many  

offices around here so before they go to work  they jog first and then they go to the office  

fair enough i mean usually when i come to tokyo  business i never do any exercise because i think  

where can i job where can i get where can i jog  where can i go as a result that's what we've got  

there but now i've got no excuse there's actually  a part where you can jog and work out discovery  

discovery yes discovery i deal with a pretty  good excuse though why i wouldn't work out  

here and that is getting sweaty and not  being able to shower anywhere there is  

there's a place to get shallow oh my god is  it the place where we got the shirts from

that's right thanks to the miracle of japanese  convenience there's a gym next to the park with  

lockers bikes running gear and showers so  you needn't return to your hotel or office  

drenched in sweat after your early morning  run the madden orchid bike can run place  

in between tokyo station and the park you can  actually not only rent shoes and t-shirts but also  

have a shower much needed after running around  the park it's like 27 degrees celsius today  

outside so what's going on what was that  i'm pleasantly seductive walking brilliant  

whilst marunochi may look like a futuristic  district of gleaming skyscrapers underneath it all  

places still firmly rooted in tradition with old  red brick buildings dying around and even a horse  

and carriage transporting people of importance  around town this is pretty cool this is the  

this is an ambassador of some country when  the ambassador of a country arrives in japan  

they get to go and meet the emperor and kind  of sit down and chat and they get to choose  

whether they go by car or by carriage and  today this ambassador has chosen to come by  

carriage as he would be fair what would you  rather do car or carriage obviously carried  

i feel really bad for like you know have chris  running from seven o'clock in the morning so i've  

got some prison for him and here they are ice  creams so this is white chocolate ice cream and  

there's a bay leaves in it and here's you know  chris is half alcoholic anyway so he'll love  

this and there's a corn ice cream which actually  this is my favorite and these are actually best  

ice cream shops in tokyo area tokyo station  area and uh here they are christmas love it  

so here he comes there you go wow look at this  i'll give you this one it's got bailey's in it  

bailey's yeah bailey's that that bailey's  all right it could work so is this actually  

alcoholic it is actually what happens actually  you know he said no under 20. no under 20s

oh what have you got what the hell was that  oh that was nice why would you get corn ice  

cream when you're gonna bail these ice  cream what's wrong with it looks good

so they've stuck these statues all around  tokyo station here's the rugby world cup coming  

in a few months i suppose that's  exactly what people want to see

as amazing as bailey's ice cream is  unfortunately it's no substitute for  

a real lunch and for that we head to  sapporo tarzan the sushi restaurant  

specializing in fresh fish from hokkaido  how fresh is it though well they quite  

literally flew it into tokyo from sapporo this  morning it doesn't get much fresher than that

nice

wow look at that look at this  beautiful it's a masterpiece  

so obviously if you're coming around tokyo station  there's probably more restaurants around the tokyo  

station area than just about anywhere else in the  world true especially even japan has got i think  

tokyo's got more restaurants than any city in the  world given the density of this area you pretty  

much would love to spoil it for choice i think  one of my biggest criticisms of people coming  

to japan is they always go to the conveyor  belt sushi right and they do that they tick  

sushi off their list and it's job done that is  not real sushi i can assure you the fish here is  

so fresh it was literally flown in my plane this  morning caught at like 5 a.m shipped to sapporo  

flown to tokyo and just arrived brought right now  no wonder this is this was so good it's chris what  

happened to your hair mine what happened to my  hair it's like everywhere it's taking off this  

part this part is explained unbelievable he's  made fun of my way the cameraman told me that  

uh you referred to me as an alcoholic area and  now my hair i was looking through some comments  

on a previous video with ryotaro and everyone was  like oh leave off to her alone you're such a bully  

to him he's the real bully he's getting away with  murder hillary and nobody's calling him out on it  

i'm just saying why is it always me i'm the bad  guy he's the bad guy look at him he looks like a  

low-class bomb villain we're having fantastic  sushi here with a destroyed hair like what  

fantastic sushi with a destroyed hair yeah exactly  this is the fashion this is the fashion of london  

i didn't know that never seen  that in london in london recently

so in a couple of weeks i'm going back home to the  uk for the first time in about a year whenever i  

go home my friends and family always hate me  because i never have any souvenirs or gifts  

because i assume i just don't have time i usually  run through narrative airport i don't have time  

so this time i want to do it right i want  to actually get them something good so they  

appreciate having me as a as a friend  and family member so i'm going to hand  

over to you i want three to four things in  this shot i'm happy that you trust on me  

but let's see what you come up  with three to four things i i know  

definitely this is gonna be the first one let's go  to sabah this shoe it should be in sake japanese  

socket right and saba means mackerel right so i  mean you need to drink this when you are eating  

macro and that's the only occasion you  have to drink it seems awfully specific  

um i don't know how many times my friend and  family think yes what about you let's have  

some mackerel feels a little bit too elaborate so  interesting good if you're having mackerel but no  

next thing look at this what is it this is dumb  uh this is a cream cheese right but with miso this  

is my favorite actually cream cheese ever in my  life the whole cream cheese tastes like miso a bit  

mix of flavor that's going in the no pile haven't  you got something that's a bit more just japanese  

not cream cheese miso not mackerel sake actually  something okay let me okay let me introduce this  

one all right all right this one okay would you  like a cup of tea that's the word all the british  

people use you know when you're actually going  to someone's house exactly what we say exactly  

is a cup of tea anyway so um uh look at this it's  a it's a teapot so you put some you know tea grass  

in here yeah tea leaf tea grass yeah in there  and uh you just put hot water in and wait for  

a few minutes that's it it's really i'm pleased to  announce you finally found something real thorough  

that actually would go on my list so yes yes yes  all right you're on thin ice ryotaro this is your  

last chance there you go guess what this is box of  wood no it's not like you do when you drink sake  

and then japanese people often drink with this one  right it's a square wooden uh actually sake so you  

put the sake in it yep and drink it and this  is for me but for you this is it whoa this is  

wrestlers and the whistlers or like these are for  the people with billy's that is a hefty size yes  

all right done yeah tell them okay  this is for you cheers i'm not buying

though

so people always ask me for hidden spots  places that people don't know about uh  

in tokyo this is one of them this is why i always  come for a drink because i do good craft beer and  

you can sit outside which is quite rare in japan  yeah it is quite for some reason sitting outside  

hasn't really been invented in japan yet but  this is called pub cardinal madanochi it's a  

three minute walk just three minutes from tokyo  station hidden a few blocks away i'm impressed  

because ryotaro doesn't drink alcohol but he's  actually drinking beer that's not non-alcoholic  

beer that's real beer but i've got an american  belgian style pale ale made in the world yeah but  

craft beer's becoming big in japan recently it's  taken a while to get here i think japan's lagged  

behind europe in america on this one but they're  finally caught up and it's finally kicking off  

so it's an exciting time to be here in japan  since when did you start drinking beer today now  

some people may be tired of japanese food after  traveling you know from osaka kyoto hiroshima all  

these places then come back to tokyo before flying  away back to wherever you're from um i guess you  

know this kind of place with a western food a beer  and it might be a it helps her western food yeah  

so i don't really know my way around tokyo station  that well but what i do know is i always seem to  

stumble across this little garden this is the  mitsubishi museum garden square i never know  

how i get here i just tend to be lost amongst  the skyscrapers and the hustle and bustle of  

tokyo then i stumble across it and it is honestly  like some sort of oasis in the middle of the city  

tokyo can often feel like a concrete  jungle which makes finding parks and  

gardens feel like stumbling across some sort  of hidden treasure the mitsubishi ichigo car  

museum courtyard is nestled off of one  of mananochi's busiest shopping streets  

it's here you can find restaurants coffee shops  bakeries and more importantly and above all beer  

peace and choir definitely worth a visit if  you find yourself in the madden orchard area  

really nice place to sit relax and  escape the trafficking chaos of tokyo

like lunch like kaisen the seafood bowl for  lunch and fugu for dinner how luxury we are  

how luxury we are yeah how lucky we  are another t-shirt design right there  

after a long day rioto and i decided to take  advantage of madanochi's towering skyscrapers  

to enjoy our dinner of fugu blowfish fugu  is a delicate fish requiring preparation by  

highly skilled chefs and with over 100 years  of experience you're in good hands at utsugi  

yamadaya the restaurant has its origins in  oita prefecture in kyushu which is one of  

the homes of blowfish in japan ryotaro and  i recently took a trip to nearby yamaguchi  

prefecture to try the dish first hand but if  you can't get down to south japan or you're  

looking to try the dish in tokyo usuki  yamadaya know how to do the delicious  

dish justice whether it's served up as raw  sashimi and presented like a work of art  

crystally battered and tempura or boiled in  a hot pot you're pretty spoiled for choice  

so um we got like deep fried deer fried fugu and  the sashimi fugu and we are actually waiting for  

the hot pot fugu so figure itself is relatively  flavourless it's more about the texture it's kind  

of got this kind of chewy texture to it it all  comes to a head once it's dipped into the soy  

sauce vinegar ponzu uh that is what unlocks its  brilliance because it's just loads of nice vinegar

i kind of see figures a bit of an art  form the way it's prepared the way it's  

sliced up and presented one thing i  haven't tried though is the parryage buggy

wow nice crispy carriage what do you think  compared to if you're not into raw fish  

get it battered it's like they like fish and  chips actually it's your favorite it's my  

favorite because i'm from the uk it's all we eat  isn't it that's the only thing you've got now good

walking through the streets of the tokyo station  area at first may seem like there's an absence  

of restaurants and bars however you'll  quickly discover they're all concealed away  

in the towers surrounding the area perhaps  the trendiest of them all was the building  

immediately in front of the station the towering  shinmaru building which at 197 metres is one  

of the tallest buildings in marunochi whether  you're looking to grab a meal a drink or a good  

view from the expansive terrace on the seventh  floor it's an excellent place to watch the sun  

go down over the city and the station's skyline  again isn't this luxury to have a piece of pizza  

look at that yeah put that view behind me  it's good but maybe just just cut the pizza  

pizza a special job special job for a special boy  i must admit what i've learned today is all the  

best bits of uh the tokyo station area are hidden  away in these skyscrapers surrounding the station  

each skyscraper is like its own city but i  understand you've got one last trick up your  

sleeve one last place on our list today what  is it the ultimate dating spot and success  

100 guaranteed i think that's the most  awkward sentence i've heard you say all week

so there you have it guys our list of things to  do around the tokyo station area hopefully the  

next time you find yourself around here you'll  have some ideas on things to do eat up drink