TRYING to get a cheap room in the slums of Osaka

I'm

sorry.

Hello and welcome back to the slums of

Osaka, my favorite place in all of Japan.

Look at this, look at this one, it's

massive! What would happen if the

wind was really strong and it got blown

away?

Excuse me.

No one here.

Weird place.

Very weird.

Um, could I have a room for one night?

One, uh, empty room? No empty

room. No empty? Okay, thank you.

Um, could I have one room, one night?

No, no. Okay, thank you.

Every time I go into one of these stupid

hotels, they say they don't have any

rooms.

So I've had the worst day ever. Ever.

I've never had an idea for a video go

so badly. Usually when I have an idea, I

go out and I make it happen, but this is

one of the first times that I went

out to get footage and I completely failed

in what I was supposed to do for the

video. So the idea for the video was I was

going to stay in the cheapest hotel in the

slums of Osaka, because when I went there

last time, there were loads of these

hotels that only cost about $10 a night.

There was even some that cost about $8 a

night. I thought they must be really bad

rooms, so that might be interesting for a

video. And then I go there and I went to

several of the hotels, and then 2 of them

said they didn't have any rooms, which I

find very hard to believe. I mean, it's a

huge apartment building, how could you not

even have one room free? And then one of

them I was waiting at the reception

counter thing for a bit and no one even

came. There was no one there. I don't know

if they were hiding around the corner or

something. Maybe I should have spoken in

Japanese. I don't know. I didn't think it

really mattered. Maybe it's because I

wasn't a homeless old man, which is what

most of the people there seemed to be. It

was so annoying. Well, I'll try again

tomorrow. I'll go back and this time I'll

try speaking in Japanese, see if it makes

any difference. And I might have to take

the GoPro off until I get the room at

least. Such an irritating,

frustrating day.

Station number M16. Passengers can

transfer here.

That guy's taking a piss. Whoa, there's so

many police over here. What's going on?

Um, do you have any rooms?

One night? One night? No, no,

one week. One week?

Um, okay, thank you. It says

one night on the stupid sign.

Why does it say ¥1,500 a day? If you're

only allowed a minimum of 7 days.

Stupid place.

Looks very fancy.

Excuse me, uh, do you have a room?

Do you have a room? No English. No,

um,

okay, thank you.

Well, at least I tried.

No English, my backside. Stupid Park

Hotel. Come on, they must have at

least one room. What a load of

BS this place is.

I can't believe they don't even have one

room.

Excuse me, do you have any rooms?

Any rooms? One night?

Oh, no vacancy. Oh, okay. Sorry.

Thank you.

Did not see that sign there. My bad.

So weird, there's no reception.

Hello?

It says it's a hotel. I go into

all of these places, none of them have

receptions. You just go in there, there's

no people. So strange.

There's no one here.

Stupid places.

Oh, it says to phone that phone number.

None of these places have receptions.

This idiot put his bicycle right in front

of the entrance.

It seems like You can't just walk in and

book a room. You have to phone them up or

something. It's very confusing.

Look at this tiny Japanese alleyway.

It's so narrow.

Well, I'm very sorry, but it seems like I

failed. Failed everyone on

today's video. I was unable to book

myself a room in the slums.

Well, I hope it was interesting anyway.

So annoying. I'm back home now and I'm

just very frustrated with how that video

went. Didn't go how I expected it to go at

all. I went to 8 different places. Half of

them didn't even have any reception staff

at the reception. The other half just said

they didn't have any rooms, which I find

extremely difficult to believe. Come on,

they must have had at least one room in

one of those places. They really shouldn't

advertise themselves as a hotel if it's

supposed to be a place for homeless

people. All of those places had the word

hotel written above the doorway,

and none of them gave me a room. How could

I go to 8 different places and not even

get at least one room in one of them? If

they don't want to act like a hotel, they

shouldn't call themselves a hotel. Maybe

they just didn't want to give me a room

because I'm obviously not a homeless old

man. Well, then they shouldn't advertise

themselves as a hotel. Then they should

advertise themselves as cheap housing for

homeless people. So annoying because I had

this idea of a video where I would show

you these really cheap places in that area

where you get a room for about $10 a

night, and my

plans just completely failed.

Maybe that's why there's so many homeless

people in that area, because it's so damn

hard to get a hotel room. Never ever going

back there ever again. If you're looking

for a cheap hotel Do not go to the slums.

That's my advice.