How Ryotaro and I Escaped to Britain This Week (Patreon)

Since the dawn of history, scientists and scholars have discussed the affliction known as “Too Much Ryotaro”; a condition brought about by spending too much time with a muppet in any given week.

After this week, I am suffering from the condition.

Symptoms include confusion, bewilderment and anguish.

Yes that’s right, after many months spent off in the wilderness making videos for his precious “Ryotaro’s Japan” Youtube channel, Ryotaro returns to the Abroad in Japan channel this month for two episodes - one of which was this week's Aomori bear video.

🍿https://youtu.be/bpWwTAJrkQE

Not only that, but I just spent two days helping him film his next video for British Hills, a British village in the mountains of Fukushima.

Noticed how I didn’t say “British-themed village”. Because it really is a British village; the buildings are made of bricks and materials imported from the UK.

The staff were predominantly foreign - mostly from the UK. And the food and cider, was all British as well, from the fish and chips to the afternoon tea, which Ryotaro has so eloquently ruined in the photo below.

It was surprisingly impressive. Much more so than the place Joey and I visited during Journey Across Japan. This genuinely felt like someone had replicated rural Britain within Japan.

With that in mind, it was a lot of fun to film and it’ll be up on his channel in the coming weeks following up his reaction video this week, where he did a dreadful reaction to the Abroad in Japan video on “What not to do in Japan.” The less said about this the beter:

🗾https://youtu.be/dwJ1YIJXyLE

Still, we had a good time on our journey through Aomori in this week’s Abroad in Japan episode, stuffing ourselves with various apple pies and munching on a bear.

And in a couple of weeks we have another episode out where Ryotaro spent the morning at a street market in the Sendai area, which was surprisingly fun despite the questionable chef.

I’m also currently planning a Q&A video and also working out how to celebrate the Abroad in Japan channel hitting 2m subscribers in the next few days! (Seriously, I can’t believe we’ve made it this far.)

But be sure to get your questions in below folks, with the #ASKABROAD hashtag, and I’ll do my best to feature as may of your questions as possible in the video later this month!

ALSO we’ve got a Patreon megapost coming out later in the week, where I’ll be listing over 25 Patron exclusive episodes, in an easy to navigate post; from learning Japanese resources, to travel tips and how to become a Youtuber. There's tons of fantastic content to share with you all.

It’s been a while since the last one and it makes discovering all the amazing content we have on here a heck of a lot easier, so you won’t miss out on anything!

For now though folks, I hope you’ve had a good start to 2021 so far. We’ve got plenty to look forward to this month on the Abroad in Japan channel.

- If not Too Much Ryotaro.

Chris