Thanks for joining us on this adventure! Tokyo is a great place to live if you have any special interests or hobbies. You can always seem to find an entire store dedicated to the thing you love! What's your hobby that you would love to find a store dedicated to?
Japan is paradise on earth. We are planning our 7th trip there. Japan is a magical country that makes you feel as if you are under the spell of kindness! There is little worry about children walking alone. Even adults are safe as long as they follow the rules. The food is delicious, the people are friendly, the cities are clean, there are many places to play, and transportation is convenient. Is there any other country like this? Thank you for all the fun videos! I love Japan.
I’m from Tokyo and by watching your videos make me realize how good to live here! Please visit Kamakura （Kanagawa prefecture）where you can enjoy traditional old temples, shrines, and by-the-ocean atmosphere!
Wow ! Getting from Nishi-Shinjuku to Ochanomizu is tough ! You can get anywhere in Tokyo by train and subway, but you also need to walk a lot. It's a great way to exercise your legs and feet !!
You are not there anymore but you should have gone to a nomihodai and tabehodai places, all you can eat and drink places. Most are $30 per person and kids are free or a reduced price.
Fun facts from Japan🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 When I was a student, I was a member of the Literature Club for six years from junior high school to high school and the Manga Club for four years at university, and Copics were a necessity for everyone. We always had pens in all 358 colours in the club room, and we would draw pictures and create illustrations for our own novels while eating sweets and talking about our favourite manga, anime and novel books. Even now, I enjoy chatting with my classmates from those days at karaoke and cafés, but when 8-9 of us get together, we each bring our own Copics, books on 'how to draw manga', 'how to draw scenery', 'how to draw furniture, stationery and clothes', 'good books for historical reference', 'encyclopaedias on clothing' and 'encyclopaedias on folk culture' to illustrate. Drawing and novel-writing began in the same way as when they were students. In fact, I was asked by a foreign student in high school, "Copic? That's amazing, you have so many kinds of pens." The whole class was like, "What's that? Copic is a very common pen in Japan, isn't it? If they ask questions like this, is it possible that Copics are not so well known overseas? I had somehow thought that because it was such a useful pen, it would have long since made its way overseas. I'm a bit shocked. I never thought I'd be asked, 'What's a Copic? I never thought the day would come when people would ask me what a Copic is." Copic is one of the most famous colour pens used on a daily basis. In Japan, it is customary for parents to provide their children with a 12-colour set of paints and coloured pencils and a 16-colour set of crayons when they enter nursery school or kindergarten, or when they enter primary schools. Furthermore, origami and drawing paper sets are usually 50-colour sets or sets of 100 or more colours. What most Japanese parents want for their children is to "When you look at nature in Japan and around the world, you can see that this world is very I want my child to know that this world is filled with a great variety of colours. I hope that from a young age they can learn the names of a wide variety of colours. To come into contact with colours and learn the names of colours is the same as observing nature, loving the natural landscape and caring for the earth, sky, mountains, sea, trees and flowers. In this way, accumulating knowledge and developing sensitivity leads to the development of a compassionate heart and a thoughtful mind. That is a wonderful thing." In a society where the idea that "it's wonderful" is so strong, it is common to see houses with 24- or 72-colour sets as a home drawing set from time to time. In this way, the Japanese love of stationery, a craftsman-like disposition to design furniture and buildings, a thirst for knowledge and a sensitivity to colour are nurtured from a young age, perhaps even as a newborn wrapped in a swaddling cloth, based on memories of drawing and arts and crafts activities spent with parents and friends. This is not limited to design, but Japanese parents often encourage their children to read and study for the same reason.
Thanks for taking the time to share this with us. it's so amazing to learn about things like this. Lily is loving her pens and having so much fun learning her craft. Copic is definitely becoming more well known in our home country they are just very expensive at home, nearly double the price they are in Japan.
Thank you for sharing your adventures! I am a Copic Marker user and plan on purchasing many markers when I an in Japan in October, since they are so much less expensive than in the US. I have never had a few hundred dollar purchase to bring back to the US and I am wondering if you had trouble getting the markers home. Were they tax free? I appreciate it :)
Yay! So much fun! You can bring up to $800 worth of stuff back tax free. Also if you make a larger single purchase in a lot of places will give you the paper work for a tax rerun in Japan. With this you just take the form, your receipt, and a your passport to a tax refund shop and they give you a refund of your tax. I think it’s 10%. We’ve never done this though as we always buy markers in just a few at a time.
@@adamandlinds Thank you for the advice you gave me above about purchasing copics in Japan. I bought some after your inspiring video when we traveled there October 2023. Thank you for sharing a piece of your life... :)
Thanks for the recommendation! We haven't been to SEKAIDO in Shinjuku yet, but we'll definitely check out your video to get a taste of the experience. We appreciate you sharing the link with us!
