Hey guys, it's that time of the month!
This month's Patreon live show will be on Sunday 27th at 23:00 (Japan time). For local times, see above!
We look back on an incredible month that's featured a crazy series of Journey Across Japan, filled with v...
2021-06-26 13:33:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Elton John.
The Beatles.
- Journey Across Japan.
In what has been a comically unbelievable week our rap song “Too Much Volcano!”, a song we wrote and shot in around 9 hours took the iTunes Charts by storm ...
2021-06-23 14:17:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Well guys IT'S OFFICIAL!
By popular request, we've been able to get our crazy song "Too Much Volcano!" on the iTunes store 😂
Anything we make from the song will go into the production budget for future episodes! 🌋
🎶 2021-06-18 12:56:10 +0000 UTC
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A.S.O
Too much volcano…
Don’t lie, you’ve had it stuck in your head just as I have.
- We’ve genuinely created a monster.
Well folks, the second episode of Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands is up and in this week’s episode we w...
Well guys Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands is officially here!
In the first insane episode we flew over Japan's most active volcano, threw Natsuki in a waterfall (and lost his beloved pants) and even saw a goat.
If that's not quality content, I don't know ...
Before I get into it, I just want to say hello and welcome to everyone who’s recently joined the Abroad in Patreon in the run up to Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands!
This community has been a big part of Abroad in Japan since 2016, and many great ideas...
Welcome to the weekend!
With Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands upon us next week and a huge, ominous 30 minute Abroad in Japan episode titled "12 Reasons Not to Move to Japan" out later this weekend, I'm looking forward to sitting down with you guys for our m...
What a weekend.
Half of it spent with Natsuki, half of it with Connor (CDawgVa). Albeit not together fortunately, that’d be a bit too much to handle.
LOTS of news this week folks.
2021-05-24 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Here it is folks!
The crazy trailer for Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands in all its glory.
Sit back and enjoy the mayhem.
JAJ: The Lost Islands | Official Trailer
🍿https...
GOOD NEWS! The official trailer for Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands is now finished and I'll be releasing it here on Patreon later this week! (And publicly later this month).
When we finished filming the series, Natsuki, Joey and I all a...
Before we dive into the final diary entry & photos for Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands, the Hokkaido road trip video is finally up on Abroad in Japan!
It’s actually the second longest video we've ever produced after Natsuki: The Movie, with a run time of 2...
I awoke in Amsterdam in the rain.
Then after a few moments I realised it wasn’t in fact Amsterdam, even though the weather was fairly accurate.
Huis Ten Bosch is a gigantic theme park one hour north of Nagasaki, though “theme park” doesn’t do it justice. It...
2021-04-30 02:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
So I'm finally back after a month spent on the road filming Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands. Somehow we survived the trip across abandoned islands and smouldering volcanoes, and I've certainly got a few stories to tell. 2021-04-28 13:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The key word today is horror.
- And horses.
Things got off to a pleasant enough start, as we awoke in Kurokawa springs, where Natsuki enjoyed a morning soak in the outdoor bath, having spent the previous day rapping on an active vol...
Having left the island of Yakushima behind we headed back to the mainland. With Natsuki’s pirate pants forever lost at sea, we drove inland to Kumamoto, to the base of Mount Aso - Japan’s largest volcano.
In search of accommodation, I’d remembered a crazy place f...
Before I get into the Diary for Day 2 of Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands, I just want to say thanks for all the birthday wishes!
I turned 31 yesterday and though I’m not remotely enthusiastic about ageing and continuing my journey into my 30s, I feel very luc...
Oh good god. I never knew you could do so much in one week.
Or destroy yourself physically in such a short space of time.
To call the shoot for Journey Across Japan 3 action-packed would be a complete and utter understatement, as yo...
2021-04-20 15:06:28 +0000 UTC View Post
What on earth were we thinking?!
You can hear what went down on our ludicrous first day of filming in Kagoshima in tomorrow’s Patreon diary.
Over the coming 10 days I’ll be keeping a daily journal on here, filled with photos and chroni...
2021-04-11 14:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It's officially live folks!
We're now accepting your challenges for Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands.
Send us your challenges now!
⛩️ http://bit.ly/JAJLostIslands
Filming ki...
Hey guys!
So it's been a weird month spent making videos that aren't yet out on Youtube, across half a dozen different channels.
And we're now just two weeks away from beginning the intense production of Journey Across Japan: The Lost Islands with Joey and Natsuki.<...
I’m a hypocrite.
A filthy, disgraceful hypocrite.
First I mocked vloggers overusing drones in their videos.
“The action is on the ground. Not in the sky. Nobody likes drones.”
- And then a year later I bought one and s...
2021-03-26 11:31:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is folks. The big reveal.
JOURNEY ACROSS JAPAN: THE LOST ISLANDS
Three islands. Six episodes.
- Three absolute muppets.
For the first time ever, I’m delighted to announce Nat...
2021-03-13 13:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I often get asked for my recommendations for books about Japan and so today, I’ve compiled a list of 8 MUST READ books about Japan, from culture and crime, to travel and food. These are books I’ve all read at some point or another and would happily read again.
Hopeful...
Hey guys,
Delighted to announce this month's live show will take place on Saturday 27th February at 23:30 Japan time (local times listed above).
I'll be sitting down for an hour to answer your questions, look back over a month filled with earthquakes and...
Kyoto has a problem.
Its stunning traditional townhouses are under threat, as more and more are destroyed or abandoned each year. But why is this happening and can it be stopped?
We're off to stay overnight in one, meet the man who's br...
I'm hungry. But I'm also lazy.
So I bought loads of snacks to eat tonight from Family Mart while doing the Live Show!
Come along & ASK me anything while I make my way through it all. See you there!
🍿The Live Show kicks off in 2hrs at 22:00 (J...
A few days ago - here on Patreon - I shared my experience of the recent gigantic earthquake with you all.
What I failed to tell you was that I was already having a bad day, because that fateful afternoon, for the first time ever in 14 years of drivin...
So last night I was tucked up in a hotel bed on my way back from Hokkaido, falling asleep while pondering how to make the world a better place, when all of a sudden I began to feel dizzy.
I suddenly realised the entire building was moving and given I ...
If you've been following the Abroad in Japan channel or the Podcast this week, you may think I'm in a morning market in Sendai with Ryotaro, a karaoke booth with Connor (CDawgVA), a Burger King in Kyoto with Sharla or doing a podcast with Youtube legend Penguinz0/MoistCr1TiKaL.
It's Saturday afternoon and amidst editing an upcoming video with Ryotaro and pouring over the feedback on the latest video reacting to Japanese Youtubers (unbelievably, already one Japanese Youtuber has released their reaction!), I've spent the last two hours immersed in studying Jap...