Name: Sake Tasting & the Biggest Rice Ball in Japan // Cocolo Yuzawa, Niigata
Uploaded: 2022-04-13T02:00:10.000Z
Duration: 15 min 7 s

I highly recommend this because it's as big as my face.

これ本当にオススメ！私の顔くらいの大きさ！

Mhm I feel like no matter how long I live in Japan, I will never be able to see and do everything.

今でも日本の全てを見たり体験したりしきれてないって感じます

やってみたいことはまだたくさんあって

One thing I always wanted to do was go sake tasting and learn about the art of sake.

日本酒のテイスティングをして 日本酒というアートを深く知ること

It's because making sake has so much hard work put into it and each step takes either weeks or years to complete.

そう、私にとって日本酒はアート

Today I'm in Echigo yuzawa to explore kokoro Yuzawa Gangjee Dori Street located in the station building and discover some amazing hotspots for tourists who would like to go a little out of their way to explore deep Japan.

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel, your virtual ticket to Japan.

So today I'm in Echigo yuzawa and we're going to explore this place.

それぞれの工程に何週間、 時には何年もの時間を要するから

We're going to see some sake breweries, we're going to try some food, lots of things.

So today, the first thing that we're going to do is go to coca cola used yellow which behind me is the shopping center so you can get sake, you can get, oh Miyagi which is um souvenirs.

If you want to bring that back home and they have lots of different things that you can try and eat.

周辺の素敵な観光スポットを巡ります

So we're going to go ahead and go shopping and explore a little bit.

So yeah, let's go Coco yuzawa Gangjee Dori Street is where you begin your adventure.

私のチャンネル、日本バーチャルツアーを また見に来てくれてありがとう

It's basically a shopping center full of delicious foods and popular gifts to take home.

日本酒造りや美味しい食べ物などを体験しますよ

You can buy tons of bottles of sake to drink or you can buy sake for your skin.

今日最初に体験するのは、私の後ろにあるCoCoLo湯沢

Yes, sake is very good for your skin and overall health.

日本酒やお土産が買えるショッピングモールです

So they sell a lot of beauty products that contain well sake.

日本の思い出になる食べ物などを持って帰れますよ

So I'm getting Sasa dango and sasa dango is just red bean paste inside.

それでは早速ショッピングに行ってみましょう！

越後湯沢に来ればまず訪れることなるCoCoLo湯沢・ がんぎどおりでは

So the plant is called sasa and then inside is the red bean paste.

たくさんの美味しい食べ物や人気の お土産品を見つけることができます

So you can get the chunky kind or you can get the smooth kind.

特にここは日本酒の品揃えが豊富

Sasa is a kind of bamboo leaf and django is a traditional japanese rice cake.

日本酒のスキンケア商品もあります

Thus, Sasa dango literally means rice cake inside a bamboo leaf.

日本酒は肌にも健康にも良いんですよ

The tradition of Sasa dango began in the Edo period when sasa leaves were commonly used as a way to preserve food.

ここには日本酒を原料にしたコスメが たくさん売られています

It took a while for me to open it, but once I did it revealed a green emoji like treat.

これから「笹だんご」を食べます

笹だんごにはあんこが入っています

この中には…この外側に巻いてあるのが 笹と呼ばれる植物です

Our next popular food item here at Coco yuzawa is in the far back of the station deep within Gangjee Dori Street Central Market past the drunk people statues to find it.

この中にあんこが入っています

粒あんとがこしあんがあって、

This is by far the largest spaghetti or rice ball you will ever find in Japan.

There are tons of different flavors to try but salmon is the number one most popular rice ball here.

笹は竹の葉のことで、だんごとはお米で作った日本の 伝統的なお菓子です

だから笹だんごは文字通り笹で包んだ お団子ということ

The rice ball was as big as my face and we'll fill you up fast.

笹だんごの起原は、８世紀に遡ります

もともと笹が食品の保存に使われていたそうです

You also get some miso soup to go with it.

笹をはがすと緑色の餅が現れます

Okay, so I just got the biggest rice ball in Japan.

中には美味しいあんこが入っています

So I got sake, which is basically uh, salmon.

CoCoLo湯沢で、次に試してみたい人気の食べ物は

駅の中をずっと進んで行った先の 雁木通りの中央市場にあります

Some people get confused with that, but it is a massive ball of salmon.

酔っ払いの人形が目印の市場です

So I highly recommend this because it's as big as my face.

ここには日本で一番大きい巨大な おにぎりがあるそうです

おにぎりの具の種類は数え切れないほどありますが、 一番人気は鮭

私も鮭おにぎりを試してみることにしました

ここのおにぎりの大きさは私の顔くらい

My lipsticks on it, but there's no salmon.

お腹いっぱいになること間違いなしなのでご注意を

おにぎりを注文するとお味噌汁がついて来ます

これが日本一大きなおにぎりです

Oh, it's so good for, so this is enough for your lunch.

You don't need anything else but this and they just like put tons of salmon inside and they lightly salted.

I'm probably gonna be really full after this.

これ本当にオススメ！私の顔くらいの大きさです！

でもどうしよ、食べられるかな？

今一口食べてみたけど…口紅ついててごめん…

There are 90 different brands of sake to try all from Niigata as well as some wines you can choose low or high alcohol percentage depending on how much you can handle.

So basically when you come to this place, you can get a small sake cup and five points to try some sake But it's 500 yen to get the cup and the coins.

お魚の具が真ん中に入ってます

So I'm really excited to try all of this.

Okay, so I just learned that basically not all of this is sake.

ランチはこれだけで十分ですね

You can also get wine or plum wine, which is in japan.

鮭がたっぷり入っていて、 お米は薄めの塩味がついています

So maybe we'll try like a couple of different varieties of things.

でも食べちゃう！いただきまーす

I just ate a big bonus to help you decide what to order.

おにぎりを食べた後は日本酒テイスティングが できるお店へ

You can check the chalkboard that tells you what the most recommended or popular sake is.

ここには９０種類の日本酒があって

Okay, so this, this one caught my eye because it has like a sort of mango aftertaste.

新潟産の日本酒やワインを テイスティングできるんです

アルコールの度数の低いものから高いものまであるので 自分のお酒の強さに合わせて選べます

So you just put your cup into the machine, you put the coin inside, push the button, I think, oh wow, So convenient and we can have a little taste of this.

まず日本酒を飲むためのお猪口と

So here we don't, don't really taste the mango, but it's very good.

It's very smooth and you can definitely feel the alcohol.

このコインを使ってお酒をもらいます

So it says on here, the alcohol percentage, the acidity, the sake meter value.

So if it's plus then it means it's not sweet.

それではお猪口もコインももらったので早速利き酒をしてみたいと思います

本当にたくさんの種類の日本酒があるから楽しみ！

And then it says if it's in stock or not.

ここには日本酒だけじゃなくてワインや 私の大好きな梅酒もあるそうです

これからいくつか試してみたいと思います

But this one is caught my eye because it said it has like an aftertaste of chocolate.

口紅が取れちゃっててごめんなさい

さっき大きなおにぎり食べたから（笑）

何を選ぶか迷ったら、黒板におすすめのお酒や

It says you have to wait a while and then you'll start to taste the chocolate.

人気のお酒が書かれているので 参考にするといいですよ

So I think you have to do that a lot with a lot of these, the flavors don't come until after you drink it.

後味がマンゴーの風味なんだそうです

じゃあこれを試してみましょう

Mm This one is much easier to drink than the other one waiting for the chocolate to happen.

使い方は、まずお猪口をマシーンの中に 置いてからコインを入れます

このボタンを押すのかな、多分

You can definitely taste a little hint of chocolate.

Okay, so I was saying that this is a lot of alcohol that I'm drinking today.

So if you can't finish it and you just want to taste a little sip of it, you can put the rest of it in this little container here like this.

正直マンゴーの味はそんなにしないけど、 喉越しが良くて美味しいです

And then when you're finished, you can return it over here.

しっかりアルコールを感じますね