because norm wanted to come out here to the middle  of nowhere in the countryside to experience some  

snow because it's pretty rare down in southern  japan you don't see snow very much in tokyo  

but up here in the north we get it every day for  months in the winter we're going to go on a little  

snowy adventure today i've brought us out to  hidayzumi which is a very historically important  

area of iwate and there was lots of power here so  because the city is so important it's been really  

well preserved and it's just beautiful it's quite  a small area but it's gorgeous so i hope you guys  

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a temple it's not a shrine flashback right now  we're looking up this is a buddhist temple but  

there's a shrine gate right there a tory gate  and we're trying to figure out why this guy is

had no idea just learned something new  yeah that's really awesome and a flashback

we are here what do you think i was  trying to catch snowflakes with my tongue  

i am norm's way too excited we get snow maybe once  a year in tokyo and this year we kind of didn't  

it was yeah we understated and at night and  this is beautiful it is very nice i have to  

say it has been snowing non-stop for months  up here in iwate but this is really beautiful  

the temples look extra pretty in  the snow i'm not gonna lie so i'm  

happy i could bring you guys out here and  show it to you but this is takokuno iwaya  

it's a very cool buddhist temple that's built  into the side of a cliff how awesome is that  

there's a really nice lake here uh i was last  here in the summer pond small lake ocean here  

there's usually fish in here i hope they're not  in here anymore that would be very sad do they  

hibernate under the water i have always wondered  what happens to all the koi that are out in these  

ponds do they like in the winter scoop them out i  really hope so is there a koi scoop are they just  

frozen in time until it melts maybe on the way  out i can ask the guy that too that's a good idea  

the guy was really nice yeah this is so cool and  nobody else is here we've got it all to ourselves  

probably one of my favorite things about coming  up to northern japan is that you can come out  

to places like this and there's almost always no  one it's so true even in the summer when it was  

like really nice weather there was nobody here  uh do you want to go inside i do okay let's go

to be happy there's no hornets when i came here  in the summer this is where they attacked me

pretty nice eh i'm just excited about the snow  more than it's actually a really nice contrast  

of you got the open field got the houses  here the forest the mountain this probably  

changes a lot season by season it does it's  so pretty in the fall with the golden rice  

fields that looks like it's probably a sakura  tree definitely is we should come back in the

spring

pretty cool eh it is where do you want to go next  are you hungry this town is actually famous for  

mochi do you like kochi mochi's fantastic and they  have this style of serving it that i've never seen  

anywhere else in japan but okay yeah i'll just say  that leave it as a surprise but i hope you like it

okay that's pretty cool they're alive they're  alive and they dig their way into the dirt  

they're just waiting there learning new things  every day this is michi noeki gambike i think  

is the name of it it's just a little roadside  station but they do serve the special emoji  

so hopefully norm likes it it'll be an experience  oh great either way i feel like there's a bait  

and switch kind of thing going on here look  i got this great mochi it'll be an experience

so you order from this machine here  

okay this is what you want i think can't  read the kanji but i'm pretty sure this is it

okay ten dollars

and then you take your ticket and  you give it to them at the counter  

this is where really there were wasps in  here what is with you and what they like  

me i don't know what it is i don't know i'm  starting to wonder if there are actually wasps  

imagining this you're just like  imagining these non-existent

walks  

wow it's different flavors than last time  it actually looks really good honestly  

okay so last time i got it there was a natto one i  was like are you kidding me really but this time i  

don't see enough though i think sharla has this  like really malicious plan that she was gonna  

have me eat like natto mochi and like this  is the only bad one though there were more  

so last time we came here there was a natto one  there was a shrimp one it was all over the place  

but this time it actually looks really good  so i think you might like it which is good  

most of them look very sweet this is zunda which  is soy bean but it's usually sweet this is red  

bean paste also sweet black sesame which should  be delicious daikon we've got she packet deep  

fried tofu pocket this one looks like some kind  of citrus peanut and this one might be chicken  

i don't know but let's dig in enjoy coming  in here there was this atmosphere of like i'm  

gonna get you with this mochi i'm gonna get  you and i feel like we ended up with really  

good mochi and charlotte's playing his backfire  no i'm very happy that it's good flavors this  

time i recommend starting with the savory  ones and working your way to the sweet ones  

got a whole plan what this oh this is what what  it's just dying but it's not even watching oh  

the confusion did they for the [ __ ] you should  dig into mine i thought they like forgot to put  

the mochi in mine because last time it was like  three mochi on each row this one's my favorite  

so it's an inari tofu pocket with mochi  inside it's delicious and where should i start  

it's nice right it's all really good i'm back try  the shitake i really liked that one last time i  

thought it was kind of unique but i thought it was  really good kind of tang to it does it it's got a  

tang almost like a shiso kind of does it yeah i  swear they just change up the flavors like daily  

whatever they feel like they're like i'm gonna  throw some shiso in here today it's fun though  

you don't know what to expect no really good i'm  really intrigued by this orange one i'm not a  

fan of yuzu i really hope it's not yuzu it kind  of looks like marmalade though it's very orange

wait it does  

why does it smell like pumpkin is it pumpkin  what i was expecting a really strong orange smell

squash it's very sweet  

it has a very subtle sweet flavor  

you know what i said peanut for this one but  i think it might be chestnut hmm it's almond  

oh my god that is delicious did you like the  almond one i loved it holy crap that is so  

good i'm so happy that there's so many different  flavors that i didn't try last time thoughts  

on the mochi volunteer was good positive didn't  expect to walk out experience it's very filling  

because they give you like nine different well  i guess eight they kind of skimped out this time  

with that little patch of daikon that was weird  but ate mochi you get really full off of them  

wow really sweet it's really snowing are you sick  do you understand my pain every day this is what  

i deal with every day it is really pretty though  i think we need like a slow motion norman join me

okay let's go so what are your thoughts on north  japan did you have a nice trip i had an amazing  

trip would you recommend that people come up here  in the winter absolutely i would look at this  

it is nice the snow is very powdery i've noticed  like i said we've had three straight months of it  

and it's been really nice snow the whole time like  it hasn't been slushy it's been these really soft  

flakes that are really nice to walk on once it  piles up so also the roads are clear yeah they  

don't salt the roads here but they do a really  nice job of clearing them off they're used to it  

it snows so much up here that they're prepared for  it so it's not too bad to drive in the winter for  

the most part sapporo have heated sidewalks yeah  they do they'll have like the hot water running  

under the road i guess and it melts all the snow  it's quite impressive but i hope you guys enjoyed  

our little snowy adventure again check out the  links in the description box if you would like  

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