[2022-09-23] Why I HATE Japan Reopening to Tourists [f9vdV17fLOw]

So as most of you know by now, Japan has

recently announced that they're going to

fully reopen to tourists around October,

I think the 11th of October. And you'd be

thinking that I should be really happy

about this because I've been desperate to

get back into Japan ever since I separated

from my ex-wife. Unfortunately, I'm not

very happy about this announcement, to be

honest. So the announcement states that

the Prime Minister of Japan announces that

Japan will allow visa-free individual

tourism and remove a daily entry cap from

October 11th. And you don't need to have a

tour guide, you don't need to book the

holiday through an agency, you don't need

to have some kind of planned itinerary,

and it seems like you can just travel to

Japan like we used to be able to. So it

makes you kind of wonder, what was the

point of announcing all of these? Well,

you can come to Japan if you have a tour

guide, if you're part of a 2-week guided

tour and you have everything booked and

pre-planned and all that stuff. What was

the point of announcing all of that only

to scrap it a few weeks later? I don't

know if they scrapped it because there was

a lot of pressure on them to change things

and that no one was interested in these

tour-guided packages. Things, or if they

didn't even have any plans to keep these

rules in place for very long in the first

place and they were going to fully reopen

in October no matter what. And the reason

why I'm not very happy about this is

because I feel like the universe is trying

to screw with me. I literally just

finished booking and planning all of my

tickets and hotels and stuff that I'm

gonna do in Thailand. So I've been waiting

patiently to be able to get back to Japan

for nearly 2 years now, and I kind of gave

up on the idea of being able to go back to

Japan anytime soon maybe a couple months

ago, and then I looking to other Asian

countries I could replace Japan as my

number one destination in Asia to go to.

And I decided that Thailand would be a

good nominee, a good candidate, because

I've heard a lot of good things about

Thailand, plus it's cheap, plus I've been

chatting to this Thai woman for a few

months who seems to be in love with me and

wants to have a relationship with me. So I

thought, okay, I'm just gonna forget about

Japan for now, put it to the back of my

mind, and focus on going to Thailand and

making Thailand my new home in Asia. And I

bought all of my tickets and my hotel,

and I applied for the visa visa. And a few

days later, after I finished paying all of

this stuff, guess what? Japan announces

that it's reopening pretty much on the

day, just a few days after, that I plan to

arrive in Thailand. So in case you didn't

know, I was married in Japan and I used to

live in Japan for a few years as a spouse

of a Japanese national and had a spouse

visa. But the marriage didn't really work

out very well and I decided to leave

Japan. And I voluntarily cut my visa up

into tiny pieces and I left Japan

thinking, well, I can always just get back

to Japan anytime I want to, maybe later in

the year. But then, as you know, COVID-19

started and Japan closed its borders for

nearly 2 years to tourists. If I knew that

was gonna happen, if I knew Japan was

gonna close its borders for nearly 2

years, I would never have gotten divorced,

I wouldn't have left Japan, and I wouldn't

have cut my visa into tiny pieces. I would

have stayed in Japan even if I was unhappy

being married. It feels like I had the

worst ever timing to choose to leave

Japan. If only we had that argument maybe

a few weeks later or maybe 1 month later

after the whole COVID-19 situation began,

then I would have thought, actually,

maybe I'll just stay here for now because

what if Japan decides to close its

borders? And then I wouldn't have been

locked out of the country for nearly 2

years. And some of you might be thinking,

why don't you just skip Thailand, go

straight to Japan? The thing is, I can't

really because I'm sort of in an online

relationship now and I really want to meet

this woman that I've been chatting to all

this time. And I've already booked the

tickets and they're not refundable and

it'd be kind of stupid to cancel all of my

Thailand plans just because Japan has

suddenly decided to reopen. I could always

go to Japan later, But I have this weird

feeling that when I'm done with Thailand

and I'm ready to go back to Japan, I feel

like Japan's gonna close its borders again

because there's gonna be some kind of new

variant that pops up, and then they'll

suddenly close again for winter.

Sometimes I feel like I have the worst

luck in the entire world. When I was

desperately trying to get back into Japan,

they were just completely shut forever,

and then when I stopped caring about going

to Japan anymore, they just magically

reopened just like that as if it was

nothing. So my plans are I'm just going to

stick with my current plan, which is to go

to Thailand and experience living in

Thailand for a bit. And if I really hate

Thailand and things don't really work out

there, then I always have this option now,

this new option to be able to go back to

Japan, which I've wanted to be able to go

back to Japan for such a long time now.

And now I finally can. It's kind of a

comforting feeling. But knowing my luck,

things will probably go really well with

the Thai girl and then we might get

married and then I'll never have a good

reason to go to Japan ever again. And it

doesn't even matter that Japan's reopened

because I'll be stuck in Thailand. Now I

can just rest it. Like, it's, it's a

stand. Look, it just stands up on its own.

Look, this is the best phone ever.

I'm excited.

Oh my God, it's so small!

It's so small! Look,

you wouldn't know I'm streaming. You

wouldn't know. Oh, this is so

freaking cool. Look,

would you think I'm livestreaming? With

this on my shoulder, you wouldn't even

know this is a phone. Would you think this

is a phone? And it's— it fits

in there so snugly. There's no way this is

falling out.

There's no way that falls out.

That doesn't even need Velcro. Look, it

fits exactly in this gap.

Oh my God.

Look at that. Look at this.

It just fits in there. Look.

I'll go down, I'll stream snipe my mum.

I'll just pretend I'm taking boxes down.

Don't tell her I'm streaming.

What you

buy? Nothing.

You buy

a new rock set?

Look, but don't fall down.

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Watch. Folding,

folded,

folded. Where can I

put it?

Put it anywhere I like.

And then if I get a donation And then I

can do this. You can hear it.

You'll be able to see it when I set it up

Here is a few bits.