Wait a minute, did I just watch little Noa food testing at Tokyo fish market? I can't, I just can't... 😊 Cuteness overload. Time really is running fast! It feels like yesterday when we were watching her homebirth. Glad, nothing happened during the earthquake. Stay safe and have a good time exploring Japan. Sending much ❤ from 🇩🇪.
Right?? We feel the exact same way! Like shouldn’t she just be like 3 months old or something? Time is a thief!! 🥹 watching our girls grow up is such a privilege though! We are happy you enjoyed Noa’s foodie scene as much as we did 😋😍
I really enjoyed all of your videos from Germany. You had such a beautiful house and your daughter had a lovely school. I hope you can find the perfect home in Japan and some favorite food as well. It looks like a huge adjustment. I know you are up for the challenge! Best wishes and good vibes to you and your sweet family. ❤
I've heard that those small earthquakes are pretty frequent in Japan. Which makes it more apparent that one lives in an earthquake area - but people also get used to them very quick and that's why everybody was so chill about it. It's like small plane turbulences. Just part of living in Japan. P.S. I had to chuckle when Tanner told Willa that Tokiyo is a busy city and she asked why? So cute. 😁 And Noa equally cute growing big so fast. 😳
Noah is following in her sister's footsteps trying all the food. Those girls are amazing ❤ ! Tokyo is a little too big for this country gal. It is amazing to see, but too many people... WOW!! Willa is so fun to watch grow and experience life in so many ways. Thanks for sharing, otherwise I don't think I would get to see so much! Hugs from Texas!
What an adventure you had in Tokyo San! Yes, I'm afraid that since Japan sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, earthquakes are somewhat a matter of course (usually) in the Land of the Rising Sun but, thankfully, it was a relatively light one that you all endured on the train. More importantly, it was great that you two didn't panic so that neither of your daughters would get needlessly upset which I think most Japanese citizens strive to do in these cases. But then again, I haven't forgotten how calm you two stayed during your home birth so your reactions to the minor earthquake weren't unexpected! Amazing seeing that very busy crosswalk, as well as the view from the top of the tower of the whole Kanto Plain during the sunset! BTW, the Imperial Palace is OPEN February 23rd [yes, this coming Friday]for the Emperor's Birthday so you might consider whether you might think it worth it to join the crowds getting to enjoy one of the few green spaces in Tokyo San if not getting to see the Emperor give his greetings! Also, good to know that they've got HOT drink tenders along with the cool ones and iced ones (and that hot chocolate sounds like it would have hit the spot)! I'm sorry I didn't comment on the Tokyo Disneyland one but, since I'm single and have no minor children, it would be a bit awkward to go there on my own. However, I thought it was interesting to see how vintage most if not all the rides and displays were. I wonder how often the Japanese citizenry view those vintage movies? Also, I thought it was interesting that most of the signs there were in English but the songs, announcements,etc. had been translated into Japanese! Thanks so much for this and I hope that you don't have to worry about too many more tremors -to say nothing about any major earthquakes or tsunamis during your time there!
Very interesting again 😊. Well that modern art stuff wouldn' t be mine too. Your baby ist starting to walk. So cute. And the food ist always great to watch. Say Willa greetings from Germany.
Beautiful stunning views of the City 😮😍 the lights at night ❤❤ Scary feeling an earthquake ( had it once at home in scotland my bed shook there was some smaller damage to buildings in town . Have a Good weekend 🥰
The vista from Shibuya was impressive. It is interesting to cities from the air or a high place and see how they have developed over time. (A long time ago, I went up to the top of the Sears (not Willis) Tower in Chicago at night and it was really cool to see how the City was arrayed in a grid pattern out to the horizon) Also at this point do we take odds on who is going to be the bigger scene stealer in your videos: Willa or Noa? :)
Hi there, many thanks for your video of Metropolis. Yes, always nice to watch a city when the lights go on and it must be so exciting and mindblowing to do in such a mega city. Great and exciting to see your little one enjoys walking on her own feet. Hopefully Willa can keep such adventure in her mind. Seems at least the word Germany isnt dropped of her mind yet. Btw, not sure about the area where you live but as far as I know the city of Wllington in NZ is shaking all day long. Enjoy the different world. CU
Thank you! Germany has definitely not left any of our minds! She says she wants to move back there after our time in Japan! 😊 And Noa is walking so fast now it’s crazy!!
It was like the baby was a food blogger - she commented on the food in her own language and then tasted it. If she eats eel at that age, she'll be eating foods I'm afraid of as an adult.
Yes it was a weird feeling to know it had happened but we didn’t feel it & we were headed closer to Tokyo! 🤣 We loved the scene of Noa trying the food!
I met 2 people on seperate days I knew from Vancouver there in the masses of people. Can you believe?? I love Shibuya!!! Please go to Yoyogi-Park and Harajuko next to it.
So happy, seeing you guys experiencing Tokyo. So many things to see and to explore... And lovely to see Noah doing her kind of insecure but cute little steps! Wishing you all the best. Take care and enjoy. Love! Yours Anna ❤
My first earthquake felt like i was dizzy after standing up too fast except i didn't move, it was a really weird sensation. 😂 Also I could see the facade of the building across the street move in the opposite direction. It only lasted for a second so i stood in my hotel room, questioning my sanity. The japanese didn't even register it and my friend had to look at her app to confirm anything had happened. While on a train I'd wager you wouldn't notice it at all at these magnitudes.
That would be such an interesting experience!! We didn’t feel it on the train, but we can imagine our experience to be similar to yours when we feel the next one!
By the way, in Tsukiji there is a big international hospital where they speak english. I had a great doctor there. Not far from the fish-market. Best time at the fish-market to visit is maybe 4:00 in the morning. Then you can also try very fresh sushi in one of the little shops around there. ooohhh I envy you!!!!!!!!
When I visited Tokyo I felt like in a concrete maze. Being from a large German city, Hamburg, I have no problems with an urban environment. But the lack of nature and "views" was kind of sobering. The only place with some of that was the palace park. So I was not impressed. How do you feel? Kyoto and other cities I visited were different. No wonder the Japanese love Nara. Of you ever visit Kyoto take the trip to Arashiyama and the boat ride down the river back to Kyoto. A very scenic and comfotable excursion. I took the train to the embarkation point.
My first earthquake (Ive been in a few) was in 1983 in Yokosuka. I was out late for dinner walking down a street with the shops closed. The store covering shutters began to shake - my first reaction was that wind was blowing hard. I quickly realized there was no wind. No injuries reported, only minor damage with items falling of shelves.
I lived in Tokyo for 10 weeks and we had like 6 little earthquakes during that time. I'm the kind of person who actually enjoys earthquakes when its only small ones. I know it doesn't make sense but while I was in Japan no one got injured during thoose earthquakes
Hahaha....this is how I reacted when I experienced my first earthquake. At my apartment everything was shaking for 30 secs. My japanese visitor did not care at all while I was panicing
8:30 Beautiful watching Noa bite into the fried eel with such enthusiasm. She must be the only 1-year-old in the world, apart from Japan, to experience so many new tastes already. I have never tasted eel, though it used to be eaten a lot in England.
@@OurStorytoTell Where I live in the flat Fens of eastern England a lot of land was drained by Dutch water engineers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The whole area was marsh and for a lot of the year the water was several feet deep allowing eels to colonise the marsh land for miles around. Eels are of course highly nutritious and were a great source of food for the local population. A delicacy throughout Victorian London was jellied eels, still eaten today, which look absolutely disgusting. Noa is so young she just bites in, not knowing what she's eating, though by the look of it she really enjoyed the taste. Myself, I would have had to be bribed to try it!
How is that for you? Moving from the quiet rural area of Grafenwöhr to Tokyo with all its people, lights and sounds? Living near Pottenstein myself I can imagine it might be quite exhausting (even without two toddlers and the early settling phase) ?
As a lifelong Californian whose been through a 6.9 quake, a 4.8 isn't that bad (at least in places prepared for quakes), but it still would get my heart to race a bit!
Ihr müsst mal mit dem Hello Kitty Zug fahren )) Die kleine sieht wie Mama aus. Die große ist Papa )) so schön immer zu sehen, wie sie aufwachsen und geht so schnell. Die kleine hat schon so viele Zähne. Da bei denkt man, ist doch gerade erst geboren
Yes we really want to try that train! The girls would love it! 😊 Fun to hear your perspective on who you think Noa looks like! Noa’s teeth came in so early!
Yes such a big contrast!! We are proud of our family for adjusting so well. We can’t say we don’t miss our little German village though too 🫶 We always will I think to some degree!
A sea of concrete, wow. Not my thing at all, but it's interesting to see. So great that Noa also gets to try out yummy foods. When she was born she was a stamp of Papa, but now she is definitely a stamp of her mama, and she's on the move on her little legs, no going back now😅
When i was a kid i experienced an earthquake 7.4 Richter scale strong, scary stuff, you really have no idea what to do but wait and hope for the best..
Wow that would be so scary! We hope we don’t have to experience that. When we lived in Utah we experienced a 5.7 earthquake and it was quite scary too! Willa was a little baby and I (Risa) was just home with her alone. Kind of scary to not have Tanner close by in case a large aftershock happened!
I went to California (first time 1980 when St. Helens was active) and to Tokio. But the only earthquakes I encountered in my life where at home in Bonn. And while on a year long stay in the USA another serious (for European proportions) earthquake happened in Begium which did some damage to buildings in Bonn about 93km (58mi) away. Later I actually worked in one of the buildings where you could still see where the quake had made an impression.
That’s really cool you’ve traveled to both of those places! We visited the Mount St Helen’s site/museum when we lived in Auburn WA and it was so interesting! Thanks for sharing some of your experience! Crazy to hear it was in Bonn where you experienced your only earthquake! We experienced a larger one in Utah when Willa was just a baby and we remember seeing some of the damage done on buildings too!
@@OurStorytoTell In the recent time I visit the Tacoma area quite often. But I still want to see some of the features St. Andreas gifted California with. I have been to Mount St. Helens only years after the event. So the fault lines are still on the bucket list.
@@OurStorytoTell I never really lived there. I was there for business purposes about 9 weeks long in 2010 in Osaka. The other three visits were touristic and lasted three weeks each. The last one was in September last year. (I am more linked to Korea now, because the girlfriend of my son is Korean :-) ) But there are plans to visit Japan one week in Autumn next year when I visit the family of my sons girlfriend. From Pusan it is a short flight to Japan.
Getting used to Keikyu railway so quickly? Keikyu (and Toei and Keio [together running for ex the airport express from Haneda to Narita]) are running on 1435 mm normal gauge while JR lines (except Shinkansen) and others like Seibu, Tobu (to Skytree) or Odakyu are running on 1067 mm narrow gauge. Japan is the country with the largest narrow gauge railway system worldwide. Stopping automatically when earthquakes occur is normal, at least at the bigger railways and cannot even be interfered by the driver.
Thanks for sharing the info! So interesting to hear that is quite normal for the trains to stop. We assumed but haven’t experienced it before or after this time. We are getting more comfortable with the Keikyu line! We really like it and are happy it goes to Yokosuka where we live! 😊
The state railways are narrow gauge. Except for the Shinkansen lines which were built separately as its own network and run on standard gauge. The private companies run on standard gauge for the majority.
Why is it illegal to eat whales? The United States killed many whales just to use only whale fat! The United States threatened to open a port in Japan to catch whales. Esski is also eating whales! In Korea, which opposes whaling, more than 2,000 whales are captured a year.
Good vlog. You are amazingly brave people travelling with two little pumpkins like that! I'm going to Japan in May and I'm interested in what app you were using to get the earthquake notification? Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching and the kind comment! We use the NERV app! Once we were given a 10 sec notice about a small earthquake and we loved that feature too!
keep in mind that if you have videoflickering in footages that might be due to a wrong HZ setting. In Germany/Europe its for instance 50hz while in the US its 60hz. In Japan, the Eastern part (Tokyo included) is due to the infrastructure built/influenced by German standards/companies back then 50hz - while in the Western half its 60hz ...
this mass of buildings is really overwhelming. I am torn if this is something for me or not. Earthquake ? So you didn't feel it maybe because you were riding on the train. I think it's not gonna be the last one... omg. Still amazed by the difference of signes, sights, visuals that show how different the culture is... usually very different cultures come along with actually not so wealthy countries. But South Korea and Japan are definitely first world so it's exciting to see how different a culture on a similiar economical level is dealing with daily lifes and what we really could adapt over here.... PS. I hail from Bonn and this aerea is not known for earthquakes, but we had one significant one in spring of 1992. And i experienced it full time because i was at home 3,40 am in the night and working on my final project for university on my pc and a friend helped me, cause on that day it was the deadline for it. I sat in front of pc and at one point i thought, oh my, i start trembling my nervs are weak... i need some rest and as i turn around to her... i see her eyes wide open and her jaw dropped and in this very moment it really started to shake... and she very calmly said "oh an Earthquake" and then we ran... OMG... nothing happened in or to our house but it depended on how your bookshelfs were standing if all the things flew out of them or were just shaken in it from left to right...there are some cracks in the walls now and there some damages on churches and old building in the city.. yep. Never though i could experience an Earthquake at home in Bonn. Everyone was awake and on the street...so I got my share of Earthquake in Germany, which was actually pretty exciting... at least for me, i didn't freak or anything and the next was a minor second earthquake.. ah yes. ok.... but for you: thank god it's Japan and they are pros with Earthquakes... not like Turkey or other places where they're might not using the best and newest technology. Stay safe :-))
I just found you guys and thank you for sharing this time with you. It’s amazing but what do you do for work? Are you military? Thank you for sharing your family. Love from canada
Hi! 👋 so happy to see you here! What part of Canada are you from? We’ve been to Vancouver area and loved it! Tanner works for the US gov as a civilian at the Navy base right now.
So happy you’re interesting in seeing more! We will be coming out with more house videos soon, but it has taken longer than we hoped because we thought we found our house, but then found a different one last minute!🤣
We need to look into those accounts! I think they opened up a similar teamLab somewhere else in Tokyo! If you make your way over here, maybe you could visit both? 😊
Oh my goodness!! Do you really live in one of our favorite places in the world?? 😍🇨🇭 We should name Willa’s “a la la all that cloud” song the Wengen song. It’s our favorite 😂 and the perfect tune to stay calm too while an earthquake is happening 🤣
Whaling is legal in Japan and surprisingly - or not?- Alaska and Washington allow Native Americans to do it but on a very limited basis. I was surpised to see shark fin soup in a German Chinese restaurant - how is that still happening?
Yeah we have wondered this too! We’ve noticed that most walk on the left (especially on escalators people wait on the left), but we do see some walk on the right!
Hallo ihr 4 Very nice to see you and know that you are doing well. You have to be aware that Japan is struggling with earthquakes when you move to Japan. I still have the images in my head of when the tsunami hit Japan in 2011 and the violence with which there was nothing to counteract it.
Yes we knew it was going to be a part of our lives living in Japan, but still surreal to experience the first one! Thankfully it was nothing compared to the one you mentioned! We hope we don’t have to live though a tsunami!
It is definitely forbidden to offer whale meat for sale and consumption. Japan has been flouting the global whaling ban for years by authorizing small catches for supposedly "scientific purposes." But this meat is not actually allowed to be sold to the public.
Ahh so interesting! Some say it is legal and some say it is illegal! All we know is we were surprised it was being sold to the public; especially in such a popular place!
@@OurStorytoTell Commercial whaling was banned by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. However, Japan, Norway and Iceland continue to hunt fin whales, minke whales and sei whales. Whaling countries believe they have the right to do so.
Oh yeah!🚽🚿🔥🧻🧽🎶i forgot, they are looking more fancy then 12 yrs ago! I just started pushing the buttons and ooh, aaw, laughed so hard😂. I could stay in the 🚾🚻 for hours 🤭 do a demo 🪄rated G or for everyone just explaining the options. With 🩳👕🥽on!👍 Oh yeah,Germans will be so jealous not to mention Italians , where you can still find holes inthe floor, maybe there too? 🇺🇲in🇩🇪
